She may be best known for playing Trixie in TV’s Call the Midwife, but Helen George, now starring as Anna Leonowens in The King and I, also has a background in Musical Theatre. Tim Bano meets her, and...
Almost 20 years after its genesis, this Greek myth-based ‘musical poem’ continues to evolve and resonate with modern-day audiences. Its latest incarnation, now making its West End premiere, is no...
Always the bridesmaid, never the bride? Not so, finds Matt Wolf, when it comes to this feisty Welsh performer, who played Sally Bowles in Rebecca Frecknall’s Cabaret for two years without having her...
Arnold and Thomas’s score doesn’t take itself too seriously and the libretto by Bean has some witty turns, but what stands out is its feel-good heart
It may have received ‘Made in Sheffield’ trademark status, but Standing at the Sky’s Edge – with its themes of home, belonging and acceptance – is a musical for the ages. As it makes its West End...
Jon Robyns, currently playing the iconic title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera in the West End, and also writing two new musicals
Orchestrator Jason Carr explores how in the ocean liner-set musical comedy Anything Goes, Cole Porter refined his unique voice to lift theatregoers’ spirits during the Great Depression
Elaine Paige on the brittle emotional pain of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies and delving into a catalogue of obscure historical references to master the famously tricky ‘I’m Still Here’
Fresh out of college and already living the dream, this performer has gone straight from Sunset to Hadestown
Stephen Sondheim never liked talking about his process and always considered the play to be the thing but Edward Seckerson debunks the notion that the late composer didn’t write ‘tunes’
