Acclaimed musical Islander, winner of Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019, is heading Off-Broadway, running at the new PLAYHOUSE 46 at St. Luke’s from 14 April 2022 (opening night is 21 August). Islander transferred from Edinburgh to London’s Southwark Playhouse and a cast recording, Radio 4 adaptation and filmed version followed. […]
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The Great American Trailer Park Musical has London premiere at Waterloo East
Lively Off-Broadway hit The Great American Trailer Park Musical will receive its London premiere at the Waterloo East Theatre this May. The two act musical comedy with music and lyrics by David Nehls and book by Betsy Kelso will play the venue from 11 May until 5 June. Focusing on the colourful lives of the […]
Trip of Love – Stage 42, New York
Trip of Love continues at Stage 42, New York. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The psychedelic 1960s are back in force Off-Broadway with Trip of Love, an elaborate song and dance spectacle that pulsates, gyrates and undulates through some 28 tunes from that eventful decade. It’s a garish frolic that’s relentlessly […]
UK premiere of Vote For Me: A Musical Debate at London Theatre Workshop – casting revealed
The London Theatre Workshop has announced the cast for the upcoming UK premiere of the musical comedy Vote For Me: A Musical Debate which runs at the venue in Fulham, west London this May, direct from a sell-out Off-Broadway run. Vote For Me is a musicalised Presidential debate where you pick the winner. Candidates dance and sing […]
Preview – Tony winners aplenty in Off-Broadway season
Ron Cohen previews an Off-Broadway season packed with Broadway names. As is its custom, Off-Broadway is moving into the New Year with an eclectic array of musical offerings, packed with both revivals and new creations. Some boast prestigious names – including a batch of Tony winners from Broadway – and some are quite curious indeed. Here are some highlights […]
Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson Furniture Painter – Off-Broadway, New York
Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson Furniture Painter continues at the Minetta Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway, New York. Don’t you wonder what goes on up in that Nordic conclave called Iceland? After all, it’s the country that gave us Björk, the singer-songwriter whose fashion sense sometimes created more attention than her unique musical abilities, particularly the swan […]
Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story – Off-Broadway, New York
Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story continues at The Pershing Square Signature Center, New York, until 31 August. The Off-Broadway summer season has perked up with the opening of Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story, a surprisingly entertaining endeavour, even though it functions as an in-memoriam panegyric to the title character. As the […]
Marc Folan, an English composer in New York – with A Little Princess
A major event in the career of British composer/lyricist Marc Folan has just taken place – his musical A Little Princess has had its professional US premiere, opening Off-Broadway at the Hudson Guild Theatre. Not only that, but an additional run has just been announced at a larger, more central space, the Alice Griffin Jewel Box […]
Nunsense A-Men! – Landor Theatre
Nunsense A-Men! continues at the Landor Theatre, London until 28 July. Dan Goggin’s original Off-Broadway hit, Nunsense, is possibly the only musical ever to have started life as a series of comedy greeting cards. After it grew from a cabaret night into a full-blooded musical, the long-running Off-Broadway show spawned several sequels, before the original […]
Avenue Q – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Playing at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 30 June. Although it ran for five years in the West End followed by a national tour, Avenue Q‘s Off-Broadway roots always showed. In its first UK fringe theatre production, the smaller space and intimacy works in its definite favour. The musical takes the idea of humans […]
