Julian Ovenden News

Broadway and West End star Sierra Boggess will be returning to London with her solo concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Sunday 31 May 2026, at 7pm. Tickets on sale Wednesday 28 January.

You can now get a look at photos of the world premiere of Jo - The Little Women Musical in concert in the West End, which starred Kerry Ellis, Christine Allado, and more.

Is there a story more universally connected to the experience of girlhood than Little Women? Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 coming-of-age novel is a beloved read across the world, with its descriptions of sisterly devotion, struggle, love, and loss. The March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy - have woven themselves into the lives of women and girls since their publication. The March sisters are also no strangers to the theatre, and this is not the first time that someone tries to adapt it for the stage, and we’ve had quite a few less-than-deserving examples that shall go unmentioned.

Final casting has been announced for the world premiere semi-staged concert of Jo - The Little Women Musical in Concert at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Sunday January 25, 2026.

SAG Award winner Peri Gilpin – the actress best known for NBC’s Emmy-winning “Frasier” – and her daughter Ava Vincent, an accomplished graphic designer, have joined the producing team for the Jo - The Little Women Musical.

More star casting has been announced for the world premiere semi-staged concert of Jo - The Little Women Musical in Concert at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Learn more here!

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 5, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Additional cast members have joined the world premiere semi-staged concert of Jo - The Little Women Musical in Concert at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

A new music video has been released starring Tony Award winner Laura Benanti from Jo - The Little Women Musical. Learn more about Jo - The Little women musical, and watch the video here!

The American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers will celebrate the recent cast album Jo – The Little Women Musical – a new musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s iconic coming-of-age novel Little Women – with the special online event.

Jo - The Little Women Musical – a new musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s iconic coming-of-age novel Little Women – has released as a 2-CD set CD. Learn more!

This past Saturday (July 12), Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress, singer, and acclaimed writer Melissa Errico made her dazzling London concert hall debut, bringing a packed Cadogan Hall audience to its feet with a standing ovation for her acclaimed tribute, Sondheim in the City Live!, celebrating the incomparable legacy of Stephen Sondheim. Check out photos from the show.

Further casting has been announced Little Dancer – A New Musical In Concert, which makes its highly anticipated UK premiere at Theatre Royal Drury Lane this month for one night only.

Hot on the heels of selling out at Crazy Coqs in May, Janie Dee’s star-studded Beautiful World Cabarets will transfer to Charing Cross Theatre this summer. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Tony Award-nominated performer Melissa Errico has announced a wide array of upcoming shows from Sondheim in the City at the Princeton Festival on June 8 to The Fitzgeralds with Alec Baldwin in East Hampton, NY on August 16 and beyond.

The Grange Festival has announced the full cast for Queen at the Opera (5, 8, 19 June) and Bernstein on Broadway (26, 29 June), bringing together some of the greatest performers from Opera and the West End.  

Season 3 of the Palm Springs Cultural Center's always sold-out Broadway’s Best…In The West concert series, Executive Produced by Dr. Tom Truhe and presented by the Palm Springs Cultural Center now has tickets on sale. The popular series continues to bring Broadway's best and brightest stars to the desert, and this season is no exception. 

The cast recording has been released for Jo - The Little Women Musical, a new musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's iconic coming-of-age novel Little Women. Listen to the album here!

BroadwayWorld has your exclusive first listen to 'An Ode to Aunt March’s Urn' from the upcoming studio album  Jo - The Little Women Musical. Learn more and listen here!

Broadway and Vine, will kick off its 2025 season on June 20, with Olivier® Award Nominee Julian Ovenden (TV: Bridgerton, Downton Abbey, Broadway/West End: South Pacific, Company, Merrily We Roll Along, Butley) in concert at Francis Ford Coppola’s historic Inglenook Estate.