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The Book Of Mormon – The Alexandra, Birmingham and Touring
The Book of Mormon was reviewed at The Alexandra, Birmingham where it continues until 28 December 2024. The tour continues until 8 November 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★
Tributes paid to much-loved theatre star Gavin Creel
Sutton Foster, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Idina Menzel, Hannah Waddingham, Kristin Chenoweth and Bette Midler are among the many stage and screen stars paying tribute to Tony and Olivier Award-winning Broadway and West End star Gavin Creel who has passed away.
Standing At The Sky’s Edge and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! win flagship musical prizes at the Olivier Awards
RSC’s My Neighbour Totoro triumphs with six awards including the Noël Coward Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play and the Sir Peter Hall Award for Best Director Best Actress was awarded to Jodie Comer and Paul Mescal took home the Best Actor award Standing At The Sky’s Edge won Mastercard Best New Musical Rodgers […]
Broadcast details and show line-up announced for the Olivier Awards 2023
The Olivier Awards 2023 with Mastercard have officially announced the shows performing in this year’s ceremony. The awards will take place on Sunday 2 April at London’s Royal Albert Hall, hosted by Hannah Waddingham.
West End LIVE – first 34 shows confirmed and rooftop preview pop-ups planned
Thirty-four of the West End’s most popular shows will be on hand to turn London’s iconic Trafalgar Square into the ultimate open-air theatre when West End LIVE returns to the capital in June The organisers of the crowd-pleasing live entertainment event have revealed the list of 34 shows already confirmed to feature in the weekend […]
The Book of Mormon – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
The Book of Mormon continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 1 January 2022 and then tours the UK until 13 September 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ When it first exploded onto Broadway in 2011, The Book of Mormon was – and still is – that rarest of things: a […]
‘Best ever line-up’ promise for West End LIVE 2021
Nearly 50 shows and acts will be on hand to turn London’s iconic Trafalgar Square into the ultimate open air theatre when West End LIVE makes its eagerly anticipated return next weekend. After being forced to cancel last year’s event due to the pandemic, the organisers of the crowd-pleasing live entertainment event are promising 2021’s […]
West End LIVE returns in September: Top London shows to perform in Trafalgar Square
West End LIVE will return over the weekend of 18 and 19 September 2021 with thousands of theatre fans able to enjoy free performances from the West End’s top shows. This year’s event features the first ever West End LIVE appearances from award-winning musicals Hamilton and The Book Of Mormon, as well as an exciting […]
Five Questions With: Nicholas McLean
NICHOLAS MCLEAN is starring in West End Acoustic – an unplugged celebration of popular musicals presented by New Frame Productions – at London’s Riverside Studios on 8 December 2020 alongside Maiya Quansah-Breed, Renée Lamb, Nicholas McLean and Sam Tutty, with musical direction by Chris Poon. Nicholas’ credits include Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre – Black British Theatre […]
High demand for The Show Must Go On Live! At The Palace Theatre leads to additional dates
Two extra dates have been added to The Show Must Go On! Live At The Palace Theatre concert series in response to high public demand. After selling out the initial four star-packed special performances at London’s Palace Theatre, the team behind the successful lockdown-launched Theatre Support Fund + will now move their fundraising efforts onstage for […]
Special YouTube MAD Drag Night in aid of Covid-19 hardship fund
With this year’s MAD Drag Night shelved due to the Coronavirus-crisis, a number of former celebrity hosts have been enlisted for a special fundraising online show this weekend. Celebrating the glitz and glamour of one of the highlights of the Make A Difference Trust’s fundraising calendar, the Best of A MAD Drag Night will stream […]
New Theatre Support Fund creates fundraising T-shirt
The producers of 16 of the biggest musicals in the West End have given their blessing to a new T-shirt aimed at raising funds for those in the industry hardest hit by the current crisis. Featuring a design that uses the distinctive branding of some of the world’s most famous shows, the T-shirts are the […]
Marisha Wallace announces debut UK tour
Marisha Wallace, one of the West End and Broadway’s most instantly recognisable voices and beloved leading ladies is heading out on her first ever UK tour. The star of such smash-hit shows as Dreamgirls, Waitress, Aladdin and The Book of Mormon and very soon Hairspray – will play a series of theatre shows in March […]
The Book of Mormon – Palace Theatre, Manchester
The Book of Mormon continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 24 August 2019 before touring to the Sunderland Empire, with more venues to be announced. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Mormons are here. We’ve been told they were coming for months, with adverts around the city generating huge excitement […]
Spotlight on musical theatre in Sweden – winter and spring seasons
Renate Stridh throws the spotlight on musical theatre productions featured in the current and upcoming seasons in Sweden. The winter season in Sweden is well under way. The autumn saw some exciting productions and there are some equally exciting opening nights ahead. The Book of Mormon The Book of Mormon opened at the end of January at China […]
Avenue Q – Sell a Door reveals more dates and casting
Casting and further dates have been announced today for award-winning comedy musical Avenue Q, which will bring a host of fuzzy friends to theatres across the country in a new 2015/16 UK tour. A smash hit on Broadway, in the West End and most recently in a critically-acclaimed 2014 UK tour, Avenue Q opens at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester on Wednesday 22 […]
West End Book of Mormon – new cast members announced
From 2 February 2015, the cast of the Olivier Award-winning The Book of Mormon will be led by Nic Rouleau as Elder Price and Brian Sears as Elder Cunningham, who join continuing cast members Alexia Khadime, Stephen Ashfield, Hugo Harold-Harrison and Chris Jarman at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. The full cast will include Josh Andrews, Gabrielle Brooks, Danny Colligan, Christopher Copeland, Nicholas Corre, Brendan Cull, Tim Edwards, Keisha T […]
West End Wilma Awards – Miss Saigon and Urinetown among the winners
The first ever Wilma Awards, in association with Freedom Bar Soho, took place at an exclusive invitation-only ceremony, hosted by actor/director Tim McArthur. Guests were treated to Afternoon Tea with Wilma (courtesy of www.thefullenglishfoodcompany.ltd.uk) while they watched the winners be revealed and listened to a special live performance of an original song from actor, singer and current Phantom of the […]
US actors Tighe and Holmes lead West End’s The Book of Mormon
From 28 July 2014, the cast of the Olivier Award-winning The Book of Mormon, at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London, will be led by Billy Harrigan Tighe as Elder Price and A.J. Holmes as Elder Cunningham (taking over from Gavin Creel and Jared Gertner). The full cast continues to include Alexia Khadime, Stephen Ashfield, Kevin Harvey, Hugo Harold Harrison, […]
Keith Jack – Up Close and Personal – London Hippodrome
Keith Jack performed Up Close and Personal at the Matcham Room at the London Hippodrome. “Welcome to an evening of traditional Scottish music,” is one of the more unusual openings to a Matcham Room cabaret you’re likely to hear. Keith Jack is joking, of course, although he does open with a selection of old favourites: ‘Flower […]
Singular Sensations – Gavin Creel – Charing Cross Theatre
Gavin Creel talked to Edward Seckerson as part of the Singular Sensations season at the Charing Cross Theatre, London. The latest in the intriguing and somewhat laid-back Singular Sensations series at the Charing Cross Theatre saw The Book of Mormon star, Gavin Creel, in fine anecdotal fettle and voice. Expertly cajoled into revealing personal and professional […]
Mormon’s Gavin Creel appears in Singular Sensations series
Ahead of Olivier Award winner Gavin Creel’s Singular Sensations appearance on 20 April at the Charing Cross Theatre, the actor and singer has revealed that fans can expect an exclusive treat – a performance of one his own tracks. This is a charity event in support of Creel’s nominated charity West End Serves and some […]
More images from the Olivier Awards red carpet
The Olivier Awards 2014 with MasterCard took place at London’s Royal Opera House – hosted by Stephen Mangan and Gemma Arterton – and featured 14 live performances including Abba’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus reuniting as part of a rousing show finale to celebrate 15 years of Mamma Mia! Thanks to photographer Vivienne Vincent, Musical […]
The Book of Mormon wins big at Olivier Awards
The Book Of Mormon dominated the musical categories at the 38th Olivier Awards with MasterCard, winning four prizes including Best New Musical and Best Actor in a Musical for Gavin Creel (that’s four wins from six nominations). Les Misérables won the much-coveted BBC Radio 2 Audience Award for the second time. The ceremony at London’s Royal Opera […]
Aladdin – New Amsterdam Theatre, New York
Aladdin continues at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, in an open-ended run. All the folks involved in putting on Aladdin, the new Broadway musical based on the 1992 Disney animated film, seem to be working feverishly to make sure we, the audience, don’t take it seriously. It’s all just good-natured, expensive hokum. That includes […]
Charlie and Merrily top Olivier Awards nominations
New musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along have topped the voting in the Olivier Awards 2014 nominations, as announced by previous winners Nigel Harman and Leigh Zimmerman in London today. Best New Musical nominees Once, The Book of Mormon and The Scottsboro Boys are hot on their heels with six nominations. The highly […]
Stiles and Drewe and Gavin Creel in Singular Sensations line-up
In a further coup for this spring’s season of Edward Seckeron’s Singular Sensations, musical theatre songwriting partnership George Stiles and Anthony Drewe (Mary Poppins, Betty Blue Eyes, Just So, Honk!) and Gavin Creel – who originated the role of Elder Price in the US national tour of The Book of Mormon, a role he continues in the West End production – […]
