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

Alice and the company with suitcases in the rabbit-hole sequence of Cirque Alice, from an earlier staging
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Layla Schillert leads the full company of Cirque Alice at the Royal Festival Hall

Layla Schillert is Alice and comedy magician Darren 'Dizzy' Partridge the Mad Hatter in the full company announced for Cirque Alice, which gives its European premiere at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall this…

Katherine Parkinson, Jack Wolfe, Luca Pasqualino and Jamael Westman, the new guest actors in An Oak Tree
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Katherine Parkinson and Jack Wolfe among four new An Oak Tree guests

Katherine Parkinson, Jack Wolfe, Luca Pasqualino and Jamael Westman are the latest actors to step into An Oak Tree cold, each joining Tim Crouch for one performance at The Other Palace before the run closes on 15…

Mother Russia cast artwork: Samuel Creasey, Lucy McCormick, Kirsty Rider and Matthew Tennyson beside a Russian doll holding banknotes and a pistol
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Lucy McCormick to play Mother Russia as Hampstead completes the cast of Lauren Yee’s comedy

Lucy McCormick takes the title role in the UK premiere of Lauren Yee’s Mother Russia, with Samuel Creasey, Kirsty Rider and Matthew Tennyson completing the four-strong company at Hampstead Downstairs this winter.

Peter Andre as Nikos in Mamma Mia! The Party at The O2. Photo by Grant Walker
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Peter Andre returns to Mamma Mia! The Party at The O2 as Sydney production is announced

Peter Andre is heading back to Nikos’ taverna: the pop star returns to Mamma Mia! The Party at The O2 for selected performances from 10 January to 18 March 2027, as the ABBA dining show confirms a new production in…

Michael Marouli, Blu Hydrangea and Vanity Milan, three of the twelve performers sharing the Giant in TuckShop's Jack and the Beanstalk
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Michael Marouli, Blu Hydrangea and Vanity Milan among twelve Giants in TuckShop’s Jack and the Beanstalk

Michael Marouli, Blu Hydrangea and Vanity Milan are among twelve drag performers taking turns as The Giant in TuckShop's Jack and the Beanstalk, the adults-only panto that opens at the Emerald Theatre on 2 December.

Jane Krakowski as Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary! on Broadway. Photo by Emilio Madrid
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Jane Krakowski takes over Oh, Mary! for six weeks as the comedy books to June 2027

Jane Krakowski is to play Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary! at the Trafalgar Theatre from 7 December 2026 to 16 January 2027, returning to the part she played on Broadway, and the Cole Escola comedy is now booking through…

The company of The Old Vic's A Christmas Carol in London
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John Thomson gets his full company for The Old Vic's A Christmas Carol in Salford

John Thomson now has his full company around him for A Christmas Carol at Lowry, Salford, where Matthew Warchus's production plays outside London for the first time from 11 December.

The cast of Mamma Mia! at the Novello Theatre. Photo by Brinkhoff & Mögenburg
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First look at the new Mamma Mia! cast at the Novello Theatre

The first production photographs of the new Mamma Mia! company are out, ten days after Sara Poyzer, Ellie Gilbert-Grey and the rest of the cast took over the West End run at the Novello Theatre.

Key art for Perth Theatre's 2026 pantomime Sleeping Beauty
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Barrie Hunter returns as the Dame in Perth Theatre's Sleeping Beauty pantomime

Barrie Hunter writes, directs and plays Dame Livvie McSkivvie in Perth Theatre's Sleeping Beauty, which runs from 27 November to 31 December 2026 with a company of nine.