The full schedule has been confirmed for the second Musical Con – the musical theatre-themed event which will turn ExCel London at Royal Victoria Dock into a haven for musical theatre lovers on 21 and 22 October 2023.
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Dates and details are revealed for Musical Con 2023
When Phantoms walk the streets and Cats cosplayers crowd the Elizabeth line singing ‘One Day More’, you know what time it is. Musical Con, the West End’s official musical theatre fan convention, is back with over 70 West End stars joining fans at the ExCeL London on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 October 2023.
Gaiety Musical Theatre Festival to launch in 2023
West End and Broadway actress Marisha Wallace has been added to the star-studded line-up for the Gaiety Musical Theatre Festival when it make its eagerly awaited debut in April 2023.
More stars join Gaiety Musical Theatre Festival line-up
West End stars John Owen-Jones, Sophie Evans and Lauren Samuels and vocal group Collabro will complete the main stage line-up at the first Gaiety Musical Theatre Festival in May. Owen-Jones (The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables), Evans (Wicked, The Wizard of Oz), Samuels (Bend It Like Beckham, Grease) and Britain’s Got Talent 2014 champions […]
Stephen Schwartz joins Wicked London’s 15th birthday celebrations
Stephen Schwartz is joining current and former cast members to celebrate 15 years of hit show Wicked at the Apollo Victoria. Commenting on the latest landmark event in the Wicked story, the multi-award-winning composer of the magical musical about the Witches of Oz said: “I’m thrilled to be in London and in the audience at […]
West End Musical Celebration concerts to return to London
Following a successful six show run at London’s Palace Theatre, the organisers of the West End Musical Celebration concert series have announced a three-month residency at London’s Vaudeville Theatre. One of the first shows to reopen West End theatres in the summer, the star packed celebration of live musical theatre will be back on stage […]
Sophie Evans to return as Glinda when Wicked resumes performances in London
Sophie Evans will step back into the role of Glinda when Wicked returns to weave its magic in the West End once again at the Apollo Victoria from 15 September 2021. Commenting on her return visit to the hit show, Evans who first found fame appearing on the Wizard of Oz TV talent search Over […]
Alfie Boe among headline acts announced for Picnic Proms Summer Concert Series
West End and Broadway favourite Alfie Boe will be among the star names to take to the stage in a three-day series of spectacular concerts in the grounds of Harewood House in the heart of Yorkshire in September. Presented by Leeds-based Vivo Entertainment, the Picnic Proms Summer Concert Series will open on 3 September with […]
The Best of the West End – Royal Albert Hall
The Best of the West End at the Royal Albert Hall, London Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The breathtaking Best of the West End, presented by Alpha at the Royal Albert Hall, lived up to its name with some of the best stars in musical theatre taking to the stage for a […]
Chasing Rainbows, Finding Judy: Sophie Evans and Lauren Samuels – Album launch at Proud Cabaret
The album launch/showcase for Sophie Evans and Lauren Samuels’ album Chasing Rainbows, Finding Judy took place at Proud Cabaret, London. Not so much a jewel on the Nile, more a treasure on the Thames, the Proud Cabaret venue is a wonderful oasis of kitsch cabaret and calm that, instantly you enter, transports you a million […]
Fundraising Best of the West End concert at Royal Albert Hall announced
A host of the West End’s brightest stars will take to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall for a special concert in aid of Acting For Others on 21 July 2021. Presented by Alpha as part of the iconic venue’s 150th anniversary season, the third concert in the popular The Best of the West […]
West End Musical Celebration – Palace Theatre
West End Musical Celebration continues at the Palace Theatre, London until 13 June 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I – like you, I’m sure – have spent the last 15 months sat at home, counting down the days until I would get ‘Defying Gravity’ belted directly into my face again. […]
Line-up for second Monday Night at the Apollo show
Casting has been announced for the second concert in the rescheduled live and live-streamed fundraising series of Monday Night at the Apollo. West End stars Shan Ako (Les Miserables, The X Factor), Arthur Darvill (Once, Sweet Charity), Sophie Evans (Wicked, Wizard of Oz), Sandra Marvin (Waitress, Emmerdale) and Oliver Tompsett (& Juliet, Wicked) will take […]
West End Musical Celebration concerts rescheduled
With indoor theatre performances not due to resume until 17 May 2021 at the earliest, the West End Musical Celebration – Live At The Palace Theatre concerts have been rescheduled to dates in June. Originally planned for October last year, the star-packed celebration of musical theatre and the return of live theatre will now play […]
West End Musical Drive-In shows to be streamed online
Home-bound audiences will be able to get a taste of the initiative that brought a touch of musical theatre magic to a London car park with the release of digital recordings of the West End Musical Drive-In concerts via the stream.theatre platform. Featuring over 25 West End stars including Alice Fearn (Come From Away), Lucie […]
New dates and new look for West End Musical Celebration – Live At The Palace Theatre
The postponed festive show West End Musical Christmas – Live at London’s Palace Theatre has been re-scheduled and re-branded after the show was shelved due to the December Covid-closedown. Now re-titled West End Musical Celebration – Live At The Palace Theatre, the star packed celebration of musical theatre will now play the Palace Theatre from […]
Unlimited: The Songs of Stephen Schwartz – Thespie.com
Unlimited: The Songs of Stephen Schwartz is streamed by Thespie.com. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This is the first of Thespie’s four streamed December concerts under the Reunited banner, the reunion in this case being nine performers who have all appeared in Stephen Schwartz’s huge hit Wicked in its first 14 […]
Musical theatre favourites to feature in Reunited series of streamed concerts on Thespie
Over 30 of the UK’s leading musical theatre artists are lined up to feature in Reunited, a series of filmed concerts premiering on theatre platform Thespie. Following on from last month’s successful The Reunion show featuring seven Queens from the original West End run of Six, the Reunited series of four concerts will be filmed […]
Star-packed West End Musical Christmas shows for London’s Palace Theatre
The team behind the popular West End Musical Brunch events and the recent West End Musical Drive-In series has joined forces with producer Nica Burns to bring a festive version of the north London shows to the heart of the West End this Christmas. Running from 17 until 20 December 2020, West End Musical Christmas […]
Extra West End Musical Drive-In shows announced
More West End favourites and extra shows have been added to September’s West End Musical Drive-In schedule following a successful August programme. After selling all tickets within 24 hours for the previously announced 12 September 2020 show featuring 17 past and present Queens from hit show Six, an extra performance of the musical theatre-themed concert […]
Crazy Coqs announces August and September live and live-streamed programme
Janie Dee, Maria Friedman, Lauren Samuels, Sophie Evans, Cedric Neal and a celebration of the work of Andrew Lloyd Webber will be among the attractions lined up to feature over the next two months at London’s Crazy Coqs within the Brasserie Zédel complex. Subject to Government guidelines and any changes to lockdown rules, the popular […]
Eleven Six Queens to join the West End Musical Drive-In line-up
Eleven past and present ‘Queens’ from the hit show Six are the latest additions to the line-up of West End favourites bringing a touch of musical theatre magic to drive-in audiences in London. Courtney Bowman, Maddie Bulleyment, Collette Guitart, Sophie Isaac, Vicki Manser, Shekinah McFarlane, Grace Mouat, Natalie Paris, Jarneia Richard-Noel, Courtney Stapleton and Jodie […]
More performers join West End Musical Drive-In line-up
John Owen-Jones, Layton Williams and Sophie Evans are the latest additions to the line-up of West End favourites who will bring a touch of musical theatre magic to drive-in audiences from 25 July 2020. Presented by the team behind the popular West End Musical Brunch events, the West End Musical Drive-In experience will be on […]
‘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 […]
The Welsh and Irish of the West End perform in new videos
We may be living in a world of social distancing but that isn’t stopping audiences watching online theatre productions together (more than 200,000 for the National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors) or creating music via the wonders of technology from their separate living rooms. This week both Welsh and Irish artists have been bringing us […]
Plans to launch UK’s first Theatre Convention – StageCon – in November 2018
Some of the West End’s biggest names are lined up to attend the UK’s first ever theatre convention in London in November. Inspired by BroadwayCon, the annual theatre convention in New York which offers theatre fans the chance to get closer than ever to the stars and shows they love, StageCon will be held over […]
Chris Jarman takes over as Doctor Dillamond as part of cast changes at West End’s Wicked
Chris Jarman will take over the role of Doctor Dillamond in the hit West End production of Wicked in July 2018. Fresh from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Jarman will join the previously announced ex EastEnder David Witts (Fiyero) as the two newest members of the cast from Monday 23 July. Jarman will follow current […]
Former EastEnder David Witts to join West End’s Wicked
Former EastEnder David Witts will head home from LA to take on the role of Fiyero in the West End production of magical musical Wicked this summer. The actor who won a Best Newcomer award at the 2013 National Television Awards for his performance as Joey Branning in the BBC soap will return to the […]
West End Wicked flies into 12th year at the Apollo Victoria
This week Wicked celebrates its 12th year in the capital with the release of a series of new principal cast portraits by photographer Darren Bell. The record-breaking musical has played more than 4,500 performances at its London home, the Apollo Victoria Theatre. Wicked will also overtake We Will Rock You on 19 October as the […]
Wicked takes 16th slot in longest-running West End show list
Magical musical Wicked has overtaken Billy Elliot The Musical to become the 16th longest-running show in London theatre history. With two extra matinees added this month, on Thursday 17 August and Thursday 24 August, the record-breaking musical will play its 4,567th performance tonight (Tuesday 1 August) at its London home, the Apollo Victoria Theatre. Now […]
Musical theatre cruise – Floating Festival Stages – to be launched in 2018
A host of the West End’s biggest names are climbing aboard the UK’s first specialist musical theatre festival at sea. Launching on a round trip from Southampton on 15 October next year, the four-night Floating Festival Stages on board the Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas will feature some of musical theatre’s most popular stars. […]
Alice Fearn and Sophie Evans lead Wicked principal cast changes in July
Alice Fearn and Sophie Evans will take on the central roles in the hugely successful Wicked at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre from Monday 24 July. Fearn (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Shrek The Musical), who originally joined the West End production last year as Standby Elphaba will step into the role she understudied alongside show newcomer Sophie […]
A Little of What You Fancy – The Salberg, Salisbury Playhouse
A Little of What You Fancy continues at The Salberg, Salisbury Playhouse until 21 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Glyn Kerslake has become a regular fixture at Salisbury Playhouse over the Christmas period in recent years.This year he features prominently in both festive shows in The Salberg, the theatre’s intimate […]
Interview – Sophie Evans on her role in The Night Before Christmas at Salisbury Playhouse
SOPHIE EVANS, the Welsh singer who first captivated national TV audiences as a 17-year-old in the star search show Over the Rainbow, has rapidly established herself as a stage and screen rising star. Although she just narrowly missed out on the top spot in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s BBC TV talent search in 2010, the girl […]
Broadway in Concert at the London Palladium
Broadway in Concert at the London Palladium. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Having spotted a number of people sporting black Matt Cardle UK tour hoodies in the front rows before curtain up, it was pretty obvious that said Mr Cardle, along with the other performers joining him on the revered London […]
Broadway in Concert – Kerry Ellis, Matt Cardle, Lee Mead, Ben Forster and Sophie Evans line up
West End favourite Kerry Ellis will be joined by four stage stars discovered by television talent shows in a glittering celebration of the Broadway musical this November. Broadway in Concert will feature Wicked and We Will Rock You star Ellis alongside X Factor winner Matt Cardle (Memphis); West End leading men Lee Mead (Joseph and […]
You Won’t Succeed on Broadway if You Don’t Have Any Jews – St James Theatre
You Won’t Succeed on Broadway if You Don’t Have Any Jews continues at St James Theatre, London until 5 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ So ingrained in the Broadway cultural psyche is it that the Great White Way is founded on the back of New York’s rich Jewish heritage, that Eric Idle created the song […]
Madalena Alberto – Don’t Cry For Me – St James Studio
Madalena Alberto performed her show Don’t Cry For Me at the St James Studio, London. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Originally from Lisbon, Madalena Alberto moved to London to study performing arts and since graduating has developed a successful career in musical theatre. She has recently played Eva Peron in Evita both in […]
You Won’t Succeed on Broadway If You Don’t Have Any Jews at St James Theatre in August
You Won’t Succeed on Broadway If You Don’t Have Any Jews – playing at the St James Theatre from 25 August–5 September 2015 (press night is 27 August) – is a celebration of the Jewish contribution to musical theatre for more than 80 years. Fresh from an opening in Tel Aviv, the London cast features […]
