All is But Fantasy continues at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon until 21 February 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A tremendous achievement and definitely one that makes a mark.
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Radiant Boy – Southwark Playhouse Borough
Radiant Boy continues at Southwark Playhouse Borough, London until 14 June 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The whole piece has a melancholic air, like the sound of a folk tune on the winter wind. Like such song, it is both beautiful and terrifying.
Passing Strange – Young Vic Theatre
Passing Strange continues at the Young Vic Theatre, London until 6 July 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Giles Terera’s narrator has a twinkly irreverence that helps propel Passing Strange throughout. With him at the helm the whole evening just sings.
Star packed line-up for Charlie Kristensen’s There’s No Place Like Home
A host of musical theatre favourites will join inspirational young anti-bullying campaigner Charlie Kristensen at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue on 22 October 2023. Celebrating the launch of The Charlie Kristensen Foundation and presented in partnership with New Frame Productions, There’s No Place Like Home will be hosted by Divina De Campo.
Cast for UK tour of CAKE
Zizi Strallen will follow her crowd-pleasing performance as Mary Poppins by taking on the role of infamous French queen Marie Antoinette in new British rap and R‘n’B-flavoured musical CAKE: The Marie Antoinette Playlist.
Full cast for new rock musical SUPERYOU
The full cast has been unveiled for this month’s London workshops of new rock musical SUPERYOU.
West End debut for Off-Broadway hit Emojiland
Off-Broadway hit Emojiland will make its West End debut for a one night only concert performance at the Garrick Theatre later this month. Featuring music by Keith Harrison Dworkin, and a book and lyrics by Dworkin and Laura Schein, the award-winning new musical will arrive in London on 31 October. The new production of the […]
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World – Theatre Royal Stratford East and Touring
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World continues at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London until 17 July 2022. The show then visits the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury (26-20 July) and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (4-29 August). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s inspiring, upbeat and affirmative. And it has a clear aim […]
Original cast members to feature in new tour of Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
Christina Modestou, Renée Lamb and Jade Kennedy will reprise their performances in Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World when the pop-powered musical which celebrates some of history’s most inspirational women follows its critically-acclaimed autumn 2021 debut by embarking on a UK tour in late March. Modestou (Carousel, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, The Winter’s […]
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World – MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton and Touring
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World continues at the MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton until 20 November 2021, and then on UK tour until 16 January 2022, with further tour dates for 2022 to be announced. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World presents colourful portraits of […]
The original recording Six The Musical Queens will reunite with Marlow and Moss to celebrate vinyl release
The music from electrifying musical Six by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss has truly become a global phenomenon. The songs have been streamed over 450 million times across all platforms and have had over three billion views on TikTok, making the album the second highest streamed cast recording in the world, second only to Hamilton. […]
Christina Modestou and Renée Lamb among the cast for Fantastically Great Women
Two of Six’s original Queens will feature among the UK touring cast of new female-celebratory musical Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World this autumn. Christina Modestou (Carousel, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; The Winter’s Tale, National Theatre; Six, Arts Theatre) and Renée Lamb (Ain’t Misbehavin’, Southwark Playhouse/Mercury Colchester; Little Shop of Horrors, Regent’s Park […]
First West End artists announced for Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize concert
George Stiles, Anthony Drewe and Mercury Musical Developments (MMD) have announced the first group of West End stars lined up to perform the songs in the running for this year’s Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize at London’s Hackney Empire on 10 September 2021. With more star performers to be announced, the concert will […]
Be More Chill – Shaftesbury Theatre
Be More Chill continues at Shaftesbury Theatre, London until 5 September 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Surely the holy grail for commercial musical theatre producers is a piece that can connect with young people in a way that feels authentic. Those young people know how to use the internet which […]
West End season for Be More Chill
Hit Broadway musical Be More Chill will return to London next month for a limited 10-week run at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Presented by Bill Kenwright with Jerry Goehring, Lisa Dozier King and Paul Taylor-Mills, the musical will play its first West End run from 30 June 2021. The show was previously seen in London at […]
Roles We’ll Never Play – West End to be streamed to home audiences
A live recording of last month’s West End debut of the popular Roles We’ll Never Play concert series will be streamed to home audiences next weekend. Featuring a cast of over 25 the performance which was filmed live during the concert’s sold-out run at London’s Apollo Theatre in December will be streamed via stream.theatre at […]
Five Questions With: Nicholas McLean
NICHOLAS MCLEAN is starring in West End Acoustic – an unplugged celebration of popular musicals presented by New Frame Productions – at London’s Riverside Studios on 8 December 2020 alongside Maiya Quansah-Breed, Renée Lamb, Nicholas McLean and Sam Tutty, with musical direction by Chris Poon. Nicholas’ credits include Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre – Black British Theatre […]
Musical theatre stars to feature in acoustic show at Riverside Studios
Five West End favourites will unite for a one-night-only unplugged performance at London’s Riverside Studios next month as part of the Hammersmith venue’s inaugural Christmas season in association with New Frame Productions. Dear Evan Hansen’s Olivier Award-winner Sam Tutty will join Six’s Maiya Quansah-Breed and Renée Lamb, Tyrone Huntley (Jesus Christ Superstar) and Nicholas McLean […]
Elaine Paige and Bernadette Peters will host first West End Woofs animal adoption event
Musical theatre royalty from both sides of the Atlantic will unite to host the UK’s first virtual dog and cat adoption event this month. Co-hosted by the West End’s Elaine Paige and Broadway’s Bernadette Peters, West End Woofs will be a UK-based version of Broadway Barks, the annual star-studded animal adoption event benefiting New York […]
West End debut for Roles We’ll Never Play series
The popular Roles We’ll Never Play concert series will make its West End debut at London’s Apollo Theatre in December. Following two successful years of sold-out concerts in the capital, Roles We’ll Never Play West End on 7 December 2020 will once again offer a host of West End favourites the chance to perform songs […]
Be More Chill – The Other Palace
Be More Chill continues at The Other Palace, London until 3 May 2020. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ An Off-Broadway sleeper hit that earned itself a full Broadway run, Be More Chill is based on a young adult novel of the same name by Ned Vizzini. Set in an American high […]
Cast announced for the London debut of Be More Chill
Two former Queens from hit British musical Six will take to the stage in the UK premiere of hit Broadway musical Be More Chill at London’s The Other Palace in February 2020. Renee Lamb (Catherine of Aragon in the original Arts Theatre production of SIX) and Millie O’Connell (Anne Boleyn at the Arts Theatre) will […]
Little Shop of Horrors – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors continues at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 22 September 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Under Maria Aberg’s direction, this production of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s 1982 classic glitters, often literally, with quality. From the moment the anonymous hooded figures slide on to the all grey impoverished Skid […]
Six – Arts Theatre
Six continues at the Arts Theatre, London until 22 January. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It was inevitable, perhaps, that the runaway success of Hamilton on Broadway would inspire a new generation of musical theatre writers. As Lin-Manuel Miranda’s epic musical shows, it is possible to engage with a country’s history […]
London School of Musical Theatre – 9 to 5 The Musical
9 to 5 The Musical, performed by students from the London School of Musical Theatre, continues at the Bridewell Theatre, London, until 28 April. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 is the second of the London School of Musical Theatre’s spring offerings following the almost forgotten King […]
