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.
Five West End alumni return for one night on 17 September to mark 20 years of Avenue Q, which now closes at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 3 January.
Polka Theatre has cast its two festive shows: a beatboxed Peter Pan from 14 November, and Little Bulb’s Antarctica for the under-sevens from 27 November.
Victoria Scone and River Medway lead the King’s Head Theatre panto this Christmas, in both the family show and its adults-only twin. Tickets start at £15.
Samuel Blenkin returns as Hamlet in the London premiere of Hamlet Hail to the Thief, and the full company of fourteen actors and ten musicians is now confirmed.
Jonathan Bailey has stepped away from Sunday in the Park with George a month after Ariana Grande left the same production. The Barbican run goes ahead in summer 2027, with new casting to be announced.
Four young performers will share the role of The Boy in Birmingham Rep’s new staging of The Snowman, with Olivier-winning Paddington designer Tahra Zafar making the Snowman costume.
Mei Mac and Isabella Wei will play the two roles in The Hungry Ghost, a debut play billed as a sexy horror rom-com, at the Bush Theatre from 1 October.
Sara Poyzer and Richard Standing return as Donna and Sam in a new West End cast for Mamma Mia! from 12 October, and booking now runs to 2 October 2027.
Every singer who opened Angel’s Bone in Manchester this spring returns for the opera’s six-performance run at the London Coliseum in October.
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