UK / West End Theatre Newsroom

All new footage has been released for CABARET at the Kit Kat Club starring Rhea Norwood, Layton Williams, Sally Ann Triplett and Fenton Gray.  Check out the video here!

Andrew Lloyd Webber has revealed that he hopes to bring his new production of Starlight Express north of London in the future. Learn more here!

Deadweight Theatre’s The Manikins: A Work In Progress is many things. It is interactive. It is intimate. It is thought-provoking. And, despite the misleading title, it has a polished concept that leaves its audience pondering long after the show ends.

New casting has been announced for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at His Majesty’s Theatre from Monday 29 July 2024. The musical is currently booking until Saturday 29 March 2025.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's STARLIGHT EXPRESS - which opened this weekend at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre to huge critical acclaim across the media - has extended booking through to June 2025.

Judi Dench and Siân Phillips have been named as the first women members of the Garrick Club,. This comes after the private members’ club voted in May to admit women for the first time since it was founded in 1831.

Today Disney’s THE LION KING presented a community garden at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival to commemorate 25 years of the iconic, award-winning West End musical. Designed by leading garden designer Juliet Sargeant, the garden received three awards at the festival; Best Show Garden, the RHS Environmental Innovation Award and a Silver Gilt Medal*. See photos from the event. 

Following her electrifying headlining performance at Glastonbury, 3x GRAMMY and 7x BRIT Award-winning global pop powerhouse Dua Lipa announced she will perform at London’s legendary Wembley Stadium next summer on June 20th, 2025.

The Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre have published the results of a survey demonstrating the urgent need for sustainable and systematic investment in theatre buildings.

Following electrifying try-out performances at The Lyric Theatre last year, Bill Kenwright Ltd and Paul-Taylor Mills present the brand-new musical, come gig, come ballet, now back for a full reign. This time, one of the most prolific monarchs in history has found her (rightful) home at a palace.

West End Charity Football Club has announced the return of The Big West End Walk taking place on Sunday 8 September.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express has now opened in the specially designed Starlight Auditorium at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre.

Bucket List is the first play from Show Don’t Tell Productions, a company dedicated to new writing, recently founded by postgraduate creative writing students at Oxford University.

It's a testament to Lin-Manuel Miranda's almost perfect show that even with some performance issues, Hamilton is still a stunning and moving experience. Its impact isn’t diminished even after several viewings, and its themes of love, grief, ambition, freedom, forgiveness and family are always resonant. Don’t throw away your shot at seeing this show in a city near you.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express is possibly one of the world's most bizarre musicals-yes, even more so than Cats. A child's dream-like world where trains compete for races and for each other, all set on roller skates. And yet, this 1984 musical's latest revival will make a new generation fall in love with this loud, bright and captivating production.

Watch a trailer for SURRENDER at the Arcola Theatre in the video here!

Theatres Trust, the national advisory and advocacy body for theatres, has shared the news of the death of John Earl at the age of 95.

On June 28th, 2024, the musical theater adaptation of the acclaimed Japanese manga ‘Your Lie in April' began West End previews at the Harold Pinter Theatre and simultaneously made its Korean debut in Seoul at the CJ Towol Theatre, with K-pop and film/TV icons triple-cast in starring roles. 

Get a first look at Starlight Express in the West End! Learn how to purchase tickets.

Frank Wildhorn will tonight (Friday 28 June) make West End history with the first preview performance of Your Lie in April, as the first manga-inspired musical to get a West End season and the first 100% all-Asian cast British musical. Learn how to purchase tickets.

An all new video has been released of the West End cast of THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON performing 'When E’re She Looked At Me'. Check out the video here! 

Avenue Q will return to London for a once-in-a-lifetime reunion on Sunday 10th November, with two very special concert performances at The Sondheim Theatre.

The Secret Garden, originally published as a children’s book by Frances Hodgson Burnett in the early 1900s, tells the story of Mary Lennox, a spoiled and angry 10-year-old girl who is brought from her home in British India to Yorkshire after surviving a cholera epidemic that kills not only her parents but all of the servants in the home.

Shakespeare's Globe has announced the cast of Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Blanche McIntyre (Twelfth Night: For One Night Only, Globe), with Nadia Nadarajah and John Hollingworth as Cleopatra and Mark Antony.

A Bradfordians Dramatic Society rehearsal of Frankenstein turned into a real-life scare when police were called after screams from the Society's rehearsal were reported by nearby residents. Read more!