Now one of the highest-rated theatrical podcasts on iTunes (top 10 theatre podcasts as ranked by Feedspot), Lucy Eaton’s podcast Hear Me Out returns for a second series with the first three episodes featuring Joanna Vanderham, Richard Eyre and Sanjeev Bhaskar now available to download. Hosted by actor and producer Eaton, a West End actress […]
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Live cast recordings of Mary Poppins and Les Misérables – The Staged Concert to be released
Cameron Mackintosh, First Night Records and Warner Music have announced the upcoming release of the new live cast recordings of the producer’s hit West End productions announced of Mary Poppins and Les Misérables – The Staged Concert next month. Now available to pre-order, the Mary Poppins album will be released on 6 November with the […]
Petula Clark and Joseph Millson join the cast of West End’s Mary Poppins
Veteran singing star Petula Clark will return to the West End stage for the first time in decades when she joins the cast of the eagerly-awaited West End return of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins. A multi award-winning recording artist, Clark who famously starred as Maria in The Sound Of Music in the West […]
‘Godfather of British theatre’ Sir Peter Hall dies aged 86 – past and present National Theatre directors pay tribute
National Theatre directors past and present have led the tributes paid to Sir Peter Hall who died yesterday (11 September) at the age of 86 in London’s University College Hospital surrounded by his family. One of the giants of British theatre, and celebrated internationally for his ground-breaking work on stage and on film, Hall’s extraordinary […]
New Year Honours – Richard Eyre, Clive Rowe and Sharon D Clarke recognised
Ray Davies, Ken Dodd, Bryn Terfel, Patricia Routledge, Mark Rylance, Richard Eyre, Clive Rowe and Sharon D Clarke are among the famous names from the entertainment world celebrating their inclusion in this New Year Honours list. Receiving MBEs are Rowe and Clarke, while Kinks frontman Davies, veteran comedian Dodd, opera singer Terfel and stage and screen actor Rylance have all […]
Mary Poppins begins UK and Ireland tour at Leicester Curve in October
Disney and Cameron Mackintosh have revealed that their multi award-winning musical Mary Poppins will embark on a tour of the UK and Ireland, opening at Leicester Curve on 13 October 2015. Mackintosh said today: “It’s hard to believe that it is already 11 years since Mary Poppins first landed on the London stage. My goodness… time flies even faster than our beloved Nanny! I’m […]
The Pajama Game – Gary Wilmot joins cast at Shaftesbury Theatre
The Pajama Game continues at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London until 13 September. There was a little bit of musical chairs going on in the casting department last week at The Pajama Game. While the evening was all about actor Gary Wilmot taking over the role of Vernon Hines (the Sleep-Tite pajama factory’s time and motion […]
The Pajama Game – Shaftesbury Theatre
The Pajama Game continues at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, until 13 September. A musical about union trouble at a pajama factory in a small Midwest town in 1950s America doesn’t immediately appeal as something worth dragging yourself away from the MasterChef final for. But then neither did one based on a book of twee TS […]
The Pajama Game – listen to Xavier and Riding in action
For all those looking forward to the West End transfer of Chichester Festival Theatre’s staging of The Pajama Game, opening at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 13 May, there is now a song from the production available to listen to for the first time. ‘Hey There’, sung by the show’s co-stars Joanna Riding and Michael Xavier […]
Polycarpou and Wilmot confirmed for The Pajama Game
Peter Polycarpou, Gary Wilmot and Colin Stinton join the cast of the West End transfer of Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of The Pajama Game, directed by Richard Eyre. Polycarpou and Stinton reprise their roles as Vernon Hines and Hasler, with Wilmot taking over the role of Vernon Hines from 2 June. They join the previously […]
Stephen Ward the Musical – Aldwych Theatre
Stephen Ward the Musical opened at the Aldwych Theatre, London on 19 December. Set in the swinging 1960s, Stephen Ward the Musical is a biographical piece describing the rise and fall of the society playboy who fell foul of the ruling classes. Known eternally as the lynchpin to the Profumo affair –a sexual scandal that precipitated […]
Chichester Pajama Game hits West End in May 2014
Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of The Pajama Game, directed by Richard Eyre, transfers to the West End on 1 May (press night is 13 May), playing at the Shaftesbury Theatre until 13 September 2014. The musical will move in when the current show residing there – From Here to Eternity – closes. In 1950s America, […]
Eyre stages Lloyd Webber Stephen Ward musical
Richard Eyre will direct the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Hampton and Don Black’s new musical Stephen Ward, previewing at London’s Aldwych Theatre from 3rd December 2013, with opening night on 19th December. Stephen Ward has music by Lloyd Webber, with book and lyrics by playwright Hampton and lyricist Black (with whom Lloyd Webber previously […]
