Evelyn Hoskins announces April solo show

It has been announced that Evelyn Hoskins will play a solo show at Battersea Barge next month.

Entitled There Was A Little Girl, the show will take place on 24th April 2016 with tickets on sale now. Frances Ruffelle directs.

Last year Hoskins played her first solo show at Upstairs at the Arts. She will "share songs, old and new," with some special to-be-announced guests.

Along with musical director James Taylor and in association with Avalanche, this will be a one-off intimate show before Hoskins heads off to New York this summer to star in Alan Ayckbourn's Hero's Welcome off-Broadway.

Review: West End Switched Off at the St James Studio

West End Switched Off 

St James Studio

Reviewed on Sunday 20th March 2016 

★★★★

Marking the third concert in the West End Switched Off series, on Sunday evening musical director Kris Rawlinson took to the stage at the St James Studio with a bunch of West End stars and a terrific band to reinvent a plethora of showtunes. 

Special guests announced for An Evening with Jodie Jacobs

With one week to go, special guests have been announced for Jodie Jacobs' upcoming solo concert.

Jacobs will be joined by Evelyn Hoskins (Sound of Music LIVE/Spring Awakening) and Kim Criswell (Annie Get Your Gun/The Threepenny Opera), both of whom she starred alongside in Carrie The Musical last year at the Southwark Playhouse.

An Evening with Jodie Jacobs takes place at the Chapel of St Barnabas in Soho on Thursday 18th February 2016 at 7.30pm. Click here to book tickets. A fundraising event for The House of St Barnabas Employment Academy, the show will see Jacobs make a rare solo concert appearance to perform an intimate acoustic set of material. 

Evelyn Hoskins, Tyrone Huntley & Jodie Steele to star in West End Switched Off concert

It has been announced that Evelyn Hoskins (ITV's Sound of Music Live/Carrie), Tyrone Huntley (Memphis/The Book of Mormon) and Jodie Steele (Jesus Christ Superstar/Fame) will star in the next West End Switched Off concert.

The intimate concert, produced by Parallel Productions, will take place at the St James Studio on Sunday 20th March at 7pm. Further performers, who will be accompanied by a live band under the direction of West End Switched Off creator Kris Rawlinson, will be announced over the coming weeks. 

Further casting announced for ITV broadcast of The Sound Of Music LIVE

Further casting has been announced for ITV's upcoming live broadcast of The Sound of Music.

As previously announced, the cast will be led by Kara Tointon as Maria, Julian Ovenden as Captain Von Trapp, Katherine Kelly as Baroness Elsa Schraeder and Alexander Armstrong as Max Detweiler.

Joining the cast are West End legend Maria Friedman as Mother Abbess, Mel Giedroyc as Frau Schmidt and Evelyn Hoskins as Liesl von Trapp. The company will also include Jon Tarcy and Paul Copley.

Full casting announced for Stiles and Drewe's Peter Pan

Evelyn Hoskins

Full casting has been announced for Stiles and Drewe's musical adaptation of Peter Pan.

The show is being staged in the West End for two performances only on 25th October 2015 at the Adelphi Theatre (home of Kinky Boots). 

As previously announced, the show will star Ray Quinn (Grease/Legally Blonde) as the title character, Bradley Walsh (Coronation Street/The Chase) as Captain Hook, Jenna Russell (Songs For A New World/Merrily We Roll Along) as Mrs Darling and Sheila Hancock (Sister Act/Cabaret) as The Storyteller.

Evelyn Hoskins to play cabaret this weekend

This weekend, Evelyn Hoskins, who recently played the title character in the UK premiere of Carrie The Musical at the Southwark Playhouse, will star in cabaret at Above The Arts.

Running as part of Anthony Williamson and Emma Ralston's Sunday in the Arts with... season, the performance takes place on Sunday 26th July 2015 at 7.30pm.

Described as "an evening of alternative musical theatre performances", Hoskins will reminisce about her career so far as well as looking forward to the roles she dreams of tackling in the future. 

Interview: Evelyn Hoskins, starring as the title role in Carrie The Musical

Evelyn is currently starring as the title role in the London premiere of Carrie The Musical at the Southwark Playhouse.

Gary Lloyd has directed a revised version of the musical which is based on Stephen King's bestselling novel. Produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Carrie The Musical first premiered in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1988 before transferring to Broadway starring Linzi Hateley. However, until now the musical had never been produced in London.

Evelyn famously created the role of Thea in the UK premiere of Spring Awakening at the Lyric Hammersmith which transferred to the West End’s Novello Theatre. She has also played Lucy in Misfits (E4) and Shona in Casualty/Holby City (BBC).

Evelyn’s further theatre credits include: Wendy Darling in Peter Pan (US Tour), the title role in Alice's House Of Cards (Royal Festival Hall), Nicky in This Is My Family (Sheffield Crucible/UK Tour), Kevin in The Boy Who Fell Into A Book (Stephen Joseph Theatre, directed by Alan Aykbourn), Sophie in The Iguanodon Queen (Bush Theatre) and Martha in The Secret Garden (Birmingham Rep).

I recently spoke to Evelyn about what drew her to Carrie, the challenges of the role, Spring Awakening memories and being a wimp when it comes to horror movies…

How much did you know about Carrie The Musical before being cast in this production?

I obviously knew the film, but ironically I don’t really ‘do’ horror [laughs]! I can’t watch horror films… I have to mute them because the music always scares me and I’m really jumpy. So I hadn’t actually watched it, but I obviously knew about it because it’s so iconic and everyone knows the pigs blood and all that. I wasn’t aware that it was a musical until I was doing a tour in America and they released the updated version off-Broadway. I remember thinking ‘Oh my gosh, Carrie as a musical?!’