Thelma & Louise continues at the Young Vic Theatre until 24 October 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Thelma & Louise’s road trip keeps going for ever – but now it’s destined to continue as a terrific musical.
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Megan Hilty and Rachel Tucker to star in new concert production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Broadway and West End stars Megan Hilty and Rachel Tucker will take to the stage at the London Palladium early next year for a new concert production of the classic musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Cast for world premiere of Thelma & Louise musical
Amy Lennox and Rachel Tucker will take on the title roles in the world premiere of the musical based on Ridley Scott’s 1991 road movie Thelma & Louise at the Young Vic.
18th annual Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year – the finalists
The Stephen Sondheim Society has announced the 12 finalists in the running for the 18th annual Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year (SSSSPOTY).
New cast members to join Bridge Theatre’s Into the Woods
A number of new cast members will join the Bridge Theatre’s hit production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s magical musical Into the Woods next month.
Kerry Ellis, Louise Dearman and Rachel Tucker to take Gravity on the road
West End and Broadway leading ladies Kerry Ellis, Louise Dearman and Rachel Tucker will reunite to bring their acclaimed show Gravity to audiences across the UK in 2026.
Ayana George and Rachel Tucker join Todrick Hall’s Midnight workshops
Broadway and West End stars Ayana George and Rachel Tucker will join the company of singer and choreographer Todrick Hall’s workshop presentation of his new original musical Midnight.
The Great Gatsby: A New Musical – London Coliseum
The Great Gatsby: A New Musical continues at the London Coliseum until 7 September 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Have a glass of champagne, enjoy the revelry, and if you’re left pondering deeper questions afterward, that is just a bonus.
Corbin Bleu, Rachel Tucker and more join the West End cast of The Great Gatsby
Joining the previously announced Jamie Muscato and Frances Mayli McCann in The Great Gatsby at the London Coliseum are Corbin Bleu, Amber Davies, Joel Montague, John Owen-Jones, Jon Robyns and Rachel Tucker.
Music Review: Schwartz Songs
Schwartz Songs – Brand New Recordings of Stephen Schwartz’s Greatest Songs (Westway Music). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A must-listen for fans of musical theatre, not only paying homage to Schwartz’s incredible career but also introducing his music to a new generation of listeners.
Wild About You – Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Wild About You at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ The presentation succeeded in convincing me that there is a fine piece of art waiting to be chiselled out of the attractive but raw marble that is Wild About You.
Video released for Side Show In Concert
Enjoy a preview of today’s one-night-only concert performance of the Broadway musical Side Show with this video featuring stars Louise Dearman and Rachel Tucker singing ‘I Will Never Leave You’.
Music Review: Rachel Tucker – …you’re already home
Music Review: Rachel Tucker – …you’re already home(Westway Records). While Rachel Tucker is undoubtedly most known for her theatre performances on the stages of London and Broadway, ‘…you’re already home’ is far more than ‘just’ a musical theatre album, going deeper in its messaging and sentiment to bring together a musical microcosm of lived experiences belonging to the real person behind those characters.
Sunset Boulevard – Savoy Theatre
Sunset Boulevard continues at the Savoy Theatre, London until 6 January 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Five Questions With: Grace Hodgett Young
Grace Hodgett Young is currently making her professional stage debut as Betty Schaefer in Jamie Lloyd’s acclaimed reimagining of Sunset Boulevard at London’s Savoy Theatre.
Rachel Tucker In Concert – Cadogan Hall
During the last six years, Rachel Tucker has performed all over the world. Even after the Broadway production of Come From Away closed last year (she had reprised the role of Beverley Bass which had also won her an Olivier nomination), her travels continued with concerts in Sydney and Japan.
Five Questions With: Rachel Tucker
West End and Broadway actress RACHEL TUCKER is very busy. This week the star of Wicked and Come From Away has released her new album ‘…you’re already home’, she’s performing a solo concert at London’s Cadogan Hall on 5 November and is currently wowing audiences as Norma Desmond on Monday nights in Jamie Lloyd’s much acclaimed West End production of Sunset Boulevard at the Savoy Theatre.
Sunset Boulevard – full cast and creatives
The full cast and creative team have been unveiled for director Jamie Lloyd’s highly anticipated new London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard.
New York concert date for updated John & Jen
Rachel Tucker and Lewis Cornay will reprise their performances in the new, updated version of Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald’s John & Jen in New York early next month. Presented by Bray Productions and with Lippa also serving as musical director, the special concert performance at leading cabaret venue 54 Below on 9 February 2023 […]
Programme and presenters for West End LIVE
Over 48 of the West End’s most popular shows will be on hand to turn London’s iconic Trafalgar Square into the ultimate open-air theatre when West End LIVE returns to the capital this weekend. The organisers of the crowd-pleasing live entertainment event have confirmed the performance schedule and the presenters for the annual two-day musical […]
Winners of Offies Awards 2022 announced
This year’s Offies Awards ceremony was free and online – and announced winners for the Offies, the OffFest and also the new OnComms for online shows Winners were announced in 25 Offies categories from amongst the live shows that returned to London stages from May 2021, and in eight OnComm categories from online shows from […]
Streaming return for hit A Killer Party
The UK premiere recording of new murder mystery musical A Killer Party returns to Stream.Theatre this week. Adapted for UK audiences, the show which was a lockdown hit in the US, is available as a nine-episode series for home viewing on stream.theatre until 28 November. The cast includes Jason Manford (Curtains, The Producers), Ben Forster […]
John & Jen – Southwark Playhouse
John & Jen continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 21 August 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Composer Andrew Lippa is now better known for full-scale musicals from The Wild Party and Big Fish to The Addams Family, but the small chamber musical John & Jen, revived in a new production at the Southwark Playhouse, […]
Alfie Boe among headline acts announced for Picnic Proms Summer Concert Series
West End and Broadway favourite Alfie Boe will be among the star names to take to the stage in a three-day series of spectacular concerts in the grounds of Harewood House in the heart of Yorkshire in September. Presented by Leeds-based Vivo Entertainment, the Picnic Proms Summer Concert Series will open on 3 September with […]
World premiere of new version of John & Jen to star Rachel Tucker and Lewis Cornay
Olivier Award nominee Rachel Tucker and Lewis Cornay will star in the world premiere of a new updated version of Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald’s John & Jen at the Southwark Playhouse this summer. Presented by Bray Productions and featuring new orchestrations by Jason Robert Brown and Lippa the production will run from 28 July […]
Ben Forster joins A Killer Party cast
Ben Forster (Jesus Christ Superstar, Elf The Musical) will complete the cast for the UK premiere of new murder mystery musical A Killer Party. Adapted for UK audiences, the show which was a lockdown hit in the US last summer, will be available as a nine-episode series for home viewing on stream.theatre from 19 April […]
Cast for workshopped new musical Daisy revealed
Jason Manford and Rachel Tucker will feature in the cast of a workshop production of new Irish musical Daisy next month. Manford (Curtains, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and Tucker (Come From Away, The Last Ship) will appear with the show’s creator, singer/songwriter and actress Caroline Kay (taking on the title role), with Jessica Cervi (The […]
Jason Manford, Rachel Tucker, Cedric Neal, Debbie Kurup & more are cast in the UK premiere of A Killer Party
Casting has been announced for the UK premiere of A Killer Party which will be released as a series of nine episodes to watch on-demand. The dates have now changed from the previous announcement to 26 April to 23 May 2020. The cast includes Oscar Conlon-Morrey (Only Fools and Horses, Nativity The Musical) as Shea […]
Stars unite for Make A Difference Trust single to mark a year of closedown
Some of the most distinctive voices in the West End feature on a new charity single released to mark a year since UK theatres went dark. With representatives from every musical open in the West End when the curtains came down on 16 March 2020 along with artists from shows that should have opened in […]
April return for West End Musical Drive-In
The UK’s biggest musical theatre concert series West End Musical Drive-In is returning with a series of live performances in its London home next month. Following on from its popular live shows last year (and the current digital re-streaming) which brought a touch of musical theatre magic to audiences in their cars, the series will […]
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 […]
New dates and new look for West End Musical Celebration – Live At The Palace Theatre
The postponed festive show West End Musical Christmas – Live at London’s Palace Theatre has been re-scheduled and re-branded after the show was shelved due to the December Covid-closedown. Now re-titled West End Musical Celebration – Live At The Palace Theatre, the star packed celebration of musical theatre will now play the Palace Theatre from […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pirate Queen UK premiere concert raises over £10,000 for charity
First-time theatre producer Tom Gribby has presented Leukaemia UK with a cheque for over £10,000 raised from the special charity performance of Boublil and Schönberg’s The Pirate Queen at the London Coliseum in February. Handing over a cheque for £10,058, Gribby [pictured left] said: “I am delighted at the amount raised from the Pirate Queen […]
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 […]
‘Wicked’ witches support the launch of the Make a Difference Trust’s Emergency Assistance Fund
To support Make A Difference Trust’s Emergency Assistance Fund, 23 West End actresses who have played Elphaba or Glinda in the multi-award-winning hit musical Wicked have joined together to perform a stunning rendition of the show’s ‘For Good’. Inspired by their close friends at Broadway Cares, the Make A Difference Trust’s has revived and repurposed […]
Daily online conversation series Theatre Camp: Live! launched
Stars from across the West End and Broadway are supporting a new online series set up to support LGBTQ and vulnerable young people. Music director Benjamin Rauhala, journalist William J Connolly and Darren Bell for concert promoters Club 11 London have launched Theatre Camp: Live! – a daily online discussion series and charity fundraiser. Launching […]
Musicals & Juliet and Come From Away are big winners at the WhatsOnStage Awards
At a ceremony tonight at the Prince of Wales Theatre hosted by Jodie Prenger and Tom Read Wilson, the winners of the 2oth Annual WhatsOnStage Awards were announced – the only major theatre awards decided entirely by the theatregoers themselves. For the first time this year the event was broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 hosted by Elaine Paige and Paddy O’Connell. The […]
The Pirate Queen – London Coliseum
The Pirate Queen – A Charity Concert was staged for one night charity gala at the London Coliseum on 23 February 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The historical swashbuckler written by composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyricist Alain Boublil (with additional lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr and John Dempsey) – and inspired […]
Final casting news for The Pirate Queen
Earl Carpenter and Daniel Boys will complete the line-up of West End stars assembled for the special charity performance of Boublil and Schönberg’s The Pirate Queen at the London Coliseum later this month. Carpenter, whose extensive musical theatre credits include leading roles in Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard and Evita, will […]
Rachel Tucker reprises her Come From Away role in the Broadway production
Rachel Tucker will take off from the Olivier Award-winning West End production of Come From Away next month and land in New York in March as part of the cast of the Tony Award-winning Broadway production. A decade after the homegrown star made her Broadway debut as Elphaba in Wicked, Tucker will step out onto […]
Hannah Waddingham, Steph Parry and Emma Norman join The Pirate Queen charity performance
Hannah Waddingham, Steph Parry and Emma Norman are the latest additions to the line-up for the special charity performance of Boublil and Schönberg’s The Pirate Queen at the London Coliseum on Sunday 23 February 2020. A triple Olivier Award nominee for her performances in Kiss Me, Kate, A Little Night Music and Spamalot, Waddingham will […]
Charity concert debut for Boublil & Schönberg’s The Pirate Queen
Come From Away’s Rachel Tucker will take the title role in a special charity performance of Boublil and Schönberg’s The Pirate Queen at the London Coliseum on 23 February 2020. The actress who famously played Elphaba in Wicked in the West End and on Broadway will be joined on stage by Britain’s Got Talent 2011 […]
Come From Away’s West End run extended again
Multi-award-winning musical Come From Away celebrated its 300th performance and welcomed its 300,000th visitor in the West End by announcing a newly extended run taking the show’s London run up to 23 May 2020. Inspired by the remarkable true story of the 7,000 stranded air passengers who found refuge in a small Canadian town in the […]
Rachel Tucker to climb aboard Stages musical theatre cruise
Wicked West End and Broadway star Rachel Tucker is the latest major musical star to join the star-packed list of attractions due to climb aboard the second edition of Stages The Musical Theatre Festival at Sea this autumn. Tucker, the Northern Irish actress who played Elphaba longer than any other actress in the multi-award-winning Wicked’s […]
Fundraising success for inaugural West End Flea Market
Leading theatrical charity Acting For Others is celebrating raising an impressive £26,000 from the first West End Flea Market held last weekend at The Actors’ Church, St Pauls in Covent Garden. Thousands of theatre fans turned out to join in the fun as teams from The Book of Mormon, Hamilton, Les Misérables, Mamma Mia!, The […]
Rachel Tucker leads cast of European premiere of Come From Away
Thirteen actors will take on both lead and supporting roles in the Tony Award-winning new musical Come From Away which is due to land on this side of the Atlantic in December with a premiere run in Ireland ahead of its West End debut in early 2019. Inspired by the remarkable true story of the […]
