About Play on Words

"With a wonderfully expressive voice and all the wit and charm of Wodehouse himself, Hal Cazalet makes for an enchanting entertainer."

Sir Stephen Fry


P.G. Woodhouse once had a record-breaking five musicals playing on Broadway at the same time.

Today his step-grandson Hal Cazalet, with pianist Simon Beck, transports us back in time to the Golden Age of stage and screen through stories and song.

One of our greatest comic writers, 'Plum' Woodhouse said he wrote his stories like "musical comedies, without the music". His musicals between 1915-1935 not only defined the American musical, but informed the way he crafted his novels and characters.

Celebrate the birth of the American musical with theatrical writing highlights of the last 120 years, from Gershwin, Kern, Rogers & Hammerstein, Noël Coward, Stephen Sondheim and many more.

Directed and Devised by Hugh Woolridge.


"Hal Cazalet wins all hearts."

The Sunday Times

"Beguiling."

The New York Times