My Fair Lady continues at the London Coliseum until 27 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Following in the footsteps of icons of the magnitude of Julie Andrews and Audrey Hepburn has to be a pretty daunting prospect but the fearless Amara Okereke makes Eliza Doolittle truly her own in this […]
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Stephen K Amos and Malcolm Sinclair join the cast of My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum
The full cast line-up has been announced for Bartlett Sher’s lavish production of My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum. Stephen K Amos, playing the role of Alfred P. Doolittle, is a BAFTA Award-winning comedian whose stage work includes My Night With Reg and One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. Malcolm Sinclair will play the […]
Amara Okereke will star as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum
The first casting news has been announced for Bartlett Sher’s award-winning production of My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum from 7 May to 27 August 2022. Amara Okereke will star as Eliza Doolittle. Okereke was recently seen in the Almeida’s acclaimed production of Spring Awakening and she won the Stage Debut Award for her […]
CD Review: Rumi: The Musical – Original Concept Recording
RUMI: THE MUSICAL – Original Concept Recording (Broadway Records – digital) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Three years since the birth of the idea, the studio album of RUMI: The Musical has finally arrived. Written by Dana Al Fardan and Nadim Naaman, this musical follows the story of the transformative and […]
New Theatre Peterborough hosts workshops for The Danish Girl musical
Award-winning writers Katie Lam and Alex Parker and innovative director Tinuke Craig have joined forces with New Theatre Peterborough in a workshop for a new musical adaptation of The Danish Girl. Inspired by David Ebershoff’s 2000 novel which in turn was loosely inspired by the lives of Danish painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, the […]
Concept album to be released for Nadim Naaman and Dana Al Fardan’s Rumi: The Musical
West End star Nadim Naaman and Qatar-based composer Dana Al Fardan have revealed plans for the release of a concept album for their second stage musical. Featuring Naaman and fellow Phantom of the Opera star Ramin Karimloo, the full-length concept album for Rumi: The Musical has been recorded during the pandemic in London and Doha. […]
Janie Dee and Joanna Riding reunite for outdoor staging of A Little Night Music
Janie Dee and Joanna Riding will star in a special outdoor version of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s evocative A Little Night Music in London. The pair who previously appeared together in the National Theatre’s hit production of Follies will reunite for the socially distanced concert performance in Holland Park on 15 August 2020. They […]
The ToyBoy Diaries The Musical – Hope Mill Theatre Theatre, Manchester
The ToyBoy Diaries continues at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester until 10 February. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Wendy Salisbury’s 2007 biographical novel charts the exploits of an antiques dealer of a certain age who, having raised a family and divorced two husbands, decides (in her own words) that she’s done with […]
