Cast Changes and Announcements

Who is joining, who is leaving and who is taking over. Every West End cast announcement, replacement and final performance date, so you always know exactly who you will be watching when the curtain goes up.

Cast Changes and Announcements

Key art for the world premiere of Imitation of Life at The Shed, New York
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Chloe Lamford and Gareth Owen design Imitation of Life for its world premiere

British designers Chloe Lamford and Gareth Owen join the creative team for Imitation of Life, the new Lynn Nottage and John Legend musical, whose principal casting around Adrienne Warren has now been confirmed.

Campaign artwork for English National Opera's new production of Tosca at the London Coliseum
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Axelle Fanyo and Chaz'men Williams-Ali lead the cast of ENO's new Tosca

Axelle Fanyo sings Floria Tosca and Chaz'men Williams-Ali sings Cavaradossi in English National Opera's new Tosca, which opens at the London Coliseum on 30 October.

George Blagden in A Ghost in Your Ear at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs. Photo by Marc Brenner
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Lucas Iverson joins Jamie Armitage's Hampstead hit A Ghost in Your Ear in New York

Lucas Iverson joins A Ghost in Your Ear, the headphone horror play Jamie Armitage made for Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, as its New York run is recast and re-dated.

Key art for Speculations at the Marylebone Theatre, showing Janie Dee as Dorothy Kilgallen
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Jolyon Coy and Gloria Obianyo join Janie Dee in Trevor Nunn's Speculations

Jolyon Coy, Natalie Dunne, Gloria Obianyo, Joseph Potter and Ferdy Roberts have been cast alongside Janie Dee in Speculations, the world premiere Sir Trevor Nunn directs at the Marylebone Theatre from 30 October.

Key art for Robin Hood and the Merry Mandem at Stratford East. Photography by Michael Wharley, design by Steph Pyne.
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Ashley Joseph leads the Merry Mandem as Stratford East names its Robin Hood cast

Ashley Joseph plays Robin in Robin Hood and the Merry Mandem, the new East London pantomime at Stratford East running from 21 November 2026 to 2 January 2027. Yolanda Mercy writes and Jade Lewis directs.

Giles Terera as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at The Old Vic, holding a glowing lantern in swirling smoke. Photo by Hugo Glendinning
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Carly Bawden and Annie Wensak join Giles Terera in the Old Vic’s 10th anniversary A Christmas Carol

Carly Bawden and Annie Wensak are among fifteen actors joining Giles Terera for the Old Vic’s tenth anniversary production of A Christmas Carol, which runs from 10 November 2026 to 9 January 2027.

The New York Vocal Collective in performance, singing into microphones in denim
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Sam Tutty joins the line-up for A Tectonic Cabaret in New York

Olivier Award winner Sam Tutty is among the performers announced for A Tectonic Cabaret, the annual benefit held by Tectonic Theater Project at the Edison Ballroom in New York on Monday 26 October.

Danielle de Niese, Malinda Parris, Fayth Ifil, Nathan Sykes and the cast of Hadestown at the Lyric Theatre. Photo by Brinkhoff-Moegenburg
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Hadestown releases production photography of its new Lyric Theatre company

Brinkhoff-Moegenburg's photographs of the new company at the Lyric Theatre are out, and they put Nathan Sykes, Danielle de Niese, Shaun Dooley, Fayth Ifil and Malinda Parris on stage in Hadestown for the first time.

Emma Salvo and Sophie-Louise Dann, who play Greta and Lamia in The Sorcerer's Apprentice at HOME, Manchester
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Emma Salvo and Sophie-Louise Dann to lead The Sorcerer's Apprentice at HOME Manchester

Emma Salvo and Sophie-Louise Dann will play Greta and Lamia in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, completing the ten-strong company for the new British musical's world premiere at HOME in Manchester.