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 […]
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Cabaret leads nominations for Olivier Awards 2022
Musicals are once again making their presence felt in the nominations for the Olivier Awards 2022 with Mastercard with the innovative West End revival of Cabaret topping the list with 11 nominations. In the running for the Magic Radio Best Musical Revival, the production which has transformed the Playhouse Theatre into the Kit Kat Club […]
The Music Man – Winter Garden Theatre, New York
The Music Man continues at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York, currently booking to 6 November 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Playing the title role in The Music Man may only be Hugh Jackman’s fifth Broadway appearance in the last 20 years – two of which were in limited-run plays – but he […]
Film Review: Anything Goes
Anything Goes is screened in cinemas across the UK and Ireland from 28 November 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you missed Kathleen Marshall’s phenomenally successful production of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes at the Barbican this year, then fear not: the cameras were in over a few nights to capture the […]
Anything Goes breaks Barbican’s box office records
The hit UK re-working of the award-winning Broadway revival of the Cole Porter and P.G. Wodehouse musical Anything Goes smashed the Barbican Theatre’s box office record last week. With takings of £717,000, the critic and crowd-pleasing production celebrated the highest-grossing week for a musical at the Barbican in its 39-year history. Commenting on the response […]
Cinema screenings announced for hit production of Anything Goes
The hit production of Anything Goes, due to take its final bow on 6 November, will sail into over 450 cinema screens nationwide for two nights only on 28 November and 1 December in a live recording filmed at London’s Barbican Theatre. Presented by the Barbican and filmed live in London – during the show’s […]
Anything Goes – Barbican Theatre
Anything Goes continues at the Barbican Theatre, London until 31 October 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If anyone comes out of this remarkable revival of Anything Goes without a broad smile on their face, feeling ten times better than when they arrived and humming a Cole Porter classic, the probability is that […]
Broadway’s Sutton Foster to replace Megan Mullally in Barbican’s Anything Goes
Multi-award-winning Broadway star Sutton Foster will replace injury hit Megan Mullally in the much-anticipated UK re-working of award-winning Broadway revival of the Cole Porter and P.G. Wodehouse musical Anything Goes at the Barbican this summer. Foster (The Drowsy Chaperone, Thoroughly Modern Millie) will reprise her Tony Award-winning performance as Reno Sweeney and make her West […]
Voting open for The Curtain Up Show’s Album of the Year
Some of the biggest shows to play the West End and Broadway will battle it out for The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2018. Presented in association with TodayTix, the awards linked to popular theatre chat show The Curtain Up Show will once again feature three categories, each with six nominees. They are open to […]
Violet – American Airlines Theatre, New York
Violet continues at the American Airlines Theatre, New York until 10 August. Violet, the eponymous heroine of the musical Violet, tells us early on that she has a “scar that cuts a rainbow clear across my cheek”. It’s the result, we eventually learn, of an accident some 12 years earlier when Violet was 13. Violet was […]
Sutton Foster – Cafe Carlyle, New York
Sutton Foster is performing at the Café Carlyle, New York until 28 September. There aren’t many performers these days who merit the old-time appellation ‘a toast of Broadway’, but Sutton Foster is certainly one of them. Foster toiled away in four Broadway shows before her career-making Tony-winning lead performance in Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2002. […]
