Cool Rider was reviewed at the London Palladium. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Following some recent concert production misfires, it was hugely impressive seeing the Cool Rider creative team getting this one right. This is how you deliver a concert.
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Beauty and the Beast – London Palladium
Beauty and the Beast continues at the London Palladium until 17 September 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Stage adaptations of popular Disney movie musicals are an interesting mix. Some are visually spectacular but beyond a few hits lack a memorable score, others feature one great song after another but somehow the creative […]
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 […]
Courtney Stapleton and Emmanuel Kojo to star in new look Beauty and the Beast on tour
Courtney Stapleton and Emmanuel Kojo will take on the title roles in the re-imagined and re-designed production of the Olivier Award-winning stage musical version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast when the production launches at the Bristol Hippodrome on 24 August 2021. Two of musical theatre’s rising stars Stapleton (Six, Dear Evan Hansen) and Kojo […]
Live-stream return for Sasha Regan’s The Pirates Of Penzance
Home-bound theatre-lovers who missed out on the recent streaming of the Palace Theatre debut of Sasha Regan’s award-winning all-male version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance will get another chance to see the hit show this Easter. Recorded live on 13 December 2020, The Pirates of Penzance will return to Stream.Theatre from 29 […]
The Pirates of Penzance – Palace Theatre
The Pirates of Penzance at the Palace Theatre, London (available from 28 December 2020 until 3 January 2021 on www.stream.theatre) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Comedy is distinct from music and visual art in that it provokes a binary response. A joke is either funny or it isn’t: there is laughter […]
Sasha Regan’s All Male H.M.S. Pinafore – exclusive images
Originally seen at the Union Theatre in 2009, Sasha Regan’s acclaimed all-male production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance has returned for a 2016 UK tour. Musical Theatre Review’s official photographer Roy Tan has taken these exclusive images. A classic musical comedy of mistaken identity, The Pirates of Penzance follows young Frederic, a child apprenticed to […]
Godspell in Concert – Jade Ewen and Andy Abraham head cast
Jade Ewen, Andy Abraham and Leanne Jarvis will lead the cast of Godspell in Concert, the legendary rock musical from Stephen Schwartz, when it returns to the UK’s stages and opens at Hackney’s Empire Theatre on 4 April ahead of a 28-venue national tour. Actor Tom Senior will be introduced in the role of Jesus. Jade Ewen makes up one third of the multi-million […]
