Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 10 May 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ From the outset the audience was completely absorbed in the clever, compelling storytelling.
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Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story – Jermyn Street Theatre
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story continues at Jermyn Street Theatre, London until 5 February 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “You know why we did it? Because we damn well felt like doing it!” I remember reading those chilling words on the Compulsion movie poster as if it were […]
Bart Lambert and Jack Reitman to return for Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story at Jermyn Street Theatre
Bart Lambert and Jack Reitman will re-create their award-winning performances as killers Leopold and Loeb in the musical thriller Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story at London’s Jermyn Street Theatre early next year. Joint winners of the OffWestEnd Award 2020 for Best Male Performance in a Musical, Lambert (Antigone, Storyhouse Chester) and Reitman (Amour, […]
Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story to open Jermyn Street Theatre’s The Outsiders Season
The eagerly-awaited central London transfer of critically-acclaimed musical thriller Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story will be the opening production in the Jermyn Street Theatre’s spring 2022 season. Previously seen at the Hope Theatre in Islington, director Matthew Parker’s 2019 award-winning production of Stephen Dolginoff’s work will be the first production in The Outsiders […]
Flames – Waterloo East Theatre
Flames continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 31 May. Star rating: 1 star ★ Musicals based on original material are something of a rarity, with more and more producers choosing to play safe with adaptations of existing material. Stephen Dolginoff’s original thriller Flames may be the reason why. Set in a spooky graveyard which seems to be […]
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story – Greenwich Theatre and Touring
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story continues at the Greenwich Theatre until 18 April before embarking on a UK tour. Star rating: 2 stars ★ ★ The appalling story of Leopold and Loeb – ‘Dickie’ and ‘Babe’ – is one of those lurid, early 20th century Chicagoan cases dubbed “the crime of the century”. A thrilling cocktail of […]
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story musical to tour the UK
After a critically acclaimed, award-winning Edinburgh Festival Fringe run, the musical Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story will tour the UK, opening with a two-week London season at Greenwich Theatre from 8–18 April. Thrill Me will then tour to The Lowry, Salford (8 and 9 May); Old Rep, Birmingham (22 and 23 May); Eden Court, Inverness (5 June) and […]
