Something Rotten! continues at the Opera House, Manchester until 19 July 2026. It really is excellent, more than worthy of a five-star appreciation.
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Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2025
We have asked Musical Theatre Review’s brilliantly talented team of expert critics, based across the UK, to name one particular show that made the biggest impression on them during the last 12 months.
13 going on 30: The Musical – Opera House, Manchester
13 going on 30 The Musical continues at the Opera House, Manchester until 12 October 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Surely one of the most exceptionally talented companies to be seen on a UK stage in a long while.
Here & Now – Opera House, Manchester and Touring
Here & Now was reviewed at the Opera House, Manchester where it continues until 13 September 2025. The tour continues until 16 May 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★
Come Fall in Love: The DDLJ Musical – Opera House, Manchester
Come Fall in Love continues at the Opera House, Manchester until 21 June 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ It is still a big, brash, enjoyable night at the theatre that captures some of the joy of the communal viewing experience that made the original film such an enduring hit.
Burlesque – Opera House, Manchester
Burlesque continues at the Opera House, Manchester until 2 November 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A big thank you to the production team for creating such a magical, memorable project.
First casting news for & Juliet tour
Initial lead casting has been confirmed for this summer’s UK touring production of the award-winning musical & Juliet.
The Drifters Girl – Opera House, Manchester and Touring
The Drifters Girl continues at the Opera House, Manchester until 14 October 2023, before continuing on its UK and Ireland tour until 11 May 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
The Cher Show – Opera House, Manchester
The Cher Show continues at the Opera House, Manchester until 21 May 2022 and tours the UK until 18 March 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s hard to believe that it took until 2018 for there to be a full-blown Broadway musical based on Cher’s life. The rags-to-riches tale of gawky, deep-voiced Cherilyn Sarkisian’s […]
Singin’ in the Rain – Opera House, Manchester and Touring
Singin’ in the Rain continues at the Opera House, Manchester until 14 May 2022 and tours until 20 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The stage incarnation of Singin’ in the Rain is now such a well-established and much-loved entity in its own right that it’s easy to forget that it has only […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Opera House, Manchester and Touring
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Opera House, Manchester and touring the UK until 29 October 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It would be easy to put the ecstatic way audiences and critics are receiving this revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s most crowd-pleasing show down to our […]
The Band – Opera House, Manchester and Touring
The Band continues at the Opera House, Manchester until 30 September, then tours until 14 July 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There were raised eyebrows and mutterings of mild outrage back in March when it emerged that the winners of Let It Shine, BBC1’s shiny-floored search for new stars to […]
Sunny Afternoon – Opera House, Manchester and Touring
Sunny Afternoon at the Opera House, Manchester, then touring until 6 May 2017. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Hopes weren’t massively high for this Kinks musical when it first appeared in the West End in 2014. Before then, jukebox musicals had typically been either great big audience-pleasing but critically derided behemoths (Mamma Mia!, We […]
Bernadette Peters – Opera House, Manchester
Bernadette Peters performed in concert at the Opera House, Manchester. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Beloved is a much-used word when it comes to describing our top-ranking musical theatre stars. But in the form of the multi-Tony winning, preternaturally youthful Bernadette Peters, whose career spans five decades and rubs shoulders with some of musical theatre’s […]
