Sunday is the day! Taking place on 2 April at the Royal Albert Hall, the event will see the best performers and shows awarded and will feature amazing performances from all of the Best New Musical nominees, including The Band’s … Continue reading Olivier Awards 2023 – See our predicitions for this year’s ceremony!
A meticulously crafted piece of art that will leave its mark for sure. Fan of The Lightning Thief and Hadestown, it’s about time you discover your new musical obsession with EPIC. If you’ve been on social media in the last … Continue reading Get To Know – EPIC: The Troy Saga, the new viral musical hit
By Kat Mokrynski Picture: all rights reserved “It’s the final night recording Wibble the Dragon. The show is massively over-budget and underwritten. With one hour left to film 16 pages and an audience of children getting more and more impatient, the cast and crew know big cuddly heads are going to roll.” There’s a new Mischief show in town, and it’s darker than any of the ones that have come before. Good Luck Studio, written by Henry Shields and directed by Henry Lewis, made its world premiere at the Mercury Theatre in Colchester in September. The show brings audiences into … Continue reading Writing Good Luck, Studio – An Interview with Henry Shields
By Kat Mokrynski Picture: all rights reserved Boogaras, Shaniacs, and those in between, rejoice! Nearly a year after the final episode of BuzzFeed Unsolved, Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej have returned to their ghost hunting antics in a new show, … Continue reading “Ryan, Shane, and the Internet Hunt Ghosts” – An Interview with Ghost Files
“I know this dream of life is neverending / It goes around and round and round again / You know the sun is rising while descending / It goes on and on and never ends” – “Karnak’s Dream of Life,” … Continue reading [INTERVIEW] Ride the Cyclone Goes Viral
By Kat Mokrynski This past week, Curtain Call was invited to take a tour of the Shafestbury Theatre with James Williams, the Chief Executive. The Shaftesbury Theatre was built in 1911 and was originally called the New Prince’s Theatre (this … Continue reading Accessibility and Comfort – The Revitalization of the Shaftesbury Theatre
By Helen Sullivan Picture: all rights reserved How very! Heathers: The Musical has made its way to the screen in the U.S and Canada on the Roku Channel. The musical comes full circle with its return to this side of … Continue reading How Very! Heathers: the Musical proshot has been released!
By Kat Mokrynski Pictures: Kat Mokrynski & Art: Kelly Lin Hayes On September 17th, Tim Mahendran gave his final performance as Francois DuBois in the hit musical & Juliet. For those unfamiliar with the show, & Juliet answers a hypothetical question about Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers – What if Juliet didn’t kill herself? Tim’s character, Francois, is a young man that Juliet meets when she runs away to Paris. I won’t go into any spoilers for the show here, but let’s just say he has my favorite storyline in the show! Tim was one of the original cast members who had … Continue reading Saying Goodbye to Tim Mahendran, the OG François of &Juliet: An Exclusive Interview
Words by: Helen Sullivan Image: All rights reserved January 27th marks Holocaust Memorial Day and NT Live is releasing a filmed version of Tom Stoppard’s latest play, Lepoldstadt. The play follows multiple generations of a Jewish family living in Vienna. In what could be his last work, Tom Stoppard writes his most personal play, drawing on his own family’s history that Stoppard himself did not know about until later in his life. Tom Stoppard was born Tomas Straussler in then Czechoslovakia before fleeing from Nazi persecution with his family. He travelled with his mother, brother and stepfather before landing in … Continue reading A reflection on Jewish Identity: Lepoldstadt on NT Live
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