Songs for a New World continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London, until 3 March 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Songs for a New World is the perfect song cycle. A joyful journey through life’s trials and tribulations, each defined by love and hope.
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Cast for London revival of Songs For a New World
The full cast has been announced for the upcoming London revival of Jason Robert Brown’s song cycle Songs For a New World at Upstairs at the Gatehouse.
Newsfeed 15 November 2023: Pasha Kovalev choreographs Barista The Musical, Michael Ball and Lucy St Louis cast in My Favorite Things and more
Former Strictly Come Dancing glitterball-winning pro Pasha Kovalev will provide the Latin-flavoured choreography for the new original production Barista The Musical next year.
Bursts of brilliance from the year theatre stopped
We could have been born with a love of television or comic books or 1930s radio plays. That wouldn’t have been quite so bad. But no, Dionysus, god of theatre, took one look at us and decreed: “On top of the worldwide suffering and loss from Coronavirus, you are to spend the 2020 pandemic almost […]
Virtual lockdown production of Songs For A New World returns via Stream.Theatre
Lambert Jackson Productions’ online lockdown production of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World will be available on stream.theatre for one week from 21 February 2021. Featuring West End stars Rachel John (Hamilton), Ramin Karimloo (Phantom of the Opera), Cedric Neal (Motown) and Rachel Tucker (Come From Away) and introducing recent graduate Shem Omari […]
Musical Theatre Review critics offer their Top 5 theatre picks from 2020
As each year draws to a close, Musical Theatre Review usually pulls together a round-up of all the productions covered that have received four and five star reviews. After such an extraordinary year, during which any production staged has been a triumph over adversity, such an approach seemed inappropriate. Instead, I asked a small group […]
Songs For a New World transfers to the Vaudeville Theatre in February 2021 for a limited run
Lambert Jackson Productions has announced that its critically acclaimed production of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For a New World will transfer to the Vaudeville Theatre for a strictly limited run from 9 February 2021, with previews from 5 February, running until 7 March. This comes after the huge success of the production at The London […]
Five Questions With: Rachel John
RACHEL JOHN is starring in the upcoming live performances of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World at the London Palladium on 11 October 2020. Rachel originally performed the role of Woman 1 in Lambert Jackson Productions’ virtual performance of Songs For A New World, broadcast during lockdown in association with The Other Palace. […]
Palladium performances of Songs For A New World announced
West End stars David Hunter (Waitress), Rachel John (Hamilton), Cedric Neal (Motown) and Rachel Tucker (Come From Away) (with Shem Omari James) will take to the stage of the London Palladium next month for two performances of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World. Presented by Lambert Jackson, the live shows on 11 October […]
Songs For A New World – Lambert Jackson Productions and The Other Palace
Songs For A New World – A virtual revival presented by Lambert Jackson Productions and The Other Palace continues until 25 July 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If only for Jason Robert Brown’s best-known composition ‘Stars and the Moon’ wistfully sung by the wondrous Rachel Tucker, this virtual revival of […]
Lambert Jackson announces virtual production of Songs For A New World
Lambert Jackson Productions in association with The Other Palace has announced a “virtual lockdown production” of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World. Filmed entirely in isolation, Séimí Campbell directs Rachel John (Hamilton), Ramin Karimloo (Phantom of the Opera), Cedric Neal (Motown) and Rachel Tucker (Come From Away), with musical supervision by Adam Hoskins […]
Songs For a New World – St James Theatre
Songs For a New World continues at the St James Theatre, London until 8 August. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Taking your seat in St James’ auditorium, spying the spare apartment, stacks of furniture in the corner, you get a glimpse of what the show is at its heart: a juxtaposition of […]
Songs For a New World – Cynthia Erivo and Jenna Russell lead cast at St James
Celebrating 20 years since its first performance Off-Broadway, an all-new London production of triple-Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown’s first musical Songs For a New World runs at the St James Theatre for a strictly limited run of three weeks (Wednesday 22 July to 8 August, press night is Friday 24 July), directed by Adam Lenson. This special anniversary […]
Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For a New World revived at St James Theatre
Celebrating 20 years since its first performance Off-Broadway, an all-new London production of triple-Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown’s first musical, Songs For a New World will run at the St James Theatre for three weeks only (22 July–8 August), directed by Adam Lenson. Songs For a New World weaves characters, locations and time periods together in […]
