Acclaimed West End actor and singer JOHN BARR (Les Misérables, Evita, Aspects of Love) is currently playing iconic British songwriter Lionel Bart in It’s A Fine Life at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch (29 April to 4 May 2024 and touring until 20 September).
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Kinky Boots – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
Kinky Boots continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 22 October 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ When I learned that Kinky Boots would be playing at the Queen’s Theatre, I was ecstatic. I had only seen this musical a few times, so I knew it would be intriguing to watch […]
Full cast and creative team for first UK revival of Kinky Boots
Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre and the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch have announced the full cast and creative team for the first UK revival and regional premiere of the Olivier and Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots this autumn. Directed by Tim Jackson, the major new co-production is due to debut at the New Wolsey from 1-24 September […]
Maggie May – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch and Touring
Maggie May continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 28 May 2022 and then tours to Curve Leicester from 7-11 June 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Maggie (played by Eithne Browne) and Gordon (Tony Timberlake) meet in 1971 and have been dancing to the sounds of Cliff Richard, Chairmen of the Board, […]
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ The Musical – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ – The Musical continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 21 May 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Written by Jake Brunger (book and lyrics) with lyrics by Pippa Cleary (music and lyrics), this show is based on the original book by Sue Townsend, […]
Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch announces its Adrian Mole and friends
James Hameed will take on the title role in the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch’s major new production of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ – The Musical. Hameed (Be More Chill, The Other Palace/Shaftesbury Theatre will be joined by Ben Williamson-Jones (Stick Man Live, Leicester Square Theatre) as Barry, Claire Storey (Twelfth Night, […]
New Wolsey Ipswich and Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch announce first UK revival of Kinky Boots
Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre and the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch have announced the first UK revival and regional premiere of the Olivier and Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots this autumn. Directed by Tim Jackson, the major new co-production will debut at the New Wolsey from 1-24 September 2022 before heading for the Queen’s Theatre from 28 […]
Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch plans new actor/musician production of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ – The Musical
Queen’s Theatre artistic director Douglas Rintoul will direct a major new production of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ – The Musical at the popular Hornchurch venue next spring. Announced as part of a packed spring 2022 season, the new actor/musician production of Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary’s musical version of Sue Townsend’s […]
Love Letters – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
Love Letters continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 21 August 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Artistic director Douglas Rintoul brings a new jukebox musical to the Queen’s Theatre called Love Letters in which he asks: what would you do if you received a love letter 16 years after it […]
Lucy Benjamin heads cast of new musical Love Letters
EastEnders favourite Lucy Benjamin will star in the new jukebox-style musical Love Letters when it receives its delayed world premiere at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch from 30 July until 21 August 2021. Returning to her local theatre for the first time since appearing in In Basildon in 2019, Benjamin will be joined by Holly Ashton […]
Premiere of Love Letters will be part of Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch reopening plans
The delayed premiere of new jukebox-style musical Love Letters will be part of the reopening season at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch. Written and directed by the venue’s artistic director Douglas Rintoul and featuring the music of home-grown Essex stars from the 1960s up to present day, the musical comedy which tells the story of young […]
Clive Rowe stars in new musical Cells from Metta Theatre
Leading independent theatre production company Metta Theatre will unveil a new lockdown-written, developed and recorded musical online next month. Starring Metta’s new patron, Olivier Award winner Clive Rowe (In The Willows, Guys and Dolls) and rising star Lem Knights (School of Rock, Billionaire Boy), Cells will be released in episodic form daily from 19 April […]
First UK tour for Once following Christmas in Croydon
Singer-songwriter Daniel Healy and Emma Lucia will take on the leading roles when the hit actor/musician co-production of Tony Award-winning Once heads out on its first UK tour early next year. Launching following a festive run at Croydon’s Fairfield Halls (19 December 2019 to 11 January 2020), the production which received its regional premiere at […]
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 26 May 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ The man who brought the Queen’s Theatre Made in Dagenham, artistic director Douglas Rintoul, is presenting another regional premiere of a great modern musical. Based on the 1994 movie, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert […]
Remembering Bob Carlton (1950-2018) – a man whose world was the theatre
Remembering Bob Carlton (1950-2018) The name Bob Carlton may in many people’s minds just mean the author of Return to the Forbidden Planet, the Olivier Award-winning musical version of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. Understandably it is the piece than the writer-director is most famous for, but there was a lot more to Bob Carlton than […]
Return to the Forbidden Planet creator Bob Carlton dies – tributes paid
Bob Carlton, the creator of The Tempest-inspired Return to the Forbidden Planet, has died following a battle with cancer. The writer and director who created the award-winning ‘jukebox rock‘n’roll musical during his tenure as artistic director of London’s Bubble Theatre, went on to make his mark as artistic director of the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, holding […]
UK’s most welcoming theatre award – winners revealed
The 12 regional and national winners of this year’s UK Theatre Awards’ search to find the country’s most ‘welcoming theatre’ have been announced. Aimed at offering audiences an opportunity to celebrate their local theatre this year’s winners in each region are: East Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch East Midlands Buxton Opera House and Pavilion Arts Theatre London […]
Marti Webb to play three-date concert tour
Veteran West End leading lady Marti Webb will play the first of three shows on Sunday (11 September) at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch. Produced by Paul Burton Productions, Marti Webb In Concert will showcase the vocal talents of the popular stage and recording star along with special guest Robert Meadmore. Featuring songs from a career […]
Made in Dagenham – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
Made in Dagenham continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 17 September, then transfers to the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich from 21 September until 15 October. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Made in Dagenham, a musical based on the 2010 film with the same name, returns to its roots in a co-production between the […]
Interview – Douglas Rintoul brings Made in Dagenham back home to the Queen’s Hornchurch
DOUGLAS RINTOUL is the new artistic director at the Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch. Appointed in 2015, Rintoul – a Drama & Theatre Arts alumnus of the University of Birmingham – has chosen for his first major show the musical comedy Made in Dagenham (music by David Arnold, lyrics by Richard Thomas, book by Richard Bean), which […]
Romford Rose – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
Romford Rose continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 18 June. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Romford Rose is a dramatic story that contrasts the life depicted by country music with the real events we face each day; a situation that in old movies would have ended in a western style shootout is […]
Interview – Sweeney Todd writer Christopher Bond on his latest show, Romford Rose
CHRISTOPHER BOND is probably best known to theatregoers as the playwright of the 1970 version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street that pumped new blood into George Dibdin Pitt’s bloody melodrama (“It needed a heart transplant, not a facelift,” says Bond) and inspired Stephen Sondheim to create his musical magnum opus six […]
First revival of Made in Dagenham from Queen’s Hornchurch and New Wolsey Ipswich
The first revival of the hit musical Made In Dagenham will be a co-production between the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre. The staging, directed by the Queen’s artistic director Douglas Rintoul, receives its regional premiere in Hornchurch from 26 August until 17 September, before playing the New Wolsey from 21 September until 15 October. Inspired by the true […]
Avenue Q – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch and Touring
Avenue Q continues at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch until 6 February, and on tour until 18 June 2016. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ If you’re like me, there’s a good chance that you grew up watching The Muppets and Sesame Street, along with Disney movies, where the stories would always seem to promise that, […]
Roll Over Beethoven – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
Roll Over Beethoven continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 12 September. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Roll Over Beethoven is the story of Johnny Hamlet who is haunted by his father, who accuses his brother of his murder, and demands that Johnny kills him. This musical, especially written for the […]
Hot Stuff – Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch
Hot Stuff continues at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch until 13 June. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The night is about the young man – Joe Soap – who dreams of becoming a rock star, a dream which is realised when a strange lady called Lucy Fur offers fame in return for his eternal commitment. Hot Stuff was devised by Paul Kerryson and Maggie […]
Return to the Forbidden Planet – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch and Touring
Return to the Forbidden Planet continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 15 November, before beginning a UK tour in January 2015. Return to the Forbidden Planet is the jewel in the crown of the Queen’s Theatre. Written by the venue’s own Bob Carlton, the show has many influences, including Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the 1950s movie […]
Brian May joins line-up for Return to the Forbidden Planet anniversary tour
Full casting and tour dates have been revealed for the Olivier Award-winning Return to the Forbidden Planet, which is back in a major 25th anniversary production, launching from Brighton Theatre Royal on 20 January 2015 (press night is 21 January). The tour has now been extended to May 2015 to include new dates in Darlington, Edinburgh, Wimbledon, Leicester, […]
Gunmetal Blues – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
Gunmetal Blues continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 20 September. This Queen’s Theatre staging, directed by Bob Carlton, marks the European premiere of Gunmetal Blues and is the first production in the winter season for the venue’s resident acting company, cut to the chase… Sean Needham returns from last season at the Queen’s, after appearing in […]
Godspell – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch
Godspell continues at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch until 7 June. Written by Stephen Schwartz and first performed in 1971, Godspell comes from the time of hippies and chants of all you need is love. The show is mainly based on the parables from the Bible’s book of Matthew and contains many traditional hymns all set […]
