Cable Street continues at Marylebone Theatre, London until 28 February 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ There is much to celebrate in this significant new work.
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Cast for the London run of Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula The Sea Witch
The full cast has been confirmed for the upcoming London run of the critically acclaimed Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula The Sea Witch.
Cable Street’s London encore – the full cast
The new cast has been confirmed for next year’s London return of Cable Street which will play the Marylebone Theatre from 16 January until 28 February 2026.
Old and new cast members for Southwark return of Cable Street
A number of original cast members will re-join new British musical Cable Street when it marches back to London’s Southwark Playhouse this autumn with 42 performances at Southwark Playhouse Elephant.
London encore for world premiere production of Cable Street
Hit new British musical Cable Street will march back to London’s Southwark Playhouse this autumn with 42 performances at Southwark Playhouse Elephant.
Cable Street – Southwark Playhouse Borough
Cable Street continues at Southwark Playhouse Borough, London until 16 March 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Cable Street is arriving right on time and as it develops in future iterations, it will surely go on to secure an important place in the British musical theatre canon. This is an essential piece of new musical theatre writing.
Full cast for premiere of Cable Street
The full cast has been confirmed for the world premiere of new British musical Cable Street at The Large, Southwark Playhouse Borough early next year.
London season and 2024 tour dates for Unfortunate
The critically acclaimed Little Mermaid parody musical Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula The Sea Witch will swim into London’s Southwark Playhouse Elephant this December to play a winter season before embarking on a second UK tour.
Help! We Are Still Alive – Seven Dials Playhouse
Help! We Are Still Alive continues at the Seven Dials Playhouse, London until 15 October 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Aren’t we all a little sick of the arduously serious predictions of the earth’s future? This shattered dystopian hellscape is mirrored back at us through art’s mutinous lens. Zombies rampage, comets collide […]
Cast for premiere of Help! We’re Still Alive at Seven Dials Playhouse
Elijah Ferreira and Jade Johnson will star in the premiere of post-apocalyptic musical comedy Help! We’re Still Alive at London’s Seven Dials Playhouse next month. Ferreria (Safe, Hackney Empire, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Leeds Playhouse/Home Manchester) and Johnson (The Color Purple, Cadogan Hall, Club Mex: Immersive Club Musical, Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester) will play […]
Cast and tour dates for Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula The Sea Witch
Producers Fat Rascal Theatre and Wildpark Entertainment have announced the cast and dates for the upcoming tour of critically acclaimed Little Mermaid parody musical Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula The Sea Witch. Led by Elliotte Williams-N’Dure (Jesus Christ Super Star, Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Hairspray, UK tour) as Ursula, the cast also includes […]
CD Review: Stay Awake, Jake – Cast Recording
Stay Awake, Jake – Cast Recording is available on Spotify Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Stay Awake, Jake is Tim Gilvin’s one-hander road musical that, with Norman Bowman in the lead role, won the 2014 S&S Award for Best Unproduced Musical. It has since gone on to be staged with much acclaim, first […]
S&S Theatre Productions set to bring radical new musical theatre to the Off-West End & Off-Broadway stage
The S&S Award is turning producer to become S&S Theatre Productions, dedicated to producing radical new musical theatre with partnerships between the UK and the USA. Joining forces with London-based, multiple Offie-nominated Mercurius Theatre and Kent Nicholson, doyen of new musical theatre writing in the States, the new company has already hit the ground running […]
Five Questions With: Ahmed Hamad
Actor AHMED HAMAD takes centre stage in the new production of Tim Gilvin’s Stay Awake, Jake which continues to be streamed via Southwark Playhouse until 28 February 2021. Ahmed (Rent, Hope Mill Theatre, The Boy In The Dress, Royal Shakespeare Company) followed up his recent recording of the show’s album (being released soon!) by taking […]
Southwark Playhouse announces encore screenings of new musicals Fiver, Before After and Stay Awake, Jake
The critically-acclaimed live-stream productions of new British musicals FIVER, Before After and Stay Awake, Jake have been made available for an extra two weeks in response to high public demand. First seen as part of a mini-season of musical livestreams from The Little Theatre space at Southwark Playhouse late last year, the encore streaming of […]
Royal & Derngate announces four new musicals for 2021
Northampton’s Royal & Derngate has unveiled plans to premiere four new musicals as part of its Made in Northampton 2021 season. Three original musicals will debut on stage with a fourth appearing online in the culmination of a three-year development project involving a national consortium of partners in support of 150 artists. Innovative theatre company […]
Ahmed Hamad will play the title role in live-streamed Stay Awake, Jake
Ahmed Hamad will take centre stage in a new production of Tim Gilvin’s Stay Awake, Jake which will be live-streamed from the Southwark Playhouse this month. Hamad (Rent, Hope Mill Theatre, The Boy In The Dress, Royal Shakespeare Company) will follow up his recent recording of the show’s album, by taking on the title role […]
Three new musicals to be livestreamed from Southwark Playhouse
In December The Little theatre space at Southwark Playhouse will stop becoming a bar and host a mini-season of three musical live streams: The Fabulist Fox Sister on 4 and 5 December 2020, Public Domain on 11 and 12 December and Stay Awake, Jake on 18 and 19 December. All tickets for the livestreams are […]
Musical theatre writers unite for second live-stream SIGNAL ONLINE performance
Musical theatre writers from Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA will perform new material in a live-streamed concert on 14 April 2020 at 7.30pm GMT (3.30pm EST). Some of the biggest names currently working in the genre will join virtual forces for the second free global, multi-location SIGNAL ONLINE event. Writers confirmed to perform […]
Ursula Sea Witch – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Underbelly Bristo Square
Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch continues at Underbelly, Bristo Square, Edinburgh until 26 August 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I don’t know my Disney and it didn’t matter. I didn’t know the company, Fat Rascal, and it didn’t matter. I did know there was an electricity in the […]
Southwark Playhouse run for Hope Mill’s Aspects of Love plus new musicals Stay Awake, Jake & Benjamin Button feature in 2019 season
Hope Mill Theatre’s hit version of Aspects of Love, and the world premiere of a musical based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, will be among the Southwark Playhouse’s final productions to play the Playhouse’s current London site. Due to take up residence in two purpose-built new theatre spaces in late […]
Exclusive – The S&S Award for new writing – exciting changes ahead
Following four years with Mercury Musical Developments, the prestigious S&S Award (celebrating new musical theatre) is branching out. After various proposals from independent producers, the prize is incorporating several changes from 2016 onwards. The S&S Award will: – be produced independently and entrants will not need to be members of any particular organisation. Watch out for a […]
Stay Awake, Jake – Vault Festival
Stay Awake, Jake continues at the Vault Festival, London until 7 February. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Composer/lyricist Tim Gilvin has developed and honed his one-act, one-man musical into a captivating journey that, with the help of a top-class performer (and some uncomfortable seating) keeps you on the edge of your seat. Stay Awake, […]
Vault Festival – S&S Award winner Stay Awake, Jake features in line-up
An eclectic mix of music, comedy and drama has been lined up for this year’s Vault Festival at the distinctive subterranean arts venue in London’s Waterloo. The festival programme which runs from 27 January until 6 March includes the 2014 S&S Award-winning, one-man musical Stay Awake, Jake by Tim Gilvin. Featuring Jamie Muscato (Dogfight, Bend it […]
The Writers’ Playground 2 – Union Theatre
The Writers’ Playground 2 was performed at the Union Theatre, London. Star rating: 3 stars **** Returning to the Union Theatre on Sunday after a successful debut in September, Fairground Theatre Company’s night of new musical theatre writing, The Writers’ Playground has reached the ‘difficult second gig’ stage that any ongoing series must face. Created to be […]
The S&S Award Gala – St James Theatre
The S&S Award Gala was held at the St James Theatre, London. There will be 26 musical shows running in London this Christmas, that’s more than half the occupancy of the total number of theatres in the West End. Of those 26, 17 are largely original work, the remainder drawing on the back catalogue of songwriters from Irving Berlin […]
