Musik continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 25 October 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A charming and an outrageously funny way to spend an evening.
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Mrs Henderson Presents – Noel Coward Theatre, London
Mrs Henderson Presents at the Noel Coward Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Terry Johnson’s musical reworking of the 2005 movie about that great Soho institution, the ‘We Never Closed’ Windmill Theatre, and what it did for male morale in the dark days of the Second World War, is a very British, frequently […]
Mrs Henderson Presents transfers to the West End in February 2016
Following a sell-out season at the Theatre Royal Bath this summer, Mrs Henderson Presents will open at the Noel Coward Theatre on Tuesday 9 February 2016, for a strictly limited season, with a press night on Tuesday 16 February 2016. Mrs Henderson Presents will star Tracie Bennett as Laura Henderson, Ian Bartholomew as Vivian Van Damm and Emma Williams as […]
Mrs Henderson Presents – Theatre Royal Bath
Mrs Henderson Presents continues at the Theatre Royal Bath until 5 September, ahead of a planned West End production. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Still they come! Musical stage versions of successful films have been all the rage for a while now – think Billy Elliot, The Bodyguard, Shrek, The Commitments, Bend It Like Beckham, the now-in-preview Kinky […]
Mrs Henderson Presents – Tracie Bennett replaces Janie Dee
Rehearsals started today for the new British musical Mrs Henderson Presents, now starring Tracie Bennett (taking over from Janie Dee who has had to withdraw for personal reasons), which concludes the Theatre Royal Bath summer season, playing 15 August to 5 September, prior to a West End run. Bennett will be reunited with director Terry Johnson, having last […]
Janie Dee to star in new musical Mrs Henderson Presents at Theatre Royal Bath
Janie Dee will star in the world premiere of Mrs Henderson Presents, the brand new musical based on the film starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins. The show is part of Theatre Royal Bath’s summer season 2015 (15 August–5 September, press night is 26 August), prior to a West End run. The cast also includes actress Emma Williams […]
Oh What a Lovely War returns to Theatre Royal Stratford East
Following a sold-out run in spring 2014, Terry Johnson’s revival of Oh What a Lovely War will return to its spiritual home – Theatre Royal Stratford East – in January 2015, before embarking on a national tour. It will be produced by Judy Lloyd and Matthew Mitchell. Oh What a Lovely War, a satirical musical about the First World […]
Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be – Theatre Royal Stratford East
Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be continues at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, London until 8 June. Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be was initially developed in 1959 by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop Company at Theatre Royal Stratford East before transferring to the West End, where it won an Evening Standard Award for Best Musical and launched […]
Oh What a Lovely War – Theatre Royal Stratford East
Oh What a Lovely War continues at the Theatre Royal Stratford East until 15 March. This year is big for anniversaries. One hundred years ago saw the commencement of the First World War, it also saw the birth of Joan Littlewood whose Theatre Workshop devised this ‘musical entertainment’ that brilliantly depicts the follies of war […]
