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STAGEY CHAT WITH SHANAY HOLMES


The next interview in our stagey chat series is with Shanay Holmes. Shanay will be performing her first solo concert at the iconic Cadogan Hall on 11th July; as well as being the star of musicals such as Oliver! and being the co-creator of the annual Musical Con and co-founder of West End Musical Productions.

Get yourself comfy and get ready to chat all things stagey!

BARNUM | REVIEW

Barnum
Rating: ★★★
Venue: New Victoria Theatre, Woking

Step right up and enter the dazzling world of P.T. Barnum, where imagination and ambition know no bounds. Hand in hand with wife Charity, Barnum’s life and career twists and turns as he schemes and dreams his way to headier heights.

This spectacular new staging will feature an extraordinary ensemble cast of over 20 actor-musicians playing 150 instruments, acrobats and amazing circus acts. Audiences are certain to delight at every sight, wonder and miracle that the name Barnum stands for!

1536 | REVIEW

1536
Rating: ★★★★★
Venue: Ambassador's Theatre, London
Cast: Harry Bradley, Liv Hill, Oliver Johnstone, Siena Kelly, George Kemp, Saroja-Lily Ratnavel, Tanya Reynolds and Sydney Spencer

Tudor England. A field in Essex. Three women hurry to their childhood meeting place, thirsty for gossip from London. Word spreads of a clash between King Henry VIII and his Queen, Anne Boleyn. And closer to home, another rumour begins to catch fire.

As these women begin to see echoes of the royal drama in their own rural lives and a rise in violence spreads throughout the land, the actions of a queen imprisoned in a tower threaten to cost them everything.

PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT | REVIEW

Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Rating: ★★★★
Venue: New Victoria Theatre, Woking

The Broadway and West End musical comedy sensation follows three friends on a hilarious and heartwarming road trip across the Australian Outback to stage the show of a lifetime. Priscilla Queen Of The Desert is a joyous celebration of unity, love, and being unapologetically yourself.

This musical extravaganza is packed with an iconic soundtrack full of your favourite 80s and 90s disco and dance anthems, including; HOT STUFF, IT'S RAINING MEN, I WILL SURVIVE, GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN, FINALLY and many more.

SABRAGE | REVIEW

Sabrage
Rating: ★★★★★
Venue: Lafayette, London
Cast: Neven Connolly, Skye Ladell, Alex Makardish, Christian Nimri, Emma Phillips, Phoenix Jackson Mendoza, Kylie Rose Webb, Julia Stewart

SABRAGE is London's most dazzling cabaret show — an extravagant evening of intoxicating allure and riotous edge-of-your-seat entertainment at Lafayette in King's Cross. This immersive cabaret experience brings together the finest circus and acrobatic talent from across the globe with titillating humour, vintage glamour, hand-crafted cocktails – and more than a few surprises. An adults-only cabaret show in London like no other.

TOTAL ECLIPSE: SYMPHONIC STEINMAN | REVIEW

Total Eclipse: Symphonic Steinman
Rating: ★★★★★
Venue: London Coliseum 
Cast: Glenn Adamson, Christina Bianco, Zoe Birkett, Tyce Green, Karine Hannah, Natalie May Paris, Red, Danielle Steers, Robbie Waugh and Grant Zavitkovsky 

Total Eclipse is a one-night gala event featuring the work of Jim Steinman. Steinman wrote songs built for scale: dramatic, relentless, and unapologetically theatrical. This new orchestral concert brings his greatest hits catalogue to the London Coliseum in a full symphonic and rock hybrid, with the Orchestra of ENO on the iconic Coliseum stage, fused with a live rock band for one night only.

CHAT NOIR! (THE LOST ESTATE) | REVIEW

Chat Noir!
Rating: ★★★★★
Venue: The Lost Estate, London

Time travel to the 1890s and step inside legendary night-club Le Chat Noir. Become the bohemians and aristocrats of Paris and enter a candlelit world of glittering cabaret, bohemian pleasures, vintage cuisine and live music. Step through the doors of CHAT NOIR! and London disappears. You find yourself inside the legend itself—Le Chat Noir, the infamous club lost for over a century. This temple of art and anarchy, this sanctuary for the beautifully unhinged, has been re-imagined in lavish and fantastical detail by “immersive heavyweights” The Lost Estate—velvet drapes, candlelit tables, glittering aristocrats, the restless spirits of Bohemian Montmartre in every corner...

MEAN GIRLS | REVIEW

Mean Girls
Rating: ★★★★
Venue: New Victoria Theatre, Woking

Meet The Plastics – Regina, Gretchen and Karen. They rule North Shore High and will burn anyone who gets in their way. Home-schooled Cady Heron may think she knows a thing or two about survival of the fittest thanks to her zoologist parents, but high school is a whole new level of savage. When Cady devises a plan to end Regina's reign, she learns the hard way that you can't cross a queen bee without getting stung.

AVENUE Q | REVIEW

Avenue Q
Rating: ★★★★★
Venue: Shaftesbury Theatre, London

Fresh out of college and searching for his purpose, Princeton ends up in a shabby apartment on New York’s rundown Avenue Q. He quickly meets his new and colourful neighbours where together they navigate the life struggles of work, love and paying the bills in their own hilarious way.

Irreverent and irresistible, Avenue Q is the mischievous and charming musical full of infectious songs and loveable characters that will leave you smiling for days. With original Broadway director Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect, Shrek the Musical) and original puppet designer Rick Lyon, re-discover the fun, fuzz and felt for a strictly limited season this spring.

STAGEY CHAT WITH HENRY PATTERSON

The next interview in our stagey chat series is with Henry Patterson. As well as hosting a new live musical theatre talk show, Hot Seats, Henry is releasing his first album, Broadway Maybe, on 15th May.

Get yourself comfy and get ready to chat all things stagey!

STAGEY CHAT WITH JEZ BOND


The next interview in our stagey chat series is with Jez Bond. Jez is the co-writer and director of Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] 4, which is set to open on 9th May at Park Theatre in London.

Get yourself comfy and get ready to chat all things stagey!