Douglas Hodge won Olivier and Tony Awards for his flamboyant yet poignant turn in La Cage aux Folles, catapulting this veteran of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Pinter into the musical theater pan…
The world-premiere musical version of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, featuring a score by Tony Award winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, officially opened …
The world premiere of a new musical version of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, featuring a score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, plays London's West End. Jack Cost…
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Performance highlights from the original London production with Douglas Hodge. No copyright infringement intended. http://www.songsfromthemusicals.com Fro…
While the magic of Matilda is in its appeal to adults as well as children, the strongest appeal this time is to the younger generation. . . Read More
Chantal Coady of the Rococo chocolate company applauds a new stage production of Roald Dahl's book and remembers her own real-life Willy Wonka Continue reading...
Chantal Coady of the Rococo chocolate company applauds a new stage production of Roald Dahl's book " and remembers her own real-life Willy WonkaI first read Roald Dahl's book when I was five…
The much-anticipated West End stage production of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' has little originality, lacks flavor and doesn't live up to its billing.LONDON — All the best ingr…
Sam Mendes' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which opened Tuesday, June 26th on London's West End, just added six months to its run and is now set to continue until May 31, 2014. The offic…
Tony and Olivier Award winner Douglas Hodge stars as Willy Wonka in the West End premiere of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. One of the biggest summer attractions on th…
Tony and Olivier Award winner Douglas Hodge stars as Willy Wonka in the West End premiere of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. One of the biggest summer attractions on th…
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonToo static, too visually blaring, too short on tunes, too mechanical, too unimaginative. I have not disliked a whopping show so much since Chitty Chitty Bang …
Would Roald Dahl have been such a big deal without his illustrator Quentin Blake? The question nagged silently during years of reading aloud stories often clumsy, even cruel. And here is Bla…
The latest Roald Dahl musical to hit the West End proves that putting children's books on stage requires theatre-makers to think beyond what's on the pageThe Sam Mendes-directed Charlie and …
The latest Roald Dahl musical to hit the West End proves that putting children's books on stage requires theatre-makers to think beyond what's on the pageThe Sam Mendes-directed Charlie and …
The UK's The Guardian reports that Sam Mendes' CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, which opened Tuesday, June 26th on London's West End, will add six months to its run
The Roald Dahl musical adaptation opened in London's West End this week in a big-budget Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures production, elaborately staged by Sam Mendes.read more
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," which opened on Tuesday night at Theater Royal, Drury Lane, is jammed with games and gadgets.
The sadistic Willy Wonka oversees a mega-factory run on slave labour and chooses the boy least likely to succeed as a businessmanWith two film versions, and now a West End musical, Charlie a…
Michael Coveney WhatsOnStage ★★★★ …the glorious new musical at Drury Lane has something crucial over the two fine film versions: a real sense of invention and impr…
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London: Cynics will suggest that the team assembled for this project have jumped on the Roald Dahl bandwagon, following the award-winning success of Matilda the Mu…
New West End musical adds six months to its run a mere day after it opens " despite unenthusiastic critical verdictNew West End musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has announced a six-…
The launch of the new family West End production Charlie And The Chocolate Factory falls short of real magic, according to mixed opening night reviews.
Who, in their right mind, would choose to be an Oompa-Loompa - part of what is effectively a sweet-toothed slave-labour force? Still, they are full of vim, ingeniously created (a hectic hybr…