Tim Gilvin News

Birmingham Hippodrome has announced a line-up of new productions including brand-new festive family musical The Jingleclaw, the first new musical to be produced by the Hippodrome. A stellar line up of West End and Broadway smash-hit musicals including & Juliet, Chitty Chitty Bang and Only Fools and Horses – The Musical will also come to the theatre in 2025.

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!

Birmingham Hippodrome’s New Musical Theatre department have announced their first full production The Jingleclaw, a festive family musical created for 3–7 year olds.

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.

Check out photos of Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch at Southwark Playhouse!

Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch, written by Robyn Grant and Daniel Foxx with music by Tim Gilvin, tells the “true” story of Ursula, starting from her childhood and ending with what happens after The Little Mermaid (both 1989 and 2023).

The cast has been announced for the world premiere of new British musical CABLE STREET - opening at The Large, Southwark Playhouse Borough on Friday 16 February 2024 to Saturday 16 March 2024.

BroadwayWorld sat down with Shawna Hamic, who is taking on the role of Ursula in Unfortunate. We discussed what made her want to be a part of the show, what she hopes audiences take away from Unfortunate and who is her favourite Disney villain! 

Shawna Hamic (Orange is the New Black, 1776 on Broadway) will lead the cast of the critically-acclaimed musical parody Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch at Birmingham Hippodrome from Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 April 2024 opposite Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK star River Medway as Ariel.

The world premiere of a new British musical CABLE STREET, bringing to life a vital part of London's rich diversity and history, opens at The Large, Southwark Playhouse Borough on Friday 16 February 2024. Learn more about the musical here!

Critically acclaimed musical parody Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch is set to return this December following its highly successful 2022 UK tour. With an original hot pop soundtrack and trademark filthy humour, the production will splash into Southwark Playhouse Elephant for 10 weeks this winter before swimming across the UK through to summer 2024.

Musical Theatre Network, Mercury Musical Developments and Oxford Playhouse has announced details of the 29 musicals that will be showcased in BEAM2023.  

Following their sold-out smash-hit with Sondheim’s  ‘Anyone Can Whistle’ at Southwark Playhouse earlier this year, The Grey Area Theatre Company in association with Seven Dials Playhouse presents the world premiere of the musical Help! We Are Still Alive at Seven Dials Playhouse. Check out rehearsal photos here!

'Help! We are Still Alive', Book & Lyrics by Imogen Palmer (She/They) Music & Lyrics by Tim Gilvin (He/Him) is a hilarious, gig-style queer, comedy musical about keeping the romance alive when everything else is dead as a doornail.

Following an acclaimed digital debut at Southwark Playhouse, this thrilling, new musical, composed entirely from the real-life words of YouTube vloggers, Instagram influencers, Facebook’s tech giants, and everyday internet users now has its live world premiere in the West End.

The new musical ‘Public Domain’ has released the song and video ‘TIK TOK’ ahead of its live world premiere in the West End! You’re gonna get their honest, true selves… with some serious bass, obvs. Authentic, right? It’s like ‘Black Mirror’ but real and set to music.

The S&S Award is turning producer to become S&S Theatre Productions, dedicated to producing radical new musical theatre­ with partnerships between the UK and the USA.

Following an acclaimed digital debut at Southwark Playhouse, the new musical, composed entirely from the real-life words of YouTube vloggers, Instagram influencers, Facebook's tech giants, and everyday internet users now has its live world premiere in the West End.

Southwark Playhouse announces three new “encore” on-demand video streams of musicals performed from the theatre during lockdown.

Royal & Derngate Northampton today announces that it will premiere a season of original musical theatre as part of its upcoming Made in Northampton 2021 season.