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Wicked Celebrates 15th Birthday in London’s West End admin
2025 proved that musical theatre is thriving on every scale, from intimate two-handers to blockbuster West End transfers and UK tours that packed houses night after night. Here’s how Matinee’s Top 40 Musical Highlights of 2025 counted down, with the performers and venues that helped make each moment land. 40. The Addams Family The national tour brought Gomez, Morticia and the whole macabre clan to packed regional theatres across the […]
Victoria Wood’s Acorn Antiques: The Musical Returns in Style Updated: 08-11-25 The kettle’s on in Manchesterford again, as Victoria Wood’s Acorn Antiques: The Musical takes to the stage for a special fundraising concert celebrating ten years of Hope Mill Theatre. Following its critically acclaimed opening in Manchester last week, Victoria Wood’s Acorn Antiques: The Musical in Concert arrives at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre this Sunday (9 November), before heading back to […]
Avenue Q Returns to the West End for Its 20th Anniversary 06-11-25 The residents of Avenue Q are moving back into town. The three-time Tony Award-winning and Olivier-nominated musical will return to the West End for its 20th anniversary, taking over the Shaftesbury Theatre from 20 March to 29 August 2026. Producers Kevin McCollum and Jamie Wilson Productions have confirmed that this special revival will feature the original Broadway puppets, […]
& Juliet Announces Special Performance 26/04/2022 The producers of & Juliet - the West End’s joyous and fun-loving new musical – are thrilled to announce today that there will be a special sing-along performance of the acclaimed show at the Shaftesbury Theatre on Monday 6 June 2022 at 19.30. Tickets will go on sale at 10.30 on Wednesday 27 April. The musical, which has recently extended its booking period through […]
Star of The Greatest Showman Keala Settle to make West End debut 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. Keala, who shot to worldwide fame performing the iconic song “This Is Me” in the movie alongside Hugh Jackman, and is a Tony Award nominated star on […]
