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A freelance composer from Belgrade, Anja Djordjevic has collaborated with international musicians including Goran Bregović, both as singer and musical arranger. In 2003 she won the prestigious Stevan Mokranjac Prize for Narcissus & Echo, the first contemporary opera staged by a female composer in Serbia. It is now being transferred to the UK with a new English translation. [...]

Whatever type of music or theatre you’re into, chances are you’ve heard Idina Menzel’s voice. She was part of the Broadway revolution that was Rent in 1996, was the first to immerse herself in green make-up and iconic Stephen Schwartz melodies in global hit Wicked, and more recently joined the talented and charming misfits of [...]

Dougal Irvine is one of the UK’s most exciting new musical theatre writers. A graduate of Birmingham University, Irvine went on to train at the Mountview Academy. After spending ten years working as an actor on such shows as Rent and Wicked, he wrote his own musical, Departure Lounge, which won Best New Musical at [...]

In this new series from The Public Reviews, we profile the creative brains and rising stars behind great British theatre. By Lucy Thackray   I meet director Thom Southerland, fresh from his triumph with Parade at the Southwark Playhouse, at the Cockpit Theatre in Marylebone, just two days after the show closes. He is there [...]

Alice Coulthard is best known to television audiences for the role of Maisie Wylde in Emmerdale, but since leaving the Yorkshire Dales she has landed herself the lead role in Keeler, a new play by Gill Adams that delves into the heart of the Profumo Affair. She took some time out to chat to Catherine [...]

Disco diva and living legend Maureen Nolan shot to fame as part of wholesome girl-group The Nolans. Now she has carved out a solo career and quickly become one of musical theatre’s most sought-after leading ladies. Ian Cain chatted to her about her latest role as Eva Cassidy’s mother in Over the Rainbow. You’re starring in ‘Over [...]

Welsh tenor Wynne Evans has enjoyed more than a decade of opera work in some of Britain’s biggest venues, but many will know him best as the exuberant Gio Compario in the Go Compare adverts. He caught up with Lucy Thackray about his career so far, annoying the public and jamming with Andrew Lloyd Webber… [...]

The Wednesday matinee performance of Les Miserables – currently entering its twenty-sixth year in the West End – has just finished and outside the stage door, the street is already filling up with audience members wanting to meet the cast. I’m there too, waiting for the man who is currently playing the role of Javert; [...]