Further casting has been confirmed for the highly anticipated Broadway debut of the hit Jamie Lloyd-directed production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita.
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Standing ovation: What it’s like to watch Jesus Christ Superstar from the stage
So, what is it really like to stand on stage for the acclaimed production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium? Musical Theatre Review Instagram editor Joseph Flaherty says it’s an experience not to be missed…
Jesus Christ Superstar – London Palladium
Jesus Christ Superstar continues at the London Palladium until 5 September 2026, before transferring to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane from 16 October 2026 to 9 January 2027. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
New Jesus Christ Superstar will tour the UK in 2027
The Sam Ryder-led new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar will follow its two London seasons by embarking on a major UK tour early next year.
Jamie Lloyd’s Evita is Broadway bound
The hit Jamie Lloyd-directed production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita is heading for Broadway next spring with its multi-award-winning leading lady Rachel Zegler reprising her performance as Eva Perón.
Music Review: Chess – 2025 Broadway Cast Recording
Chess – 2025 Broadway Cast Recording (Ghostlight Records). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This latest version more than delivers on polish and modernisation.
Further casting for Palladium’s Jesus Christ Superstar
Tyrone Huntley will reprise his Olivier Award nominated performance as Judas Iscariot alongside Olivier Award winner David Thaxton who will return to the role of Pontius Pilate in this summer’s London Palladium run of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Sam Ryder to headline major production of Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium
The creative team of the 2016 production of Jesus Christ Superstar will reunite 10 years on to create a unique staging of their Olivier Award-winning, worldwide smash-hit production, starring Sam Ryder as Jesus.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Curve Leicester and Touring
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was reviewed at Curve Leicester. The tour continues until 10 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Joseph continues to entertain with a winning combination of a likeable score and (techni)colourful spectacle.
Evita – London Palladium
Evita continue at the London Palladium until 6 September 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Not all American movie stars can cut it on the West End stage but here’s one who most definitely can. Brava!
Five Questions With: Aaron Lee Lambert
Aaron Lee Lambert is playing Agustín Magaldi in Jamie Lloyd Company’s forthcoming production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita at the London Palladium.
Rachel Zegler to play Eva Perón in Jamie Lloyd’s production of Evita
American actress and singer Rachel Zegler will make her West End debut as Eva Perón in the Jamie Lloyd-directed new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita at the London Palladium this summer.
Watermill Theatre to stage semi-immersive actor-musician revival of Jesus Christ Superstar
A summer revival of Jesus Christ Superstar will be one of a trio of productions to feature in the 2025 season at Newbury’s Watermill Theatre.
Release date for Tim Rice’s BBC Maestro musical theatre course
Multi-award-winning lyricist and author Tim Rice’s eagerly-awaited online musical theatre course will available from 27 September on the BBC Maestro platform.
Moana’s Auli’i Cravalho to make West End debut in Evita in Concert
Disney star Auli’i Cravalho will make her West End stage debut as Eva Peron in a star-studded concert presentation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane this summer.
October 2023 launch for the first UK and Ireland tour of Disney’s Aladdin
Disney’s Aladdin will take flight on its first UK and Ireland tour this autumn, launching at the Edinburgh Playhouse from 24 October until 18 November 2023.
From Here To Eternity – Charing Cross Theatre
From Here To Eternity continues at the Charing Cross Theatre, London until 17 December 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Full credit to director Brett Smock and his team for a job well done. I’m already looking forward to seeing it again.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Milton Keynes Theatre
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at Milton Keynes Theatre until 24 September 2022 and then tours until 29 October 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s hard to believe that a simple 15-minute musical composition for a school concert would become a global hit, and still be playing to devoted audiences […]
First London revival of From Here to Eternity – full cast
Casting has been unveiled for the first London revival of Tim Rice and Stuart Brayson’s From Here To Eternity at Charing Cross Theatre. Due to open nearly a decade after the musical’s West End debut, the newly revised production which will be directed by the artistic director of The Rev Theatre Company, Brett Smock, will […]
Unheard songs from musical theatre giants to feature in Regenerate fundraiser
The world premiere of a song from multi-award-winning lyricist Don Black and Platinum Jubilee composer and musical director Debbie Wiseman’s new musical Feather Boy will be among a number of unsung songs to feature in a star-studded live-streamed online fundraiser in September. Presented by Mercury Musical Developments (MMD) with Musical Theatre Network (MTN), REGENERATE: Lost […]
From Here To Eternity returns to London in a brand new production
Tim Rice and Stuart Brayson’s epic musical From Here To Eternity is to get its first London revival in a newly revised production at London’s Charing Cross Theatre from 29 October to 17 December 2022 (press night is 8 November). Adapted from the classic novel by James Jones, the musical unites the writing talents of […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Opera House, Manchester and Touring
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Opera House, Manchester and touring the UK until 29 October 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It would be easy to put the ecstatic way audiences and critics are receiving this revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s most crowd-pleasing show down to our […]
Beauty and the Beast – Edinburgh Playhouse and Touring
Beauty and the Beast continues at the Edinburgh Playhouse until 27 November 2021 before touring until November 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ There is a babble and hum of excitement before the lights even dim as the packed audience delights in simply being in a theatre once again. This unique […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – London Palladium
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at the London Palladium until 5 September 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Way, way back many decades ago, stripling composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice collaborated on a small pop cantata for a prep school in Barnes. Between 1968 and 1984 the musical […]
Linzi Hateley to return as The Narrator in Joseph at the London Palladium
Linzi Hateley will revisit her Olivier Award-nominated performance as The Narrator for special performances of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium this summer. Hateley will reunite with her original Joseph, Jason Donovan, who is due to return to the role of Pharaoh in the encore season of Michael Harrison and the […]
Alexandra Burke will star as The Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium
Alexandra Burke will return to the West End this summer in the new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical gets ready for a strictly limited season at the London Palladium, running from 1 July (gala night is 15 July) to 5 September 2021. Jac Yarrow […]
Beauty And The Beast’s Leicester Curve premiere run cancelled and Dublin dates delayed
The Leicester Curve debut of the re-imagined and re-designed production of the Olivier Award-winning stage musical version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast has been shelved due to the ongoing Coronavirus restrictions. Originally planned to open in Leicester in late May before heading for Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in July, the UK and Ireland […]
New look Beauty and the Beast to debut in UK in 2021
A re-imagined and re-designed production of the Olivier Award-winning stage musical version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast will open a UK and Ireland tour at Curve Leicester in May next year. Reuniting the original award-winning creative team led by director Rob Roth, the production will make use of advanced theatrical techniques which were not […]
Jesus Christ Superstar The Concert – Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park
Jesus Christ Superstar The Concert continues at the Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park, London until 27 September 2020. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar is musical theatre’s most unlikely unifier. Though it did encounter some controversy on its 1971 premiere, it has now been embraced by the public and all but the […]
Double-casting for leads in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Jesus Christ Superstar
The lead roles in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s special concert version of the venue’s multi-award-winning production of Jesus Christ Superstar have been double cast to allow for changes necessary to adhere to Government safety guidelines for outdoor live performances. The production’s original Jesus, singer-songwriter Declan Bennett, will share the title role with the star […]
Concert staging of Jesus Christ Superstar is centrepiece of Regent’s Park Open Air live comeback shows
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre will be among the first major theatres to welcome back audiences by staging 70 live performances in August and September 2020 including a special concert version of the venue’s multi-award-winning production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Running for six weeks from 14 August until 27 September, Jesus Christ Superstar: The Concert […]
Joseph and the Amazing All Star Concert – YouTube
Joseph and the Amazing All Star Concert premiered on 10 July 2020. More than 32 performers from across the world, who collectively span the show’s lifetime, appeared in a star-studded online charity concert to celebrate 50 years of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The re-imagined, digital version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s […]
Associated Studios to offer new musical theatre course
Leading London drama school Associated Studios will launch a new Masters Degree course in musical theatre this autumn. Validated by the University of Wolverhampton, the vocational MA offers one year of intensive, full-time practical training in singing, dance and acting and the creative skills required to become a successful musical theatre performer. Announcing the new […]
Darius Campbell, Siubhan Harrison, Rebecca Thornhill and Robert Lonsdale line up for From Here To Eternity one-night-only reunion
Writers Tim Rice and Stuart Brayson and cast members from the West End production of From Here To Eternity will appear in a special One Night Only reunion, presented by SimG Productions and Musical Theatre Radio on 22 June 2020. This unique, virtual, interactive event will reunite cast and creatives from the original London production […]
Hit production of Joseph is rescheduled to summer 2021
Due to the current global situation and the uncertainty around the resumption of West End shows, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will defer its dates exactly 12 months, and Jason Donovan and Jac Yarrow are both confirmed to star again in the acclaimed show next year. Performances at the London Palladium will now begin […]
Curve launches its own Rainbows Of Hope campaign
Leicester’s Curve theatre has taken inspiration from the current Rainbows Of Hope campaign to offer youngsters the chance to make a contribution to the set for its eagerly-anticipated regional premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s version of The Wizard of Oz. Following on from the ongoing #RainbowsOfHope initiative which invites children across the country to create […]
Barbican transfer of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Evita cancelled
With London’s Barbican Theatre currently closed until the end of June due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, the summer transfer run of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s hit production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita has been cancelled. All ticket holders will be contacted with reference to refunds, but the venue has asked […]
Evita – New York City Center
Evita continues at New York City Center until 24 November 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Barbican transfer for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Evita
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s hit production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita will follow its sell-out success earlier this year with a limited run at London’s Barbican Theatre next summer. Following in the footsteps of this summer’s Barbican Theatre transfer season of the multi-award-winning Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita will play the prestigious […]
A tribute to Harold Prince – King of Broadway
The American theatre director and producer Harold Prince, celebrated for some of the most successful musical productions on Broadway and in the West End, recently died at the age of 91. For over 60 years he produced or directed many of the most original musicals in theatre history. Michael Darvell looks back at the life […]
Second summer season for London Palladium’s Joseph
Michael Harrison and the Really Useful Group have confirmed a summer 2020 return for their crowd and critic-pleasing new London Palladium production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Just weeks after the final performance in the sold-out debut season of the revised version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s first major musical, the […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – London Palladium
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at the London Palladium until 8 September 2019. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ It’s large scale, spectacular, energetic and impressive. In other ways, however, this eagerly anticipated revival of the first real success the youthful Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (both in the audience […]
Jason Donovan’s back for London Palladium’s new Joseph
Jason Donovan will take on the role of the Pharaoh when he returns to the London Palladium for the eagerly-anticipated new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat this summer. The star who famously gave a career-changing performance as Joseph at the Palladium in the 1990s, will take to the stage opposite the new, […]
The Lion King to embark on second UK and Ireland tour as West End production celebrates 20th anniversary
Disney’s multi-award-winning musical The Lion King will head out on its second UK and Ireland tour later this year just weeks before the hit show celebrates its 20th anniversary at London’s Lyceum Theatre. Presented by the Walt Disney Company UK and Ireland, the new touring production will open in Bristol in September before moving on […]
New Joseph for London Palladium summer season
Leading theatre producer Michael Harrison has been enlisted by Andrew Lloyd Webber to oversee a major new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat which will open at the London Palladium next summer. The managing director of Qdos Entertainment, the company behind the popular Palladium Pantomime, Harrison’s numerous hit productions include The Bodyguard at […]
New production of Evita to close Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre 2019 season
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre will return to the works of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber for the prestigious venue’s 2019 season with a major new production of Evita. Directed by Jamie Lloyd, Evita’s summer run will overlap with the eagerly-anticipated Barbican Theatre transfer season of Regent’s Park’s multi-award-winning production of Rice and Lloyd […]
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice and John Legend join the EGOT elite
US broadcaster NBC’s live production of Jesus Christ Superstar has helped Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice and leading man John Legend join a select group of multi-award winners. The threesome added an Emmy to their Tony, Grammy and Oscar haul when the critically-acclaimed broadcast was named as the best live variety special at Sunday’s glittering Emmy […]
Chess – London Coliseum
Chess continues at the London Coliseum until 2 June 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Can we drop the use of “semi-staged” when talking about Grade-Linnit’s annual summer musical revivals at the London Coliseum now? That the production team continues to use the term in association with their shows seems more […]
Olivier Awards 2018 ceremony – Hamilton opener, Chita Rivera singing West Side Story, Joseph 50th ann tribute
Special performances to mark the 60th anniversary of the London opening of West Side Story and the 50th anniversary of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will feature in the star-studded ceremony for the 2018 Olivier Awards on 8 April 2018. Musical theatre legend Chita Rivera will celebrate her London debut as Anita in the classic […]
Writers join Chess stars for first rehearsals
Rehearsals have begun for the eagerly-anticipated new production of Chess which is due to begin a strictly limited five-week season at the London Coliseum on 26 April. Two of the show’s creators, Benny Andersson and Tim Rice, joined director Laurence Connor and members of the cast in the rehearsal room as they prepared for the […]
