London Theatre News and Reviews

Following sell-out concerts in New York, Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown will make his West End concert debut for two nights only on Friday 24 September and Saturday 25 September at the Garrick Theatre, joined for the first time outside of the US by Anika Noni Rose, the Tony Award-winning star of Caroline, or Change, the motion picture [...]

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London based advertising agency Dewynters, have received praise from The New York Times for their theatre first feature trailer for Deathtrap.  The illustrious newspaper heaped praise upon the trailer saying that it had “production values that rival anything to come out of today’s Hollywood horror movie machine”. 

Working closely with the play’s producer David Pugh, Dewynters have released two versions [...]

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The Charles Dickens Museum presents Oliver! From Page to Stage, an exhibition in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Lionel Bart’s hit musical originally opening in the West End on 30 June 1960.
 
The relationship between Dickens’s Oliver Twist and the stage is the subject of a new exhibition on display in the house where the original story was written, [...]

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Blood Brothers at Phoenix Theatre London has announced its west end extention until 26th November, 2011.

Written by the legendary Willy Russell, BLOOD BROTHERS tells the captivating and moving tale of twins who, separated at birth, grow up on opposite sides of the track rather than to meet again with tragic consequences. The incredible score includes Bright New Day, Marilyn Monroe [...]

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Five dance performances at Leicester Square, London had the judges tapping their toes on Saturday 31 July as part of the Barclays Live dance competition to celebrate the continued investment across Barclays’ branch network– and these performers are now shimmying through to the next round.

Definitives, Retaliation, DEM LOT, Fusion and Remix are all finalists in the Barclays Live competition [...]

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Jill Halfpenny Celebrates The Great British Songbook…Live at Wilton’s at Wilton’s Music Hall from Tuesday 28 – Thursday 30 September 2010.

Strictly Come Dancing & Legally Blonde Star Sings Great British Songs:

Following sell-out seasons with Maria Friedman and Kerry Ellis in 2009, The Great British Songbook returns for 2010 with TV and West End star Jill Halfpenny taking to the stage [...]

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NEXT DOOR, is an intense story about modern day slavery. An explosive contemporary play embedded with Parkour and physical theatre that takes the audience from light to dark.

Faith Drama Productions present their latest theatre production NEXT DOOR at the Cockpit Theatre. It will run at 7.30pm from 17th – 28th August 2010 and matinees will be held at 2.45pm [...]

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A Disappearing Number takes as its starting point the story of the most mysterious and romantic mathematical collaborations of all time.

Simultaneously a narrative and an enquiry, the production crosses three continents and several histories, to weave a provocative theatrical pattern about our relentless compulsion to understand.

Threaded through this pattern of stories and ideas are questions. About mathematics and beauty; [...]

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Only restored in its entirety in 2004, Frederick Ashton’s Sylvia at once showed itself a fine combination of all the ingredients of the best of classical ballet.

The story, from Greek myth, has Sylvia at the centre of dramatic events that have a statue come to life, Sylvia’s abduction by the evil hunter Orion, and her dead lover Aminta restored [...]

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Shakespeare’s tragedy of doomed young love receives a wonderful interpretation in Gounod’s opera, combining all of the drama of the well-known story and the emotional and stirring music typical of the composer of Faust.

Not presented by The Royal Opera for a decade, Nicolas Joël’s production is revived with a fantastic cast conducted by French specialist Daniel Oren, and that [...]

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