Review: BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, The Mill At Sonning
Now I’ll come right out and say it: I really wanted to like this play. After a lovely meal and inspired by the genuine passion that clearly unpins everything at this theatre, I was excited to get engrossed in Simon’s comedy – but the story didn’t grab me.
Photos: First Look at BAREFOOT IN THE PARK at The Mill at Sonning
Jonny Labey ('Strictly Ballroom’ in the West End, 'EastEnders') & Hannah Pauley ('The Mystery of DB Cooper', HBO & BBC, 'In Plain Sight' Amazon Prime & ITV) will star in Neil Simon's ‘Barefoot in the Park’, directed by Robin Herford, at the Mill At Sonning Theatre. Check out the first photos from the production.
AVENUE Q Comes To The Hackney Empire
It's time for you to find out what all of the fuzz is about as the UK's naughtiest puppets head to Hackney Empire in the comedy musical Avenue Q 19 a?" 24 August.
BWW Review: AVENUE Q, Theatre Royal Brighton
'What do you do with a BA in English?' What is 'Schadenfreude'? How does one find their 'Purpose' in life? The hit musical comedy Avenue Q comes to Brighton Theatre Royal as part of a new UK tour.
AVENUE Q Comes To Storyhouse
Guess Q's back! The naughtiest puppets in town will be coming to Chester as comedy musical Avenue Q returns next year to tour the UK with all of your favourite fuzzy friends, opening at Portsmouth Kings Theatre 25 January 2019. The show will stop at Storyhouse from 25 February for one week only!
AVENUE Q Comes To Storyhouse
Guess Q's back! The naughtiest puppets in town will be coming to Chester as comedy musical Avenue Q returns next year to tour the UK with all of your favourite fuzzy friends, opening at Portsmouth Kings Theatre 25 January 2019. The show will stop at Storyhouse from 25 February for one week only!
Photo Flash: London Musical Theatre Orchestra Presents STATE FAIR
Rodgers and Hammerstein's ever popular State Fair received its symphonic premiere on Sunday night at London's beautiful Cadogan Hall. The London Musical Theatre Orchestra, a 32-piece orchestra under the baton of founder and conductor Freddie Tapner, brought the rich music of the 1996 Broadway production about the Frake family and their trip to the Iowa State Fair, to life.
In a double first for the LMTO, this was also the first full scale public performance by the company which debuted its inaugural gala, in June of this year, to a packed house at Bishopsgate Institute where they are orchestra in residence.
The concert was directed by award winning director and Evening Standard Awards nominee Thom Southerland featuring a cast of West End stars Wendi Peters, Clive Carter, Richard Fleeshman, Emma Hatton, Oliver Savile and Celine Schoenmaker. The score features favourites including It Might as Well Be Spring, You Never Had It So Good and The Man I Used to Be.
Complete Casting Announced For THE HIRED MAN: IN CONCERT
Casting has been completed for the upcoming concert production of Howard Goodall's The Hired Man. Joining the previously announced Jenna Russell and John Owen-Jones on September 22nd will be Sean Kearns (Wicked, The Commitments) as Pennington, Jessica Louise Parkinson (Love Beyond) as Sally, and James Moore (Matilda) as Harry. They will line up alongside the author Melvyn Bragg as the narrator.
BroadwayWorld Exclusive: Casting Announced for THE LAST TYCOON
F Scott Fitzgerald's 'THE LAST TYCOON' opening Upstairs at the Arts in the West End on August 17th. As part of its four week run, there will also be a special GALA HOLLYWOOD EVENING on Friday 19th August - where the audience can dress up in Hollywood Glamour style and be offered a glass of champagne on arrival - and get to mingle with the cast after the show - which includes:
Fineborough Theatre Announces PRINCESS CARABOO
Originally seen as a staged reading as part of Vibrant - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights and commissioned and developed by the Bristol Old Vic, the world premiere of a new British musical, PRINCESS CARABOO opens at the Finborough Theatre for a four week limited season on Wednesday, 30 March 2016. The extraordinary true story of a beautiful young woman who tricked her way from vagrancy to wealth and power in Regency England by pretending to be a shipwrecked Princess.