I Can't Sing! cancels previews due to technical problems
Preview performances of X Factor musical I Can't Sing! have been postponed for the second time due to technical issues with the complex stage machinery.
West End News & Gossip
West End News & Gossip
The West End has been awash with rumors, news and gossip. Here we get the facts straight and bring you this months hottest stories from London’s theatreland. From shows opening, extending and closing, to new casts announced and awards won. Keep up-to-date, not just with the hearsay, but with the real West End news.
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The Tunes they are a changin'
There's been a lot of gleeful analysis over the last couple of days of news that the latest shows by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice are to close early due to poor ticket sales.
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Location, Location, Location for West End Long Runners
It's all change at Jersey Boys as the long running West End and Broadway juke box musical that showcases the music of Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons moves from the Prince Edward Theatre to the Piccadilly Theatre up…
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The Knives are out for Polycarpou as Eternity makes way for Pajamas
Has the curse of The Shaftesbury Theatre struck again? The rather majestic theatre at the unfashionable Covent Garden end of Shaftesbury Avenue has a long inglorious history of musicals not quite running as long as the…
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Cameron Mackintosh enters Broadway Hall of Fame
Cameron Mackintosh, widely considered to be the most successful theatrical producer of all-time, has become the first British producer ever to be inducted into Broadway’s prestigious Theatre Hall of Fame at a ceremony…
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Back to the Future, Shakespeare in Love, & Fatal Attraction: Big directors turn big movies into big stage shows
How exciting, a big, new, stage musical of BACK TO THE FUTURE has been announced. No news of a theatre yet but when that movie’s iconic Delorean car does find somewhere to park in West End it'll join a whole plethora of…
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No Memory Worries for Angela Lansbury in BLITHE SPIRIT
If you collect experiences of seeing big stars, live in theatre you’ll be as delighted as I am at the prospect of catching Dame Angela Lansbury (satr of TV’s Murder She Wrote, classic Hollywood and vintage Broadway) as…
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Could Tom Hanks be coming to the West End in Lucky Guy?
Rumours are flying that the Broadway mega-hit Lucky Guy starring Academy Award winner Tom Hanks might be on its way to the West End.
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V&A acquires original War Horse puppet!
Handspring Puppet Company has donated the original horse puppet of Joey from the National Theater’s award-winning stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel War Horse to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.