Victoria Wood and Tom MacRae’s critically acclaimed Fourteen Again will receive its London premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory this winter.
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Fourteen Again – Victoria Wood Theatre, Bowness-on-Windermere
Fourteen Again continues at the Victoria Wood Theatre, Bowness-on-Windermere until 6 June 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a divinely entertaining and heartwarming show which is a fabulous credit to this lovely little theatre.
First casting news for world premiere of Fourteen Again
Ria Jones and Sally Ann Triplett will star in the eagerly awaited world premiere of the new musical Fourteen Again at the newly named Victoria Wood Theatre in the heart of the Lake District.
Five Questions With: Ria Jones
Award-winning actress and singer Ria Jones is reprising the role of Mrs Overall in a special charity concert revival of Acorn Antiques The Musical, Victoria Wood’s cult-classic satire of British soap operas, which plays Manchester Opera House (2 and 16 November) and London’s Shaftesbury Theatre (9 November).
The Faaaaaaabulous Ceri Dupree Show – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
The Faaaaaaabulous Ceri Dupree Show at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London and Touring. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Sure, he could have made a decent living just singing but he did it his way. and long may he continue to do so.
Miss-Leading Ladies: Back With A Vengeance! – Crazy Coqs
Miss-Leading Ladies: Back With A Vengeance! Ria Jones and Ceri Dupree at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Miss-Leading Ladies: The Revenge – Crazy Coqs
Miss-Leading Ladies: The Revenge continues at the Crazy Coqs, London until 27 March 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Such a joy to see a full house in a cabaret room again with brother-and-sister act Ceri Dupree and Ria Jones milking every moment in a riotous evening at the Crazy Coqs. Jones, […]
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber – Leicester Curve
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber continues at Leicester Curve until 19 June 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s easy to forget, when examining the legend of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the sheer proliferation of work which has gone into a career spanning decades. Not to worry – Nikolai Foster and […]
Re-release of Curve’s Sunset Boulevard – At Home to raise funds in memory of Andy Nairn
The critically-acclaimed Made at Curve production Sunset Boulevard – At Home is being made available once again next month to raise funds for the newly launched Andy Nairn Bursaries in Technical Theatre. All money raised from ticket sales and donations for the week-long run will go towards the scheme which has been launched in memory […]
West End stars feature in Crazy Coqs’ reopening plans
Sophie-Louise Dann, Dominic Ferris, Ria Jones and Cassidy Janson will be among the line-up of artists to feature in the reopening programme at London’s Crazy Coqs from 17 May 2021. Subject to the Government’s ability to stick to its proposed roadmap to recovery, the popular venue within the Brasserie Zédel complex in Soho has announced […]
Curve extends online run of Sunset Boulevard – At Home
In response to popular demand Leicester Curve has announced an extended run for its critically-acclaimed Sunset Boulevard – At Home which will now continue streaming until 17 January 2021. Following the decision to turn the planned live theatre production of Sunset Boulevard In Concert into an online event in response to December’s lockdown restrictions, in […]
Sunset Boulevard in Concert – Curve Leicester
Sunset Boulevard in Concert at Home is streaming from Curve Leicester until 9 January 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Talk about making the very best of a bad job, Leicester Curve has dazzlingly turned the body-blow of having its planned Sunset Boulevard in Concert live-audience season scuppered by the new […]
Curve’s Sunset Boulevard Concert to be turned into online event
Forced to re-think its reopening season once again, with Leicester having entered Tier 3, Leicester Curve announced plans to turn the eagerly-anticipated concert version of Curve’s hit production of Sunset Boulevard into an online event. Plans for the return of live theatre are now on hold until the city can exit the country’s toughest restrictions, […]
Rescheduled dates and cast for Curve’s rescheduled reopening season
Leicester Curve has revealed new dates and further casting for the highly anticipated reopening season delayed by the current national lockdown. Live theatre will now return to Leicester Curve for the first time since the venue closed its doors to the public in March, on 18 December (four days later than originally planned) with the […]
The Theatre Channel – Episode Two
The Theatre Channel – Episode Two – The Theatre Café/Adam Blanshay Productions Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ I enjoyed The Theatre Channel’s second episode, and Halloween special, a week after its release, through the lens of ‘lockdown 2.0’. The opportunity to enjoy a piece of musical theatre from the comfort of my own […]
Concert versions of The Color Purple and Sunset Boulevard to feature in Curve’s comeback season
Live theatre will return to Leicester Curve next month for the first time since the venue closed its doors to the public in March with the launch of an autumn season that will feature two re-imagined, socially distanced concert versions of two Made at Curve productions. Launching on 12 November 2020 with an exclusive event […]
Godspell 50th Anniversary Online Concert
Godspell 50th Anniversary Online Concert – available to watch until 29 August 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ From Godspell in 1971 to Prince of Egypt, six weeks into its West End run when Covid-19 reared its ugly head and put theatreland into a coma, Stephen Schwartz has been a massive […]
Six star Jodie Steele records ‘Beautiful City’ as taster for Godspell 50th online
West End star Jodie Steele features on a special recording of ‘Beautiful City’ from Godspell released as a preview of the upcoming star-studded online charity concert marking the 50th anniversary of the hit show. Producer Ginger Quiff Media has teamed up with leading theatre-recording label Broadway Records to release the single which will be available […]
Star-packed online concert to mark Godspell’s 50th
West End favourites Ruthie Henshall, Ria Jones and Jenna Russell will be among the star names joining an online charity concert marking the 50th anniversary of Godspell next month. Presented by Thomas Hopkins and Michael Quinn for Ginger Quiff Media in association with Hope Mill Theatre, the Godspell 5oth Anniversary Concert will stream worldwide on 27, […]
Online fundraiser to mark Joseph’s 50th year
Over 30 performers from across the world will appear in a star studded online charity concert to celebrate 50 years of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. With the support of the Really Useful Group and the Universal Group, work is well under way on creating the special concert version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and […]
Gypsy – Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Gypsy continues at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester until 1 February 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Being so heavily based on a front-on theatre form like vaudeville, it’s a challenge producing a show like Gypsy completely in the round. Manchester’s Royal Exchange pulls it off with impressive flair in its unique […]
Ria Jones heads up the Guys and Dolls cast at Paris’ Theatre Marigny
Paris will be seeing Guys and Dolls for the first time when Frank Loesser’s iconic 1950 musical lands in the Theatre Marigny, just off the Champs-Elysees, for a four-and-a-half-month run from 13 March to 27 July. Ria Jones, so brilliant in Sunset Boulevard, heads the cast which also features Clare Halse, Christopher Howell and Matthew […]
There is Nothin’ Like a Dame – Cadogan Hall
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, […]
‘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 […]
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Preview – Our Top Ten Musical Theatre Tips
With only a couple of days before the Edinburgh Festival Fringe begins, we’re keen to share the Top 10 shows we’re looking forward to seeing in 2018, writes Edinburgh Editor Fiona Orr. There will be, once again, a winner selected from the huge range of musical theatre pieces staged this year for Musical Theatre Review’s […]
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 […]
Janie Dee, Danielle Hope, Ria Jones and Claire Sweeney star in new Edinburgh show Don’t Tell Me Not to Fly
Four of the West End’s most popular leading ladies will take to the stage in a series of special shows at the newly refurbished McEwan Hall at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Presented by Underbelly Productions from 4-27 August 2018, Don’t Tell Me Not to Fly will feature Janie Dee (Follies, Hello Dolly!), Danielle Hope (The […]
Sunset Boulevard – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Sunset Boulevard continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre until 14 April, then tours until 28 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Sunset Boulevard tour has been on the go since September so it came as a surprise when Wimbledon threw a press night with only two more ports of […]
Manchester Theatre Awards 2018 nominees announced
Hope Mill Theatre’s acclaimed production of Yank! will battle it out with-high profile hits Funny Girl, Bat Out of Hell and Sunset Boulevard for the title of Best Musical at this year’s Manchester Theatre Awards. Funny Girl’s Sheridan Smith and Sunset Boulevard’s Ria Jones and Danny Mac are also among a number musical theatre stars […]
Sunset Boulevard – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
Sunset Boulevard continues at the Milton Keynes Theatre until 2 December and then tours until 28 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ After a highly successful, if headline making, run last year by the English National Opera, this touring production of Sunset Boulevard has arrived at the Milton Keynes Theatre. […]
Sunset Boulevard – Leicester Curve and Touring
Sunset Boulevard was reviewed at Leicester Curve and continues touring until 26 May 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The audience loved it. And isn’t that what musicals are for? To tell a lovelorn story that makes hearts ache; to serve up yearning solo songs and explosive ensembles, with some swirling […]
Sunset Boulevard UK and Ireland tour – full casting details
Full casting has been revealed for the forthcoming UK and Ireland tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s award-winning musical Sunset Boulevard. Directed by Nikolai Foster, the tour will open at Curve on Saturday 16 September 2017 (press night is Thursday 28 September). Joining the previously announced Ria Jones as Norma Desmond and Danny Mac as Joe […]
Danny Mac to star in Sunset Boulevard tour
Danny Mac is to star as Joe Gillis in the forthcoming UK and Ireland tour of Curve’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s award-winning musical Sunset Boulevard. Ria Jones is to play Norma Desmond and the show is to be directed by Nikolai Foster. Sunset Boulevard will open at Curve on Saturday 16 September 2017 (press […]
Sunset Boulevard UK and Ireland tour – details of dates
The UK and Ireland tour of the Curve production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Sunset Boulevard, starring Ria Jones as Norma Desmond and directed by Nikolai Foster, will open at Curve on 16 September 2017 (press night is 28 September) before touring the UK and Ireland. Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning show is based on Billy Wilder’s film, accompanied by Don […]
Something for everybody at Live at Zédel
To launch its spring programme, Piccadilly cabaret room Live at Zédel gave us a taster of seven very different acts, drolly introduced by French comic/compere Marcel Lucont, who is very funny indeed, rather naughty, and will be well worth seeing during Zedel’s French Fest in March. From a musical theatre point of view the highlight […]
Ria Jones to star in Sunset Boulevard at the Curve and on tour
It has been revealed that Ria Jones will star in a new homegrown production of Sunset Boulevard as part of Leicester Curve’s autumn/winter 2017 season. Actress and singer Jones stepped into the spotlight in April last year when she took over the leading role in Sunset Boulevard (after Glenn Close was too ill to perform) […]
Double helping of 42nd Street – first stop Theatre du Chatelet in Paris
While London readies itself for a March revival of 42nd Street, the musical that propelled Catherine Zeta-Jones to stardom in 1984, Paris gets in first with a seven-week English-language run of the same show at the Theatre du Chatelet from 17 November to 8 January. Stephen Mear will be directing a Chatelet cast headed by […]
42nd Street at Theatre du Chatelet – Ria Jones leads the cast
Ria Jones, the supersub who played Norma Desmond to rave reviews and standing ovations when Glenn Close went sick for a number of performances of Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum at the end of April, gets a starring role in her own right in Paris in November. Jones plays Dorothy Brock in the Theatre […]
Alternate Norma Desmond Ria Jones wins over Sunset Boulevard audience
Actress and singer Ria Jones stepped into the spotlight this week to take over the leading role in Sunset Boulevard and won over an audience angered by the news that award-winning actress Glenn Close was too ill to perform (Pictures: Kevin Wilson). Jones, who had ironically been involved in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s early workshops for […]
Miss-Leading Ladies – St James Studio
Miss-Leading Ladies continues at St James Studio, London until 30 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Cabaret lovers are being spoilt for sibling revelry. It’s only a month since the Callaway sisters, Ann and Liz, flew over from New York to wow us at the Hippodrome and now Miss-Leading Ladies, with brother-and-sister act […]
Ria Jones and Ceri Dupree bring Miss-Leading Ladies to St James Studio
Siblings Ria Jones and Ceri Dupree will star in this celebration of some of the greatest grande dames of stage and screen, adding their own unique family twist. From Ethel Merman to Doris Day, Marlene Dietrich to Danny La Rue, Miss-Leading Ladies will showcase them all, playing at the St James Studio Theatre from 5–30 August (press night […]
Jerry’s Girls – Jermyn Street Theatre
Jerry’s Girls continues at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London until 31 May. Rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There’s no doubt that Jerry Herman has earned his place as one of the 20th century’s greatest composers of musical theatre. From his early successes of Milk and Honey and Hello, Dolly!, to his 1983 smash hit La Cage Aux […]
Jerry’s Girls transfers to Jermyn Street Theatre for three-week run
Following a sell-out run at St James Studio last month, musical revue Jerry’s Girls will transfer to Jermyn Street Theatre for a limited three-week run from Tuesday 12 to Sunday 31 May 2015, with a press night on Friday 15 May. Featuring songs from classic musicals including Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage Aux Folles, […]
Jerry’s Girls – St James Studio
Jerry’s Girls continues at St James Studio, London until 15 March. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It is only when you hear 28 of his show songs paraded one after the other in a sparkling revue staged so winningly by a hectically-involved cast of five under Kate Golledge’s imaginative direction that you realise the full extent of Broadway legend Jerry […]
Jerry’s Girls London revival – meet the Girls
Full casting has been announced for musical revue Jerry’s Girls which, 30 years after it opened on Broadway, will be revived in a limited two-week run (3 to 15 March) at the St James Studio, London. Jerry’s Girls are Anna-Jane Casey, Ria Jones and Sarah-Louise Young. Anna-Jane Casey was recently seen starring in Forbidden Broadway at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Vaudeville Theatre. West End credits […]
