The Sam Ryder-led new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar will follow its two London seasons by embarking on a major UK tour early next year.
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Hairspray to tour UK and Ireland in 2027/2028
The hit Brenda Edwards and Paul Kerryson-directed production of Hairspray will embark on its second major UK and Ireland tour in 2027.
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.
Miss Saigon – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
Miss Saigon was reviewed at the Palace Theatre, Manchester where it continues until 15 November 2025. The tour continues 8 August 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The legend is, indeed, well and truly reborn.
Full cast for 2026 Priscilla tour
Kevin Clifton, Nick Hayes and Peter Duncan will join the hit touring production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical when it takes to the road again early next year.
Brenda Edwards to co-direct touring Hairspray
Former X Factor finalist turned musical theatre star and TV ‘loose woman’ Brenda Edwards (Chicago, We Will Rock You) will make her directorial debut next summer when she joins Paul Kerryson to stage the 2024/2025 UK and Ireland tour of Hairspray.
Jesus Christ Superstar – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
Jesus Christ Superstar continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 23 September 2023. The production then tours until 17 August 2024 (with more dates to be announced). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Herod role for Julian Clary in Superstar tour
Julian Clary will take on the role of Herod when the multi-award-winning Regent’s Park Open Air production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar embarks on its 2023/2024 UK tour later this year.
Beauty and the Beast – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
Beauty and the Beast runs at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 4 June 2022 and then tours the UK until 8 January 2023 (including a run at the London Palladium from 24 June to 17 September 2022). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ It’s a tale almost as old as time. Disney […]
The Rocky Horror Show – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
The Rocky Horror Show continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 22 January 2022 and then tours the UK until 9 July 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ As it nears its fifth decade on this planet, there are still many miraculous things to behold about Richard O’Brien’s cult behemoth. Firstly, there’s the […]
School of Rock – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
School of Rock continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 15 January 2022 and then tours the UK until 13 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Andrew Lloyd Webber still doesn’t seem like the obvious person to have brought Richard Linklater’s boisterous 2003 family movie about the power of rock‘n’roll […]
The Book of Mormon – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
The Book of Mormon continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 1 January 2022 and then tours the UK until 13 September 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ When it first exploded onto Broadway in 2011, The Book of Mormon was – and still is – that rarest of things: a […]
The Book of Mormon – Palace Theatre, Manchester
The Book of Mormon continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 24 August 2019 before touring to the Sunderland Empire, with more venues to be announced. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Mormons are here. We’ve been told they were coming for months, with adverts around the city generating huge excitement […]
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 […]
Grease – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
Grease continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 25 March and then tours until 31 December. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ There are, of course, two versions of Grease. Firstly there’s Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey’s down and dirty original stage production, a paean to the oily quiffed, leather jacketed rock’n’roll […]
Frank Wildhorn & Friends – Palace Theatre, Manchester
Frank Wildhorn & Friends was performed at the Palace Theatre, Manchester. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ At one point in this enjoyable rattle through prolific Queens-born composer Frank Wildhorn’s greatest hits, the man himself introduces ‘The Longer I Live’ as the “11 o’clock song” from his ill-fated musical Dracula. The song, sung here by […]
Danielle Hope to play Sandy in Grease UK tour in 2017
Actress and singer Danielle Hope will join The Wanted’s Tom Parker and former EastEnder Louise Lytton in the cast of next year’s national tour of the original West End production of much-loved musical Grease. Hope, who made her professional debut as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz after winning the television talent show Over The Rainbow, […]
Grease tour 2017 – The Wanted’s Tom Parker headlines tour
Chart-topping The Wanted’s Tom Parker will head the cast of next year’s national tour of the original West End production of much-loved musical Grease. The former award-winning boyband singer will make his professional music theatre debut in the iconic role of Danny Zuko in the tour which will open at the Palace Theatre, Manchester on […]
American Idiot the Musical – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
American Idiot the Musical continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 9 April, then tours until 2 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Six years after it first rocketed onto Broadway, this high-octane punk rock opera still has the power to turn heads and assault the senses. On the surface, the music of […]
