The Musical Medea continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 4 October 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ What is already there is an emotive, intimate and hugely talented fusion of music, storytelling and performance.
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The Dance Plague of 1518 – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The Dance Plague of 1518 was reviewed at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ In terms of on the nose, slapstick comedy, this show ticks the boxes. Sometimes that is all theatre needs to be.
Asian Pirate Musical – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Asian Pirate Musical continues at Upstairs at The Gatehouse, London until 2 August 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Asian Pirate Musical has created an incredibly in-depth exploration of isolation, grief, perseverance and solidarity.
How to Make a Mess – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
How to Make a Mess continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 28 June 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Honestly, the world of new musical theatre needs more of this chaotic spirit.
Entertaining Murder – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Entertaining Murder continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 10 May 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The score is superb, the cast is wickedly talented, and Upstairs at the Gatehouse remains the best pub theatre in London.
Cohen, Bernstein, Joni & Me – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Cohen, Bernstein, Joni & Me continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 1 February 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s an entertaining piece of musical storytelling.
Pippin – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Pippin continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 11 January 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ If you’re looking for a riotously fun night out beyond the usual bawdy pantos and Christmas-themed cabarets, this production is perfect.
Moominvalley in November – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Moominvalley in November continues until 16 November 2025 at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The final number resonates with the continuing impact of Moominvalley’s fantasy world on so many fans.
Upstairs at the Gatehouse to stage new production of Pippin
A re-imagined version of Stephen Schwartz and Roger O Hirson’s Tony Award-winning musical Pippin will be the Christmas season production at London’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse.
The Musical Medea – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The Musical Medea was reviewed at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A fantastic night out at the theatre.
Shout! The Mod Musical – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
SHOUT! The Mod Musical continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 20 July 2025. Under Joseph Hodges’ direction and Jay Gardner’s choreography this revival fizzes with energy.
Death on the Throne – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Death on the Throne continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 13 April 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ For those with an appetite for unfiltered theatrical madness, it remains an experience worth witnessing.
Road Show – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Road Show continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 12 January 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Director/choreographer Amanda Noar has done a superb job of transposing the show into this wonderfully intimate and welcoming space.
The Boys from Syracuse – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The Boys from Syracuse continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 29 September 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Whether or not you have seen The Boys from Syracuse before, you will have your expectations shattered in the most gloriously colourful and absurd ways.
Go! The Musical – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Go! The Musical continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 28 July 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ It’s not hard to imagine Go! The Musical becoming a truly epic show.
Longitude – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Longitude continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 7 July 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Longitude is a great example of a passion project becoming a wonderfully entertaining and educational musical in the hands of talented creatives and performers.
A Birthday for Bear – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
A Birthday for Bear continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 9 June 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★
In Clay: A New Musical – Upstairs at The Gatehouse
In Clay: A New Musical continue at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 7 April 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In Clay is a stunning achievement of British musical theatre writing that you should not miss.
Songs for a New World – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Songs for a New World continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London, until 3 March 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Songs for a New World is the perfect song cycle. A joyful journey through life’s trials and tribulations, each defined by love and hope.
Cast for London revival of Songs For a New World
The full cast has been announced for the upcoming London revival of Jason Robert Brown’s song cycle Songs For a New World at Upstairs at the Gatehouse.
You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 14 January 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The perfect charming diversion for these chilly and busy winter months.
Newsfeed 23 November 2023: Mel Giedroyc in Starter For Ten, new production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and & Juliet to celebrate German premiere
Mel Giedroyc completes Starter For Ten musical cast Mel Giedroyc is one of the final additions to the cast for the new University Challenge-inspired musical Starter For Ten ahead of its world premiere at Bristol Old Vic early next year. The comedian, actress, presenter and writer whose theatre credits include The Crown Jewels at the […]
Newsfeed 15 November 2023: Pasha Kovalev choreographs Barista The Musical, Michael Ball and Lucy St Louis cast in My Favorite Things and more
Former Strictly Come Dancing glitterball-winning pro Pasha Kovalev will provide the Latin-flavoured choreography for the new original production Barista The Musical next year.
Merrily We Sing Along – Ellie Nunn and Alastair Brookshaw join a Sondheim singalong at Upstairs at the Gatehouse
To mark what would have been Stephen Sondheim’s 93rd birthday this month, the Stephen Sondheim Society will be hosting a celebratory Sondheim singalong at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in London’s Highgate Village on 26 March 2023.
Summer in the City – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Summer in the City continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 15 January 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Cast for new jukebox musical Summer in the City
Casting has been announced for new swinging 1960s-set jukebox musical Summer in the City, written by Jennifer Selway and devised and directed by John Plews.
Trump L’Oeil: A Musical – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Trump L’Oeil: A Musical continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 2 October 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The bombastic cavalcade of US President Donald Trump was often likened to a circus so it doesn’t need a leotard-leap of the imagination to imagine the story of his presidency as […]
UK premiere for surreal musical Trump L’Oeil
Surrealist musical Trump L’Oeil will receive its UK premiere at Upstairs at The Gatehouse next month. Following a successful Off-Broadway run last year, the tongue-in-cheek retelling of the presidency of Donald Trump will make its debut at the Highgate Village venue from 7 September until 2 October 2022. Inspired by the work of surrealist artists […]
Jewish Hollywood – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jewish Hollywood continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 17 April 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A solo saxophone wails the opening bars of George Gershwin (Jacob Gershwine)’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’. A musical hint of what’s to come in this high-octane revue. Chris Burgess’ informative and entertaining script takes a […]
Cast for Jewish Hollywood at Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The inspirational stories of the Jews who spearheaded the creation of Hollywood as the heart of the cinema industry are being celebrated in musical revue Jewish Hollywood. Presented by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment, the production which has a script by Chris Burgess (Bette Midler and Me, The Great Jewish American Songbook) will play London’s […]
Winners of Offies Awards 2022 announced
This year’s Offies Awards ceremony was free and online – and announced winners for the Offies, the OffFest and also the new OnComms for online shows Winners were announced in 25 Offies categories from amongst the live shows that returned to London stages from May 2021, and in eight OnComm categories from online shows from […]
Five Guys Named Moe – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Five Guys Named Moe continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 16 January 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ First produced in 1990 (at Stratford East and then the Lyric in Shaftesbury Avenue), this show still gleams, 32 years later – especially in the intimate traverse space of Upstairs at […]
New production of Shout! The Mod Musical to open at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in early 2022
Popular jukebox musical Shout! The Mod Musical will return to London next spring in a new production at Upstairs at the Gatehouse. Produced by the Highgate venue, the new version of the musical comedy created by Phillip George and David Lowenstein which will be directed by Joseph Hodges will run from 15 March until 17 […]
Five Guys Named Moe at Upstairs at the Gatehouse – cast and creatives
Mykal Rand will direct and choreograph a new production of Clarke Peters’ exuberant Five Guys Named Moe at London’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse next month. Rand who was resident director and choreographer on the hit 2018 pop-up theatre production at Marble Arch, will take charge of a cast made up of AJ Lewis (Thriller Live), […]
Call Me Madam – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Call Me Madam continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 10 October 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Whereas the open air in Regent’s Park is reaching the final week of its resolutely modern reimagining of the classic musical Carousel, Upstairs at the Gatehouse is treating us to a most […]
Mark Giesser to direct Rosemary Ashe in Call Me Madam at London’s Gatehouse
Director Mark Giesser will return to London’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse next month with his new production of the classic Broadway musical comedy Call Me Madam. Following on from hit versions of the dark Gershwin satire Strike Up the Band and the rarely-performed Broadway musical Once Upon a Mattress in 2019 and 2020, Giesser will […]
Dates announced for Streisand and Rivers-inspired comedy The Funny Girls
A fictional meeting between two of Hollywood’s most distinctive and outspoken stars – Barbra Streisand and Joan Rivers – is the subject of Roy Smiles’ new comedy The Funny Girls. Directed by Michael Strassen, the latest from the writer of Kurt and Sid which detailed a fictional meeting between Kurt Cobain and Sid Vicious, The […]
Forever Plaid – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Forever Plaid continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 27 June 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Stewart Ross’ 1992 musical gives us four young men who met at high school somewhere in America in the 1950s. They form a part-time harmony group called Forever Plaid. En route to their first […]
Upstairs At The Gatehouse return for Forever Plaid
Popular Off-Broadway musical revue Forever Plaid will return to London’s Upstairs At The Gatehouse for a season of socially distanced performances in June. Presented by Ovation, the rock ‘n’ roll- flavoured production which is directed by John Plews and choreographed by Racky Plews will play the Highgate venue from 1-27 June. With a cast including […]
Upstairs at the Gatehouse’s Christmas musical is Forever Plaid
The Christmas musical at London’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse will be venue favourite, ‘Heavenly Musical’ Forever Plaid. Packed with 1950s songs including ‘Magic Moments’, ‘Catch a Falling Star’, ‘Cry’, ‘Love is a Many Splendored Thing’ and ‘Three Coins in a Fountain’, the production runs from 16 December 2020 to 24 January 2021 (press night is […]
Once Upon a Mattress – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Once Upon a Mattress continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 29 March 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s no easy task to improve upon the elegant and timeless storytelling of Hans Christian Andersen, but Once Upon a Mattress – the 1959 musical comedy with score by Mary Rodgers and words by […]
Elton John: It’s A Little Bit Funny – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Elton John: It’s A Little Bit Funny continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse Theatre, London until 1 March 2020. It then transfers to the Radlett Theatre on 3 March and Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre from 21-26 April. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ God bless tribute acts. It’s no easy gig doing justice to […]
The Jury – Upstairs At The Gatehouse
The Jury continues at Upstairs At The Gatehouse, London until 16 February 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ First seen in Runcorn in 2018, The Jury returns after many changes to Upstairs at the Gatehouse for a short London run. The huge playing area is dominated by the rectangular table at […]
42nd Street – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
42nd Street continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 26 January 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Just a year after the most spectacular version ever of 42nd Street closed at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Ovation is treating us to the most intimate ever as the company’s eagerly-awaited yearly musical […]
I Do! I Do! – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
I Do! I Do! continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 16 November 2019. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ In 1960, composer Harvey Schmidt and book writer and lyricist Tom Jones opened The Fantasticks at the Off-Broadway Sullivan Street Pl ayhouse. The commedia dell’arte-inspired musical would go on to play over 17,000 […]
Working – A Musical – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Working – A Musical continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 22 September 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ In 1974, Chicago historian and broadcaster Studs Terkel published the results of dozens of interviews with “common” folk and gave it the least sexy title imaginable, Working: People Talk About What […]
Cast for Upstairs at the Gatehouse’s I Do! I Do!
Gemma Maclean (We Will Rock You, Dominion Theatre) and Ben Morris (Fiddler on the Roof, Savoy Theatre) will star in the new version of 1960s marital musical I Do! I Do! at London’s Upstairs at the Gatehouse this autumn. Produced by Joseph Hodges Entertainment, the production is due to play the Highgate Village venue from […]
Oddball – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Oddball at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ Oddball is undoubtedly an ambitious task undertaken by Francesca Forristal (writer and solo performer) and Micha Mirto (director) bravely trying to make a musical comedy about Forristal’s experience with anorexia. It is personal, complex, and unfortunately disconnected. We follow […]
Strike Up the Band – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Strike Up the Band continues at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 31 March 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Barely two months after the excellent in-house production of Nice Work If You Can Get It, Gershwin is already alive again with the sound of his glorious music, as played by […]
Nice Work If You Can Get It – Upstairs At The Gatehouse
Nice Work If You Can Get It continues at Upstairs At The Gatehouse, London until 27 January 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Gatehouse has done it again with the first-rate UK, and I think European, premiere production of the Gershwin jukebox musical as its 21st Christmas musical offering. One […]
