Fans of Starlight Express are likely to shed a few tears tonight when the curtain finally falls on its 18-year run. By the end of the final show at the Apollo Victoria in central London ...

Seen by over 20 million people across the world, STARLIGHT EXPRESS is a true theatrical event, fully immersing audiences of all ages inside a world of speed, song and storytelling ...

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 ...

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 ...

A childhood memory reconfirmed, as livid and stirring as it was back then. STARLIGHT EXPRESS has something magical, something beyond the costumes and the roller-skater action (and far beyond the ...

Quite possibly the most aggressively ‘80s artefact in existence, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Starlight Express’ is a musical about anthropomorphic roller skating trains that often feels like ...

Nostalgia will undoubtedly lure many to a London revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. It has more in common with a theme park than with theater, our critic writes. By Houman Barekat The ...

Forty years after it first opened, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s roller-skating musical extravaganza Starlight Express is back on stage. Admittedly less well-remembered than the 1984 London production ...