New Wolsey, Ipswich: Miss Nightingale is an intimate, original musical set in the nightclubs of Forties London with an equally original score by composer and lyricist Matthew Bugg. Read the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMTheatre Royal Stratford East, London: Told with shocking clarity but a keen sense of compassion, one of the remarkable things about this new drama is its eloqence. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:49AMHarold Pinter Theatre, London: Once again the <a href="https://www.menierchocolatefactory.com/">Menier Chocolate Factory</a>, a tiny theatre in Southwark, proves itself…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMShadow Lounge, London: Burlexe attempts to bring a sense of social history to the art of striptease by interspersing the acts with pertinent dramatic monologues. The venue is a subterranean …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AMLandor, London: Judging by the amount of popular chick lit foisted onto the public every summer, it was only a matter of time before some enterprising composer attempted a musical adaptation…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PMNew Diorama, London: This new piece focuses on episodes in the life and death of mathematician, inventor and war hero Alan Turing. Much of the same territory is covered in Hugh Whitemore…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMArts, London: One of the joys of Jonathan Harvey's 1993 play, Beautiful Thing, is that despite occasional references to celebrity it manages to remain a fairly contemporary piece. The t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:01AMRoyal Court Theatre, London: When you are faced with 36 duologues in an afternoon you really have to pack a punch to be noticed. Fortunately the graduating students of ALRA's Three-Year…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:14PMLeicester Square, London: At an age when most people contemplate their dotage, actress, writer and mother Joan Collins gamely takes the role of host in this one-woman show, detailing the hig…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMHoxton Hall, London: Based on the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Revenge is an adaptation of the original Sherlock Holmes-The Musical, which managed a fairly forgettable s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMHackney Empire, London: Over 16 years in the making, Carl Leighton-Pope's musical Carnaby Street offers a peek at London in the swinging sixties, when youth culture began to make an imp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMPhoenix, London: Thanks to the bellowing publicity machine of The Book Of Mormon, audiences might be forgiven for not noticing that another Broadway transfer has just opened in the West End.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMCockpit, London: Streets, by Scottish composer and lyricist Finn Anderson, originally premiered to critical acclaim at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Despite its hefty praise, the adage…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMLeicester Square, London: The set-up of Mat Ricardo's London Varieties is relatively straightforward, with juggler and performer Ricardo playing host to a selection of the finest variet…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PMUnion Theatre, London: Plagued with problems in the lead-up to its premier on Broadway in 1968, Darling of the Day originally starred Patricia Routledge and Vincent Price in what was to be h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMSoho, London: In one of the more inventive and absorbing student showcases of the season, the graduating students of East 15's BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre course write, direct an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMLeicester Square, London: Leslie Jordan became a household name in the UK through his occasional appearances on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. In 2011, Jordan brought his one-man show, My …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMNew Wimbledon, London: After a healthy run in the West End, Broadway and, of course, its original run in Australia, the ultimate road-musical is finally taking a tour of the UK. Based on the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMLost, London: With its glamorous commercial PR and heavy reinforcement of class hierarchy, commercial airline travel has long been a rich source of humour, from the woefully short-lived The …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMCriterion, London: Although based in Glasgow, <a href="http://www.gamta.org.uk/">GAMTA</a> is keen to ensure that its musical theatre graduates are afforded all the opp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:58AMBroadway Studio, London: Originally conceived from an improvised play, this charming musical follows a disparate group of quirky adolescents as they take part in a school spelling competitio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMBlue Elephant, London: In a city driven to the edge of collapse after bloody wars, King Oedipus triumphs, only to be faced with horrifying discoveries about the curse of his birth. For this …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AMAldwych, London: In something akin to a moment from a classic Hollywood movie, Gavin Lee - the new leading man of Top Hat - is suffering with a chest infection and unable to appear. While we…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMWilton's Music Hall, London: The presence of The Great Gatsby in London will linger on for a while, on the fringe at least. After last year's three stage adaptations and ahead of the re…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:29AMTabard, London: For the past two years Pulling Focus Ltd have produced the light operas of Gilbert and Sullivan with an emphasis on the word 'light'. While it's true that the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:48AMHippodrome, London: Relatively unknown in the UK, Sherie Rene Scott is a big name on and off stage on Broadway. A double Tony Award nominee for The Little Mermaid and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:22AMLandor, London: The Landor's From Page to Stage season, running until March 17, aims to highlight new musical theatre by showcasing and running workshops of new writing from a collectio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMThe Crazy Coqs, London: Elaine Delmar has had an enviably diverse career as a performer, working on the West End stage in productions such as Cowardy Custard and Bubbling Brown Sugar in the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15PMLeicester Square, London: Having won Mervyn Stutter's Spirit of the Fringe award in 2011, performance artists from Sendai - Japan SIRO-A - are finally making their London debut. The nam…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMThe Crazy Coqs, London: Being the daughter of Judy Garland and producer Sid Luft means that a career in cabaret comes with certain expectations. By no means as big a star as her mother and p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:47AMThe Crazy Coqs, London: Janie Dee is billed as "one of the most versatile performers on the British stage", so it is perhaps understandable that her new cabaret show Satin Doll is …
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