Chess at Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London was performed by students from the Royal Academy of Music. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ There are no weak links in this fine cast.
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Royal Academy of Music – Little Women
Little Women at Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London was performed by students from the Royal Academy of Music. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ I’m sure we shall see more of these musical theatre actors in training very soon.
To Maury, With Love – Theatre Royal Drury Lane
To Maury, With Love at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Truly delivered: it was elegantly staged, musically exhilarating, warmly embraced by the audience and filled with affection.
To Maury, With Love – Sydnie Christmas and Madalena Alberto complete cast
Sydnie Christmas and Madalena Alberto are the final additions to the all-star cast for To Maury, With Love – this month’s special concert celebrating multi-award-winning composer Maury Yeston’s 80th birthday.
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2025
We have asked Musical Theatre Review’s brilliantly talented team of expert critics, based across the UK, to name one particular show that made the biggest impression on them during the last 12 months.
Royal Academy of Music – Assassins
Assassins was performed by the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is a pleasure to be able to send these stars of tomorrow into the great wide world with five stars.
Royal Academy of Music – Nine
Nine was performed by the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ What you are guaranteed when RAM ventures into the world of musical theatre is that the roles will be well sung.
Royal Academy of Music – The Last Twenty Five Years!
The Last Twenty Five Years! was performed by the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The talent on stage was amazing as usual, and it’s always exciting to see the stars of tomorrow showcased by the talented and imaginative Matt Ryan.
Royal Academy of Music – Into the Woods
Into the Woods was performed by students from the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year 2024 – Sondheim Theatre
In a partisan atmosphere akin to a rugby match with each contestant bringing their college fan club with them, Madeleine Morgan made it back-to-back wins for Wales in the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year competition at the theatre bearing the great wordsmith’s name.
Royal Academy of Music – Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening was performed by students from the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The punchy pop-rock score is played with relish by MD/pianist Felix Elliott and his eight fellow RAM musicians and sung by some of the most thrilling young voices around.
Royal Academy of Music – Cy Baby: A Celebration of Cy Coleman
Cy Baby: A Celebration of Cy Coleman was performed by students from Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Royal Academy of Music – Carousel
Carousel at the Royal Academy of Music’s Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ June was bustin’ out all over into sweltering July as the RAM’s musical theatre stars of the future made a sizzling success of Carousel.
Royal Academy of Music – Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre was performed by the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year – Sondheim Theatre
There was no arguing with the judges’ choice for Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year (SSSSPOTY for short) after a knock-’em-dead performance of ‘The Worst Pies in London’ by star of the future Milly Willows.
Royal Academy of Music – Colored Lights: The Songs of Kander and Ebb
Colored Lights: The Songs of Kander and Ebb was performed at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Royal Academy of Music – Merrily We Roll Along
Merrily We Roll Along at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s some coincidence that Stephen Sondheim’s two big Broadway flops, Anyone Can Whistle and Merrily We Roll Along, should pitch up in brilliantly innovative London revivals within weeks of each other. Whistle, beset […]
Royal Academy of Music – The Light in the Piazza
The Light in the Piazza at the Royal Academy of Music’s Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Between Adam Guettel’s sumptuous, demanding score, Craig Lucas’ Italian language-heavy book, and a tradition of extravagantly beautiful scenic design, The Light in the Piazza is not an obvious choice for a […]
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 […]
Hello, Jerry! – Royal Academy of Music
Hello, Jerry! was performed at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For two performances only the Royal Academy of Music Musical Theatre Company treated us to a glittering celebration of Jerry Herman and this was the best one I have ever […]
Theatre stars and students to feature in Valentine’s Day online concert
West End stars and recent graduates will be among the line-up of 30 performers who will appear in Theatre Fan Parties’ second virtual concert next month. Following on from the successful One Perfect Moment concert, the Valentine’s Day event which will be streamed online for 48 hours from 7pm on 14 February 2021 will feature […]
Royal Academy of Music – Hal Prince, A Life in The Theatre
Hal Prince, A Life in The Theatre, performed by the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Broadway legend Hal Prince, producer/director extraordinaire who died aged 91 in July, was remembered and the hits (and misses) of his great body […]
Royal Academy of Music – City of Angels
City of Angels, performed by the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company, continues at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London until 8 July 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ At three hours long and far from straight-forward, it needed a highly polished production to keep the audience interested and involved and […]
Royal Academy of Music – The Wild Party
The Wild Party was performed by the Royal Academy of Music at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Although I hated The Wild Party, such was the brilliance of the direction (Hannah Chissick), choreography (Chris Whittaker), set design (David Harris), all the dancing and most of the acting/singing, it […]
Royal Academy of Music – The Sweet Smell of Success
The Sweet Smell of Success is performed by the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The musical The Sweet Smell of Success is based on a story by Ernest Lehman who wrote the screenplay with Clifford Odets for the film of the […]
Royal Academy of Music – Working
Working, performed by the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company and Orchestra, continues at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London until 17 June 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Working is a strange show. Based on interviews by American journalist Studs Terkel with ordinary people from all walks of life, it consists of […]
Unlikely Lovers: A Cabaret – Above the Arts Theatre
Unlikely Lovers: A Cabaret at Above the Arts Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Unlikely Lovers brought together four graduates from the Royal Academy of Music who were making their debut at the venue in an ingeniously crafted revue drawing on songs, many of them from Broadway shows, ranging from the recently […]
Royal Academy of Music – Love’s Labour’s Lost
Love’s Labour’s Lost was performed by the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company at Hackney Empire, London. This review refers to the cast at the Saturday evening performance (Cast A). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The lofty heights of Shakespearian adaptation have famously permeated the Broadway canon to its very […]
Royal Academy of Music Musical Theatre Company – I feel a song coming on…
Royal Academy of Music Musical Theatre Company – I feel a song coming on… was performed at the Royal Over-Seas League, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I feel a song coming on… is a cabaret celebrating the work of Dorothy Fields who at the tender age of 24 became a […]
Royal Academy of Music – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London was performed by students of the Royal Academy of Music. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ While their own theatre in Marylebone is being rebuilt, students of the Royal Academy of Music have been on the road and there […]
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Guildhall Great Hall
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying was performed at the Guildhall Great Hall, London as part of the City of London Festival. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ London’s magnificent Guildhall Great Hall, adorned with glamorous chandeliers and grand stained glass windows, proved to be a truly spectacular venue for City of London Festival’s production of How […]
Fra Free and Laura Tebbutt star in The Last Five Years at Lyric Belfast
Fra Fee and Laura Tebbutt are set to star in Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning The Last Five Years at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast from 24 June to 4 July 2015, playing the roles the two performers have dreamt of since they met at the Royal Academy of Music back in 2009. Fra Fee read music […]
Curtain Up! – Royal Academy of Music 20th Anniversary Concert
Curtain Up! Royal Academy of Music’s 20th Anniversary Concert at the Prince Edward Theatre, London. From the music hall delights of Harry Lauder’s ‘Stop Your Tickling Jock’ to The Lion King, Les Mis and Sondheim, right through to Jason Robert Brown, Luther Vandross and Freddie Mercury… the Royal Academy of Music’s 20th anniversary bash ran the whole gamut […]
Anything Goes: A Celebration of the Music of Cole Porter – Cadogan Hall
Anything Goes: A 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Music of Cole Porter at Cadogan Hall, London continues until 23 August. Goodness knows why we need a reason to celebrate the genius of Cole Porter, but the official excuse for these two beautiful hours of unadulterated joy is that 50 years ago in October the great man left us […]
Brush Up Your Sondheim – Royal Academy of Music
Craig Glenday writes… Brush Up Your Sondheim was a two-day Sondheim seminar organised by the Stephen Sondheim Society at the Royal Academy of Music. The event served up a smorgasbord of academic research, recitals, workshops and chat in celebration of Broadway’s greatest living composer/lyricist. Is it possible to spend two whole days discussing the work of Stephen […]
Just Another Love Story – London Theatre Workshop
Just Another Love Story continues at the London Theatre Workshop, London, until 24 May. We have had a rash of Stephen Sondheim compilations, concerts and revues in London recently, one or two of which it is just as well the great man did not see. But he would be well pleased with an evening celebrating […]
