The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind continues at @sohoplace, London until 18 July 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is full of charm, and a testament to the power of imagination, determination, resilience and community.
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind – Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind continues at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon until 28 March 2026, before transferring to @sohoplace, London from 29 April to 18 July. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★
London Easter dates announced for Oi Frogs & Friends
Olivier nominated family show Oi Frog & Friends! will return to London to play artsdepot in North Finchley this Easter. Currently touring the UK, the show which previously played a critically acclaimed West End festive season run in 2019/2020 will be back in the capital from 12-16 April. Presented by Kenny Wax Family Entertainment and […]
Hit family show Oi Frog & Friends to tour UK
Olivier-nominated family show Oi Frog & Friends! will follow its festive run in Cardiff with an extensive UK tour in 2022. Presented by Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, the stage musical inspired by Kes Gray and Jim Field’s bestselling and award-winning series of picture books Oi Frog! Oi Dog! Oi Cat! and Oi Duck-Billed Platypus! will […]
New musicals sheet music site to launch
Performers and fans of new UK musicals will be able to purchase sheet music from their favourite shows with the launch of a new store of digital sheet music next week. Launching on Monday (1 June), New UK Musicals is the brainchild of Darren Clark, the multi-award-winning composer and lyricist of new shows The Wicker […]
Superhero – Southwark Playhouse
Superhero continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 22 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Not every superhero wears a cape, and not everyone who wears a cape is a superhero. In the Southwark Playhouse’s new one-man musical Superhero, directed by Adam Lenson, Michael Rouse plays a man who struggles to […]
Michael Rouse stars in Superhero at the Southwark Playhouse
Michael Rouse will star in the world premiere of the one-man musical Superhero at London’s Southwark Playhouse from 28 June to 22 July 2017 (press night is 30 June). Directed by Adam Lenson and written by Richy Hughes, Joseph Finlay and Michael Conley (based on an original idea by Hughes), Superhero is the first musical […]
Mr Popper’s Penguins – artsdepot and Touring
Mr Popper’s Penguins was reviewed at the artsdepot, London. Its tour continues at the Festival Theatre, Chichester (until 11 December) before a Christmas season at the Criterion Theatre in the West End from 15-31 December. Star rating: four stars:★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Christmas season is well and truly upon us with ten delightful […]
Interview – Roxanne Palmer shares the magic of Mr Popper’s Penguins
Having just enjoyed a Christmas season at the Lowry Salford, the world premiere of brand new family musical Mr Popper’s Penguins, directed by Emma Earle, completes its tour of the country with a run at Rose Theatre Kingston from Thursday 14 January to Sunday 17 January. Painter and decorator by day, Mr Popper dreams of Antarctic adventures. He is astounded when one day […]
Mr Popper’s Penguins – Lowry, Salford
Mr Popper’s Penguins continues at the Lowry, Salford until 10 January 2016. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ With so many children’s shows tilling the same well-furrowed ground, it is a real pleasure to come across a brand new family musical that goes slightly further afield for its source material. Written in 1938 by husband […]
New family musical Mr Popper’s Penguins set to tour the country
The world premiere of brand new family musical Mr Popper’s Penguins is set to tour the country from November 2015 to January 2016. Mr Popper and his Penguins will be hopping off to various locations, opening at the Theatre Royal Brighton on Thursday 26 November. The tour continues on to Malvern Theatre and London’s Cadogan Hall before settling in at the Lowry Salford for a Christmas […]
Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year 2015/Stiles & Drewe Prize – Garrick Theatre
Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year competition/Stiles & Drewe Best New Song prize at the Garrick Theatre, London. Hats off, here they come, those Beautiful Girls! Yes, girl power ruled the roost at the Sondheim Society’s student ‘Oscars’ for the second year running and, to rub it in, they grabbed runner-up honours as […]
