Andrew Lloyd Webber is bringing music to the ears of theatre-lovers with a live concert version of his new Symphonic Suites album at the Royal Festival Hall in September followed by UK tour dates in 2022. Presented by The Really Useful Group, Kennedy Street and Kilimanjaro, Andrew Lloyd Webber – Symphonic Suites Live In Concert […]
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The Light in the Piazza – Royal Festival Hall
The Light in the Piazza continues at the Royal Festival Hall, London until 5 July 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The Light in the Piazza is based on a novel by the American author Elizabeth Spencer who travelled to Italy on a scholarship and stayed there so long that she […]
Renée Fleming and Dove Cameron head cast of London premiere of The Light in the Piazza
Opera superstar Renée Fleming and Disney TV star Dove Cameron will make their London theatre debuts next summer in a special production of Tony Award-winning The Light in the Piazza. The first production from Scenario Two, the new company founded by John Berry and Anthony Lilley, The Light in the Piazza will make its London […]
A Little Princess – Royal Festival Hall
A Little Princess at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: two stars ★★✩✩✩ Andrew Lippa’s adaptation of A Little Princess makes its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall in a one-off concert performance. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s original 1905 novel, the evening plays out in suitably quaint fashion, with plucky young Sara (Jasmine Sakyiama) being lovingly […]
Rebecca Trehearn, Adam J Bernard and Alexia Khadime join A Little Princess cast
Olivier award winners Rebecca Trehearn (Show Boat) and Adam J Bernard (Dreamgirls) and Wicked’s Alexia Khadime are the latest star names to be added to the cast of the UK premiere production of Andrew Lippa’s musical version of Francis Hodgson Burnett’s much-loved novel A Little Princess. Joining the previously announced Sherlock star Amanda Abbington and […]
Disney in Concert – The Jungle Book – Royal Festival Hall
Disney in Concert – The Jungle Book was performed at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The UK premiere of Disney in Concert – The Jungle Book, produced by Senbla Live, played on the big screen at the Royal Festival Hall for two special symphonic cinema concerts yesterday, […]
Million Dollar Quartet – Royal Festival Hall and Touring
Million Dollar Quartet continues at the Royal Festival Hall, London until 2 January and then tours until June 2017. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ We’ve had productions aplenty about another Fab Four down the years, but thankfully here we’re not focusing on The Cavern yet again, but an ex-auto parts shop […]
Disney in Concert – The Jungle Book to play the Royal Festival Hall
Much-loved animated classic The Jungle Book will swing into London’s Royal Festival Hall next year for two special symphonic cinema concerts. The UK premiere of Disney in Concert –The Jungle Book will feature the enduringly popular film which was to be the last produced by Walt Disney on the big screen accompanied by a live orchestra […]
Martin Kemp to join festive Million Dollar Quartet
Pop star turned actor Martin Kemp will take over as rock ‘n’ roll legend Sam Phillips when the first UK touring production of the hit musical Million Dollar Quartet plays a limited season at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall this Christmas. The Spandau Ballet bassist who’s now an established screen actor will take on […]
Assisted Suicide – The Musical – Royal Festival Hall
Assisted Suicide – The Musical at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ One year ago, MPs voted down the Assisted Dying Bill, which would have legalised assisted suicide in the UK. Disability campaigner Liz Carr, who was protesting against the Bill when the vote went down, has […]
Mandela Trilogy – Royal Festival Hall and Touring
Mandela Trilogy tours the UK and Ireland until 24 September 2016. This review refers to the performance at the Royal Festival Hall, London on 1 September and its associated cast. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Epic stories warrant recounting through epic works of art. The point is abundantly demonstrated by Michael Williams, […]
Louise Dearman joins cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein concert
West End leading lady Louise Dearman has joined the all-star cast lining up to perform with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at a special event to celebrate the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein in September. Dearman, the first and only actress to have played both witches in the smash hit Wicked will join the already […]
Julian Ovenden stars in Rodgers and Hammerstein concert
Stage and screen artist Julian Ovenden will be one of the stars performing with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at a special event to celebrate the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein in September. The Downton Abbey actor who starred in ITV’s Sound of Music Live and has recently released his latest album as a solo singer, […]
Final 100 seats released for Bernadette Peters concert at Royal Festival Hall
As previously announced, the triple Tony, triple Drama Desk and Golden Globe Award-winning Broadway star Bernadette Peters will perform her first UK solo concerts in more than 15 years at the beginning of June 2016. The show’s producers have released the final 100 seats for the Royal Festival Hall date in London, commenting: “Recently we have received many ticket requests […]
Bernadette Peters plays first UK solo concerts in more than 15 years
The triple Tony, double Drama Desk and Golden Globe Award-winning Broadway star Bernadette Peters will perform her first UK solo concerts in more than 15 years, returning to the Royal Festival Hall, London on Friday 3 June 2016 and playing her first ever date at the Opera House, Manchester on Sunday 5 June 2016. The […]
Let’s Dance Again! – Royal Festival Hall
Let’s Dance Again! was performed at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ There is no doubt that there is something about the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s, 40s and 50s that allows them to be seen as something of a Golden Age of the genre. Maybe it […]
Interview – Let’s Dance Again! choreographer Nick Winston celebrates Hollywood hoofers
Let’s Dance Again!, celebrating the golden years of Hollywood dance films, comes to the Royal Festival Hall on Friday 13 November. Choreographer NICK WINSTON sets the scene for the evening’s tribute to those iconic hoofers up on the screen… Although musical films are still being made, emphasis now is less on the dance element. Do you […]
Babes in Arms will be staged in concert at the Royal Festival Hall in March 2016
Rodgers and Hart’s classic Broadway musical Babes in Arms will be heading to London’s Royal Festival Hall in March next year. Babes In Arms – The Musical in Concert, a new version of the 1930s show that features American songbook standards like ‘My Funny Valentine’, ‘The Lady is a Tramp’ and ‘Where Or When’, will play the Royal Festival […]
Let’s Dance Again! at Royal Festival Hall – cast news
It was a golden period in Hollywood, the great movie musicals brought to life by the likes of Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly who created some of our most iconic dance scenes of all time. For one special evening (Friday 13 November), the Royal Festival Hall plays homage to the glitz and […]
West End stars celebrate 40th anniversary of Oliviers with musical theatre concert
Marking the start of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Olivier Awards in 2016, Society of London Theatre has today announced The Oliviers In Concert. The special event, in partnership with BBC Radio 3 and the BBC Concert Orchestra, will take place on Monday 25 January 2016 at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. The evening will feature a […]
Of Thee I Sing concert – Hannah Waddingham and Hadley Fraser cast
West End leading lady and Game of Thrones star Hannah Waddingham leads the cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy Of Thee I Sing, presented in concert at the Royal Festival Hall on Thursday 30 July. Waddingham will play Diane Deveraux, alongside Hadley Fraser as President John P Wintergreen and Tom Edden as Vice President Alexander Throttlebottom. The first […]
Jason Robert Brown in Concert – Royal Festival Hall
Jason Robert Brown in Concert – Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ While Jason Robert Brown is somewhat exalted in musical theatre circles, in London productions of his musicals have tended to be small, chamber affairs, with Fringe productions arranging his scores to be played with the smallest number of musicians possible. […]
Bertie Carvel latest guest to join Jason Robert Brown concert line-up
Hailed as ‘one of Broadway’s smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim’, three-time Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director and performer Jason Robert Brown will present a very special show today (26 May 2015) at London’s Royal Festival Hall, showcasing some of his best loved work. Tony Award-nominated Bertie Carvel, currently the star […]
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Royal Festival Hall
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Frank Loesser’s musical satire of self-help books and office politics enjoyed a one-night concert performance on London’s South Bank, courtesy of the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and a truly stellar cast. The 1961 show – […]
Cynthia Erivo and Clarke Peters join How to Succeed concert line-up
Further cast details have been announced today for the Gala Concert Presentation of Frank Loesser’s classic 1961 musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Produced by independent promoter Senbla in association with Elliot Davis, British/American actor Clarke Peters (The Wire, Treme) and Cynthia Erivo (The Color Purple, Dessa Rose, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) join […]
Jonathan Groff leads How to Succeed concert at Festival Hall
Direct from his current role in Hamilton at the Public Theater in New York, Jonathan Groff (HBO’s Looking, Glee) will play J. Pierrepont Finch in a concert production of Frank Loesser’s classic 1961 musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Royal Festival Hall on 19 May. Also in the cast are Game of Thrones and […]
Of Thee I Sing staged in concert at Royal Festival Hall in July
Following the announcement that Frank Loesser’s 1961 musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will be making its live in concert debut this May, the second in the Southbank series has been revealed as Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Of Thee I Sing, being staged at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 31 July. Presented by leading independent concert promoter, Senbla, […]
