The original London cast of the award-winning puppet show with bite – Avenue Q – will join the current West End cast for a special finale performance later this month.
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Avenue Q – Shaftesbury Theatre
Avenue Q continues at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London until 29 August 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Almost exactly 20 years after Avenue Q first came to the West End, it’s back, and it’s as brilliant as ever.
Cast and creatives for London return of Avenue Q
The full cast and the creative team have been unveiled for the eagerly awaited West End return of the award-winning puppet show with bite, Avenue Q.
Avenue Q will return to the West End for its 20th anniversary
The three-time Tony Award-winning and Olivier Award-nominated musical, Avenue Q will return to the West End for its 20th anniversary, bringing the original Broadway puppets to the Shaftesbury Theatre for a strictly limited season from 20 March to 29 August 2026.
Productions of Avenue Q and Little Shop of Horrors planned for the Old Joint Stock Theatre’s summer season
Birmingham’s Old Joint Stock Theatre will bring a touch of Broadway magic to the city with back-to-back productions of hit shows Avenue Q and Little Shop of Horrors. Running from 27 July until 26 September 2021, the ambitious summer season will open with Avenue Q (27 July-21 August) followed by Little Shop of Horrors (1-26 […]
Five Questions With: Nicholas McLean
NICHOLAS MCLEAN is starring in West End Acoustic – an unplugged celebration of popular musicals presented by New Frame Productions – at London’s Riverside Studios on 8 December 2020 alongside Maiya Quansah-Breed, Renée Lamb, Nicholas McLean and Sam Tutty, with musical direction by Chris Poon. Nicholas’ credits include Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre – Black British Theatre […]
Daniel Boys – Leave a Light On – Online Performance
Daniel Boys performed from his sitting room as part of the Leave a Light On series of live streamed concerts produced by Lambert Jackson Productions and The Theatre Café. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Hats off to Lambert Jackson and The Theatre Café for producing this series of live streamed concerts from performers’ […]
Stages – The Musical Theatre Festival At Sea from Floating Festivals
Stages – The Musical Theatre Festival At Sea from Floating Festivals 2019 Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Confession time: I completely underestimated the Stages Musical Theatre Festival At Sea from Floating Festivals. Despite having reported on the extensive programme of Q&As, workshops, cabarets, open mic sessions, theme nights and first-class headliners […]
‘It is going to be a week of how I want everyday life to be’ – Drew Baker on his role for Floating Festivals Stages
All aboard Explorer of the Seas for the Floating Stages Musical Theatre Festival at sea from 14 to 18 October 2019, leaving Southampton for Dublin and then returning to Southampton. On-board entertainment includes musical appearances by Alfie Boe, Sheridan Smith and Collabro plus the incorrigibly comic Joe Pasquale and popular show Avenue Q. DREW BAKER […]
Adrian Mole musical writers join the Floating Festivals Stages cruise line-up
The team behind the hit new British musical The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾: The Musical have joined the star-packed list of attractions due to climb aboard the second edition of Stages – The Musical Theatre Festival at Sea this autumn. Writers Pippa Cleary and Jake Brunger will offer passengers a glimpse behind […]
West End Live 2019 – full details of weekend schedule revealed
Full details have been released of the line-up of award-winning shows and performers due to feature in this year’s West End LIVE event when it returns to London’s iconic Trafalgar Square next weekend. With first time appearances from new hits including Come From Away, Only Fools and Horses The Musical, Waitress, 9 To 5 The […]
Avenue Q to tour UK again in 2019
Award-winning puppet show with bite Avenue Q is heading back on the road with a new UK tour opening at Portsmouth’s Kings Theatre on 21 January next year. Featuring a cast of 11 performers and puppets, the production will be directed and choreographed by Cressida Carré, with design by Richard Evans, lighting design by Charlie […]
Interview – Jon Robyns is playing Emmett in Legally Blonde at Curve Leicester
JON ROBYNS is perhaps best known as Princeton/Rod from the original West End cast of Avenue Q, but his career to date boasts a varied and prolific journey through the West End and beyond, and is by no means slowing down. Musical Theatre Review’s Aura Simon caught up with him at the Curve Leicester, where he’s playing leading […]
Avenue Q – Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch and Touring
Avenue Q continues at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch until 6 February, and on tour until 18 June 2016. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ If you’re like me, there’s a good chance that you grew up watching The Muppets and Sesame Street, along with Disney movies, where the stories would always seem to promise that, […]
Avenue Q – Greenwich Theatre and Touring
Avenue Q continues at the Greenwich Theatre until 24 May before continuing on a UK tour until May 2016. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The mad, bad muppets are back and they’re as filthy, foul-mouthed and funny as ever! I somehow managed to miss every opportunity to see Avenue Q when staged here in the UK, […]
Avenue Q – Sell a Door reveals more dates and casting
Casting and further dates have been announced today for award-winning comedy musical Avenue Q, which will bring a host of fuzzy friends to theatres across the country in a new 2015/16 UK tour. A smash hit on Broadway, in the West End and most recently in a critically-acclaimed 2014 UK tour, Avenue Q opens at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester on Wednesday 22 […]
West End Wilma Awards – Miss Saigon and Urinetown among the winners
The first ever Wilma Awards, in association with Freedom Bar Soho, took place at an exclusive invitation-only ceremony, hosted by actor/director Tim McArthur. Guests were treated to Afternoon Tea with Wilma (courtesy of www.thefullenglishfoodcompany.ltd.uk) while they watched the winners be revealed and listened to a special live performance of an original song from actor, singer and current Phantom of the […]
Avenue Q – Greenwich Theatre and Touring
Avenue Q continues at the Greenwich Theatre, London until 11 May, then tours until 16 August. In this current climate of major musicals closing in the West End after less than a year, it seems almost inconceivable that Avenue Q originally ran for five years. So it makes sense that members of the Sell a […]
Sell a Door Theatre Company presents Avenue Q
Sell a Door Theatre Company, the producers behind the first UK tour of Spring Awakening and the recent West End production of Seussical, will be embarking on a ten-week tour of the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Avenue Q, following a run at their resident venue, London’s Greenwich Theatre. Avenue Q first appeared in 2003 at the […]
Avenue Q – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Playing at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London until 30 June. Although it ran for five years in the West End followed by a national tour, Avenue Q‘s Off-Broadway roots always showed. In its first UK fringe theatre production, the smaller space and intimacy works in its definite favour. The musical takes the idea of humans […]
