The hit London production of Heathers The Musical is heading for cinemas across the country for one night only in March. Continuing to play to enthusiastic audiences at The Other Palace until 3 September 2023, the award-winning musical will be seen on the big screen nationwide on 28 March 2023. Distributed by Kaleidoscope Entertainment, the […]
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The Heart of It: Liza Pulman – The Other Palace
The Heart of It: Liza Pulman at The Other Palace, London (also 30 January 2023). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★
MTFestUK 2023 – showcase line-up revealed
The Other Palace and Turbine Theatre have unveiled the eight new musicals due to be showcased in The Other Palace Studio and at the Turbine Theatre during MTFestUK 2023.
Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize – The Other Palace
The first prize at the Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize went to a very deserving Flora Leo for ‘One Last Request’, adding to the composer-lyricist’s ‘Voice, Vision & Potential’ prize won at the same event last year.
Musicals Mash Up: 30 October-6 November 2022
Welcome to Musicals Mash Up in which we catch up with lots of the week’s stories that haven’t yet appeared on the Musical Theatre Review pages. We hope you approve! News editor Angela Thomas reports
Musicals Mash Up: 23-30 October 2022
Welcome to Musicals Mash Up in which we catch up with lots of the week’s stories that haven’t yet appeared on the Musical Theatre Review pages. We hope you approve! News editor Angela Thomas reports.
Twelve finalists for 2022 Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize
George Stiles, Anthony Drewe and Mercury Musical Developments (MMD) have announced the finalists in the running for this year’s Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize.
Musicals Mash Up: 10-16 October 2022
Welcome to Musicals Mash Up in which we catch up with lots of the week’s stories that haven’t yet appeared on the Musical Theatre Review pages. We hope you approve! News editor Angela Thomas reports.
Heathers The Musical – The Other Palace
Heathers: The Musical continues at The Other Palace, London until 19 February 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Already a theatre institution in its own right, having first transferred to London from Broadway in 2018 and gained a die-hard following of fans since, Heathers The Musical has seen some West End legends […]
New classmates for Heathers’ autumn term
Award-winning Heathers The Musical is welcoming a host of new classmates to the crowd-pleasing production at The Other Palace this autumn. As announced at this week’s Big Fan Day at the London venue, Erin Caldwell (Pretty Woman The Musical, Savoy Theatre, Twist and Turn, The Other Palace) is stepping into the central role of high […]
Millennials – The Other Palace
Millennials continues at The Other Palace, London until 4 September 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ There has been a lot to applaud about the run of Millennials at The Other Palace Studio. Following on from the first Studio-produced production of Love Is Only Love, this is the world premiere of […]
First full-staged production of new musical KIN announced
Following two sold-out concert performances at The Other Palace earlier this year, the first full production of new British musical KIN will debut at the Factory Playhouse in Hitchin early next month. Written by Emil Dale and Stefan Kelk, the musical which has attracted over one million views on TikTok will be staged at the […]
New cast for extended Millennials at The Other Palace
Six new cast members will join the world premiere run of 21st century pop musical Millennials at The Other Palace from 9 August 2022. Recently extended for an extra four weeks of performances up to 4 September 2022, the production newcomers will be Georgina Castle (Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre, 9 to 5: The Musical, Savoy […]
Extended run for Millennials at The Other Palace as venue continues to support the work of young writers
The world premiere run of 21st century pop musical Millennials at The Other Palace has been extended for an extra four weeks of performances up to 4 September 2022. Written and composed by award-nominated composer, lyricist and actor Elliot Clay, the song cycle which was showcased in development at MTFestUK2021 has proved a hit with […]
Heathers’ school run at The Other Palace extended into 2023
Heathers The Musical at The Other Palace will continue its crowd-pleasing run for an extra 24 weeks up to 19 February 2023. Presented by Bill Kenwright and Paul Taylor-Mills, the critic and crowd-pleasing production which returned to its original London home earlier this year will host a sing-along performance on 18 January 2023 with audience […]
Millennials – A Pop Song Cycle – The Other Palace
Millennials – A Pop Song Cycle continues at The Other Palace Studio, London until 7 August 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The second home-produced Studio show at The Other Palace, Millennials, by Elliot Clay, is an impressively robust, energetic, full-on affair, which promises much at the outset, but sadly flags […]
Cast for Millennials at The Other Palace
Casting has been revealed for the premiere of 21st century pop musical Millennials at The Other Palace next month. Written and composed by award-nominated composer, lyricist and actor, Elliot Clay, Millennials will star Georgina ‘Yas Queen’ Onuorah (Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre, Dick Whittington, National Theatre), Luke ‘Bae’ Bayer (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Apollo Theatre, Soho […]
New UK Musicals concert announced
West End stars Tyrone Huntley (Jesus Christ Superstar, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Anoushka Lucas (Oklahoma, Young Vic), Michael Rouse (A Christmas Carol, Old Vic) and Gemma Sutton (Follies, National Theatre) will appear alongside a new generation of performers in a special concert celebrating new UK musicals early next month. Produced by Darren Clark for […]
New intake for Heathers The Musical
Heathers The Musical at The Other Palace is welcoming a number of new classmates as the hit production continues its crowd-pleasing run up to 4 September 2022. Lining up for the summer term at Westerberg High are Jasmine Beel (Heather McNamara), Robin Hayward (Kurt Kelly), Daniel Robinson (Kurt’s Dad/Veronica’s Dad/Principle Gowen), Lewis Asquith (Hipster Dork/Officer), […]
New British musical Millennials to debut at The Other Palace
New 21st century pop musical Millennials will premiere at The Other Palace next month as part of the London venue’s Summer ’22 Studio Programme. Written and composed by composer, lyricist and actor Elliot Clay, the song cycle which was showcased in development at MTFestUK2021, will debut at the venue from 8 July until 7 August […]
Filmed Heathers The Musical cast confirmed
Ailsa Davidson and Simon Gordon feature in the central roles of Veronica Sawyer and Jason ‘J.D’ Dean in the eagerly-anticipated live capture of Heathers The Musical which was recorded at the hit show’s original London home The Other Palace earlier this month. Davidson and Gordon appear alongside Maddison Firth (Heather Chandler), Vivian Panka (Heather Duke), […]
Love Is Only Love – The Other Palace
Love Is Only Love continues at The Other Palace, London until 15 May 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Directed by Jason Morell, Love Is Only Love dispenses with somewhat threadbare, tired types of storylines about gay male identity and serves up a refreshingly different, intimate, largely genteel and funny introspective into […]
Current production of Heathers The Musical to be filmed for future release
Bill Kenwright and Paul Taylor-Mills are excited to announce a new project with Steam Motion and Sound, to bring the hit production of Heathers the Musical to the screen. Performances at The Other Palace have been taken off sale from 3-19 May 2022 to allow for filming to take place ahead of a future release. Performances will resume on […]
Other Palace encore for Love Is Only Love
Following a sold-out debut run at The Other Palace in 2019, uplifting musical Love Is Only Love will return to the London venue for a limited run from 29 April until 4 May 2022. Written by actor and playwright Sam Harrison (Avenue Q, Les Misérables) who also returns in the central role of ‘the boy’ […]
Next star-packed Sunday at the Musicals concert announced
Paul Burton Productions’ popular Sunday at the Musicals charity concert series will return later this month with a performance in the Studio Theatre at The Other Palace in London. Produced by Paul Burton and hosted by Adrian Mills, the concert on 20 March 2022 at 5.30pm will raise funds for Acting For Others. The creative […]
Cast for new British musical Little Sausage
Casting has been announced for the work-in-progress debut of new vegan-themed musical Little Sausage at The Other Palace in London next month. Produced by Tanya Truman, the verbatim musical which explores the relationship between veganism and masculinity will feature Dan Bravo, Owen Clayton and Joanna Clark. The folk-pop music flavoured work which will be directed […]
The Other Palace rehomes Vault Festival shows and announces new musicals Love is only Love and Millennials
The Other Palace has announced that it has been able to support several shows that were due to perform in the cancelled Vault Festival, in The Other Palace Studio. Two musicals – Love is only Love written by Sam Harrison returns following its sold out debut at The Other Palace, and Millennials with music, book […]
Cast for Heathers The Musical’s Other Palace encore run
Ailsa Davidson and Freddie King will take on the central roles as Veronica Sawyer and Jason ‘J.D’ Dean when Heathers The Musical returns to its original London home The Other Palace later this month. They will be joined by Emma Kingston, Inez Budd and Teleri Hughes as ‘The Heathers’ with Vicki Lee Taylor as Ms. […]
Paul Taylor-Mills to return to Bill Kenwright’s The Other Palace as artistic director
Bill Kenwright has appointed his long-time collaborator director and producer Paul Taylor-Mills as the artistic director of his new London theatre The Other Palace. Taylor-Mills will return to the venue where he previously served as artistic director followed by advisory producer when the former St James Theatre was first reopened as The Other Palace by […]
Heathers The Musical returns home to The Other Palace in November 2021
Heathers the Musical returns to its original London home at The Other Palace, opening on 25 November 2021, for a season until 20 February 2022. Produced by Bill Kenwright and Paul Taylor-Mills, the musical started its UK journey with a cult following and was a box office record-breaker at The Other Palace in 2018, before […]
Cast studio album for new production of Cases
After falling victim to the pandemic closedown, the team behind the new production of Dominic Powell’s Cases has united to record and release a cast album to mark the fourth anniversary of the musical’s premiere at the Phoenix Arts Club. Featuring the cast originally lined up to appear in the production at The Other Palace’s […]
Amélie’s Audrey Brisson and Chris Jared release new music videos
Amélie stars Audrey Brisson and Chris Jared have recorded three new videos featuring songs from the hit show in advance of the 2020 Olivier Awards. Recorded in their home with their newborn daughter as an audience of one, the couple perform ‘Stay’, ’Halfway’ and ‘Half Asleep’ from the hit show which has been nominated for […]
Songs For A New World – Lambert Jackson Productions and The Other Palace
Songs For A New World – A virtual revival presented by Lambert Jackson Productions and The Other Palace continues until 25 July 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If only for Jason Robert Brown’s best-known composition ‘Stars and the Moon’ wistfully sung by the wondrous Rachel Tucker, this virtual revival of […]
Lambert Jackson announces virtual production of Songs For A New World
Lambert Jackson Productions in association with The Other Palace has announced a “virtual lockdown production” of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World. Filmed entirely in isolation, Séimí Campbell directs Rachel John (Hamilton), Ramin Karimloo (Phantom of the Opera), Cedric Neal (Motown) and Rachel Tucker (Come From Away), with musical supervision by Adam Hoskins […]
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, […]
London cast recording of Amélie to be released
Craft Recordings and Concord Theatricals will release the Original London Cast Recording of Amélie in digital form on Friday (5 June 2020). Now available for pre-order, the recording features the cast of 13 actor-musicians who took to the stage at The Other Palace for the successful London transfer run of the Watermill Theatre’s hit production […]
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 […]
INTERVIEW Pre-Lockdown: How composer Joe Iconis brought the gorgeously fresh American brightness of Be More Chill to London
We’re getting nostalgic remembering when Musical Theatre Review contributor Clare Walters met up with Be More Chill composer and lyricist JOE ICONIS during the show’s run at The Other Palace, pre-lockdown of course. We thought you might like to discover how the conversation went down… When I caught up with composer, lyricist and playwright Joe […]
West End stars add their voices to On Hope: A Digital Song Cycle
A host of musical theatre stars are among the cast of over 100 performers due to make a contribution to the inspirational on hope: a digital song cycle which will be live streamed in the coming weeks. Performers from hit shows including Bat Out of Hell, Les Misérables, Six and Wicked will make their contributions […]
International line-up of songwriters for On Hope song cycle being streamed to The Other Palace
Over 60 songwriters from across the world have answered the call to submit an original song to be part of an inspirational digital song cycle. Presented by MP Theatricals in collaboration with The Other Palace, on hope: a digital song cycle will be streamed live on The Other Palace’s YouTube channel broadcasting on 29 April […]
Footage from London production of Eugenius! to be broadcast on Facebook as fundraiser for Acting For Others
The team behind hit British musical Eugenius! will release footage recorded during the show’s 2018 London runs online on Friday (20 March) at 7pm in order to raise money for theatrical charity Acting For Others and help entertain those self-isolating at home. Announcing their decision to make the archive footage from the show’s Other Palace […]
Six extra weeks for Be More Chill at The Other Palace
Just days after opening night the producers of the UK premiere of hit Broadway musical Be More Chill announced a six-week extension to the show’s run at The Other Palace, making it the longest-running musical at the London venue. Commenting on the announcement, writer Joe Iconis said: “Making my London debut as a musical theatre […]
Be More Chill – The Other Palace
Be More Chill continues at The Other Palace, London until 3 May 2020. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ An Off-Broadway sleeper hit that earned itself a full Broadway run, Be More Chill is based on a young adult novel of the same name by Ned Vizzini. Set in an American high […]
Cast for workshop of new show The Throwaways
Due to debut at London’s The Other Palace this week (on the afternoon of 31 January), Dylan Wynford’s (Bright Young Things, The Other Palace) folk flavoured work The Throwaways follows the fortunes of a group of misfits as they battle to save their favourite comic book store. Presented by Lambert Jackson Productions, the workshop performance […]
Cast announced for the London debut of Be More Chill
Two former Queens from hit British musical Six will take to the stage in the UK premiere of hit Broadway musical Be More Chill at London’s The Other Palace in February 2020. Renee Lamb (Catherine of Aragon in the original Arts Theatre production of SIX) and Millie O’Connell (Anne Boleyn at the Arts Theatre) will […]
Amélie The Musical – The Other Palace
Amélie The Musical continues at The Other Palace, London until 1 February 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Enchantingly bizarre, charming throughout and sumptuously produced, Amélie The Musical, is the perfect ‘alternative’ festive offering this year at The Other Palace, a venue that since its relatively recent inception has always at […]
Reputation – The Other Palace
Reputation continues at The Other Palace, London until 14 November 2019. Star rating: one star ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ The explosion of film-making in Hollywood in the late 1930s, as the Great Depression receded and talking pictures became people’ primary sources of entertainment, has proved a fertile setting for storytelling over the years. In Alick […]
Andrew Pepper – The Other Palace
Andrew Pepper at The Other Palace, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Exploding high kicking onto the stage in a blaze of strawberry pink fur, arches of blue mascara, shaved head with a bunch of blonde curls on top, Andrew Pepper is a high octane performer like no other I’ve seen. […]
Broadway musical Be More Chill will have its UK premiere at The Other Palace
Broadway musical Be More Chill is to transfer to London to make its UK premiere at The Other Palace on 12 February 2020. Be More Chill is based on the groundbreaking novel of the same name by Ned Vizzini. With original music and lyrics by Joe Iconis and a book by Joe Tracz, the musical […]
Falsettos – The Other Palace
Falsettos continues at The Other Palace, London until 23 November 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ If love really can tell a million stories, to use the show’s tag line, then Falsettos is close on being the ultimate tale of one sad, joyous and tragic relationship all woven beautifully into a wider family […]
