The Story of My Life continues at the Stage Door Theatre, London until 19 October 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ With a definite touch of the retro cabaret lounge about it, the Stage Door Theatre, above the Prince of Wales pub on Drury Lane, Covent Garden, seems the ideal setting for an intimate evening’s entertainment and so it proves with The Story of My Life.
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Marry Me a Little – Stage Door Theatre
Marry Me a Little continues at the Stage Door Theatre, London until 13 April 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Waste no time in queueing at this Stage Door – this LAMBCO production deserves to be a success.
Next Thing You Know – Garden Theatre
Next Thing You Know continues at the Garden Theatre, London until 31 October 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ More than ever, we need escapism. We need the theatre that has managed to survive this international shutdown to transport us, to whisk us away into fantasy. After waiting half an hour in Vauxhall’s […]
Next Thing You Know is the third musical at the Garden Theatre
Off-Broadway hit Next Thing You Know will be the third musical to play South London’s new outdoor venue The Garden Theatre in the beer garden of The Eagle in Kennington. Running from 20-31 October 2020, the new version of the four character show by award-winning writers Ryan Cunningham and Joshua Salzman follows on from extended […]
Tickle The Musical – King’s Head Theatre,
Tickle The Musical continues at the King’s Head Theatre, London until 26 October 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The world of male competitive endurance tickling is a phenomenon previously unknown to this reviewer, despite there being a film, Tickled, that has won several awards and was kickstarted by Stephen Fry. […]
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical) – Above the Stag
The Musical of Musicals (the Musical) continues at Above the Stag, London until 22 December 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Musical theatre composers have their certain foibles and tropes, those thematic elements which crop up from show to show. No more effectively is that illustrated than in Joanne Bogart and Eric Rockwell’s The […]
He Shoots! He Scores! – A Musical With Balls – Above The Stag
He Shoots! He Scores! – A Musical With Balls continues at Above The Stag, London until 20 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Whatever you may think of the sport, football is probably the game that’s most often been tackled in musical theatre. There’s Lloyd Webber’s Beautiful Game of course and […]
Landor Theatre leaves Clapham base
Leading London fringe venue the Landor Theatre has been closed after over two decades operating above the Clapham pub from which it took its name. The theatre’s artistic director Robert McWhir released a statement claiming new restrictions on the space’s audience capacity meant the theatre was no longer financially viable. According to the press release, the […]
Torsten the Beautiful Libertine – Above the Stag Theatre
Torsten the Beautiful Libertine continues at the Above the Stag Theatre, London until 27 March. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ By now the theatre world has become accustomed to rock and pop stars moving into musical theatre territory. Joe McElderry is currently winning plaudits as Joseph on tour and of course, Mamma Mia!, Jersey […]
The Clockmaker’s Daughter returns to London stage for one night only.
Following an acclaimed world premiere season at the Landor Theatre, the original cast and creative team of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a new British musical by Michael Webbon and Daniel Finn, are to reunite for a special one-off concert version at St James Studio on Monday 2 November. The Clockmaker’s Daughter was praised by critics and the production was nominated for ten […]
Romance, Romance – Landor Theatre
Romance, Romance continues at the Landor Theatre, London until 31 October. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Surprise, surprise… Romance, Romance which made little impact in its short 1997 run at the Gielgud, makes for a charming, tuneful evening in the intimate surroundings of the Landor’s North Clapham pub theatre much more […]
Romance Romance opens at the Landor Theatre on 8 October
Full details of the cast of Theatrica Limited’s new production of Broadway musical Romance Romance, opening at the Landor Theatre on 8 October, have been revealed. Sex, love and money: what happens when you strike the wrong balance between these three? Romance Romance is a comedic look at the many twists and turns of any romantic relationship. Through […]
Personals – Landor Theatre
Personals continues at the Landor Theatre, London until 9 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This isn’t a high-concept piece but it doesn’t try to be – more like a sitcom but with the form and tropes of a musical. And you can’t fault two hours of grinning, literal laughs out loud and light foot-tapping. […]
Rent Boy – The Musical – Above the Stag Theatre
Rent Boy – The Musical continues at Above the Stag Theatre, London until 2 August. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ The Above the Stag Theatre continues to play to its strengths by scheduling a raft of plays and musicals geared towards an LGBT audience. For the last two years, its revival of Bath House – The […]
The Clockmaker’s Daughter – Landor Theatre
The Clockmaker’s Daughter continues at the Landor Theatre, London until 4 July. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The fairytale, we are told in the programme for The Clockmaker’s Daughter, is one of the oldest forms of fiction, stretching back to a time, before books, when stories were spoken aloud and passed down from generation to generation. Yet, […]
New folk musical The Clockmaker’s Daughter at the Landor – casting revealed
The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a new musical from Daniel Finn and Michael Webborn, will be making its world premiere at London’s Landor Theatre this June (27 May to 4 July, press night is 1 June). The folk musical is set in the fictional Irish town of Spindelwood and tells a story built around prejudice, discrimination, animosity and […]
She Loves Me – Landor Theatre
She Loves Me continues at the Landor Theatre, London until 7 March. Star rating: 4 stars **** It’s 20 years since She Loves Me won five Oliviers for the Savoy revival of this sweet, old-fashioned 1963 Bock and Harnick musical and one of those award-winners, Tracie Bennett, Best Supporting Actress as roving-eyed shopgirl Ilona Ritter, was at the Landor’s press […]
Charlotte Jaconelli cast in She Loves Me at the Landor Theatre
Charlotte Jaconelli (2012 Britain’s Got Talent runner-up) will play Amalia Balash in the Landor Theatre’s revival of She Loves Me this February (4 February to 7 March – press night is 9 February). Having trained at Arts Educational School, this is her musical theatre debut. Jaconelli commented: “I’m absolutely thrilled to be making my debut at the fabulous […]
London Fringe update – She Loves Me, Whistle Down the Wind, Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens
Whistle Down the Wind – Union Theatre (28 January to 21 February – press night is 30 January) Sasha Regan directs Whistle Down the Wind (adapted by Russell Labey and Richard Taylor with music and lyrics by Richard Taylor) at the Union Theatre. The time is the late 1950s, the place, a small village in Lancashire. Hurrying to a barn with three rescued kittens, Cathy, […]
Jonathan D Ellis cast in Damn Yankees at Landor Theatre
Jonathan D Ellis (Les Misérables, Blood Brothers) will star in the Landor Theatre’s revival of Adler and Ross’ Damn Yankees as the Mephistophelean Applegate, the role popularised by Jerry Lewis in the 1990s Broadway and West End productions. The production runs from 1 October to 8 November (press night is 7 October). He will be […]
Best of Friends – Landor Theatre
Best of Friends continues at the Landor Theatre, London until 10 May. Nick Fogarty’s troubled musical about the perils of fame and fortune finally makes it to the stage, debuting at the Landor Theatre. The show’s journey to this premier fringe theatre has been beset with headline-making scandal – and financial misfortune to the tune […]
Golden Voice musical reworked as Best of Friends
Previously cancelled British musical Golden Voice, which has been reworked with a new title as Best of Friends (book, music and lyrics by Nick Fogarty), will get its world premiere at the Landor Theatre, London from 23 April to 10 May, directed by the venue’s artistic director, Robert McWhir. Music lovers Mike Chariot and Jim Ryan […]
Fashion Victim the Musical seeks funding on Kickstarter
Fashion Victim the Musical, a contemporary morality tale set in the cut-throat world of – you guessed it –fashion is turning to Kickstarter to fund its London launch. The show needs to raise a total of £5,000. Producer Toby Rose, whose previous productions include the Biblical musical Discotivity starring Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus as the Virgin Mary, and who is […]
Dave Willetts stars in new British musical The Man Inside
Actor and singer Dave Willetts will star in the world premiere of The Man Inside, a new British musical, which will play at London’s Landor Theatre from 12 March (press night is 13 March) to 29 March 2014, following previews at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. The Man Inside has music by Tony Rees and book […]
No Way to Treat a Lady – Landor Theatre
No Way to Treat a Lady at the Landor Theatre, London continues until 9 February. Seen in London only once for a short run at the Arts Theatre back in 1998 with Donna McKechnie, Joanna Riding and Tim Flavin in the cast, Douglas J Cohen’s musical comedy thriller makes an overdue return at Clapham’s Landor […]
Meet Me in St Louis – Landor Theatre
Meet Me in St Louis continues at the Landor Theatre, London until 18 January. A perennial favourite 1944 MGM movie starring a young Judy Garland, Meet Me in St Louis is filled with memorable musical numbers, whimsical family comedy and features the artistic direction of Vincente Minnelli, then making his mark in Hollywood. It is […]
Nunsense A-Men! – Landor Theatre
Nunsense A-Men! continues at the Landor Theatre, London until 28 July. Dan Goggin’s original Off-Broadway hit, Nunsense, is possibly the only musical ever to have started life as a series of comedy greeting cards. After it grew from a cabaret night into a full-blooded musical, the long-running Off-Broadway show spawned several sequels, before the original […]
From Page to Stage 2014 – Landor
Following the success of this year’s inaugural season of new musical theatre, Katy Lipson of Aria Entertainment and Robert McWhir of the Landor Theatre have announced that applications are now open for the second From Page To Stage season from 11th February-8th March 2014 at the Landor in south London. From Page To Stage is a season of new musical theatre dedicated to the showcasing of work in development to an audience, […]
Nunsense A-men! and title of show at the Landor
The musicals season at London’s Landor Theatre continues with Sister Mary McArthur (also known as performer Tim McArthur) making her musical theatre debut as the Mother Superior in Dan Goggin’s Nunsense A-men! (the musical) from 27th June-28th July. Nunsense A-men! begins when the Little Sisters of Hoboken discover that their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God, has […]
Sleeping Arrangements delivers humour and romance in spades
Running at the Landor, London until May 12. It was really only a matter of time before chick-lit, or to perhaps give it its official title of light romantic comedy, began to be considered for adaptation to the stage. Admittedly Helen Fielding’s hugely popular Bridget Jones’ Diary appears to be languishing in development hell at […]
