Julie Atherton will direct the Off-West End revival of Ordinary Days over a decade after starring in the musical at London’s Trafalgar Studios. Produced by Scatter Productions, the new production of Adam Gwon’s acclaimed work will play four performances at London’s Cockpit Theatre from 13-15 May 2022. Atherton will direct Noah Thomas (Everybody’s Talking About […]
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Ordinary Days will be first in-house production at the Town & Gown Pub and Theatre
A new production of Adam Gwon’s Ordinary Days will be the first in-house production to grace the stage of the new Town and Gown Theatre in Cambridge in the autumn. Directed by the theatre’s manager Karl Steele, the production which is a re-working of Steele’s 2017 production at his previous theatre The Old Joint Stock […]
Ordinary Days – Pickle Stage Productions
Ordinary Days, streaming via The Theatre Café website until 6 April 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A revival of a 2007 show first developed at New York Theatre Barn, this is a warm and uplifting piece in the hands of Daniel Smith under whose direction it was filmed in Norfolk. Yes, the […]
Ordinary Days – Top Note Arts
Ordinary Days is streaming until 22 November 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A production of this show by Streetlights, People! Productions was shortlisted for Musical Theatre Review’s inaugural Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017 and I first saw it then. The show, with music and lyrics by Adam […]
Ordinary Days – Theatre Row’s Clurman Theatre, New York
Ordinary Days continues at Theatre Row’s Clurman Theatre, New York until 17 November 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Ordinary Days, virtually a sung-through musical with music and lyrics by Adam Gwon, has been attracting an international array of productions since it was first spotlighted in an annual New York festival showcasing samplings […]
Ordinary Days – Drayton Arms Theatre
Ordinary Days continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 9 December. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Like any form of drama, musical theatre thrives on a diversity of form. Adam Gwon’s Ordinary Days for instance is a through-sung, character-led piece enhanced by minimalist staging. As the title suggests, its themes […]
Ordinary Days to play the Drayton Arms Theatre
Ordinary Days, one of the ten musicals shortlisted for our inaugural Musical Theatre Review Best Musical Award at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, will return to London to play the Drayton Arms Theatre from 21 November until 9 December, with a press night on 22 November. Presented by Streetlight, People! Productions, the winner of the […]
Shortlist revealed for Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The shortlist of ten nominated shows for Musical Theatre Review’s inaugural Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been announced today. In the 70th anniversary of the Fringe, Musical Theatre Review has launched the award to celebrate the excellence of musical theatre product presented at the world’s largest annual arts event. In the […]
Ordinary Days – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – C royale
Ordinary Days (Streetlights, People! Productions) continues at C royale until 28 August (not 15). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In an unassuming basement space on George Street something special is happening. Ordinarily a chamber musical about four people in New York City would seem something apart, something distant. Ordinary Days makes the […]
Ordinary Days – London Theatre Workshop
Ordinary Days continues at London Theatre Workshop until 17 June. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Streetlights, People! Productions brings Adam Gwon’s musical Ordinary Days to London Theatre Workshop. One of the Streetlights, People! goals is to create work that is ‘entertaining, relatable and thought provoking’, and in a time in which […]
Musical theatre writer Adam Gwon to play St James Studio
Multi-award winning American composer and lyricist Adam Gwon will play a special concert at London’s St James Studio next week. Adam Gwon – The New American Musical will feature rising musical theatre star Gwon, a five-piece band and special guests performing his work at the venue on 12 May. A winner of the prestigious Fred Ebb, Richard Rodgers and […]
Ordinary Days – La Comédie Nation, Paris
Ordinary Days at La Comédie Nation, Paris. Off-Broadway is really happening in Paris now. In June Next Thing You Know is going to be presented by American Musical Theatre Live! Paris at the Highlander Pub Bar. And La Comédie Nation, which already gave us an original chamber piece musical Un Noël à New York earlier this season, is […]
Ordinary Days – Rosemary Branch Theatre
Ordinary Days continues at the Rosemary Branch Theatre, London until 28 February. Star rating: 4 stars **** Ordinary Days takes a fresh look at an interesting stage in life: that time in your mid-twenties when you start to have doubts about the idealism that may have got you this far in life, when your first serious relationship […]
Ordinary Days – London Theatre Workshop
Ordinary Days at the London Theatre Workshop, London, continues until 29 March. London Theatre Workshop, a new-kid-on-the-block 65-seater boutique theatre in the bowels of Fulham, launches with a chamber musical about New York life and the ‘ordinary days’ of four of its young inhabitants trying to find their way in that concrete jungle. Artistic director […]
