The Olivier Award winning musical STANDING AT THE SKY’S EDGE directed by Robert Hastie has transferred to the West End.
Music and Lyrics by Richard Hawley
and book by Chris Bush.
Get tickets now! Running at the Gillian Lynne theatre until the 3rd of August.
The Telegraph ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “The West End transfer of this show about a Sheffield estate offers rare emotional and intellectual ambition – and deserves to be a huge hit”
Article on the BBC “Director Robert Hastie told BBC News it was a “proud moment” to have the show open in the West End, five years after its launch at the Sheffield Crucible, “where you could see Park Hill, and see the neighbours we’re making this show about”. He added that while some physical changes had been made to the set to inhabit a bigger stage, few creative changes were needed to the show itself, and that lines of dialogue specific to the region had been kept in the script.”
Time Out ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Director Robert Hastie and choreographer Lynn Page meticulously, brilliantly layer their lives and times into a single shared space. Their social differences and emotional affinities are emotionally sedimented together through deeply affecting snatches of song and dance, rooted in everyday joys and sorrows, and everyday moves, but elevated to a pitch where you’re constantly on the edge of tears.”
WhatsOnStage ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️”The show’s critical clout is indisputable at this point – with two Olivier Awards, a South Bank Sky Arts Award and even a registered trademark status to its name, Sky’s Edge is soaring its way to the status as one of the most well-received musicals produced on these shores in many decades.”
London Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I adored this musical, which began at the Sheffield Crucible, when I last saw it at the National Theatre, and it’s only grown stronger since. I predict a long and glorious life in this new home.”
Deadline “ This is the rare instance of a show, already a masterpiece, being able to develop through its various iterations over the years and become even more of a marvelous work of art.”