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Locations

England
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
Film music concert
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
Company
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
Joanna Lumley – It’s All About Me
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
Star Wars Live In Concert
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
John Williams
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
George Furth
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
Chris Harper
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
Ludwig Wicki

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
Liam Steel
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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