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By Phil Willmott Monday, January 16 2017, 14:56
No one can accuse the producers at the Charing Cross Theatre of playing it safe. Since the appointment of Thom Southerland as Artistic Director they've already had two big hits with revivals of cult musicals TITANIC and RAGTIME and the more obscure DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY opens there soon.
But, with the departure of co-producer Danielle Tarento, it's their next production which is really eye brow raising.
By Phil Willmott Monday, January 16 2017, 13:26
The English National Opera at the Coliseum has a new Artistic Director, the relatively inexperienced Daniel Kramer. Like his predecessors he's promising to balance the pioneering with the populist. But mostly the populist. We've previously reported that the vast and beautiful venue will be home to a starry revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical CAROUSEL in the summer.
By Phil Willmott Monday, December 19 2016, 12:00
Shows about real life pop and rock artists which include their greatest hits have been big business on Broadway and in London for a decade or so now and are popular with audiences who know they'll hear songs they already love.
By Phil Willmott Friday, November 25 2016, 14:57
The enterprising producers begin this years critically acclaimed production of SUNSET BOULEVARD starring Glenn Close and the previous years mega-revival of SWEENEY TODD have just announced that their next collaboration with English National Opera at the Coliseum will be CAROUSEL. This revival of the much loved Rodgers and Hammerstein classic from 1945 will star Alfie Boe and Catherine Jenkins.
By Phil Willmott Friday, November 4 2016, 15:37
The Menier Chocolate Factory's new production of Tom Stoppard's TRAVESTIES broke their box office records by selling out ahead of its first preview.
If you missed out on tickets there’ll be another chance to see it when it transfers to the West End in February next year with TV star Tom Hollander reprising his role as Henry Carr, a minor British diplomat in Zurich in 1917 who encounters a surreal mob of fictional and real life characters.
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