Nicholas McLean News

While Broadway remains shut down, BroadwayWorld is keeping up with your favorite stars and giving you a peek at what they have been up to! Check out this weekend's highlights from some of your favorites, including Samantha Barks, Patrick Page, James Monroe Iglehart, and more!

Lambert Jackson Productions and Crazy Coqs will present a virtual production of the Broadway musical First Date. The production will be filmed at Crazy Coqs, then made available for streaming 22 - 24 October at 7.30pm.

Today's top stories: watch the trailer for the upcoming Boys in the Band film adaptation, and more!

Lambert Jackson Productions and Crazy Coqs today announce a virtual production of the Broadway musical First Date. Dean Johnson directs Samantha Barks (Casey), Oscar Conlon-Morrey (Man #2), Rufus Kampa (Young Aaron), Simon Lipkin (Aaron), Nicholas McLean (Man #1), and Danielle Steers (Woman #1).

Danielle Tarento has brought together more than 150 Black and Black mixed race actors from the UK and the US, along with a 38-piece orchestra, to record a??Make Them Hear You,a?? from the Broadway musical Ragtime.

The West End Best Friend team's charity single, 'Unity', is now available!

Huge opportunity for 2020 drama school graduates! Performer Louis Rayneau has conceived a brand new project called Spotlight On The Future, which will enable 14 talented graduates to pair up with 14 seasoned performers to showcase their talent and raise money for three worthy charities.

West End Best Friend has announced details of their charity single, 'Unity', which will be released on Friday 17 July.

The Barn Theatre is paying tribute to British musical theatre composers through their concert series! They have paid tribute to Amies & Clements, Elliot Davis, Finn Anderson, and Daniel and Laura Curtis.

West End Best Friend has announced an international musical theatre singing competition called 'The Unity Project'. For The Unity Project, one lucky winner will be picked to be the eighth soloist on a charity single being releasing in July called 'Unity' with seven of the biggest stars in the UK's musical theatre scene.

The Barn held its next virtual concert, The Barn Presents: The Music of Finn Anderson, on May 23. West End meets the West Country as another all-star West End and Broadway line-up celebrate the music and work of Scottish musical theatre composer and singer-songwriter Finn Anderson.

The Barn Theatre has announced an all-star line up for their second virtual concert, The Barn Theatre Presents: The Music of Finn Anderson, which will celebrate the work of the Scottish musical theatre composer Finn Anderson.

WICKED, the West End musical sensation that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, today releases over 500,000 new tickets for all performances from Monday 25 May until Saturday 28 November 2020 at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre, where it continues an open-ended run.

The Mercury panto is back, and this year it has been supersized to delight audiences at the 840 seat temporary venue, Mercury at Abbey Field. Colchester panto favourites Antony Stuart-Hicks (Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, Dick Whittington) and Dale Superville (Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, Spamalot) are back for another festive season, this time forming a dastardly duo as the Ugly Sisters.

WICKED, the West End and Broadway musical sensation that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, is pleased to welcome Nicholas McLean to the role of 'Boq' from Monday 20 January 2020.

It's time for you to find out what all of the fuzz is about as the UK's naughtiest puppets head to Hackney Empire in the comedy musical Avenue Q 19 a?" 24 August.

The Mercury panto is back, and this year it has been supersized to delight audiences at the 840 seat temporary venue, Mercury at Abbey Field. Colchester panto favourites Antony Stuart-Hicks (Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, Dick Whittington) and Dale Superville (Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White, Spamalot) are back for another festive season, this time forming a dastardly duo as the Ugly Sisters.

Lopez and Marx's three time Tony - award winning Avenue Q stops at the King's Theatre, Glasgow on its latest UK tour.

'What do you do with a BA in English?' What is 'Schadenfreude'? How does one find their 'Purpose' in life? The hit musical comedy Avenue Q comes to Brighton Theatre Royal as part of a new UK tour.

We caught up with the cast and puppet guru of the UK tour of Avenue Q to find out all about the production. Watch our video below!