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.
Scott Gallagher plays his first pantomime Dame, James-Royden Lyley takes the title role and Yna Montarde is Princess Jasmine in Aladdin, which runs at the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton from 5 December 2026 - 3 January…
Alex Young hosts this year's Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize at The Other Palace on Monday 12 October, and the thirteen performers singing the twelve songs in contention have now been announced.
Clive Rowe directs this year's Hackney Empire pantomime and plays Dame Trot in it, with Kat B alongside him as Simple Simon Trot. The full company for Jack and the Beanstalk was announced today.
Ethan Rouse and Bill Stanley will play Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy in the reimagined one-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which begins performances at the Palace Theatre on Friday 9 October 2026.
Rose Ayling-Ellis has joined the cast of Letters to My Younger Future Self, the National Youth Theatre 70th anniversary show at the Royal Festival Hall. It runs for one performance only, on Sunday 20 September 2026.
Witness for the Prosecution has extended at London County Hall until September 2027, taking Agatha Christie’s courtroom thriller into a tenth year, and a sixteenth cast has been announced to see it there.
The National Theatre has named the full company for The Jungle Book, the world premiere of Anupama Chandrasekhar’s new adaptation, with Olivier winner Hiran Abeysekera as Mowgli and 30 performers in the Olivier this…
Charlotte d’Amboise joins Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Tru, Jay Presson Allen’s Truman Capote play, which begins previews at the Menier Chocolate Factory on Saturday 19 September and opens on 27 September.
Thirteen more actors join Keira Knightley, Stephen Dillane and Luke Thompson in Robert Icke’s stage adaptation of The Lives of Others, which begins previews at the Adelphi Theatre on 14 October.
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