Our #FirstNightTakeover series continues with Perry O'Bree attending the opening (on 13 December 2016) of the 20th anniversary revival of Jonathan Larson's RENT, which, following a short tou…
The 20th anniversary production of Jonathan Larson's Rent arrives in London
The 20th anniversary of Rent offers a potent reminder is that it was the Hamilton of its day; a show that became
Anthony Rapp graces the intimately beautiful stage of the St. James Theatre's studio for a series of live concerts. Last seen on the American tour of IfThen music by Tom Kitt, book and lyric…
When The Last Five Years announced an extension of a week just after opening, it meant I was able to nab a pair of cheap tickets down the front, conveniently on the side where the shirtless …
Bruce Guthrie’s production of Jonathan Larson's heart rending multiple award winning rock musical RENT is set to run at The Other Palace (formerly the St. James Theatr…
Bruce Guthrie’s production of Jonathan Larson's heart rending multiple award winning rock musical RENT is set to run at The Other Place (former the St. James Theatre) …
Bruce Guthrie’s production of Jonathan Larson's heart rending multiple award winning rock musical RENT is set to run at The Other Palace (former the St. James Theatre)…
Even the most moving performances are often largely removed from our day-to-day lives. But every so often you come across a piece of theatre that, whilst it may not be the objective best thi…
The Last Five Years - St James Theatre Until 3rd December ★★★★ 'deserving of a West End transfer'
It's been a long time coming, but finally the West End premiere of Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years, which set the US alight in 2001, has arrived. The structure of this music…
Jason Robert Brown's two-hander song cycle is a knockoutFrom Monteverdi to Schubert to Bernstein and Lloyd Webber the dramatic song cycle has travelled far and wide over the centuries, …
I despair of two-handed musicals. Required to judge the personalities or take sides, you feel trapped. Nowhere more so than at The Last Five Years, in which the partners wail their issues at…
You almost wonder where this show can possibly go when the opening number is so strong, so emotive, so damn heartbreaking. Cathy is "Still Hurting" from the break-up of her relationship with…
Opening with two lovers sharing a kiss, for Samantha Barks' Cathy, an aspiring actress it is her tragic last, while for writer Jamie, played by Jonathan Bailey, it is a trepidatious first.
Jason Robert Brown directs his own musical about an entire relationship
Gary Naylor sees a slick romcom musical about 90s New Yorkers that impresses but leaves him just a little cold.
In the summer of 2015 the St James Theatre offered a brilliant showcase to composer Jason Robert Brown’s first New York calling
By Editorial Staff Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years opens at the St James Theatre tomorrow night (Wednesday 2nd December) and we are pleased to bring you these great first look…
Tony Award-winning Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown will helm a new London production of his acclaimed musical The Last Five Years, starring
As Andrew Lloyd Webber confirms the St James Theatre will be renamed the Other Palace when he relaunches it next year, this
Christmas Bells! The Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning Rent is returning to London. Directed by Bruce Guthrie, the 20th anniversary production of Jonathan Larson’s tuner will play a limi…
It coincides with a 20th anniversary revival of Rent playing in the St. James Theatre upstairs.
In a non-stop performance of virtuoso theatre, The Pianist of Willesden Lane sees Mona Golabek, an accomplished American concert pianist, pay the most remarkable of tributes to her late moth…
By Alexa Terry The piece is told beautifully and simply, with no added spectacle or illusion: just one woman, her piano and a story – and I was holding on to every word and every note.…