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 [...]
The Lehman Trilogy is to return to the stage in the West End for a third time in September 2024. Performances of the play will begin at the Gillian Lynne Theatre on September 24th, and run until January 5th, 2025. John Heffernan returns to the cast as Henry Lehman, Aaron Krohn as Mayer Lehman, and Howard [...]
Auditions will be held for the 2025/26 West End cast of SIX the Musical, taking place first in Salford on June 19th, and then in London on June 21st. The hit musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss previously won two Tony Awards in 2022, and has so far been nominated for five Olivier Awards, [...]
Olivier Award-winning actor John Dagleish will take on the title role in the forthcoming production of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which will open in the West End at the Ambassadors Theatre on October 10th. Dagleish, who won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role as Ray Davies in the musical [...]