Double Olivier Award-winning actress and singer Janie Dee’s series of star-studded Beautiful World Cabaret shows at London’s Crazy Coqs, celebrating the Earth, begins today (13 May).
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Eurovision (Your Decision) – Wonderville
Eurovision (Your Decision) continues at Wonderville, London on 13 May 2023, with performances in Brighton (Ironworks Studios) on 10 and 11 May. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Brighton, London and Liverpool dates for Eurovision (Your Decision)
Writer and director Tim McArthur’s musical comedy Eurovision (Your Decision) is heading back for its third year.
London return for Tim McArthur’s Sondheim’s Divas
Actor, presenter and cabaret performer Tim McArthur will take his celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s leading ladies to London’s Hippodrome for one night only later this month. The Sondheim aficionado, known for hosting the popular Sondheim Society’s monthly Cabaret Nights for three years, will step into the spotlight once again with his Sondheim’s Divas show on […]
UK tour dates for Tim McArthur Sings Sondheim’s Divas
Actor, presenter and cabaret performer Tim McArthur will take his celebration of Stephen Sondheim’s leading ladies on the road for later this month. The Sondheim aficionado, known for hosting the popular Sondheim Society’s monthly Cabaret Nights, will step into the spotlight once again with his Sondheim’s Divas show from 22 October until 28 November 2021. […]
Second season for Cabaret Lounge at London’s Above The Stag
West End stars, cabaret favourites and a celebration of Eurovision feature among the attractions in the second season of socially distanced entertainment in the new Cabaret Lounge at London’s Above The Stag Theatre. Featuring an eclectic mix of cabaret, musical theatre, poetry, comedy and drag assembled by programmer radio presenter and cabaret star Tim McArthur, […]
A Perfect Christmas – The Cockpit
A Perfect Christmas continues at The Cockpit, London until 13 December 2020 and then on 23 and 24 December. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s beginning to look a lot less like Christmas. For all the promises of a return to normality, this year’s holiday shopping will be mostly online, rosy-cheeked […]
Five Questions With: Tim McArthur
Actor, presenter and theatre director TIM MCARTHUR is having a busy festive season. He is starring in A Perfect Christmas at London’s Cockpit Theatre, a festive musical revue he has also directed and devised (7-24 December 2020), and has once again staged the Royal Vauxhall Tavern panto (Pricked runs until 7 January 2021). He is […]
Panto Dame calendar created by Tim McArthur
With the majority of Christmas pantomimes cancelled even before the latest lockdown news, actor and presenter Tim McArthur has come up with a way to celebrate one of the festive season’s best-loved characters, the Panto Dame. Facing up to the news that for the first time in ten years he would not be donning the […]
Dates confirmed for the Cockpit Theatre’s festive shows
London’s Cockpit Theatre has confirmed the dates for the launch of its Christmas season following the Government’s announcement that London will be placed under Tier 2 restrictions after the current full lockdown ends on 2 December. Presented by the Cockpit and Hairy Bear Productions, children’s show Christmas Is Ruined! will launch with three afternoon performances […]
New cabaret season launched at Above The Stag
Multi-award-winning West End star Janie Dee (Carousel, National Theatre, Hello Dolly!, Curve) will feature in conversation with actor, writer, director and radio presenter Tim McArthur this weekend as part of a new season of socially distanced cabaret at London’s Above The Stag Theatre. Featuring a mix of cabaret, musical theatre, LGBT+ poetry, comedy and drag […]
The Stephen Sondheim Society presents… – Phoenix Artist Club
The Stephen Sondheim Society presents… at Phoenix Artist Club, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★★ ✩ The Sondheim Society’s first show after the summer break got this monthly series of Monday cabarets off to a flying start with the delightful Gemma Sutton topping the bill, superbly supported by two exciting new talents, Rebecca […]
Into the Woods – Cockpit Theatre
Into the Woods continues at the Cockpit Theatre, London until 24 June 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods opened on Broadway in 1987 and won three Tony Awards. Seen some years later in London in an award-winning production at the Phoenix Theatre with a […]
Cast revealed for Into the Woods at the Cockpit Theatre
Casting has been announced for All Star Productions and Trilby Productions’ fresh new version of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods which is due to play at London’s The Cockpit from 23 May to Sunday 24 June 2018 (press night is 25 May). Following on from a sold-out run in 2014 at All Star’s […]
All Star Productions’ Into the Woods to return to London
Award-winning All Star Productions has teamed up with Trilby Productions and London’s The Cockpit to stage a fresh new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods next month. Following on from a sold-out run in 2014 at All Star’s home base, Walthamstow’s Ye Olde Rose and Crown, the new production of Sondheim […]
Tim McArthur’s show Mountains heads to New York
Actor and cabaret performer Tim McArthur is taking his latest show Mountains to the prestigious Broadway supper club Feinstein’s/54 Below. Returning to New York for the first time in 17 years, McArthur will be introducing US audiences to the show which debuted at London’s St James Studio in 2016. The show at Feinstein’s/54 Below on […]
Winners revealed for The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2017
With over 17,000 votes cast, the winners have been announced for The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2017 in association with TodayTix. Dreamgirls, currently in its second year at the Savoy Theatre, wins Best UK Cast Recording, whilst Dear Evan Hansen, currently playing at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway, and rumoured to […]
Nominees announced for The Curtain Up Album Of The Year 2017
Some of the biggest shows to play the West End and Broadway this year will battle it out for The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2017. Presented in association with TodayTix, the full list of nominees was revealed live today (1 December) on Resonance FM during The Curtain Up Show. This year three […]
Fourth annual West End Wilma Awards revealed
Half a Sixpence was a double award winner at the West End Wilma Awards (presented in association with Free@Last TV ) ceremony in London on Friday (3 November). Leading man Charlie Stemp collected the Rising Star award while his leading lady Emma Williams was named the Best Performer in a West End Show at the […]
Metropolis – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
Metropolis continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, London until 29 October. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The musical version of Fritz Lang’s groundbreaking 1927 sci-fi classic Metropolis famously tanked at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1989. The 1980s was an era of overblown, epic rock musicals, often with a sci-fi […]
Full cast for All Star Productions’ Metropolis
Casting has been announced for the first London revival of the musical version of the Fritz Lang movie Metropolis at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre this month. Rob Herron, Miiya Alexandra, Gareth James, Kitty Whitelaw, Michael Levi, Alex Ely and Marc Mackinnon will head the cast. Making up the supporting ensemble will be Annabel […]
Sister Mary’s Playtime – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Frankenstein Pub
Sister Mary’s Playtime continues at Frankenstein Pub until 28 August. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Sister Mary McArthur, the alter ego of cabaret singer/actor/director Tim McArthur, blesses audiences at Frankenstein’s with a mix of cabaret, game show and chat show. A family-friendly affair, Playtime encourages audience participation, musical theatre singalongs and […]
Welsh premiere of My Land’s Shore – concert to raise funds
Casting has been announced for a special fundraising concert to support the eagerly-anticipated homecoming of historical Welsh musical My Land’s Shore. Featuring songs by British composers and hosted by Tim McArthur, the concert on Sunday 3 September will play London’s Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, the venue where the show received its world premiere […]
Metropolis – All Star Productions to stage first London revival
The first London revival of the musical version of the Fritz Lang movie Metropolis will be the closing production in All Star Productions’ 2017 season. With music by Joe Brooks and a book and lyrics by Brooks and Dusty Hughes, Metropolis will play London’s Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre from 10-29 October. Continuing All […]
Cream – Canal Cafe Theatre
Cream continues at the Canal Cafe Theatre, London every Sunday at 7pm until 23 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ So what makes a good musical? Whatever it is, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Matador and Lord of the Rings didn’t have it. This ingeniously engaging revue picks songs, some of them […]
Curtain Up Show hosts Olivier Awards preview special
Resonance FM’s The Curtain Up Show will return to the heart of the West End on Friday 7 April from 3.30pm until 5pm for a live Olivier Awards preview special. Presented in association with innovative app service TodayTix, the show – which will be broadcast just 48 hours before the prestigious ceremony – will feature […]
Curtain Up album awards – winners revealed
The original London cast of Kinky Boots, the Broadway stars of Waitress and Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda were crowned the winners of The Curtain Up radio show’s second musical theatre album awards. The original cast recording of the multi award-winning Kinky Boots was chosen as the Album of the Year – Best UK Cast Best Original […]
The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2016 – nominees announced
Nominees have been announced for The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2016 in association with TodayTix. This year, three categories (each with six nominees) are open to the public vote. Voting closes at 5pm on Wednesday 4 January 2017, and winners will be announced live on Resonance FM at 4pm on Friday 6 January 2017. To […]
Curtain Up Show – nominees for album awards to be announced
The nominees for The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2016 in association with TodayTix will be revealed live on Resonance FM this Friday (2 December) at 4pm. The second set of musical theatre album awards will allow the public to vote in three categories (each with six nominees). Voting will open half an […]
Wonderful Town – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
Wonderful Town continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown, London until 30 October. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Director Tim McArthur and MD Aaron Clingham reunite for an exuberant, action-packed revival (indeed, a miraculous resuscitation) in Walthamstow of Leonard Bernstein and Comden and Green’s 1953 musical Wonderful Town. Not quite a lost […]
Tim McArthur presents new show at St James Studio
Cabaret performer Tim McArthur celebrates his 25-year stage career with a brand new show on 1 October at London’s St James Studio. Accompanied by a four-piece band, McArthur’s first solo cabaret performance in two years, Mountains, is a celebration of songs from the musical theatre world. Apart from the show’s title song ‘Mountains’ (Mrs Henderson Presents), McArthur […]
Wonderful Town – cast and creatives revealed for All Star production
Full casting and creatives have been announced for All Star Productions’ new chamber production of Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town. Based on the play My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, which was in turn inspired by the short stories by Ruth McKenney, Wonderful Town features a score by Bernstein with lyrics by Betty […]
Bernstein’s Wonderful Town is final show in All Star Productions’ 2016 season
A new chamber production of Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town will be the final presentation in All Star Productions’ 2016 season. Following on from the company’s recent critically acclaimed Babes in Arms, Wonderful Town will play London’s Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre from 12-30 October. Based on the play My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields […]
St James Studio autumn season – 16 new shows
London’s St James Studio has announced a diverse mix of 16 new shows for a packed autumn season that also includes the previously announced EFG London Jazz Festival. Tickets are on sale this week for the line-up that begins with audience favourite Eve Ferret accompanied by musical partner and guitarist Roddy Matthews in Eve Ferret: […]
The Stephen Sondheim Society Presents… – Phoenix Artist Club
The Stephen Sondheim Society Presents… at the Phoenix Artist Club, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Emcee Tim McArthur and his first set of guests, Valerie Cutko, Corrine Priest and Martin Milnes, opened the first of a series of The Stephen Sondheim Society Presents…, a cabaret dedicated to a mix of […]
The Stephen Sondheim Society presents a monthly cabaret series
The Stephen Sondheim Society is to host a monthly cabaret series at The Phoenix Artist Club in London’s West End, starting next Monday 11 April. The series, The Stephen Sondheim Society Presents… will be hosted by actor, singer, director and presenter Tim McArthur and will feature a mix of Sondheim numbers, new musical theatre writing and classics […]
Curtain Up album awards – Bend It Like Beckham, Cynthia Erivo, Oliver Tompsett and Scott Alan are winners
The original London cast of Bend It Like Beckham and Cynthia Erivo, Oliver Tompsett and Scott Alan were crowned the winners of The Curtain Up radio show’s first musical theatre album awards today. Bend It Like Beckham was chosen as the Best Cast Recording while Cynthia Erivo and Oliver Tompsett Sing Scott Alan took home the […]
A Little Night Music at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre – we chat to Sarah Waddell and Jamie Birkett
Actresses SARAH WADDELL and JAMIE BIRKETT are currently appearing in All Star Productions’ staging of Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music at the Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre in Walthamstow, London until 31 October. The show reunites the creative team behind last year’s critically acclaimed staging of Into the Woods. Theatre credits for Sarah Waddell, who plays Desiree Armfeldt, include: Into the Woods (Ye Olde […]
A Little Night Music – Ye Olde Rose and Crown
A Little Night Music continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, London until 31 October. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Every so often, a production of a classic show comes along that makes you think – why have I never seen it like this before? I’m a Sondheim [A Little Night Music’s […]
The Curtain Up Show is back with guests including Kerry Ellis and Louise Dearman
The Curtain Up Show has returned to London’s arts radio station, Resonance 104.4fm, for a brand new series. Tim McArthur and Nathan Matthews will be joined live in the studio at 4pm on Friday 18 September by Cassie Compton and Sarah Ingram from the cast of See What I Wanna See at the Jermyn Street Theatre, and […]
A Little Night Music at the Ye Olde Rose and Crown – cast revealed
The cast has been revealed for All Star Productions’ A Little Night Music at the Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre in Walthamstow, London from 6 to 31 October (press night is 9 October). The show reunites the creative team behind last year’s critically acclaimed staging of Into the Woods. The line-up is as follows: Sarah Waddell (Desiree Armfeldt), Alexander McMorran (Fredrik Egerman), Jamie […]
Still time to vote in the Wilma Awards 2015
After the successful launch of the Wilma Awards in 2014, theatre blogger West End Wilma has announced that the awards will take place again this year on Friday 30 October at The Hippodrome Casino. West End Wilma is everyone’s favourite nana in Theatreland – running around the West End interviewing stars and reviewing as many shows […]
All Star Productions brings A Little Night Music to Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
The creative team behind last year’s critically acclaimed All Star Productions of Into the Woods are reuniting to bring Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s A Little Night Music to Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre in Walthamstow, London from 6 to 31 October (press night is 9 October). Based on Ingmar Bergman’s comedy of manners, Smiles of a Summer Night, […]
West End stars line up for The Curtain Up Show Olivier Awards special at The Theatre Cafe
Olivier Award winner Stephen Ashfield, currently starring in The Book of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre, and Miss Saigon stars Jon Jon Briones and Eva Noblezada, complete the line-up of guests on The Curtain Up Show’s Olivier Awards special, which broadcasts live on Resonance 104.4 FM from The Theatre Cafe on Shaftesbury Avenue this Friday (10 April) from […]
Bathhouse the Musical – Above the Stag Theatre
Bathhouse the Musical continues at the Above the Stag Theatre, London until 29 March. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ Written by Tim Evanicki and Esther Daack, Bathhouse the Musical returns to the Above The Stag Theatre for what will undoubtedly be another sell-out season. The UK’s only full-time LGBT theatre fell in love with the piece […]
West End Wilma Awards – Miss Saigon and Urinetown among the winners
The first ever Wilma Awards, in association with Freedom Bar Soho, took place at an exclusive invitation-only ceremony, hosted by actor/director Tim McArthur. Guests were treated to Afternoon Tea with Wilma (courtesy of www.thefullenglishfoodcompany.ltd.uk) while they watched the winners be revealed and listened to a special live performance of an original song from actor, singer and current Phantom of the […]
Into the Woods – Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre
Into the Woods continues at continues at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre, London until 31 October. All Star Productions – housed above Ye Olde Rose & Crown pub in Walthamstow, London – proves that fairytales are timeless by re-locating Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods to modern day Britain, complete with a cocaine-snorting […]
First-ever West End Wilma Awards to take place in November
The first ever Wilma Awards, in association with Freedom Bar Soho, will take place on Friday afternoon, 7 November at an exclusive invitation-only ceremony, hosted by actor/director Tim McArthur. Guests will be treated to Afternoon Tea with Wilma (courtesy of www.thefullenglishfoodcompany.ltd.uk) while they watch the winners be revealed and listen to some special live performances. […]
Bathhouse: the Musical! – Above the Stag Theatre
Bathhouse: The Musical! continues at the Above the Stag Theatre, London until 9 August. The newest offering from London’s premiere LGBT theatre space is a camp musical comedy that exposes the ins and outs of the gay sauna, as viewed through the dewy eyes of a first-time visitor. A world away from the intense Orton that ran […]
Orton – Above the Stag Theatre
Orton continues at the Above the Stag Theatre, London until 4 May. I wonder what Joe Orton would have made of a stage musical with him as the central figure. Judging from the character presented to us in Sean J Hume and Richard Silver’s new musical, I suspect he’d be amused or at least bemused by the […]
