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

Matt Lucas as Fagin in Oliver! at the Gielgud Theatre. Photo by Johan Persson
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First look at Matt Lucas as Fagin as he joins Oliver! at the Gielgud Theatre

Cameron Mackintosh has released the first photograph of Matt Lucas in costume as Fagin, hours before the comedian makes his first entrance in Oliver! at the Gielgud Theatre.

Diego Rodriguez as Che, Rachel Zegler as Eva Perón and James Olivas as Juan Perón in Evita at the London Palladium. Photo by Marc Brenner
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Rachel Zegler’s Palladium co-stars follow her to Broadway for Evita

Three of the co-stars who surrounded Rachel Zegler at the London Palladium will go with her to Broadway when Jamie Lloyd’s Evita opens at the Winter Garden Theatre next spring.

Key art for Michael Morpurgo's Pinocchio at the Watermill Theatre
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Watermill Theatre casts its Christmas return of Michael Morpurgo's Pinocchio

Newbury's Watermill Theatre has named the company for its Christmas show, Michael Morpurgo's Pinocchio, back two years after its first run at the theatre.

Artwork for Natasha Gordon's Nine Night at Kiln Theatre, a family gathered around a sofa against floral wallpaper. Photo by Michael Wharley, design by MUSE Creative Communications
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Full cast announced for Nine Night at Kiln Theatre as the run extends to January

Seven actors will make up the family at the centre of Natasha Gordon’s Nine Night at Kiln Theatre this winter. The run has been extended before rehearsals have begun, and now plays to 2 January 2027.

Key art for Cinderella at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
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Chrissie Bhima is Cinderella as the Lyric Hammersmith names its panto cast

Chrissie Bhima takes the title role in Cinderella, the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre pantomime, in a company of nine announced today.

Natalie Anderson, Karen Hauer, Grant Almirall, Nicole-Lily Baisden, Matthew Maddison and Wendi Peters, principal cast of the Singin' in the Rain UK and Ireland tour
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Karen Hauer and Natalie Anderson to share Lina Lamont on the Singin' in the Rain tour

Karen Hauer and Natalie Anderson will share Lina Lamont on the UK and Ireland tour of Singin' in the Rain, which opens in Bromley in January 2027 and settles at Sadler's Wells for a month the following summer.

The seven guest actors newly announced for An Oak Tree at The Other Palace: Sean Gilder, Brian Gleeson, Sophie Melville, Juliet Stevenson, Rhashan Stone, Olivia Williams and Ria Zmitrowicz
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Juliet Stevenson and Olivia Williams among seven more guest actors for An Oak Tree

Francesca Moody Productions has added seven more names to the guest line-up for An Oak Tree at The Other Palace, where a different actor takes the second role at every performance without having read or rehearsed a word…

Monet Marquis, Nkara Stephenson and Halle Brown, the cast of Home Song at the Unicorn Theatre
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Monet Marquis and Nkara Stephenson cast in Home Song as the Unicorn's baby musical returns

The Unicorn Theatre has named the company for Home Song, an interactive musical written for babies, which returns to the theatre's Clore studio next month.

The company of 13 Going on 30 - The Musical in the production Class of 2026 yearbook artwork, with Lucie Jones as Jenna
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Lucie Jones returns as Jenna Rink for the Toronto premiere of 13 Going on 30

Lucie Jones will play Jenna Rink again in the North American premiere of 13 Going on 30 – The Musical, which runs at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto from December 2026.