Multi-award-winning actor and legendary Broadway star Sutton Foster will reprise her Tony Award-winning role of Reno Sweeney in Cole Porter & P.G. Wodehouse’s lavish musical comedy ANYTHING GOES this summer at London’s Barbican Theatre. She will replace Megan Mullally, who has unfortunately had to withdraw from the show due to a short-term injury, in this year's must-see musical which opens on Friday 23 July for a strictly limited season. Tickets are on sale now. Foster, who will be … [Read more...]
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ENGLISH TOURING OPERA – AMADIGI
ENGLISH TOURING OPERA, the only English professional touring opera company, working on a minuscule Arts Council subsidy when compared to other, less adventurous organisations, is about to open its first post-Covid production in London, at the historic Matcham Hackney Empire (1 October 7.30 pm), before touring all over the country from Tunbridge Wells to Hexham via Exeter, mostly in venues which otherwise see no opera. This Autumn the opera is AMADIGI, Handel’s fifth opera, dating from 1715, … [Read more...]
Tens of thousands flock to Trafalgar Square for West End Live
Tens of thousands of theatre fans filled Trafalgar Square in central London over the weekend (18 - 19 Sept), to enjoy West End LIVE – marking the triumphant return of London’s theatreland after 18 months of shutdown. The weekend-long, free musical theatre festival has been going for over 15 years, and this year saw its best-ever line-up, with nearly 50 shows and acts and 830 performers and creatives involved, and a further 250 people employed to deliver the event. Enthusiastic crowds … [Read more...]
Dick Whittington: Tuck Shop’s Second Annual Drag West End Panto
TuckShop - the UK’s only specialist production company devoted all things drag - are back in the West End this Christmas with DICK WHITTINGTON, the second of its all drag pantomimes, following the first 2019 sell-out hit Cinderella. Teaming up with Ameena Hamid, the West End’s youngest producer, “Dick” will star RuPaul’s Drag Race UK favourites Cheryl Hole as ‘Dick’, plus two of the Queens currently appearing on screen in Series 3, Kitty Scott Claus as ‘The Spirit of Soho’, and Choriza May as … [Read more...]
Dear Evan Hansen Casting announced for West End return
Producer Stacey Mindich has announced the Olivier award-winning Company returning to Dear Evan Hansen next month. The London production reopens at the Noël Coward Theatre on 26 October 2021 and is currently booking to 13 February 2022. Sam Tutty returns to the role that won him the 2020 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He will be joined by returning cast members Lucy Anderson (Zoe Murphy), Doug Colling (Connor Murphy) and Marcus Harman (who will play Evan Hansen at certain … [Read more...]
Cast announced for MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL
Global Creatures, the producer of Moulin Rouge! The Musical, is thrilled to announce today the cast for the UK premiere of the acclaimed show, which begins performances at the Piccadilly Theatre in London on Friday 12 November 2021, with Press Night on Wednesday 8 December 2021 (at 7:00pm). Liisi LaFontaine (Good Trouble, Dreamgirls) will star as Satine, the sparkling diamond at the heart of the Moulin Rouge, and Jamie Bogyo (making his West End debut) will star as aspiring writer … [Read more...]