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& Juliet – Curve Leicester and Touring

& Juliet was reviewed at Curve Leicester where it continues until 22 February 2025. The tour continues until 28 June 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Feel-good theatre at its best.

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& Juliet – Wimbledon Theatre and Touring

& Juliet was reviewed at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London where it continues until 1 February 2025. The tour continues until 28 June 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A rammed first-night Wimbledon audience had an absolute ball, waving their arms around and singing along as if they knew every word.

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& Juliet to tour the UK in 2024

Award-winning musical & Juliet will follow its successful West End run by embarking on an extensive UK tour next summer.

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In Dreams – Leeds Playhouse

In Dreams continues at the Courtyard Theatre, Leeds Playhouse until 5 August 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A rollicking musical about imminent death is scarcely the most obvious premise for a feel-good show in these troubled times.

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First casting news for world premiere of In Dreams at Leeds Playhouse

Tony Award-winner Lena Hall will join West End star Oliver Tompsett in new musical In Dreams at Leeds Playhouse this summer.

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Roy Orbison catalogue to feature in new musical In Dreams at Leeds Playhouse

The team behind the hit show & Juliet, writer David West Read and director Luke Sheppard, have turned their attention to the music of the late, great Roy Orbison for new musical In Dreams.

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& Juliet bids farewell to the West End in March 2023

& Juliet, the award-winning musical which has been entertaining audiences in London since opening in 2019, will play its final performance at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre on 25 March 2023. The musical first opened at the Manchester Opera House in October 2019 and transferred to London the following month. As well as three Olivier Awards, & […]

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& Juliet to return to the West End in May

Multi-award-winning new musical & Juliet is the latest hit West End show to announce plans to reopen in the late spring. Subject to the lifting of social distancing measures, the show which envisions a happy ending for William Shakespeare’s Juliet will return to the Shaftesbury Theatre from 28 May 2021 with its booking period extended […]

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& 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 […]

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