Atlantic Records has released a live recording of the acclaimed 25th anniversary concert staging of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years in London earlier this year.
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Ben Platt and Rachel Zegler to star in The Last Five Years 25th anniversary concerts
Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt and Golden Globe and National Board of Review winner Rachel Zegler will star in a special concert staging of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years in London in early 2026.
The Last Five Years – Reading Rep Theatre and Touring
The Last Five Years was reviewed at Reading Rep Theatre where it continues until 11 October 2025. The production then visits the Barn Theatre, Cirencester (17 October to 15 November) and Theatre Royal Bath’s Ustinov Studio (25 November to 3 January). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★
Special Feature: The Last Five Years at Reading Rep Theatre
The Barn Theatre, Reading Rep Theatre and Theatre Royal Bath co-production of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years runs in Reading until 12 October.
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2021
At the end of each year Musical Theatre Review news editor Angela Thomas normally puts together a round-up of all the shows that have received four and five star reviews during the last 12 months, but this year we thought a different approach might be more appropriate. For a start, MTR wants to congratulate all […]
Cynthia Erivo and Danny Sapani to co-host Black British Theatre Awards
Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award-winner Cynthia Erivo and Black Panther, Star Wars and Killing Eve actor Danny Sapani will co-host the 2021 Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs) on 21 November 2021. Commenting on the awards, stage and screen star Erivo said: “I am so proud as a Black British actress to return from Los Angeles to the […]
Nominees for 2021 Black British Theatre Awards
The Color Purple – At Home, The Last Five Years and West End Musical Celebration are in the running for the Best Musical Production Award at the 2021 Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs) next month. Following on from last year’s special socially distanced event at London’s Young Vic Theatre which was broadcast on Sky Arts, the winners of the third BBTAs […]
Garrick Theatre run lined up for Jonathan O’Boyle’s hit production of The Last Five Years
Jonathan O’Boyle’s award-winning actor-musician production of The Last Five Years will return to London for a limited season at the Garrick Theatre this autumn. Previously performed to sold-out houses at the Southwark Playhouse, the production will move into the larger Garrick Theatre from 17 September 2021 ahead of an opening night on 23 September. The […]
The Last Five Years to transfer to the West End
After a critically-acclaimed run at Southwark Playhouse last year and a highly successful worldwide stream with stream.theatre, Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning musical The Last Five Years will play a limited season at London’s Vaudeville Theatre, previewing from 17 September 2021, with an opening night on 23 September and running until 13 October 2021. Directed by […]
Bursts of brilliance from the year theatre stopped
We could have been born with a love of television or comic books or 1930s radio plays. That wouldn’t have been quite so bad. But no, Dionysus, god of theatre, took one look at us and decreed: “On top of the worldwide suffering and loss from Coronavirus, you are to spend the 2020 pandemic almost […]
Thespie announces ten new online events for March
Theatre discovery platform Thespie has announced ten new online theatre and arts events including an International Women’s Day concert double feature and a conversation with the cast and creatives of a new virtual production of The Last Five Years streaming from New York. On 8 March 2020, Thespie will mark International Women’s Day with a […]
Line-up for 21st WhatsOnStage Awards revealed
Details of the star-studded line-up for this year’s special WhatsOnStage Awards ceremony have been unveiled. Reflecting current times as the industry awaits the return to live theatre following the Covid crisis, the event will feature performances from shows that were cut short in 2020 and selections from productions planned for 2021. Jodie Prenger and Tom […]
The Last Five Years and Rags share the musical theatre honours at the 2021 Offies
There were two wins each for the Southwark Playhouse run of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years and the Park Theatre transfer of Hope Mill Theatre’s critically-acclaimed production of Rags (Charles Strouse, Stephen Schwartz, Joseph Stein), directed by Bronagh Lagan, at OffWestEnd’s 2021 Offies Awards. Jonathan O’Boyle won in the Director category for his […]
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 […]
Doing, rather than waiting – An interview with acclaimed producer Katy Lipson (Part One)
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 […]
More online events announced by Stream.Theatre
Online venue stream.theatre will present more than 15 events for home-bound audiences over the next few weeks. The new digital platform will continue to offer theatre-lovers access to exclusive new shows including the eagerly-anticipated world premiere of new musical The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and two foreign language musicals – Seoul’s Sejong Center’s production of Frank Wildhorn’s […]
The Last Five Years and Rags lead the musical theatre nominees for 2021 Offies
The Southwark Playhouse run of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years and the Park Theatre transfer of Hope Mill Theatre’s critically-acclaimed production of Rags lead the musical theatre finalists for OffWestEnd’s 2021 Offies Awards. Jonathan O’Boyle’s actor-musician production of The Last Five Years and Bronagh Lagan’s staging of Rags The Musical lead the list […]
Musical Theatre Review critics offer their Top 5 theatre picks from 2020
As each year draws to a close, Musical Theatre Review usually pulls together a round-up of all the productions covered that have received four and five star reviews. After such an extraordinary year, during which any production staged has been a triumph over adversity, such an approach seemed inappropriate. Instead, I asked a small group […]
Stream.Theatre to offer 11 new shows for home viewing
Online venue Stream.Theatre has announced a packed season of productions for the festive period and into 2021 including feature-length musical theatre, pantomimes and concerts. The new digital platform will offer theatre lovers access to 11 exclusive new shows filmed this month. The line-up includes the previously announced recording of last weekend’s Palace Theatre debut of […]
Southwark Playhouse’s The Last Five Years to be streamed
Home audiences across the world will get their chance to see the sold-out Southwark Playhouse production of The Last Five Years next month when a filmed performance is released on new platform stream.theatre. Recorded using multiple cameras, the filmed performance of Jonathan O’Boyle’s hit actor-musician production will be streamed from 26-29 November 2020 (with a […]
The Last Five Years – Southwark Playhouse
The Last Five Years continues at Southwark Playhouse, London until 14 November 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When a relationship goes sour and a couple decide to go their separate ways, they might use the excuse of not being in the same place as that partner. Composer Jason Robert Brown […]
Southwark Playhouse run of The Last Five Years extended
With over two-thirds of tickets already sold, the Southwark Playhouse run of Jonathan O’Boyle’s hit actor-musician production of The Last Five Years has been extended for an extra two weeks. Presented by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment in association with Edward Prophet and People Entertainment, the production will now run from 1 October until 14 […]
Stars of The Last Five Years form support bubble for Southwark Playhouse return
Molly Lynch and Oli Higginson will return to the lead roles when Jonathan O’Boyle’s hit actor-musician production of The Last Five Years returns to the Southwark Playhouse next month. To avoid the need for social distancing on stage the two actors will remain in the same ‘support bubble’ for the length of the run in […]
Cast for Minack’s The Last Five Years
Emma Kingston (Evita, In The Heights) and Waylon Jacobs (Hamilton, Ragtime) will star in the new outdoor production of James Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at the world-famous Minack Theatre in Cornwall next month. As previously announced, award-winning director and choreographer Omar F Okai will direct the production which will feature musical direction by […]
The Last Five Years to return to Southwark Playhouse in October
Jonathan O’Boyle’s hit actor-musician production of the Last Five Years will return to the Southwark Playhouse in October with added social distancing measures in place. The new version of Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning musical had been playing to packed houses at the South London venue when the curtain came down on the production due to […]
Minack Theatre lines up new production of The Last Five Years
Award-winning director and choreographer Omar F Okai will take charge of a new outdoor production of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at the world-famous Minack Theatre in Cornwall next month. Okai will head a creative team that includes musical director Leo Munby, set and lighting designer Andrew Exeter, associate designer Natalia Alvarez and […]
The Last Five Years – Lambert Jackson Productions and The Other Palace
The Last Five Years, presented by Lambert Jackson Productions, in association with The Other Palace. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The more a theatre fan learns about Jason Robert Brown’s 2001 musical The Last Five Years, the less appealing a proposition it appears. Between the overdone premise of a failing relationship, […]
Lambert Jackson Productions announces virtual production of The Last Five Years
Lambert Jackson Productions, in association with The Other Palace, have announced a “virtual lockdown production” of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years starring Danny Becker (Jamie) and Lauren Samuels (Cathy), with Samuels also making her directorial debut. The actors will record their parts entirely in isolation, using only what is available to them, which […]
The Last Five Years – Southwark Playhouse
The Last Five Years continues at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 28 March 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ If ever proof was needed that the path of true love does indeed never run smooth, here it is, laid bare in this emotional and innovative rollercoaster of a musical. Jason Robert Brown’s musical, here […]
Cast for The Last Five Years at Southwark Playhouse announced
Casting has been announced for director Jonathan O’Boyle’s new actor-musician production of The Last Five Years at the Southwark Playhouse next month. Wasted’s Molly Lynch (Sunset Boulevard, UK tour) will return to the South London venue to play Cathy opposite Oli Higginson (Julius Caesar, Shakespeare’s Globe, Napoleon Blown Apart, Arcola Theatre) as Jamie. After opening […]
The Last Five Years – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – PQA @Riddle’s Court
The Last Five Years continues at PQA @Riddle’s Court until 19 August 2018 (not 15, 22). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ In the same set-up as the companion piece here, Closer Than Ever, back projections on an upstage screen set a scenic tone behind a large sofa. This intimate two-hander has a ravishing […]
WhatsOnStage Awards 2017 – Half a Sixpence celebrates triple win
The winners have been announced at the Prince of Wales Theatre for the 17th annual WhatsOnStage Awards, presented by Simon Lipkin and Vikki Stone, celebrating the best of the UK’s theatre over the past year. The awards are the only major theatre prizes to be voted for entirely by the audience. Half a Sixpence was […]
Samantha Barks – Live at Zedel
Samantha Barks performed in cabaret at Live at Zedel, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fresh from an American tour, a new album launch and fantastic run of The Last Five Years as Cathy at St James Theatre, Samantha Barks treated the Zedel audience to an intimate evening of vocal acrobatics as she took us through the […]
The Last Five Years – St James Theatre
The Last Five Years continues at the St James Theatre, London until 3 December. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The songs from Jason Robert Brown’s high concept musical The Last Five Years have become so popular amongst performers that the show has a tendency to become a collection of audition songs […]
Monsta Productions makes pro debut with The Last Five Years
North West-based Monsta Productions has announced its first professional production will be Jason Robert Brown’s popular musical The Last Five Years. Set up by artistic director John Garfield-Roberts to give professional actors in the North West work in the local area, Monsta Productions’ first show will play the Forum Theatre in Garfield-Roberts’ home city of Chester […]
Jason Robert Brown to direct his The Last Five Years at St James Theatre
Multi-award winning Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown will direct a new London production of his acclaimed musical The Last Five Years at the St James Theatre in October. Stage and screen rising stars Samantha Barks and Jonathan Bailey will star in the production which will play the London venue from Friday 28 October until Saturday […]
Jeremy Jordan to make UK cabaret debut
American singer and actor Jeremy Jordan will make his UK cabaret debut at the London Hippodrome later this month. The Broadway star who won a Theatre World award for his debut as Clyde Barrow in Bonnie & Clyde and was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in Disney’s Newsies, will play the London Hippodrome […]
The Last Five Years – New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
The Last Five Years continues at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich until 11 March. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Jason Robert Brown’s song cycle The Last Five Years is the story of the breakdown of a relationship, starting at the end. So we first meet Cathy reading Jamie’s goodbye letter, before […]
The Last Five Years at the New Wolsey Theatre – Chris Cowley joins Katie Birtill in cast
Chris Cowley will join Katie Birtill in the cast of The Last Five Years, the first production in Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre 15th birthday season this February. Birtill, who took the title role in the venue’s production of Sweet Charity last autumn will play alongside Cowley whose first role after graduation was as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever […]
New Wolsey Ipswich birthday season includes The Last Five Years and Sweeney Todd
Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre will be celebrating its 15th birthday next year with a spring season that includes a revival of the production that marked its reopening in 2001, Sweeney Todd. The Sondheim classic is one of a series of major productions featured in a packed anniversary season that will begin on 25 February 2016 with The […]
The Last Five Years – Lyric Theatre, Belfast
The Last Five Years continues at the Naughton Studio, Lyric Theatre, Belfast until4 July. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The Irish premiere of Jason Robert Brown’s touching two-hander The Last Five Years finds Belfast’s Blunt Fringe Productions measurably growing in confidence in a compact but altogether captivating production by director Stephen Whitson. Founded in late 2013, […]
Jason Robert Brown in Concert – Royal Festival Hall
Jason Robert Brown in Concert – Royal Festival Hall, London. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ While Jason Robert Brown is somewhat exalted in musical theatre circles, in London productions of his musicals have tended to be small, chamber affairs, with Fringe productions arranging his scores to be played with the smallest number of musicians possible. […]
Amy Lennox replaces Laura Tebbutt in The Last Five Years at Lyric Belfast
Amy Lennox will play Cathy opposite Fra Fee as Jamie in Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning musical The Last Five Years at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast from 24 June to 4 July 2015, replacing the previously-announced Laura Tebbutt who is no longer available for the run. Lennox will then go straight into rehearsals for the UK premiere of Kinky […]
Competition – Win a copy of The Last Five Years on DVD
Following an exclusive two-week theatrical run at The Empire Leicester Square, the movie adaptation of Tony Award-winning Jason Robert Brown’s hit Off-Broadway musical, The Last Five Years is being released on VOD (Video on Demand) on 1 May and DVD on 4 May. And we have TWO copies of the forthcoming DVD release to give away! The Last Five […]
Interview – Richard LaGravenese, director of The Last Five Years movie
RICHARD LaGRAVENESE is the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of, among many other hit movies, The Fisher King (which was nominated for ‘Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen’ at the 1992 American Academy Awards), The Bridges of Madison County, PS I Love You and, most recently, The Last Five Years, a film that he also directed and […]
Interview – Jeremy Jordan, star of The Last Five Years movie
Starring alongside Anna Kendrick in the lead role of Jamie Wellerstein in the big screen adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years is the Grammy and Tony-nominated JEREMY JORDAN, who’s best known as a leading man on Broadway, having appeared as Jack Kelly in Alan Menken and Jack Feldman’s Newsies (2012) and as […]
Fra Free and Laura Tebbutt star in The Last Five Years at Lyric Belfast
Fra Fee and Laura Tebbutt are set to star in Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning The Last Five Years at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast from 24 June to 4 July 2015, playing the roles the two performers have dreamt of since they met at the Royal Academy of Music back in 2009. Fra Fee read music […]
The Last Five Years movie has two-week run at Empire Leicester Square
Based on Tony Award-winning Jason Robert Brown’s hit Off-Broadway musical, The Last Five Years will receive an exclusive two-week theatrical run at The Empire Leicester Square from 17 April before being released on VOD (Video on Demand) on 1 May and DVD on 4 May. The Last Five Years stars Academy Award nominee Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan […]
Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For a New World revived at St James Theatre
Celebrating 20 years since its first performance Off-Broadway, an all-new London production of triple-Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown’s first musical, Songs For a New World will run at the St James Theatre for three weeks only (22 July–8 August), directed by Adam Lenson. Songs For a New World weaves characters, locations and time periods together in […]
The Last Five Years movie trailer released today
The movie trailer for The Last Five Years, based on the hit Off-Broadway musical, and starring Academy Award nominee Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan, has been released today. A touching story of heartbreak and passion, The Last Five Years is an honest and funny portrayal of the highs and lows of a five year relationship. Told almost […]
