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Andrew Lloyd Webber

July 2024

  • Alastair Whatley in The Importance of Being Oscar.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Shakespeare v the Tories, Mel C’s dance show and more

    This month’s picks include a Starlight Express intro for kids, a rollicking wedding play at the National and an explosive hour of dance

June 2024

  • Keep on truckin’ … Jade Marvin as Momma in Starlight Express.

    Starlight Express review – Lloyd Webber’s bizarre juggernaut is bigger, camper and more OTT than ever

    Updated with references to net zero, the 1984 musical is back on track in all its outlandish glory
  • A young Johny Pitts backstage at Starlight Express in Japan.

    Capitalism, optimism and diversity: how 80s musical Starlight Express changed my life

    Johny Pitts recounts how Starlight Express has been a thread in his life that also charts his changing perception of the world
  • ‘After people pretending to be cats, people pretending to be trains wasn’t such a leap’ … Starlight Express.

    How we made
    ‘Steffi Graf went to see it 12 times!’ How we made rollerskating sensation Starlight Express

    ‘The German production has had a standing ovation every night for 36 years. Graf went before big tennis competitions to gee herself up. And the German football team would go before an international’

May 2024

  • Sarah Brightman in Sunset Boulevard at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne

    Sunset Boulevard review – Sarah Brightman disappoints in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mawkish musical

    In her first theatre role in decades, the soprano is simply not up to the task of playing Norma Desmond

March 2024

  • choreographer Arlene Phillips

    The G2 interview
    Arlene Phillips at 80: on Strictly, scandal, survival – and still being a sizzling hot choreographer

    She outraged Mary Whitehouse, worked with Tina Turner, Elton John and Freddie Mercury, and is up for an Olivier for choreographing a smash hit production of Guys & Dolls. Will she ever slow down? Not likely ...

January 2024

  • Elaine Paige (Eva), Joss Ackland (Peron) in Evita at the Prince Edward Theatre, London, in 1978, the year Martin McCallum co-founded his production company.

    Martin McCallum obituary

  • Curtain call … the cast of Frozen take their bows at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

    Disney’s Frozen musical to close in the West End – but open in UK schools

  • Starlight Express in 1984.

    Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express is roaring back and I’m ready to be transported

    Chris Cox
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber

    Andrew Lloyd Webber asked priest to bless London home over poltergeist

December 2023

  • Evita at Curve Theatre. Martha Kirby (Eva Perón)

    Christmas shows: Evita; Peter Pan review – from Argentina to Neverland, a search for connection

  • A scene from Evita at Curve theatre, Leicester

    Evita review – oh what a circus as musical gets bizarre update

November 2023

  • Children learning the violin. The Music in Secondary Schools Trust says its work helps increase pupils’ self-confidence and resilience.

    Stars back Andrew Lloyd Webber call for music education funding

    Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa among signatories of letter to Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer calling for funds for music in disadvantaged schools

October 2023

  • His great love … Bill Kenwright on stage with the Dreamboats and Petticoats musical cast in 2009.

    ‘His talent and enthusiasm never waned’: Blood Brothers and Evita producer Bill Kenwright

  • Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard.

    Pass notes
    The applause clause: why are standing ovations suddenly obligatory?

  • Sharon Duncan-Brewster, left, with Hayley Squires in Death of England: Closing Time.

    The week in theatre: Death of England: Closing Time; Sunset Boulevard – review

  • Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.

    Sunset Boulevard review – Nicole Scherzinger dazzles in Jamie Lloyd’s radical rework

July 2023

  • Toto is the quiet star … Georgina Onuorah as Dorothy with Ben Thompson operating Toto in The Wizard of Oz.

    The Wizard of Oz review – over the rainbow and into an arcade game

    This adaptation has a luminous performance from Georgina Onuorah as Dorothy and some great ideas but throws too much at the audience

June 2023

  • Danielle de Niese and Laura Pitt-Pulford in Aspects of Love.Directed by Jonathan Ken (Opening 25-05-2023) ©Tristram Kenton 05-23 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The week in theatre: Aspects of Love; Rose; The Shape of Things – review

    A superb cast, including opera star Danielle de Niese, elevates Andrew Lloyd Webber’s plodding 80s musical; Maureen Lipman gives a one-woman masterclass; and Neil LaBute’s romcom gets a sharp, funny revival

May 2023

  • Danielle de Niese (Giulietta) and Laura Pitt-Pulford (Rose), centre, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects Of Love.

    Aspects of Love review – a preposterous blast from the past

    Michael Ball returns to sing Love Changes Everything, this time as the uncle, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical of romantic entanglements
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