UK / West End Theatre Newsroom

The eagerly anticipated reimagining for the stage will begin performances at London’s Trafalgar Theatre on 15 February 2025.

It's not often one comes across theatre that's transformative; but when you do, you know. Case in point: ZooNation’s The Mad Hatter's Tea Party.

We had thunderstorms last night, here in London, and I am totally convinced it was all due to the electricity Hugh Panaro unleashed into the atmosphere with his CRAZY COQS Debut.

Special guest vocalists Rob Houchen, Christine Alladoo, Amy di Bartolemeo, Oliver Tompsett, Lucie Jones, and Stuart Matthew Price will join internationally acclaimed songwriter SCOTT ALAN live at Cadogan Hall on Sunday 10 November 2024 at 6.30PM.

See photos from inside rehearsal for the UK premiere of Play On!, the jazz-fuelled, Twelfth Night-inspired musical that will tour the UK from September 2024 – February 2025.

Kim's Convenience centers around a Korean Canadian immigrant family who owns a convenience store in Toronto and has captivated audiences far beyond its original setting.

The West End production of Next to Normal, now playing in London, seems to be getting filmed for an eventual release. According to a teaser photo on Instagram, it appears that the musical will film performances from 9-11 September at Wyndham's Theatre.

There is a sharply observed and darkly comedic play inside this production, but it is stymied by overlong, melodramatic monologues and meandering subjects.

Boublil and Schönberg's LES MISÉRABLES at the Sondheim Theatre has extended its booking until Saturday 6 September 2025.

An all new video has been released of Carrie Hope Fletcher singing Journey to the Past (Anastasia) from her forthcoming LOVE LETTERS tour. Check out the video here!

Having to move back with your parents after a failed marriage is raising all types of questions that Larki can’t or doesn’t want to answer. Aunties and fake friends are all up in her business while her life is crumbling around her. Saher Shah’s playwriting debut is a bittersweet look into individual reinvention and the disappointment that comes with certain social conventions.

As a celebration of the 10th anniversary of Tin Can Bros, the group finally brought one of their most popular shows, Spies Are Forver, to London in a new format with a new cast. Spies Are Forever: The West End Concert, a one-night-only performance, took place on 3 September at the Gillian Lynne Theatre.

Frank’s Closet is a paean to queerness. With a variety of beautifully performed earworms and a never–ending stream of jokes, it’s a tongue–in–cheek show that may not glitter with a steamy plot, but still enchants with its musical numbers.

See what the critics are saying about The Real Thing at The Old Vic! Read the reviews and learn more about the production.

As rehearsals began this  week for the first ever adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove, starring seven-time BAFTA award winner Steve Coogan as Dr Strangelove, President Merkin Muffley, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake and Major TJ Kong, the full cast has been announced. 

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has receive a £1 million donation from renowned American playwright Ken Ludwig.

Following countless five star reviews at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, virtuoso ventriloquist, BAFTA nominee and British Comedy Award winner Nina Conti is to bring her spectacular brand-new live show ‘Whose Face Is It Anyway?’ to London’s West End this Christmas.

Pete Townshend, Alfie Boe, Sunidhi Chauhan, Nakhane, and Layton Williams will perform in the world premiere of Rachel Fuller's THE SEEKER at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on November 6th, featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Nicholas Hytner’s multi-award winning immersive production, Guys & Dolls, has released a first look at the new cast members. Check out the photos here!

Production photos have been released for Bill Kenwright's legendary, award-winning production of the international smash hit musical, Blood Brothers as it continues to tour across the UK. Check out the photos here!

Hard going with characters largely bereft of sympathetic virtues, delivering dialogue long on ideas, but short on heart

‘It was great to entertain families while teaching them a lot about culture, from dance moves to cocoa' Her Royal Majesty Queen Angelique-Monet on bringing Ventriloquist Queen: A True African Queen to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Production images have been released for the UK Tour of Stephen Daldry’s multi award-winning National Theatre production of JB Priestley’s AN INSPECTOR CALLS, playing at Alexandra Palace until Saturday 21 September before visiting 26 venues across the UK.  Check out the photos here!

“Can you tell me what it is, this capacity for emotion, this force of suffering that is wearing me out?” The focal point of Prom 58 was Hector Berlioz’s 49-minute “Episode in the Life of an Artist”, his Symphonie fantastique; written while he was still in his twenties and at the mercy of his infatuation with Harriet Smithson (who he had seen play Ophelia in Hamlet), it is a colourful and evocative tour de force. It’s also a piece that the Orchestre de Paris knows inside out.

New casting has been announced for the Olivier Award winning, world première production of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, currently running at Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End. Learn more about the cast here!