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West End LIVE 2018 is back – for an incredible 14th year – and we will be making sure you know everything there is to know about the event in Trafalgar Square on 16 and 17 June 2018. Starting with the packed list of shows queuing up to take part.
They can do nothing wrong! London Musical Theatre Orchestra have announced their 2018 season, featuring three musicals in concert: Camelot at the London Palladium; Girlfriends (starring Lucie Jones and Lauren Samuels) and the return of festive favourite A CHRISTMAS CAROL...
Following in the footsteps of Cuba Gooding Jr, the actor & musician will be playing the smooth-talking, razzle-dazzling lawyer from 2 July until 1 September 2018. Now we’re wondering who is going to join him?
Wade McCollum, known for playing the Wizard in Wicked on Broadway) sings ‘Undying Love’ from new American romantic musical comedy It Happened in Key West in a new video, released today.
On Your Feet!, the true love story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan, kicks off for seven performances at Curve, Leicester before the show’s West End debut, running from 14 June to 31 August 2019. ‘1-2-3’ – here we go…
Fifty years on from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and 30 years since the first performance of the late Martin Smith’s musical, Hackney Empire joins forces with the London Musical Theatre Orchestra for performances on 30 June and 1 July 2018.
Fresh from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Chris Jarman joins the West End cast of Wicked from 23 July 2018 alongside current cast member Rosa O’Reilly who takes over the role of Nessarose.
The Heathers are here and they mean business in the UK premiere of Heathers – The Musical from 9 June to 4 August 2018. Oh, and did you fancy seeing the cast’s old high school pictures, then go no further…
Ex EastEnder David Witts has been wooed back from three years in LA to play Fiyero in Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre this summer.
The West End musical will sponsor the Invictus Games – the global sporting event for wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women, both serving and veterans – with a range of projects, beginning with a gala performance.
Can’t get tickets for Hamilton at the VP? It might just be easier to pop along to the UK premiere of spoof Spamilton, playing later on this year at the Menier from 24 July to 8 September 2018.
It's been a wild ride! After two years of touring madness and multiple London runs, mod musical ALL OR NOTHING is now in its final fortnight of its West End run at the Ambassadors Theatre. It must now finish on 12 May 2018, rather than 2 June as previously scheduled. Can you help send off the Small Faces in fashion?
The 1983 film LOCAL HERO has been adapted for the stage and will play in Edinburgh next year before transferring to London's Old Vic Theatre. David Greig and Bill Forsyth co-wrote the adaptation, with music and lyrics by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits...
Here's a transfer for the history books: Tommy Steele is not only bringing his latest stage hit, celebrating the music of big band leader Glenn Miller, he's bringing it to the address where he made his own theatre debut sixty years ago. Yep, THE GLENN MILLER SHOW will be keeping time at the London Coliseum this summer...
Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown arrives at the National Theatre prior to a Broadway run in 2019, followed by the Olivier Award-winning revival of Sondheim & Goldman’s Follies.
The new UK tour of the hit production of popular musical Annie will open at the Manchester Opera House on 9 February 2019.
Oliver Tompsett and Natalie McQueen will step into the lead roles of Charlie Price and Lauren in the London cast of Kinky Boots alongside Simon-Anthony Rhoden who continues as Lola.
Killian Donnelly will make history as the first Irishman to play the role since Colm Wilkinson in the original production. Watch him chat below about bringing the show home to Dublin…
The actress will portray Joan Littlewood in a brand new musical by Sam Kenyon, opening at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon on 22 June 2018.
Jonathan Harvey’s new musical about the life of Dusty Springfield has its world premiere in June 2018 before touring – watch Katherine Kingsley transform into Dusty in a special behind-the-scenes video