The West - 2022 - West End Articles Page 2

Altadena Music Theatre announced its 2026 summer season with productions of GREASE and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, performed at a temporary outdoor venue at the Mountain View Mausoleum after the Eaton Fire displaced the company.

Abigail Thorn's queer Shakespearean play The Prince, which won three BroadwayWorld Awards including Best New Play, will have a staged reading at Dynasty Typewriter, with a late show added after the first sold out in under 48 hours.

Award-winning comedy icons, writers, actors, and drag queen powerhouses BenDeLaCreme & Jinkx Monsoon are coming back to town for the ninth year of their internationally acclaimed, The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show.

New York Festival of Song announced its upcoming season, featuring four mainstage concerts at Merkin Hall co-presented by Kaufman Music Center, plus standalone programs including A GOYISHE CHRISTMAS TO YOU! and a Juilliard collaboration.

Shakespeare's Globe announced the cast for AS YOU LIKE IT, co-directed by Sean Holmes and Charlie Josephine, who also stars as Orlando. Lola Shalam leads as Rosalind in the Globe Theatre production.

East Midlands theatre company New Perspectives announced Andrew Broadley, Executive Director of MGCfutures, as its new Chair of the Board of Trustees, as the company enters a new Arts Council England funding period.

Netflix's 'Owning Manhattan' star Chloe Tucker Caine will make her Broadway debut as Anne Boleyn, while Hamilton alum Stephanie Jae Park joins SIX as Catherine Parr at the Lena Horne Theatre.

BIFA-nominated actor Lauryn Ajufo will play Tracey Gordon in Theatre503 and tiata fahodzi's revival of Michaela Coel's debut play, stepping into the role Coel originally performed herself.

Theatre Rhinoceros and The Tank NYC are set to present THE BATTLE OF GUADACANAL, conceived and performed by John Fisher. John explains that the Battle of Guadalcanal serves as a metaphor for the battle he and his husband have faced during his husband's cancer journ

Kitchen Sink Theatre Company (Katie Royse Ginther, Artistic Director) is set to present a reading of the new play “NARCISSUS AS PLOT FORM: a Transsexual Rage(r)' which is written by Oscar K, directed by Fae Hartt (Whipoorwhill Calls).

Whether you are Team Black or Team Green, there is probably a stage veteran on your side. Like other HBO shows such as The Gilded Age and Julia, the Game of Thrones spin-off, House of the Dragon, is full of Broadway, West End, and stage alums. 

Northern Ireland Opera announced the first cast and creative team for its inaugural staging of Bizet's Carmen at Belfast's Grand Opera House, directed by Artistic Director Cameron Menzies.

The RSC announced new productions for its 2026-27 season, including Sharon D Clarke in OTHELLO, a world premiere by Stewart Pringle, and a touring MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR visiting regional theatres across England.

East West Players will launch its 61st season by centering female, queer, and marginalized voices, both onstage and off. The mainstage season opens with the Southern California premiere of the comedy Wives by Jaclyn Backhaus.

The multi-award-winning solo show WHY I STUCK A FLARE UP MY ARSE FOR ENGLAND, written and performed by Alex Hill, will make its U.S. debut at SoHo Playhouse in a limited Off-Broadway engagement.

The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame awarded $10,000 in scholarships to ten graduating high school seniors across Long Island, with an additional Pat DeRosa Memorial Scholarship presented for the fourth consecutive year.

West End theatres will dim their lights for two minutes at 7pm in memory of Dame Penelope Keith, the Olivier Award-winning actress known for THE GOOD LIFE and decades of stage work.

James Norton will play the title role in a new production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, conceived and directed by Thomas Ostermeier in the West End in Autumn 2027. Learn more here.

The stage adaptation of SPIRITED AWAY will embark on a world tour beginning in December, with stops in Taipei, Tokyo, Toronto, and Los Angeles before returning to the London Coliseum.

The Tank NYC will present TrashFest and DarkFest, two festivals exploring sustainable theater practices, with DarkFest showcasing alternative energy performances and TrashFest centering work that reuses discarded materials.

Tickets for the Tony Award-winning musical SIX, written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, go on sale at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore for a limited eight-performance engagement.

World Music Institute announced its upcoming Fall-Winter season, featuring NYC debuts from Japan's Minyo Crusaders, South Korea's Leenalchi, and others, alongside returning favorites like Angélique Kidjo and a new NEXT GEN series.

Heathers The Musical will present its fourth and final extension at New World Stages, prior to embarking on an extensive North American tour, launching in Baltimore in May 2027.

Hadestown will welcome three new ‘Fates’ to Broadway this summer. The ‘Fates’ will be played by Kelly Belarmino, KC Dela Cruz, and Khori Michelle Petinaud who will all begin performances in July.

West End and Broadway star Ruthie Henshall will release her new memoir, The Showgirl and the Prince, detailed her secret relationship with Prince Edward in the 1980s. Learn more here.