To support Make A Difference Trust’s Emergency Assistance Fund, 23 West End actresses who have played Elphaba or Glinda in the multi-award-winning hit musical Wicked have joined together to perform a stunning rendition of the show’s ‘For Good’. Inspired by their close friends at Broadway Cares, the Make A Difference Trust’s has revived and repurposed […]
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The Top 12 Olivier Awards Performances of the Last Ten Years
In lieu of an Olivier Awards ceremony this Sunday evening, ITV is broadcasting a compilation of their greatest performances instead. Just in case the choices don’t match yours, here are our top 12 favourite Olivier Awards performances of the last decade, in no particular order. With thanks to Ian Bowkett. 2019 – Jason Manford, Janie […]
Willemijn Verkaik Live in Concert – Cambridge Theatre
Willemijn Verkaik Live in Concert at the Cambridge Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Following her last performance as Elphaba in Wicked last week, musical theatre luminary Willemijn Verkaik ditched the green paint for her own one-night-only concert at London’s Cambridge Theatre. In a follow up to her critically-acclaimed 2015 […]
Tyrone Huntley joins guest stars at Willemijn Verkaik’s London concert
Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award winner Tyrone Huntley will be one of several guest performers at international musical theatre star Willemijn Verkaik’s West End concert in July. The Dreamgirls star who is soon to reprise his acclaimed performance as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar is one of a number of guest stars who will join […]
Willemijn Verkaik returns to Wicked in January 2017
Willemijn Verkaik (Elphaba) and Sue Kelvin (Madame Morrible) will return to the London production of Wicked from 30 January 2017. Sarah McNicholas will also join the cast as Nessarose on the same date. Willemijn Verkaik (Elphaba) has previously played Elphaba on Broadway, in both Stuttgart and Oberhausen in Germany (and she can be heard on the original German cast recording), at the Circustheater in Holland […]
Willemijn Verkaik in Concert – Ambassadors Theatre
Willemijn Verkaik in Concert was presented at the Ambassadors Theatre, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Willemijn Verkaik’s debut West End concert brought a sold-out audience of doting theatregoers to the Ambassadors Theatre to share an evening of music and chat. There was a polite undercurrent of excited buzz – and the sense that this debut was something many […]
Willemijn Verkaik in concert – Victoria Hamilton-Barritt and James Fox are special guests
Special guests have been announced for the one-off solo concert from Dutch vocal powerhouse Willemijn Verkaik, playing for one night only at the Ambassadors Theatre next Tuesday 25 August 2015. Verkaik will be joined on stage by special guests Victoria Hamilton-Barritt and James Fox. Victoria Hamilton-Barritt is well known for her many stage roles including Daniela in […]
Willemijn Verkaik to play one-off solo London concert in August
Dutch vocal powerhouse Willemijn Verkaik will play a one-off solo concert at the Ambassadors Theatre on Tuesday 25 August 2015. Accompanied by a live band and joined by some to-be-announced special guests, Verkaik will take a journey through some of the greatest classic and contemporary musicals of all time, as well as celebrating some of the […]
Bertie Carvel latest guest to join Jason Robert Brown concert line-up
Hailed as ‘one of Broadway’s smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim’, three-time Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director and performer Jason Robert Brown will present a very special show today (26 May 2015) at London’s Royal Festival Hall, showcasing some of his best loved work. Tony Award-nominated Bertie Carvel, currently the star […]
Q&A with Pedro Almodovar marks Women On the Verge musical premiere
To celebrate the UK premiere of David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane’s new musical comedy adaptation of Pedro Almodovar’s Oscar-nominated film Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – now playing live on stage in London’s West End – Pedro Almodovar will be taking part in a post-show conversation with director Bartlett Sher and star […]
Willemijn Verkaik joins the Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
New musical comedy Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown will boast an international cast with Ricardo Afonso, Haydn Oakley and Willemijn Verkaik joining the previously announced Tamsin Greig, Haydn Gwynne, Jérôme Pradon and Anna Skellern. Additional cast members include Marianne Benedict, Holly James, Michael Matus, Rebecca McKinnis, Sarah Moyle, Alastair Natkiel, Nuno Queimado and Dale Rapley. In addition, the song ‘Madrid’, the opening number from David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane’s score for the […]
