Musicals

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.

Jack to make RSC debut in Magician’s Elephant

13 July 2021

Jack Wolfe is to make his Royal Shakespeare Company debut in the lead role in The Magician's Elephant, a new musical which will mark the reopening of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford.

Northampton to drink in new gin musical

7 July 2021

Northampton’s Royal and Derngate is to stage the première of April de Angelis and Lucy Rivers’s “ingenious and irreverent” musical Gin Craze!.

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

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

South Pacific

Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Oscar Hamme...

A Little Night Music

Stephen Sondheim

Hamilton and Me

Giles Terera

Favourite soundtracks from the musicals

9 July 2021

What are your favourite show soundtracks? Philip Fisher opens the debate.