Leicester Curve’s Billy Elliot, Storyhouse Chester’s Now Is Good, and the Watermill Theatre’s production of Whistle Down the Wind will battle it out for the title of Best Musical Production at the UK Theatre Awards 2022. Returning after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the three hit shows are of among the 2022 nominees […]
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Whistle Down the Wind – Watermill Theatre, Bagnor
Whistle Down the Wind continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 10 September 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Even if you didn’t know who had penned the music and lyrics to this reworking of the original novel, there are sufficient clues that would lead an intuitive theatregoer to the right conclusion. For […]
Cast and creatives for Watermill’s Whistle Down The Wind
The full cast and creative team have been unveiled for the first major UK revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s Whistle Down The Wind at Newbury’s Watermill Theatre. Directed and choreographed by Tom Jackson Greaves, the production which features a company of actor-musicians alongside a cast of young people drawn from the local […]
Watermill new season to include revival of Whistle Down the Wind
The first major UK revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s Whistle Down the Wind in over a decade will be part of the 2022 season at Newbury’s Watermill Theatre. Directed by Tom Jackson Greaves, the production which will feature a company of actor-musicians alongside a cast of young people drawn from the local […]
Whistle Down the Wind – Union Theatre
Whistle Down the Wind continues at the Union Theatre, London until 21 December 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Richard Taylor’s musical adaptation of the novella and movie of Whistle Down the Wind returns to the bijou Union Theatre as this year’s Christmas offering. Once again, it’s directed by the Union’s […]
Cast for Union Theatre’s Whistle Down The Wind
Juan Miralles and Sadie Levett will head the cast of the Union Theatre’s critically-acclaimed revival of Russell Labey and Richard Taylor’s version of Whistle Down The Wind when it returns to the London venue later this month. Directed by the Union’s Sasha Regan, the production which will run from 28 November until 21 December will […]
London Fringe update – She Loves Me, Whistle Down the Wind, Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens
Whistle Down the Wind – Union Theatre (28 January to 21 February – press night is 30 January) Sasha Regan directs Whistle Down the Wind (adapted by Russell Labey and Richard Taylor with music and lyrics by Richard Taylor) at the Union Theatre. The time is the late 1950s, the place, a small village in Lancashire. Hurrying to a barn with three rescued kittens, Cathy, […]
