Critics Circle Theatre Awards turn 25 as Chimerica prevails.
The Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards 2013 took place on Tuesday 28 January 2014, at the Prince of Wales Theatre, celebrating the 25th anniversary of these unique awards
Month: January 2014
Jersey Boys to tour UK for the first time.
The Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical Jersey Boys, which has been delighting audiences in London for six years, will be touring the United Kingdom for the first time from September 2014.
Sex and the City star Kristen Davis to make West End debut in Fatal Attraction
It was announced today that Kristin Davis will join Mark Bazeley and Natascha McElhone in Trvor Nunn’s forthcoming production of Fatal Attraction at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Best known for her role as Charlotte in TV’s Sex and the City, Davis will be making her West End debut. The world stage premiere of Fatal Attraction starts previews at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on March 11, with Opening Night scheduled for March 25. Fatal Attraction is produced by Theatre Royal Haymarket Productions, Robert Fox and Patrick Ryecart. Book tickets to Fatal Attraction
Cameron Mackintosh becomes first British producer inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame
Cameron Mackintosh was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in a ceremony at New York’s Gerhswin Theatre on January 27, 2014
REVIEW: The Pass, Royal Court Theatre ✭✭✭
Tovey gives a first rate performance. He attacks the part with every fibre of his being and gives the dialogue more joy and menace than it deserves. Even he, however, struggles to make the peculiar second Act interesting and plausible.
Sneak Peek: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels heads to the West End
Rehearsals for the musical were recently opened up to the media and BritishTheatre.com were invited to take a look. Robert Lindsay said he wished that more shows would open their rehearsal room doors to the media.
Cast announced for I Can’t Sing – the X Factor musical
The full cast list for I Can’t Sing – The X Factor london musicals has now been announced. Opening at The London Palladium in March 2014, the show is written by Harry Hill and Steve Brown. Harry Hill said: “I worked with a lot of our cast in the workshops for I Can’t Sing! and we have some brilliant new faces too. I’m thrilled with The Acting Company we have on board – and it’s a coup to have Nigel Harman as Simon. He was so funny in Shrek the Musical – not so much in Downton. With the wig and teeth he looks more like Simon, than Simon.” Olivier Award-winner Nigel Harman has been cast as the judge everyone loves-to-hate Simon Cowell. He is joined by Cynthia Erivo as Chenice, who received great acclaim in The Colour Purple at the Menier Chocolate Factory early this year. Holby City actor … Read more
Joseph to hit the silver screen
Following the success of the movie musical Les Miserables, Andrew Lloyd Webber has confirmed that plans are afoot for a screen adaptation of his musical Joseph And The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. In an interview on the BBC’s One Show, Lloyd Webber confirmed that production had already begun. Lloyd Webber was also quick to mention that with the success of Les Miserables, a film version of Cats was “now, for the first time, a real possibility”. Lloyd Webber musicals have already been adapted for the big screen. His musicals Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita and The Phantom Of The Opera have enjoyed success with others including Sunset Boulevard awaiting a screen adaptation.
