The Secret Garden: The Musical continues at York Theatre Royal until 4 April 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ The combined talents of an all-singing, playing, acting cast results in a magical, albeit abbreviated, version of the Secret Garden story.
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One-off concert of The Secret Garden The Musical at the London Palladium
Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden, based on the 1911 novel of the same name, returns to the West End for a one-night-only concert celebration at the London Palladium on 28 August 2022. In a lonely manor house on the Yorkshire Moors, Archibald Craven (Hadley Fraser) is stifled by his manipulative brother (Mark Feehily) and […]
Lambert Jackson announces concert version of The Secret Garden at the London Palladium
Lambert Jackson Productions has unveiled plans for a London Palladium concert version of the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden and a third season of intimate genre shows at The Other Palace. After starring in Lambert Jackson’s concert staging of Dr Zhivago at London’s Cadogan Hall, Ramin Karimloo (Love Never Dies, Adelphi Theatre, The Phantom […]
The Barn’s Secret Garden run is extended
Following on from a critically-acclaimed and audience pleasing opening last month, the Barn Theatre’s launch production of the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden will continue its run until 28 April 2018. Director Dominic Shaw’s folk inspired, actor-musician interpretation of the classic Broadway musical has proved to be the perfect inaugural production for the Cirencester […]
The Secret Garden – Barn Theatre, Cirencester
The Secret Garden continues at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester until 15 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Musicals are often the fall-back option for opening productions at new theatres, but artistic director Iwan Lewis has made an imaginative choice in reworking Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon’s Tony-winning The Secret Garden to launch […]
The Barn Theatre’s inaugural production The Secret Garden opens this week
The Tony award-winning musical The Secret Garden is the inaugural production at The Barn Theatre in Cirencester. Opening on 16 March and due to run until 15 April, the first production at the 200-seat venue follows three years of planning, rebuilding and technical development. Directed by Dominic Shaw whose West End credentials include Beautiful – The Carole […]
Cirencester’s Barn Theatre to open with The Secret Garden
The Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden will be the inaugural production at distinctive new space, the Barn Theatre in Cirencester. Opening on 16 March and due to run until 15 April, the first production at the 200-seat venue follows three years of planning, rebuilding and technical development. The ambitious project to create a major […]
Meredith Braun to release second solo album
West End star Meredith Braun will release her second solo album When Love is Gone on Stage Door Records on 10 November. Taking its title from the Paul Williams’ ballad performed by Braun in the festive favourite movie The Muppet Christmas Carol, the album features a new version of the song performed by Braun for […]
Obituary – Bill Brohn, American orchestrator and musical arranger
By special arrangement – a tribute to the American orchestrator and musical arranger BILL BROHN (30 March 1933-11 May 2017). William David Brohn (Bill Brohn), the doyen of musical arrangers and orchestrators of musical and dance shows on Broadway and in London’s West End for a period of more than 50 years, has died at the age of […]
West End Bake Off 2017 date revealed
Theatrical charity Acting For Others has set the date and place for London’s third annual West End Bake Off. Following on from last year’s successful fundraiser which culminated in the cast of The Secret Garden taking home top honours, this year’s event will be held on Saturday 20 May at St. Paul’s Church, Bedford Street, London. The […]
The Secret Garden – Ambassadors Theatre
The Secret Garden continues at the Ambassadors Theatre, London until 31 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ If you want charm and highly moral, traditional clean entertainment you can’t go far wrong with The Secret Garden. Marsha Norman’s version (based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel), pared down here to 75 mins […]
The Secret Garden at the Ambassadors Theatre – exclusive new images
The Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden has returned to the West End for a special summer season aimed at family audiences. Here, Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan offers our readers access to an exclusive selection of images from the production. Directed by Rupert Hands, the production is running until 31 August at London’s Ambassadors Theatre. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s […]
The Secret Garden wins West End Bake Off
The Secret Garden took home the top honours at the second annual West End Bake Off charity event held on Saturday at St Anne’s Church Courtyard Soho. Cast and crew from the musical, which doesn’t open at London’s Ambassadors Theatre until later this month, followed last year’s winning team representing the world’s longest running stage show […]
The Secret Garden has West End summer run
The Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden is heading back to the West End for a special summer season aimed at family audiences. Directed by Rupert Hands, the production will run for six weeks at London’s Ambassadors Theatre from 27 July until 31 August. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s much-loved 1911 novel, the show has […]
