The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream, a new concert event written by guitarist Steven Van Zandt, with music and lyrics by Felix Cavaliere & Eddie Brigati, plays a limited engagement at Broadwa…
The film that turned into a Broadway hit, is now in London
In the mid-1960s Felix Cavaliere, Eddie Brigati, Dino Danelli and Gene Cornish helped popularize "blue-eyed soul" as The Rascals. After 40-plus years, they reunite for The Rascals: Once Upon…
Story of a Dublin busker and a Czech pianist won 8 Tony Awards last year.
Gene Cornish jokes that the trick to reuniting The Rascals, 40 years after one of New York's best-loved rock bands broke up, turned out to be remarkably simple. "We checked the guns…
Royal Court, London; Royal Exchange, Manchester; Phoenix, LondonIt's a tribute to Nicholas Hytner's mighty reign at the National that the news of his standing down outshone, or outdarkened, …
You can't reprise Once, can you? The title implies as much. Moreover, what rendered John Carney's original, award-winning, low-budget 2006 movie so extraordinary was that, while being at hea…
People sneer at musicals for endless reasons: they hate Broadway brashness, non-naturalistic lurches in and out of song, the sentimentality. One of the least acknowledged reasons, however, i…
ONCE opened to critical acclaim last night in London's West End. Read what the critics are saying: The Guardian: 4 Stars “It owes its success not just to its versatile performers but t…
Scenic and costume designer Bob Crowley opened his London studio to us to discuss the look of Tony winner Once, which is now playing both on Broadway and in the West End. Find out Crowl…
This musical love story between two unnamed protagonists exerts a delicate, slow-burning charm, writes Sarah Hemming
Let's see what the critics had to say...
The London production of Once opened last night, April 9 at The Phoenix Theatre and is currently booking to 30 November 2013. Check out photos from the opening night curatin call and after p…
John Tiffany's production of multiple Tony Award-winning screen-to-stage musical Once received its West End premiere at the Phoenix Theatre last night (9 April 2013). When an Irish busker a…
There's a mock-up of a Dublin bar on the stage of the Phoenix Theatre (all foxed mirrors and nicotine-stained walls) and in the build-up to the show and during the interval, punters are invi…
Phoenix, 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.…
John Tiffany's production of award-winning musical Once starring Declan Bennett and Zrinka Cvitesic opened at the Phoenix Theatre last night (9 April 2013). Based on the Oscar-winning film,…
Phoenix, LondonMusicals these days tend to batter you into submission. This one, winner of eight Tony awards and based on a 2006 low-budget movie by John Carney that I have deliberately avoi…
Declan Bennett & Zrinka Cvitesic As in all the best original musicals, the subject matter of Once is unpromising: Dublin busker meets Czech married mother, fixes her hoover, falls in love on…
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The Tony Award-winning musical Once, which continues its critically acclaimed run at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, officially opens at the West End's Phoenix Theatre Apr…
THE RASCALS ONCE UPON A DREAM, which will premiere on Broadway this spring for 15 performances only, is directed by Steven Van Zandt and Marc Brickman. With music by Felix Cavaliere and Eddi…
Making her solo concert debut, Milioti was seen in Off-Broadway's That Face and she has also appeared in television programs such as 30 Rock and films such as Greetings from the Shore. Broad…
Production images have been released for John Tiffany's production of the Tony Award-winning musical Once, which opens tomorrow (9 April 2013). Zrinka Cvitesic Declan Bennett & Zrinka C…
Production images have been released for John Tiffany's production of the Tony Award-winning musical Once, which opens tomorrow (9 April 2013). Zrinka Cvitesic Declan Bennett & Zrinka C…