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Catherine Tyldesley officially won ITV's All Star Musicals after a performance of Memory from the musical Cats.

Performances of Pretty Woman in the West End have been cancelled from December 28-30 due to staff shortages caused by COVID-19.

West End star Lucie Jones rose to fame on The X Factor in 2009 and has gone on to star in musicals including Les Misérables, Waitress, RENT, Legally Blonde and Ghost - and will be adding the coveted leading role of Elphaba in Wicked to her credits next year.

Following its success at Chichester in 2021 and prior to a major UK tour in 2022, Daniel Evans's five-star production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific will be streamed this New Year.

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The London production of Les Miserables has cancelled its performances for today and tomorrow.

Gary Naylor finds some magnificent productions in a difficult year for theatre

New production images are released for Heathers the Musical – the wickedly funny and high-octane rock musical running at its original London home at The Other Palace until 20 February 2022.

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The UK tour of Les Miserables has cancelled some performances on its Glasgow stop due to new COVID-19 measures.

Even those as lucky as regular reviewers do not take theatres' unique pleasures for granted - here are a few of our favourite things

The West End production of Frozen has cancelled performances 22-24 December due to COVID-19.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Hex, which was set to be broadcast to cinemas as a National Theatre Live from 17 March, will no longer be filmed due to cancelations because of  Covid-19.

Dame Rosemary Squire, Joint Chief Executive of Trafalgar Entertainment, has pledged for the Government to act now and offer financial support and compensation to the theatre industry.

This new stage production will come to the West End in 2022, with dates and venues to be announced at a later date.

BWW reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue shares her theatre highlights of 2021.

Sky Arts will broadcast a new documentary Cameron Mackintosh - The First 50 Years on Monday 27 December 2021 at 7pm, a two-hour programme featuring Mackintosh’s life as a producer told through his own eyes and those of his friends and colleagues including his most famous writer collaborators.

The award-winning smash-hit production of Girl From The North Country, written and directed by celebrated playwright Conor McPherson (The Weir, The Seafarer) with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, will embark on its first UK Tour following an opening 5-week season at 3Olympia Theatre Dublin from

The revival of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret has cancelled performances this week, 20 - 24 December, due to COVID-19.

Bill Kenwright's production of Saturday Night Fever will have its West End Premiere for a strictly limited 8-week run at the Peacock Theatre, starting 4 February – 26 March.

The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company today announce full casting for the world premiere of Running with Lions starring Ruby Barker (Bridgerton).

So many musicals wish they were as cool, progressive, provocative as Spring Awakening still is since its premiere Off-Broadway in 2006.

Every once in a while, we fall prey to the glitz and glam of F.

We talk to cast members Tom Chambers, Susan Penhaligon and Tim Treloar, as well as the show’s director, Alastair Whatley about Into The Night.

Dallas legend Patrick Duffy (The Man from Atlantis; Step by Step) and Linda Purl (Happy Days; Homeland) fly in from Hollywood to star alongside Gray O' Brien (Peak Practice; Coronation Street), leading the cast in this new production of the classic Broadway thriller.