Director Barlett Sher brings 1913 London to life through My Fair Lady in the touring production of the same name. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s novel Pygmalion, the story focused on Eliza Doolittle’s quick rise through the classes as an experiment devised by Professor Henry Higgins.
‘Lots of laughs & plenty of magic’: CINDERELLA – New Wimbledon Theatre ★★★★
With an all-star cast, lots of laughs and plenty of magic, Cinderella at the New Wimbledon Theatre is a show not to be missed.
NEWS: Golden Girls UK tour & album are cancelled
The planned Golden Girls UK tour and album featuring Maria Friedman, Lesley Garrett and Bonnie Langford have been cancelled according to press reports.
NEWS: Hugh Dennis returns to stage after 20 years to star with Lesley Garrett star in The Messiah
Hugh Dennis, Lesley Garrett and John Marquez will star in The Messiah, a Biblical new comedy by Patrick Barlow, the Olivier Award-winning writer of The 39 Steps. Ahead of a planned West End transfer, it opens on tour, launching 15 October 2018 at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. A traveling theatre troupe of two actors and an opera singer are set to arrive on camel …
SOME ENCHANTED EVENING – Cadogan Hall
The performers were accompanied by The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, whose conductor Richard Balcombe musically directed the evening to perfection, orchestrating some beautiful arrangements within the revue. We were fortunate to have four fabulous leading West End stars to pay tribute to this genius Broadway legend.
NEWS: Lyric Hammersmith revives Simon Stephens Herons, premieres Sarah Kane opera
The Lyric Hammersmith today announces its Spring 2016 Season. They will present the first professional production of Simon Stephens’ Herons since the play premiered at the Royal Court in 2001, directed by the Lyric’s Artistic Director Sean Holmes. This is followed by the return of their coproduction with Filter Theatre of A Midsummer Night’s Dream last staged in 2012, and two radical new operas co-produced with the Royal Opera House.
Star Turns Part Two: The Sound of Music
Fast forward to Friday. During the afternoon, I had an appointment at the London Palladium to negotiate its hire for the London Gay Men’s Chorus Christmas show and it was more than exciting to be on that stage, especially as it was maintenance day for Sound of Music and the mountain was rotating on its […]
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