Landor Theatre News

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, The Landor Theatre is delighted to announce a revival of the first musical ever produced at the venue, Stephen Sondheim's enchanting 'Into The Woods'.

Too Marvellous For Words, The Songs of Johnny Mercer, directed by Robert McWhir with musical Direction by Andrew Friesner.

So long Dolly! Move over, Mame! Make way for the biggest of Broadway's leading ladies, 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown'. The Titanic may have sunk, but she survived.Thom Southerland in association with the Landor Theatre

So long Dolly! Move over, Mame! Make way for the biggest of Broadway's leading ladies, 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown'. The Titanic may have sunk, but she survived.Thom Southerland in association with the Landor Theatre

The musical, currently playing at the Landor Theatre, adds a Saturday afternoon performance to its schedule

Tonight, September 30th the first performance of the national Frost/Nixon tour will begin in Des Moines, IA The 2007 Tony Award® -nominated new play by Peter Morgan, the award-winning author of The Last King of Scotland and The Queen, will run at the Des Moines Civic Center through October 5th.

The full cast for the tour of Frost/Nixon, the 2007 Tony Award® -nominated new play by Peter Morgan, the award-winning author of The Last King of Scotland and The Queen, has been announced.

After a year and a half of performances Julie Atherton, Jon Robyns and Simon Lipkin will be leaving the company of Avenue Q on December 3. Joining the cast are Rebecca Lock, Daniel Boys and Christopher Fry.

Robert McWhir's staging of the Kander and Ebb song showcase 'The World Goes Round', with musical direction by Heather Weir (currently playing at the Landor Theatre until February 10), displays an uneven mix of superb musical renditions and some near misses. Most of the songs are delivered with a high degree of accomplishment and the staging is generally full of energy and sophistication, perfectly balancing the layers of poignant emotion, cutting wit and Broadway bravado that pervades Kander and Ebb's musical theatre work. But some numbers miss the mark, let down by awkward, almost substandard, vocals - and the staging of 'All That Jazz' not only fails to conjure up anything that remotely resembles the choreographic arcs of the Fosse original but is also lacking in the sensuality that the number begs for. Ebb's lyric calls for them to 'let their stockings down' but the nylon seems reluctant to slip from the garters.

Tuesday, January 16 will see the opening of the revue 'And The World Goes Round' at one of London's most atmospheric and intimate pub theatres, the Landor. The show draws its material from the songbook of John Kander and Fred Ebb, one of the greatest of all musical theatre song-writing duos, whose resume boasts the scores for such musicals as 'Cabaret', 'Chicago', 'Kiss Of The Spider Woman', 'Woman Of The Year', 'The Rink', and 'Flora, The Red Menace'.

Emerging performer Jonathan Eiø and West End regular Lucy Thatcher will join forces for Love Laugh and Live, a unique evening of song, on Sunday 26 and Tuesday 28 November 2006 at the Theatre Museum.