Tamar Broadbent: Plus One continues at The Ballroom at Laughing Horse @ The Counting House until 24 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★
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Five Questions With: Tamar Broadbent
Award-winning singer-songwriter Tamar Broadbent will be presenting her brand-new cabaret show Plus One on 25 June at London’s Crazy Coqs. Here she continues Musical Theatre Review’s interview series: Five Questions With…
Perfect Pitch & Stream.Theatre collaborate on showcase of new British musicals
Not-for-profit theatre company Perfect Pitch is partnering with online venue stream.theatre to present a regular monthly preview series spotlighting new British musicals and UK writing talent and featuring performances from West End stars. Part of a drive to promote new contemporary musicals to a wider audience, each episode of Rise:Up will focus on a different […]
Club Mex – Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Club Mex continues at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester until 10 February 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Club Mex is an original, high-energy and full-of-laughs – so many you’ll miss a few as you are still laughing at a previous punchy line – part-immersive, part-musical clubbing experience. Written by award-winning, comedian, actor and […]
CBBC regular Jade Johnson wins a leading role in Hope Mill’s immersive musical Club Mex
CBBC regular Jade Johnson has won a leading role in the world premiere of Mexican-flavoured musical Club Mex at Manchester’s award-winning Hope Mill Theatre after initially auditioning via Instagram. The World’s End star will play bride to be Mel alongside Alison Arnopp (Eugenius! The Other Palace, Dusty, Charing Cross Theatre) and Emma Louise Hoey (Wizard […]
Part immersive musical Club Mex to premiere at the Hope Mill Theatre
West End star Julie Atherton will direct the world premiere of Mexican flavoured musical Club Mex at Manchester’s award-winning Hope Mill Theatre early next year. The second new musical from Global Musicals, the producers of current West End hit Six, will play the Ancoats’ venue from 17 January until 10 February 2019. Featuring a script […]
Tamar Broadbent / Best Life – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Underbelly Cowgate
Tamar Broadbent: Best Life continues at Underbelly Cowgate – Belly Laugh until 26 August (not 13) 2018. Star rating: four stars ★★★★✩ Tamar’s in a pickle: her Grandma wants her to find a man to take care of her, but she’s an ambitious, independent young woman and she wants more! Also, she’s yet to meet the penis she […]
Tamar Broadbent – Get Ugly – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Underbelly Med Quad
Tamar Broadbent – Get Ugly continues at the Underbelly Med Quad until 28 August. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Apparently, we are 25% more ugly after a break-up. Tamar Broadbent’s sister says so. Having recently broken up, Tamar’s logic calculates that without having someone to tell you that you’re awesome, the only […]
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – top ten musical theatre tips
Musical Theatre Review contributor Fiona Orr offers her Top Ten Musical Theatre Tips for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe… Tom and Bunny Save the World (Fat Rascal Theatre) A show promising ‘serious political content’ alongside zombies and how pints are cheaper in Yorkshire must be worthy of consideration. ‘Whilst at its heart a comedy, Tom and […]
Miss Nightingale – The Vaults
Miss Nightingale continues at The Vaults, London until 20 May. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Written and directed by Matthew Bugg, Miss Nightingale is a showcase of enormous talent and a fantastic display of new writing. The show follows the story of witty nurse Maggie Brown (played by Tamar Broadbent) who […]
Tamar Broadbent – Get Ugly – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Tamar Broadbent – Get Ugly at the Laughing Horse @ Espionage (Venue 185), until 28 August. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ PLEASE – someone – spot this amazing young woman and give her a venue that is somewhere on a par with her talent! Firstly – a head’s up… It’s better to enter Espionage from the Grassmarket/Cowgate – it looks […]
Edinburgh Festival 2016 Preview – ten musicals to look out for
So here we are – on the brink of the 2016 Edinburgh Festival and Fringe. A remarkable year for musical theatre as there are productions both in the EIF (Edinburgh International Festival) and of course, the Festival Fringe, writes Fiona Orr. * Wonderman, presented by National Theatre Wales in collaboration with Gaggle Babble, promises a tasty glimpse […]
Brave New Girl – Tamar Broadbent – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Brave New Girl continues at Cowgatehead until 29 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Returning to the Free Fringe, the amazingly talented Tamar Broadbent has created a show loosely based on her travels over the last year. Suffering from middle-class angst at the frustration of unexpected items in her bagging area that sparked […]
All By My Selfie – Tamar Broadbent – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
All By My Selfie, performed by Tamar Broadbent, continues at Cowgatehead until 25 August. This 24-year-old songstress/stand-up is beyond engaging – she has the audience totally onside from the word go. Sharing her world as portrayed through a variety of social media, she brings us all along with her, joining in with the anthemic ‘I Love My iPhone’ […]
SSSSPOTY and Stiles & Drewe Prize winners revealed
The Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year/Stiles & Drewe Best New Song competitions took place at the Garrick Theatre, London. Girl power took over from Twelve Angry Men at the Garrick Theatre for one glorious Sunday afternoon as Corrine Priest and Tamar Broadbent walked away with the glittering prizes. Priest, a 21-year-old from […]
Tamar Broadbent returns to the Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize
Last year, Tamar Broadbent’s song ‘17 Drafts’ won the runner-up prize and a special commendation at The Stiles & Drewe Best New Song Prize 2013 which took place at London’s Garrick Theatre in conjunction with the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Competition (SSSSPOTY). For this year’s event, held at the same venue on 18 May, […]
Tamar Broadbent – Almost Epic – Leicester Square Theatre
Tamar Broadbent: Almost Epic at the Leicester Square Theatre Lounge, London. Though not at the bar where a glass of ordinary plonk cost the best part of £7, it was Happy Hour at the Leicester Square Theatre Lounge with Almost Epic, Tamar Broadbent’s hilarious one-woman show of self-penned, self-revealing songs and blissful comic timing, sending […]
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 […]
