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Star casts lined up for MTFestUK 2024
West End favourites Miriam-Teak Lee (& Juliet), Laura Baldwin (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella), Jordan Luke Gage (Bonnie & Clyde), Rebecca Lock (Elf The Musical) and Declan Bennett (Jesus Christ Superstar) will be among the actors to appear at MTFestUK 2024.
Musical Con 2023 – full schedule confirmed
The full schedule has been confirmed for the second Musical Con – the musical theatre-themed event which will turn ExCel London at Royal Victoria Dock into a haven for musical theatre lovers on 21 and 22 October 2023.
Dates and details are revealed for Musical Con 2023
When Phantoms walk the streets and Cats cosplayers crowd the Elizabeth line singing ‘One Day More’, you know what time it is. Musical Con, the West End’s official musical theatre fan convention, is back with over 70 West End stars joining fans at the ExCeL London on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 October 2023.
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 […]
Crowds help West End Flea Market raise over £45,500 for charity
Leading theatrical charity Acting For Others has revealed last weekend’s West End Flea Market raised over £45,500 – almost double the amount raised at the first West End Flea Market in 2019. Thousands of people joined in the fun at St Paul’s Covent Garden where Christopher Biggins was joined by Michael Ball and Bridgerton’s Golda […]
West End Flea Market – judges and shows revealed
Leading theatrical charity Acting For Others has confirmed the judges and the hit shows lined-up to take part in this year’s West End Flea Market later this month. West End Flea Market regular Christopher Biggins will be joined by Michael Ball and Bridgerton’s Golda Rosheuvel to pass judgement on the stalls created by teams from […]
& 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
& 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 […]
Black British Theatre Awards 2020 winners announced
Thriller Live beat off strong opposition from Hamilton and Tina – The Tina Turner Musical to claim the Best Musical Production Award at the 2020 Black British Theatre Awards during a special socially distanced event at London’s Young Vic Theatre which aired on Sky Arts as part of the channel’s new free-to-air line-up. Following on […]
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, […]
Olivier Awards 2020 – A video refresher of the musical nominees
It feels like forever ago that we could simply hop down to the West End and – perhaps after a spot of bank robbery to afford a ticket – bask in the brilliance of some of the most spectacular musicals London has ever seen. Presumably, all the nominees at this year’s delayed Olivier Awards deserve […]
Don Black and Ian McKellen to be honoured in Olivier Awards 2020
The winners of the 2020 Olivier Awards with Mastercard will be revealed on 25 October 2020 during a special programme broadcast from the London Palladium on ITV at 10.20pm. Originally due to be held in April this year, the replacement for the usual Red Carpet event will be hosted as planned by Jason Manford and […]
Black British Theatre Awards 2020 to air on Sky Arts
Hamilton, Thriller Live and Tina – The Tina Turner Musical are in the running for the Best Musical Production Award at the 2020 Black British Theatre Awards in late October. Following on from last year’s inaugural live ceremony, the winner of the Best Musical category will be announced during a special socially distanced event at […]
& 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 […]
Musicals & Juliet and Come From Away are big winners at the WhatsOnStage Awards
At a ceremony tonight at the Prince of Wales Theatre hosted by Jodie Prenger and Tom Read Wilson, the winners of the 2oth Annual WhatsOnStage Awards were announced – the only major theatre awards decided entirely by the theatregoers themselves. For the first time this year the event was broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 hosted by Elaine Paige and Paddy O’Connell. The […]
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 […]
LMTO’s A Christmas Carol – full cast confirmed
Full casting has been revealed for this year’s London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s concert staging of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol. Now firmly established as one of the highlights of the festive season following sold-out performances in 2016 and 2017, LMTO’s version of the 1994 Broadway musical reworking of Charles Dickens’ […]
Griff Rhys Jones to star as Scrooge in LMTO’s A Christmas Carol
Griff Rhys Jones will star as Ebenezer Scrooge in this year’s London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s concert staging of Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens and Mike Ockrent’s A Christmas Carol. Now firmly established as one of the highlights of the festive season following sold-out performances in 2016 and 2017, LMTO’s version of the 1994 Broadway musical reworking […]
