Alfred Hitchcock Presents – The Musical continues at Theatre Royal Bath until 12 April 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Such a sophisticated and innovative production is a rare gem, making a visit to the beautiful Theatre Royal Bath a must-do before the show concludes its run.
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Cast and creatives announced for MTFestUK 2021
Paul Taylor-Mills has confirmed the line-up of award-winning and international performers and creatives assembled for next month’s MTFestUK 2021. Due to open at the Turbine Theatre in London from 17-29 May 2021 before embarking on a digital tour from 31 May until 4 July, the third edition of the annual celebration of new musical theatre […]
Oklahoma! – BBC Proms – Royal Albert Hall
Oklahoma! at the BBC Proms was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Few titles deserve their exclamation mark more than Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! The score sounds as fresh as it did when it was written in 1943 and at this semi-staged performance there might have been folk […]
The New Yorkers – Encores! – New York City Center
The New Yorkers, an Encores! production, was performed at New York City Center. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “What kind of a show is this, I ask you?” Thus inquires a character in the midst of Act II of the Encores! re-creation of Cole Porter’s 1930 musical The New Yorkers. And […]
She Loves Me – Menier Chocolate Factory
She Loves Me continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 5 March 2017. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick wrote She Loves Me the year before they hit the jackpot with Fiddler On the Roof (1964). The initial Broadway production which starred Barbara Cook and Daniel […]
She Loves Me at the Menier – Les Dennis, Mark Umbers and Katherine Kingsley join cast
With his character’s days on screen numbered, Coronation Street’s Les Dennis is preparing for a role in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s new production of the 1963 Broadway musical She Loves Me. Former stand-up comedian and presenter turned actor Dennis will swap the cobbles of Weatherfield for the London stage when he joins the previously announced […]
She Loves Me at the Menier – Scarlett Strallen to lead cast
Leading lady Scarlett Strallen and director Matthew White will return to the Menier Chocolate Factory in November with a new production of the 1960s Broadway musical She Loves Me. The pair who previously worked together on the Menier’s production of Candide will join forces again on the show which will run from 25 November until […]
Candide – Menier Chocolate Factory
Candide continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, until 22 February 2014. Menier Chocolate Factory’s last musical Merrily We Roll Along was a huge hit, even transferring for a successful run in the West End and being made into a movie, but it is hard to be as enthusiastic about the theatre’s revival of Candide. […]
Collaborations – The Songs of Elliot Davis
On 23 September, SimG Records – the leading independent label devoted to new writers and artists – is to release Collaborations – The Songs of Elliot Davis. Collaborations brings together some of the best songwriters in the music industry with an array of performers currently working in the West End, and is sold in aid of the […]
Menier Chocolate Factory presents Candide
Fra Fee, Cassidy Janson, Ben Lewis, Scarlett Strallen and David Thaxton have been cast in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s Christmas musical Candide with music by Leonard Bernstein, book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler, lyrics by Richard Wilbur and additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John Latouche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Park and Bernstein. From Westphalia to […]
