By London Box Office Tuesday, November 8 2022, 17:41
Update for Get Up, Stand Up at the Lyric Theatre
The marvellous Bob Marley Musical is coming to a close after a critically acclaimed run at the Lyric stuffed with classic Marley tunes. Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical, currently delighting audiences at the Lyric Theatre, has entered its final weeks in the West End and holds a last performance on Sunday 8th January 2023, after which it takes off on a tour of the UK.
By London Box Office Tuesday, November 8 2022, 16:21
DLAP Group is thrilled to announce the West End stars Frances Mayli McCann and Jordan Luke Gage are going to be reunited in BONNIE & CLYDE THE MUSICAL at The Garrick Theatre from Saturday 4th March 2023, playing the lead roles for a strictly limited 11 week run. The musical brings the infamous US couple’s violent story to vivid life.
By Stuart King Friday, November 4 2022, 09:54
The Tower of London provides the backdrop for Gilbert & Sullivan’s playful romp-amidst-the-ravens where the waywardly amorous daughter of a righteous Beefeater has designs on one of the inmates (whom it seems, everyone believes innocent of the crime for which he has been incarcerated). By using her womanly wiles and appealing to her father’s good nature, Phoebe contrives to set-free the object of her desire and instead imprison him in matrimony. But is she doomed to failure?
A scene from Yeoman Of The Guard by Gilbert & Sullivan @ Coliseum. Directed by Jo Davies. Conductor, Chris Hopkins. ©Tristram Kenton
By Stuart King Tuesday, November 1 2022, 08:16
For a woman who was executed aged 44 more than four centuries ago, there remains an extraordinarily healthy fascination with Mary Queen of Scots, her life, loves, apparent political miss-steps and legacy. Much has been written over the centuries — overwhelmingly by men and through a male power prism — invariably gaslighting Mary’s vulnerability as misguided passion resulting in ill-considered alliances conceived through little more than lust.
Douglas Henshall (James Melville) Brian Vernel (Thompson) Rona Morison (Agnes) in Mary at Hampstead Theatre. Credit Manuel Harlan
By Stuart King Friday, October 28 2022, 10:42
When news of its existence began circulating many moons ago, there seemed something delightfully subversive about the prospect of Elton John and Jake Shears combining their songwriting talents to create a musical based on the tumultuous life of one of the Christian Evangelical movement’s most unforgettable, beloved, pilloried, reviled and eventually rehabilitated television personalities, Tammy Faye Bakker.
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