Peter McKintosh News

On October 22, 2007 West End musical stars Simon Paisley Day, Josefina Gabrielle and Martyn Ellis will join long standing cast member Simon Gregor in Maria Aitken's hit production of The 39 Steps.

Tongue-in-cheek homage to Alfred Hitchcock is also a madcap celebration of theater as Broadway-bound British comedy turns suspense movie send-up into outrageous vaudeville

Thea Sharrock will direct Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine, previewing at the Almeida from October 25 with press night on October 31, running until December 8.

Patrick Barlow's comic adaptation of John Buchan's classic The 39 Steps is to extend booking for a third time, until 9 February 2008, into its second year in the West End.

Patrick Barlow's comic adaptation of John Buchan's The 39 Steps will extend booking through February 9, 2008, into its second year in the West End.

After a jam-packed Autumn season last year, with 8 musicals in 8 weeks, the West End goes one better and gives us 10 musicals to look forward to over the summer months. With Broadway imports, popular reality TV cast musicals, new musicals and short-run revivals, there's certainly something for everyone, so read on for the full lowdown..

Trevor Nunn's West End revival of Porgy and Bess will close in order to make room for a new production of Fiddler on the Roof starring Olivier Award-winner Henry Goodman as Tevye.

To coincide with the play's 50th anniversary, Lee Evans and Jason Isaacs will star in a major West End revival of Harold Pinter's classic comedy of menace, The Dumb Waiter.

The 39 Steps, starring Catherine McCormack, will transfer to London's Criterion Theatre in September

A new production of the Tennessee Williams classic Summer and Smoke, starring stage and screen star Rosamund Pike, will drift to the West End in October after playing at the Nottingham Playhouse

John Mahoney leads cast in European premiere of David Mamet's Romance