There is Nothin’ Like a Dame was performed at the Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There is no one that There’s Nothin’ Like a Dame wasn’t for. As the audience gathered in the auditorium in the grand Cadogan Hall, it was clear that, as always, music and musical theatre, in particular, […]
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‘It’s an important time to celebrate ladies in theatre’: Alexia Khadime stars in There’s Nothin’ Like a Dame at Cadogan Hall
Louise Dearman, Ria Jones, Alexia Khadime and Rachel Tucker are coming together for one night only for There’s Nothin’ Like a Dame to celebrate 100 Years of Women in Musical Theatre. The concert, at London’s Cadogan Hall on 30 August 2018, will feature songs from across the decades including classics by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Andrew […]
Student newcomer Daisy Greenwood wins Lambert Jackson competition to perform in There’s Nothin’ Like a Dame
Seventeen-year-old student Daisy Greenwood has won the chance to perform alongside established West End stars in There’s Nothin’ Like a Dame – 100 Years of Women in Musical Theatre, a celebration of the genre’s female characters at Cadogan Hall later this month. The launch production from new musical theatre production company Lambert Jackson will feature […]
New production company Lambert Jackson to pay tribute to musical theatre’s leading ladies in There’s Nothin’ Like a Dame
New musical theatre production company Lambert Jackson will launch with a one-night celebration of the genre’s female characters at London’s Cadogan Hall this summer. Featuring a quartet of popular West End leading ladies, There’s Nothin’ Like a Dame on 30 August 2018 will celebrate 100 years of female characters in musical theatre. Taking to the […]
Live At Zédel reveals details of summer season
Alexander S. Bermange’s musical revue I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical will make a return visit to Live At Zédel this summer just a few months after its critically-acclaimed world premiere. Announced as part of the summer season line-up at London entertainment hub, the latest work from musical comedy composer Bermange will return […]
Jason Robert Brown in Concert – London Palladium
Jason Robert Brown in Concert was at the London Palladium. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ “I came to sing a song about hope,” Jason Robert Brown croons in his opening number for what will become a special edition of BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night is Music Night. It is a highly metatextual number, […]
Star-studded celebration for Mousetrap Theatre Projects
The stars came out on Sunday 18 March to help theatre education charity Mousetrap Theatre Projects celebrate its 21st anniversary. Hosted by Christopher Biggins and Harriet Thorpe, the star-studded fundraising gala at the Prince of Wales Theatre featured guest stars Beau Dermott, Patricia Hodge, Tyrone Huntley, Samantha Spiro, David Suchet, Rachel Tucker and Michael Xavier. […]
Norm Lewis, Rachel Tucker and Betsy Wolfe join line-up for Jason Robert Brown concert
Broadway stars Norm Lewis, Rachel Tucker and Betsy Wolfe will join multi award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown for his return visit to the London Palladium next month. Part of BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night, An Evening with Jason Robert Brown on Wednesday 11 April will feature the writer, conductor and pianist with […]
Mousetrap Theatre Projects marks 21 years with special event
Christopher Biggins and Harriet Thorpe will host a star-studded charity gala celebrating the 21st anniversary of Mousetrap Theatre Projects next month. The special event at the Prince of Wales Theatre on Sunday 18 March, will feature performances from guest stars including: David Suchet, Patricia Hodge, Michael Xavier, Samantha Spiro, Beau Dermott, Tyrone Huntley and Rachel […]
CD Review – On the Road – Rachel Tucker
ON THE ROAD (deluxe edition) – RACHEL TUCKER (digital downloads or through www.racheltucker.co.uk) Hard on the heels of On the Road (released in June this year) comes Rachel Tucker’s On the Road (deluxe edition) which is the original album plus seven new tracks ‘The Candyman’, ‘Waving Through a Window’, ‘Another Life’, ‘She Moved Through the […]
West End favourites line up to join The Barricade Boys’ Christmas shows
Les Misérables-inspired male vocal group The Barricade Boys has revealed a star-studded list of guest stars lined up to join them during their festive three-week season at the Studio at The Other Palace next month. School of Rock’s Gary Trainor will take to the stage with the group on the first night (5 December), with […]
Fourth annual West End Wilma Awards revealed
Half a Sixpence was a double award winner at the West End Wilma Awards (presented in association with Free@Last TV ) ceremony in London on Friday (3 November). Leading man Charlie Stemp collected the Rising Star award while his leading lady Emma Williams was named the Best Performer in a West End Show at the […]
Rachel Tucker to play fundraising concert for Bridge House Theatre
Wicked star Rachel Tucker will follow up her successful first solo tour of the UK with a special fundraiser in the gardens of her London venue Bridge House Theatre. Rachel Tucker By Request on Sunday 9 July will feature the West End and Broadway favourite in a unique cabaret show which will elevate audience participation […]
West End gala to raise funds for victims of Grenfell Tower fire
Giles Terera and Danielle Tarento are presenting a West End fundraising gala evening of song, dance and comedy for the hundreds of families made homeless and the relatives of those who lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire. Songs and Solidarity will take place at Trafalgar Studios 1 on Sunday 25 June at 7.30pm. […]
Rachel Tucker in Concert – Live At Zédel
Rachel Tucker in Concert continues at Live At Zédel, London until 25 March, then on tour in May and June. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Bubbly Belfast songbird Rachel Tucker’s main claim to fame is that she played the role of Elphaba in Wicked longer than any other actress in the […]
Rachel Tucker to go on first solo UK tour
Wicked star Rachel Tucker will follow up her triumphant nine-month Broadway run and her recent return to the show’s West End 10th anniversary cast by heading out on her first solo UK tour. Tucker, who has played Elphaba longer than any other actress in the multi award-winning production’s history, will take a break from the […]
Wicked – Apollo Victoria Theatre
Wicked continues at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, London and is booking up to 4 November 2017. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is probably musical theatre blasphemy to admit it, but on seeing Wicked for the first time I struggled to make an emotional connection with the book or score. While I left the […]
Another Night Before Christmas – Bridge House Theatre to stage UK premiere
The musical Another Night Before Christmas will receive its UK premiere at South London’s Bridge House Theatre this festive season. Starring Olivier Award-winning George Maguire (Sunny Afternoon) and West End favourite Rachael Wooding (We Will Rock You), the show will run from Monday 28 November until Friday 23 December. The production, which will be staged by […]
Wicked UK and Ireland tour to return in February 2018
As Wicked celebrates 10 years at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre tonight (Tuesday 27 September 2016), it has been revealed that the UK and Ireland tour will return in February 2018, opening at the Bristol Hippodrome (with tickets on public sale from 1 February 2017). The critically acclaimed production is currently playing at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore and […]
Wicked extends booking as new principal cast opens at the Apollo Victoria
On Monday 5 September 2016 at 10am the 22nd new booking period opens for Wicked, the award-winning West End musical phenomenon that tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz. More than 500,000 new tickets are going on sale for performances until Saturday 4 November 2017. From 5 September, Wicked will star Rachel Tucker (Elphaba), Suzie Mathers (Glinda), Oliver Savile (Fiyero), Anita Dobson (Madame Morrible), Mark Curry (The Wizard), Martin Ball (Doctor Dillamond), Katie Rowley Jones (Nessarose), Idriss Kargbo (Boq), Alice […]
New Live At Zedel programme features Scott Alan, Rachel Tucker and Matt Cardle
Fears of ‘classical cabaret’ buffs that the new regime at West End nightspot Crazy Coqs – to be retitled Live At Zedel when reopening after the August recess – were going for a complete change of direction proved somewhat wide of the mark when the first September-to-December programme was announced this week. Olivier Award winner […]
Wicked 10th anniversary London cast – Rachel Tucker returns as Elphaba
The new cast that will lead the award-winning West End musical Wicked from 5 September 2016 – through its 10th birthday celebrations at the Apollo Victoria Theatre – will include: Rachel Tucker, who will return to the London production direct from a triumphant run on Broadway to play Elphaba; Suzie Mathers, who joins from the Australian production […]
West End Wilma Awards 2015 – winners revealed
The second annual West End Wilma Awards have taken place at The Hippodrome Casino, Leicester Square. Theatre blogger West End Wilma is everyone’s favourite nana in Theatreland – running around the West End interviewing stars and reviewing as many shows as she can fit in to her busy OAP lifestyle. Wilma was awarded the 2014 Ticketmaster Blog […]
Rachel Tucker returns to St James Theatre with new solo show Back From Broadway
West End and Broadway star Rachel Tucker returns to the St James Theatre on Sunday 19 April with her all-new solo show, Back From Broadway, following her acclaimed debut on the Great White Way starring as Meg Dawson in Sting’s musical The Last Ship (Neil Simon Theatre, New York) directed by Joe Mantello. There are two performances […]
The Last Ship – Neil Simon Theatre, New York
The Last Ship continues at the Neil Simon Theatre, New York. The shipyard workers in the north east English town of Wallsend are a proud lot. And they’re stubborn, too, as portrayed in The Last Ship, the problematic new Broadway musical buoyed with a glorious score by rock star Sting. The town’s shipyard has been […]
West End Heroes – Dominion Theatre
Performed at the Dominion Theatre, London. An idea two years in the making, West End Heroes combined a variety of West End performers with singers and musicians from the Armed Forces for a unique evening in aid of the charity Help for Heroes, hosted by Brian Conley. The military services contain a number of regular musical troupes. […]
