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NEWS: Full cast announced for second tour of RENT – 20th Anniversary Concert.
Following a critically acclaimed tour earlier this year, RENT – 20th Anniversary Concert is about to embark on a second tour, visiting venues including Blackpool, Nottingham, Oxford, Edinburgh, Dublin,...
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INTERVIEW: Ten Minutes with Daniel Boys
Daniel Boys has enjoyed something of a meteoric rise since first coming to the broader public’s attention as a contestant on Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s reality show, Any Dream Will Do. However, the 34-year...
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STAGE SHOT: RENT – 20th Anniversary Concert new production images
New production photographs have been released for the new cast of the 20th Anniversary Production of Jonathan Larson’s RENT which is currently undergoing a second tour of the UK. Set in the East...
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NEWS: Celebrate The Tori Party at Freedom, Soho
In the past year alone, with the company she founded Interval Productions (now run with Co-Producer Sarah Page), Tori has produced three musicals. She appeared in two of them, and wrote two of them and...
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Rent – The Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham
Book, Music and Lyrics: Jonathan Larson Director: Karl Steele Reviewer: Selwyn Knight The Old Joint Stock Musical Theatre Company is an amateur company formed in 2011 and based in the intimate fringe...
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The Public Reviews 2014 Preview: Part III
And as we come to our final part of our 2014 preview of shows in and around the UK and Ireland we ask our regional editors in the North West, London, and along the South Coast what productions are...
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Interval So Far – Cockpit Theatre, London
Musical Direction: Jo Louis Robinson Directors: Bo Boland, Sarah Henley, Tim O’Hara Reviewer: Chris Combemale An amalgamation of productions is always tricky, but Interval So Far pulls it off, just. A...
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Rent – Curve, Leicester
Book, Music & Lyrics: Jonathan Larson Director: Paul Kerryson Reviewer: Rosanna Sloan Based on Puccini’s La Boheme, Rent is a rock opera about a group of struggling artists trying to make ends meet...
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RENT – Lancaster Grand Theatre, Lancaster
Book, Music and Lyrics: Jonathan Larson Director: Glen Hanmer and Bryan Wood Reviewer: Paul Jones Based on Puccini’s La Boheme, Rent is a rock opera about artists, activists, aids sufferers and addicts...
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Rent: Church Hill Theatre – Edinburgh
Writer: Jonathan Larson Music: Jonathan Larson Lyrics: Jonathan Larson Director: Elske Waite Reviewer: Callum Walker Just less than 20 years after the opening of Jonathan Larson’s New York rock musical...
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tick, tick … BOOM! – Old Joint Stock, Birmingham
Book, Lyrics and Music: Jonathan Larson Director: Adam Lacey Reviewer: Selwyn Knight Jonathan Larson is best known for Rent, his musical based on La Bohème and relocated to New York City. But before...
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RENT – Paul McCartney Auditorium, Liverpool
Book / Music / Lyrics: Jonathan Larson Director: Jake Norton Reviewer: John Roberts It’s hard not to applaud the ambitious young producers Claire Eggison, Daniel Jackson, Liam McMullan, and Fay...
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RENT – St James Theatre, London
Writer: Jonathan Larson Director: Bruce Guthrie Choreography: Lee Proud Reviewer: Christy Ku Based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème, RENT follows the story of a group of young artists struggling to...
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CD REVIEW: Adam Pascal & Anthony Rapp: Acoustically Speaking
Reviewer: Emily Garside Recorded live at New York’s Feinstein’s/54 Below, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp reunite for an acoustic mix of Broadway and Rock-pop. Ranging across classic 80s pop – as Rapp...
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The Winter’s Tale – Cockpit Theatre, London
Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Nina Brazier Composer: Kim Ashton Reviewer: Michael Gray This 60-minute musical re-imagining of Shakespeare’s problem play is a boldly ingenious experiment with...
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RENT – Liverpool Empire
Writer: Jonathan Larson Director: Bruce Guthrie Reviewer: John Roberts In 1993, New York’s Musical Theatre Workshop put on a reading of a new musical by the relatively unknown composer Jonathan Larson,...
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Rent – Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
Writer: Jonathan Larson Director: Bruce Guthrie Reviewer: Chris Williams In 2016, Rent – the Pulitzer Prize winning rock musical – celebrated its 20th anniversary. This new production embarked on a UK...
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Idina Menzel – Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Reviewer: Clare White Just last week, Idina Menzel was introduced on ITV’s Loose Women as ‘the star of Disney’s Frozen’. Indeed, as the voice of Princess Elsa in the 2013 animated film, she was...
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The Last Five Years – Albert Halls, Bolton
Book: Jason Robert Brown Director: James Edgington Reviewer: Rebecca Cohen For their first in-house production, the beautiful Albert Halls in Bolton could have, and arguably should have, started with...
View ArticleWest End Musical Drive In ( Layton Williams, Shanay Holmes) – Stream Theatre
Filmed during Summer 2020, West End Musical Drive-In is a live outdoor concert, featuring talent from theatre’s hottest shows. Hosted by a fun and energetic Shanay Holmes (whose credits include Rent,...
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