BWW Interviews: Darren Carnall On WEST END BARES!September 3, 2014Stars of stage and screen Jake Canuso, James Dreyfuss, Matt Evers, Jill Halfpenny, Helen Lederer and Harriet Thorpe are amongst the special guest presenters for this year's West End Bares 'Nudedunnit?!' gala performances at Cafe de Paris in London's West End on Sunday.
Winternitz Continues Opposite Ronan Keating In ONCE, From November!August 29, 2014Today (29 August 2014), the producers of Once announce that Jill Winternitz will be continuing in the role of Girl opposite the previously announced Ronan Keating as Guy. Keating will be joining the Olivier award-winning musical on 17 November 2014, with press night on Tuesday 25 November 2014. Once is currently booking at the Phoenix Theatre to 4 July 2015.
STAGE TUBE: John Bowles With The Cast of EPSTEINAugust 22, 2014Epstein: The Man Who Made The Beatles is the untold story of music entrepreneur Brian Epstein, whose stellar career as Beatles Manager made him a household name yet whose controversial personal life remained in the closet. Acclaimed stage and TV star Andrew Lancel (Coronation Street, The Bill) and actor Will Finlason return to the roles of Epstein and 'This Boy', which they each received rave reviews at the Liverpool premiere in 2012. The two-hander play imagines this brilliant but troubled man's drug-fuelled final days in his Belgravia apartment whilst looking back upon his illustrious meteoric career from drama school days to managing the world's biggest pop group - a must-see opportunity to discover an unexplored stage play of a true icon of 1960's popular culture - a man who shaped music and style across the world. Brian Epstein died in 1967 of an accidental overdose at the age of 32.
BWW Interviews: The DOGFIGHT Creators Arrive In London For Show's European Premiere!August 13, 2014I'm fairly sure that after flying across the Atlantic, one might conceivably be excused for being tired. But the trio of creatives behind Dogfight - Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Peter Duchan - are happily sitting in the cafe at the Southwark Playhouse, cheerily chatting away before their show's official European premiere.
Nominations Open For 2014 BWW:UK Awards!August 11, 2014After last year's exciting awards, where The Book of Mormon and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory mopped up the musical awards and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time picked up the prizes for plays, it's time to open nominations for the 2014 BWW:UK Awards!
BWW Interviews: Johnny Partridge Talks New Album, 'Tumble' And CATS!August 6, 2014'Gymnastics does not come very naturally to me. I keep worrying I'm going to knock out some teeth, or break my collarbone, or something,' says Johnny Partridge. Theatre fans might know him most recently as Zach in A Chorus Line; soap watchers will recognise him as Christian from EastEnders; reality TV viewers will remember him as a judge on 'Over The Rainbow' as Andrew Lloyd Webber searched for a girl to lead the cast of The Wizard Of Oz.
STAGE TUBE: Daniel Koek Talks About New Album 'HIGH!'July 28, 2014Daniel Koek, star of the West End production of Les Miserables - recently playing the title role of Jean Valjean, launched his new album 'HIGH' last month, on the 7 July at the Elgar Rooms at the Royal Albert Hall.