Tag Archives | Zheng Xi Yong

Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorised Musical Parody — Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorised Musical Parody continues at Udderbelly at Underbelly, George Square until 30 August 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s a broad, knowingly silly hour sung well enough that the silliness earns its keep.

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American Psycho – Almeida Theatre

American Psycho continues at the Almeida Theatre, London until 14 March 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s still true that Goold’s final production at the Almeida succeeds in giving us a stimulating production.

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Cast for Rupert Goold’s American Psycho at the Almeida Theatre

Arty Froushan will play Patrick Bateman in next year’s highly anticipated revival of Rupert Goold’s acclaimed production of American Psycho at at London’s Almeida Theatre.

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Music Review: Your Lie in April The Musical – London Cast Recording

Your Lie in April The Musical – London Cast Recording (Ghostlight Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With any luck, this cast recording will inspire the musical theatre powers-that-be to revive the show in some capacity in the future.

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Exclusive: Listen to ‘One Hundred Thousand Million Stars’ from the Your Lie in April Original London Cast Recording

Thanks to our friends at Ghostlight Records, we can share with you an exclusive listen to the track ‘One Hundred Thousand Million Stars’ performed by Mia Kobayashi and Zheng Xi Yong from the forthcoming Original London Cast Recording of Frank Wildhorn’s Your Lie in April: The Musical.

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Your Lie in April – Harold Pinter Theatre

Your Lie in April continues at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London until 21 September 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A gracefully beautiful story of love and music, told with heart by some great performances and some of the best classical musicianship you’ll likely ever see.

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Your Lie in April – West End cast confirmed

The full cast has been confirmed for the West End premiere of the first fully staged production of Your Lie in April at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre.

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Your Lie in April West End – lead cast announced

Lead casting has been confirmed for the West End premiere of the first fully staged production of Your Lie in April at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

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Your Lie in April: The Musical in Concert – Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Your Lie in April: The Musical in Concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is the strongest debut of a new piece of large-scale musical theatre writing London has seen in a long time. Keep a look out for this one.

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Newsfeed: Cast for European premiere of Your Lie In April, West End debut for Golda, Talawa to co-produce touring production of Play On! and more

Zheng Xi Yong (Spring Awakening, Almeida Theatre) and Rumi Sutton (Hex, National Theatre) will play the central characters in the European premiere of Your Lie in April – The Musical. The latest from the producers of last year’s English language premiere of Death Note: The Musical in Concert will make its debut in the West […]

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Full cast for Almeida’s Spring Awakening

The Almeida Theatre has announced the full cast for the first London revival of the Broadway hit Spring Awakening since the show’s 2009 UK premiere. As previously announced the production will be directed by the venue’s artistic director Rupert Goold and the cast will include Amara Okereke, winner of the 2018 Stage Debut Award for […]

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Assassins – Watermill Theatre, Bagnor

Assassins continues at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor until 26 October 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Every time I see Assassins, I like it more and more and this darkly comic Watermill revival of the controversial Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman take on the American dream that “every now and then goes a […]

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