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Hex – National Theatre
Hex continues at the National Theatre (Olivier) until 14 January 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Ultimately, all the style in the world can’t cover that the story of Hex is a bit of a mess. When this show goes back to sleep in January, it would be wise not to try to wake it.
Cast for encore season of NT’s Sleeping Beauty inspired Hex
The full company has been confirmed as rehearsals begin for the festive return of the National Theatre’s new musical Hex.
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, […]
NT reopening season to include new musical based on the story of Sleeping Beauty
Rufus Norris will direct and provide the lyrics for Hex, a new musical inspired by the story of Sleeping Beauty which will debut at the National Theatre this Christmas. Announced as part of a diverse programme of live theatre at the Southbank venue, on tour and on Broadway along with major cinema releases including the […]
Cabaret – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Cabaret was reviewed at New Wimbledon Theatre, London, then tours until 25 April 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Kander and Ebb masterpiece Cabaret, set in the anything-goes, promiscuous last days of the Weimar Republic just as Hitler was starting to change Germany and the world, is a musical I […]
John Partridge will star as the Emcee in UK tour of Cabaret
Stage and screen favourite John Partridge will star as the Emcee when Rufus Norris’ multi-award-winning Cabaret hits the road again this summer. The former EastEnder whose vast array of West End credits include A Chorus Line, Chicago and Cats, will be holding court from 28 August 2019 when the extensive tour launches at Bromley’s Churchill […]
Rufus Hound and Roberta Taylor to co-star in Dusty the Musical
Rufus Hound and Roberta Taylor will join the previously announced Katherine Kingsley in Dusty, the major new musical about the turbulent life of Dusty Springfield which will receive its world premiere at Bath Theatre Royal from 23 June 2018. Comedian turned stage star Hound will follow up his appearance in the hit show The Wind […]
Musical highlights of Chichester Festival Theatre 2018 season are Flowers For Mrs Harris and Me and My Girl
Productions of the Noel Gay classic Me and My Girl and new musical Flowers For Mrs Harris will be the musical highlights of artistic director Daniel Evans and executive director Rachel Tackley’s star-studded second season at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Following on from a record-breaking 2017, the new season will feature a mix of major revivals […]
‘Godfather of British theatre’ Sir Peter Hall dies aged 86 – past and present National Theatre directors pay tribute
National Theatre directors past and present have led the tributes paid to Sir Peter Hall who died yesterday (11 September) at the age of 86 in London’s University College Hospital surrounded by his family. One of the giants of British theatre, and celebrated internationally for his ground-breaking work on stage and on film, Hall’s extraordinary […]
Will Young and Louise Rednapp to star in Cabaret tour
Former pop star and Strictly favourite Louise Redknapp will make her stage debut as Sally Bowles in this autumn’s nationwide tour of Rufus Norris’ acclaimed revival of Cabaret. Opening at the New Wimbledon Theatre on Thursday 21 September, the show will also star former Pop Idol Will Young who will once again play the Emcee, […]
Kenwright brings Norris’ Cabaret back to Blackpool
Rufus Norris’ acclaimed revival of Cabaret is heading back to the Blackpool Opera House as part of a nationwide tour. Presented by Bill Kenwright, the show which previously played the seaside venue in 2013 when the show featured former Pop Idol Will Young as the Emcee, will return to Blackpool from Tuesday 3 until Saturday 7 […]
Interview – composer Tom Parkinson on his National Theatre debut with A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer
For its next musical venture, the National Theatre is presenting A Pacifist’s Guide to the War On Cancer – a new work written by acclaimed performance artist Bryony Kimmings and put into song by her long-time music collaborator Tom Parkinson. Last year, Kimmings was the hit of the Edinburgh Festival Festival with her show Fake […]
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 […]
Rory Kinnear leads cast in National’s Threepenny Opera
Screen and stage star Rory Kinnear will head the cast of the National Theatre’s major new production of The Threepenny Opera. Kinnear, whose previous appearances at the National include his Olivier award-winning performance as Iago in Othello, will take on the central role of Macheath in Simon Stephens’ new adaptation of the Bertolt Brecht and […]
wonder.land – Olivier, National Theatre
wonder.land continues at the Olivier, National Theatre, London until 30 April 2016. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Cyberbullying and identity theft are not the themes that would immediately come to mind when reading Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or its sequel, Through the Looking Glass. Yet those works do contain […]
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 […]
Film Review – London Road
London Road premieres on 9 June via NT Live and is on general release from 12 June. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ “Everyone is very, very nervous,” runs a repeated line through one of London Road’s songs. In the 2011 musical by Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork, Blythe had taken her approach to verbatim theatre – […]
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, […]
National Theatre – Damon Albarn musical wonder.land debuts in Rufus Norris’ first season
wonder.land, a new musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, with music by Damon Albarn and book and lyrics by Moira Buffini, will feature in the first season at the National Theatre under new artistic director Rufus Norris. The production will be directed by Norris in a co-production with Manchester International Festival; commissioned by Manchester International Festival, the […]
Will Young and Cabaret on tour
Singer/songwriter Will Young will reprise his role as the Emcee in Rufus Norris’ acclaimed production of Cabaret. Following a successful West End run, the UK tour of the musical will open at London’s New Wimbledon Theatre on 28th August. Ever since winning the inaugural series of Pop Idol in 2002, Young has been one of the UK’s […]
