Theatre breaks weekends or mid weekare the best way to guarantee good seats in the house. That's because the agents buy them up in blocks and make a package which includes top quality hotel rooms from dates when the hotels would not normally be fully occupied. Add to this the discount from booking a train ticket in advance and you have an unbeatable theatre break deal.
2 for 1 Come Dancing Offer This is a special offer which readers of London Theatre Blog will be able to take advantage of if you are quick. For three days only starting tomorrow, the offer is 2 tickets for the price of 1 to see performances of Come Dancing by Ray Davies at Theatre Royal Stratford [...]
Considering Wicked Theatre Breaks People considering Wicked Theatre breaks know they’re going to love the show, with many having seen it before, being note-for-note familiar with the song “defying gravity” and big fans of various incarnation of Elphaba and Glinda. The thing about Wicked is that you either get it or you don’t, and the maximum [...]
There’s nothing wrong with a bit of political spoof theatre but why put it on in London when it’s solely concerned with a character from an overseas election show? Songs in the Obama the musical show, due to receive its premiere at Barons Court Theatre next month, include Obama and Me, which is sung by an [...]
How to hire London black cabs and what to expect. Big, black, taxi cabs, in London you see them everywhere but how easy is it to actually travel in one and just how expensive are they? It can be daunting getting around the city if you don’t know London well. London taxi drivers are famously well [...]
Come Dancing is a new musical by Ray Davies of the Kinks. Come Dancing reviews We really enjoyed our evening at Come Dancing, the new Ray Davies musical, at the Theatre Royal Stratford East on Friday. I thought the show was perfect for the theatre and for the Stratford audience. I can’t really give a fair Come [...]
Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat Most of us remember the musical “Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat” from a school performance, either as proud parents or as young performers ourselves! In my case, both - but the earlier memories are somewhat faded from the 1960s. The show was originally written as a ‘hip’ musical that schools would [...]
The cast of the new musical Imagine This has just been announced. Peter Polycarpou will continue his role as Daniel from the Plymouth production. Leila Benn-Harris (The Phantom of the Opera, Fame and Evita.) will play Daniel’s daughter Rebecca. She falls in love with Adam. Simon Gleeson will play Adam, the mysterious stranger. Gleeson [...]
Can’t Smile Without You - dates Can’t Smile Without You the Barry Manilow compilation musical has announced cast members for Bromley and the following tour. The show is premiering on Sept 28th at the Churchill Theatre before going on a 3 month UK tour.The production will play theatres in Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester, Hull, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Northampton, [...]
Girl With A Pearl Earring Girl With a Pearl Earring opens at the Haymarket theatre in London’s West End on September 29th with previews from September 24th. It will run until November 1st. The story of the Girl With a Pearl Earring Girl With A Pearl Earring is the story of Johannes Vermeer and his growing [...]
