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August 25, 2018August 31, 2018

Britney Spears (Piece of Me) … Gimme More

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August 23, 2018August 30, 2018

Duke of York’s Theatre, London

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August 23, 2018August 30, 2018

King Lear … mesmerising McKellen

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July 18, 2018August 17, 2018

Royal Albert Hall, London

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July 18, 2018August 17, 2018

Gershwin / Messiaen concert … alien ondes martenot

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July 16, 2018August 17, 2018

Young Vic, London

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July 16, 2018August 17, 2018

Fun Home … majoring in feels

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July 14, 2018August 17, 2018

The Muppets Take the O2 … Heads and prawns

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May 16, 2018May 30, 2018

Beethoven / Stravinsky concert … a restrained Emperor

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Locations

  • England
    • London
      • Adelphi Theatre
      • Apollo Theatre
      • Apollo Victoria Theatre
      • Arts Theatre
      • Bridewell Theatre
      • Cambridge Theatre
      • Dominion Theatre
      • Duke of York’s Theatre
      • Garrick Theatre
      • Gielgud Theatre
      • Her Majesty’s Theatre
      • King’s Cross Theatre
      • London Coliseum
      • London Palladium
      • Lyceum Theatre
      • Menier Chocolate Factory
      • National Theatre
      • New London Theatre
      • Noel Coward Theatre
      • Novello Theatre
      • O2
      • Old Vic
      • The Other Palace
      • Palace Theatre
      • Phoenix Theatre
      • Piccadilly Theatre
      • Playhouse Theatre
      • Prince Edward Theatre
      • Prince of Wales Theatre
      • Queen’s Theatre
      • Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
      • Ronnie Scott’s
      • Rose Theatre
      • Royal Albert Hall
      • Royal Festival Hall
      • Royal Opera House
      • Sadler’s Wells
      • Savoy Theatre
      • Shaftesbury Theatre
      • Theatre Royal Drury Lane
      • Theatre Royal Haymarket
      • Trafalgar Studios
      • Victoria Palace Theatre
      • Wembley Arena
      • Wyndham’s Theatre
      • Young Vic
    • Newcastle
      • Newcastle University Students’ Union
    • Oxford
      • Holywell Music Room
  • USA
    • Las Vegas
      • Treasure Island
      • Wynn Theatre
    • New York
      • Broadway
        • Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Types of show

  • Ballet
  • Broadway musical
  • Classical music concert
  • Comedy gig
  • Dance/gymnastics
  • Jazz
  • Jukebox musical
  • Music gig
  • Non-West End or Broadway musical
  • Opera
  • Play
  • West End musical

Show reviews

  • 42nd Street
  • Aladdin
  • An American in Paris
  • Angels in America
  • Annie
  • Apologia
  • Beethoven / Stravinsky concert
  • Bend it like Beckham
  • The Book of Mormon
  • The Boy Friend
  • Britney Spears (Piece of Me)
  • Cabaret
  • La Cage aux Folles
  • Cats
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Chicago
  • A Chorus Line
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
  • Don Juan in Soho
  • Dreamgirls
  • Elbow (Cast of Thousands)
  • Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
  • Evita
  • Fun Home
  • Funny Girl
  • Gershwin / Messiaen concert
  • The Girls
  • Glee Live!
  • Grease
  • Groundhog Day
  • Guys and Dolls
  • Gypsy
  • Half a Sixpence
  • Hamilton
  • Hamlet
  • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
  • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
  • In the Heights
  • Into the Woods
  • Kanye West (Glow in the Dark)
  • Katy Perry (Prismatic)
  • The Killers
  • King Lear
  • Kinky Boots
  • Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP Ball
  • The Last Five Years
  • Legally Blonde
  • Les Miserables
  • The Lion King
  • Little Mix (Glory Days)
  • Love In Idleness
  • Love Never Dies
  • Mamma Mia!
  • Matilda the Musical
  • Miss Saigon
  • Mrs Henderson Presents
  • Much Ado About Nothing (Kingston)
  • Much Ado about Nothing (West End)
  • The Muppets Take the O2
  • Murder Ballad
  • Muse (Black Holes and Revelations)
  • Muse (Drones)
  • Music for Two Violas
  • My Fair Lady
  • Mystere
  • Nicki Minaj (Pink Friday: Reloaded)
  • The Nutcracker
  • Oliver!
  • One Man, Two Guvnors
  • The Pajama Game
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • Pink (The Truth About Love)
  • The Planets concert
  • The Prisoner of Second Avenue
  • Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Rene Marie
  • Rent
  • La Reve
  • Richard III
  • Rob Delaney (Meat)
  • Rock of Ages
  • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
  • School of Rock
  • The Scottsboro Boys
  • The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4
  • Shakespeare in Love
  • Singin’ in the Rain
  • Speed the Plow
  • Stravinsky ballets concert
  • Swan Lake
  • Sweet Charity
  • The Tempest
  • Tosca
  • Vanities the Musical
  • West Side Story
  • Wicked
  • will.i.am
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Young Frankenstein

Composers

  • Richard Adler
  • Benny Andersson
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Gary Barlow
  • Lionel Bart
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Frantisek Benda
  • Nell Benjamin
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Mel Brooks
  • Jason Robert Brown
  • Corin Buckeridge
  • Warren Casey
  • Simon Chamberlain
  • Churchill
  • Pippa Cleary
  • Leonard Cohen
  • Cy Coleman
  • Adam Cork
  • Anthony Drewe
  • Fyodor Druzhinin
  • Al Dubin
  • Elbow
  • Estelle
  • George Fenton
  • Tim Firth
  • Mark Fisher
  • George Gershwin
  • Dan Gillespie Sells
  • Howard Goodall
  • Joe Goodwin
  • Marvin Hamlisch
  • Imogen Heap
  • David Heneker
  • Nacio Herb Brown
  • Jerry Herman
  • Gustav Holst
  • Icona Pop
  • Gordon Jacob
  • Jim Jacobs
  • Elton John
  • John Kander
  • Aram Khatchaturian
  • David Kirshenbaum
  • Eartha Kitt
  • Henry Krieger
  • Lady Gaga
  • Lady Starlight
  • Jonathan Larson
  • Cyndi Lauper
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Frank Loesser
  • Frederick Loewe
  • Longview
  • Robert Lopez
  • Martin Lowe
  • Rene Marie
  • Alan Menken
  • Olivier Messiaen
  • Nicki Minaj
  • Tim Minchin
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Mr Hudson & The Library
  • Muse
  • Juliana Nash
  • Jon Nicholls
  • The Noisettes
  • Laurence O’Keefe
  • Trey Parker
  • Katy Perry
  • Phantogram
  • Pink
  • Sergei Prokofiev
  • Giacomo Puccini
  • Sergey Rachmaninov
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Lionel Richie
  • Ben Ringham
  • Paul Ringham
  • Jerry Ross
  • Edmund Rubbra
  • Santogold
  • Claude-Michel Schonberg
  • Franz Schubert
  • Stephen Schwartz
  • Larry Shay
  • Stephen Sondheim
  • George Stiles
  • Matt Stone
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Charles Strouse
  • Jule Styne
  • Adrian Sutton
  • Syren
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Jeanine Tesori
  • Tyga
  • Bjorn Ulvaeus
  • Richard Wagner
  • Walk the Moon
  • Harry Warren
  • Kanye West
  • will.i.am
  • Sandy Wilson
  • David Yazbek
  • Artie Zaitz
  • Hans Zimmer

Lyricists

  • Richard Adler
  • Benny Andersson
  • Howard Ashman
  • Gary Barlow
  • Lionel Bart
  • Chad Beguelin
  • Nell Benjamin
  • Don Black
  • Alain Boublil
  • Mel Brooks
  • Jason Robert Brown
  • Jake Brunger
  • Warren Casey
  • Martin Charnin
  • Pippa Cleary
  • Leonard Cohen
  • Anthony Drewe
  • Al Dubin
  • Fred Ebb
  • Elbow
  • T S Eliot
  • Tom Eyen
  • Dorothy Fields
  • Tim Firth
  • Mark Fisher
  • Arthur Freed
  • Ira Gershwin
  • Giuseppe Giacosa
  • Joe Goodwin
  • Charles Hart
  • David Heneker
  • Jerry Herman
  • Luigi Illica
  • Jim Jacobs
  • Julia Jordan
  • David Kirshenbaum
  • Eartha Kitt
  • Edward Kleban
  • Herbert Kretzmer
  • Lisa Kron
  • Jonathan Larson
  • Cyndi Lauper
  • Alan Jay Lerner
  • Frank Loesser
  • Robert Lopez
  • Tom Macrae
  • Richard Maltby Jr
  • Rene Marie
  • Bob Merrill
  • Tim Minchin
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Muse
  • Juliana Nash
  • Laurence O’Keefe
  • Trey Parker
  • Katy Perry
  • Pink
  • Tim Rice
  • Lionel Richie
  • Jerry Ross
  • Stephen Schwartz
  • Larry Shay
  • Stephen Sondheim
  • Glenn Slater
  • George Stiles
  • Matt Stone
  • Julie Taymor
  • Bjorn Ulvaeus
  • Harry Warren
  • will.i.am
  • Sandy Wilson
  • Scott Wittman
  • David Yazbek

Writers

  • George Abbott
  • Roger Allers
  • Gary Barlow
  • L Frank Baum
  • Richard Bean
  • Alison Bechdel
  • Chad Beguelin
  • Richard Bissell
  • Alain Boublil
  • Mark Bramble
  • Mel Brooks
  • Jason Robert Brown
  • Jake Brunger
  • Abe Burrows
  • John Caird
  • Alexi Kaye Campbell
  • Warren Casey
  • Gurinder Chadha
  • Ron Chernow
  • Betty Comden
  • Beverley Cross
  • Roald Dahl
  • Nicholas Dante
  • Chris D’Arienzo
  • Charles Dickens
  • Fred Ebb
  • T S Eliot
  • Ben Elton
  • Tom Eyen
  • Julian Fellowes
  • Harvey Fierstein
  • Tim Firth
  • Bob Fosse
  • Giuseppe Giacosa
  • Willie Gilbert
  • Carlo Goldoni
  • Adolph Green
  • David Greig
  • Heather Hach
  • Mark Haddon
  • Lee Hall
  • Jack Heifner
  • David Heneker
  • Winnie Holzman
  • Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Victor Hugo
  • Luigi Illica
  • Christopher Isherwood
  • Jim Jacobs
  • Catherine Johnson
  • Terry Johnson
  • Julia Jordan
  • Dennis Kelly
  • James Kirkwood
  • Lisa Kron
  • Tony Kushner
  • Jeffrey Lane
  • James Lapine
  • Jonathan Larson
  • Arthur Laurents
  • Isobel Lennart
  • Alan Jay Lerner
  • Gaston Leroux
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Robert Lopez
  • Craig Lucas
  • Tom Macrae
  • David Mamet
  • Patrick Marber
  • Paul Mayeda Burges
  • Irene Mecchi
  • Thomas Meehan
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Ryan Murphy
  • Marc Norman
  • Trevor Nunn
  • Trey Parker
  • Harold Ramis
  • Terence Rattigan
  • Tim Rice
  • J K Rowling
  • Danny Rubin
  • Damon Runyon
  • Claude-Michel Schonberg
  • William Shakespeare
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Neil Simon
  • Simon Stephens
  • Michael Stewart
  • Matt Stone
  • Tom Stoppard
  • Joe Swerling
  • David Thompson
  • Jack Thorne
  • John Tiffany
  • Jack Weinstock
  • Sandy Wilson

Performers

  • Hannah Waddingham
  • Andrew C Wadsworth
  • Walk the Moon
  • Josie Walker
  • Nicola Walker
  • Marcquelle Ward
  • Katie Warsop
  • Annabel Watson
  • Danny Webb
  • Steven Webb
  • Annie Wensak
  • Kanye West
  • Stan West
  • Jamael Westman
  • Matthias Wiesner
  • Russell Wilcox
  • Lewis Wilkins
  • will.i.am
  • Emma Williams
  • Layton Williams
  • Amir Wilson
  • Helena Wilson
  • John Wodja
  • Clive Wood
  • Hugo Max Woodhouse
  • Anna Woodside
  • Stewart Wright
  • Silas Wyatt-Barke
  • Eleanor Wyld
  • Gwion Wyn Jones
  • Michael Xavier
  • Dora Yolland
  • Samuel Youn
  • Will Young
  • Artie Zaitz

Producers and Directors

  • Joshua Andrews
  • Fiery Angel
  • Anthony Clare and David Ian Productions
  • Amy Anzel
  • Bob Avian
  • Michael Bennett
  • Walter Bobbie
  • Matthew Bourne
  • Mark Bramble
  • Jason Robert Brown
  • Giles Burden
  • Jonathan Butterell
  • John Caird
  • Gurinder Chadha
  • Matt Chisling
  • Jonathan Church
  • Laurence Connor
  • Mike Dixon
  • Declan Donnellan
  • Gregory Doran
  • Simon Dormandy
  • Marianne Elliott
  • Richard Eyre
  • Tim Firth
  • Nikolai Foster
  • Sonia Friedman
  • Jill Furman
  • Roy Furman
  • Geoids Musical Theatre
  • David Gilmore
  • Sam Gold
  • Rupert Gould
  • Michael Grade
  • Gordon Greenberg
  • Bruce Guthrie
  • Kristin Hanggi
  • Michael Harrison
  • Dr Johnny Hon
  • Nicholas Hytner
  • David Ian
  • Sander Jacobs
  • Terry Johnson
  • Thomas Kail
  • Van Kaplan
  • Rachel Kavanaugh
  • Jonathan Kent
  • Bill Kenwright
  • Blake Klein
  • Baayork Lee
  • David Leveaux
  • Michael Linnit
  • Jamie Lloyd
  • Phyllida Lloyd
  • Cameron Mackintosh
  • Joe Mantello
  • Patrick Marber
  • Michael Mayer
  • Michael McCabe
  • Joey McKneely
  • Sam Mendes
  • Jerry Mitchell
  • Jonathan Munby
  • Graeme Murphy
  • Paul Nicholas
  • Casey Nicholaw
  • Rufus Norris
  • Trevor Nunn
  • Stuart Oaken
  • Trey Parker
  • Daniel Penfold
  • Racky Plews
  • The Public Theater
  • David Pugh
  • The Really Useful Theatre Company
  • Dafydd Rogers
  • Josie Rourke
  • Scott Rudin
  • Kevin Salter
  • Jeremy Sams
  • Jeffrey Seller
  • Timothy Sheader
  • Luke Sheppard
  • The Shubert Organization
  • Soundcheck Productions
  • Susan Stroman
  • Susan Strowman
  • David Taylor
  • Paul Taylor Mills
  • Julie Taymor
  • John Tiffany
  • Bob Tomson
  • Tower Theatre Company
  • Tulchin/Bartner Productions
  • Matthew Warchus
  • Christopher Wheeldon
  • Matthew White
  • Hilary A Williams
  • Sam Yates

Musical directors

  • Jae Alexander
  • Richard Beadle
  • Phil Cornwell
  • Teodor Currentzis
  • Mike Dixon
  • Gustavo Dudamel
  • George Dyer
  • Nicholas Finlow
  • Sean Green
  • Dominic Grier
  • Erika Gundesen
  • Colin Guthrie
  • Andrew Hilton
  • Graham Hurman
  • Theo Jamieson
  • Nigel Lilley
  • Martin Lowe
  • John Rigby
  • Nicholas Skilbeck
  • Matt Smith
  • Kryzysztof Urbanski
  • Gareth Valentine

Choreographers

  • Carlos Acosta
  • Bob Avian
  • Michael Bennett
  • Polly Bennett
  • Andy Blankenbuehler
  • Gower Champion
  • Lucy Cullingford
  • Peter Darling
  • Garth Fagan
  • Robby Graham
  • Steven Hoggett
  • Rachel Howell
  • JoAnn M Hunter
  • Baayork Lee
  • Gillian Lynne
  • Drew McOnie
  • Stephen Mear
  • Danny Mefford
  • Jerry Mitchell
  • Graeme Murphy
  • Casey Nicholaw
  • Lynne Page
  • Arlene Phillips
  • Jason Piper
  • Racky Plews
  • Kate Prince
  • Lee Proud
  • Lemington Ridley
  • Jerome Robbins
  • Randy Skinner
  • Janet South
  • Susan Stroman
  • Kate Waters
  • Christopher Wheeldon
  • Nick Winston
  • Andrew Wright
  • Peter Wright

Set designers

  • Beowulf Boritt
  • Paul Brown
  • Bunny Christie
  • Bob Crowley
  • Naomi Dawson
  • Anna Fleischle
  • Soutra Gilmour
  • Rob Howell
  • Christine Jones
  • Robert Jones
  • Richard Kent
  • David Korins
  • Anna Louizos
  • Ian MacNeil
  • Nick Ormerod
  • Colin Richmond
  • Tom Rogers
  • Douglas W Schmidt
  • Mark Thompson
  • Paul Wills
  • John Winters
  • David Zinn

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