Full casting has been revealed and the creative announced for Rachel O’Riordan's forthcoming production of Timberlake Wertenbaker's play, Our Country’s Good, which will open at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in London on September 5th. Based on a true story, Wertenbaker's play explores the power of theatre as a force for good in the first penal colony [...]
Tracy-Ann Oberman will reprise her role as Shylock at the Trafalgar Theatre in The Merchant of Venice 1936 in the West End when it returns to London this December for a limited season. Oberman (Doctor Who, EastEnders) became the first British actress to play the role of Shylock when the popular production toured the UK last year, [...]
Anne-Marie Duff has been announced as starring at the Young Vic in London in the forthcoming new production of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes. Olivier Award winner Lyndsey Turner directs and performances will begin on December 2nd. BAFTA Award-winning actress Duff, who last performed at the Young Vic in The Soldier's Fortune 17 years ago will lead [...]
Following its return to London last weekend at the newly reconfigured Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre earlier this year, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express has extended performances until June 2025. Lloyd Webber's classic musical about a train set that magically comes to life features new choreography by Ashley Nottingham and directed by Luke Sheppard, with Arlene Phillips [...]
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera has announced new casting. The new personnel will join the cast of the popular musical, which has been running at His Majesty's Theatre since 1986 and will take over from 29th July. Dean Chisnall joins the company as The Phantom following his recent appointment, playing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables. He [...]
Renée Lamb (SIX) and West End star Zizi Strallen will reprise their roles as Jeanne and Marie Antoinette, in Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist when it opens on 13th September at London's The Other Palace for a strictly limited season. The musical had try-out performances last year at The Lyric Theatre and follows all the scandal and [...]
A new Disney musical production, inspired by the hugely successful 1997 animated movie is on its way to the West End! The new show has been in the works since 2019 and Disney's Hercules will receive its London premiere in summer 2025 at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. The opening date will be revealed in due course. 'Hercules' [...]
Katherine Moar's play, Farm Hall will transfer into the West End this August at the Theatre Royal Haymarket for a limited run. Farm Hall is Moar's debut play and became the best-selling production in the history of Jermyn Street Theatre when it opened at the venue in 2023. Directed by Stephen Unwin and inspired by true events, Farm Hall [...]