Noël Coward Award for Best New Entertainment or Comedy Play Accidental Death Of An Anarchist by Dario Fo & Franca Rame, adapted by Tom Basden at the Lyric Hammersmith & Theatre Royal Haymarket Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim at the Gielgud Theatre WINNER – Stranger Things: The First Shadow by Kate Trefry at the Phoenix TheatreVardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial, adapted by Liv Hennessy at the Ambassadors Theatre Best Family Show Bluey’s Big Play by Joe Brumm at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall WINNER – Dinosaur World Live by Derek Bon ..read more

The Menier Chocolate Factory today announces full casting for the revival of Jerry Herman’s Jerry’s Girls. Hannah Chissick directs Cassidy Janson, Lyn Paul and Julie Yammanee. The show will feature choreography by Matt Cole, set and costume design by Paul Farnsworth, lighting design by Philip Gladwell, musical supervision and arrangements by Sarah Travis, and an all-female band. This new production opens on 22 May, with previews from 18 May, and plays a strictly limited season until 29 June. JERRY’S GIRLS Music and Lyri ..read more

Producers ROYO and Curve are delighted to announce a brand-new Made at Curve production of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical Kinky Boots The Musical, which will tour the UK and Ireland from 17 January 2025. Kinky Boots The Musical features a score by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein. It will be directed by Curve’s Artistic Director Nikolai Foster (THE WIZARD OF OZ, A CHORUS LINE, BILLY ELLIOT) and will star TV dance sensation and international champion Johannes Radebe as Lola and rising star Dan Partridge as Charlie Price. Kinky Bo ..read more

In celebration of its 80th anniversary, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! returns to its original West End home, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, in concert on Monday 19th August and Tuesday 20th August. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! in concert stars Emmy, Critics Choice & Olivier Award-nominated actor Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso) as Curly alongside West End star Zizi Strallen (Mary Poppins) as Laurey. The production is directed and choreographed by Olivier Award-winner Bill Deamer, and features Robert Russell Bennett’s full origina ..read more

David Ian for Crossroads Live is delighted to announce that Charlie Brooks will play the role of The Childcatcher in the new production of the most fantasmagorical musical of all time, CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG opening at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton on Tuesday 30 April 2024 where it plays until 12 May 2024, before embarking on a UK tour. Elaine C. Smith will play the role of The Childcatcher in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Inverness. Casting schedule and listings below. www.chittyontour.com Charlie will join Olivier-nominee ..read more

Just For One Day today announces the release of a cast album, as the new musical at The Old Vic completes its run as the theatre’s fastest-selling musical. Having played to 99% full houses across the run, Just For One Day has also attracted a brand new audience, with almost 60% of audiences having visited The Old Vic for the first time. All details of the cast album, including the release date, will be announced in due course. Further announcements will also be made soon about a future run for the show. On Just For One Day, Matthew Warchus, Artistic Director of The Old ..read more

Babies, a new British coming-of-age musical, will play a strictly limited 6-week season at The Other Palace from 31 May – 14 July 2024, produced by Crossroads Live (The Bodyguard, Annie, Chicago, Cats, The Drifters Girl ) and theatre development company  Indigo Productions (led by James Lane and Ed McGovern). Casting for this fresh, heart-wrenching musical about identity, friendship and growing up is as follows: Ashley Goh (Alex), Bradley Riches (Toby), Grace Towning (Cover Leah/Grace/Becky), Jaina Brock-Patel  ..read more

Jeffrey Seller and Cameron Mackintosh, producers of the West End production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton at the Victoria Palace Theatre, are delighted to announce that booking is extended until Saturday 29 March 2025. The Christmas performance schedule is also announced. Hamilton stars Declan Spaine in the title role of Alexander Hamilton, Simon-Anthony Rhoden as Aaron Burr, Georgina Onuorah as Angelica Schuyler, Shan Ako as Eliza Hamilton,  Simbi Akande as Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds ..read more

The producers of the global sensation & JULIET are delighted to announce that multi-platinum selling recording artist and award-winning West End actor, Matt Cardle, will play the role of Shakespeare in the upcoming UK and Ireland tour. He joins the previously announced Gerardine Sacdalan as Juliet, Sandra Marvin as Angélique and Lara Denning as Anne. The UK and Ireland tour opens at Manchester Opera House on 8 July 2024.  Also in the cast are Jack Danson (Mamma Mia, Novello Theatre) as Romeo, Kyle Cox (Crazy For Yo ..read more

Ivo van Hove returns to the West End with Rufus Wainwright’s songs and Sheridan Smith’s acting in unconventional musical Opening Night at the Gielgud Theatre “It feels like the end of the earth” In a culture so thoroughly conditioned as to what a West End musical ‘should’ be, doing anything different is always a risk. Shifts are certainly starting to happen, if slowly. It seems the decades of Lloyd Webber-inspired hegemony are no longer guaranteed to continue as they have (the trad Aspects of Love closed early, Sunset Boulevard succeeded due to Jamie Lloyd’s creativity, though who knows about ..read more