Tony and Grammy Award-winning composer Duncan Sheik, best known for co-creating the musical Spring Awakening, has died aged 56.
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Royal Academy of Music – Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening was performed by students from the Royal Academy of Music’s Musical Theatre Company at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The punchy pop-rock score is played with relish by MD/pianist Felix Elliott and his eight fellow RAM musicians and sung by some of the most thrilling young voices around.
Concert to mark 15th anniversary of London debut of Spring Awakening
The 15th anniversary of the original London production of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s multi-award-winning Spring Awakening will be celebrated with a special concert production this summer.
Almeida announces world premiere of Cold War plus cinema screenings of Spring Awakening
The Almeida Theatre’s artistic director Rupert Goold will direct the world premiere of Conor McPherson’s adaptation of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Academy Award-nominated Cold War.
WhatsOnStage Awards 2023 – the nominees
Daniel Fish’s innovative 2019 Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s much-loved Oklahoma! leads the musical theatre nominees for the 23rd WhatsOnStage Awards.
66th Evening Standard Awards – the nominees
Anything Goes, Cabaret, Get Up Stand Up!, Oklahoma! and Spring Awakening will battle it out for the title of Best Musical at the 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Double Stage Debut nominations for Hugh Coles and Ben Joyce
Back to the Future’s Hugh Coles and Jersey Boys’ Ben Joyce will battle it out in two categories at The Stage Debut Awards. The two actors have received nominations in both the Best Performer in a Musical and Best West End Debut categories. In the musical category they will be up against Elijah Ferreira for […]
Performances and presenter line-up announced for Olivier Awards 2022
With under a week to go until the Olivier Awards 2022 with Mastercard, details have been revealed for British theatre’s most prestigious and glamorous night, including the star-studded list of award presenters and performances. The Olivier Awards take place on Sunday 10 April at the Royal Albert Hall – returning after a two-year pandemic hiatus […]
Three wins for Cabaret at Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards but Spring Awakening nabs Best Musical prize
Rebecca Frecknall’s hit revival of Cabaret led the list of winners at the 31st annual Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, taking home three major awards at the Ham Yard Hotel ceremony. Frecknall’s acclaimed new staging of the 1966 musical won her the Best Director award, while Jessie Buckley was named Best Actress for her performance as […]
Almeida Theatre’s Spring Awakening run extended
The Almeida Theatre has announced a week-long extension for artistic director Rupert Goold’s acclaimed sold-out production of Spring Awakening. Originally due to end its run on 22 January, the first London revival of the Broadway hit since the show’s 2009 UK premiere, will now play performances up to 29 January. The production which opened in […]
Spring Awakening – Almeida Theatre
Spring Awakening continues at the Almeida Theatre, London until 22 January 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It was more than ten years ago that the rock musical Spring Awakening had its premiere in the UK at the Lyric Hammersmith. Based on the 1891 play by Frank Wedekind, it explores the […]
Five Questions With: Amara Okereke
AMARA OKEREKE plays Wendla in the Almeida Theatre’s revival of award-winning musical Spring Awakening, running from 7 December 2021 to 22 January 2022. Amara won The Stage Debut Award for Best Actress in a Musical for playing Cosette in Les Misérables. Her other theatre credits include The Boy Friend (Menier Chocolate Factory); Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival […]
Full cast for Almeida’s Spring Awakening
The Almeida Theatre has announced the full cast for the first London revival of the Broadway hit Spring Awakening since the show’s 2009 UK premiere. As previously announced the production will be directed by the venue’s artistic director Rupert Goold and the cast will include Amara Okereke, winner of the 2018 Stage Debut Award for […]
Almeida to stage first London revival of Spring Awakening
The first London revival of the Broadway hit Spring Awakening is one of six new productions planned for the new season at London’s Almeida Theatre. Directed by the venue’s artistic director Rupert Goold with a cast including Amara Okereke winner of the 2018 Stage Debut Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Les Misérables […]
Spring Awakening – Stockwell Playhouse
Spring Awakening at Stockwell Playhouse, London. Star rating: three stars ★★★✩✩ Spring Awakening The Musical is not easy. Adapted from Frank Wedekind’s scandalous 1891 original play, it’s a coming of age story with themes charting sexual frustration to eponymous awakening, societal pressures from school to home life, the conservation of innocence by the older generation, parental abuse and teen […]
Cast and creatives revealed for Hope Mill’s Spring Awakening
Manchester’s award-winning Hope Mill Theatre has revealed the cast and creatives for the upcoming revival of the Broadway hit Spring Awakening later this month. Directed by Luke Sheppard, the second of five in-house musical productions for 2018 from the successful partnership between Hope Mill and London arts producer Aria Entertainment is due to run from […]
Hope Mill Theatre and Aria Entertainment reveal first shows for 2018
The world premiere of new British musical The Toyboy Diaries will be the first of three in-house productions in early 2018 from the highly successful partnership between Manchester’s award-winning Hope Mill Theatre and London arts producer Aria Entertainment. Running from 18 January until 10 February, The Toyboy Diaries was announced as part of a 2018 […]
Tuck Everlasting and American Psycho closing on Broadway
The casualties from the just-ended Broadway season are piling up, with both American Psycho and Tuck Everlasting saying abrupt farewells. Tuck Everlasting posted a 29 May closing notice, while American Psycho will wind things up on 5 June. Tuck, which opened officially on 26 April after 29 previews, will at its closing have chalked up […]
Spring Awakening – Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York
Spring Awakening continues at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York until 24 January. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When the original production of the musical Spring Awakening closed on Broadway in January, 2009, it had racked up 859 performances and claimed eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Now the piece is back on Broadway […]
From Lloyd Webber to Fiddler – what Broadway has to offer during the next season
If yet another production of the ever-beloved Fiddler On the Roof doesn’t exactly set you tingling with anticipation, how about a fresh-off-the-page Andrew Lloyd Webber rockfest? At any rate, such endeavours are both part of the upcoming fall schedule on Broadway, which is brimming over with musical openings, a mix of revivals and brand new […]
Sell a Door Theatre Company presents Avenue Q
Sell a Door Theatre Company, the producers behind the first UK tour of Spring Awakening and the recent West End production of Seussical, will be embarking on a ten-week tour of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Avenue Q, following a run at their resident venue, London’s Greenwich Theatre. Avenue Q first appeared in 2003 at the […]
