Tim Gilvin News Today

The show sold out its initial run – we’re betting it’ll repeat the trick this time around…

Adam Lenson will direct the production at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant with choreography by Jevan Howard-Jones.

The sell-out new British musical CABLE STREET comes to Southwark Playhouse ELEPHANT on Friday 6 September to Thursday 10 October 2024 - for just 42 performances!

The best of the Brits ahead of Saturdays awards, a host of fantastic films, spectacular stage performances - they are all featured in our critics picks of the best of music, film and theatre.

Framing the battle within a 1930s romance and a 2024 walking tour, Adam Lenson’s production has big ballads, hip-hop-ish commentary and high camp

Tim Gilvin and Alex Kanefksy’s new musical about the historic 1936 clash in London’s East End runs at Southwark Playhouse Borough until 16 March

Quite remarkably the play manages to be both utterly serious about the events of the 4th October 1936 and still include comments of dark humour and comic satire.

To say Cable Street has been highly anticipated would be a gross understatement: it’s basically unheard of for a new, Off West End musical to completely sell out its run before a single review has been published. Nevertheless, this little show that could is absolutely deserving of its success, and seems to be destined for great things.

Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch is coming to Oxford as part of its UK tour following its 10-week run in London.

We meet the director of a musical about the famous day in 1936 when the people of the East End united to stop the fascists from marching