By Doug Mayo Now undertaking its 4th UK Tour, Avenue Q continues to be one of the funniest musicals onstage at the present time. Whether you are an Avenue Q newbie or if like me you have see…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:51AMBy Doug Mayo The producers of Beautiful Thing have announced the closure of the production at the Leicester Curve on Saturday 30th May. Executive producer Tom O’Connell said, “It is with…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:49AMBy Doug Mayo Stomp celebrated its 13th Birthday in the West End with a celebrity studded charity performance. Created by Luke Creswell and Steve McNicholas, Stomp was first performed in 1991…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:01AMBy Doug Mayo It was announced today that the Tony Award nominated show Motown The Musical will open at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London in February 2016. Motown features over 50 Motown clas…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:04AMBy Doug Mayo Following on from the successful national tour of Calamity Jane, the nation’s favourite Nancy, Jodie Prenger is back performing the role of Emma in Andrew Lloyd Webber and…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:26AMBy Doug Mayo Casting has been announced for The Clockmaker’s Daughter, an original musical by new writers Daniel Finn and Michael Webborn which has its world premier at the Landor Thea…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:51AMBy Doug Mayo The Lyric Hammersmith announced today the their production of Bugsy Malone would extend its run until Saturday 5th September 2015. Wriiten by Alan Parker and Paul Williams, the …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:29AMBy Doug Mayo Last night, Billy Elliot celebrated ten years in the West End. The show’s gala opening night took place exactly 10 years ago yesterday. To co-incide with the 10th annivers…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:56AMBy Doug Mayo Multi-Platinum selling recording artist and songwriter Matt Cardle will join the cast of Memphis from 6th July 2015. Cardle was the winner of the seventh series of ITV’s T…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:51AMBy Doug Mayo A new cast has been announced for the award-winning play The Curious Incident Of the Dog In the Night Time which is being produced by the National Theatre at the Gielgud Theatre…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:18AMBy Doug Mayo James Freedman: Man Of Steal will transfer to Trafalgar Studio One for a strictly limited season following its sell-out success at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Funny and fast-f…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:44AMBy Doug Mayo Big top Bravado meets boyish burlesque, comic campery meets contemporary circus, shameless splendour meets sensational spectacle. After a critically acclaimed debut in London,…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:58AMBy Doug Mayo Following a sell-out season at the White Bear Theatre, and with the play about to be published, Inigo transfers to the main house at the Pleasance Theatre for a limited three-we…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:22AMBy Doug Mayo “Never have so many people who missed a flop musical wished so fervently that they had seen it. Many of those who did see it found themselves unable to stop talking about it�…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:10AMBy Doug Mayo BritishTheatre.com caught up with Lorna Luft recently to talk about her current tour with The Judy Garland Songbook asking what audiences might expect from the tour. The Judy Ga…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:37AMBy Doug Mayo Key to the success of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is the onstage relationship between Jameson played by Michael Praed and Benson played by Noel Sullivan. There is an immediate chemi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:37AMBy Doug Mayo Following David Cameron’s victory in the UK General Election, playwright Peter Morgan has announced that he has updated his script for The Audience – his play about …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:25PMBy Doug Mayo There are some great shows heading your way in the near future. Here at BritishTheatre.com we go all out to promote great shows in the West End, Off West End and on Tour across …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:42AMBy Doug Mayo Drawing on material from interviews, tv shows and transcripts, Jonathan Maitland’s An Audience With Jimmy Saville explores the most shocking sex scandal of our time. Write…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:41PMBy Doug Mayo It has been reported in tonight’s London Evening Standard that one of the hottest new musicals on Broadway may be headed to the West End of London sooner than anticipated.…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:26PMBy Doug Mayo Daring to be different may well be considered acceptable in modern times but spare a thought for Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park, two cross dressers in Victorian England. Show…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:31AMBy Doug Mayo Olivier Award nominee, Caroline Horton, will revive her 2012 hit Mess for audiences of children and young people on the main stage of the Traverse Theatre as part of Scotland’…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:47AMBy Doug Mayo Snapdragon Productions and Theatre Bench will present Teddy, a new musical world premiere by Tristan Bernays and music by Dougal Irvine at the Southwark Playhouse in June. The t…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:23AMBy Doug Mayo Dusty, a new multi-media show celebrating the music of the iconic Dusty Springfield will receive its World Premiere at the Charing Cross Theatre. With original music by the lege…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:40AMBy Doug Mayo Following the resounding critical response to the opening of Gypsy in the West End, the show has announced an extension and is now booking at the Savoy Theatre until 28 November…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:21AMBy Doug Mayo Nicole Kidman will return to the West End stage with the Michael Grandage Company in September 2015. Kidman will play the role of Rosalind Franklin in Photograph 51, a new play …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:45AMBy Doug Mayo It was announced today the Women On the Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, currently playing at the Playhouse Theatre will close on May 23, 2015. Based on the 1998 Pedro Almodovar fi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:53PMBy Doug Mayo It has been announced that the current national tour of Anything Goes will close four months earlier than planned. Anything goes was a co-production between Sheffield Theatres a…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:41AMBy Doug Mayo Alexander Hulme is intriguing and charismatic as Jackson and you see a glimpse of what a tortured beauty trapped in another man's world can suffer. David R Butler is at his best…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:04AMBy Doug Mayo Kenneth Branagh is back in the West End with a series of plays being presented at the Garrick Theatre under the banner of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company. Commencing in Octo…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:15AMBy Doug Mayo Gypsy opened last night in London in front of a star-studded audience and to critical raves. Starring Imelda Staunton as Mamma Rose, Peter Davison as Herbie and Lara Pulver as L…
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