A one-night-only semi-staged reading of the musical The Little Frog Who Couldn’t Jump Too Good was recently held at London’s The Other Palace, offering a sold-out audience a glimpse of the show as it continues to develop.
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Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize 2026 finalists
Mercury Musical Developments (MMD) and Stiles and Drewe have announced the finalists in the running for 2026’s Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize.
Hot Mess – The Other Palace, London
Hot Mess continues at The Other Palace, London until 6 September 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Hot Mess at least affirms that we can have a damn good time facing up to the consequences of our actions.
Cast for London return of Hot Mess
Casting has been confirmed for the upcoming London return of Hot Mess, the winner of Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2o25.
London encore season for MTR Award-winning Hot Mess
Multi-award-winning musical Hot Mess will return to London this summer for a strictly limited season at The Other Palace.
Full cast for staged concert presentation of new musical In Pieces
The full cast has been confirmed the upcoming staged concert presentation in London of Joey Contreras’ new musical In Pieces.
Casts for MTFestUK 2026 musicals
The MTFestUK event at The Other Palace Studio in London will run from 27 January until 15 February 2026.
Cast for the London run of Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula The Sea Witch
The full cast has been confirmed for the upcoming London run of the critically acclaimed Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula The Sea Witch.
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2025
We have asked Musical Theatre Review’s brilliantly talented team of expert critics, based across the UK, to name one particular show that made the biggest impression on them during the last 12 months.
KENREX – The Other Palace
KENREX continues at The Other Palace, London until 1 February 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A darkly compelling triumph – a story of a town reclaiming power, told inventively and without judgement.
Lovers Actually – The Other Palace
Lovers Actually continues at The Other Palace Studio, London until 4 January 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ If you want a good laugh at the theatre, this is the perfect choice.
Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize 2025 – the finalists
Mercury Musical Developments (MMD) and Stiles + Drewe have announced the finalists in the running for 2025’s Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize.
Love Quirks: A New Musical – The Other Palace
Love Quirks continues at The Other Palace Studio, London until 12 October 2025. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ Love Quirks may have something to say about modern love, but the small amount of decent content that does so is completely drowned out.
50 First Dates: The Musical – The Other Palace
50 First Dates: The Musical continues at The Other Palace, London until 16 November 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Enjoyable and easy to watch.
Saving Mozart – The Other Palace
Saving Mozart continues at The Other Palace, London until 30 August 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Anybody who knows anything about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has most likely had that biography shaped, at least in part, by Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus and its Oscar-laden film adaptation. That work, […]
50 First Dates musical – cast confirmed
The full cast has been confirmed for the upcoming world premiere of a new musical based on the hit Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore romantic comedy 50 First Dates.
UK premiere of Saving Mozart – full cast
Casting has been unveiled for the upcoming UK premiere of writer and composer Charli Eglington’s Saving Mozart at London’s The Other Palace.
London world premiere for 50 First Dates The Musical
Georgina Castle and Josh St Clair will take the lead in the world premiere in London of a new musical based on the hit Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore romantic comedy 50 First Dates.
The Mad Ones – The Other Palace
The Mad Ones continues at The Other Palace Studio, London until 1 June 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Catch this show on this intimate scale while you can.
Cast for MTFest 2025 showcase musicals
West End favourites Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, Hannah Lowther, Obioma Ugoala, Courtney Stapleton, Dean John-Wilson, Michael Ahomka-Lindsay, Iván Fernández González and Sarah O’Connor will feature in the cast for this year’s MTFestUK.
New cast for London premiere of The Lightning Thief
The hit London premiere production of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical at The Other Palace now features a new cast.
Explosive musical comedy meets reality TV in Miss I-Doll at The Other Palace
What would happen if during a live reality TV show final one of the contestants simply revealed… the truth? Check out the explosive musical comedy Miss I-Doll, running at London’s The Other Palace Studio from 18 February to 9 March 2025, and you might just find out!
Emma Vieceli is the winner of the Stiles + Drewe 2024 Best New Song Prize
Emma Vieceli’s ‘It Starts Small’ from the musical Unfolding has been crowned the Stiles + Drewe and Mercury Musical Developments (MMD) 2024 Best New Song Prize winner.
The Lightning Thief – The Other Palace
The Lightning Thief continues at The Other Palace, London until 2 March 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ If you are a fan of the book series already, The Lightning Thief will be a fun retelling of a story you know well. And if you weren’t a fan before, it has every chance of converting you to the charms of Riordan’s world.
Pop Off, Michelangelo! – The Other Palace
Pop Off, Michelangelo! continues at The Other Palace, London until 5 November 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ In a world where many musicals (even the funny ones) take themselves too seriously, there’s something refreshing about a show that is continuously looking at itself and asking, “but what if we were sillier?”
Tink – The Other Palace
Tink continues at The Other Palace Studio until 20 October 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Its message that girls, like fairies, don’t have to shrink away as they grow up is sweetly delivered, with moments of real emotional power.
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World – The Other Palace
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World continues at The Other Palace, London until 8 September 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Reminding audiences of the importance of representation and having positive role models to look up to from a young age.
Line-up for BYMT gala show confirmed
The British Youth Music Theatre’s (BYMT) has confirmed the full line-up for its 20th anniversary gala event at London venue The Other Palace on 8 July 2024.
The London premiere of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical will open at The Other Palace in autumn 2024
Bill Kenwright Ltd and Paul Taylor-Mills will present the London premiere of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, adapted from Rick Riordan’s 2005 best-selling book series, at The Other Palace from 23 November 2024 to 2 February 2025.
Babies The Musical – The Other Palace
Babies The Musical continues at The Other Palace, London until 14 July 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ A fun new British school musical that will definitely become a fan favourite.
London summer season for Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World – the pop-powered musical which celebrates some of history’s most inspirational women – will play The Other Palace this summer.
BYMT 20th anniversary gala – first details
The British Youth Music Theatre’s (BYMT) has confirmed details of its 20th-anniversary gala event at London venue The Other Palace on 8 July. Hosted by BYMT alumnus and New Musical Theatre Award winner 2023, Lewis Cornay (SpongeBob SquarePants The Musical), the special event celebrating the last 20 years of the organisation will feature alumni including […]
Ushers: The Front of House Musical – The Other Palace
Ushers: The Front of House Musical continues at The Other Palace Theatre, London until 20 May. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Anyone who loves musicals will love this musical.
New British musical Babies to play The Other Palace
Babies, a new British coming-of-age musical, will play a strictly limited six-week season at London’s The Other Palace from 31 May to 14 July 2024.
We’ll Have Nun of It – The Other Palace
We’ll Have Nun of It continues at The Other Palace Studio, London until 10 March 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ This feisty, unpredictable, sporadically entertaining and quirkily imaginative production does hold your attention.
London run of Cruel Intentions musical extended
Originally due to play a 14-week run at The Other Palace from 11 January until 14 April, Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical is now booking up to 19 May.
Star casts lined up for MTFestUK 2024
West End favourites Miriam-Teak Lee (& Juliet), Laura Baldwin (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella), Jordan Luke Gage (Bonnie & Clyde), Rebecca Lock (Elf The Musical) and Declan Bennett (Jesus Christ Superstar) will be among the actors to appear at MTFestUK 2024.
Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical – The Other Palace
Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical continues at The Other Palace Theatre, London until 14 April 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is better than a time machine; better than a return to the economic prosperity of those years; better even than most ‘real’ musicals. Leave your good taste at home and enjoy this pure delight.
Line-up of shows for MTFestUK 2024
The Other Palace and Turbine Theatre have announced the eight new musicals due to be showcased at MTFestUK 2024.
Host and performers for Stiles + Drewe and Mercury Musical Developments 2023 Best New Song Prize concert
Award-winning performer Rob Madge (My Son’s a Queer (But what can you do?), Timpson The Musical) will host the Stiles + Drewe and Mercury Musical Developments (MMD) 2023 Best New Song Prize Concert.
London debut for Cruel Intentions musical
The stage musical version of the 1999 American film Cruel Intentions will make its long-awaited London debut early next year. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the film which took its inspiration from the 18th century French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical will open at The Other Palace on 11 January 2024 where it will play a 14-week season.
Trompe L’Oeil – The Other Palace
Trompe L’Oeil continues at The Other Palace Studio, London until 15 October 2023. Star rating: one star ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩
Cast confirmed for The Other Palace run of Trompe L’Oeil
Casting has been confirmed for The Other Palace Studio run of surrealist musical Tromp L’Oeil, due to play the London venue from 28 September until 15 October 2023.
Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize 2023 – the finalists
Mercury Musical Developments (MMD) and Stiles and Drewe have announced the finalists in the running for this year’s Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize.
The Verge of Forever – The Other Palace
The Verge of Forever continues at The Other Palace Studio, London until 20 August 2023. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩
Scouts! The Musical – The Other Palace
Scouts! The Musical continues at The Other Palace Studio, London until 9 July 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Fury and Elysium – The Other Palace
Fury and Elysium continues at the The Other Palace Studio, London until 18 June 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Danielle Steers joins the cast of new musical Fury and Elysium
‘Queer, revolutionary musical’ Fury and Elysium has announced the cast for its run at The Other Palace Studio from 6-18 June 2023, immersing audiences in Weimar-era Berlin and the fight for artistic revolution against the backdrop of the rise of fascism.
World premiere for Gigglemug’s Scouts! The Musical
The Stage Award-winning Gigglemug Theatre will premiere actor/musician family-friendly show Scouts! The Musical at London venue The Other Palace from 20 June until 2 July 2023.
New class of 2023 to enrol in Heathers The Musical in London
The award-winning Heathers The Musical welcomed a new cast to The Other Palace stage from 21 February. With class now in session at The Other Palace until 3 September, the new term will star Miracle Chance as Veronica Sawyer opposite Ellis Kirk as J.D. Dean.
