The producers of Burlesque the Musical have confirmed that the show’s planned London engagement has been “postponed” to 2027.
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Cassidy Janson – Vaudeville Theatre
Cassidy Janson performed as part of the Westway Sessions at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Cassidy Janson is one of the warmest, most engaging voices in West End theatre.
Full cast for world premiere of Austenland
The full cast has been confirmed for the world premiere of a new musical based on Shannon Hale’s 2007 best-selling novel Austenland later this month.
Musical Con 2024 – check out the schedule
The full schedule has been unveiled for Musical Con 2024 – the world’s biggest musical theatre fan convention which returns for the third consecutive year this weekend (19 and 20 October).
Jon Robyns In Concert– His Majesty’s Theatre
Jon Robyns performed in concert at His Majesty’s Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This was a wonderful reminder of some lesser-known musical gems and a genuine pleasure to experience.
Jerry’s Girls – Menier Chocolate Factory
Jerry’s Girls continues at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London until 29 June 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ This 33-song hurtle through the Jerry Herman songbook performed by a hard-working trio of Jerry’s Girls and an all-female band will send you home humming some of the greatest show songs ever written.
Star line-up revealed for Musical Con 2024
Over 700 special guests will take part in the world’s biggest musical theatre fan convention Musical Con when the popular event returns for the third consecutive year on 19 and 20 October 2024.
Cast update for Menier Chocolate Factory’s Jerry’s Girls
Jessica Martin will complete the cast of the Menier Chocolate Factory’s upcoming revival of Jerry Herman and Larry Alford’s Jerry’s Girls.
Bare The Musical – In Concert – London Palladium
Bare The Musical was performed in concert at the London Palladium. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
Full cast for Bare: In Concert
Full casting has been announced for the upcoming one-night only concert performance of coming-of-age rock musical Bare at the London Palladium in April.
Box Office Radio lines up VIP musical weekender in 2024
A host of leading West End stars will feature in the Box Office Radio VIP Musicals Weekender in Torquay in Devon early next year.
Inaugural Gaiety Musical Theatre Festival cancelled
The Gaiety Musical Theatre Festival has been cancelled for the second time just two weeks before the star-packed event was due to make its long-awaited debut.
First Musical Con – full schedule announced
The full schedule has been confirmed for Musical Con, the new musical theatre themed event which will turn ExCel London into a haven for musical theatre lovers on 22 and 23 October 2022. Ten thousand musical theatre fans and enthusiasts are due to attend the weekend event which will offer fans the opportunity to meet […]
& Juliet extension announced and new nurse confirmed
The producers of multi-award-winning musical & Juliet have announced an extension to the feel-good show’s Shaftesbury Theatre run with tickets now on sale up to 25 March 2023. The extension announcement was accompanied by the news that Malinda Parris (Mary Poppins, Prince Edward Theatre, Footloose, UK tour) will join the cast to play Angelique the […]
& Juliet singalong performance announced
The producers of multi-award-winning musical & Juliet have announced the first singalong performance of the feel-good show at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 6 June 2022. Announcing the special performance which will feature screens displaying the lyrics to every song, director Luke Sheppard said: “During our hugely successful run at the Shaftesbury Theatre, we’ve been reminded […]
& Juliet – Shaftesbury Theatre
& Juliet continues at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, booking until 24 September 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ & Juliet opened in London’s Shaftesbury Theatre in 2019, and its exuberant bubblegum brilliance immediately made fans of even the most sceptical and joyless of theatregoers, myself very much included. Whether or not […]
Performances and presenter line-up announced for Olivier Awards 2022
With under a week to go until the Olivier Awards 2022 with Mastercard, details have been revealed for British theatre’s most prestigious and glamorous night, including the star-studded list of award presenters and performances. The Olivier Awards take place on Sunday 10 April at the Royal Albert Hall – returning after a two-year pandemic hiatus […]
West End favourites to star in new London concert series The Westway Sessions
Musical theatre favourites will take centre stage in a new intimate concert series at London music venue Piano, Smithfield in May. Hosted by new music and film label, Westway, The Westway Sessions will launch on 9 May 2022 with a performance reuniting former Les Misérables’ co-stars Rob Houchen (City of Angels) and Emma Kingston (Heathers) […]
New cast members for West End’s & Juliet
Tom Francis and Julius D’Silva will join the previously announced Keala Settle in the cast of multi-award-winning musical & Juliet at the Shaftesbury Theatre from 29 March 2022. Francis (Rent, Hope Mill Theatre) will step into the role of Romeo following the departure of Jordan Luke Gage with D’Silva (What’s New Pussycat? Birmingham Rep) taking […]
Greatest Showman star Keala Settle to make West End Debut in & Juliet
Keala Settle – internationally renowned for her starring role in the global smash hit movie The Greatest Showman – is to make her West End debut in the award-winning & Juliet. The Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress who shot to worldwide fame performing the iconic song ‘This is Me’ in the movie alongside Hugh Jackman will […]
Marisha Wallace features in line-up of inaugural Gaiety Musical Theatre Festival
Marisha Wallace will join fellow West End stars Kerry Ellis, Cassidy Janson and Lee Mead for the first Gaiety Musical Theatre Festival in May 2022. The actress who made her West End debut in Dreamgirls at the Savoy Theatre and appeared on Broadway in the original casts of Disney’s Aladdin and Something Rotten will take […]
West End and Broadway stars signed to new musical theatre label
West End and Broadway stars Samantha Barks, Kerry Ellis and Ramin Karimloo are among the first signings for new London-based musical theatre record label Westway Music. Launching on 12 November with Frozen star Barks’ new studio album ‘Into The Unknown’ the new label created by artist manager and promoter Neil O’Brien, Westway Music is a […]
Award-winning stars head returning cast of & Juliet
Olivier Award-winners Miriam-Teak Lee, Cassidy Janson and David Bedella will be among a largely unchanged cast when & Juliet makes its eagerly-anticipated return to the Shaftesbury Theatre from 24 September 2021. Best Actress Lee (Hamilton, On the Town) will return in the title role alongside Janson (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Chess) who collected the […]
Star studded line-up for UK debut of Well-Behaved Women
Janie Dee, Kerry Ellis, Cassidy Janson and Nicole Raquel Dennis will be among a star-studded cast of West End favourites celebrating famous females across the ages in a one night only concert performance of award-winning composer Carmel Dean’s Well-Behaved Women in September. Presented by Lambert Jackson Productions, the concert on 3 September 2021 at London’s […]
Monday Night at the Apollo – Apollo Theatre
Monday Night at the Apollo (the first in the series at the Apollo Theatre, London. Other dates are 14 June and 5 July 2021). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ As lockdown eases and the West End begins to reopen, it’s clear that the online concerts which have kept performers and audiences […]
Casting for first Monday Night at the Apollo show
Casting has been announced for the first concert in the re-scheduled live and live-streamed fundraising series of Monday Night at the Apollo shows on 24 May 2021. West End stars Aimie Atkinson (SIX, Pretty Woman), Cassidy Janson (& Juliet, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), Lucie Jones (Waitress, Rent), Cedric Neal (Chess, Motown the Musical) and […]
West End stars feature in Crazy Coqs’ reopening plans
Sophie-Louise Dann, Dominic Ferris, Ria Jones and Cassidy Janson will be among the line-up of artists to feature in the reopening programme at London’s Crazy Coqs from 17 May 2021. Subject to the Government’s ability to stick to its proposed roadmap to recovery, the popular venue within the Brasserie Zédel complex in Soho has announced […]
Stars unite for Make A Difference Trust single to mark a year of closedown
Some of the most distinctive voices in the West End feature on a new charity single released to mark a year since UK theatres went dark. With representatives from every musical open in the West End when the curtains came down on 16 March 2020 along with artists from shows that should have opened in […]
Re-stream of star-packed Leave A Light On series
Lambert Jackson and the Theatre Café have announced an encore run for their popular Leave A Light On online concert series from the middle of next month. A total of 70 performances featuring a host of West End favourites including Zoe Birkett, Jordan Luke Gage, David Hunter, Cassidy Janson, Lucie Jones, Beverley Knight and Layton […]
Monday Night At The Apollo – new dates announced
Revised dates have been announced for the new live and live-streamed fundraising concert series Monday Night At The Apollo. Originally due to play two shows in front of a socially distanced audience at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury this month with a third concert in early February, the shows will now take place on 12 […]
The Theatre Channel – Holiday Special
Holiday Special is streaming on The Theatre Channel. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ It was good to see graduates from Arts Ed playing a part alongside star names such as Cassidy Janson, Sophie-Louise Dann and Zizi Strallen in the latest Theatre Channel stream filmed at The Theatre Cafe in the heart of […]
We Need A Little Christmas – Actors’ Church
We Need A Little Christmas at the Actors’ Church, Covent Garden, London, available to stream until 1 January 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This bumper bundle of Christmas songs old and new, plus a couple of spoken gems from Maureen Lipman and Simon Callow, does not stint on quantity or […]
Girl Power / Oops! I Streamed It Again – Thespie.com
Girl Power, streaming on Thespie.com from 17 December 2020. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This third streamed offering in Thespie’s series of four December concerts reunites the original team from the 2018 UK tour of cult musical Six who stayed together for the show’s second spell in the West End last […]
Christine Allado and David Bedella are among the line-up for charity concert We Need A Little Christmas
A host of stage and screen stars are uniting for a festive filmed concert in support of Shelter and Crisis at Christmas which will be streamed online from 20 December 2020 until 1 January 2021. Filmed at The Actors Church (St Paul’s Church) in Covent Garden, We Need A Little Christmas will feature performances from: […]
Cassidy Janson to host West End-flavoured series at Ronnie Scott’s
Olivier Award winner Cassidy Janson will host a new weekly show featuring fellow West End stars at the iconic Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club from 5 December 2020. Following on from her recent sold-out show at the world-famous Soho music venue, the star of & Juliet and Beautiful: The Carole King Story will return for All […]
Musical theatre favourites to feature in Reunited series of streamed concerts on Thespie
Over 30 of the UK’s leading musical theatre artists are lined up to feature in Reunited, a series of filmed concerts premiering on theatre platform Thespie. Following on from last month’s successful The Reunion show featuring seven Queens from the original West End run of Six, the Reunited series of four concerts will be filmed […]
Dear Evan Hansen, & Juliet, Mary Poppins & Fiddler all winners at the Olivier Awards 2020
The winners of the Olivier Awards 2020 with Mastercard were announced in a special ITV programme filmed at the London Palladium, and on Official London Theatre’s YouTube channel. The presentation was hosted by Jason Manford, and honoured Ian McKellen with his seventh Olivier Award for his 8oth Birthday tour, as well as lyricist Don Black, […]
West End stars and industry figures to unite for Magic With The Musicals at the Palladium
Magic Radio will bring together over 70 leading figures from across the industry for a special Magic With The Musicals day at the London Palladium aimed at raising awareness of the plight of the theatre industry. Produced by Magic and TBI Media, the event on 17 September 2020 will result in a special three-hour show […]
West End stars sign up for online coaching
West End stars are among the leading industry professionals contributing to a new digital platform offering personal one-to-one masterclasses. With all profits going to Acting for Others, SLOCOACH ARTS provides access to world-class vocal coaches, leading dancers from international dance companies and tuition from experts in a range of disciplines including ‘Fosse’, accents and improvisation. […]
Musical theatre stars to headline London Coliseum concert series
Seven West End stars will take centre stage in a series of acoustic concerts at London’s Coliseum which will be streamed over one week in September. Presented by West End and Broadway producers Jack Maple and Brian Zeilinger for their company Take Two Theatricals in association with Jamie Chapman Dixon and John-Webb Carter on behalf […]
Stars from the world of stage and screen donate treasured items to charity for the Theatre Super Auction
The auction specialists Bid-In Group is showing its support to the theatre and performing arts industry with the launch of the Theatre Super Auction, raising much-needed funds for the Theatres Trust, Acting for Others and Theatre Artists Fund. Funds raised from this event will be donated directly to the charities and organisations involved whose businesses […]
West End stars perform Newfound Hope Songs, written during lockdown for NHS Charities Together
As the world continues with social-distancing measures, and with theatreland on hiatus, many stars of the West End stage are getting creative at home and taking to social media with free clips, songs, and messages of support for fans, theatregoers, for their local communities, and in appreciation of key workers in the NHS and front-line […]
Dame Vera Lynn headlines morale-boosting music video ‘We’ll Meet Again
Alfie Boe has joined the previously announced line-up of socially distanced West End stars for a unique video version of ‘We’ll Meet Again’ featuring a special message of love and best wishes from Dame Vera Lynn. The inspirational face and voice of the Second world War is working her magic once again in a special […]
West End stars join Dame Vera Lynn for We’ll Meet Again video
Dame Vera Lynn is uniting with a host of socially distanced West End stars for a special morale-boosting video aimed at the theatre industry. The inspirational face and voice of the Second World War will work her magic once again by providing a personal message of love and best wishes for a unique video version […]
& Juliet leads the Olivier Awards 2020 nominations followed by Fiddler, Dear Evan Hansen and Mary Poppins
New British musical & Juliet topped the list of Olivier Awards 2020 nominations with recognition in nine categories. Once again illustrating the range and diversity of musical theatre currently playing in the West End, the three shows to attract the most Olivier nominations are all genre favourites with Trevor Nunn’s revival of the classic Fiddler […]
WhatsOnStage Awards nominations revealed
New British musical & Juliet leads the nominations for the 20th annual WhatsOnStage Awards.
& Juliet – Shaftesbury Theatre
& Juliet is booking at the Shaftesbury Theatre until May 2020. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Jukebox musicals tend to get a bad rap. And to be fair, many such constructions deserve their poor reputations: plundering an artist’s back catalogue in order to appeal to fans, often with a wafer-thin book […]
Man Of La Mancha – London Coliseum
Man Of La Mancha continues at the London Coliseum until 8 June 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Man Of La Mancha (1965) was a huge hit in its day, clocking up a Broadway run of more than 2,000 performances, so putting it in the same league as Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady. […]
Peter Polycarpou joins ENO’s Man Of La Mancha
Stage and screen star Peter Polycarpou will play squire Sancho Panza opposite Kelsey Grammer’s Don Quixote in the eagerly-anticipated London Coliseum production of Man Of La Mancha.
Chess – London Coliseum
Chess continues at the London Coliseum until 2 June 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Can we drop the use of “semi-staged” when talking about Grade-Linnit’s annual summer musical revivals at the London Coliseum now? That the production team continues to use the term in association with their shows seems more […]
