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Grange Hill co-stars Ricky Simmonds and Simon Vaughan miss the mark with their musical Berlusconi about the three-time Italian prime minister, media mogul and sex pest
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Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges star in a new musical adaptation of Annie Proulx’s seminal short story Brokeback Mountain, opening in the West End
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Director Nicholas Hytner, designer extraordinaire Bunny Christie and a team of tip-top musical theatre talent make this immersive Guys and Dolls a rip-roaring sensation
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Director Timothy Sheader helms a long-awaited revival of Olivier and Tony-winning musical La Cage aux Folles at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
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A fresh take on Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Olivier-winning coming-of-age musical Once On This Island opens the 2023 season at Regent's Park
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No soggy bottoms here: TV favourite The Great British Bake Off has been kneaded and rolled into a musical – and it rises pleasingly on the West End stage
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Hex, the National Theatre's once-cursed Christmas musical, is worth the wait
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Tim Minchin's glorious Groundhog Day musical returns to the Old Vic for 2023. Matthew Warchus directs and Andy Karl reprises his Olivier-winning lead role
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Showing at the Young Vic, Mandela: A New Musical about the great South African freedom fighter will put some fire in your heart, if not in your hearth, this winter
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Fresh from Broadway (via Manchester), a new musical based on hit 1993 movie Mrs. Doubtfire comes to the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre
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Musicals
Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough and Alisha Weir star in this spectacular film adaptation of the Matilda stage musical
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Playwright James Graham teams up with musical legend Sir Elton John to dramatise the story of Tammy Faye Bakker: televangelist turned unlikely gay icon
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Grammy-winning, hit Broadway musical The Band's Visit impresses at the Donmar Warehouse in a new production directed by Michael Longhurst
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Director Daniel Fish's Tony-winning revival of Oklahoma! transfers from the Young Vic to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre for 2023
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Director Daniel Evans proves there’s still a place on the stage for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s controversial musical South Pacific
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Dear Evan Hansen prepares to take its final West End bow. Here's how it became the landmark musical all teens, their parents and everyone in between should see.
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Strong performances battle against poor acoustics in director Lucy Moss’s revival of Legally Blonde the Musical at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
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Director Bartlett Sher’s My Fair Lady is a traditional take on the classic musical, but with loyalty to Pygmalion hidden up its puff sleeve
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SpitLip's Operation Mincemeat (a musical comedy for the stage, not the film!) has been honed to excellency and is deserving of its long run at Riverside Studios
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Writer John Logan and director Alex Timbers’ Tony-winning, Broadway-charming Moulin Rouge! The Musical is ‘spectacular, spectacular’ – and worth the wait
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Director Bronagh Lagan presents a musical version of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women that's sweet, sentimental and soft-boiled
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& Juliet re-writes history’s most famous love story, swapping tragedy for empowering feminist comedy and anthemic pop songs
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Composer-producer Jack Terroni and playwright Kevin McMahon present a musical uniting the soulful sounds of the 1950s with a character on a mission to right his wrongs.
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Timothy Sheader and Drew McOnie’s Carousel glitters with stand-out performances but struggles to right the play’s troubling forgiveness of domestic violence
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With Tony- and Olivier Award-winning musical Come From Away preparing to reopen, the team behind it share their pandemic experiences and hopes
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Michael Ball reprises his role as Edna Turnblad in an all-new West End production of Hairspray
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A musical adaptation of 1990 rom-com Pretty Woman transfers to London after dividing opinion on Broadway
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Director Luke Sheppard and actor Miriam-Teak Lee on the magic of their pop-fuelled musical & Juliet, which returns to the West End in 2021
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In The Eddy, Damien Chazelle revisits his musical roots: this time in present-day Paris. André Holland (Moonlight) stars as club owner Elliot, whose past catches up with him
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Musicals
Tom Hooper's film makeover of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats goes all out in its casting: Taylor Swift, James Corden and more are on board
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In Rupert Goold's biopic, Renée Zellweger captures the last months of Hollywood starlet Judy Garland, in all her troubles and triumphs, celebrating her love, talent and voice
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David Lindsey-Abaire transforms Nick Hornby's High Fidelity novel into a musical for Battersea's Turbine Theatre