Producer Runaway Entertainment is delighted to announce that the critically acclaimed, smash hit, supernatural thriller 2:22 - A Ghost Story will extend its run at The Criterion Theatre when the current run ends on 4 September. It will play a 18-week season running through to 8 January 2023. The extension means that the production will have its first Halloween performance on Monday 31 October - be afraid! Last week the Center Theatre Group announced the US premiere of 2:22 A Ghost Story at … [Read more...]
COME FROM AWAY will play final performance in West End January 2023
The multi-award-winning London production of global hit musical Come From Away will extend in the West End from September until the end of the year before holding its final performance at the Phoenix Theatre on Saturday 7 January 2023. By the time the West End company take their final bow, this critically acclaimed production will have played 1048 performances in London, 47 performances in Dublin and won many major UK Theatre Awards including the Olivier, Critics’ Circle and What’s On Stage … [Read more...]
Les Misérables Extends Booking & Announces New Performance Schedule
LES MISÉRABLES at the Sondheim Theatre is delighted to announce it has extended booking until Sunday 5 March 2023, and a new performance schedule from Wednesday 5 October 2022. From Wednesday 5 October 2022 the new performance schedule will be: Wednesday at 7.30pm Thursday at 2.30pm and 7.30pm Friday at 7.30pm Saturday at 2.30pm and 7.30pm Sunday at 2.30pm Monday at 7.30pm LES MISÉRABLES currently stars Jon Robyns as Jean Valjean, Bradley Jaden as Javert, Gerard Carey as … [Read more...]
Mary Poppins extends to 8th January 2023
Disney and Cameron Mackintosh today (1 July 2022) announce the final extension for the West End run of the Olivier Award-winning Mary Poppins which will celebrate its final West End performance at the Prince Edward Theatre on 8 January 2023. Tickets for this final extension go on general sale at 11am today. Based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the original Walt Disney film, this production of Mary Poppins opened in October 2019 and played to March 2020 when it closed due to the Covid … [Read more...]
Kinky Boots the Musical in Concert at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Kinky Boots the Musical in Concert will be stepping out and painting the town red for an extra night on Tuesday 9 August at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane this summer. Kinky Boots is the feel-good musical by Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper, based on the popular 2005 film of the same name. Previously announced cast are Cedric Neal (Back To The Future, Motown The Musical), as Lola/Simon, Matt Jay Willis (Busted, Waitress, Wicked) as Charlie and Courtney Bowman (Legally Blonde, SIX) as … [Read more...]
Jesus Christ Supercast – rewatching ‘Superstar’ ten years on
David Hunter (Once, Kinky Boots, Waitress) and Tim Prottey-Jones (Rent, Once, Kinky Boots) have announced their brand new podcast, ‘Jesus Christ Supercast’. Join the pair as they rewatch and relive ITV’s ‘Superstar’, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s search for a leading man to play Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, which aired exactly ten years ago this July. And while neither of them won (and they’re still hoping for a recount) the show did launch their Musical Theatre careers, so they certainly stuck … [Read more...]
Principal Cast Announced for Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical
The producers of the world premiere production of FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS: THE MUSICAL announce principal cast members and additional tour venues for the UK & Ireland Tour. James Gaddas (Casualty (BBC One), Bad Girls (ITV), Coronation Street (ITV), The Girls, Billy Elliot, Monty Python’s Spamalot, MAMMA MIA! (All West End)) will play Jim, with Parisa Shahmir (The Snow Queen (The Rose Theatre), The Last Ship (Northern Stage, UK & Ireland Tour) and MAMMA MIA! (UK Tour)) will play his … [Read more...]