The Latest Breaking News from the West End

Big Stars take over the West End again as Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste lead Arthur Miller classic

Breaking Bad star and Oscar winner jo9in powerhouse cast for revival of All My Sons - tickets set to sell-out fast

Evening Standard · Apr 11, 2025

The real story behind Ncuti Gatwa’s ‘dark, sexy’ Shakespeare play: Were The Bard and Marlowe lovers or rivals?

As Born With Teeth brings a ‘ferociously sexy’ take on literature’s greatest mystery to the West End, we separate the tantalising facts from wild fiction

Evening Standard · Apr 11, 2025

From Amsterdam to the West End: the avant-garde hit factory behind The Years and Oedipus

A pair of electrifying London shows bagged four prizes at the Olivier awards. Both were developed by Dutch company ITA, which has an eye for British talent

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2025

Claire van Kampen: a world-class theatre composer and bright star of Shakespeare’s Globe

The pianist, director and playwright of Farinelli and the King, which starred her husband Mark Rylance, is remembered by the Globe’s former artistic director

The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2025

Director Eline Arbo: ‘Theatre is very fake. You have grown up people pretending to die in front of you’

The Norwegian theatre director on bringing Annie Ernaux’s memoir The Years to the West End, standing on Ivo van Hove’s shoulders, and why live experiences still matter

The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2025

Dame Joan Plowright obituary

Stage and screen star who was part of a radical generation of actors responsible for establishing the National Theatre

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2025

Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95

Actor helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and in the West End

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2025

‘King of the musicools!’ Inside the outrageous musical send-up of Andrew Lloyd Webber

It’s had hit runs in Edinburgh and Soho – and was the Guardian’s funniest show of 2024. Now it’s blazing into the West End. Comedy duo Flo & Joan (who were both in Joseph at school) reveal all about One Man Musical

The Guardian - UK · Jan 14, 2025

‘I was captivated and in awe’: readers’ favourite theatre of 2024

A towering turn from John Lithgow, musicals in Birmingham and Manchester, and Sarah Snook’s one-woman Wilde were among the year’s standout shows

The Guardian - UK · Dec 25, 2024

David Jason ‘full of anticipation’ to watch Only Fools And Horses The Musical

After a four-year run on the West End, the musical comedy has returned for a UK and Ireland tour.

Evening Standard · Dec 18, 2024