The full cast has been confirmed for the eagerly awaited 10th anniversary tour of the critically acclaimed and crowd-pleasing British musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.
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London premiere for Victoria Wood and Tom MacRae’s Fourteen Again
Victoria Wood and Tom MacRae’s critically acclaimed Fourteen Again will receive its London premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory this winter.
Ashcon Rahmani and Rebecca Trehearn to lead 10th anniversary tour of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Ashcon Rahmani and Rebecca Trehearn will play Jamie and Margaret New in the eagerly awaited 10th anniversary tour of the critically acclaimed British musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.
Fourteen Again – Victoria Wood Theatre, Bowness-on-Windermere
Fourteen Again continues at the Victoria Wood Theatre, Bowness-on-Windermere until 6 June 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a divinely entertaining and heartwarming show which is a fabulous credit to this lovely little theatre.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie 10th anniversary tour announced
The critically acclaimed and crowd-pleasing British musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie will embark on a 10th anniversary tour early next year.
First casting news for world premiere of Fourteen Again
Ria Jones and Sally Ann Triplett will star in the eagerly awaited world premiere of the new musical Fourteen Again at the newly named Victoria Wood Theatre in the heart of the Lake District.
Victoria Wood to be honoured with renamed theatre and new musical
The genius of Victoria Wood will be recognised with the official renaming of The Old Laundry Theatre in the heart of the Lake District in January 2026.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Leicester Curve and Touring
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie continues at Leicester Curve until 20 July 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Dates announced for the 2023-24 tour of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Following a record-breaking three-year West End residency, sold-out UK and Ireland tour and Amazon studios award-winning film, the smash-hit, critically acclaimed and award-winning musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie embarks on a second UK tour from September 2023 into 2024. The show opens at The Lowry on 7 September 2023 before visiting Sunderland, Nottingham, Bromley, Cardiff, […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – The Lowry, Salford and Touring
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie ran at The Lowry, Salford from 1-12 September 2021 and tours until 30 April 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The clock on the wall has moved by quite a considerable amount since Everybody’s Talking About Jamie was due to tour around the UK tour for the first time. […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Film Premiere
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is being screened on Amazon Prime Video from 17 September 2021. Musical Theatre Review’s Fiona Orr reviewed the movie at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Moving successful stage musicals onto the screen has, at best, a chequered past record. Much-loved Jamie needed strong vision […]
Jamie movie to premiere at 74th Edinburgh International Film Festival
The Edinburgh International Film Festival will host a special preview screening of the eagerly-awaited film adaptation of feel-good British musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. The screening on 20 August 2021 which will be accessible to the public via the EIFF’s first Pay-What-You-Can model will be preceded by Edinburgh’s Talking About Jamie – a unique and […]
Jamie will be back on tour in September
The first major tour of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie will resume performances in September 2021 with Layton Williams, Shobna Gulati and Shane Richie reprising their performances as Jamie, Ray and Hugo/Loco Chanelle. Opening at The Lowry in Salford Quays on 1 September, the critically-acclaimed and crowd-pleasing British musical will then visit Birmingham, Leicester, Wolverhampton, Canterbury, […]
Jamie’s heading back to the West End
Feelgood British musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie will be the first full-book musical to reopen in the West End with audiences being welcomed back to the Apollo Theatre from 28 November 2020. Announcing the return of the critic and crowd-pleasing show as it celebrates its third year in the West End, producer Nica Burns said: […]
Jamie team to reunite for third one night only event
Cast and creatives from hit British musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie will reunite online for the third instalment in the popular One Night Only series next month. SimG Productions and Musical Theatre Radio’s third One Night Only event on YouTube on 4 September will follow on from June’s successful reunion of the team behind From […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Edinburgh Festival Theatre and Touring
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie was reviewed at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, then tours until 16 August 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This roller coaster of a show opened in Edinburgh to a packed house, absorbed in this extraordinary story from start to finish with many roars of approval along the way. We […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Apollo Theatre
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie continues at the Apollo Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ While drag has been a prevalent genre of entertainment within gay culture for several decades, it is only in the last few years that it has truly become mainstream. True, in Britain we have the traditional […]
Layton Williams and Shane Richie reprise their roles for Jamie tour
Layton Williams and Shane Richie will return to the roles they played in the West End production of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie when the critically-acclaimed and crowd-pleasing new British musical takes to the road for its first major tour in 2020. Still winning hearts in the central role of Jamie New at London’s Apollo Theatre, […]
Hayley Tamaddon joins cast of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Ex-Coronation Street and Emmerdale regular Hayley Tamaddon will become the latest soap star to take on a leading role in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie when she joins the critically-acclaimed production later this month. The actress, who starred as Millie in last year’s touring production of Thoroughly Modern Millie will step into the role of Miss […]
Shane Richie joins Everybody’s Talking About Jamie cast
EastEnder Shane Richie is swapping Walford for the West End to take on a leading role in the critically-acclaimed Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. The comedian turned actor who previously starred in the West End in Grease will join the cast of the hit show to play in the role of Hugo/Loco Chanelle from 28 January until […]
First Writers’ Guild musical theatre writing award shortlist revealed
Tom MacRae, Sam Kenyon and Gus Gowland have made the shortlist for the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain new award launched to recognise the creativity of musical theatre writers. MacRae’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Kenyon’s Miss Littlewood and Gowland’s Pieces of String are all in the running for the inaugural Musical Theatre Bookwriting Award. Coinciding […]
Layton Williams to play the title role in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie from January 2019
Layton Williams is to play the title role of Jamie New in the award-winning musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at London’s Apollo Theatre from 28 January 2019. Producer Nica Burns said: “We’re delighted to welcome Layton Williams as only our second Jamie as we say goodbye to the wonderful John McCrea, who created the role and […]
Rebecca McKinnis & Lee Ross take lead roles in West End’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
Understudy Rebecca McKinnis has stepped into the role of Margaret New in the hit West End transfer production of the critically acclaimed Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. McKinnis (Mamma Mia! We Will Rock You) has moved into the role she understudied following the departure of Josie Walker who played the pivotal role of Jamie’s loving mother […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie to make feature film debut
Award-winning musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is celebrating an extension to its successful West End run and the news that the show will be turned into a major movie musical. Inspired by a TV documentary, the show which has its roots in the true story of a remarkable 16-year-old boy will be transformed into a […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie to be broadcast live to cinemas on 5 July
More2Screen has been appointed by producer Nica Burns and Nimax Theatres to broadcast the award-winning hit musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie live by satellite from the Apollo Theatre in London’s West End to cinemas across the UK, Ireland and selected European territories on Thursday 5 July 2018, followed by a worldwide recorded roll-out in the […]
WhatsOnStage Awards 2018 – a photo-reflection on the big night
At a ceremony hosted at the Prince of Wales Theatre by Trevor Dion Nicholas and Vikki Stone, the 18th annual WhatsOnStage Awards – decided entirely by theatregoers themselves – were revealed. Photographer Vivienne Vincent was there. Leading the pack was 42nd Street, currently running at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, which took home four prizes for Best Musical […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – booking extended to October 2018
A new booking period has opened for the feel-good brand new musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, directed by Jonathan Butterell and written by Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae. Tickets can now be booked up to Saturday 6 October 2018. Everybody’s Talking About Jamie opened to critical acclaim at the Sheffield Crucible in 2017, and […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie– Apollo Theatre
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie continues at the Apollo Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Lest anybody doubt how far Britain has come in terms of acceptance of LGBT youth, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie includes a central character that simply could not have existed a few short years ago. Jamie New […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre – brand new production images
To coincide with the West End transfer of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, which has it official opening this week at the Apollo Theatre, here’s a gallery of production images from our official photographer Roy Tan. The show is directed by Jonathan Butterell and written by Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae. John McCrea has returned to play the title […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at the Apollo Theatre – full casting
Full casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, directed by Jonathan Butterell and written by Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae, which will play a limited season at the Apollo Theatre from Monday 6 November following a run at Sheffield Crucible. As previously announced, John McCrea will return […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie to transfer to West End
Sheffield Theatres’ hit production of Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is heading for the West End this November. Following on from the show’s successful premiere run at the Crucible in February, the production will arrive at the Apollo Theatre with previews from Monday 6 November ahead of a press night […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie continues at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield until 25 February. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Michael Ball makes a curious entry into the story of the development of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. In a telephone conversation with director Jonathan Butterell he suggested a meeting with composer Dan Gillespie […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – news of concept album
A concept album has been released to coincide with the world premiere run of Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at Sheffield Theatres, running until 25 February (and opening tonight, 13 February). Featuring vocals from cast members John McCrea (The Busker’s Opera, Park Theatre), Josie Walker (War Horse, West End) and […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Five Questions with actor Charles Dale
Many readers will be familiar with actor CHARLES DALE following his long tenure as Big Mac in BBC1’s Casualty and before that as Dennis Stringer in ITV1’s Coronation Street. Less well known may be his theatre work such as Blue Remembered Hills at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre , or even (for lovers of trivia) that he once fronted an R&B […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at Sheffield Crucible – casting revealed
Sheffield Theatres’ artistic director Robert Hastie has revealed details of the cast for the world premiere of Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. John McCrea (The Busker’s Opera, Park Theatre) will take on the central role of Jamie in a cast that also includes Mina Anwar, who previously appeared in Sheffield […]
