UK / West End Theatre Newsroom

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s CAROUSEL is coming to the Royal Festival Hall for a one-night-only concert this July. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Returning to the brand new King’s Head Theatre, Ned Campbell takes on award-winning Scottish playwright Kieran Hurley’s Beats in an adaptation that champions our imaginations and emphasises the power of collective gathering.

The London Palladium Pantomime will return to the West End for a ninth year, with a brand-new production of Robin Hood. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets!

Nadine Sierra’s enthralling central performance helms this nerve-jangling revival.

Watch footage from the first day of rehearsal of Anna Ledwich’s new production of Coram Boy, running at Chichester Festival Theatre from 24 May – 15 June and at The Lowry, Salford from 21 – 29 June in the video here!

Watch a preview for Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe Theatre, featuring interviews with the production's Beatrice and Benedick Ekow Quartey and Amalia Vitale, Claudio and Hero actors Adam Wadsworth and Lydia Fleming, and more here!

The 10-year anniversary production of Alistair McDowall’s critically acclaimed Captain Amazing will open at Southwark Playhouse Borough this May. Get a sneak peek at the production in the video here!

Multi-Olivier and BAFTA Award-winning Imelda Staunton will play meddlesome socialite turned matchmaker Dolly Levi in the London Palladium production of Hello, Dolly. She sat down with Official London Theatre to discuss her return to the stage in the video here.

“People don’t pay to see Reginald Dwight, they pay to see Elton John!” In the sea of ubiquitous biopic-by-numbers that is modern cinema, one film really stood out from the crowd. Dexter Fletcher and Lee Hall’s Rocketman is the epitome of ‘What Would Elton Do?’, as it veers from one multicoloured musical explosion to another; whereas most biographical depictions of a star’s rise to (and fall from) fame in the most straightforward and accurate fashion they can, this is unashamedly a fantasy memoir told from Elton’s nostalgic perspective. And it has finally made its way to the live arena in the UK.

Spring brings renewed energy into the year. There isn’t a better moment for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s recently appointed Co-Artistic Directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey to launch their vision for the organisation. Led by a big name that will attract new audiences who are probably younger than your typical RSC crowd, we hope Love’s Labour’s Lost is setting the tone for what’s coming. If this opening is anything to go by, this upcoming era seems to be adopting Shakespeare for a contemporary audience while maintaining the reverence for the language and the pomp of tradition.

Between the contradictions of her age group and the difficulties of navigating a life where everyone is too busy, yet your ex is already moving on, Brooke is crumbling. It’s unfortunately relatable for a large chunk of chronically online public. Directed by Madelaine Moore, the confessional style of her address is permeated by that distinctive flair made popular by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The quick asides in the form of glances or biting remarks and the quickly available sarcasm make it genuinely and effortlessly funny. But Clark never forgets that her work is a black comedy.

Somewhere in King’s Cross, a middle-aged woman sits at a piano and plays an original piece with surprising fluency. There begins Samuel Adamson’s tumultuous tale of two teenage musical prodigies whose lives become thoroughly entangled.

The National Theatre will adapt the bestselling book Ballet Shoes for the stage. Learn more about the production here!

Dante or Die are back with another site-specific venture. Burrowed underneath the cold dome of Stone Nest, Kiss Marry Kill feels right at home within the harsh and unholy environment of the venue. Set in a prison against the backdrop of violence, it reframes homophobia and imagines the first same-sex wedding in a British penitentiary. Written by Daphna Attias, James Baldwin, and Terry O’Donovan with Attias and O’Donovan also directing, the piece has many impressive details, but, unfortunately, comes off rather disjointed.

BroadwayWorld has an exclusive first look inside rehearsal for the European Premiere of A Song of Songs at the Park Theatre. Check out all new rehearsal photos, plus watch an all new video of Joaquin Pedro Valdes performing the song 'Dance With Me'!

As delicate and fragile as one of the glass creatures that are collected, Tennesse Williams' beguiling story of memory, The Glass Menagerie combines themes of hope, rejection, disappointment and profound sadness.

The Young Vic Theatre has released all new rehearsal photos from the European premiere of the Broadway hit musical Passing Strange. Check out the photos here!

A cathartic and powerful moment, a veinous fist unclenching.

2:22 - A Ghost Story will return to London's West End. Running for a strictly limited 10-week season at the Gielgud Theatre, where the second cast of the show performed in 2020/21.

This is a fantastical and entertaining production and a great way to honour the icon herself.

Given the emotional investment required on stage and in the stalls, one feels somewhat shortchanged by a production that invites sympathy for a character with few redeeming features

SH!T-FACED SHAKESPEARE is set to revive its inaugural production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM this summer at Leicester Square Theatre, followed by a UK tour.

As any fan of this art form will tell you, the first rule of cabaret shows is: never sit in the front row. The second rule is: never tell cabaret virgins the first rule.

A mixed bag of productions united by wonderful acting and committed writing

Presale is now underway for tickets to The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button at the Ambassadors Theatre!