Stranger Sings! continues at The Vaults, London until 15 January 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A youthful and totally committed cast throw themselves headlong into a parody of the Netflix show Stranger Things, and the result is a non-stop, high-octane, big-haired nostalgia trip that is surely destined for greater things.
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Mulan Rouge – The Vaults
Mulan Rouge continues at The Vaults, London until 28 August 2022. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ It was an inspired idea, to take a fairly marginal 1998 Disney movie and fuse it together with Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 hit movie Moulin Rouge. The stories have nothing in common and yet author and director […]
Ride – Vault Festival
Ride at the Vault Festival, London Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Incredibly, the story of Annie Londonderry’s cycle ride around the world in 1894/95 seems to be true. She died in obscurity in 1947 but her great nephew published a book about her in 2007. Ride, at the Vaults Festival, presented […]
Shida – The Vaults, London
Shida continues at The Vaults, London until 13 October 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ If you’re looking for the most turbo-charged performance on a London stage, get yourselves down to The Vaults in the bowels of Waterloo Station for Jeannette Bayardelle’s eye-popping one-woman tour de force as Shida. Not only has Bayardelle […]
London debut for Off-Broadway hit Shida
Award-winning American actress Jeannette Bayardelle will bring her hit Off-Broadway musical Shida to the UK next month with a premiere run at The Vaults. Written and performed by Bayardelle (The Color Purple, Girl From the North Country, Broadway) and directed by Tony Award-winning producer Andy Sandberg (Hair, 2009 revival), the solo show will play the […]
Black Is The Color of My Voice – The Vaults
Black Is The Color of My Voice continues at The Vaults, London until 13 July 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Actress-writer Apphia Campbell has created a remarkable picture of the early part of the legendary Nina Simone’s troubled life without one mention of Simone’s name in this breathtaking 70-minute one-woman […]
Bare: A Pop Opera – The Vaults
Bare: A Pop Opera continues at The Vaults, London until 4 August 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ There are two lasting impressions one gets during the first ten minutes of this revival of Bare, a cult musical following two gay teenagers in a Catholic boarding school somewhere in America. The […]
Full cast announced for Bare: A Rock Opera
Casting has been announced for the new production of coming-of-age rock musical Bare: A Pop Opera which will debut at The Vaults next month. Darragh Cowley (Spring Awakening, Hope Mill Theatre, Snow White, London Palladium) will step into the central role of Golden Boy Jason opposite Daniel Mack Shand (The Masters of Mystery, Marlowe Theatre, […]
MTR award winners part of packed Vault Festival
Our choice for the Best Musical Award at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Half Moon Shania, will be part of the eclectic mix of music, comedy and drama for this year’s Vault Festival. Presented by Burnt Lemon Theatre, the tale of an all-girl punk rock band on a raucous pub tour, is one of over […]
Marc Almond and Soft Cell-inspired musical Tainted to be showcased in London
The distinctive songs of Marc Almond and Soft Cell form the basis of new stage musical Tainted which will debut in London with a special public showcase performance later this month. Featuring a book by Michael McManus and Charlie Ross Mackenzie and songs from every stage of Almond’s career, the show is described as a […]
Teddy – The Vaults
Teddy continues at The Vaults, London until 3 June 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Contrasts and culture clashes lie at the heart of all the best dramas. And you can’t get much more of a contrast than the world of the 1950s Teddy Boy, as brought to life in Tristan […]
Lock and Key – Vault Festival
Lock and Key was performed at the The Vaults, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This Warehouse Musical Productions’ show at the fabulous, cavernous Vault venue, set entirely in an office, appeared on paper, about as appealing as a drama about estate agents. Yet as the story unfolds, song after song impresses. Throw in […]
Tom and Bunny Save the World – Vault Festival and Touring
Tom and Bunny Save the World at The Vaults, London and Touring. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Tom and Bunny Save the World is a hilarious and quirky show where a very relatable United Kingdom is thrown into the mismatched clasps of the absurd and folk music. This quirky musical is presented by […]
Freud the Musical – Vault Festival
Freud the Musical continues at the Vault Festival, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Natasha Sutton Williams oozes talent. As Sigmund Freud, in this one-woman show, directed by Dominic McHale, she squirms, growls, snarls, leers, pretends to be a cat, plays the role of several highly neurotic patients, puppets a tiny child with […]
Teddy London season extended until June
The award-winning rock‘n’roll musical Teddy’s London season at The Vaults has been extended by four weeks, following its successful launch at the Watermill Theatre and UK tour dates. Produced by Sarah Loader for Snapdragon Productions in association with the Watermill Theatre, the show will now play the Waterloo venue from 29 March to 3 June. Directed […]
Dietrich: Natural Duty – Pit Theatre at The Vaults
Dietrich: Natural Duty continues at The Vaults, London until 28 January. The production is part of VAULT 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Legend has it that when Marlene Dietrich appeared at the Wolverhampton Grand in 1966, she took a broom to the stage each night, sweeping the boards to ensure […]
Teddy – Watermill Theatre, Newbury and Touring
Teddy continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 10 February and will tour nationally before a London season at The Vaults, London (29 March to 5 May 2018). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ For those of us who did not grow up in the height of the Teddy Boy era but […]
Hair the Musical – The Vaults
Hair the Musical continues at The Vaults, London until 14 January 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When the Age of Aquarius arrives, it will be sheathed in a sheen of perspiration. At least, if the 50th anniversary revival of Hair is anything to go by. Staged in one of the […]
Rock ‘n’ roll musical Teddy opens at Watermill before national tour
Tristan Bernays and Dougal Irvine’s award-winning musical Teddy will open at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury in January 2018, ahead of a national tour and a London season at The Vaults. Teddy will run at the Watermill from 11 January to 10 February 2018 (press night is 15 January), while the season at The Vaults will […]
Andy Coxon joins cast of Hair at The Vaults
Yank! star Andy Coxon has been cast in the iconic role of Berger in the eagerly-anticipated London run of the new 50th anniversary production of the classic rock musical Hair. Opening at The Vaults in October, Hair is due to play the distinctive subterranean arts venue in London’s Waterloo until Sunday 14 January. Directed by […]
Hair at The Vaults extends until January 2018
The eagerly-anticipated London run of the new 50th anniversary production of the classic rock musical Hair has been extended into January 2018. Opening at The Vaults in October, Hair will now play the distinctive subterranean arts venue in London’s Waterloo until Sunday 14 January. Directed by Jonathan O’Boyle, the new production of the cult show […]
Miss Nightingale – The Vaults
Miss Nightingale continues at The Vaults, London until 20 May. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Written and directed by Matthew Bugg, Miss Nightingale is a showcase of enormous talent and a fantastic display of new writing. The show follows the story of witty nurse Maggie Brown (played by Tamar Broadbent) who […]
Prom Kween – The Vaults
Prom Kween continues at The Vaults Theatre, London until 19 February. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Every Fringe festival has its shambolic musicals – those shows where the zero budget aesthetic is fully embraced, which like to project an air of being put together at the very last minute and every […]
Hope Mill Theatre’s Hair transfers to The Vaults
The acclaimed Hope Mill Theatre production of the iconic rock musical Hair transfers to London in autumn 2017, celebrating its 50th anniversary year. Directed by Jonathan O’Boyle, the show plays The Vaults from 4 October to 3 December (press night is 10 October). The production of Hair created a huge buzz in Manchester when it opened […]
All Or Nothing – The Mod Musical – The Vaults
All Or Nothing – The Mod Musical continues at The Vaults, London until 27 August, then on tour until 12 November. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ As someone who didn’t know his ‘Itchycoo Park’ from his ‘Whatcha Gonna Do About It’ until the other night, this edgy, noisy Small Faces musical […]
Mod musical All Or Nothing to tour UK
The new Mod-themed musical All Or Nothing is to follow up its highly successful extended run at London’s The Vaults Theatre with a UK tour beginning in June. The story of the classic British rock band the Small Faces ends its run at the venue in Waterloo on 21 May before beginning a nationwide tour […]
All Or Nothing – The Mod Musical – The Vaults Theatre
All Or Nothing –The Mod Musical continues at The Vaults Theatre, London until 21 May. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Yes, it’s another bio-jukebox musical that tells the rags to riches – or in this case rags to rags – tale of a struggling young band as it makes it big. And […]
All Or Nothing extends run at The Vaults
The team behind the new Mod-themed musical All Or Nothing has announced an extended run for the show which opened at London’s The Vaults Theatre this week. The story of the classic 1960s British rock band The Small Faces which was due to play the venue in Waterloo until 30 April will now run until 21 May. […]
Sing For Your Life – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Sing For Your Life continues at the Underbelly, Cowgate until 30 August. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ The Edinburgh Fringe is guilty of many things, but conventionality is not one of them. It’s one of the only points in time and space where a musical sporting a cast of actual real life I-kid-you-not taxidermy […]
