Musicals

Musicals news

Jordan Paul Clarke gets residency at BYMT

21 November 2021

The Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer on placement at British Youth Music Theatre next year is announced as Jordan Paul Clarke.

Anything Goes to tour and return to Barbican

18 November 2021

The musical Anything Goes which smashed box-office records at the Barbican Theatre is to tour the UK in the spring and will sail back to the Barbican in summer 2022 for an eight-week residency.

Sondheim’s Gypsy brings opera back to Buxton

17 November 2021

Everything is coming up roses for Buxton Opera House and Buxton International Festival who are to present their second joint production, the musical Gypsy.

9 to 5 job for Claire

14 November 2021

9 to 5 The Musical returns to Manchester Palace Theatre next March.

Wiz of a cast for city

7 November 2021

Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre announces the cast for a new version of '70s musical The Wiz.

UK première for Manchester

7 November 2021

A Broadway comedy musical’s UK première comes to Manchester next year.

Blackpool opens Stage Door event

7 November 2021

Stage Door Festival is a new musical theatre exhibition taking place in Blackpool next October.

Anything Goes: musical smashes box-office record

2 November 2021

The musical Anything Goes has taken £717,000 in a week—the highest grossing week for a musical at the Barbican in its 39-year history.

Waitress service in Manchester

30 October 2021

Romantic musical comedy Waitress, at Manchester Opera House stars Lucie Jones as Jenna.

Scottish Opera and Disney collaborate in schools

28 October 2021

Scottish Opera and Disney Musicals in Schools will give five primary schools in Scotland the opportunity to learn and produce their own Disney KIDS musical including The Lion King KIDS and Aladdin KIDS.

All White for Sally Ann

24 October 2021

Broadway and West End star Sally Ann Triplett joins White Christmas at Manchester Palace Theatre.

Dreamcoat fits Blackpool

23 October 2021

After seasons at the London Palladium, Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns to Blackpool Opera House next summer.

Merseyside 's musical of musicals

23 October 2021

A new musical comes to Liverpool’s Hope Street Theatre: The Musical of Musicals... The Musical.

“Some of the greatest pop songs ever written”: Beautiful

New Carole King musical tour to start in Leicester

16 October 2021

A new UK tour of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy Award-winning Beautiful—The Carole King Musical will open at Leicester’s Curve in February 2022.

John Thomson joins Hairspray

3 October 2021

John Thomson will join the UK tour of Hairspray as Wilbur Turnblad this Christmas for three weeks at Blackpool Winter Gardens.

Curve to present new Billy Elliot production

19 September 2021

Leicester's Curve theatre is to stage a new production of the musical Billy Elliot which will run for six weeks in summer 2022.

A musical celebration of historic high streets

9 September 2021

Historic England has twinned North Shields and Lancaster for a musical celebration.

Johnny Longstaff returns to Northern Stage

4 September 2021

The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff, a musical celebration of northern working class activism, created and performed by The Young’uns, returns to Northern Stage before touring.

Adam and Carly chosen for Curve’s Chorus Line

3 September 2021

Adam Cooper and Carly Mercedes Dyer are to appear in A Chorus Line, the Christmas 2021 musical at Leicester’s Curve theatre.

Musical reviews

The Addams Family

Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice and Andrew Lippa

Aria Entertainments and Music and Lyrics

Sheffield Lyceum

23–27 November 2021

Blood Brothers

Willy Russell

Ambassador Theatre Group

New Victoria Theatre, Woking

23–27 November 2021

White Christmas

Music & lyrics by Irvin Berlin, book by David Ives & Paul Blake, written for ...

Curve

Palace Theatre, Manchester

22 November–4 December 2021

The Rocky Horror Show

Richard O’Brien

Alhambra Theatre, Bradford

15–20 November 2021

The Bolds

Written and adapted for the stage by Julian Clary Songs by Julian Clary and S...

Unicorn Theatre

Unicorn Theatre (Weston Theatre)

14 November–31 December 2021

Heathers: The Musical

Music, lyrics and book by Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy, based on film wr...

Bill Kenwright Ltd

Bristol Hippodrome

9–13 November 2021

Waitress

Book by Jessie Nelson (based upon the motion picture written by Adrienne Shel...

Barry and Fran Weissler and David Ian for Crossroads Live UK

Opera House, Manchester

8–20 November 2021

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

Book and lyrics by Tom MacRae; music by Dan Gillespie Sells

Nica Burns, Ian Osborne, TC Beech Ltd and Sheffield Theatres

Leeds Grand Theatre

2–7 November 2021

Frankenstein: The Musical

Howard Coggins and Stu Mcloughlin, based on the book by Mary Shelley

Living Spit

Factory Theatre, Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bristol

2–13 November 2021

Pick A Pocket Or Two: A History of British Musical Theatre

Ethan Mordden

Oxford University Press

Released 28 October 2021

The Magician's Elephant

Nancy Harris and Marc Teitler

Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

25 October 2021–1 January 2022

Waitress

Book by Jessie Nelson, Music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles

Barry & Fran Weissler and David Ian for Crossroads Live UK

Sunderland Empire

25–30 October 2021

Indecent Proposal

Music by Dylan Schlosberg, book and lyrics by Michael Conley, inspired by the...

10 to 4 Productions

Southwark Playhouse

22 October–27 November 2021

Vanara

Music by Gianluca Cucchiara, lyrics by Andrew James Whelan, book by Michael C...

Giovanna Romagnoli and Gianluca Cucchiara

Hackney Empire

22–30 October 2021

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Book by Brian Hill , original music by Richard M and Robert B Sherman with ne...

Michael Harrison

Palace Theatre, Manchester

19–24 October 2021

Tales from Hans Christian Andersen

Adapted by Ant Stones with original music and lyrics by Tom Jack Merivale

Guildford Shakespeare Company

St Nicolas' Church, Guildford

18 October–6 November 2021

Tell Me On a Sunday

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Don Black

Jamie Wilson, Gavin Kalin and Kevin McCollum

Curve Theatre, Leicester

12–16 October 2021

Chicago the Musical

Music by John Kander; lyrics by Fred Ebb; book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse

Alhambra Theatre, Bradford

11–16 October 2021

Priscilla Queen of The Desert

Stephan Elliot and Allan Scott

Mark Goucher, Jason Donovan, Gavin Kalin, Matthew Gal, Laurence Myers, Nullar...

The Palace Theatre, Manchester

11–16 October 2021

Bronté Barbé (Mary Western) and Dominic Andersen (Tom Jones)

What's New Pussycat?

Joe DiPietro

Birmingham REP in association with Flody Suarez and Kilimanjaro Theatricals

Birmingham REP

8 October–14 November 2021

School of Rock

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, book by Julian Fellowes, lyrics by Glenn Slater

David Ian for Crossroads Live, Warner Music Group & Access Industries Inc by ...

Sunderland Empire

6–9 October 2021

The Idea

Composition by Gustav Holst with libretto by Fritz B Hart

Irrational Theatre

Jack Studio Theatre

5–9 October 2021

Heathers the Musical

Book, music and lyrics: Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe based on the film w...

Bill Kenwright and Paul Taylor-Mills

The Palace Theatre, Manchester

5–9 October 2021

Hairspray The Broadway Musical

Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Sc...

Mark Goucher and Matthew Gale

Curve Theatre, Leicester

4–9 October 2021

Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical

Music and lyrics by Bob Marley, book by Lee Hall

Playful Productions, Stage Play and Cedella Marley

Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue

1 October 2021–18 September 2022

The Theatre Channel Episode Eight: Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz

Adam Blanshay Productions

Park Theatre

From 1 October 2021

SIX The Musical

Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss

Vaudeville Theatre

From 29 September 2021

Communism: The Musical (A Story About Growing Up)

Liv Burton, music by Chris Holloway

Rocket Whip Productions

TriBeCa, Manchester

20–23 September 2021

The Last Five Years

Jason Robert Brown

Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment

Garrick Theatre

17 September–17 October 2021

NHS The Musical

Nick Stimson and Jimmy Jewell

Theatre Royal Plymouth

The Lyric, Theatre Royal Plymouth

17–25 September 2021

Never Lost At Home

Peter Rowe

New Wolsey Theatre

New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich

16 September–9 October 2021

The Pleasure Garden

Book and lyrics by Glenn Chandler, music by Charles Miller

Produced by Ban Paturel and John Owen in association with Andy Hill and Tom M...

Above the Stag Theatre

15 September–17 October 2021

Sandra Marvin (Becky), Lucie Jones (Jenna) and Evelyn Hoskins (Dawn)

Waitress

Music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles; book by Jessie Nelson, based on the scree...

Waitress Tour Limited

Leeds Grand Theatre

14–18 September 2021

Bat Out of Hell – the Musical

Book, music and lyrics by Jim Steinman

David Sonenberg, Michael Cohl and Tony Smith

The Opera House, Manchester

11 September–2 October 2021

Black Love

Chinonyerem Odimba, with music by Ben and Max Ringham

Paines Plough and Belgrade Theatre Coventry, in association with tiata fahodzi

The Roundabout, Victoria Park, Swinton

9–12 September 2021

9 to 5 the Musical

Music and lyrics by Dolly Parton; book by Patricia Resnick, based on her orig...

Dolly Parton

Alhambra Theatre, Bradford

7–11 September 2021

Saucy Jack and The Space Vixens

Charlotte Mann with lyrics by Mann and Mike Fidler and music by Robin Forrest...

Teal Heart Productions

TriBeCa, Manchester

7–11 September 2021

Rocky Horror Show

Richard O'Brien

Howard Panter for Trafalgar Theatre Productions; Mallory Factor for Hill Stre...

The Lyric, Theatre Royal Plymouth

6–11 September 2021

Breaking into Song

Adam Lenson

Salamander Street

Released 2 September 2021

Everybody's Talking About Jamie

Book and lyrics by Tom MacRae, music by Dan Gillespie Sells, from an idea by ...

Nica Burns, Ian Osborne, TC Beech Ltd and Sheffield Theatres

The Lowry, Salford

1–12 September 2021