Redcliffe A New Musical continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 4 July 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Redcliffe is an important piece not only because it offers a beautiful portrayal of queer love in the past, but because of the way it speaks to the present.
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Full cast for Redcliffe debut at Southwark Playhouse
The full cast has been confirmed for upcoming premiere of Jordan Luke Gage’s Redcliffe at Southwark Playhouse Borough.
Here & Now – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Here & Now was reviewed at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London where it continues until 9 November 2025. The tour continues until 16 May 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Steps fans were out in force for the gala night of what is a very superior jukebox musical.
Cast for UK premiere of Freaky Friday musical
Rebecca Lock and Jena Pandya will play the mother and daughter at the heart of the stage musical version of the 1970s body-swap comedy Freaky Friday when it receives its UK stage premiere at HOME Manchester this Christmas.
Here & Now – Opera House, Manchester and Touring
Here & Now was reviewed at the Opera House, Manchester where it continues until 13 September 2025. The tour continues until 16 May 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★
Here & Now – The Alexandra, Birmingham and Touring
Here & Now was reviewed at The Alexandra, Birmingham where it continues until 30 November 2024. A UK tour will begin at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury in August 2025, running into 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ An example of how to do jukebox musicals the right way, Here & Now is one of the most fun nights out you can have right now.
First casting news for Steps musical Here & Now
The lead cast has been announced for the record-breaking world premiere run of pop group Steps’ new musical Here & Now at The Alexandra in Birmingham this autumn.
The Wonderful Music and Lyrics of Jerry Herman – Cadogan Hall
The Wonderful Music and Lyrics of Jerry Herman at Cadogan Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Star casts lined up for MTFestUK 2024
West End favourites Miriam-Teak Lee (& Juliet), Laura Baldwin (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella), Jordan Luke Gage (Bonnie & Clyde), Rebecca Lock (Elf The Musical) and Declan Bennett (Jesus Christ Superstar) will be among the actors to appear at MTFestUK 2024.
Emmerdale’s Matthew Wolfenden will swap the Dales for North Pole to star in Elf
Emmerdale favourite Matthew Wolfenden will leave the Yorkshire Dales and head for the North Pole when he takes to the stage of London’s Dominion Theatre as Buddy the Elf when festive family favourite ELF: The Musical returns for its second consecutive Christmas season.
Musicals Mash Up: 10-16 October 2022
Welcome to Musicals Mash Up in which we catch up with lots of the week’s stories that haven’t yet appeared on the Musical Theatre Review pages. We hope you approve! News editor Angela Thomas reports.
School of Rock – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
School of Rock continues at Milton Keynes Theatre until 12 February 2022 and then tours until 13 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ School of Rock storms the stage at Milton Keynes Theatre. Adapted from the 2003 Jack Black film, the show will make you laugh, smile and dance in […]
School of Rock – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
School of Rock continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 15 January 2022 and then tours the UK until 13 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Andrew Lloyd Webber still doesn’t seem like the obvious person to have brought Richard Linklater’s boisterous 2003 family movie about the power of rock‘n’roll […]
Class of 2021 prepare for School of Rock – The Musical tour
Jake Sharp will be back at the head of the class when the eagerly-awaited first major UK and Ireland tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Olivier award-winning School of Rock – The Musical launches at Hull New Theatre in September. The actor who previously played Dewey Finn in the West End will return to take charge […]
You Are Here at Southwark Playhouse – full cast announced
Full casting has been announced for the re-scheduled UK premiere of You Are Here at Southwark Playhouse. Rebecca Lock (Curtains, Wyndham’s Theatre, Mamma Mia! Novello Theatre), Phil Adéle (Our Town, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Little Shop of Horrors UK tour) and Jordan Frazier (Nina Simone, Kenny Leon Theatre Company, Bat Out of Hell, UK […]
Further casting for A Christmas Carol at the Dominion Theatre
First pictures have been released of Brian Conley and co-stars in rehearsals for the eagerly-anticipated new concert staging of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol at the Dominion Theatre this festive season. With performances due to begin on 7 December, the rehearsal shots feature Conley, Matt Jay-Willis, Jacqueline Jossa, Lucie Jones, […]
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 […]
Jacqueline Jossa, Matt Jay-Willis, Lucie Jones, Cedric Neal and Sandra Marvin join Brian Conley in A Christmas Carol at the Dominion Theatre
Busted star Matt Jay-Willis will play Bob Cratchit opposite Brian Conley’s Ebenezer Scrooge in the new concert staging of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol at the Dominion Theatre. The singer who previously appeared in the West End in Wicked and Little Shop of Horrors will play Scrooge’s downtrodden employee alongside […]
Star-studded online concert Kings Of Broadway 2020 will celebrate the work of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman & Stephen Sondheim
Kings Of Broadway 2020, an online concert celebrating the music of the legendary Broadway composers Jule Styne, Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim (the latter two whose lyrics will also be celebrated), will premiere at 7pm on Sunday 31 May 2020 via the ‘Quick Fantastic’ channel on YouTube. The evening will feature a cross section of […]
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 […]
Online fundraising performance of Curtains announced
The UK producers of Kander and Ebb’s Tony Award-winning musical Curtains have announced a live stream of the show on 14 April 2020 at 7.15pm with all profits going to Funds For Freelancers. In response to the current situation Paul Taylor-Mills (artistic director of The Turbine Theatre), Helen Clarkson, Sasha Regan and Sita McIntosh have […]
Curtains – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Curtains continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 18 January, then on tour until 11 April 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Musical murder mystery Curtains resumed its UK tour in Wimbledon after an unexpected five-week West End run at the Wyndham’s Theatre, rushed in because of the premature closing […]
Curtains – Wyndham’s Theatre
Curtains continues at the Wyndham’s Theatre, London until 11 January 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Instead of a holiday break for its extensive UK tour, the news of a limited engagement for the first big British production of Curtains at the Wyndham’s Theatre was indeed an exciting prospect. Thirteen years after its […]
London season for new touring production of Curtains
Just a few weeks after the launch of the new touring production of Kander and Ebb’s Tony Award-winning Curtains, the show’s producers have announced plans for a London premiere run this festive season. The production which launched at Bromley’s Churchill Theatre in October will take up residence at the Wyndham’s Theatre from 13 December 2019 […]
Ore Oduba and Carley Stenson join Jason Manford in Curtains tour
Former Strictly champion Ore Oduba will follow his theatrical debut in Grease by joining comedian Jason Manford for the new touring production of Kander and Ebb’s Tony Award-winning Curtains. Appearing at selected venues during the tour which launches this autumn, the BBC TV presenter will play composer Aaron Fox alongside the previously announced Manford (Chitty […]
Kiss Me, Kate – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Kiss Me, Kate continues at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield until 12 January 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Cole Porter’s music for Kiss Me, Kate has everything needed for a delightful evening in the theatre: comedic wit (‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’); one of the greatest of torch songs (‘So in Love’); spectacular opportunities for […]
Heathers The Musical – Theatre Royal Haymarket
Heathers the Musical continues at Theatre Royal Haymarket until 24 November 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ On the face of it, cult film Heathers would not seem to be a great candidate to form an evening of uplifting musical theatre. The 1988 film is a dark, dark comedy that takes […]
Crucible’s Christmas Kiss Me Kate – cast announced
Sheffield Theatres’ artistic director Robert Hastie has announced full casting details for Paul Foster’s major revival of Cole Porter’s classic Kiss Me, Kate, which is due to begin previewing at the Crucible from 7 December 2018. Due to run until 12 January 2019, with an opening night on 12 December, the new production of Porter’s […]
Moonfleet – Salisbury Playhouse
Moonfleet continues at the Salisbury Playhouse until 5 May 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ J Meade Falkner’s novel Moonfleet is ripe for the transition from page to stage. If anything, it’s a more rollicking yarn than Treasure Island. Smugglers, contraband, hidden treasure, creepy crypts, storms at sea, shipwrecks, a youthful […]
West End stars to appear in Alexander Bermange Hippodrome show
Musical theatre favourites will take to the stage at London’s Hippodrome next month for a one-off show celebrating the work of award-winning composer Alexander S. Bermange. London’s Leading Luvvies Perform Alexander S. Bermange on Sunday 4 March will feature a star-studded line-up of West End favourites performing songs by the composer. Lined up to appear […]
Cast revealed for Moonfleet musical at Salisbury Playhouse
Casting has been announced for the premiere of a major new musical based on classic adventure story Moonfleet which is due to open at the Salisbury Playhouse in April. Heading the cast are: Earl Carpenter (Les Misérables; The Phantom of the Opera; Sunset Boulevard) playing Maskew, with Ryan Heenan (Grease, UK tour; Sweeney Todd, Derby […]
LMTO’s A Christmas Carol – final casting revealed
London Musical Theatre Orchestra has announced the full casting for the 2017 production of its concert version of A Christmas Carol which returns to London’s Lyceum Theatre with two performances of the festive favourite on 11 and 18 December. Now confirmed to star alongside previous names announced are: Olivier Award nominee Sophie-Louise Dann (Lend Me […]
Major cast change at Mamma Mia!
Following the recent 15th birthday celebrations for Mamma Mia! in London, there will be major cast changes from 9 June. Rebecca Lock will be joining the cast as Rosie, Alasdair Harvey as Harry, Charles Daish as Bill, Alice Stokoe as Sophie Sheridan and Lloyd Green as Sky. Also joining the cast will be Rosanna Bates […]
