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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: The west end org - The Untold Story

The best West End show savings this summer – get up to 76% off tickets with LOVEtheatre

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Evening Standard

10 things that changed my life with stand-up comedian Phil Nichol

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The National (Scotland)

Catherine Tate suddenly pulls out of West End’s Oh, Mary! due to ‘personal reasons’

Actor had been due to appear in the award-winning show until 18 July

The Independent UK

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London’s Duke of York’s Theatre renamed to honour playwright Tom Stoppard

The renaming coincides with a revival of Stoppard’s Arcadia

The Independent UK

James Norton to star in Hamlet

James Norton is to star in Hamlet on London's West End next year.

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‘A privilege – and pretty terrifying’: James Norton to play Hamlet in the West End

The Happy Valley actor is lined up as the lead in German director Thomas Ostermeier’s first Shakespearean play in English

The Guardian - UK

Sinatra: The Musical review – life of a legend brims with hits but never gets under his skin

Frank swings into the West End with a swaggering turn from Joel Harper-Jackson and plenty of style yet the script is flat

The Guardian - UK

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Elton John feels ‘connected’ to Billy Elliot and says film ‘struck a chord’

Sir Elton believes the musical shares many similarities with his life and his relationship with his father.

Evening Standard

Dame Maureen Lipman to return to West End stage as star of Allegra

Tony Award-winner Peter Quilter’s play, which is currently embarking on its UK tour, is set to take the stage in London this July.

Evening Standard

‘Feels very special’: Michael Sheen to star as Salieri in new production of Amadeus

A co-production with the Welsh National Theatre set up by the actor last year, the play will open in Cardiff before a 16-week run in London’s West End

The Guardian - UK

Christine Baranski says West End debut 'a dream come true' alongside Richard E Grant

The pair will star in a revival of the classic comedy of Bad Manners at Wyndham’s Theatre in London for a limited 12-week run from 22 September

Evening Standard

Cynthia Erivo is Dracula, Gentleman Jack does ballet and Phil Wang’s mega-tour: theatre, dance and comedy in 2026

Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner unite for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Michael Sheen launches Welsh National Theatre and Bridget Christie revs up for a return to the stage

The Guardian - UK

Lauren Lyle on her new West End sex comedy: 'I enjoy shocking people'

Lauren Lyle has been killing it on screen in Karen Pirie and Toxic Town this year, and his now hitting the stage for another jaw-dropping role

Evening Standard

First look at Joseph Fiennes as Gareth Southgate in BBC Dear England series

The actor was previously nominated for an Olivier Award for his role as the former England football manager in the West End production.

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Love The Traitors and Only Murders in the Building? Visit The Mousetrap, says bold new director of West End perennial

Ola Ince, who has refreshed Agatha Christie’s record-breaking mystery, suggests ‘we all fancy ourselves as detectives’

The Guardian - UK

The Importance of Being Earnest review – Stephen Fry’s Lady Bracknell presides over merrily queered comedy

Max Webster’s frisky Oscar Wilde revival, first seen at the National Theatre, arrives in the West End with a new cast

The Independent UK

John Lithgow to return to Broadway in a Roald Dahl play that's not for kids

John Lithgow is returning to Broadway in a play that might change how we read bedtime stories to our children

The Guardian - UK

High Noon heads for the West End as Billy Crudup takes on Gary Cooper role

The Tony award-winning actor will play the marshal in a London stage adaptation of the 1952 western that won Cooper an Oscar

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Evening Standard

David Hare play starring Ralph Fiennes transfers to the West End

The production, starring the Harry Potter actor and Spooks star Miranda Raison, played at the Theatre Royal Bath between June and July.

The Guardian - UK

Barbara Ferris obituary

Actor who began her career in ‘dolly bird’ roles and became the star of plays by Edward Bond and David Hare

The Independent UK

Curtains for originality? Theatre creatives on the West End romcom musical boom

IN FOCUS: As a musical based on the 2004 Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore love story prepares for its West End debut, Isabel Dempsey surveys the current deluge of romcom remakes hitting the stage and asks industry folk whether the boom is helping or harming

The Independent UK

Paddington musical: Tom Fletcher reveals new details of West End show

Tom Fletcher has revealed new details about Paddington The Musical, a show due to debut in autumn on the West End featuring music from the McFly singer.

Evening Standard

Big Stars take over the West End again as Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste lead Arthur Miller classic

Breaking Bad star and Oscar winner jo9in powerhouse cast for revival of All My Sons - tickets set to sell-out fast

Evening Standard

The real story behind Ncuti Gatwa’s ‘dark, sexy’ Shakespeare play: Were The Bard and Marlowe lovers or rivals?

As Born With Teeth brings a ‘ferociously sexy’ take on literature’s greatest mystery to the West End, we separate the tantalising facts from wild fiction

The Guardian - UK

From Amsterdam to the West End: the avant-garde hit factory behind The Years and Oedipus

A pair of electrifying London shows bagged four prizes at the Olivier awards. Both were developed by Dutch company ITA, which has an eye for British talent

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