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MJ The Musical
22 May
News
Eleni Cashell

Myles Frost to star in MJ THE MUSICAL in London

MJ The MusicalBroadway performer Myles Frost is returning to the role that earned him a Tony Award for the West End premiere of MJ THE MUSICAL.

Winner of Best Actor in a Musical at this year's Tony Awards, Frost will play the lead role of Michael Jackson. Further casting is to be confirmed.

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Serena Manteghi, J.J. Henry, Ashh Blackwood, Dom Hodson and Rachel Summers - Bleak Expectations - credit Manuel Harlan
21 May
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: BLEAK EXPECTATIONS at The Criterion

Zany Dickensian-inspired mayhem has landed at Piccadilly Circus in the form of a period farce with more Charles Dickens references than you could feasibly shake an ebony silver-topped cane at — and there really couldn’t be a more fitting venue to host such a Victorian comedy melodrama, than The Criterion.

Serena Manteghi, J.J. Henry, Ashh Blackwood, Dom Hodson and Rachel Summers - Bleak Expectations - credit Manuel HarlanSerena Manteghi, J.J. Henry, Ashh Blackwood, Dom Hodson and Rachel Summers - Bleak Expectations - credit Manuel Harlan

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Sunset Blvd
19 May
News
Eleni Cashell

Nicole Scherzinger to star in SUNSET BOULEVARD 

Sunset BlvdDon't cha wish there was a new production of SUNSET BOULEVARD? Well, good news, it's returning to London in September!

Nicole Scherzinger will take on the iconic role of Norma Desmond for the limited 16-week run at the Savoy Theatre.

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Brokeback Mountain. Mike Faist (Jack) and Lucas Hedges (Ennis). Credit - Manuel Harlan
19 May
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN at Soho Place

Originally published as a short story in The New Yorker magazine back in 1997, Annie Proulx’s sensitive tale of two young cowboys Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar struggling with poverty in rural Wyoming, was turned into an Oscar-winning movie in 2005 and perhaps more surprisingly, an opera in 2014. Here, the story receives a further treatment — this time as a play by Ashley Robinson, supported with songs by Dan Gillespie Sells.

Brokeback Mountain. Mike Faist (Jack) and Lucas Hedges (Ennis). Credit - Manuel HarlanBrokeback Mountain. Mike Faist (Jack) and Lucas Hedges (Ennis). Credit - Manuel Harlan

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The Dumb Waiter - A Slight Ache
19 May
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: THE DUMB WAITER & A SLIGHT ACHE at Greenwich Theatre

The Dumb Waiter - A Slight Ache Greenwich Theatre, just a stones throw from Cutty Sark DLR, is currently offering a Pinter double bill of late 1950s dark comedies. Some consider both The Dumb Waiter and The Slight Ache mini-masterworks given that they examine power, influence, susceptibility, suspicion, confusion, perception and assumption.

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