Casting has been announced for the world premiere of new musical Reputation at The Other Palace Studio in November. Written by Alick Glass and set in the 1930s, the musical that celebrates the sounds and musical rhythms of the era will star Jeremy Secomb (Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables, West End), Maddy Banks (The Band, West […]
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Parade – National Youth Music Theatre – The Other Palace
Parade at The Other Palace, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ A good few years ago, the National Youth Music Theatre’s superb production of The Hired Man, at the same venue, left me massively impressed with its very young, superbly talented cast. That production has always remained a benchmark and so expectations were […]
London season at The Other Palace for Amelie The Musical
The Watermill Theatre’s sold-out production of the critically-acclaimed musical version of hit French film Amélie will follow its current UK tour with a Christmas season in London. Starring French-Canadian stage and screen star Audrey Brisson (The Grinning Man, Bristol Old Vic) in the title role, the hit production will play a limited season at The […]
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical – The Other Palace
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical continues at The Other Palace, London until 16 March 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Adam Meggido and Dylan Emery’s Showstopper! The Improvised Musical is an improvised musical that implores the (often ludicrous) whims of the audience to establish setting, storyline and musical numbers at a seconds […]
Finalists for ninth annual Offies announced
Southwark Playhouse’s hit production of The Rink leads the finalists in the musical theatre categories of the 2019 Offies Awards. The critically-acclaimed production’s six finalists across the eight genre-specific categories are included in the 89 finalists across the 28 awards categories. Selected from 400 shows at over 80 Off West End venues by the Offies panel […]
Other Palace season for award-winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
The popular Showstopper! The Improvised Musical will celebrate a milestone 1,000th performance during an eight-week limited season at The Other Palace early in 2019. Running from Tuesday 22 January 2019 until Saturday 16 March 2019, the Olivier Award-winning show will bring its own innovative brand of entertainment to Westminster venue following a festive season of […]
Murder For Two – The Other Palace
Murder For Two continues at The Other Palace, London until 13 January 2019 Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Think Cluedo The Musical, with 13 characters played by just two actors, throw in an upright piano, a shot dead famous novelist, plenty of whodunnit red herrings and some rousing songs and there you have Murder […]
Paul Taylor-Mills announces new musical theatre festival – MT Fest UK – for The Other Palace in 2019
Paul Taylor-Mills has revealed details of a festival of new musical theatre at The Other Palace planned for early next year. The leading independent producer who followed his two-year tenure as artistic director of the popular London venue by taking on the role of affiliate producer has unveiled plans for MT Fest UK, a showcase […]
‘It’s all very emotional’ – We revisit our interview with Heathers The Musical stars Carrie Hope Fletcher & Jamie Muscato
The record-breaking Heathers – The Musical is coming to the end of its strictly limited run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket this week, so we thought it was a good time to revisit Tal Fox’s interview with the show’s stars CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER (Veronica Sawyer) and JAMIE MUSCATO (Jason JD Dean). Based on the cult classic 1980s film Heathers which […]
Eugenius! West End Season cancelled
The last-minute loss of a key investor has forced producers of British musical Eugenius! to call a halt to plans to follow the show’s second critically-acclaimed run at The Other Palace with a West End transfer season. Announcing the cancellation of the limited ten-week season at the Ambassadors Theatre, producer Kevin Wood said: “The past […]
Twist and Turn – The Musical – The Other Palace
Twist and Turn – The Musical at The Other Palace Studio Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Effusing not so much the smell of the greasepaint, but just grease and the roar of a leather-jacketed crowd, this musical, based around the annual famous Isle of Man TT (Tourist Trophy) motorcycle race […]
Eugenius! celebrates West End transfer
The Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood produced British musical Eugenius! will follow its second critically-acclaimed run at The Other Palace with a West End transfer for a strictly limited winter season. After playing to packed houses for its extended season at The Other Palace until 21 October 2018, the show will move to the Ambassadors […]
Murder For Two returns for a festive run at The Other Palace
Musical whodunit Murder For Two will return to The Other Palace for a five-week run in December following a short UK tour. With a book and music by Joe Kinosian and book and lyrics by Kellen Blair, the Off-Broadway hit received its European premiere at The Watermill Theatre before playing The Other Palace last year. […]
Eugenius! – The Other Palace
Eugenius! continues at The Other Palace, London until 21 October 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A baby milk dependent villain. His nefarious robot sidekick voiced by Mark Hamill. Brian Blessed narrating… and rapping. All this and more awaits you in Eugenius! With such pop-culture titans lending their talent and a […]
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – National Youth Music Theatre – The Other Palace
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow continues at The Other Palace, London until 25 August 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Washington Irving’s short horror story, set in a secluded, superstitious community in post-Revolutionary New York state, has proven a fertile basis for many an adaptation, from Disney animations to Tim Burton blockbusters and […]
New song and revised script for Heathers West End transfer run
The record-breaking Heathers – The Musical will feature a new song and a re-worked script when it arrives at the Theatre Royal Haymarket next month. Due move to the bigger stage in the heart of the West End for a strictly limited run from 3 September 2018, audiences for the final performances of the European […]
The Beautiful Game – National Youth Music Theatre – The Other Palace
The Beautiful Game continues at The Other Palace, London until 18 August 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ When it comes to exploring the Northern Ireland Troubles of the 1960s and 1970s, neither Ben Elton nor Andrew Lloyd Webber were names that would immediately spring to mind. Perhaps unsurprisingly, their 2000 […]
The Girls From Oz – Because, Because, Because, Because, Because – The Other Palace and Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Girls From Oz – Because, Because, Because, Because, Because… at The Other Palace, London and then at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (theSpace @ Symposium Hall). Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ On a sweltering night in London, had this been an alfresco performance, antipodean-style hats with dangly corks would have not looked out of place, given […]
West End stars for Eugenius! Other Palace return
Rob Houchen will take the leading role in the Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood produced British musical Eugenius! when it returns to The Other Palace in September 2018 for a six-week season. Houchen (Titanic, Broken Wings), who will play central character Eugene, is one of a number of West End favourites lined up to play key […]
IDA – Stage and Screen Show – The Other Palace
IDA – Stage and Screen Show at The Other Palace, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Formed only three years ago, Ida is an all-girl classical crossover group which delivers a diverse programme of popular operatic arias and all-time favourite songs from cinema, pop and musical theatre. Since forming they have become firm […]
‘We feel we have finally found our niche in the industry’: Meet classical crossover group IDA (with a dose of musical theatre too!)
The Other Palace is the venue to go to see all things musical theatre, not just in the main house but also in the intimate studio space and tonight there is an opportunity to see the very talented IDA in their stunning stage and screen show. These beautiful young singers have quickly established themselves as […]
West End transfer for The Other Palace hit Heathers – The Musical
The record-breaking European premiere of Heathers – The Musical looks set to keep hitting the high notes with a West End transfer to the Theatre Royal Haymarket in September. Now the highest grossing show in history at both Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Other Palace and the venue’s previous incarnation the St. James Theatre, Heathers – […]
Son of Rambow – work-in-progress workshop – The Other Palace
Son of Rambow was presented in a work-in-progress workshop at The Other Palace, London. When the St James Theatre was purchased by Andrew Lloyd Webber and rebranded as The Other Palace, it was also touted as a venue for the development of new British musicals. And to be honest, some of its headlining musicals haven’t […]
Plays to feature in Other Palace repertoire alongside musicals as Paul Taylor-Mills steps down as artistic director
Leading independent producer Paul Taylor-Mills has taken on the new role of affiliate producer at The Other Palace following his two-year tenure as artistic director of the former St. James Theatre. The producer whose credits include the London premieres of In The Heights and Carrie: The Musical will mark his debut as The Other Palace’s […]
Jodie Steele, Sophie Isaacs, T’Shan Williams and Jamie Muscato are cast in Heathers – The Musical at The Other Palace
Veronica’s ‘mean girl’ classmates, playing opposite Carrie Hope Fletcher’s Veronica Sawyer in the eagerly-anticipated European premiere of Heathers – The Musical (beginning its limited run next month) will be played by Jodie Steele (Myth, The Other Palace), Sophie Isaacs (The Rocky Horror Show, European tour) and T’Shan Williams (Caroline or Change, Hampstead Theatre). Big Fish star […]
Band line-up for Heathers at The Other Palace
Details have been released of the house band lined up to feature in the eagerly-anticipated European premiere of Heathers – The Musical at The Other Palace. Musical director Simona Budd will lead a band of experienced musicians drawn from the West End and major tours. The five-piece assembled to perform Laurence O’Keefe’s much-admired score is […]
Moonfleet – Salisbury Playhouse
Moonfleet continues at the Salisbury Playhouse until 5 May 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ J Meade Falkner’s novel Moonfleet is ripe for the transition from page to stage. If anything, it’s a more rollicking yarn than Treasure Island. Smugglers, contraband, hidden treasure, creepy crypts, storms at sea, shipwrecks, a youthful […]
Early return to The Other Palace for Eugenius!
The Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood produced British musical Eugenius! will return to The Other Palace this autumn for a limited comeback season in response to public demand. Running from 1 September until 7 October 2018, the hit show’s early return follows on from its successful debut as a full-scale theatrical production at The Other Palace […]
Kathleen Turner: Finding My Voice – The Other Palace
Finding My Voice continues at The Other Palace, London until 8 May 2018. Star rating: four stars ★★★★☆ Audiences in the UK will know actress Kathleen Turner from her first film Body Heat in 1981, a film that was notable for its steamy sex scenes and for Turner’s husky-voiced performance as a woman planning to dispose […]
Carrie Hope Fletcher to star in European premiere of Heathers – The Musical at The Other Palace
Following a rapturous response to its sell-out 2017 workshop, 80s cult classic Heathers – The Musical is back in class this summer with new songs, new material and new classmates – including Carrie Hope Fletcher as Veronica Sawyer. Produced by Bill Kenwright and Paul Taylor Mills, who produced the award winning Carrie together in 2015, the musical premieres at The Other […]
Jabberwocky – Youth Music Theatre UK – The Other Palace
Jabberwocky – Youth Music Theatre UK – The Other Palace, London, continues until 14 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Stunning music, classy songs, thrilling dance… the Youth Music Theatre UK has found another winner, this time using Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem from Alice Through the Looking Glass as the […]
Tickets on sale for Son of Rambow at The Other Palace
Tickets have gone on sale for Nuffield Southampton Theatres’ workshop production of Son of Rambow The Musical which will play London’s Other Palace later this year. Produced in association with The Other Palace and based on the cult family film, the musical Son of Rambow features original 1980s style music by the songwriting team of […]
Diana Vickers steps Into leading role in Myth:The Rose and Fall of Orpheus
Former TV talent show star turned musical theatre artist Diana Vickers has joined the cast of the semi-staged version of new British rock musical Myth: The Rise and Fall of Orpheus which plays The Other Palace from Saturday. Vickers, who first found fame as a quirky contestant on the TV talent show The X Factor […]
Full cast for Myth: The Rise and Fall of Orpheus at The Other Palace
Two former ITV talent show performers turned musical theatre artists are among the cast of the semi-staged version of new British rock musical Myth: The Rise and Fall of Orpheus which will play The Other Palace in March. Jaymi Hensley, who shot to fame as a member of Union J, the boyband formed on The […]
Eugenius! – The Other Palace
Eugenius! continues at The Other Palace, London until 3 March 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Paul Taylor Mills has chosen a new British musical to celebrate The Other Palace’s first year in business, and while this might seem a risky move, it’s a well mitigated one. Eugenius is co-written by […]
Star Wars legend Mark Hamill to voice character in Eugenius! The Musical
Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood have announced Star Wars legend Mark Hamill as the voice of ‘Kevin The Robot’ in Eugenius! The Musical which is currently playing for a strictly limited run at The Other Palace until 3 March 2018. Hamill is most famous for his roles on screen; in particular, playing the iconic role of Luke Skywalker in the Star […]
Arlene Phillips to direct new rock musical Myth: The Rise and Fall of Orpheus at The Other Palace
West End veteran Arlene Phillips will direct a semi-staged version of new British rock musical Myth: The Rise and Fall of Orpheus at The Other Palace in March. Previously entitled 27 when the show received its world premiere at London’s Cockpit Theatre in September 2016, the re-titled rock musical will be presented in concert-style workshop […]
Interview – Kieran Brown teams up with Shona White for Scots In the City on Burns Night
KIERAN BROWN and Shona White are coming together once again, this time to celebrate Burns Night (25 January) at London’s The Other Palace with the very best of Scotland’s musical heritage and musical theatre. Scots In the City launched at the Arts Theatre in November 2017 and now the duo has returned for round two, but […]
Full cast for Eugenius! at The Other Palace
American Liam Forde will make his UK theatre debut in the Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood produced British musical Eugenius! which will follow up last year’s world premiere concert performance with a full-scale production at The Other Palace in 2018. Forde will take on the central role of Eugene opposite one of the stars of […]
The Barricade Boys – Christmas Cabaret – The Other Palace
The Barricade Boys – Christmas Cabaret continues at The Other Palace, London until 23 December. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Barricade Boys are back for a festive three-week season at The Other Palace. The quartet was launched by Scott Garnham and Simon Schofield in 2015 and brings together some of […]
Kathleen Turner to bring new one woman show to The Other Palace and beyond
Screen and stage star Kathleen Turner will bring her new one woman show to the UK next year beginning with a three-week run at The Other Palace Theatre in London. Presented by Fane Productions, Finding My Voice combines classic songs from the American songbook with stories about the actress’ life and career. Directed by Andy […]
Nuffield Southampton hosts world premiere of musical Billionaire Boy
A musical version of David Walliams’ best-selling Billionaire Boy looks set to be one of the highlights of Nuffield Southampton Theatres’ 2018 season. Announced as part of a season that includes inaugural programming for NST’s newly-built city centre theatre NST City, Billionaire Boy features music and lyrics by chart-topping song writer Miranda Cooper. Directed by […]
West End favourites line up to join The Barricade Boys’ Christmas shows
Les Misérables-inspired male vocal group The Barricade Boys has revealed a star-studded list of guest stars lined up to join them during their festive three-week season at the Studio at The Other Palace next month. School of Rock’s Gary Trainor will take to the stage with the group on the first night (5 December), with […]
Big Fish – The Other Palace
Big Fish continues at The Other Palace until 31 December. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Few stories cry out for a musical adaptation more than Daniel Wallace’s 1998 novel – and Tim Burton’s 2003 movie – Big Fish. It’s a whopper of a tale, recounted as a series of fantastical flashbacks […]
Full production of Eugenius! to play The Other Palace
The Warwick Davis and Kevin Wood produced British musical Eugenius! will follow up last year’s world premiere concert performance with a full-scale production at The Other Palace in 2018. Written by Ben Adams and Chris Wilkins, the show – which debuted at the London Palladium last year – will play The Other Palace form 22 […]
Barricade Boys to play Christmas season at The Other Palace
Les Misérables’ inspired male vocal group The Barricade Boys will play a festive three-week season at The Other Palace this December. The brainchild of Scott Garnham and his business partner Simon Schofield, the group was first launched in 2015 with plans to feature male singers who all had one thing in common – they had […]
35mm – A Musical Exhibition – The Other Palace
35mm – A Musical Exhibition continues at The Other Palace, London until 30 September. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Anyone who really believes that a picture is worth a thousand words obviously hasn’t been subjected to a forced viewing of a relative’s latest holiday snaps. But, according to Adam Lenson, director […]
Full cast for Boublil’s Manhattan Parisienne at The Other Palace
Casting has been announced for the work in progress production of Alain Boublil’s newest musical Manhattan Parisienne which will make its European debut at The Other Palace next month. Joining the previously announced Marie Zamora (Cosette in the original Paris production of Les Misérables) who will reprise the role of Eve in the London production […]
Clare Burt completes Big Fish cast at The Other Palace
Clare Burt will join the previously announced Kelsey Grammer in the London premiere production of John August and Andrew Lippa’s quirky romance Big Fish The Musical. Directed by Nigel Harman, the production – which will mark Frasier favourite Grammer’s London stage debut – will play The Other Palace from 1 November until 31 December with a […]
Boublil musical Manhattan Parisienne heading for The Other Palace Studio
Alain Boublil’s newest musical Manhattan Parisienne will make its European debut as a work in progress at The Other Palace next month. Presented by Robert Mackintosh in association with The Other Palace, the musical which will have its first London ‘public showings’ at the Studio at The Other Palace between Tuesday 10 and Saturday 21 […]
