Six stars will share the role of King Herod in this summer’s London Palladium run of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Jesus Christ Superstar – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Jesus Christ Superstar was reviewed at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London where it runs until 18 May 2024, and then tours until 17 August 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★
Jesus Christ Superstar – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
Jesus Christ Superstar was reviewed at Milton Keynes Theatre (running until 4 November 2023). The tour continues until 17 August 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Jesus Christ Superstar – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
Jesus Christ Superstar continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 23 September 2023. The production then tours until 17 August 2024 (with more dates to be announced). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Award-winning Jesus Christ Superstar production to tour UK
The multi-award-winning re-imagined Regent’s Park Open Air production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar will embark on a 2023/2024 UK tour later this year.
Three major productions announced for Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s 2023 season
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s 2023 summer season will feature major productions of La Cage Aux Folles and Once On This Island alongside newly commissioned Robin Hood: The Legend Re-written.
101 Dalmatians – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
101 Dalmatians continues at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre until 28 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is (in most weather conditions) one of the most delightful places to enjoy an evening of theatre in London. What could be better than a family day out […]
Kate Fleetwood’s Cruella de Vil leads cast of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s 101 Dalmatians
Olivier and Tony Award-nominee Kate Fleetwood will head the cast as the diabolical Cruella de Vil when Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s musical version of Dodie Smith’s much-loved 101 Dalmatians make its long-awaited debut this summer. An Olivier Award nominee for London Road at the National Theatre and a Tony Award-nominee for the 2007 Chichester […]
Lucy Moss will direct Legally Blonde revival as part of Regent’s Park Open Air 90th birthday celebrations
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s 90th anniversary season will include a new production of Legally Blonde directed by Lucy Moss, the co-writer and co-director of hit show Six. The season will also feature the long-awaited debut musical version of Dodie Smith’s much-loved 101 Dalmatians, the first newly commissioned musical from the prestigious London venue. Announcing the […]
Carousel – Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park
Carousel continues at the Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park until 25 September 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Rodgers and Hammerstein never sidestepped a gritty issue and their 1945 piece about domestic abuse is no exception – and could hardly, given how cases have risen during lockdowns, be more topical. Yes, […]
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Carousel – full cast and creatives
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has confirmed full casting for the venue’s upcoming revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic Carousel. As previously announced Carly Bawden (Romantics Anonymous, Shakespeare’s Globe/Bristol Old Vic, Ghost Quartet, Boulevard Theatre) and Declan Bennett (Jesus Christ Superstar, Regent’s Park Open Air, Once, Phoenix Theatre) will star as tragic lovers Julie Jordan […]
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre partners with The Theatre Channel for Rodgers and Hammerstein special
Theatre-lovers will be offered a glimpse behind the scenes of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s upcoming revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic Carousel as part of a special episode of the pay-to-stream musical theatre flavoured web series, The Theatre Channel. Created by The Theatre Channel in partnership with Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Episode 7: […]
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre shelves 2021 plans for 101 Dalmatians musical
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has confirmed its decision to ‘regretfully’ postpone its much-anticipated musical version of Dodie Smith’s much-loved 101 Dalmatians for a second time as the country continues to battle Covid. The current lockdown coupled with fears about when it will be deemed safe to ease social distancing measures have been cited as […]
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 […]
Live big screen relay for Regent’s Park’s Jesus Christ Superstar concert
Performances of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s special concert version of the venue’s multi-award-winning production of Jesus Christ Superstar will be relayed ‘live’ to thousands of additional ticket holders from 19 August 2020. Tickets costing £20 are now on sale for Superstar On-Screen, an initiative that will allow up to 5,000 extra audience members to […]
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 […]
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre season is postponed to 2021 season postponed to 2021
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre have announced that their entire 2020 season has now been postponed to 2021. The 2021 season will open on 15 May with the new musical, 101 Dalmatians (15 May to 20 June) followed by Romeo and Juliet (26 June to 24 July) and concluding with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel (30 […]
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre postpones musical 101 Dalmatians until 2021
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s musical version of Dodie Smith’s much-loved 101 Dalmatians, by Zinnie Harris and Douglas Hodge, will be postponed until 2021 in response to the Government’s advice on restricting non-essential contact. Planned as the launch production of the 2020 season, the first newly commissioned musical from the prestigious venue will now open […]
Kate Fleetwood is Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Cruella in 101 Dalmatians
Olivier and Tony Award nominee Kate Fleetwood will play the villainous Cruella de Vil in the new musical version of Dodie Smith’s much-loved 101 Dalmatians which will be the launch production for the 2020 season at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre this summer. An Olivier-nominee for her performance in the Rufus Norris-directed musical London Road […]
New musical 101 Dalmatians for Regent’s Park Open Air’s 2020 season
A musical version of Dodie Smith’s much-loved 101 Dalmatians will be the launch production for a packed 2020 season at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre next year. The first newly commissioned musical from the prestigious venue will be directed by artistic director Timothy Sheader and will feature puppetry designed and directed by Toby Olié. With […]
Jesus Christ Superstar – Barbican Theatre
Jesus Christ Superstar continues at the Barbican Theatre, London until 24 August 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It may be reaching for the easy cliché, but “resurrection” is the word that comes to mind for the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Arguably the best of Tim […]
Barbican transfer run for Regent’s Park Open Air’s hit Jesus Christ Superstar
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre multi-award-winning production of Jesus Christ Superstar will transfer to the Barbican Theatre for just 60 performances next summer. Following on from two sell-out runs at the Open Air Theatre and a successful season at the Lyric Opera of Chicago this year, the hit production will play the Barbican from 4 […]
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Jesus Christ Superstar to tour North America
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has confirmed plans to take its multi award-winning production of Jesus Christ Superstar to North America in the autumn of 2019. First details of the North American tour, taking place nearly ten years after the last major US tour, were revealed by Stephen Gabriel, the president of Work Light Productions […]
Interview – Tyrone Huntley returns to his award-winning role as Judas in Jesus Chris Superstar
Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award-winning actor TYRONE HUNTLEY is reprising his role as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar in Timothy Sheader’s production at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre this summer. Fresh from appearing in the original London cast of Dreamgirls, where he played C.C White, he has rejoined the cast of the Andrew Lloyd Webber […]
Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent’s Park – Declan Bennett and Tyrone Huntley return to cast
Declan Bennett is one of four cast members from the multi award-winning 2016 Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar to return for the show’s much-anticipated 2017 limited season. Singer-songwriter Bennett will take to the Regent’s Park stage once again in the title role alongside Tyrone Huntley who will reprise his award-winning […]
On the Town opens Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre 2017 season – Drew McOnie directs
The musical On the Town opens Timothy Sheader’s tenth season as artistic director at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. Playing from 19 May 2017 to 1 July, the production will be directed and choreographed by Drew McOnie. With music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, On the Town will be the biggest dance musical ever staged at the Open Air Theatre. McOnie scored […]
Jesus Christ Superstar returns to Regent’s Park Open Air in August 2017
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has today announced that, following its sell-out success in 2016, Jesus Christ Superstar returns for just 41 performances in 2017 (11 August to 16 September), giving audiences one final chance to see the production in its original home. With direction by Timothy Sheader, design by Tom Scutt, choreography by Drew McOnie, […]
Jesus Christ Superstar – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Jesus Christ Superstar continues at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, London until 27 August. Rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The stage is full of smoke, a belching walkway and banks of blinding lights. Upon it we see pulsing, vibrant, relentlessly energetic ensemble work – one of the many fine things which puts this stupendous show […]
Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre – exclusive images
This summer’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s groundbreaking musical Jesus Christ Superstar opened this week. Here, Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan presents a gallery of exclusive images. The show Jesus, portrayed by singer-songwriter Declan Bennett, is joined by Tyrone Huntley as Judas, Anoushka Lucas as Mary Magdelene, David Thaxton […]
Declan Bennett cast as Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Singer/songwriter Declan Bennett has been cast in the title role in the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar. The star, who was the original lead in the London cast of Once, will head the cast in the latest production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ground-breaking musical which will run […]
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess continues at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre until 23 August. Since 1935, when George Gershwin (composer), his brother Ira (lyrics) and DuBose Heyward (lyrics/libretto) presented their musical masterpiece Porgy and Bess to Broadway, there has been a heated debate about whether the show should be described as an opera or […]
Sondheim Society invites you to Brush Up Your Sondheim – with Sondheim
Following its success in 2012, the biennial Stephen Sondheim Society event Brush Up Your Sondheim returns with even more activities for participants to enjoy this year, including a Q&A session with the great man himself via a live video link from New York in real time. During this coming weekend (26-27 July) at the Royal Academy […]
Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess – Regent’s Park Open Air production in rehearsal
Rehearsals are in full flow for the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess which will run at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre from 17 July to 23 August, with opening night on 28 July. Celebrated as a landmark piece of American theatre with iconic songs including ‘Summertime’, ‘I Got Plenty of Nothing’, ‘I Loves You Porgy’ and ‘It Ain’t Necessarily So’, Porgy and Bess will be directed by Regent’s Park Open […]
Nicola Hughes leads Porgy and Bess cast at Regent’s Park
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has confirmed lead casting for the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Rufus Bonds Jr and Nicola Hughes play the title roles with Phillip Boykin re-creating his Tony Award nominated performance as Crown, and Sharon D Clarke as Mariah. Rufus Bonds Jr is an American actor who has appeared in The Color […]
