Following the success of last year’s glitterfest, Olivier Award-winning improvisers The Showstoppers are presenting the ‘Alternative Eurovision Song Contest’ for a second year on Saturday 15 May. Comedians Marcus Brigstocke and Rachel Parris are now lined-up to provide pithy commentary.
Following the success of last year’s glitterfest, Olivier Award-winning improvisers The Showstoppers are presenting the ‘Alternative Eurovision Song Contest’ for a second year on Saturday 15 May. Comedian and 'Bake Off’ star Tom Allen will return as commentator.
Christmas Day free live entertainment to stream online from some of the top names in comedy, science, music and more.
Olivier Award winners The Showstoppers return to your home screens one final time this year to bring some much needed festive cheer into your living room with a special Christmas edition of their improvised musical livestream.
One of the last West End shows to be cancelled before lockdown in March, The Showstoppers turned their final performance at the Lyric Theatre into an impromptu online live stream event, which has since been viewed more than 112,000 times.
On Sunday the 18th of October, the Yes Queens will be reunited after six months of being apart. Back in February, if you'd told me I would be getting teary-eyed at the thought of being in a room with five other people, I would have told you you were nuts.
Celebrity judges, guest stars and the full line-up is today announced for The Showstoppers' Alternative Eurovision Song Contest.
In tribute to this year's cancelled Eurovision Song Contest, Olivier Award-winning musical comedy improvisers The Showstoppers will deliver Europop's favourite night of the year - direct to the world's living rooms with their very own Alternative Eurovision Song Contest.
The cancellation of this year's Eurovision Song Contest left a continentally huge cultural gap but comedian and Eurovizh fan Tom Taylor has big plans to fill that gap with the very first Isolation Song Contest.
Broadway and West End 'Phantom of the Opera' star Ramin Karimloo and his son Hadley yesterday challenged the Olivier Award-winning improvisers The Showstoppers to compose a brand new musical theatre song in just 24 hours.
Ramin Karimloo has challenged The Showstoppers to compose a musical theatre song in just 24 hours.
As BroadwayWorld reported yesterday, West End and Broadway star Elaine Paige launched the 24-Hour Song Challenge by challenging The Showstoppers to compose her a musical theatre song in just 24 hours. The improvisers were to compose a song about having to stay isolated at home in the style of 'West Side Story.'
West End and Broadway star Elaine Paige today launches the 24-Hour Song Challenge by challenging The Showstoppers to compose her a musical theatre song in just 24 hours.
The show must go on! Although UK theatres have closed their doors for the time being, The Showstoppers decided to still perform their Olivier Award-winning improv for audiences via Facebook livestream. Watch the video here!
The Showstoppers (Best Entertainment and Family Show Olivier Award winners 2016) will be returning to London's West End this November and December, to make all your kids' Christmas story wishes come true! The Showstoppers' Christmas Kids Show! can be found in The Paradiso Speigeltent as part of 'Christmas in Leicester Square' from 23rd November - 1st December 2019.
Stunning new images of the Boulevard theatre have today been released days after the theatre opened its doors to the public for the first time for the London premiere of Dave Malloy's Ghost Quartet, directed by Bill Buckhurst. Press night for Ghost Quartet is 31 October. The restaurant is also now open from 8am daily. Alongside this is a vibrant late night and Sunday programme including a wide range of jazz, comedy, poetry, and more.
Artistic Director Rachel Edwards introduces the 2020 season for the Boulevard Theatre.
The critically acclaimed improvisational frontrunner Showstopper! The Improvised Musical heads out on a UK tour again for more entertaining dates throughout 2019. Following on from their sell out run at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018, and with a 2016 Olivier Award for their West End debut at the Apollo Theatre, The Showstoppers made 2018 their best year yet.
The critically acclaimed improvisational frontrunner Showstopper! The Improvised Musical heads out on a UK tour again for more entertaining dates throughout 2019. Following on from their sell out run at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018, and with a 2016 Olivier Award for their West End debut at the Apollo Theatre, The Showstoppers made 2018 their best year yet.
Director of Soho Estates Fawn James and Artistic Director Rachel Edwards together announce the opening programme for the Boulevard as the newly-reimagined venue opens its doors to the public for the first time in October 2019. The first show will be the London premiere of Dave Malloy's celebrated song cycle Ghost Quartet brought to life by the team behind the recent hit production of Sweeney Todd which won great acclaim in London and New York. Ghost Quartet will run alongside a packed roster of late-night and Sunday performances of cabaret, improv, jazz, comedy, classical music and poetry. The Boulevard Theatre's 2020 season will be announced in September.
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