27 stories from londontheatreblog.co.uk
Over this past weekend, I experienced a healthy dose of Andrew Lloyd Webber nostalgia, attending The Phantom of the Opera (now in its 28th year at Her Majesty’s Theatre) on the Friday …
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Disney Theatrical Group, created in 1994 by Disney’s then-CEO Michael Eisner, Peter Schneider and Thomas Schumacher. The latter serves today as …
With so much to see in London, both on the West End and further afield, it is almost impossible to try and attempt to catch everything. Whilst most people narrow down long lists to a reasona…
Last night I took a trip down to the scaffolding-clad Harold Pinter Theatre to watch the next installment in a long line of jukebox musicals. The show is Sunny Afternoon, and it centres arou…
In what has become the biggest opening of the theatrical season, Lindsay Lohan’s West End stage debut has created a stir amongst audiences, critics and professionals within the industr…
With a plethora of West End plays making the journey across the pond to entertain audiences on the Great White Way this season, it got me to thinking of what exactly the contemporary British…
This week one of my favourite musicals, Evita, returns to the West End. The show is somewhat of a guilty pleasure, but is one that even people who dislike Lloyd Webber can usually get on boa…
On Saturday, 13 September, I went to see a showcase performance of a brand new British musical called Feelgood Academy The Musical. A showcase is primarily aimed at producers and potential b…
As this unexpectedly warm and sunny British summer (on the whole) comes to an end, so too, sadly, does the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre 2014 season. I have to say that it is one of m…
In Britain, and now across the world, it is common to see a mug, tea towel, T-shirt etc., which proudly displays the inspirational message, “Keep Calm, and carry on.” Words taken…
The London fringe has long been a hive of activity. Many of the best productions I have ever seen lay far away from the glittery lights of Shaftesbury Avenue and the West End – often i…
There are many theatre goers, especially theatrical newbies, who if provided with the unavoidable choice of having a tooth extracted or watching a Greek tragedy by Euripides, would gl…
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Late yesterday afternoon I suddenly had a bee in my bonnet. Totally out of the blue, I decided that I just had to see Cynthia Erivo in ‘Dessa Rose’ (at the Trafalgar Studios 2). …
Since the dawn of the internet, the online ticketing industry has embraced the new technology to embrace ticket purchases for events around the globe – be it theatre, music, comedy or …
My first ever blog entry can only be about one subject – the ‘out of body experience’. I’d never really taken much notice of this, until I went to see The Commitments…
Last night I braved the terrential London downpour and travelled South to the New Wimbledon Theatre for the opening night of the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q. Having settled in London…
Even without its climactic sequel this is a roguishly appealing, stand-alone historical romp.
Electric Hotel is a piece of total theatre, a beautiful, meditative and eerie exploration of isolation and violence seen through the eyes of voyeurs.
Diana Damian talks to Tim Webb, Artistic Director of Oily Cart, about his company and its work for children with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
It's not every day that you get to hear a Shakespeare play (or at least a play partly by Shakespeare) for the first time.
Grafting a social conscience onto Barrie's blithely heartless hero isn't as easy as re-attaching lost shadows.
Elevator is a strong, enjoyable, realist drama about a generation lost in the euphoria of freedom yet stalked by a darker cultural history.
Sinead Mac Manus looks at the world's largest social networking site to gauge its potential for theatre artists and companies.
Diana Damian talks to writer and performer Rebecca Vaughan about the concept and creative process behind her solo piece, Austen's Women.
