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By Douglas Mayo
We’re almost done with this massive project to identify the Top 100 Greatest Musicals as judged by our readers and musical theatre fans around the world. In this latest…
By Douglas Mayo
Live theatre lovers are probably going to hate me for this one, but I have to say that I actually enjoyed the Half A Sixpence recording more than I enjoyed the show – b…
By Douglas Mayo
Action To The Word’s award-winning all-male production of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange will return to London for a limited season at the Park Theatre from …
By Douglas Mayo
antic|face has announced casting for their upcoming production of Alex MacKeith’s School Play at Southwark Playhouse, opening on 1 February 2017 for a limited seas…
By Douglas Mayo
Over the past six months, we’ve become an ardent fan of some great theatre podcasts. Once you get the hang of the technology there are some great podcasts out there for…
By Douglas Mayo
In an appearance on The One Show on BBC One this week promoting his new show Half A Sixpence, the world’s most successful producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh hinted that Ma…
By Douglas Mayo
Producers have announced that Carolyn Maitland will replace Sarah Harding in the current UK tour of Ghost The Musical starting at the Orchard Theatre in Dartford on 17 Januar…
By Douglas Mayo
If you are a fan of Hairspray or if you have never heard the score then this is certainly the one I’d recommend you start with
This post REVIEW: Hairspray Live Original…
By Douglas Mayo
Cirque Du Soleil has worked out exactly how to bedazzle and audience and they do it year after year, in production after production around the world.
This post REVIEW: Amalun…
By Douglas Mayo
We are pleased to bring you some great first look rehearsal photos by Johan Persson for the new West End production of Edward Albee’s classic American drama Who’s…
By Douglas Mayo
New Adventures have announced that due to popular demand new dates have been added to the World Premiere tour of Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes. The Red Shoes will now …
By Douglas Mayo
We’re often asked what we listen to here at BritishTheatre.com HQ and it just takes too long to make a list so we decided to put together monthly playlist to highlight …
By Douglas Mayo
Disney Theatrical have announced that they will be holding open auditions for their new West End musical Aladdin. The critically acclaimed show which opened at the Prince Edw…
By Douglas Mayo
It looks like Producer Bill Kenwright has certainly pulled out all the stops in the lavish new production of the musical La Cage Aux Folles which began its UK tour last week …
By Douglas Mayo
Rest assured Miss Marisha Wallace will not leave you wanting. She is incandescent throughout this production. Whilst most productions of Dreamgirls would be lucky to have one…
By Douglas Mayo
Annie Siddon’s autobiographical show about chronic loneliness is coming to Soho Theatre from 13 February 2017. The show which has been billed as “funny, brutal an…
By Douglas Mayo
Following her sell-out concerts last year, six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will return to London’s West End in April for four concerts at the Leicester Square…
By Douglas Mayo
Looking forward, 2017 will offer West End Theatre-goers some exciting new shows with great revivals, star-led shows and big Broadway hits. These are some of the productions t…
By Douglas Mayo
Following a murderous exit last October in ITV’s Emmerdale, Bill Ward will join Laura Whitmore and Stephen Billington in the cast of Peter James’ latest stage thr…
By Douglas Mayo
BritishTheatre.com are proud to announce that our Show Of The Month for January 2017 is Beautiful – The Carole King Musical. Beautiful is a musical biography of Carole …
By Douglas Mayo
We are pleased to bring you these first look rehearsal photographs by Scott Rylander from Maury Yeston’s new musical Death Takes A Holiday which opens at Charing Cross …
By Douglas Mayo
We are pleased to bring you this great first look video of Zoë Doano and Chris Peluso singing More And More from the musical Death Takes A Holiday which runs at Charing Cr…
By Douglas Mayo
Musical theatre has been well served in 2016 on both sides of the Atlantic with revivals of amazing musicals and the unveiling of some new works which are fast becoming favou…
By Douglas Mayo
Oliver Reed: Wild Thing, a play by Mike Davis and Rob Crouch returns to the Kings Head Theatre from 10 – 28 January 2017. This one-man homage to renowned actor Oliver R…
By Douglas Mayo
Full casting has been announced for US playwright Lindsey Ferrentino’s Ugly Lies The Bone which opens at the Lyttelton Theatre at the National theatre in February 2017.…
