LAUREN JONES is playing Wednesday in the current UK tour of The Addams Family. Musical comedy The Addams Family continues to tour Salford, Canterbury and Blackpool.
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The Addams Family – Curve Leicester
The Addams Family was reviewed at Curve Leicester where it runs until 10 August 2025. The tour continues until 30 August 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Some fantastic performances make it definitely worth a watch, it just should be much more of a scream.
The Addams Family: The Musical Comedy – Live in Concert at the London Palladium
The Addams Family: The Musical Comedy at the London Palladium. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Carrie Hope Fletcher announces debut UK tour
Actress, author, vlogger and award-winning West End performer Carrie Hope Fletcher, currently starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, is heading out on her first ever UK tour. Carrie Hope Fletcher – An Open Book will see the musical theatre star play a series of theatre shows in May and June 2023. Performing songs from her […]
The Addams Family – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
The Addams Family continues at Milton Keynes Theatre until 15 January 2022 and then tours until 11 June. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The musical adaptation of comedy classic The Addams Family rises from the dead to take to the stage at Milton Keynes Theatre this week. The quirky show follows the well-known […]
Full cast and further dates announced for the UK and Ireland tour of The Addams Family
The final ensemble cast members for the UK and Ireland tour of The Addams Family, A Musical Comedy have been announced. The tour will open at Theatre Royal, Nottingham on 5 November 2021 with new dates added in 2022. The final members of the ensemble are Jessica Keable, Sario Solomon and Ying Ue Li. They […]
Joanne Clifton to play Morticia in The Addams Family
Former Strictly pro-champ turned musical theatre star Joanne Clifton will replace the previously announced Samantha Womack as Morticia in the new UK and Ireland touring production of The Addams Family, A Musical Comedy when it opens at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham on 5 November 2021. The dancer who won the glitterball trophy in 2016 with […]
Second UK and Ireland tour of Addams Family musical to launch in August
The new UK and Ireland touring production of The Addams Family, A Musical Comedy will make its delayed return to the road this summer. Originally due to be back on the road in the UK and Ireland last summer, the gothic musical comedy will now launch at Woking’s New Victoria Theatre from 17 August 2021. […]
Doing, rather than waiting – An interview with acclaimed producer Katy Lipson (Part Two)
KATY LIPSON is the director of Aria Entertainment, a company which has been at the forefront of reimagining how theatre can operate given our current world of lockdowns and social distancing. Her Park Theatre production of Rags (originally at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre) and Southwark Playhouse production of The Last Five Years have been nominated for six Off-West End Awards […]
New 2021 dates for second Addams Family musical tour
Samantha Womack and Cameron Blakely’s return visit to the roles of Morticia and Gomez in the touring production of The Addams Family musical has been rescheduled for early 2021. Originally due to be back on the road in the UK and Ireland this summer, the gothic musical comedy will now launch at Cardiff’s New Theatre […]
TOUR NEWS: The Addams Family, Blood Brothers, Grease, Million Dollar Quartet, Milky Peaks and Everything Is Absolutely Fine
Angela Thomas catches up with the latest touring news… THE ADDAMS FAMILY Samantha Womack and Cameron Blakely will return as Morticia and Gomez when they take their creepy and kooky brood on the road again this summer in a new touring production of The Addams Family musical. Presented by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment and […]
The Addams Family musical to tour again in 2020
Morticia and Gomez will be taking their creepy and kooky brood on the road again in 2020 in a new touring production of The Addams Family musical. Presented by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment and Music & Lyrics Limited, the 2020 UK and Ireland tour will be directed by Matthew White (The Producers, Mr Stink […]
‘There are some amazing writers out there creating amazing work’: Theatrical Rights Worldwide’s Drew Baker on the British Musicals Collection
Thank you, Musical Theatre Review for sending me to the airiest, coolest, calmest spot in central London on one of the hottest days of the year, writes Susan Elkin. I’m in the Theatrical Rights Worldwide office with a pigeon’s eye view of Regent’s Street five floors below, lots of white paint, theatre posters and an atmosphere […]
Carrie Hope Fletcher’s debut album is released this week
Stage and YouTube favourite Carrie Hope Fletcher will release her debut album When the Curtain Falls on 23:00 Records tomorrow (Friday 30 March 2018). Now available to pre-order on iTunes, the album will feature some of the singer and writer’s favourite musical songs and will also form the basis for Fletcher’s solo concert debut in London, Carrie […]
WhatsOnStage Awards 2018 – a photo-reflection on the big night
At a ceremony hosted at the Prince of Wales Theatre by Trevor Dion Nicholas and Vikki Stone, the 18th annual WhatsOnStage Awards – decided entirely by theatregoers themselves – were revealed. Photographer Vivienne Vincent was there. Leading the pack was 42nd Street, currently running at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, which took home four prizes for Best Musical […]
Carrie Hope Fletcher to play first solo concert in 2018
Stage and YouTube favourite Carrie Hope Fletcher will make her solo concert debut in London in March next year. Produced by concert specialists Club 11 London, Carrie At Cadogan Hall on 31 March 2018 will take the audience on a journey through the author and performer’s career to date. Contemplating her first solo concert, Hope […]
Fourth annual West End Wilma Awards revealed
Half a Sixpence was a double award winner at the West End Wilma Awards (presented in association with Free@Last TV ) ceremony in London on Friday (3 November). Leading man Charlie Stemp collected the Rising Star award while his leading lady Emma Williams was named the Best Performer in a West End Show at the […]
La Famille Addams – Theatre Le Palace, Paris
La Famille Addams is booking at Theatre Le Palace, Paris until 6 January 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The first French language production of The Addams Family has been adapted by Ned Grujic who previously gave us the Paris editions of Fame, Hairspray and Shrek. This time, despite the lack of an actual orchestra, he comes […]
Interview – producer Katy Lipson makes her mark by taking musicals from page to stage
Hailing from Manchester and now living in London, young musical theatre producer KATY LIPSON is making waves with her production company Aria Entertainment. Projects for 2017 include the From Page to Stage Summer Festival, Yank!, Hair, Toxic Avenger, Pippin, The Addams Family, and the year isn’t over yet. She also won producer of the year at the […]
The Addams Family – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
The Addams Family continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 20 May and tours the UK until 4 November 2017. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice’s gloriously ghoulish musical take on The Addams Family is enjoying its UK professional premiere with a tour that […]
Cameron Blakely joins The Addams Family on tour
Cameron Blakely has joined the cast for the touring production of The Addams Family musical which will debut in the UK next year. The actor, whose previous credits include a two-year stint as Thenardier in Les Misérables in the West End, will play Gomez, the head of the distinctively creepy and kooky Addams Family opposite […]
The Addams Family – Carrie Hope Fletcher, Samantha Womack and Les Dennis cast
Samantha Womack, Les Dennis and Carrie Hope Fletcher will star as Morticia, Fester and Wednesday Addams in the UK and Irish premiere of The Addams Family, a musical comedy, with book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, based on the characters created by Charles Addams. Further casting is to be […]
The Addams Family musical to tour the UK and Ireland in 2017
The creepy and kooky The Addams Family musical will debut in the UK next year when a major new touring production opens at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre. Directed by Matthew White (The Producers UK tour) the UK and Irish premiere of the show, which has a book by the creators of the multi-award winning Jersey Boys (Marshall […]
Broadway actress Rachel Potter plays first London concert at Hippodrome
Broadway star and former US X Factor finalist Rachel Potter will play her first London concert date on 11 July. The New Orleans-born singer, who has starred on Broadway in Wicked and The Addams Family, will play the intimate 180-seat cabaret theatre Club 11 at London’s Hippodrome. The singer-songwriter who began her career as a […]
ArtsEd London – The Addams Family
The Addams Family is performed by ArtsEd third years at the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre, London until 7 February. Star rating: 3 stars *** There’s a saying in racing, “You can’t go without the horse”, which means that however wonderful a jockey you are, if the beast you’re riding is a selling-plater you aren’t going to […]
The Addams Family – A New Musical – Guildford School of Acting
The Addams Family – A New Musical was performed by third-year BA Musical Theatre students from the Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. The Addams Family has enjoyed several incarnations subsequent to Charles Addams’ original cartoons for The New Yorker: Gomez, Morticia, and their kinsfolk have been the subjects of ABC’s […]
The Addams Family – MGA Academy of Performing Arts
The Addams Family was performed by students from the MGA Academy of Performing Arts at the King’s Theatre, Edinburgh. I have one, simple problem with The Addams Family musical (music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice). Having grown up watching the 1960s US TV series, and then having discovered the glorious Charles […]
The Life of the Party – Menier Chocolate Factory
The Life of the Party – A Celebration of the Songs of Andrew Lippa continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 14 June. As a composer, Andrew Lippa seems to specialise in adaptations that don’t immediately stand out as obvious musical theatre material. Alongside his most well-known and successful work, the Tony-nominated The Addams […]
Andrew Lippa in Concert – St James Theatre
Andrew Lippa in Concert at the St James Theatre, London. The name Andrew Lippa is not one that a large percentage of UK theatregoers in the UK will have heard of, although some may have seen his most famous show – the lavish The Addams Family – on Broadway back in 2010. More recently, in September […]
