Olivier Award winner GEORGE MAGUIRE is playing the title role in Rhys Jennings and Darren Clark’s The Wicker Husband at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor (and will reprise the part of as Buck Barrow in the West End premiere of the cult-favourite Bonnie and Clyde The Musical at the Arts Theatre from 9 April 2022). George won the […]
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The Wicker Husband – Watermill Theatre, Bagnor
The Wicker Husband continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 26 March 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ One can only assume that fate has played a manipulative role in The Wicker Husband, finally having its long-awaited run at the Watermill Theatre this month. From the first reading of writers Rhys Jennings and […]
Full cast for Watermill’s The Wicker Husband
Full casting has been unveiled for the highly-anticipated return of folk-flavoured musical The Wicker Husband to Newbury’s Watermill Theatre next month. Joseph Alessi (The Lorax, Old Vic and Toronto) will take on the role of Cobbler with Gemma Sutton (Sweet Charity, The Watermill) as Ugly Girl, Olivier Award winner George Maguire (Sunny Afternoon, West End) […]
Musical Theatre 2022 Preview – all you need to know
With Covid-related delays and cancellations still plaguing theatre productions, we know it is impossible to predict whether all the shows listed below will go ahead, but we will continue to keep the faith and support all the incredible creatives bringing us these wonderful musical theatre openings in 2022 – in the West End, on the London […]
Dates in 2022 announced for Watermill’s The Wicker Husband and Our Man In Havana
Newbury’s Watermill Theatre has confirmed rescheduled dates for the folk-flavoured musical The Wicker Husband as part of its 2022 spring season. The musical which had its world premiere run at the distinctive Berkshire venue in early March 2020 cut short by the pandemic, will now return to complete its run from 11-26 March 2022. Based […]
In The Wings to return to showcase six new musicals
The popular In The Wings series of shows which featured the first live performances in a theatre with a live band since the Covid-closedown will return for a further six weeks of episodes later this month. Filmed from 3-6 June 2020 in strict accordance with social distancing rules, In The Wings launched online on 12 […]
Clive Rowe hosts Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and Stiles + Drewe Prize
Olivier Award winner Clive Rowe will host the 11th annual West End gala for The Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and the 10th anniversary of The Stiles + Drewe Prize next month. Featuring a special performance by fellow Olivier Award winner and guest judge Janie Dee, the event will be staged at the […]
The Wicker Husband – The Other Palace
A showcase performance of The Wicker Husband took place at The Other Palace, London. The Wicker Husband, with a book by Rhys Jennings and music and lyrics by Darren Clark, is based on a short story of the same name by Ursula Willis-Jones. It tells the story of The Ugly Girl, a hardworking fisher woman […]
Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year and Stiles + Drewe Prize – Novello Theatre
When The Stephen Sondheim Society, with encouragement from legendary Sondheim interpreter Julia McKenzie, launched the first Student Performer of the Year competition at what is now the Leicester Square Theatre, only ten musical theatre students applied to take part. Not surprisingly, all ten qualified for the final! Now, in the tenth anniversary edition, a record […]
The Wicker Husband wins first ever Stiles and Drewe Mentorship Award
Olivier Award-winning writing duo George Stiles and Anthony Drewe have announced the winners of their newly-expanded Stiles + Drewe Prize 2016. Now in its ninth year, the Stiles + Drewe Prize for Best New Song is joined by their first ever Mentorship Award, supported by Music Theatre International (Europe). Darren Clark and Rhys Jennings win the Mentorship Award with the new musical The Wicker Husband. The writers will receive 12 months of […]
The Wicker Husband – the inside story on bringing a new musical to life
The Wicker Husband is a musical theatre work-in-progress being brought to life by actor and book-writer Rhys Jennings and composer-lyricist Darren Clark. This nascent show takes its inspiration from a short story of the same name – a folksy fable in the style of a fairy tale – self-published online by Gloucester writer Ursula Wills-Jones. […]
