Fun Home continues at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester until 1 August 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The UK regional premiere production of Fun Home has opened at Manchester’s Royal Exchange, and it is hard to imagine a better place (or time) for it to receive this much anticipated revival.
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Shrek the Musical – Blackpool Opera House & Touring
Shrek the Musical continues at Blackpool Opera House until 27 May 2018 as part of a national tour. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Time was when a major musical of this scale would have filled the Opera House stage (if not the spacious auditorium itself) for the best part of a summer season […]
Shrek the Musical – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
Shrek the Musical continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 28 January 2018, then tours until 6 January 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ As befitting its main character’s less-than-sunny disposition, the story of Shrek’s journey from animated movie to stage musical hasn’t been a totally happy one. Its first Broadway […]
Big Fish – The Other Palace
Big Fish continues at The Other Palace until 31 December. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Few stories cry out for a musical adaptation more than Daniel Wallace’s 1998 novel – and Tim Burton’s 2003 movie – Big Fish. It’s a whopper of a tale, recounted as a series of fantastical flashbacks […]
Amelia Lily to join Shrek touring production
Former X Factor star Amelia Lily will join the touring production of the hit fairy tale with the green-tinged twist, Shrek The Musical in April 2018. The singer, who appeared in the West End premiere production of Green Day’s American Idiot, will share the role of Princess Fiona with Call the Midwife’s Laura Main while […]
Clare Burt completes Big Fish cast at The Other Palace
Clare Burt will join the previously announced Kelsey Grammer in the London premiere production of John August and Andrew Lippa’s quirky romance Big Fish The Musical. Directed by Nigel Harman, the production – which will mark Frasier favourite Grammer’s London stage debut – will play The Other Palace from 1 November until 31 December with a […]
Lead cast for second Shrek UK and Ireland tour revealed
Steffan Harri will step into the title role in the upcoming touring production of the hit fairy tale with the green-tinged twist, Shrek The Musical. Harri, who previously covered the role of Lord Farquaad in the first UK and Ireland tour of the Dreamworks Theatricals musical will take on the role of the outsize ogre […]
Kelsey Grammer to star in Big Fish the Musical at The Other Palace
Kelsey Grammer will star as Edward Bloom in a new production of John August and Andrew Lippa’s Big Fish the Musical. Based on the novel Big Fish by Daniel Wallace and the Columbia Pictures film screenplay by John August, this new production will be the London premiere of the musical and also marks Grammer’s first […]
Shrek the Musical tour – new dates announced
New dates have been announced for the 2017/2018 tour of the hit fairy tale with the green-tinged twist, Shrek the Musical. The second major tour of the Dreamworks Theatricals’ musical hit will now play dates in Sheffield, Cardiff, Woking, Liverpool, Canterbury, Milton Keynes, Bristol, Llandudno and Leeds. As previously announced, the outsize ogre will initially take to […]
Shrek The Musical is heading for Blackpool in 2018
The hit fairy tale with the green-tinged twist, Shrek The Musical will take over the Blackpool Opera House next May as part of its second major tour. Nigel Harman will once again take charge of the touring production of the show when the musical tale of Shrek, Princess Fiona, Donkey and co hits the road […]
Shrek the Musical – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Shrek the Musical continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 31 January, then tours until 20 February. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Following a successful run both on Broadway and in the West End, the musical version of Dreamworks’ Shrek set out on a UK tour in 2014. Two years later […]
The S&S Award Gala 2015 – St James Theatre
The S&S Award Gala was held at the St James Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Where is the home of new musical theatre writing in the UK? The West End houses 33 musicals currently – putting aside adaptations, jukebox musicals and classic works, only two of these could be considered new standalone original works. The National Theatre allows […]
Nigel Harman and Janie Dee lined up for S&S Awards Gala
Olivier Award winner Nigel Harman will host this year’s S&S Awards Gala at the St James Theatre, London on Sunday 15 November. The glittering celebration of new musical theatre will culminate in the announcement and presentation of the prestigious S&S Award 2015 by another Olivier Award winner, Janie Dee. Awarded to the work judged to […]
Shrek the Musical – casting update for second year on tour
Full casting has been revealed for the UK and Ireland tour of Shrek the Musical as it enters its second year on the road. The 2015 company will star Dean Chisnall who will continue his role as beloved swamp-dwelling ogre Shrek, the role he previously played in the West End. Bronté Barbé will also star as damsel in distress Princess Fiona, […]
S&S Award Gala – Nigel Harman and David Bedella lead line-up
Olivier Award winners Nigel Harman and David Bedella will take leading roles in this year’s S&S Award Gala at St James Theatre on Sunday 23 November. It has also ben announced that The S&S Award is linking up with Leicester Curve to be the ‘host venue’ for the winning show’s developmental programme. Curve, under new artistic director Nikolai Foster, has declared its […]
Musical Theatre Review campaign backs cast album for I Can’t Sing!
“Steve Brown’s original score for I Can’t Sing! features a selection of excellent and thankfully diverse musical numbers that both inform the narrative and entertain – a simple task that has been woefully lacking in the West End for a while now. “Original musicals are few and far between and Brown’s score has so much […]
I Can’t Sing! – the X Factor musical – to close, but why?
The demise of X Factor parody I Can’t Sing! – the third original West End musical to announce its closure in less than two months – is being blamed by critics on a combination of marketing, preparation and changing audience tastes. Co-producers Stage Entertainment UK and Simon Cowell’s Syco Productions (Cowell is believed to have […]
I Can’t Sing! – London Palladium
I Can’t Sing! continues at the London Palladium. Unless you have been living in a bubble for the last ten years then you can’t fail to have noticed the strangle-hold that Simon Cowell has over the entertainment industry. Depending on how you rate him, he has either killed or cured Saturday night television with the reinvention […]
I Can’t Sing – the X Factor musical – a sneak peek
Any opening of a West End musical is a much-anticipated event, but the buzz around Harry Hill and Steve Brown’s new X Factor musical I Can’t Sing! at the London Palladium has reached a new level, not least because of reported technical problems during previews. However, while the audience attending an evening performance on 17 […]
Olivier Awards nominations streamed live on March 10
In a new initiative, the nominations for the Olivier Awards 2014 will be announced at Rosewood London, the awards’ official hotel partner, and simultaneously streamed live to audiences worldwide at 11.30am on Monday 10 March. The announcements will be made by Olivier Award winners from the last two years: Nigel Harman, who is starring in […]
Shrek the Musical tour – casting revealed
Casting has been revealed for the first ever UK and Ireland tour of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane production of Shrek the Musical. Dean Chisnall will play the beloved swamp-dwelling ogre Shrek, the role he previously played in the West End, Faye Brookes is damsel in distress Princess Fiona, Idriss Kargbo is Shrek’s wisecracking sidekick Donkey and […]
I Can’t Sing! – casting confirmed
Ahead of the broadcast of the Royal Variety Performance – in which cast members of I Can’t Sing! performed – full casting has been confirmed. The X Factor musical previews at the London Palladium from 27 February 2014 (press night is 26 March). As previously announced, Olivier Award-winner Nigel Harman will play X Factor judge Simon, and Cynthia Erivo […]
Shrek the Musical – Harman directs the tour
Shrek the Musical will be heading out on its first ever tour of UK and Ireland from July 2014. The Drury Lane production will be directed by Nigel Harman who starred as Lord Farquaad in the West End production, a role which won him the 2012 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in […]
