Just as Sheffield’s Park Hill estate can be seen as ambitious, iconic, important as well as unpleasant, impractical, and the quintessence of neglect and decay all at the same time, Richard Hawley and Chris Bush’s musical is also more than just one thing. Hawley’s score is majestic. The vocals of its leading performers are flawless…
Full casting has been announced for the West End premiere of the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical AIN’T TOO PROUD, opening at the Prince Edward Theatre from Friday 31 March 2023. Joining the previously announced Cameron Bernard Jones as Melvin Franklin, Kyle Cox as Paul Williams, Sifiso Mazibuko as Otis Williams, Tosh Wanogho-Maud as…
The devil is in the detail, as the old adage would have it, and Christina Bianco has her own version of the Kander and Ebb song ‘Say Liza (Liza With a Z)”, having been previously introduced and referred to over the years as Christine, or otherwise Bianca, Bianci, Bunco, Banco, Banca (and so on). Whilst…
There was a time when trilogies were relatively common, particularly in musicals, even if they didn’t use the term ‘trilogy’ back then. Prior to the 1920s, three-act musicals were relatively commonplace, until such time as multiple sets within each act started to become the norm. The 1950s Sandy Wilson musical The Boy Friend had three…
The Royal Shakespeare Company is delighted to announce that the multi-award-winning production of Matilda The Musical has extended its booking period to 26th May 2024. A tonic for audiences of all ages, this anarchic production about a strong and determined heroine with a vivid imagination has now won 101 international awards including 24 for Best…
The producers of Disney’s NEWSIES are delighted to announce a new booking period at London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre due to overwhelming demand. NEWSIES will now run through to Sunday 30 July 2023. The following will be continuing in their roles: Michael Ahomka-Lindsay as Jack Kelly, Moya Angela as Medda Larkin, Lindsay Atherton as Ensemble,…
There is a great amount of self-awareness and a deep sense of togetherness that makes My Son’s a Queer as enjoyable and heartwarming as it is. Robert Madge provides us with the entertaining recreation of their childhood Disney Parade. The main source material is childhood home videos of Robert, and George Reeves’ wonderful work under…
Of all the theatrical styles, monologues must be the most terrifying, both as a writer and a performer. Whilst it’s true a poor script can be saved by a great performance and a sub-par performance can be saved by an amazing script, everyone involved has to strive for the perfect combination of both script and…
Dritan Kastrati stars in this ensemble, multi-rolling dramatisation of his personal experience as an 11-year-old migrant sent by his father to Britain from his native Kosovo in the wake of its 1998 -1999 war. Placed in ‘the boat system’ to the UK, Dritan is smuggled, with others, across Europe to reach his nearly adult brother,…