Bigger, bolder and camper than ever – Eurovision (Your Decision) returns for 2023
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by Wilma
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Originating in the Cabaret Lounge at Above The Stag Theatre in 2021, Eurovision (Your Decision), devised and directed by Tim McArthur is back for a third year! This year it’s bigger, bolder and camper, true to the Eurovision style. Join your hosts, the hilarious Katie and Demetrius as they introduce iconic hit songs from past Eurovision Song Contests, performed live by a cast of four West End performers. During the interval the audience vote for their favourite and winning act of the night. At the top of Act Two a special guest artist will perform before we travel around Europe collecting vote ..read more
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World premiere of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN comes to @sohoplace
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by Wilma
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Brokeback Mountain plays @sohoplace 10 May – 12 August 2023 The world premiere of Brokeback Mountain, a new play with music, written by Ashley Robinson with songs by Dan Gillespie Sells based on Annie Proulx’s short story will open @sohoplace in May. Directed by Jonathan Butterell, Brokeback Mountain stars Mike Faist as Jack and Lucas Hedges as Ennis, both making their West End stage debuts. The production sees Jonathan Butterell and Dan Gillespie Sells (The Feeling), creators of the hit musical and film Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, reuniting with Producer Nica Burns. Wyoming 1963: a wild ..read more
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Is the new play HAMNET just &JULIET without the songs?
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by Wilma
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Hamnet plays at London’s Garrick Theatre 30 September 2023 – 6 January 2024  The stage production of Hamnet will transfer direct to London’s Garrick Theatre this autumn after selling out ahead of its world premiere at the newly restored Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon this April. This new play based on the best-selling novel by Maggie O’Farrell, adapted by award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti (Life of Pi, Red Velvet, Hymn), pulls back a curtain on the story of the greatest writer in the English language and the woman who was the constant presence and purpose of his life. Madele ..read more
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Stock Aitken Waterman musical I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY announced
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by Wilma
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The World Premiere of the official Stock Aitken Waterman musical I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY will open at the Manchester Opera House on 1 November 2023 and play the Christmas season at Leeds Grand Theatre & Opera House from 12 – 30 December 2023 as part of a UK tour. The Wedding is OFF, but the Honeymoon is ON! Head from the aisle to the isles in the official Stock Aitken Waterman musical featuring the soundtrack of a generation with music from pop royalty including Kylie Minogue (I Should Be So Lucky), Rick Astley (Never Gonna Give You Up), Jason Donovan (Especially For You) and Bananarama (Love ..read more
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Magic at the Musicals announce 2023 line-up at the Royal Albert Hall
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by Wilma
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Back for another year at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 14th May, the glittering show will also see the return of theatre icon and Magic at the Musicals radio presenter Ruthie Henshall and comedian and TV presenter Jason Manford as hosts for the evening. The shows taking place are We Will Rock You, The Great British Bake Off Musical, Guys & Dolls, Crazy For You, Royal Shakespeare Company’s Matilda The Musical, Ain’t Too Proud, Cabaret, Disney’s Frozen, Disney’s The Lion King, Grease The Musical and Wicked. The event showcases the best and most iconic shows the West End and beyond has ..read more
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Showstopper! The Improvised Musical returns to the West End
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by Wilma
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Showstopper! The Improvised Musical plays at Cambridge Theatre 22nd May, 5th & 26th June, 17th July, 16th & 30th October, 13th & 27th November and 18th December The incredible ‘Showstopper! The Improvised Musical’ has announced a move to the prestigious Cambridge Theatre, home to ‘Matilda the Musical’, from 22nd May, continuing their West End success and following their monthly residency at the Lyric. Showstopper! is spontaneous musical comedy at its absolute finest. It is the first ever long-form improv show to have a full West End run and to be nominated and win an Olivier Award ..read more
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West End Premiere of Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image the Musical
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Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image The Musical plays at Phoenix Theatre 24 May – 26 August 2023 Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image The Musical  written by a tour de force comedy team made up of  Al Murray (The Pub Landlord) Matt Forde (The Political Party) and double Olivier award winner  Sean Foley (The Upstart Crow, The Play What I Wrote) makes its West End Premiere at the Phoenix Theatre in London. Critically acclaimed when it was developed at the Birmingham Rep earlier this year,  the show is directed by the Rep ..read more
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Peter Pan Goes Wrong returns to the West End this Christmas
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by Wilma
2d ago
Peter Pan Goes Wrong plays at the Lyric Theatre 23 November 2023 – 14 January 2024 Mischief, creators of the multi award-winning sell-out success The Play That Goes Wrong, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery and the BBC TV comedy series The Goes Wrong Show, announce the return of Peter Pan Goes Wrong to the West End for 7 ½ weeks only at the Lyric Theatre this Christmas. Co-penned by Mischief’s celebrated writing trio, Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, Peter Pan Goes Wrong is a highly physical comedy packed with finely-tuned farce and Buster Keaton inspired slapstick, delivered with s ..read more
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Frantic Assembly’s new adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis comes to London
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by Wilma
2d ago
Full tour dates have been announced for Frantic Assembly’s new adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, a collaboration between internationally celebrated poet, playwright and broadcaster Lemn Sissay OBE and Frantic Assembly’s artistic director Scott Graham (Othello, Lovesong, Beautiful Burnout). Metamorphosis will be adapted by Lemn Sissay, designed by Jon Bausor, with video design by Ian William Galloway, music composed by Stefan Janik and sound design by Helen Skiera. Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a powerful and vital depiction of humans struggling within a system that crushes them under its h ..read more
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Cast announced for the official Take That Musical GREATEST DAYS
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by Wilma
2d ago
The Official Take That Musical GREATEST DAYS will embark on a major UK and Ireland tour from 6 May 2023 and will coincide with the summer 2023 release of the official movie version of this smash-hit musical, starring Aisling Bea and Jayde Adams. The full cast includes Taylor Alman (The Legend of White Bear Lake), Charlotte Anne Steen (Bat Out of Hell), Holly Ashton (Footloose), Hannah Brown (Hansel & Gretel), Kalifa Burton (Matilda), Benjamin Cameron (Grease Royal Caribbean) Jamie Corner (The Band), Archie Durrant (Matilda), Regan Gascoigne (winner of Dancing on Ice 2022, Cinderella), Kitt ..read more
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