We still get to meet Rusty and Pearl, Greaseball, Electra, and all the others, as well as some new ones paired (watch out for Carrie and the details on her costume) with beloved old songs and new ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express has now opened in the specially designed Starlight Auditorium at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre. As a child’s train set magically comes to life and the engines ...

Is it a musical? Is it a roller derby? Is it a game-show? When the roller-skating phenomenon that is “Starlight Express” opened in London in 1984 it was all of those and more, as evidenced by its ...

A musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber in which male actors play different kinds of train engines competing with each other to see who is best. The female actors are passenger cars. Greaseball, the Diesel ...

Who knew blunt force trauma could be so enjoyable? Starlight Express is back. And it’s a two-and-a-half-hour neon fever dream, where people on roller skates in iridescent costumes pretend to be trains ...

I was at the 1984 West End press night of the original Starlight, as it happens, and vividly recall the technical glitches that beset the opening, as well as the general dismay expressed back then at ...