Before After continues at the Southwark Playhouse Borough (The Little), London until 2 March 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Slightly reminiscent of The Time Traveller’s Wife… but more. Like The Last Five Years… but better. Before After, written by Stuart Matthew Price (music and lyrics) and Timothy Knapman (book and additional […]
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Southwark Playhouse announces encore screenings of new musicals Fiver, Before After and Stay Awake, Jake
The critically-acclaimed live-stream productions of new British musicals FIVER, Before After and Stay Awake, Jake have been made available for an extra two weeks in response to high public demand. First seen as part of a mini-season of musical livestreams from The Little Theatre space at Southwark Playhouse late last year, the encore streaming of […]
CD Review: Gabriel – Studio Cast Recording
GABRIEL – Studio Cast Recording (SimG Records – SimGR-CD039) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Written by Andrew Fisher and Nick Stimson, we have a new take on the nativity, seen through the eyes of angel Gabriel who sees this task as his chance to earn his much longed for promotion to […]
Daniel Boys leads West End stars on cast recording of new Nativity-themed musical Gabriel
West End star Daniel Boys takes on the title role in the world premiere recording of Gabriel, a new two act Christmas musical from composer Andrew Fisher (Girl in a Crisis, Billy Bow). Due for release on 14 December 2020 by SimG Records, the studio cast recording features Boys (Falsettos, Spamalot) alongside Lauren Samuels (Bend […]
Christmas LIVE at Charing Cross cabaret season features a host of stars
Alongside the previously announced The Elf Who Was Scared of Christmas, Danielle Tarento presents Christmas LIVE at Charing Cross, a season of fabulous festive treats featuring a host of stars. The line up is as follows: Benjamin Scheuer in Concert American singer-songwriter and guitarist Benjamin Scheuer performs a brand new solo set on 15 December […]
Rosalie Craig and Hadley Fraser to star in live-stream musical Before After
Real-life husband and wife Rosalie Craig and Hadley Fraser will star in a staged reading of new musical Before After at the Southwark Playhouse. Evening Standard Award-winner Craig (Company, Gielgud Theatre, City of Angels, Donmar Warehouse) and Fraser (Young Frankenstein, Garrick Theatre, Saint Joan, City of Angels, The Vote, Coriolanus – all Donmar Warehouse) will […]
CD Review – Imaginary – National Youth Music Theatre
IMAGINARY – National Youth Music Theatre (SimG Records) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is the latest release from SimG Records involving the National Youth Music Theatre and it is a corker! Written by Timothy Knapman and Stuart Matthew Price, the production was staged at The Other Palace last year directed by Shaun […]
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 […]
Stars lend their voices to songwriter Oliver Boito debut EP
Wicked stars Oliver Savile and Jodie Steele are among a host of West End favourites who appear on a new EP of original musical theatre ballads by songwriter Oliver Boito. Released on iTunes on Sunday (21 January), Notes of Love is Boito’s debut EP of original compositions in collaboration with orchestrator Simon Nathan and producer/arranger […]
CD Review – Before After – Original Cast
BEFORE AFTER – Original Cast (SimG Records – SimGR-CD031) The latest release from SimG records is a real humdinger! Wonderful concept, fantastic music, clever lyrics, stunning cast – what more could you want? [SPOILER ALERT!] The story concerns Ben and Ami who once were lovers. However, after a tragic accident which leaves Ben with no memory, they do […]
Scott Evan Davis – The Pheasantry
Scott Evan Davis at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ New York-based composer Scott Evan Davis has been compared to the likes of Kerrigan-Lowdermilk, Georgia Stitt and Lance Horne. As evidenced by his debut show at London’s Pheasantry – the first such show produced by Woking-based internet radio show […]
Artists line up to join Scott Evan Davis at The Pheasantry
The line-up for New York-based composer/lyricist Scott Evan Davis’ show at The Pheasantry in London’s Kings Road on Sunday has been revealed. Presented by the UK’s Sunday Show Tunes in collaboration with executive producer Maureen Rejali, the show will feature Davis on piano alongside UK artists Rosemary Ashe, Luke Bayer, Ailsa Davidson, Willy Falk, Ilan […]
London Festival of Cabaret at St James Studio – line-up includes Sophie-Louise Dann
The St James Studio will once again be one of the main host venues for the popular London Festival of Cabaret. Now entering its fourth year, the Festival – which aims to celebrate the great composers, lyricists and interpreters of popular song – runs from 22 April until 8 May. Other host venues across the city […]
Stuart Matthew Price Sings The Songbook of Schwartz – St James Theatre Studio
Stuart Matthew Price Sings The Songbook of Schwartz at St James Theatre Studio, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The talented Stuart Matthew Price treated us to the second opus of his own songbook series at St James Studio, this time celebrating the work of Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz after paying tribute to […]
Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show – Vienna and Touring
Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show continues at the MuseumQuartier, Vienna until 14 December. Following the first stops in Cologne, Zurich and Basel, the 2014 tour of Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show has arrived in Vienna. The show is performed entirely in English, with the exception of the narrator (that role, by the way, changes in every city). […]
The West End Goes MAD for Christmas album features host of theatre stars
Auburn Jam Records has announced the release of The West End Goes MAD For Christmas, a compilation album of Christmas songs by new writers, performed by a host of West End stars. The album will be officially released on 30 November to coincide with MAD Trust’s annual fundraiser, A West End Christmas, at St Paul’s (The […]
Before After – St James Studio Theatre
Before After was performed at the St James Studio Theatre, London. For budding writers of new musical theatre there always comes a time in the process when the next step in development is to put the piece in front of an audience – to gauge their reaction and to invite (hopefully) constructive feedback before taking […]
The Writers’ Playground – Union Theatre
The Writers’ Playground, An Evening of British Writers, was performed at the Union Theatre, London. One of the biggest problems that up and coming musical theatre composers have is getting a wider audience to hear their work, to gauge their feedback, and to develop their skills as a result. Comedians (and to a lesser extent, […]
Hadley Fraser and Caroline Sheen star in new musical Before After
West End stars Hadley Fraser and Caroline Sheen are to feature in the world premiere of Stuart Matthew Price and Timothy Knapman’s new romantic musical, Before After, at London’s St James Studio. Everybody has one great lost love. They broke our hearts, they haunt our dreams, and we will never, ever forget it. But what […]
Kerrigan-Lowdermilk: One (More) Night in London – St James Studio Theatre
Kerrigan-Lowdermilk: One (More) Night in London at the St James Studio Theatre, London. Writing duo Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk have crafted a number of musicals in their native America, none of which have yet found a secure foothold on this side of the Atlantic. That has not stopped appreciation of their songwriting talents, however, with […]
A Spoonful of Sherman – St James Theatre Studio
A Spoonful of Sherman continues at St James Theatre Studio, London, until 22 April. This polished, classy and very well-sung revue is an action-replay of the pilot show that ran for two Mondays in January at the St James Studio and has returned to Victoria for nine more outings principally to celebrate the Oscar-winning music of […]
The A–Z of Mrs P – Southwark Playhouse
The A–Z of Mrs P continues at the Southwark Playhouse until 29 March. In the search for material for topics for new British musicals, some of the country’s greatest eccentrics can provide ample material. One such is Phyllis Pearsall, who created the London A-Z street atlas. The son of an immigrant Hungarian Jew and a flighty […]
A Spoonful of Sherman will return to St James Theatre
A Spoonful of Sherman, a cabaret celebrating the work of the late, great Hollywood songwriter Robert B Sherman (and of course his brother Richard) – the most successful songwriting partnership in the history of Hollywood – sold out all its perfomances at London’s St James Theatre in January. Now the show returns to the venue for a […]
A Spoonful of Sherman – St James Studio Theatre
A Spoonful of Sherman – A Celebration of the Life, Times and Songs of Robert B Sherman was performed at the St James Studio Theatre, London. For two performances only we had the exquisite pleasure of witnessing the birth of a new musical revue based on the well-known catalogue of the late, great Hollywood songwriter Robert […]
Emerging Artists – Crazy Coqs
Emerging Artists was performed at the Crazy Coqs, London. It’s all well and good to celebrate the songbooks of America and Europe as part of the London Festival of Cabaret but the concept would be considered a museum piece if there wasn’t adequate time given over to new, original work. Kit and McConnel, Miss Hope Springs […]
Stuart Matthew Price, a leading man to be
Stuart Matthew Price – The Roles I’ll Never Play. Reviewed at St James Theatre Studio, London. Stuart Matthew Price, who is about to turn 30, made his London stage debut exactly six years ago in the Donmar Warehouse’s UK premiere of Jason Robert Brown’s Parade, where his stand-out tenor rang out over the opening number, ‘The […]
