Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image The Musical continues at the Phoenix Theatre, London until 26 August 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Tag Archives | Sean Foley
Birmingham Rep announces new award in honour of Victoria Wood plus UK premiere of Bhangra Nation – A New Musical
Alongside news of The Victoria Wood Playwriting Prize For Comedy, Birmingham Rep also announced the UK premiere of Bhangra Nation – A New Musical early 2024.
Spring debut for Coming To England at Birmingham Rep
Birmingham Rep has confirmed new dates for the world premiere of the stage adaptation of Floella Benjamin’s award-winning book Coming To England. Adapted by acclaimed playwright David Wood, the inspirational story of the much-loved children’s entertainer who arrived in the UK from Trinidad in the 1960s, will now run from 31 March until 16 April […]
Christmas homecoming for the REP’s Nativity! The Musical
Much-loved Christmas show Nativity! The Musical will make its long-awaited return to its first home, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, for the 2022/2023 Christmas season. Postponed twice due to the pandemic, the successful stage version of the hit film Nativity! will now return to the venue where it debuted in 2017, two years later than planned […]
Summer 2022 debut for Playboy of the West Indies at Birmingham Rep
The world premiere of new musical Playboy of the West Indies is among a number of further projects announced to mark 50 years of the Birmingham Rep on Centenary Square. First workshopped at the National Theatre Studio in 2018, the musical version of Mustapha Matura’s re-invention of John Millington Synge’s 1907 play The Playboy of […]
Birmingham Rep’s Something Rotten! moved to 2021
Birmingham Repertory Theatre has announced the rescheduling of the UK premiere of the hit Broadway comedy Something Rotten! Originally due to play the venue from 8-31 October 2020, the show which was set to be one of the highlights of Sean Foley’s first full season as artistic director of the venue will now make its […]
UK premieres of Something Rotten! and Breakfast On Pluto to feature in Birmingham Rep’s new season
The UK premieres of the hit Broadway comedy Something Rotten! and a new musical adaptation of Patrick McCabe’s novel Breakfast On Pluto look set to be among the highlights of Sean Foley’s first full season as artistic director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Foley will also direct his first show as artistic director, the Tony […]
The Man in the White Suit – Wyndham’s Theatre
The Man in the White Suit continues at Wyndham’s Theatre, London until 11 January 2020. Star rating: one star ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ I would have left at the interval had I not been commissioned to write a review. Rarely have I been quite so disappointed in a show which had so much promise. […]
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 […]
