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Lewis Cornay wins 2023 New Music Theatre Award
The British Youth Music Theatre, in partnership with the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, have announced Lewis Cornay as the winner of the 2023 BYMT New Music Theatre Award.
BYMT New Music Theatre Award 2023 – 14 November deadline approaches
Musical theatre creators under the age of 30 have until 14 November 2022 to apply for the 2023 BYMT New Music Theatre Award.
Burke & Hare – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Burke & Hare continues at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich until 21 May 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The passing of time – nearly 200 years – has apparently deemed it acceptable for the 16 murders committed by Edinburgh-based rogues William Burke and William Hare to be fair game for comedy. […]
New Wolsey Ipswich and Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch announce first UK revival of Kinky Boots
Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre and the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch have announced the first UK revival and regional premiere of the Olivier and Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots this autumn. Directed by Tim Jackson, the major new co-production will debut at the New Wolsey from 1-24 September 2022 before heading for the Queen’s Theatre from 28 […]
European premiere for Little Miss Sunshine musical
Off-beat musical Little Miss Sunshine will receive its European premiere next spring with a new production at London’s Arcola Theatre ahead of a UK tour launching at the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich. Presented by Selladoor Worldwide and Arcola Theatre, the Off-Broadway hit will open with a seven-week season in London beginning on 21 March […]
The Return of the Soldier – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
The Return of the Soldier was reviewed at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester. The production transfers to the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich from 2-6 October 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★★ ★ Writing in 1918 as the effects of the First World War still raged around her, Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier holds […]
Daniel Healy and Emma Lucia are cast in the regional premiere of Once
Singer-songwriter Daniel Healy will take the lead in the new actor/musician co-production of Tony Award-winning Once which will make its regional premiere at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich next month. Co-produced by the New Wolsey and the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, the new version of the hit show will feature Healy as Guy, a role he […]
Oxy and the Morons – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Oxy and the Morons was performed at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Getting the band, or a similar creative collective, back together via rows, regret, love and a happy denouement is a tried and trusted trope on screen and stage. As a music genre, punk is […]
UK Theatre Awards 2017 – double triumph for Sheffield Theatres, New Wolsey Ipswich and Ramps on the Moon
There was a double triumph for Sheffield Theatres at the UK Theatre Awards 2017 with Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (opening at London’s Apollo Theatre in November) being named Best Musical Production and actor John McCrea – who plays the eponymous role of Jamie – winning the award for Best Performance in a Musical. Also leaving […]
New Wolsey’s Oxy and the Morons – rehearsals begin in Ipswich
Rehearsals have begun for the New Wolsey Theatre’s new actor-musician production Oxy and the Morons which is due to play the Ipswich venue from 12 to 21 October. Directed by the New Wolsey’s artistic director Peter Rowe, the new musical was written by Mike Peters and Steve Allan Jones from the rock band The Alarm […]
Tommy – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich and Touring
Tommy was reviewed at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich and now tours until 1 July. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I caught up with this rock musical delivered with immense skill by a company of 22 multi-abled artists in Ipswich prior to national tour. The New Wolsey Theatre audiences are used […]
Made in Dagenham – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
Made in Dagenham continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 17 September, then transfers to the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich from 21 September until 15 October. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Made in Dagenham, a musical based on the 2010 film with the same name, returns to its roots in a co-production between the […]
Interview – Douglas Rintoul brings Made in Dagenham back home to the Queen’s Hornchurch
DOUGLAS RINTOUL is the new artistic director at the Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch. Appointed in 2015, Rintoul – a Drama & Theatre Arts alumnus of the University of Birmingham – has chosen for his first major show the musical comedy Made in Dagenham (music by David Arnold, lyrics by Richard Thomas, book by Richard Bean), which […]
First revival of Made in Dagenham from Queen’s Hornchurch and New Wolsey Ipswich
The first revival of the hit musical Made In Dagenham will be a co-production between the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre. The staging, directed by the Queen’s artistic director Douglas Rintoul, receives its regional premiere in Hornchurch from 26 August until 17 September, before playing the New Wolsey from 21 September until 15 October. Inspired by the true […]
The Last Five Years – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
The Last Five Years continues at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich until 11 March. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Jason Robert Brown’s song cycle The Last Five Years is the story of the breakdown of a relationship, starting at the end. So we first meet Cathy reading Jamie’s goodbye letter, before […]
The Last Five Years at the New Wolsey Theatre – Chris Cowley joins Katie Birtill in cast
Chris Cowley will join Katie Birtill in the cast of The Last Five Years, the first production in Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre 15th birthday season this February. Birtill, who took the title role in the venue’s production of Sweet Charity last autumn will play alongside Cowley whose first role after graduation was as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever […]
New Wolsey Ipswich birthday season includes The Last Five Years and Sweeney Todd
Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre will be celebrating its 15th birthday next year with a spring season that includes a revival of the production that marked its reopening in 2001, Sweeney Todd. The Sondheim classic is one of a series of major productions featured in a packed anniversary season that will begin on 25 February 2016 with The […]
Rebecca Applin is Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer
Mercury Musical Developments and Musical Theatre Network have announced that Rebecca Applin will be the Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester and the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, starting in October 2015. Rebecca Applin said: “I am thrilled to have been given the opportunity to be resident composer at the Mercury Theatre and the New Wolsey Theatre. […]
Sweet Charity – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Sweet Charity continues at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich until 26 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There is a bitter sweet quality in a good production of Sweet Charity, and Peter Rowe’s staging brings out all the comic tragedy of Neil Simon’s book. We see the seedy side of 1960s New York through the eyes of […]
Katie Birtill cast as lead in Sweet Charity at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich is producing a new actor-musician production of the musical Sweet Charity which runs from Thursday 3 to Saturday 26 September, directed by artistic director Peter Rowe. Katie Birtill, who will be playing the lead role of Charity Valentine, was initially studying medicine at Bristol University before she decided to take the plunge and go into […]
Midsummer Songs – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
Midsummer Songs continues at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich until 27 September. For this brand new production the New Wolsey tweaks its deserved reputation for musical theatre to present, instead, a play with music. While the theme of a 25-year university reunion and the setting in a remote cottage in the middle of Wales augers well for […]
The Threepenny Opera leads New Wolsey Theatre season
The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich’s season for spring 2014, which goes on general sale on Saturday 16 November, features four musicals. The Threepenny Opera is a New Wolsey’s co-production of Brecht and Weill’s musical masterpiece with Nottingham Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Graeae Theatre Company (12–22 March). Familiar faces from Our House and Reasons […]
