West End Theatre

I’ve recently worked with and investor and advisors who come from the more traditional business world and have enquired about how a commercial theatre show is funded. I figured this is information that isn’t widely known and lack of access to this information means that the world of investing in…

Rebecca Frecknall’s immersive revival of Cabaret at the Playhouse Theatre — sorry, the Kit Kat Club — starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley. The main entrance of the theatre is closed. You line up outside, show proof of a negative Covid test result from within the past 48 hours, then…

Experiencing live theatre during a pandemic, and Linzi Hateley’s return to ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ As Linzi Hateley began to sing the prologue in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium last Sunday evening, something strange happened. For a second, somehow, it was the summer…

On Sunday 3rd November 2019, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to perform in Her Majesties Theatre, in Trouble’s A Brewin’. This is a western musical all about a small town called Alberquirky, which is celebrating its 11th year anniversary; where the town folks are enjoying life until…

Victoria Palace Theatre. February 9, 2019 — Everyone on the planet has probably heard of Hamilton since Lin Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop/RnB musical stormed the stage in 2015. As it was about to start, there was a tangible buzz in of excitement in the audience. So does it live up to the hype? Yes, yes it does. It’s…

July 9, 2017: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler If I were forced to name the actor I would most liked to have seen live — in anything — my mind would begin racing with the better known royalty of Broadway and the West End during the mid-to-late twentieth…

To the always magnificent surroundings of the London Coliseum to see what has (with good reason) been hailed as one of the theatrical events of the summer. …

October 17, 2016: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Back from a week of London theatregoing (nine shows in six days) and it hardly takes a wizard to report that the magic that makes up Harry Potter and the Cursed Child — Parts One and Two, currently playing to…