A new Lloyd Webber Cinderella
Yes, I already love a lot of Andrew Lloyd Webber's work - he's unquestionably Britain's commercially most successful musical theatre composer ever; but for anyone who... Read more
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"What's Inside" this month's edition of 5 Questions from Over the Pond, you ask? Well, we've decided to serve up a slice of mouth-watering, transatlantic pie to celebrate the two current leading... Read more
The West End's worst-kept secret was finally let out of the bag yesterday with the announcement that Lucie Jones is to take over as Jenna from Katharine McPhee in the West End production of Waitress... Read more
I'm heading to Skiathos, a Greek island which was one of the principal locations for the making of the movie version of Mamma Mia! (when it wasn't being filmed at Pinewood Studios back here, that is... Read more
The last night of Follies
The curtain came down on the final night of Follies
at the National Theatre.
Photo credit: Mark Shenton
I've written before elsewhere of how, "As a critic, I am used to... Read more
The presence of Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer Kenneth Lonergan returns to the West End with The Starry Messenger, soon to open at the Wyndham's Theatre. Matthew Broderick will make his West End... Read more
In the musical Hairspray, black kids are invited to appear on the Corny Collins TV show once a month only, on what's referred to as Negro Day. Tracy Turnblad, the show's heroine, proudly proclaims: "... Read more
As if Boris Johnson was not ubiquitous enough, he turns up on stage this week in a new play at the Park Theatre this week (which is in fact located in Jeremy Corbyn's constituency!)
A more welcome... Read more
Friday Briefing: Hosting Carlos Acosta and talking Sondheim at the National, plus theatrical marmite
Carlos Acosta receives the Critics' Circle's highest honour
For nine years, I was chairman of the drama section of the Critics' Circle, and I have recently begun a two-year term as President of the... Read more
LondonTheatre.co.uk today launches its new podcast series, Spotlight, featuring extended interviews with the cast, creatives and supporters of theatre in London.
Released on a bi-weekly basis, each... Read more
No theatrical producer - with the entirely fictitious exception of Bialystock and Bloom in The Producers - sets out to deliberately make a flop show; but the road to Broadway (or West End) glory is... Read more
It may be a shorter week owing to the bank holiday, but there's still a busy week for what's left - plus celebrations of Sondheim and rock musicals.
This Week in Theatre
Sondheim features strongly... Read more
The winners (and losers) in the Tony nominations
Nominations for this year's Tony Awards on Broadway, announced on Tuesday, saw two original plays transferred from London's Royal Court and Almeida... Read more
The great canon of Broadway musicals from its golden age - roughly the 1920s to the 1960s - produced a great trench of enduring classics, some of them certainly the amongst the greatest musicals ever... Read more
