Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 10 May 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ From the outset the audience was completely absorbed in the clever, compelling storytelling.
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‘This is our most exciting production so far’: Skitzoid Productions brings Last Sales Conference of the Apocalypse to the Waterloo East Theatre
Following the success of Game Over (‘poignant, glamorous, funny’ – North West End ★★★★) and Dissociated (‘jaw dropping’ – LondonTheatre1 ★★★★), Skitzoid Productions is excited to bring its third original musical, Last Sales Conference of the Apocalypse, to London’s Waterloo East Theatre from 4-30 October 2022. Featuring 15 original songs and the voice of Marcus […]
A Letter to Harvey Milk – Waterloo East Theatre
A Letter to Harvey Milk continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 3 July 2022. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ Any musical with Harvey Milk namechecked in the title must seem like a shoo-in for Pride Month. The first openly gay man elected to office in California when he was […]
Daniel Boys and Emily Tierney star in the European premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s New York
West End stars Daniel Boys (Spamalot, Avenue Q and The Boys in the Band in the West End and Marvin in Falsettos) and Emily Tierney (Glinda in Wicked, Molly in Ghost, Super Hot Lady in Eugenius) are to star in the European premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s New York at London’s Waterloo East Theatre from 26 […]
Starting Here, Starting Now – Waterloo East Theatre
Starting Here, Starting Now continues at the Waterloo East Theatre until 18 July 2021. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire are together best known as collaborators on revue show Closer Than Ever, but their history dates to their days as Yale students together. After leaving university, they […]
Summer Street – Waterloo East Theatre
Summer Street continues at Waterloo East Theatre, London until 2 June 2019. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ Back in the 1980s and 1990s, Neighbours was a global television phenomenon. Reg Watson’s suburban soap opera involved families who felt much more relatable than his previous soaps Sons and Daughters and The Young Doctors. In the UK, the […]
A Christmas Story The Musical – Waterloo East Theatre
A Christmas Story The Musical continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 22 December 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A Christmas Story is an ageing but well-loved family film. In the 35 years since the original film’s release, it has been shown on television countless times. This musical rendition, with score and […]
Liberty Rides Forth! – Waterloo East Theatre
Liberty Rides Forth! continues at Waterloo East Theatre, London until 21 October 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The premise of this show, featuring ‘a mischievous drag queen’, might suggest it’s going to be full of one-liners and a collection of songs pegged to a slim plot. Go see it and get […]
Pasek & Paul’s A Christmas Story to receive European premiere at Waterloo East
Waterloo East has won the battle to stage the European premiere of Pasek and Paul’s Broadway hit A Christmas Story The Musical. After acquiring the rights for the show which features music and lyrics by the already multi-award-winning team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the London venue has spent months working with the original […]
Trump: The Musical – Waterloo East Theatre
Trump: The Musical at the Waterloo East Theatre, London. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ It is 2020, and Donald Trump is still President and trolling the world on Twitter, Kim Jong-un is still trolling the world with missile launches – but in the United Kingdom, Nigel Farage has imprisoned the Royal […]
Doodle The Musical – Waterloo East Theatre
Doodle The Musical continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 28 January. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ The Second World War is raging and we’re somewhere between Dad’s Army and Secret Army in a show which, directed by Jonathan Moore with book and lyrics by Jonathan Kydd, could have been […]
X-Factor’s Stevi Ritchie to make theatre debut in The Sword and the Dope
Former X Factor contestant Stevi Ritchie will make his musical theatre debut in topical satire The Sword and the Dope. Written and directed by Michael Head, the show will play the Waterloo East Theatre from Tuesday 5 September until Sunday 1 October with a press night on Thursday 7 September. Back for its fourth run, […]
Ballroom – Waterloo East Theatre
Ballroom continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London, until 4 June. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Waterloo East has dug up this almost-forgotten 1978 Broadway musical and given it a modest UK premiere almost 40 years on at its 100-seater theatre just a short waltz from Waterloo Station. Ballroom’s main claim […]
Jessica Martin cast as lead in Ballroom at Waterloo East Theatre
Versatile West End star Jessica Martin will take on the central role in the European premiere of Broadway musical Ballroom at Waterloo East Theatre next month. The actress who has starred in major productions of musical theatre classics including Me and My Girl, Mack and Mabel and South Pacific, will play the lonely widow at the […]
Broadway musical Ballroom to receive its European debut at Waterloo East Theatre
Broadway musical Ballroom is to receive its European premiere at Waterloo East Theatre 38 years after it was last seen on stage. Developed by the Tony Award-winning co-creator of A Chorus Line Michael Bennett, who directed and choreographed the show’s only production in the late 1970s, Ballroom will play the South London venue from 12 […]
Jest End – Waterloo East Theatre
Jest End continues at Waterloo East Theatre, London until 18 December. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Musical parody revue Jest End likes to think of itself as London’s answer to Forbidden Broadway, the perennial New York comedy show which has had several successful excursions over here. And there’s an element of […]
Full cast for Jest End at the Waterloo East Theatre
Casting has been announced for satirical musical Jest End ahead of its return to Waterloo East Theatre on 29 November for a limited run. The 2016 cast includes Jemma Alexander (Bat Out of Hell, Manchester Opera House and London Coliseum, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Waterloo East Theatre); Bronte Barbe (Shrek the Musical, UK and […]
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads – Waterloo East Theatre and Touring
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 6 November, before touring. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ After the death of David Bowie early this year, the fear was that Theatreland would soon become awash with hastily put together, predictable productions attempting to pay some kind of tacky, […]
Jest End is heading back to Waterloo East in November
Hit satirical musical Jest End will return to Waterloo East Theatre in late November for a limited run. Following on from a sell-out season at the London venue in 2015, the show that pokes fun at some of the West End’s biggest musical theatre productions opens on 29 November and runs until 18 December. Written […]
[title of show] – Waterloo East Theatre
[title of show] continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 25 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The meta musical – the musical about a musical – is nothing new: 42nd Street, A Chorus Line and the multitudinous Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney “let’s do the show right here” shows from the […]
The Great American Trailer Park Musical – Waterloo East Theatre
The Great American Trailer Park Musical continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 5 June. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The audience is going wild. The voices are huge, the band is pounding, Waterloo East theatre is throbbing with heat and noise, but we can’t for the life of us tell what’s […]
Rosemary Ashe cast in The Great Trailer Park Musical UK premiere
Olivier nominee Rosemary Ashe (The Witches of Eastwick, Mary Poppins) will head the first UK cast for the London premiere of The Great American Trailer Park Musical next month. Ashe will be joined by Sabrina Aloueche (We Will Rock You), Jemma Alexander (The Sound of Music), Jodie Steele (The War of the Worlds), Michelle Bishop […]
The Great American Trailer Park Musical has London premiere at Waterloo East
Lively Off-Broadway hit The Great American Trailer Park Musical will receive its London premiere at the Waterloo East Theatre this May. The two act musical comedy with music and lyrics by David Nehls and book by Betsy Kelso will play the venue from 11 May until 5 June. Focusing on the colourful lives of the […]
Jest End – Waterloo East Theatre
Jest End continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 6 December. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Has it really been eight years since we were first treated to Garry Lake’s wicked sense of humour in Jest End at the Jermyn Street Theatre? Much may have changed in the West End […]
Don’t Run – Waterloo East Theatre
Don’t Run continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 7 November. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Diagnosed with terminal cancer, professional photographer Michael Thompson (Ryan Bennett) disappears. His distraught wife (Stephanie Stone) and three children search for him by trawling his lifelong portfolio of photographs for clues. The journey, which takes […]
Leader of the Pack – the Ellie Greenwich Musical – Waterloo East Theatre
Leader of the Pack – the Ellie Greenwich Musical continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 31 October. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Pigeonhole this production, at the compact but still quite charming Waterloo East Theatre, as just another jukebox musical and all those behind its creation and slick execution […]
Flames – Waterloo East Theatre
Flames continues at the Waterloo East Theatre, London until 31 May. Star rating: 1 star ★ Musicals based on original material are something of a rarity, with more and more producers choosing to play safe with adaptations of existing material. Stephen Dolginoff’s original thriller Flames may be the reason why. Set in a spooky graveyard which seems to be […]
The Bakewell Bake Off arrives at the Landor
Following a sell-out run at London’s Waterloo East Theatre in August, new British musical The Bakewell Bake Off will transfer to the Landor Theatre on 8 October 2013 (officially opening on 10 October). The action throws the spotlight on seven eager contestants, three feuding judges and one bewildered hostess all taking part in a high-pressure […]
