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20-08-26 Matt Rawle has returned to the role of P.T. Barnum as the major new touring production of Barnum continues its journey across the UK and Ireland. Rawle, whose West End credits include Cabaret, Evita and Les Misérables, began performances on 11 August and will lead the company through to the tour's final performance at Malvern Theatres on 31 October 2026. He reprises a role he previously played to critical […]
18-08-26 Layton Williams is taking his extraordinary musical theatre career on the road with Layton Live, a brand-new UK tour celebrating almost 20 years since he made his professional stage debut. The Olivier Award winner and Tony Award nominee will visit more than 20 towns and cities between 23 February and 4 April 2027, culminating in a major London performance at the Adelphi Theatre. Layton Live promises a musical journey […]
14-08-26 Matinee favourites Collabro are making their return with a brand-new musical theatre album and a limited UK tour planned for summer 2027. The musical theatre vocal group have announced The Return, their first major musical theatre album in seven years, which will be released on 6 November 2026. The new record will be followed by The Return Tour in summer 2027, marking Collabro’s return to the road with just […]
13-08-26 The world premiere recording of Complications in Sue, a new opera from A Strange Loop writer Michael R. Jackson starring cabaret icon Justin Vivian Bond, will be released this August. BCM+D Records will release the recording on 21 August 2026, captured live during Opera Philadelphia's world premiere production at the Academy of Music earlier this year. Featuring a libretto by Pulitzer and Tony Award winner Jackson, Complications in Sue […]
15-08-26 Pitch Perfect star Skylar Astin and Modern Family favourite Sarah Hyland are heading to the West End, joining the cast of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club this autumn. Both actors will make their West End debuts when they take over as the Emcee and Sally Bowles respectively from 21 September 2026. Astin will remain with the production until 12 December 2026, while Hyland will play her final performance on […]
03-08-26 Two Catherine Parrs collide as SIX and Hot Mess join forces for a new musical mash-up bringing together songs from the two home-grown British musicals. Nia Stephen, who currently plays Catherine Parr in the West End production of SIX, has teamed up with Hot Mess star and former SIX queen Danielle Steers to perform a new arrangement combining “I Don’t Need Your Love” from SIX with “Happy” from Hot […]
27-07-26 Evolution London, Battersea Park by Teresa Brown ★★★★★ There are shows you watch and shows you experience. Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical is most definitely the latter. From the moment you arrive at Evolution London in Battersea Park, it feels as though someone has picked you up, transported you back to the 1950s and dropped you straight into the middle of the movie and I absolutely loved it. The scale […]
Updated 25-07-26 Following acclaimed, sold-out runs in the West End and on Broadway, My Son's A Queer, (But What Can You Do?) will return to London's Apollo Theatre this autumn for a strictly limited final West End engagement. Written and performed by Rob Madge, the Olivier Award-nominated autobiographical show will play just 23 performances from 16 September to 3 October 2026, marking what Madge has described as one last hurrah […]
17-07-26 The full cast has been revealed for the eagerly anticipated UK tour of Sylvia, with Naomi Katiyo stepping into the title role alongside the previously announced Beverley Knight MBE, who reprises her Olivier Award-winning performance as Emmeline Pankhurst. The acclaimed hip hop, funk and soul musical opens its tour at Curve, Leicester, where it runs from 24 September to 3 October 2026, before visiting Birmingham, Edinburgh, Salford, Norwich and […]
