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The Latest Breaking News from West End

Eleanor Fazan obituary

Theatre director who took Beyond the Fringe to the West End and worked on hit productions throughout the 1960s and 70s

The Guardian - UK

Tom Holland's West End return causes hysteria online as 50,000 fans scramble to get pre-sale tickets

The Hollywood star will play Romeo in Jamie Lloyd’s production of Romeo & Juliet at the Duke Of York Theatre this summer

Evening Standard

Tom Holland is latest superstar name in bumper year for London theatre

West End even more packed than usual with big-name talent, but insiders say star casting is not only route to successful productions

The Guardian - UK

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Cara Delevingne to star as Sally Bowles in hit West End show Cabaret

The model and actor will make her stage debut alongside Luke Treadaway who takes over the role of the Emcee

The Guardian - UK

John Cleese brings Fawlty Towers stage show to the West End

Theatrical adaptation of the sitcom, opening at the Apollo theatre in May, will combine three episodes including The Germans

The Guardian - UK

Billy Crudup to make West End theatre debut as a conman in Harry Clarke

The star of The Morning Show will bring David Cale’s award-winning one-man play to London in March

The Guardian - UK

Strictly’s Layton Williams hits out at ‘keyboard warriors’ ahead of final: ‘It has been hard’

The West End star said he underestimated how much ‘noise’ his performance history would make

Evening Standard

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Dear England review - the West End reimagining of Gareth Southgate’s England tenure is ‘So good! So good! So good!’

FourFourTwo visited the Prince Edward Theatre to watch the National Theatre’s dramatisation of Gareth Southgate and the modern day England team

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OPINION - Why Sadiq Khan rejected a Las Vegas-Style sphere for London

London is not Las Vegas. More searing insights from West End Final when we have it. But in all seriousness, it's difficult to think of two cities less alike.

Evening Standard

Self Esteem: 'Men are terrified of me'

As she makes her West End debut in Cabaret, pop icon Rebecca Lucy Taylor talks patriarchy, fascism and theatre with Alexandra Jones

Evening Standard

Photographer reveals theory behind infamous Enfield haunting ‘floating child’ picture

New adaptations of the infamous London ghost story are due to come to the West End and Apple TV+

The Independent UK

Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream review – no reality show has ever featured this much screaming

Fourteen overexcited hopefuls head to Greece to compete for West End roles in the Abba musical. It’s a wildly rushed, tension-free series that is never less than shrill

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Dylan Jones: Oxford Street must change or die, because right now it’s dying

Oxford Street was built for lunchtime. At least it was for me. When I worked in the West End, if I wasn’t having a fancy lunch, at one o’clock I’d nip out from my office and spend the best part of an hour wandering up and down it, dipping into…

Evening Standard

Nicole Scherzinger: ‘One of my favourite British things is the roasts. Last Sunday I had two’

The Honolulu-born singer on playing Norma Desmond in the West End, the heartbreak of the Hawaiian wildfires, and the roots of her work ethic

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Evening Standard

Sir Michael Gambon: West End theatres to dim lights in honour of stage and screen legend

Theatreland says it has ‘lost an incredible talent’

The Guardian - UK

‘Who can afford them?’: theatregoers react to £395 tickets for Neil Simon play

Next year’s opening of Plaza Suite in West End, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, reignites affordability debate

Evening Standard

West End boom masks perfect storm facing London theatre

Audiences are flocking back to Theatreland but beyond the bright lights, venues are struggling in the economic headwinds

Evening Standard

The best autumn theatre to book from Andrew Scott as Vanya to Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard

Do you want to see a musical, new writing, Shakespeare or, er, Southgate? Autumn’s packed stage calendar has something for everyone

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The Guardian - UK

Bernadette Peters: ‘Sondheim’s music is about the big, important things’

The American film and stage actor, renowned for her roles in the composer’s musicals, on making her West End debut in a celebration of his music

The Independent UK

Violinist Giles Broadbent dies aged 51

He was known for Stringfever and West End shows.

Evening Standard

Saoirse Ronan says London show was ‘most difficult thing I’ve ever done’

Saoirse Ronan has described her portrayal of Lady Macbeth at London’s Almeida Theatre in 2021 as “the most difficult thing I’ve ever done”.

Evening Standard

Art After Dark: we take a whirlwind tour of actor Jaime Winstone’s special places in the West End

We take a stroll around the icons of theatreland, from the Coliseum to J. Sheekey

Evening Standard

The Other Palace: London theatre in ‘fire and rehire’ row ahead of Ian McKellen play

An off-West End theatre is embroiled in a row after staff were asked to send a paragraph to management stating why they should be kept on.

The Guardian - UK

‘My legacy? I’m Ferris Bueller’: Matthew Broderick on life, love and opioids

From storming the West End with his wife Sarah Jessica Parker, to playing the architect of the US opioids crisis in dark new Netflix drama Painkiller – the star is taking a bold new direction

Evening Standard

Ariana Grande’s Wicked co-star Ethan Slater switches Instagram to private amid dating reports

Rumours have been circulating about the pair’s relationship amid the filming of the West End show’s movie adaptation

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