Backstage with... Simon Lipkin
Simon Lipkin, bringing authentic Jewish joy to his interpretation of Fagin in Matthew Bourne’s staging of Oliver! in the West End, after a run in Chichester
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Marisha Wallace interview: ‘It’s never just theatre or music. Everything is connected’
Marisha Wallace has made the transition from North Carolina gospel singer to Broadway and West End star look easy – but behind her powerful voice and winning stage presence is a heartwarming story of...
Musicals: From Stage to Screen
At their best, movies of stage musicals can bolster the narrative and heighten emotional impact, from West Side Story and 13 to La La Land and Matilda
Tracie Bennett interview | My Musicals
Double Olivier Award winner Tracie Bennett, currently appearing in Here We Are in New York, on putting across a song, playing men and coming full circle with Sondheim
Here We Are | Album review
The original cast recording of the premiere production of Sondheim's swansong
Here We Are | Review
Sondheim's swansong musical made its world premiere at The Shed in New York in September 2023
Cable Street | Review
As the new musical by Tim Gilvin and Alex Kanefsky returns to Southwark Playhouse, this time to its Elephant venue, we share our original review from February this year, in which Aliya Al-Hassan...
Rising Star | Jo Foster
Currently starring in Marlow and Moss’s Why Am I So Single?, Jo Foster is treading new ground as a non-binary performer
Behind the Song: Frank Loesser’s ‘Adelaide’s Lament’ from Guys and Dolls
The singer, pianist and songwriter Joe Stilgoe describes why lyrics about catching a permanent cold create what is often the most-talked about track in a classic Musical Theatre show
Recording 'Guys and Dolls'
Recording can be a precise, painstaking process and, as Edward Seckerson discovers at a temporarily refashioned Bridge Theatre, laying down the London cast album of Guys & Dolls is no exception