Simon Bailey News

Welsh National Opera will bring 80th Anniversary Season to Milton Keynes Theatre, including The Flying Dutchman and  Blaze of Glory! Learn more about the shows here.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is March 9, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend.

An all new video has been released from COME ALIVE! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular, featuring the iconic song 'From Now On.' The cast, led by Simon Bailey, performed the song in this new music video which can be seen here!

It’s over 40 years since English National Opera staged Rossini's Cinderella (La Cenerentola) and they open their 2025-26 season with a vibrant new production of the sparkling comedy. After the rocky time the company has had in recent times, it is great to see them having such fun on stage.

English National Opera has announced the appointment of André de Ridder as its new Music Director and unveils details of its programme for the 2025/26 Season. Learn more here!

See what the critics are saying about Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular at the Empress Museum. Read all of the reviews for the production

Based on the 2017 hit film about PT Barnum, Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular is an immersive mishmash of circus, story and song that somehow manages to do a disservice to all three.

This month sees the grand arrival of Come Alive!, a live blend of circus and musical theatre inspired by the 2017 film The Greatest Showman.

Get ready to 'Come Alive' with the UK's Greatest Showman-inspired circus spectacular! BroadwayWorld has an exclusive video preview of Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular in rehearsals. Watch a first look at the thrilling acrobatics and stunts featured in the production!

The cast has been announced for ‘COME ALIVE!' The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular, which is set to open at The Empress Museum in London's Earls Court. Performances begin on  23rd September 2024. 

The longstanding favourite is all very slick but, 37 years on, the production is showing its age

West End star Oliver Tompsett is to star in a one-off concert at The Other Palace Theatre next month.

Returning to the London Coliseum this February is Jonathan Miller’s much-loved production of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, first staged by English National Opera (ENO) in 1987. 

Across these stages, fans can expect to see sets from confirmed acts including Katie Malco, Mary In The Junkyard, Holiday Ghosts, Japanese Television, The Itch, Chalk, Masca, Welly, The New Eves, Febueder, Ebbb, pencil, Van Houten, Ellur, Amy May Ellis, Half Happy, Callinsick, Slate, Handcuff, Oslo Twins, Mould, Bob Pearson, Eva May and more.

Simon Says Theatre, a brand-new company in Northern Arizona, presents their debut show Every Brilliant Thing, written by award-winning playwright Duncan Macmillan with comedian Jonny Donahoe. Performances will be held at Beacon Church at 510 N Leroux Street, in historic downtown Flagstaff.

All new rehearsal photos have been released for the English National Opera's Peter Grimes  at the London Coliseum. Check out the photos here!

This September, opening the 2023/24 Season at the London Coliseum, the English National Opera (ENO) presents Benjamin Britten’s searing psychological drama, Peter Grimes. David Alden’s production returns for its second revival. Following its premiere in 2009, this production won a South Bank Sky Arts Award in the Opera category.  

When Holly Martins arrives in Vienna to start a new job after the Second World War, he learns that his childhood friend Harry Lime died a few days prior. A broke novelist who was promised a cut in his business, he finds Harry’s sudden death suspicious and starts to investigate. Considered one of the best British films, it was only a matter of time before Carol Reed and Graham Greene’s 1949 film The Third Man received the musical treatment. With words by Don Black and Christopher Hampton and music by George Fenton, this premiere is a mid-weight noir directed by Trevor Nunn. While the cast is often impressive, the background against which the plot unravels is far more interesting than the story itself.

All new production photos have been released from The Third Man which opens next week at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

All new rehearsal photos have been released for world premiere of the new musical of The Third Man, which opens later this month at the Menier.