The West End production of feel-good musical Mamma Mia! will welcome new cast members to the stage of the Novello Theatre from 12 October 2026.
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National Theatre’s 2027 season includes new musical Glorious Madness and West Side Story revival
The world premiere of a new British musical featuring the music of Joan Armatrading and a major revival of West Side Story will be part of the National Theatre’s 2027 season
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical – Edinburgh Playhouse and Touring
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical was reviewed at Edinburgh Playhouse where it continues until 22 November 2025. The tour continues until 4 April 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical – Curve Leicester and Touring
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical was reviewed at Curve Leicester where it continues until 22 March 2025. The tour continues until 4 April 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
West End’s Mamma Mia! to celebrate 25-year milestone on 6 April 2024
Feel-good musical Mamma Mia! will celebrate its 25th anniversary on 6 April 2024, becoming only the third musical in West End history to reach the milestone.
Full cast for Mamma Mia! UK and international tour 2023 dates
Sara Poyzer will return as Donna Sheridan to head the new cast for the multi-award-winning Mamma Mia! as the feel-good musical embarks on the 2023 leg of its UK and international tour.
New cast for West End’s Mamma Mia!
Producer Judy Craymer has unveiled the new cast for the London production of multi-award-winning feel-good musical Mamma Mia! alongside the announcement of an extension to the booking period to 30 September 2023. The West End production which celebrated its 23rd birthday in London at the Novello Theatre earlier this year will continue to star Mazz […]
Mamma Mia! celebrates 23 years in London and extends booking into March 2023
Multi-award winning feel-good musical Mamma Mia! marked its 23rd birthday in London by announcing a new booking period at the Novello Theatre, taking the hit show up to 5 March 2023. Celebrating the latest milestone in the show’s success story, producer Judy Craymer said: “When we opened the show back in 1999, I never imagined […]
Broadway shutdown extended / Tony nominations announced
The entire 2020-2021 Broadway season has disappeared, swallowed up in the unyielding maw of the Coronavirus pandemic. Nevertheless, a passel of New York theatre-makers have reason to celebrate with the unveiling of the Tony Award nominations for the 2019-2020 season, as abbreviated as it was. A date for the awards presentation, however, is yet to […]
Tina – The Tina Turner Musical – Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York
Tina – The Tina Turner Musical continues at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Blasting its way from London, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical has securely landed in New York, and the Broadway behemoths have quickly crowned Adrienne Warren, its star in both cities, as the […]
Company leads individual production nominations for Evening Standard Awards
Marianne Elliott’s critically-acclaimed gender-swapped version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company leads the individual production nominations for the 64th Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Just three weeks after the show’s opening night, Company has been nominated for the award for best musical alongside Caroline, or Change, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Fun Home and Hamilton. The […]
Tina the Musical – Aldwych Theatre
Tina the Musical continues at the Aldwych Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Tina the Musical is a hotchpotch of an evening taken to another level in the final stages by the stunning talent and stage presence of Adrienne Warren as the iconic recording artist Tina Turner. It tends to […]
Tina the musical – open auditions announced for young Tina Turner
The West End production of Tina will hold open auditions on Saturday 13 January 2018 for the opportunity to portray Anna Mae, the 11-year-old Tina Turner, with the adult cast of the musical. The company is looking for black and mixed race girls between the ages of 9 and 12 years old, under 4’ 10”, […]
Tina Turner musical – Adrienne Warren cast in lead role – images and footage
Adrienne Warren has been announced by Tina Turner as the actor who will portray her in the world premiere of the new musical Tina. Tina will open at the Aldwych Theatre in April 2018. Performances will begin on 21 March 2018 with press night on 17 April. Produced by Stage Entertainment, Tina is currently booking to 16 […]
West End Tina Turner musical to open in April 2018
Tina, a new musical based on the life of legendary artist Tina Turner, will open at the Aldwych Theatre in April 2018. Performances will begin on 21 March 2018 with press night on 17 April 2018. Tina is initially booking to 16 June 2018. Tickets are released for public sale at 10am on 22 September 2017 with […]
Mamma Mia! – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
Mamma Mia! continues at the Milton Keynes Theatre until 20 May, and then tours until February 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Eighteen years after its inception by producer Judy Craymer and director Phyllida Lloyd in 1998, a phenomenal 17-year (and counting) West End run, and equally impressive stints across the […]
Tina Turner backs new project, Tina the Musical
Pop superstar Tina Turner made a special appearance at a workshop presentation of a major new musical based on her life story. The legendary ‘Simply the Best’ singer joined the creative and producing teams behind Tina the Musical at the event in London on Friday. Award-winning writer Katori Hall (The Mountaintop) has been working with […]
Linzi Hateley rejoins Mamma Mia! London cast
Linzi Hateley will return to the role of Donna Sheridan for the third time in the multi-award winning Mamma Mia! at London’s Novello Theatre from 13 June. Hateley, who played Donna in the capital from 2007-2009 and in 2010, has also appeared in the national tour of Barnum and at the Queen’s Theatre in Les […]
Mamma Mia! – Liverpool Empire
Mamma Mia! continues at the Liverpool Empire until 14 March 2015. The North West certainly seems to be the region of choice if Mamma Mia! has anything to say about it. Blackpool was the only venue outside of London that you could see the production in 2014, now in 2015 Liverpool shall be the only UK venue […]
Mamma Mia! tour makes Liverpool Empire only UK regional date in 2015
The Mamma Mia! international tour will perform for the first time ever at the Liverpool Empire from 20 February to 14 March, with Liverpool being the only UK mainland date outside of London to host the production in 2015. Tickets go on sale on 2 September at 1pm. There will be a gala performance on 24 […]
Mamma Mia! Blackpool season breaks box office records
Hit musical Mamma Mia! has broken box office history in Blackpool with more than £2 million in ticket sales in just six weeks. The figure makes the show Blackpool’s highest-ever grossing show. It is more than ten years since Blackpool hosted a full summer season but with the Mamma Mia! international tour in the town for a 12-week run, theatre bosses […]
