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Watch The Live Hamilton Mixtape Ham4Ham Performance Today

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Watch the live Ham4Ham Mixtape Performance today

The Hamilton Mixtape, a new album featuring artists from the worlds of rap, pop and R & B, putting their own unique stamp on the songs from Hamilton, is being presented today in a live-streamed concert at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The Hamilton Mixtape features artists including The Roots, Usher, Kelly Clarkson, Ashanti, John Legend, Andra Day, Dessa and Watsky amongst others is being released tomorrow. Copies can be purchased from Amazon.co.uk. Hamilton broke box-office records this week when it made the most money ever in a single week by a Broadway show, a whopping $3.3 million. Hamilton beat Wicked which held the record at $3.2 million made during a week where it held 9 performances, one more than in a normal performance week. Click on the You Tube link below to Watch the Ham4Ham live stream at approx 6pm GMT. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HAMILTON IN LONDON  

Explaining Pantomimes To Americans

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Explaining pantomime to Americans

  They don’t have pantomime in the States. Oh no, they don’t – not like in Britain anyway, though there are cultural pockets here and there. Sure they have a word pronounced and spelt as pantomime, but it has a rather different meaning. Picture my wife Alison and me on an American cruise ship off the coast of beautiful Alaska, partaking of a pre-dinner aperitif and talking to a very nice couple from Twenty-Nine Palms, California whom we’d just met. We tell them that we are busy learning our lines for the upcoming pantomime. A glazed look appears, rather as if they think we’ve been too long at seas. “Lines?” they ask. “In pantomime?” Although it’s not (quite) universal in the USA, the words “Pantomime” and “Mime” are interchangeable. You don’t have lines in pantomimes because they’re silent, right? “Wrong,” I Say. “Let me explain…” There are days when getting … Read more

FIRST LOOK: Peter Pan At The National Theatre, London

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Peter Pan at the National Theatre

All children, except one, grow up….. We hope that you enjoy these great First Look production photos of Peter Pan by Steve Tanner. Everyone knows the story of Peter Pan and it’s back in a wonderous new production brought to the stage by a collaboration between the National Theatre and The Bristol Old Vic Theatre. Peter Pan is now playing at the National Theatre for a strictly limited run. Director Sally Cookson’s marvellously inventive production was a sell-out at the Bristol Old Vic. This production also marks the first time that J M Barrie’s original vision of double casting Mrs Darling and Captain Hook with Anna Francolini taking on both roles in this production. The cast also includes Saikat Ahamed, Suzanne Ahmet, Marc Antolin, Lois Chimimba, Laura Cubitt, Phoebe Fildes, Felix Hayes, Paul Hilton, John Leader, Amaka Okafor, John Pfumojena, Jessica Temple, Dan Wheeler and Madeleine Worrall. Children please note … Read more

FIRST LOOK: Dreamgirls at The Savoy Theatre

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Book now for Dreamgirls starring Amber Riley

We are pleased to bring you these great first-look production photos by Brinkhoff of Casey Nicholaw’s production of Dreamgirls which is now in previews at the Savoy Theatre, London. Dreamgirls stars Amber Riley (Glee) as ‘Effie White’ and is joined in Dreamgirls by Liisi LaFontaine as Deena Jones and Ibinabo Jack as Lorrell Robinson making up the soulful singing trio ‘The Dreams’. Joe Aaron Reid plays Curtis Taylor Jr, Adam J. Bernard plays Jimmy Early, Tyrone Huntley plays C.C. White, Nicholas Bailey plays Marty and Lily Frazer plays Michelle Morris with Ruth Brown and Karen Mav alternating the role of Effie White at performances when Amber Riley is not scheduled to perform. Dreamgirls is Directed and Choreographed by Olivier and Tony Award®-winning Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon, Disney’s Aladdin and Something Rotten!), with Set Design by Tim Hatley, Costume Design by Gregg Barnes, Lighting Design by Hugh Vanstone, Sound … Read more

FIRST LOOK: Disaster The Musical In Rehearsals

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Book tickets for Disaster the musical at Charing Cross theatre

Rehearsals for the musical comedy spoof DISASTER! are underway in London and we are pleased to bring you this great set of images from Jamie Scott Smith. DISASTER! the 2016 Broadway musical that spoofs star-studded1970s jeopardy movies like The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake and Airport, will premiere at Charing Cross Theatre for two glittering gala concert charity performances to raise funds for The Make a Difference Trust on Sunday 20 November. It’s 1979 and New York’s hottest A-listers are lining up for the opening of a floating casino and discotheque. But what begins as a night of boogie fever quickly changes to panic as the ship succumbs to multiple disasters, such as earthquakes, tidal waves and infernos. As the night turns into day, everyone struggles to survive and, quite possibly, repair the love they’ve lost…or at least escape the killer rats! Set in the wildest decade ever, DISASTER! is packed with … Read more

GALLERY: School Of Rock Opening Night

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School Of Rock at New London Theatre

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical School Of Rock opened in London’s West End last night (14 November). The New London Theatre played host to guests including Ben Aldridge, David Baddiel, Duchess of York, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Jimmy Carr, Julian Fellowes, Blake Harrison, David Haye, Patricia Hodge, Jodie Kidd, Myleene Klass, Andrew and Madeleine Lloyd Webber, Giftie Louise, Conor Maynard, Michael McIntyre, Freddy Parker, Arlene Phillips, Cliff Richard, Gaby Roslin, Janet Street-Porter, Sean Walsh and Vogue Williams. Starring David Fynn as Dewey and three casts of the most incredibly talented young performers ever, School of Rock is now booking until 12 February 2017. Enjoy this gallery of images for the Opening night of School Of Rock BOOK NOW FOR SCHOOL OF ROCK

New Wimbledon Theatre

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Exterior view of the New Wimbledon Theatre

Situated on The Broadway in Wimbledon, London, the New Wimbledon Theatre was built by the entrepreneur and theatre lover J B Mulholland. Designed by Cecil Aubrey Massey and Roy Young, the Grade II listed Edwardian Theatre might be the only theatre to have included a Victorian-style Turkish bath in the basement. The New Wimbledon Theatre opened on 26 December 1910 with Jack and Jill, a traditional pantomime. The theatre most famously was home to the World Premieres of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! which then transferred to the Albery (now the Noel Coward) Theatre and Tommy Steele in Half A Sixpence prior to its West End transfer. With 1670 seats over three levels, the New Wimbledon is in the ten largest theatres in London. During its lifetime it has undergone two major refurbishments in 1991 and 1998. The theatre also has a studio space which adjoins the main auditorium seating up to … Read more