Tim Minchin News

Below, we're counting down to the Jesus-filled weekend with a look back at notable Judases, from Broadway to London and everywhere in between! Which version of 'Heaven on Their Minds' is your favorite?

Dal venerdi 3 aprile 2020, Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber attraverso la sua compagnia, la Really Useful Group, apre un canale You Tube chiamato THE SHOWS MUST GO ON dove verranno caricati in streaming (per tutti senza costi) alcuni dei suoi musical che sono stati registrati in scena in varie occasioni.

Sadly, the 2020 Olivier Awards won't be going ahead as planned due to the coronavirus shutdown, although ITV will broadcast a highlights show. So, BroadwayWorld reviewers have been thinking back to some of our favourite Oliviers winners, nominees and performances from past years - plus some of the incredible nominees from this year who we would have loved to see honoured.

When CYT St. Charles, a youth theatre company in Louisiana, had to recently cancel its production of Matilda, the company came together to create a video performance of the song, 'When I Grow Up'

John Sanders, who was most recently on Broadway in Groundhog Day the Musical, offered some inspirational words in the form of a song. Sanders performed a guitar arrangement of Night Will Come, a song written by Tim Minchin for Groundhog Day. 'So many are hurting right now, and I know from our show that this song resonates with people during tough times,' Sanders said.

Tim Minchin has announced on Twitter that he is postponing his upcoming shows in Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne, and Brisbane.

The 2020 Adelaide Festival curated by Artistic Directors Neil Armfield AO and Rachel Healy has seen a triumphant 17 day event unfold with sold out shows, the biggest schools program in Festival history and box-office success. With two days still to go the Adelaide Festival has increased its total audience attendance by 24.8%, has smashed its box office target (of $4.7 million) and generated the second highest box office in the event's 60-year history, so far achieving a total box office income in excess of $5.3 million (figure is inclusive of umbrella shows, but does not include WOMADelaide).

Tim Minchin today releases the first single from his debut studio album via BMG. The single, Leaving LA, is a bittersweet break up song with the place he called 'home' for four years. A little sad and a little funny, it is a predictably sardonic and poignant song on the conundrum that is La-La Land.

Given the recent developments on COVID-19 and the government's mandated community quarantine, GMG Productions, along with GWP Entertainment and Virtus Live, has announced that the remaining performances of Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical have been canceled.

Good musicals are like magnets a?' they attract crowds from near and far that not even pervasive talks of a global pandemic could stop them from inflicting their charm on their willing patrons.

New Jersey's celebrated Kick Dance Studios will present Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical Jr. as part of their annual educational theatre program. One of the first communities in the country selected to present this 'junior' version of the award-winning Broadway musical, the production will star a talented ensemble of 'revolting children', ages 6 through 15.

The Axelrod Performing Arts Center presents the first musical of its 2020 season, Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical.

The Axelrod Performing Arts Center opens 'Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical' on Saturday, March 7, in a brand-new production created by Broadway director-choreographer Luis Salgado.

When Matilda The Musical premiered at the Cambridge Theatre in the West End in 2011, The Guardian gave it five stars and described it as a?oeanarchically joyous, gleefully nasty, and an ingenious musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel of the same name.a?? About nine years after, now a beloved musical for all ages, Matilda The Musical finally opened at The Theatre at Solaire in Manila for a limited three-week engagement.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Caitlin Cook in Death Wish on April 23 at 9:30pm. Since she was seventeen, Cook has lived by a code: if something scares her, she has to do it. Join this LA-born, NYC-based, Oxford-educated, hyphen-addicted raconteur for a raucous hour of music, comedy, and bathroom stall graffiti art to find out why.

Two Tony Award-winning musicals, an American classic, a smart new comedy, a haunting new adaptation of a literary masterpiece and a world premiere are at the heart of Syracuse Stage's 48th season. Artistic director Robert Hupp said the shows in the season all in some way address ideas of home 'in all its idealized, romanticized, messy and real manifestations.'

Tim Minchin will release his debut album later this year!

Groundhog Day the Musical or Måndag hela veckan as it is called in Sweden had it's Nordic opening night the 27th of February at the Wermland Opera in Karlstad, Sweden.

Comedian and classically-trained double bassist Taco Kuiper returns to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival this year, with another hilarious and absurdly relatable double bass comedy production. Reluctantly sharing the limelight with Terry, her double bass, she will power through an all-original songbook, providing hysterical insights on current affairs, the beauty of hindsight, sexism, bisexuality, looking after your mental health and the perils of working in the accounting profession. Perhaps Next Time is a show about how to turn regrets into a guide on what the hell you're supposed to be doing as a twenty-something in the twenty-first century. Taco Kuiper is a comedian, singer, actress, dancer, and double bassist - or as she would put it, Melbourne's first quintuple threat.

Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) has announced that ROALD DAHL'S MATILDA THE MUSICAL JR. is now available for licensing.