The Harder They Come continues at Stratford East, London until 4 July 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Judging by the audience reaction and the compelling performances, this production is headed for another successful run.
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The Big Life – Theatre Royal Stratford East
The Big Life continues at the Theatre Royal Stratford East until 30 March 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The Big Life is a cultural document that should not wait two decades between revivals. It is our Guys and Dolls, and it deserves to be recognised as such.
Box Office Radio lines up VIP musical weekender in 2024
A host of leading West End stars will feature in the Box Office Radio VIP Musicals Weekender in Torquay in Devon early next year.
The Secret Life of Bees – Almeida Theatre
The Secret Life of Bees continues at the Almeida Theatre, London – until 27 May 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Rachel John to release debut album
Olivier Award nominee Rachel John’s debut album, the gospel-themed From my lips to God’s ear, will be released by Westway Music on 8 April 2022. Executive produced by Ramin Karimloo, the West End and Broadway performer whose company Mercy Productions recorded John’s concert at the NTA Church in Tooting last year, the nine-track album of […]
West End favourites to star in new London concert series The Westway Sessions
Musical theatre favourites will take centre stage in a new intimate concert series at London music venue Piano, Smithfield in May. Hosted by new music and film label, Westway, The Westway Sessions will launch on 9 May 2022 with a performance reuniting former Les Misérables’ co-stars Rob Houchen (City of Angels) and Emma Kingston (Heathers) […]
West End Musical Celebration concerts to return to London
Following a successful six show run at London’s Palace Theatre, the organisers of the West End Musical Celebration concert series have announced a three-month residency at London’s Vaudeville Theatre. One of the first shows to reopen West End theatres in the summer, the star packed celebration of live musical theatre will be back on stage […]
Special streaming event to celebrate publication of Giles Terera’s Hamilton book
Olivier Award-winning actor Giles Terera will mark the publication of his book Hamilton and Me: An Actor’s Journal by returning to Hamilton’s London home, the Victoria Palace Theatre, for an exclusive event. Featuring guest appearances from original London cast members including Jamael Westman (Alexander Hamilton) and Rachel John (Angelica Schuyler), the special event which will […]
West End Musical Celebration – Palace Theatre
West End Musical Celebration continues at the Palace Theatre, London until 13 June 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I – like you, I’m sure – have spent the last 15 months sat at home, counting down the days until I would get ‘Defying Gravity’ belted directly into my face again. […]
Star studded line-up for UK debut of Well-Behaved Women
Janie Dee, Kerry Ellis, Cassidy Janson and Nicole Raquel Dennis will be among a star-studded cast of West End favourites celebrating famous females across the ages in a one night only concert performance of award-winning composer Carmel Dean’s Well-Behaved Women in September. Presented by Lambert Jackson Productions, the concert on 3 September 2021 at London’s […]
West End Musical Celebration concerts rescheduled
With indoor theatre performances not due to resume until 17 May 2021 at the earliest, the West End Musical Celebration – Live At The Palace Theatre concerts have been rescheduled to dates in June. Originally planned for October last year, the star-packed celebration of musical theatre and the return of live theatre will now play […]
Virtual lockdown production of Songs For A New World returns via Stream.Theatre
Lambert Jackson Productions’ online lockdown production of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World will be available on stream.theatre for one week from 21 February 2021. Featuring West End stars Rachel John (Hamilton), Ramin Karimloo (Phantom of the Opera), Cedric Neal (Motown) and Rachel Tucker (Come From Away) and introducing recent graduate Shem Omari […]
Leave A Light On concert series to return
Lambert Jackson has announced the return of the popular Leave A Light On online concert series with a run of more intimate performances from artists’ own homes later this month. The latest incarnation of the lockdown initiative launched by Lambert Jackson Productions and the Theatre Café during the first lockdown will run from 12 until […]
Thirty West End voices unite for new The Show Must Go On charity single
Thirty West End performers have lent their voices to a new original song created to bring a little Christmas cheer with all profits going to Acting For Others, The Fleabag Support Fund and NHS Covid-19 Urgent Appeal through the Theatre Support Fund+. Written by director and performer Anna Hale, producer and director Joe McNeice and […]
Songs For a New World transfers to the Vaudeville Theatre in February 2021 for a limited run
Lambert Jackson Productions has announced that its critically acclaimed production of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For a New World will transfer to the Vaudeville Theatre for a strictly limited run from 9 February 2021, with previews from 5 February, running until 7 March. This comes after the huge success of the production at The London […]
Star-packed West End Musical Christmas shows for London’s Palace Theatre
The team behind the popular West End Musical Brunch events and the recent West End Musical Drive-In series has joined forces with producer Nica Burns to bring a festive version of the north London shows to the heart of the West End this Christmas. Running from 17 until 20 December 2020, West End Musical Christmas […]
Five Questions With: Rachel John
RACHEL JOHN is starring in the upcoming live performances of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World at the London Palladium on 11 October 2020. Rachel originally performed the role of Woman 1 in Lambert Jackson Productions’ virtual performance of Songs For A New World, broadcast during lockdown in association with The Other Palace. […]
Palladium performances of Songs For A New World announced
West End stars David Hunter (Waitress), Rachel John (Hamilton), Cedric Neal (Motown) and Rachel Tucker (Come From Away) (with Shem Omari James) will take to the stage of the London Palladium next month for two performances of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World. Presented by Lambert Jackson, the live shows on 11 October […]
Songs For A New World – Lambert Jackson Productions and The Other Palace
Songs For A New World – A virtual revival presented by Lambert Jackson Productions and The Other Palace continues until 25 July 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If only for Jason Robert Brown’s best-known composition ‘Stars and the Moon’ wistfully sung by the wondrous Rachel Tucker, this virtual revival of […]
Lambert Jackson announces virtual production of Songs For A New World
Lambert Jackson Productions in association with The Other Palace has announced a “virtual lockdown production” of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World. Filmed entirely in isolation, Séimí Campbell directs Rachel John (Hamilton), Ramin Karimloo (Phantom of the Opera), Cedric Neal (Motown) and Rachel Tucker (Come From Away), with musical supervision by Adam Hoskins […]
Award-winners join star-packed line-up for Turn Up! live stream
Sharon D. Clarke, Noma Dumesweni, Norm Lewis and Clive Rowe are among the West End and Broadway performers who will unite with community leaders for TURN UP! – next month’s online charity event in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Raising money for four charities – The Bail Project, The Okra Project, The Black […]
West End stars perform Newfound Hope Songs, written during lockdown for NHS Charities Together
As the world continues with social-distancing measures, and with theatreland on hiatus, many stars of the West End stage are getting creative at home and taking to social media with free clips, songs, and messages of support for fans, theatregoers, for their local communities, and in appreciation of key workers in the NHS and front-line […]
Girl from the North Country – Gielgud Theatre, London
Girl from the North Country continues at the Gielgud Theatre until 1 February 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ When it opened at The Old Vic in 2017 (transferring into the West End the following year), Conor McPherson’s tale of Depression-era Duluth, Minnesota was truly something very special. Its use of music […]
West End return for Girl From The North Country
The Old Vic’s critically acclaimed world premiere production of Girl From The North Country will return to the West End for an eight-week run beginning in December. Written and directed by multi award winning playwright Conor McPherson (The Seafarer, The Weir) and featuring the songs of Bob Dylan, the production will play the Gielgud Theatre […]
Stars to join British Theatre Academy performers for special performance of Godspell
West End favourites Laura Baldwin, Luke Bayer, Max Bowden, Rachel John and Ramin Karimloo will appear alongside students from the British Theatre Academy in a semi-staged production of Godspell at London’s Cadogan Hall on 29 June 2019. Announcing the line-up of guest performers, BTA artistic director Matthew Chandler said: “I am so excited about this […]
Five winners announced for Lambert Jackson’s West End Women – A Celebration of Women in Musicals
New musical theatre production company Lambert Jackson has announced the five winners of its competition to find a future female musical star to feature in their next show, West End Women – A Celebration of Women in Musicals. Open to women of all ages, the company’s second search for a singer to appear alongside a […]
INTERVIEW: Eliza Jackson on Lambert Jackson’s show West End Women and how to win a place in the cast
When ELIZA JACKSON and Jamie Lambert met six years ago, it was a catalystic moment. “We were both a long way from home when we arrived at Associated Studios in London to do a postgrad course so we had a lot in common,” says Jackson who had trained in musical theatre at the National Institute […]
INTERVIEW: Is former Strictly pro Robin Windsor really hanging up his dancing shoes?
After a successful and varied career, Strictly Come Dancing ex-pro ROBIN WINDSOR will bring his farewell tour to a close with a one-night-only performance at the Novello Theatre on Sunday 25 November 2018 with all proceeds go to the Make a Difference Trust. Robin will be joined by some special guests from his career both […]
Star-studded final dance for Strictly’s Robin Windsor
Former Strictly Come Dancing star Robin Windsor will give his last ever performance in London’s West End in a star-studded charity fundraiser later this month. With all proceeds going to the Make A Difference Trust, Robin Windsor – The Last Dance will feature the star dancer and famous friends in a special song and dance […]
Lambert Jackson launches new search for musical theatre star
New musical theatre production company Lambert Jackson has announced a second competition to find a future female musical star to feature in their next show, West End Women – A Celebration of Women in Musicals. Open to women of all ages, the prize for the winning entrant will be a co-starring role alongside a trio […]
Lambert Jackson’s West End Women to play London’s Cadogan Hall
New musical theatre production company Lambert Jackson will follow its successful launch production There’s Nothin’ Like a Dame with another one-night celebration of the genre’s female characters at London’s Cadogan Hall early next year West End Women – A Celebration of Women in Musicals will once again feature a group of popular West End leading […]
Hamilton leads musical theatre winners at The Mousetraps
Musical theatre productions once again dominated the winners list at the seventh annual awards ceremony for The Mousetraps. Presented by Mousetraps Theatre Projects’ Youth Forum, chosen by more than 1,000 young theatregoers (aged 15-23), ten out of the 12 awards went to genre performers and productions. Hamilton led the pack picking up three awards including […]
Hamilton receives a recording-breaking 13 nominations in Olivier Awards 2018
Smash hit musical Hamilton predictably leads the field with a record-breaking 13 nominations for this year’s Olivier Awards, overtaking previous joint record holders: last year’s The Cursed Child and 2008’s Hairspray with 11 nominations. Announced today by Elaine Paige and Alexandra Burke, the nominees for the 2018 Olivier Awards with Mastercard recognised a number of […]
New booking period for West End run of Hamilton – tickets go on sale 29 January
A new booking period for the hit London version of the multi-award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton has been announced. Tickets for performances from 30 July to 15 December will go on sale via official Hamilton ticketing channels from Monday (29 January) at 12 noon GMT. The new booking period follows on from the news that the team […]
The Color Purple in Concert – Cadogan Hall
The Color Purple in Concert was performed at the Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There are some musicals which grow in stature the more they get stripped back. The Color Purple is one such musical. The recent Broadway revival – a transfer of the Menier Chocolate Factory’s 2013 […]
The Color Purple – all-star cast to perform in one-off concert
An all-star West End cast will perform one night only concert version of The Color Purple at London’s Cadogan Hall on Sunday 21 May. The Color Purple tells the inspiring and unforgettable story of a woman who, through love, finds the strength to triumph over adversity and discover her unique voice in the world. The […]
Hamilton West End – initial casting revealed
Initial casting has been announced for the West End production of Hamilton: Christine Allado (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Rachelle Ann Go (Eliza Hamilton), Tarinn Callender (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Rachel John (Angelica Schuyler), Jason Pennycooke (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Cleve September (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Giles Terera (Aaron Burr) and Obioma Ugoala (George Washington) will open the […]
The Bodyguard – Dominion Theatre
The Bodyguard continues at the Dominion Theatre, London until 7 January, 2017. Rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Thea Sharrock’s production of The Bodyguard returns to the West End at the Dominion Theatre with Beverley Knight once again blowing the audience away in the lead role. The Queen of British Soul first played Oscar-nominated superstar Rachel Marron in 2013. At […]
