The Independent: 4-stars "Topical ENO production that brings the house down" ​ GayTimes: 5-stars "a delightfully camp update of Lehar's operetta" ​ The Telegraph: 4-stars "ENO's big, broad hit" ​ The Express: 4-stars "new lyrics by Richard Thomas (who wrote the brilliantly sacrilegious Jerry Springer - The Opera" ​ The Londonist: 4-stars "The Merry Widow is a glorious and course love story" ​ The Times: 4-stars "a ribald treat" ​

By Margaret Lyons Jan. 17, 2018 ​ God and the Devil were fighting for a man’s soul — for all of humanity, really. Angels and miscreants got in on the action, pushing and pulling, the Devil stretching out his hand and zapping everyone; God responded in kind. In the middle of the scrum, arms yanked in opposite directions, stood Jerry Springer. Well, a guy playing Jerry Springer at least. ​ God and the Devil are presumably doing battle elsewhere in the world, too, and this Jerry

By Jose Solís January 30th, 2018 When you think of The Jerry Springer Show, you probably imagine fistfights, strippers, and mothers and daughters bonding over bondage. But when British musician Richard Thomas first encountered the show—in a drunken haze after a gig—the first thing that came to his mind, he says, was: “This is like an opera.” In the talk show’s bleeped expletives, he heard melodies; in its trashier-than-life guests, he found archetypes out of Verdi and Puccini

Jerry Springer The Opera nominated for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical at the 68th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, which recognize excellence on and Off-Broadway from the 2017–2018 season.

The Edinburgh Festival Smash Hit came to The London Coliseum, home of the English National Opera. Featuring Drag sensation Jonny Woo and the multi-award winning Richard Thomas joined on stage by an all-star cast featuring Le Gateau Chocolat, Diane Chorley, Sooz Kempner, Jayde Adams, Myra DuBois, and many more! ​

The composer of Jerry Springer: The Opera is in three Fringe shows this year. Mark Fisher catches up with Richard Thomas The scene is the Edinburgh Playhouse. On stage is Elvis Costello. With me in the grand circle is Richard Thomas. He’s the composer of Jerry Springer: The Opera, the ribald send-up of confessional TV that wowed Edinburgh Fringe audiences in 2002, transferred to the National Theatre in London and finally made it to Off-Broadway earlier this year. That’s when

By Jesse Green February 1st, 2018 Jerry Springer — The Opera It has taken 15 years for one of the most heralded works of 21st-century musical theater to travel from Stamford, Conn., to a serious run in New York. Stamford is where “The Jerry Springer Show” — a lowest-common-denominator TV grudge match — tapes, and New York is where the show written about it, by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee, was always meant to go. But after a spectacular premiere in London in 2003, and a two

Drag superstar Jonny Woo and Olivier Award-winning composer of Jerry Springer the Opera Richard Thomas bring you this sequin-spangled musical ripped straight from the headlines. This is an uproarious yet seriously glamorous satire about the referendum of 2016 and the ensuing furore of Brexit with a star-studded cast of top cabaret talent. ‘In’ or ‘Out’? There’s a hell of a lot to sing about. A smash hit at The 2018 Edinburgh Fringe, Jonny Woo, the ‘king and queen’ of London’s