UK Live Entertainment News - West End
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Broken Glass First Night Reviews
Iqbal Khan's production of Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass has opened at the Vaudeville Theatre starring Antony Sher and Tara Fitzgerald in leading roles Set in November the highly-charged drama follows the story of Phillip and Sylvia Gellburg a wealthy Brooklyn mortgage broker and his wife whose lives take a dramatic ...
Three Days in May at Trafalgar Studios
Dalziel and Pascoe star Warren Clarke will lead an all-star cast as ‘Winston Churchill’ in the West End transfer of Ben Brown’s wartime thriller Three Days in May The play has been winning rave reviews on a national tour and will open at the Trafalgar Studios at the beginning of ...
Schools Finally Get Cats and Phantom!
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Really Useful Group has announced that two of the impresario’s most famous musicals – The Phantom of the Opera and Cats – will be released for schools and colleges to perform to mark the th anniversary of Phantom’s West End debut The sought after licences can ...
New Wicked Cast Announced
Wicked the Musical has announced a cast change before the end of the year with former Phantom of the Opera star Gina Beck taking over the role of ‘Glinda’ and ex-Flashdance actor Matt Willis playing ‘Fiyero’ from Monday th December They will be joined by Desmond Barrit The Wizard Lillie ...
The Lion King Reaches 5,000 Performances
The Lion King will reach its th performance this evening at the Lyceum Theatre The milestone has been reached years after the show opened in the West End back in October and is a huge credit to the large cast and production team who have managed to keep the musical ...
Noises Off at The Old Vic this Christmas
Michael Frayn’s award-winning play within a play - Noises Off - will receive its first major London revival since the year when a new production opens at The Old Vic this Christmas directed by Lindsay Posner The hilarious show will open on Tuesday th December previews from Saturday rd December ...
Russell Crowe Will Star in Les Miserables Movie
Russell Crowe has been cast as ‘Inspector Javert’ in the forthcoming Hollywood film version of Les Misérables according to reports on BroadwayWorld com Fellow Australian actor Hugh Jackman has already been confirmed in the role of reformed prisoner ‘Jean Valjean’ Shooting is likely to begin in the UK next February ...
Comedy Theatre Renamed after Harold Pinter
The Comedy Theatre has become The Harold Pinter Theatre today Thursday th September after being renamed by The Ambassador Theatre Group ATG in honour of the late Nobel Prize-winning playwright who created such iconic works as The Caretaker and Betrayal The name change is made ahead of the venue’s next ...
The Playboy of the Western World Cast Confirmed
The full cast has been announced for the upcoming Old Vic production of J M Synge’s outstanding Irish drama The Playboy of the Western World which opens on Tuesday th September following previews from Saturday th September Gwendolen Chatfield Karen Cogan John Cormack Drew Dillon Christopher Doyle Diarmuid de Faoite ...
Backbeat West End Cast Announced
Casting has been announced for the West End transfer of Backbeat – the musical adaptation of Iain Softley’s BAFTA-nominated film which will open at the Duke of York’s Theatre on th October following previews from th September Nick Blood pictured left whose London stage credits include Women Beware Women at ...
