Rehana Nurmahi

Rehana Nurmahi reviews Clarkston, which stars Heartstopper's Joe Locke and is being performed at the Tralfagar Theatre.

Over a century after his death, Shakespeare’s infamous lovers have been making headlines again in 2024. As Tom Holland (Spider-Man: No Way Home) steps into the role of literature’s most famous loverboy on the West End, Rachel Zegler (The Ballad of…

The name Kim’s Convenience is probably not an unfamiliar one. The Netflix comedy, which began airing in 2016, was the breakout for stars like Simu Lui (Shang-Chi) and Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (starring as Uncle Iroh in the upcoming Avatar: The Last…

Bringing the streets of Los Angeles to the stages of the UK and Ireland, Pretty Woman: The Musical has announced the cast for its upcoming tour. Following its run at the Savoy Theatre in London, the show will begin its touring production in October…

Since its opening in 1999, The Lion King has marked itself as a must-see musical on the West End. It’s one of the longest running theatre shows in London, and has drawn in audiences night after night with its deeply emotive storytelling, its…

National Theatre have announced the line-up for their upcoming 2023 season. One of the most highly-anticipated productions is Jack Thorne’s new play, The Motive and the Cue, directed by Academy award-winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1917). The…

Acclaimed Broadway musical director Benjamin Rauhala is coming to Cadogan Hall on Sunday 5 February 2023. In a new concert entitled Benjamin Rauhala & His West End Besties, Rauhala will be joined by a host of his favourite West End performers to…

Back to the Future: The Musical has announced its new cast for its second-year run at the Adelphi Theatre in London. The critically acclaimed show, now booking until February 2023, will see the new cast members join from 17 August 2022. Roger Bart…

Tickets for Disney’s new reimagined production of the Broadway hit Newsies at London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre will go on sale Thursday 16 June at 10am, with priority tickets on sale from 10am on Wednesday 15 June. The production will play at…

Jonathan Larson needed so desperately for his work to be out in the world – something Tick, Tick… Boom! director Lin-Manuel Miranda can surely relate to. From Hamilton all the way to Encanto, the weight of legacy is deeply felt in the impassioned…

★★★★✰ Andrea Levy’s powerful novel about the life of a woman in plantation-era Jamaica is transported to the stage in Chichester Festival Theatre’s new adaptation. Suhayla El-Bushra’s brings Levy’s work to life in a way that feels both personal and…

★★★✰✰ In a trend that started with Hamilton, and continued with Six, another new musical has emerged that tells the history that the books sometimes miss. The central figure at the heart of Tokyo Rose is none other than Iva Toguri. You can be…

★★★★★ Two actors. One relationship. The Last Five Years at Garrick Theatre is seemingly simple. The twist, however, is the musical’s unique narrative form: Jamie (Oli Higginson) tells the story chronologically, while Cathy (Molly Lynch) starts at the…

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton’s iconic musical Sunset Boulevard is to be staged at the Royal Albert Hall on 3 December for one night only. An adaptation of Billy Wilder’s 1950 film, the story follows silent film star Norma…

As long as both musical theatre and film has co-existed, the two formats have been somewhat intertwined. Many films have been made into musical stage shows (Waitress, Shrek, Sister Act and many more), with even more musicals being transported from…

Last week, Guildford Fringe Festival announced that they would be returning for their eighth annual run from 2 – 25 July 2021, following a break due to Covid last year. With booking now open for over 60 events, with more to be confirmed, The…

“How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore, go on and on, grow into more of a phenomenon?” Because, let’s be honest, there’s no doubt about it that what we have on our hands with Hamilton is, in fact, a phenomenon. Although it initially started with…

Stomp has always been on my radar. It’s that show where they drum on trash cans and that. Other than that though, I didn’t know much else. I certainly didn’t know just how much it would take my breath away. It’s a piece of theatre unlike any other.…

Grease is probably one of the most well-known musicals to date. Despite the inherently crude humour and sexual lyrics throughout, it is one of those musicals that we seem to know all the songs from by the age of 10. The story itself is one I’ve never…

First of all, let me be clear in saying how much I adore the Showstoppers team, and how incredibly talented they all are. However, I can’t say that their latest show really did it for me. The latest production they put on was Sondheim’s Follies, a…