The Elixir of Love continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 19 September 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Perfect if you want a fun night with great tunes and a comic story engagingly told.
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Ruth The Musical – Wilton’s Music Hall
Ruth – The Musical continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 28 March 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ A reprise ends the performance on a genuinely moving, fittingly sombre and excruciatingly sad note.
Iolanthe – Wilton’s Music Hall
Iolanthe continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 28 February 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This fun production, with excellent singing in a beautiful historic venue, is well worth the price of the ticket.
Musik – Wilton’s Music Hall
Musik continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 25 October 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A charming and an outrageously funny way to spend an evening.
Mary and the Hyenas – Wilton’s Music Hall
Mary and the Hyenas continues at the Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 29 March 2025. The all-female cast features six richly talented actors who multi-role with accomplished adeptness.
The Magic Flute – Wilton’s Music Hall
The Magic Flute continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 8 March 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Mozart’s family-friendly masterpiece The Magic Flute is given some English patter in this new, clever and deliciously cheesy translation from John Savournin (book) and David Eaton (lyrics).
The Pirates of Penzance – Wilton’s Music Hall and Touring
The Pirates of Penzance was reviewed at Wilton’s Music Hall, London where it continues until 23 November 2024. The tour continues until 7 December 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This hilarious production is a world-class hoot.
Frank’s Closet – Wilton’s Music Hall
Frank’s Closet continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 14 September 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A luxuriously gay cruise through a century of camp, with all the heart, laughs and dresses one could desire. Catch it while you can.
The Sorcerer – Wilton’s Music Hall and Touring
The Sorcerer was reviewed at Wilton’s Music Hall, London. The tour continues until 18 August 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ G&S fans and lovers of English comedy should flock to see this rare gem.
Moby Dick – Wilton’s Music Hall
Moby Dick continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 11 May 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A brilliantly-staged, beautifully-performed and hauntingly-told tale.
I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical – Wilton’s Music Hall
I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical at Wilton’s Music Hall, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Express G&S – Wilton’s Music Hall
Express G&S continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 18 August 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
The Mikado – Wilton’s Music Hall
The Mikado continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 1 July 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Ruddigore – Wilton’s Music Hall
Ruddigore continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 25 March 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ For decades I’ve struggled to understand why Gilbert and Sullivan’s magnificent gothic send-up isn’t better known. The score, which I’ve known and loved since my teens, includes some of Sullivan’s loveliest gems.
Victorian ghosts and a sensational cast for Ruddigore at Wilton’s Music Hall
Victorian ghosts and a sensational cast are set to raise the roof at Wilton’s Music Hall in an unmissable production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore or The Witch’s Curse, from 14-25 March 2023.
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2022
A selection of Musical Theatre Review critics were asked to choose their ‘show of the year’ although, as you can see, some struggled to pick just one.
Prepare for ghostly Victorian fun with Gilbert & Sullivan’s RUDDIGORE at Wilton’s Music Hall in March 2023
Surreal comedy meets genuinely spooky Victorian chiller in an unmissable production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore; or, The Witch’s Curse, at London’s Wilton’s Music Hall from 14 to 25 March 2023.
Only an Octave Apart – Wilton’s Music Hall
Only an Octave Apart continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London – until 8 October 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Keep it pretty, keep it shallow, keep it moving – so goes Justin Vivian Bond’s motto. And as a mission statement for a cabaret show it also works, as long as […]
Liza Pulman’s new show makes delayed London debut
Liza Pulman’s new show The Heart of It will make its delayed debut in London next month with a limited run at Riverside Studios before playing dates at Wilton’s Music Hall. Originally due to play Riverside Studios in April 2021, the Fascinating Aida star will become the first female solo artist to play Riverside’s Studio […]
Full cast for Sasha Regan’s all-male H.M.S Pinafore
Juan Jackson will lead the 16-strong cast assembled for Sasha Regan’s new production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic masterpiece H.M.S Pinafore when the latest production from Regan’s award-winning all-male company sails into Wilton’s Music Hall next month. Jackson (Five Guys Named Moe, Gatehouse Theatre, Artaban The Musical, The Actors’ Church) who will take the helm […]
Online showcase open for Sasha Regan’s H.M.S Pinafore
The search is on for new shipmates to join Sasha Regan’s award-winning all-male company when they sail into Wilton’s Music Hall this spring with a new version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic masterpiece H.M.S Pinafore. Following on from the recent live theatre and streaming success of Regan’s critically-acclaimed re-imagining of another G&S favourite, The Pirates […]
Sasha Regan’s all-male H.M.S Pinafore to sail into Wilton’s Music Hall in 2022
Sasha Regan’s award-winning all-male company will welcome some new shipmates when they sail into Wilton’s Music Hall next spring with a new version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic masterpiece H.M.S Pinafore. Following on from the recent live theatre and streaming success of Regan’s critically-acclaimed re-imagining of another G&S favourite, The Pirates of Penzance, the company […]
MTR Award-winner A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Sad) among four Seabright Productions to be streamed
New productions of cabaret-musical A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad), the Nina Simone-inspired Black Is The Color Of My Voice, FRIEND (The One With Gunther) and Quentin Crisp:Naked Hope will be streamed worldwide next month. Curated by Olivier Award-winning producer James Seabright, the four productions were filmed last month in front of a […]
Wilton’s Music Hall run of All-Male H.M.S. Pinafore cancelled
Regan De Wynter Williams Ltd has announced the cancellation of the Wilton’s Music Hall run of Sasha Regan’s award winning all-male version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore. Following on from last year’s successful return of Regan’s award winning all-male version of The Pirates of Penzance, the production was due to arrive at the London […]
Macbeth – Wilton’s Music Hall
Macbeth continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 8 February 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ There’s a lot of music in this production which has a number of actor-musos in the cast. The use of drums and low level choral singing to create atmosphere works effectively but the solo sung numbers are […]
The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel – Wilton’s Music Hall and Touring
The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel was reviewed at Wilton’s Music Hall, London and then tours until 28 March 2020. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a Told By An Idiot production with the Theatre Royal, Plymouth in conjunction with Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Unity Theatre, Liverpool. […]
Peter Groom’s Dietrich show Natural Duty to play Wilton’s Music Hall
Actor, dancer and choreographer Peter Groom’s hit theatrical cabaret tribute to Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich is heading back to London this November with a transfer run at Wilton’s Music Hall. Created and performed by Groom, Dietrich – Natural Duty will follow its sold-out run at the Vault Festival 2018 in January, arriving back in the […]
Music Hall Monster: The Insatiable Mr Fred Barnes – Wilton’s Music Hall
Music Hall Monster : The Insatiable Mr Fred Barnes continues at Wilton’s Music Hall until 12 May 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ How the mighty fall. Fred Barnes was once the doyen of the music halls: born to a Birmingham butcher, by the 1920s he was among the elite of the varieties, […]
Songs for Nobodies – Wilton’s Music Hall
Songs for Nobodies continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 7 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★★★★ Over the course of the 20th century, several singers came to embody the spirit of the indomitable woman, from Judy Garland to Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf. Such women are at the centre of Songs for Nobodies, […]
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Wilton’s Music Hall
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 22 April. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The self-help book may not seem like the likeliest of genres from which to birth a musical comedy. But Shepherd Mead’s 1952 book How to Succeed in Business Without […]
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at Wilton’s Music Hall – cast details
Final casting has been unveiled for next month’s revival of the classic Broadway musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Due to play Wilton’s Music Hall from 8-22 April, the production has added Andrew C Wadsworth (pictured), Maisey Bawden, Daniel Graham, Richard Emerson, Matthew Whitby and Nuwan Hugh Perera to the previously announced […]
Wilton’s Music Hall to revive How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Classic Broadway musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying will return to London over 50 years after its West End debut when it plays Wilton’s Music Hall in April. The revival of the show which launched on Broadway in 1961 will play the distinctive East London venue from 8 until 22 April with a […]
Floyd Collins – Wilton’s Music Hall
Floyd Collins continues at Wilton’s Music Hall, London until 15 October. Rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you see one thing this month, this year even, make it this. Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s Floyd Collins, based on the true story of a 1920s cave explorer and the fight to save him after […]
Floyd Collins at Wilton’s Music Hall – Ashley Robinson and Rebecca Trehearn lead line-up
Ashley Robinson and Rebecca Trehearn will head the cast of the Wilton’s Music Hall production of 1990s musical Floyd Collins. Robinson, who was in the cast of the original Chicago production of Wicked, will play the title role alongside Trehearn, fresh from the critically acclaimed Show Boat, who will play Collins’ sister Nellie. They will […]
Wilton’s Music Hall autumn season features musical Floyd Collins
The musical Floyd Collins is one of the highlights of an eclectic programme of shows lined up to play the Wilton’s Music Hall’s autumn season. The true story of a 1920s cave explorer and the fight to save him after he becomes trapped underground will play the distinctive London venue from 21 September and 15 […]
London Festival of Cabaret 2016 – all the details
Full programme details have been announced for this year’s London Festival of Cabaret which will run at various venues across the capital from 22 April until 8 May. Now in its fourth year, the festival, which aims to celebrate the great composers, lyricists and interpreters of popular song, will take place at four host venues: […]
Springtime For Henry (and Barbara) – Wilton’s Music Hall, London
Springtime For Henry (and Barbara) at Wilton’s Music Hall, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Unusual, bewildering, but strangely endearing, collaborators Gwyneth Herbert and Mel Brimfield bring a warm, exploratory musical comedy to the boards of the Wilton’s Music Hall in the form of Springtime For Henry (and Barbara). Part performance […]
Gwyneth Herbert and Mel Brimfield sculpture-inspired musical heads for Wilton’s Music Hall
Composer/performer Gwyneth Herbert and artist Mel Brimfield are presenting their latest collaboration, Springtime for Henry (and Barbara) – described as a fictitious ‘lost’ musical, reconstructed in fragments, centred around the lives of British sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. The production will run for three performances across two nights (26–27 January) at Wilton’s Music Hall, the world’s oldest surviving […]
The Matchgirls – Wilton’s Music Hall
The Matchgirls was performed at Wilton’s Music Hall, London. The Red Ladder Theatre Company, in collaboration with Dumbwise, produced a cohesive interpretation of Bill Owen and Tony Russell’s 1966 musical The Matchgirls which fulfilled the aims of both theatre companies in terms of creating socially engaged pieces of work. The production was a community theatre piece […]
