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Cable Street – Marylebone Theatre

Cable Street continues at Marylebone Theatre, London until 28 February 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ There is much to celebrate in this significant new work.

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Cable Street’s London encore – the full cast

The new cast has been confirmed for next year’s London return of Cable Street which will play the Marylebone Theatre from 16 January until 28 February 2026.

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Old Vic’s Groundhog Day – full cast and creatives

The Old Vic has announced the full cast and creative team for the eagerly anticipated encore season of the smash hit stage musical version of Groundhog Day.

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The cast of Amélie the Musical on finally opening their ‘bonkers’ West End show after the Covid-19 lockdown

Amélie the Musical has had a remarkable journey: from a Broadway under-performer; to an exciting British reinterpretation at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre, on tour, and at London’s Other Palace Theatre; to an acclaimed run reopening the West End’s historic Criterion Theatre after the Covid-19 shutdown. Musical Theatre Review’s Ian Bowkett spoke to four of its […]

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Amelie The Musical transfers to the West End’s Criterion Theatre in May 2021

Following its opening at the Watermill Theatre, a critically-acclaimed sell-out tour in 2019, a highly successful Christmas season at The Other Palace in 2019, a Grammy nomination and three Olivier Award nominations, Amélie The Musical arrives in the West End this summer. Following the government roadmap announcement, tickets are on sale now for a socially […]

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London cast recording of Amélie to be released

Craft Recordings and Concord Theatricals will release the Original London Cast Recording of Amélie in digital form on Friday (5 June 2020). Now available for pre-order, the recording features the cast of 13 actor-musicians who took to the stage at The Other Palace for the successful London transfer run of the Watermill Theatre’s hit production […]

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Little Shop of Horrors – Salisbury Playhouse

Little Shop of Horrors continues at the Salisbury Playhouse until 16 May, then transfers to the Mercury Theatre, Colchester from 27 May to 13 June. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Any show that rhymes ‘greatest’ with ‘semi-sadist’ and ‘Audrey’ with ‘tawdry’ gets my vote. In fact, Little Shop of Horrors has been in my […]

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Little Shop of Horrors at Salisbury Playhouse – casting news

Full casting has been announced for a major new production of Little Shop of Horrors opening at Salisbury Playhouse on Thursday 23 April (press night is Tuesday 28 April). Ben Stott (Wicked, West End and Sweeney Todd, West Yorkshire Playhouse) will play Seymour, the down and out shop worker who becomes an overnight sensation when he grows […]

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