Musicals

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.

Gabriela has star ticket

29 August 2021

Actress Gabriela Garcia saved the day after illness struck the cast of the sold-out production of Rent at Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre.

RSC to stage seven socially distanced shows

27 August 2021

The Royal Shakespeare Company is to arrange seven socially distanced performances of its new musical The Magician's Elephant in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in November and December 2021.

Musical theatre specialists team up with Hippodrome

20 August 2021

Birmingham Hippodrome has announced that three female-led musical theatre companies have joined its associates programme.

Further casting for RSC’s Magician’s Elephant

19 August 2021

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced further casting for The Magician's Elephant, a new musical by Nancy Harris and Marc Teitler which will have its première in Stratford in October 2021.

A new musical premières—in an airport!

9 August 2021

A new musical about Middlesbrough from Twenty Seven Productions premières at Teesside International Airport.

Party will preview songs from Bus Boycott musical

7 August 2021

Independent theatre studio China Plate and Birmingham Hippodrome are to host a party to celebrate the heritage of migration and activism in north Birmingham.

Cast unveiled for new musical What’s New Pussycat?

7 August 2021

Dominic Andersen will play Tom Jones in the musical What’s New Pussycat? which will have its première at Birmingham REP in October 2021.

Musical story of The Osmonds

25 July 2021

The Osmonds: A New Musical will come to Manchester in August next year.

Tell Me On a Sunday

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Don Black

Chicago the Musical

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

Priscilla Queen of The Desert

Stephan Elliot and Allan Scott

School of Rock

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

Heathers the Musical

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

The Idea

Composition by Gustav Holst with libretto by Fritz B Hart

Hairspray The Broadway Musical

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

The Theatre Channel Episode Eight: Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz

Communism: The Musical (A Story About Growing Up)

Liv Burton, music by Chris Holloway

The Last Five Years

Jason Robert Brown

NHS The Musical

Nick Stimson and Jimmy Jewell

Never Lost At Home

Peter Rowe

The Pleasure Garden

Book and lyrics by Glenn Chandler, music by Charles Miller

Waitress

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

Bat Out of Hell – the Musical

Book, music and lyrics by Jim Steinman

Black Love

Chinonyerem Odimba, with music by Ben and Max Ringham

Saucy Jack and The Space Vixens

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

9 to 5 the Musical

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

Rocky Horror Show

Richard O'Brien

Breaking into Song

Adam Lenson

Everybody's Talking About Jamie

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

Frozen: the West End Musical

Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez Book by Jennifer Lee

Back to the Future

Book by Bob Gale, music and lyrics by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard

Why The Whales Came

Hairspray

Marc Shamain and Scott Wittman

Blood Brothers

Book, music and lyrics by Willy Russell

Heathers the Musical

Book, music and lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe, based on the fil...

Rent

Jonathan Larson

On Your Bike

Ben James & Jon Venable

Grease The Musical

Book, music & lyrics by Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey; choreography by Arlene Phi...

Carousel

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

Just So

Music by George Styles, lyrics by Anthony Drewe

Singin’ in the Rain

Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, songs by Nacio Herb Brown and Ar...

Six

Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss

Jersey Boys

Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice, music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe

Anything Goes

Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, original book by P G Wodehouse & Guy Bolton ...

Come From Away

Book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein