Musicals
Aspects of Love review – a preposterous blast from the past
Michael Ball returns to sing Love Changes Everything, this time as the uncle, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical of romantic entanglements
Arifa Akbar
26, May, 2023 @12:26 PM
‘Inspirational’: fans pay tribute to Tina Turner outside London musical
After news of death of ‘queen of rock’n’roll’ broke, people gathered to pay respects at West End theatre
Mabel Banfield-Nwachi
26, May, 2023 @12:24 PM
The week in theatre: Operation Mincemeat; 4000 Miles; The Circle – review
SplitLip honour as well as spoof with their all-conquering espionage musical. Plus, Eileen Atkins at her most subtle, and a new twist on Somerset Maugham
Susannah Clapp
21, May, 2023 @9:30 AM
Tina: the Tina Turner musical review – Ruva Ngwenya is a revelation in a muddled show
Racism, family violence, addiction and attempted suicide is a lot for a sparkly jukebox musical – and this is a little clunky. But its star is transcendent
Cassie Tongue
19, May, 2023 @4:24 AM
Once on This Island review – stirring Little Mermaid musical in colonial Haiti
A young woman offers her life to save an unworthy aristocrat in a passionately sung fable of Caribbean history
David Jays
18, May, 2023 @12:57 PM
‘Comfortable is not good’: Kym Marsh on the horror of Hear’Say – and landing the Take That musical
As she joins Greatest Days, the star from Wigan talks about the implosion of Hear’Say, 13 years in Corrie, tabloids raking through her bins – and not being able to afford nappies as a single mother
Emine Saner
17, May, 2023 @2:59 PM
Ruva Ngwenya on becoming Tina Turner: ‘It is truly a triple threat’s role’
The actor and singer spoke to the Guardian about embodying an icon – and the teenage ‘party trick’ that became a career
Elissa Blake
12, May, 2023 @3:00 PM
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella to close on Broadway
The musical will close on 4 June, after receiving mixed reviews from US critics and failing to receive a nomination at the Tony awards
Chris Wiegand
11, May, 2023 @9:54 AM
Operation Mincemeat review – irrepressible wartime musical is a West End triumph
With gag-packed songs and gender-swapped roles, this fringe show about a secret service plot is a joyful success on the big stage
Emma John
10, May, 2023 @1:28 PM
The cuddling cowboys ride again! Saddle up as Brokeback Mountain is staged with songs
As the two hard-loving herders from the 2005 Oscar-winner get back on their horses, the team behind a new musical version talk about fear, regret – and the tragic power of forbidden desire
Ryan Gilbey
09, May, 2023 @1:52 PM
‘Joanna Lumley is my ultimate’: Strictly supremo Jason Gilkison on dream contestants and his Eurovision drag spectacular
The choreographer shares his ballroom roots, his love for Liverpool nightlife and what makes a perfect TV dance duo
Lyndsey Winship
09, May, 2023 @10:28 AM
Mayflies review – online dating waiting game crashes IRL
A long-gestating app romance fails to sync offline in this innovative musical with songs that outshine the dialogue
Catherine Love
03, May, 2023 @9:08 AM
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