Trainspotting: The Musical continues at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London until 5 September 2026. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ Like the final act of theft, Trainspotting feels like an unsatisfying cash grab that leaves everyone feeling robbed.
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Trainspotting musical to follow West End run with tour
The eagerly anticipated musical version of Irvine Welsh’s bestselling novel Trainspotting will follow its world premiere season at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket this summer by embarking on a UK tour in the autumn.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry continues at Theatre Royal Haymarket, London until 18 April 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Some shows are too frivolous, some shows are too serious, but some find a perfect middle ground.
Newsfeed: Cast for European premiere of Your Lie In April, West End debut for Golda, Talawa to co-produce touring production of Play On! and more
Zheng Xi Yong (Spring Awakening, Almeida Theatre) and Rumi Sutton (Hex, National Theatre) will play the central characters in the European premiere of Your Lie in April – The Musical. The latest from the producers of last year’s English language premiere of Death Note: The Musical in Concert will make its debut in the West […]
West End’s Only Fools and Horses to close, UK tour planned
The Trotter family will be heading out of the West End on 29 April 2023 when the hit show Only Fools and Horses The Musical takes its final bow after a record-breaking four year run and over 1,000 performances at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Encore run announced for Paul Whitehouse in Only Fools and Horses
Paul Whitehouse will re-join the Trotter family from 6 January 2023, when he returns to the role of Grandad again in the West End smash Only Fools and Horses The Musical.
Les Dennis to play Grandad in Only Fools and Horses musical
Comedy favourite turned stage star Les Dennis is heading back into the West End to play Grandad in the smash hit Only Fools and Horses The Musical at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket from 3 October 2022. The announcement of the latest addition to the Trotter family coincides with the news that the acclaimed production’s London […]
The Tiger Who Came To Tea returns to the West End
The Olivier-nominated stage production of The Tiger Who Came To Tea will return to the Theatre Royal Haymarket this summer. Adapted and directed by Olivier Award winner David Wood, the musical play based on Judith Kerr’s much-loved book will return to the West End from 11 July until 4 September 2022. Currently touring across the […]
Heathers The Musical – Theatre Royal Haymarket
Heathers The Musical continues at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London until 11 September 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Bullying, bulimia, under-age sex, suicide, toxic masculinity, murder, school shootings… it’s rarely the stuff of musical theatre, let alone jolly, bubble-gum musicals with infectious pop scores. Yet Heathers The Musical manages to combine […]
Only Fools and Horses The Musical to return in October 2021
The Trotter family is heading back into the West End in the hit show Only Fools and Horses The Musical this autumn with co-creator Paul Whitehouse reprising his performance as Grandad. After nearly 18 months self-isolation in Nelson Mandela House, Peckham’s finest will be living it up in their London home, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket […]
Heathers The Musical returns to the West End and launches new touring production
Heathers The Musical will return to the West End this summer just a few weeks before the launch of the show’s eagerly-anticipated first national tour. Presented by Bill Kenwright and Paul Taylor-Mills, the critic and crowd-pleasing show will return to the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 21 June 2021 for a strictly limited 12-week run. The […]
Where Is Peter Rabbit? – Theatre Royal Haymarket
Where is Peter Rabbit? continues at the Theatre Royal Haymarket until 1 September 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Following a sell-out run in April this year, Where is Peter Rabbit?, originally performed at The Old Laundry in 2016 to mark the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth, returns to the […]
Peter Rabbit to bounce back into the West End with Myleene Klass as one of the narrators
Innovative family musical adventure Where Is Peter Rabbit? will be hopping back into London’s West End this summer, with Myleene Klass featuring as one of the narrators in a limited summer season Following its Easter West End debut and two successful seasons at the Old Laundry Theatre in the heart of the Lake District, the […]
The Band – Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Band continues at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, until 12 January 2019, then tours. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Band does the very unexpected. At face value, it is suspected that this musical’s sole focus is everything Take That, yet the heartwarming story of five girls and the importance of […]
‘It’s all very emotional’ – We revisit our interview with Heathers The Musical stars Carrie Hope Fletcher & Jamie Muscato
The record-breaking Heathers – The Musical is coming to the end of its strictly limited run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket this week, so we thought it was a good time to revisit Tal Fox’s interview with the show’s stars CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER (Veronica Sawyer) and JAMIE MUSCATO (Jason JD Dean). Based on the cult classic 1980s film Heathers which […]
Heathers The Musical – Theatre Royal Haymarket
Heathers the Musical continues at Theatre Royal Haymarket until 24 November 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ On the face of it, cult film Heathers would not seem to be a great candidate to form an evening of uplifting musical theatre. The 1988 film is a dark, dark comedy that takes […]
Nathan Amzi steps into Heathers The Musical for transfer run
Nathan Amzi has joined the cast of the record-breaking Heathers – The Musical until the end of its West End transfer run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Celebrating his move to Westerberg High, the actor whose credits include hit shows including Aladdin and Rock of Ages, said: “I have loved jumping in becoming a part […]
Broken Wings – Theatre Royal Haymarket
Broken Wings continues at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London until 4 August 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Based on Kahlil Gibran’s 1912 novel, this curiously old fashioned (traditional?) musical is touching without being mawkishly sentimental. The autobiographical source material tells the story of Gibran’s returning to his native Beirut after spending most […]
West End transfer for The Other Palace hit Heathers – The Musical
The record-breaking European premiere of Heathers – The Musical looks set to keep hitting the high notes with a West End transfer to the Theatre Royal Haymarket in September. Now the highest grossing show in history at both Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Other Palace and the venue’s previous incarnation the St. James Theatre, Heathers – […]
Nadim Naaman leads cast of Broken Wings West End run – new pictures released
Nadim Naaman will head the cast of the West End debut of Broken Wings, the musical created by the West End star and Qatar-based composer Dana Al Fardan. Following on from a series of London workshops and the recording of a concept album, a semi-staged production of the show is due to play the Theatre […]
Take That joins The Band cast to launch London season
Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen joined the cast of the Take That-inspired The Band on the roof of the Theatre Royal Haymarket to officially announce the musical’s Christmas season at the West End venue. Due to arrive at the Leeds Grand Theatre today (20 March), the record-breaking musical which features the music of Britain’s […]
Take That-inspired The Band to play London season at Christmas
The hit Take That-inspired musical The Band will take a break from its record-breaking two-year tour to play a Christmas season at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket. The fastest-selling UK tour of all time with ticket sales of £20 million, the tour which launched last year at the Manchester Opera House, the venue where Take That […]
The Rat Pack – Live from Las Vegas – Theatre Royal Haymarket
The Rat Pack – Live from Las Vegas continues at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London until 3 February, then tours the UK until 12 May. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Mitch Sebastian’s The Rat Pack – Live from Vegas is one of those Ronseal musicals – you get exactly what it says on […]
Final casting for The Rat Pack – Live from Las Vegas in the West End
Final casting has been announced for the West End production of the Olivier Award-nominated The Rat Pack – Live from Las Vegas, which returns to the Theatre Royal, Haymarket – home to its first West End run in 2003 – for a strictly limited season from Wednesday 13 December to Saturday 3 February. The cast […]
Rat Pack show heads back to the West End for Christmas
Hit swinging sixties show The Rat Pack – Live From Las Vegas is returning to the Theatre Royal Haymarket over a decade since it made its West End debut at the venue. The celebration of the music and camaraderie of the legendary team of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr, will return with […]
