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Rising costs and falling global tourism undermine the business of spectacular musicals
While some welcome end of most Covid restrictions, others are fearful about rising infections
The composer’s £60m theatre restoration is complete and Cinderella, his new musical, is about to open. So why isn’t he happier?
The garlanded composer insists that the show must go on, even in defiance of Covid restrictions
The composer talks about confounding the naysayers and his image in Britain and the US
Revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber musical whose weaknesses lie in the source material
Rebranded theatre hosts a revived show about a prohibition-era soirée
The youngsters excel, but this musical based on the hit film is largely disappointing
A cracking revival brings Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical to a new generation
The star dominates the theatre in this semi-staged Lloyd Webber musical, but her singing is disappointing
ENO’s staging of ‘Sunset Boulevard’ proves that purists have nothing to fear
If historical characters rapping packs the stalls, nothing is off-limits, writes Sarah Hemming
The producer of such global hits as ‘Cats’ and ‘Miss Saigon’ is a master of reinvention. After five decades, he has transformed the risky musical theatre business into a billion-pound cash machine
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new musical is brought to life by the talented children in the cast
Ahead of a production for Birmingham Royal Ballet, choreographer Gillian Lynne, still working at 88, talks about her ‘accident’ into dance and the need for brutish stamina
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical tackles a subject with huge potential, yet the result is tepid
The husband and wife team Sir Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire show theatre can be profitable
Civility, understatement and gentle mockery of authority now seem hopelessly old-fashioned in a way they didn’t only a few decades ago
With his eloquent physiognomy, Mathew Horne leads a starrily cast revival of this 1892 farce
A pre-Raphaelite exhibition includes works on loan from John Schaeffer, devoted collector of an unfashionable genre
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