Award-winning actor, singer and director Tyrone Huntley has returned to the role of Judas that brought him acclaim in Timothy Sheader’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium.
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Cats – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Cats continues at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 19 September 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s not a reinvention but an improved and dusted-off version of a classic.
Jesus Christ Superstar – London Palladium
Jesus Christ Superstar continues at the London Palladium until 5 September 2026, before transferring to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane from 16 October 2026 to 9 January 2027. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s new production of Cats – the full cast and tour dates
The full cast has been confirmed for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats this summer.
Sam Ryder to headline major production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium
The creative team of the 2016 production of Jesus Christ Superstar will reunite 10 years on to create a unique staging of their Olivier Award-winning, worldwide smash-hit production, starring Sam Ryder as Jesus.
New Cats to prowl Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in 2026
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre will be the spectacular setting for the debut of a major new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats next summer.
Five Questions With: Edward Baruwa
Edward Baruwa is playing Andrew MacLaren in the first major London revival of Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon for 35 years at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
Brigadoon – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Brigadoon continues at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 20 September 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Drew McOnie and writer Rona Munro have stayed true to the tone of the original piece while making some creative refinements which surely will resonate with a modern audience.
Fiddler on the Roof – Barbican Theatre and Touring
Fiddler on the Roof continues at the Barbican Theatre, London until 19 July 2025. The production then tours from 24 July to 3 January 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A staggeringly beautiful revival of a musical that celebrates the human spirit.
Shucked – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Shucked continues at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 14 June 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (Or: Ear rating: five ears ) It is the perfect summer escape and a triumph of musical theatre nonsense. Even the worst of this season’s English weather won’t dampen the joy exuding from its every kernel.
First cast news for Barbican season of Fiddler on the Roof
Principal casting has been confirmed for this summer’s Barbican Theatre transfer of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s record equalling Olivier-nominated production of Fiddler on the Roof.
Regent’s Park Open Air’s Shucked – the full cast
The full cast has been confirmed for the eagerly-awaited UK premiere of Broadway hit Shucked at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
Classic Brigadoon and UK premiere of Shucked to feature in Drew McOnie’s first season at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
The first major London revival of Lerner & Loewe’s Brigadoon in 35 years and the eagerly-awaited UK premiere of Broadway hit Shucked will feature in director and choreographer Drew McOnie’s inaugural season as artistic director of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
Fiddler on the Roof – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Fiddler on the Roof continues at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 21 September 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Regent’s Park reliably produces some of the best communal theatre experiences in London, and rarely has this atmosphere been put to such good use as here. Do not miss it.
101 Dalmatians – Leicester Curve and Touring
101 Dalmatians was reviewed at Leicester Curve where it continues until 27 July 2024. The tour continues until 5 January 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s apparent how much work has gone into tightening 101 Dalmatians since the Regent’s Park run, and it’s all the better for it. A colourful and fun musical, with plenty of bark and bite to make it a great watch for all the family.
Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile The Musical – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile The Musical continues at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 8 June 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s half term next week. Round up some children and take them to see this – preferably on a sunny day. You won’t be disappointed.
Bear Snores On – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Bear Snores On at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 21 April 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This show, written and directed by Cush Jumbo and Katy Sechiari, is one of the most original and imaginative entertainments for under-sevens that I’ve seen for a long time.
Sunset Boulevard wins big at the WhatsOnStage Awards, Guys and Dolls picks up Best Revival and Operation Mincemeat is top New Musical
The big winner of the night at the 24th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards at the London Palladium was Sunset Boulevard with seven awards from its nine nominations.
New Fiddler on the Roof to conclude Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre 2024 season
A new production of the classic musical Fiddler on the Roof will be the final offering of the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s 2024 summer season.
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2023
A selection of critics have chosen their ‘show of the year’ although some struggled to pick just one. The shows represent just a small percentage of productions staged this year, but we hope these ‘top picks’ bring back some happy memories.
Newsfeed: Carrie Hope Fletcher tour, MTFestUK 2024, Lena Hall and Jamie Muscato at the Cadogan Hall and more
Following her successful first solo concert tour An Open Book, award-winning West End star and author Carrie Hope Fletcher will embark on a second tour in September 2024.
Spring debut for premiere of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Bear Snores On
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre will host the world premiere of a stage adaptation of Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman’s magical Bear Snores On next spring.
UK tour for new look musical 101 Dalmatians
A new musical version of Dodie Smith’s much-loved 101 Dalmatians will embark on a UK tour next summer.
La Cage aux Folles – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
La Cage aux Folles continues at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 16 September 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Most importantly, La Cage hits hard because its message of accepting yourself and others for who they are is timely now as it was in 1983.
Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written. – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-Written. continues at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 22 July 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Once on This Island – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Once on This Island continues at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 10 June 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Full cast for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Once On This Island
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has confirmed the full cast and creatives for the upcoming production of the multi-award-winning Broadway musical Once On This Island.
Principal cast and creatives for Regent’s Park’s Once On This Island
Gabrielle Brooks and Stephenson Ardern-Sodje will star in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s early summer production of the multi-award-winning Broadway musical Once On This Island.
101 Dalmatians – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
101 Dalmatians continues at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre until 28 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is (in most weather conditions) one of the most delightful places to enjoy an evening of theatre in London. What could be better than a family day out […]
Full cast for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Legally Blonde
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has announced the full cast for the venue’s upcoming production of Legally Blonde. As previously announced Courtney Bowman (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Six) will star as the irrepressible Elle Woods alongside Michael Ahomka-Lindsay (Emmett), Lauren Drew (Brooke), Vanessa Fisher (Vivienne), Isaac Hesketh (Margot), Nadine Higgin (Paulette), Alžbeta Matyšáková (Enid), Eugene […]
Kate Fleetwood’s Cruella de Vil leads cast of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s 101 Dalmatians
Olivier and Tony Award-nominee Kate Fleetwood will head the cast as the diabolical Cruella de Vil when Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s musical version of Dodie Smith’s much-loved 101 Dalmatians make its long-awaited debut this summer. An Olivier Award nominee for London Road at the National Theatre and a Tony Award-nominee for the 2007 Chichester […]
Courtney Bowman to star in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Legally Blonde
Courtney Bowman will play Elle Woods in the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s new production of Legally Blonde. The actress who originated the role of Fatimah in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and played Anne Boleyn in Six will reunite with SIX’s co-director and co-writer Lucy Moss who will direct the new production which play Regent’s […]
The Theatre Channel – Rodgers and Hammerstein special
The Theatre Channel – Rodgers and Hammerstein special Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Theatre Channel in collaboration with Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre celebrates the work of Rodgers & Hammerstein in its seventh episode. This episode which is released ahead of the venue’s unique take on the classic Carousel is a […]
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre partners with The Theatre Channel for Rodgers and Hammerstein special
Theatre-lovers will be offered a glimpse behind the scenes of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s upcoming revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic Carousel as part of a special episode of the pay-to-stream musical theatre flavoured web series, The Theatre Channel. Created by The Theatre Channel in partnership with Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Episode 7: […]
Bursts of brilliance from the year theatre stopped
We could have been born with a love of television or comic books or 1930s radio plays. That wouldn’t have been quite so bad. But no, Dionysus, god of theatre, took one look at us and decreed: “On top of the worldwide suffering and loss from Coronavirus, you are to spend the 2020 pandemic almost […]
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre shelves 2021 plans for 101 Dalmatians musical
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has confirmed its decision to ‘regretfully’ postpone its much-anticipated musical version of Dodie Smith’s much-loved 101 Dalmatians for a second time as the country continues to battle Covid. The current lockdown coupled with fears about when it will be deemed safe to ease social distancing measures have been cited as […]
Live big screen relay for Regent’s Park’s Jesus Christ Superstar concert
Performances of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s special concert version of the venue’s multi-award-winning production of Jesus Christ Superstar will be relayed ‘live’ to thousands of additional ticket holders from 19 August 2020. Tickets costing £20 are now on sale for Superstar On-Screen, an initiative that will allow up to 5,000 extra audience members to […]
Double-casting for leads in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Jesus Christ Superstar
The lead roles in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s special concert version of the venue’s multi-award-winning production of Jesus Christ Superstar have been double cast to allow for changes necessary to adhere to Government safety guidelines for outdoor live performances. The production’s original Jesus, singer-songwriter Declan Bennett, will share the title role with the star […]
Concert staging of Jesus Christ Superstar is centrepiece of Regent’s Park Open Air live comeback shows
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre will be among the first major theatres to welcome back audiences by staging 70 live performances in August and September 2020 including a special concert version of the venue’s multi-award-winning production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Running for six weeks from 14 August until 27 September, Jesus Christ Superstar: The Concert […]
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre season is postponed to 2021 season postponed to 2021
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre have announced that their entire 2020 season has now been postponed to 2021. The 2021 season will open on 15 May with the new musical, 101 Dalmatians (15 May to 20 June) followed by Romeo and Juliet (26 June to 24 July) and concluding with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel (30 […]
Barbican transfer of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Evita cancelled
With London’s Barbican Theatre currently closed until the end of June due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, the summer transfer run of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s hit production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita has been cancelled. All ticket holders will be contacted with reference to refunds, but the venue has asked […]
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre postpones musical 101 Dalmatians until 2021
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s musical version of Dodie Smith’s much-loved 101 Dalmatians, by Zinnie Harris and Douglas Hodge, will be postponed until 2021 in response to the Government’s advice on restricting non-essential contact. Planned as the launch production of the 2020 season, the first newly commissioned musical from the prestigious venue will now open […]
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 […]
Kate Fleetwood is Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Cruella in 101 Dalmatians
Olivier and Tony Award nominee Kate Fleetwood will play the villainous Cruella de Vil in the new musical version of Dodie Smith’s much-loved 101 Dalmatians which will be the launch production for the 2020 season at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre this summer. An Olivier-nominee for her performance in the Rufus Norris-directed musical London Road […]
Come From Away and Dear Evan Hansen’s Sam Tutty triumph at Critics’ Circle Awards
Just months after he made his dream professional debut in the West End’s Dear Evan Hansen, Sam Tutty is celebrating again as the winner of The Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer. Currently playing to packed houses at the Noel Coward Theatre, Tutty received his award at the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards’ ceremony at […]
Waitress is the big winner at the West End Wilma Awards 2019
The West End Wilma Awards, now into their sixth year, are a rather more informal affair than some of theatreland’s more established ceremonies. Here, the theatregoing audience mingles freely with the stars whose work they have enjoyed and voted for in one of the awards’ ten categories. At this year’s ceremony, held at London’s Café […]
Barbican transfer for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Evita
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s hit production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita will follow its sell-out success earlier this year with a limited run at London’s Barbican Theatre next summer. Following in the footsteps of this summer’s Barbican Theatre transfer season of the multi-award-winning Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita will play the prestigious […]
New musical 101 Dalmatians for Regent’s Park Open Air’s 2020 season
A musical version of Dodie Smith’s much-loved 101 Dalmatians will be the launch production for a packed 2020 season at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre next year. The first newly commissioned musical from the prestigious venue will be directed by artistic director Timothy Sheader and will feature puppetry designed and directed by Toby Olié. With […]
Evita – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Evita continues at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 21 September 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This revival of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1978 show about Eva Peron’s rise as the wife of the Argentine president and then her early death, opens dramatically with Samantha Pauly quietly […]
Jesus Christ Superstar – Barbican Theatre
Jesus Christ Superstar continues at the Barbican Theatre, London until 24 August 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It may be reaching for the easy cliché, but “resurrection” is the word that comes to mind for the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Arguably the best of Tim […]
