Little Women continues at the Park Theatre, London until 19 December 2021. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ When I was a child, I loved Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel Little Women. I grew up, avidly watching various TV and film adaptations, culminating in my favourite interpretation of all: the critically-acclaimed 2019 film, […]
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Cast for London premiere of Little Women
Casting has been confirmed for the upcoming London premiere of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Little Women at London’s Park Theatre. The March sisters, Jo, Beth, Amy and Meg, will be played by Lydia White (Chess, Nuffield Southampton Theatre, Rags, Hope Mill Theatre), Anastasia Martin (Legends TV series), Mary Moore (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Southwark Playhouse) and […]
Thirty West End voices unite for new The Show Must Go On charity single
Thirty West End performers have lent their voices to a new original song created to bring a little Christmas cheer with all profits going to Acting For Others, The Fleabag Support Fund and NHS Covid-19 Urgent Appeal through the Theatre Support Fund+. Written by director and performer Anna Hale, producer and director Joe McNeice and […]
‘Wicked’ witches support the launch of the Make a Difference Trust’s Emergency Assistance Fund
To support Make A Difference Trust’s Emergency Assistance Fund, 23 West End actresses who have played Elphaba or Glinda in the multi-award-winning hit musical Wicked have joined together to perform a stunning rendition of the show’s ‘For Good’. Inspired by their close friends at Broadway Cares, the Make A Difference Trust’s has revived and repurposed […]
Star-packed music video accompanies Dan and Laura Curtis song which raises funds for Help For Heroes
Judi Dench, Paul McCartney, Whoopi Goldberg and Steve Martin are among a glittering group of stars who have joined a host of West End favourites in a very special musical video tribute to servicemen and women around the world. Aimed at raising funds for UK charity Help The Heroes, The Hero – A West End […]
Camelot – London Palladium
Camelot at the London Palladium. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This concert version of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot from London Musical Theatre Orchestra was staged to mark the centenary of Alan Jay Lerner’s birth in October 1918, though it seems like yesterday that he was with us, having settled in London in later […]
David Thaxton and Savannah Stevenson star in LMTO’s Camelot
Olivier Award winner David Thaxton and Follies star Savannah Stevenson will head the cast of the London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s concert version of Camelot at the London Palladium next month. Thaxton, who won an Olivier Award in 2011 for his performance in the Donmar Warehouse’s Passion and has played multiple roles in the Les Misérables […]
Willemijn Verkaik Live in Concert – Cambridge Theatre
Willemijn Verkaik Live in Concert at the Cambridge Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Following her last performance as Elphaba in Wicked last week, musical theatre luminary Willemijn Verkaik ditched the green paint for her own one-night-only concert at London’s Cambridge Theatre. In a follow up to her critically-acclaimed 2015 […]
Tyrone Huntley joins guest stars at Willemijn Verkaik’s London concert
Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award winner Tyrone Huntley will be one of several guest performers at international musical theatre star Willemijn Verkaik’s West End concert in July. The Dreamgirls star who is soon to reprise his acclaimed performance as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar is one of a number of guest stars who will join […]
First look at Broadway’s Tom McGowan as The Wizard in Wicked
The first official London cast photographs have been released of Broadway star Tom McGowan as The Wizard in Wicked, the West End musical that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz. Best known internationally as KACL Station Manager ‘Kenny Daly’ in more than 40 episodes of Frasier, opposite Kelsey Grammer, McGowan made his West End debut playing The Wizard at London’s Apollo Victoria […]
Wicked – American actor Tom McGowan makes West End debut as The Wizard
Wicked, the award-winning musical that tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz, will welcome the American stage, television and film actor Tom McGowan to the role of The Wizard from Monday 21 September for a limited season until Saturday 12 March 2016. He will be making his West End debut. Tom McGowan has been […]
Wicked Young Writers’ Award winners revealed – and show confirms new charity partnerships
The 2015 Wicked Young Writers’ Award today announced its winners during a ceremony involving 120 shortlisted finalists at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre, home of the multi award-winning classic musical Wicked. Now in its fifth year, the award encourages young people aged 5–25 years old to use writing as a means of expressing themselves, celebrating the production’s themes and values of […]
Wicked – actor Steven Pinder joins London production
Actor Steven Pinder, who is currently appearing in the record-breaking UK tour of Wicked, will join the London production as Doctor Dillamond from Monday 10 August until Saturday 19 September 2015. Philip Childs will play his final performance on Saturday 8 August. Steven Pinder is best remembered as Max Farnham in Phil Redmond’s Brookside, a […]
Emma Hatton to take over as Elphaba in Wicked from February 2015
Emma Hatton will star as Elphaba in the hit musical Wicked from Monday 2 February 2015 at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre. Currently the Standby Elphaba, Emma Hatton will replace international Wicked star Jennifer DiNoia, who is soon to play a special limited engagement from 27 October 2014 to 31 January 2015. Current performer Kerry Ellis plays her final performance […]
Jennifer DiNoia joins West End Wicked as Elphaba
After an eight-year association with hit musical Wicked in North America and internationally, actress Jennifer DiNoia will join the West End production for a strictly limited 14-week engagement as Elphaba from Monday 27 October 2014 to Saturday 31 January 2015. DiNoia first joined the cast of Wicked in 2006 and has subsequently performed the role of Elphaba across North America in the national tour, in […]
