Good Night, Oscar continues at the Barbican Theatre, London until 21 September 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ When Doug Wright’s words combine with Lisa Peterson’s sharp, intelligent direction and Sean Hayes’ phenomenal portrayal, it can be breathtaking.
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Rosalie Craig joins cast of Good Night, Oscar at the Barbican
Double Evening Standard Award-winner Rosalie Craig (Hex, The Light Princess) will return to the London stage this summer to star in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright’s Broadway hit Good Night, Oscar.
Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends – Sondheim Theatre
Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends at the Sondheim Theatre, London (and live-streamed at the Prince Edward Theatre). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It must be a record! The fastest time to stop a show after curtain-up came at the Sondheim Theatre when Julia McKenzie stepped on to the stage and softly sung […]
Tickets for a live screening of the sold-out Sondheim’s Old Friends Gala to be released
Tickets for a live screening at the Prince Edward Theatre of the sold-out Sondheim’s Old Friends Gala are to be released today, 30 March 2022. Priority will be given to the thousands of people who signed up in the hope of securing tickets but couldn’t be accommodated for the performance at the Sondheim Theatre. Booking […]
National Theatre’s Hex will be remounted in November 2022
The National Theatre’s festive production of Hex which has been blighted by Covid will be remounted with a full run, including an official press night, in November 2022. Performances of the new musical were sadly cancelled up to 4 January 2022 with opening night twice postponed. The show has now begun its run but only […]
NT releases Hex highlights album as it cancels performances up to 28 December 2021
With performances of Hex at the National Theatre cancelled until 28 December due to company illness, the NT has released a highlights recording on Broadway Records. Now available from all major digital music retailers, the 16-track ‘Hex: Highlights from the National Theatre production’ follows the October release of music videos of the studio session recordings […]
First look and listen to National Theatre’s new musical Hex
The National Theatre has released studio recordings of three songs from its Sleeping Beauty-inspired musical, Hex ahead of its premiere run in the Olivier this Christmas season. Released to coincide with the announcement of the full cast for the production, the songs which are accompanied by videos of the studio session recordings are: ‘Probly’ sung […]
Cast unveiled for National Theatre’s Hex
Rosalie Craig, Tamsin Carroll, Kat Ronney and Michael Elcock will lead the company assembled for Hex – the new musical inspired by the story of Sleeping Beauty which is due to premiere at the National Theatre this Christmas. Craig (The Light Princess, Company) will play Fairy with Carroll (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Oliver!) as Queenie, […]
Southwark Playhouse announces encore screenings of new musicals Fiver, Before After and Stay Awake, Jake
The critically-acclaimed live-stream productions of new British musicals FIVER, Before After and Stay Awake, Jake have been made available for an extra two weeks in response to high public demand. First seen as part of a mini-season of musical livestreams from The Little Theatre space at Southwark Playhouse late last year, the encore streaming of […]
Monday Night At The Apollo – new dates announced
Revised dates have been announced for the new live and live-streamed fundraising concert series Monday Night At The Apollo. Originally due to play two shows in front of a socially distanced audience at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury this month with a third concert in early February, the shows will now take place on 12 […]
New West End concert series Monday Night at the Apollo announced
Tickets have gone on sale for Monday Night at the Apollo – a brand new concert series taking place in front of a socially distanced audience at London’s Apollo Theatre. The concerts will take place at 7pm on 11 January 2021, 25 January and 8 February, and will also be live-streamed to audiences at home. […]
Rosalie Craig and Hadley Fraser to star in live-stream musical Before After
Real-life husband and wife Rosalie Craig and Hadley Fraser will star in a staged reading of new musical Before After at the Southwark Playhouse. Evening Standard Award-winner Craig (Company, Gielgud Theatre, City of Angels, Donmar Warehouse) and Fraser (Young Frankenstein, Garrick Theatre, Saint Joan, City of Angels, The Vote, Coriolanus – all Donmar Warehouse) will […]
West End stars sign up for online coaching
West End stars are among the leading industry professionals contributing to a new digital platform offering personal one-to-one masterclasses. With all profits going to Acting for Others, SLOCOACH ARTS provides access to world-class vocal coaches, leading dancers from international dance companies and tuition from experts in a range of disciplines including ‘Fosse’, accents and improvisation. […]
The Top 12 Olivier Awards Performances of the Last Ten Years
In lieu of an Olivier Awards ceremony this Sunday evening, ITV is broadcasting a compilation of their greatest performances instead. Just in case the choices don’t match yours, here are our top 12 favourite Olivier Awards performances of the last decade, in no particular order. With thanks to Ian Bowkett. 2019 – Jason Manford, Janie […]
Girls Aloud’s Nicola Roberts to make her stage debut in City of Angels
Nicola Roberts will follow in the footsteps of her Girls Aloud bandmates Kimberley Walsh and Sarah Harding when she makes her stage debut in the long-awaited West End transfer of Josie Rourke’s Olivier Award-winning production of City of Angels. The BRIT award-winning singer will join the previously announced Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-nominee American singer […]
Hollywood & Broadway star Vanessa Williams to debut in West End run of Donmar’s City of Angels
American singer and actress Vanessa Williams will make her London theatre debut next year when the Donmar Warehouse’s Olivier Award-winning production of City of Angels makes its long-awaited West End transfer. The Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-nominee who starred in hit TV series Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives, on the big screen in action films […]
Company leads individual production nominations for Evening Standard Awards
Marianne Elliott’s critically-acclaimed gender-swapped version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company leads the individual production nominations for the 64th Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Just three weeks after the show’s opening night, Company has been nominated for the award for best musical alongside Caroline, or Change, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Fun Home and Hamilton. The […]
New look Company’s West End season extended
Just hours after a star-studded opening night, the producers of Marianne Elliott’s critically-acclaimed gender-swapped version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company have released 100,000 extra tickets for the hit show with booking now extended until 30 March 2019. Andrew Garfield, Graham Norton and Emma Thompson were among the stars in the audience at the […]
Company – Gielgud Theatre
Company continues at the Gielgud Theatre, London until 22 December 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fuddy-duddy traditionalists who don’t normally like great works being tweaked or updated will be approaching this gender-bending revival of Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical Company with trepidation but they needn’t worry – it’s wonderful. This most […]
Amy becomes Jamie as Jonathan Bailey and Alex Gaumond join cast of re-gendered Company
Jonathan Bailey, Alex Gaumond and Daisy Maywood will complete the cast for Marianne Elliott’s eagerly-anticipated gender-swapped version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company. Bailey (American Psycho, Almeida, Othello, National Theatre) will play the re-gender-switched role of Jamie (originally Amy) opposite Gaumond (Matilda, We Will Rock You, West End) who will play his devoted fiancée Paul. […]
More gender-blind casting for the West End cast of Company
Richard Fleesham, George Blagden and Matthew Seadon-Young will take on key roles in Marianne Elliott’s eagerly anticipated gender-swapped version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company. The trio will play the re-gendered and re-named by Sondheim roles of the three boyfriends of central character Bobbie (Rosalie Craig) in the production which will begin previewing at […]
Trevor Dion Nicholas to join cast of Light Princess concert performance
Trevor Dion Nicholas will take time out from playing the Genie in Disney’s Aladdin to take on the role of King Darius in the first concert performance of The Light Princess at Cadogan Hall on Sunday 1 July 2018. Nicholas will join the previously announced Rosalie Craig (Company), Hadley Fraser (Young Frankenstein), Norman Bowman (42nd […]
Light Princess concert staging to star Rosalie Craig and Hadley Fraser
Rosalie Craig will revisit her award-winning performance in Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson’s musical The Light Princess when it receives its first ever concert performance this summer. Currently appearing in The Ferryman at the Gielgud Theatre, Craig won an Evening Standard Award for her performance in the central role of Althea in the magical show which won critical […]
Follies’ Alex Young to join Edward Seckerson for next Comparing Notes show
Former Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and West End rising star Alex Young will be Edward Seckerson’s next guest in his Comparing Notes series at Pizza Express Live Holborn on 18 February. Launched last September at the newly opened London entertainment venue, the format of the musical theatre-themed shows features writer and […]
Mel Giedroyc joins cast of Company at the Gielgud alongside Rosalie Craig and Patti LuPone
Mel Giedroyc will join the cast of Elliott & Harper’s highly-anticipated new production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Tony Award-winning musical Company, directed by Marianne Elliott. It will run at the Gielgud Theatre from 26 September 2018 for a limited run. Giedroyc will play Sarah and joins Rosalie Craig as Bobbi, a role re-imagined […]
Patti LuPone and Rosalie Craig cast in gender-bending production of Company
Actresses Rosalie Craig and Patti LuPone will lead the cast in Marianne Elliott’s forthcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company at the Gielgud Theatre (beginning for a limited season on 26 September 2018), presented by Elliott & Harper Productions (the company she recently founded with producer Chris Harper). It is the first time the […]
The Threepenny Opera – Olivier Theatre
The Threepenny Opera at the Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre, London is booking until 1 October. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ There must be something in the atmosphere that has spurred artistic directors to stage adaptations of John Gay’s 18th century satirical The Beggar’s Opera. As the Park Theatre’s The Buskers […]
Evening Standard Theatre Awards – Imelda Staunton, Katie Brayben, Rosalie Craig and Killian Donnelly among nominees
The London Evening Standard has announced the shortlist for its 61st Theatre Awards, in partnership with The Ivy. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony presented by Rob Brydon, and co-hosted by Evgeny Lebedev, Judi Dench and Ian McKellen, at the Old Vic on Sunday 22 November. This year for the first time […]
CD Review – The Light Princess – Original London Cast – and win a signed copy!
The special cast album for the well-received 2013 National Theatre production of The Light Princess, with music and lyrics by Tori Amos and book and lyrics by Samuel Adamson (suggested by a story by George MacDonald), has been released. The magical show which won critical acclaim and an Evening Standard Award for its leading lady Rosalie Craig made […]
wonder.land – Palace Theatre, Manchester
wonder.land continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester (as part of Manchester International Festival 2015) until 12 July. Star rating: 2 stars ★ ★ Fittingly, this big-budget, multi-media reinvention of Alice in Wonderland is something of a curiosity. On paper, it looks like a real masterstroke to place Lewis Carroll’s classic surrealist stories in the modern age of social […]
wonder.land – casting revealed for Damon Albarn musical at MIF
Casting has been announced for the Manchester International Festival run of wonder.land, a new musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s iconic Alice in Wonderland, with music by Damon Albarn and book and lyrics by Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe, Handbagged), directed by National Theatre director Rufus Norris. The MIF cast will include Sam Archer, Lois Chimimba, Rob Compton, Rosalie Craig, Ivan De Freitas, Luke Fetherston, Hal Fowler, […]
Sweeney Todd at London Coliseum – full cast revealed
Due to unprecedented public demand, an extra performance has been scheduled on Sunday 5 April at 3pm for Lonny Price’s production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Musical Thriller at the London Coliseum. Tickets for the 5 April performance, including 300 seats at £10 each, will go on sale today (3 March […]
City of Angels – Donmar Warehouse
City of Angels continues at the Donmar Warehouse, London until 7 February 2015. While it was obvious that many people in the Donmar Warehouse audience were seeing librettist Larry Gelbart, composer Cy Coleman and lyricist David Zippel’s City of Angels for the first time, it is a show which always remains in my musical theatre […]
Full casting revealed for City of Angels at Donmar Warehouse
Full casting has been announced for the Donmar Warehouse production of City of Angels, playing between 5 December 2014 and 7 February 2015 (press night is 16 December). Over a quarter of the tickets for this production have been held back, allowing for more than 550 tickets to go on sale each week, including Barclays Front Row (released […]
Stars come out for Olivier Awards 2014
The Olivier Awards 2014 with MasterCard took place at London’s Royal Opera House – hosted by Stephen Mangan and Gemma Arterton – and featured 14 live performances including Abba’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus reuniting as part of a rousing show finale to celebrate 15 years of Mamma Mia! Thanks to photographer Vivienne Vincent, Musical Theatre […]
