Former X Factor champion turned musical theatre star Alexandra Burke will play 10-time Grammy Award-winner Chaka Khan when I’m Every Woman – The Chaka Khan Musical receives its world premiere in London early next year.
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Bat out of Hell – Peacock Theatre and Touring
Bat out of Hell continues at the Peacock Theatre, London until 7 June 2025. The tour continues until 20 September 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Brilliant, classic tunes, an array of impressive vocal talent and a hugely energetic cast. Three out of three ain’t bad, it’s very good indeed.
A Night with Janis Joplin The Musical – Peacock Theatre,
A Night with Janis Joplin The Musical continues at the Peacock Theatre, London until 28 September 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ What saves it is an extraordinary, raw, authentic performance by American singer-actress Mary Bridget Davies who is making her West End bow.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Peacock Theatre and Touring
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie was reviewed at the Peacock Theatre, London where it runs until 23 March 2024. The tour continues until 20 July 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
London encore and Vegas residency for Bat Out Of Hell
Jim Steinman’s Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical is heading back to London to play a limited season at the Peacock Theatre early next year. Announcing the London season which will run from 17 February until 1 April 2023, the hit show’s producers also announced the musical will begin a Las Vegas residency at […]
Johannes Radebe: Freedom – Peacock Theatre and Touring
Johannes Radebe – Freedom at the Peacock Theatre, London and touring until 1 May 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There is a fairy tale quality to Johannes Radebe’s success. From community dance lessons in the South African township of Zamdela to a standing ovation in London’s Peacock Theatre, it is the stuff that […]
Saturday Night Fever – Peacock Theatre
Saturday Night Fever continues at the Peacock Theatre, London until 26 March 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Saturday Night Fever burst onto cinema screens in 1977 with rave reviews. Given an X-Rating on its initial release, its gritty storyline of young men escaping humdrum lives in sexual adventure and disco dancing […]
Richard Winsor returns as Tony Manero for West End premiere of Kenwright’s Saturday Night Fever
Richard Winsor will be donning the iconic white suit once again in 2022 to star as Tony Manero in the West End premiere of Bill Kenwright’s re-imagined and re-vitalised touring production of Saturday Night Fever. Former Matthew Bourne principal dancer Richard Winsor (Swan Lake, Edward Scissorhands and The Car Man) will return to the role […]
Don’t miss the live cinema screenings of legendary musical The Rocky Horror Show across the UK and Europe on 28 October
Ready to thrill you with fun and naughty moments, Richard O’Brien’s legendary rock ‘n’ roll musical The Rocky Horror Show is coming to a big screen near you on 28 October 2021. This special Halloween performance will be broadcast live from the Sadler’s Wells Peacock Theatre in London’s West End to over 500 hundred cinemas […]
Live cinema screening for The Rocky Horror Show hit touring production
A special Halloween performance of Richard O’Brien’s cult classic The Rocky Horror Show will be broadcast live from the Sadler’s Wells Peacock Theatre to over 500 cinemas across the UK and Europe on 28 October 2021. Featuring former Strictly champion turned musical theatre star Ore Oduba (Grease, Curtains) as Brad Majors, the crowd-pleasing production is […]
West End run for Bill Kenwright’s Saturday Night Fever
Bill Kenwright’s re-imagined and re-vitalised production of Saturday Night Fever will return early next year with a strictly limited run at the Peacock Theatre in London. Announcing the West End debut of the production, Kenwright said: “When I first saw the film over 40 years ago, like the rest of the world I was not […]
Musical Theatre Review critics offer their Top 5 theatre picks from 2020
As each year draws to a close, Musical Theatre Review usually pulls together a round-up of all the productions covered that have received four and five star reviews. After such an extraordinary year, during which any production staged has been a triumph over adversity, such an approach seemed inappropriate. Instead, I asked a small group […]
Message in a Bottle – Peacock Theatre
Message in a Bottle continues at the Peacock Theatre, London until 21 March 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ [Pictures: Roy Tan] Choreographer Kate Prince comes of age with an intelligent and vital contemporary dance piece inspired by the music of Sting. Prince is probably known for her Sadler’s Wells commissions Into […]
View an exclusive gallery of new images from Fame at the Peacock Theatre
The hit 30th-anniversary tour of Fame The Musical, directed and choreographed by Nick Winston, has danced into London’s Peacock Theatre and will play there until 19 October 2019. So we thought we would treat you to an exclusive gallery of new images from the show, thanks to Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan. The critically […]
Fame – Peacock Theatre
Fame continues at the Peacock Theatre, London until 19 October 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Your name up in lights, leg warmers and dubious racial stereotypes, everything is bundled up into the classic film, TV show, Broadway and Off-Broadway musical. But how has the most recent spawning of the famous […]
Fame anniversary tour heads for the West End in 2019
The hit 30th-anniversary tour of Fame The Musical will culminate in a West End transfer run next autumn. Directed and choreographed by Nick Winston, the production will dance into London’s Peacock Theatre from 11 September until 19 October 2019. Star casting for the West End run will be announced at a later date. Presented by […]
Romeo and Juliet – Peacock Theatre
Romeo and Juliet continues at the Peacock Theatre, London until 29 March. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Following a successful world tour of dance sensation Rock the Ballet which played at Sadler’s Wells last year, choreographer and dancer extraordinaire Adrienne Canterna and artistic director Rasta Thomas have chosen to give their new show a storyline […]
