Jordan Li-Smith News

London Theatre Runway will once again be returning to Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre for their upcoming Autumn term of their Associates Course!

This summer, National Youth Music Theatre will present two major musicals, ‘Chess’ at the Curve, Leicester and ‘Ragtime’ together with the world premiere’ of  ‘A Kiss for Cinderella’ at The MCT at Alleyn’s, Dulwich, and for one night only, NYMT in Concert at the Rose Theatre, Kingston.

A musical adaptation of the letters of Theo and Vincent van Gogh is moving to London for it's development and first Industry workshop this March-April ahead of a world premiere production in the UK next year, produced by the UK's youngest West End Producer Ameena Hamid.

The Drama League has revealed a slate of artists who will be participating in the organization’s benefit event, Light the Lights! A Drama League Celebration, on October 18, 2021, at The Players (16 Gramercy Park South).

The group, which includes a mixture of West End performers, (Les Miserables, Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia, Book of Mormon, Bat out of Hell and more) performers from across the UK and new performing arts graduates, recorded their parts for the song from their homes to comply with COVID-19 safety guidelines.

Sit in the Stalls today announce their brand new project ‘New Year, New Songs, New Writers’ starting in January 2021.

Danielle Tarento has brought together more than 150 Black and Black mixed race actors from the UK and the US, along with a 38-piece orchestra, to record a??Make Them Hear You,a?? from the Broadway musical Ragtime.

The Stephen Sondheim Society has joined forces with Jordan Li-Smith to raise much needed funds for Acting for Others.

We want to hear from you! We're starting #BwayWorldPrompts, where each day we'll be asking our readers on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram questions to spark some theater conversation.

For today's Living Room Concert, we've got the multi-talented Jordan Li-Smith giving us a gorgeous version of 'Make Them Hear You' from musical Ragtime. Watch the video below!

Pens and paper at the ready! On Sunday 19th April at 5:45pm, Jordan Li-Smith (Musical Director and Composer) will be hosting the 2nd #LockdownMTQuizNight, a live-stream musical theatre quiz night via Facebook Live, to raise money for NHS Charities Together.

MPTheatricals are working in collaboration with The Other Palace to present on hope: a digital song cycle - a live, one of a kind musical theatre trilogy exploring the many shades of hope. Written by over 60 composers from around the world, on hope: a digital song cycle explores the spectrum of sounds, experiences and perspectives of hope.

On Sunday 5th April at 7pm, Jordan Li-Smith (Musical Director and Composer) will be hosting a live-stream musical theatre quiz night via Facebook Live, to raise money for theatrical charities.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary with a ceremony held in the iconic Grand Hall of Battersea Arts Centre on Sunday 8 March 2020, the Off West End Awards once again celebrated the best of independent, fringe and alternative theatres across London.

Conductor Jordan Randall Smith has received national recognition for his work as music director of Baltimore chamber orchestra Symphony Number One.

Although the West End is still waiting for a production of Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, his more recent creation, Preludes, has its UK premiere at the Southwark Playhouse.

Sergei Rachmaninoff has it all; world-wide fame from a single composition by the age of 19, commissioned to write his first symphony at 20 and engaged to the love of his life, Natalya. But at 21 he is crippled with a depressive paranoia and anxiety. His world has imploded, his work has stopped, he cannot even lift a pencil to compose a simple melody. Such is the power of the men who sought to destroy him, who haunt his waking nightmares and poison his dreams. And when those men happen to be the greatest artists of their day, how do you come back, how do you escape the darkness and come into the light?

Pint of Wine Theatre Company's acclaimed production of Michael John LaChiusa's Queen of the Mist is to transfer to Charing Cross Theatre for a strictly limited seven-week season from 15 August to 5 October 2019.

This is the UK professional premiere of Amour, a musical fantasy about daring to dream and the power of self belief, with music by multi award-winning Michel Legrand with English lyrics by Jeremy Sams (from the original French by Didier Van Cauwelaert).

Amour runs at Charing Cross Theatre from Thursday 2 May - Saturday 20 July. Gary Tushaw plays Dusoleil and Anna O'Byrne plays Isabelle. Alasdair Harvey plays the Prosecutor, Isabelle's controlling husband.