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

Stefan Bednarczyk, Mary Higgins, Iniki Mariano, Griffin Stevens, David Webber and Lachlan Werner, the cast of It’s a Wonderful Life! at Jermyn Street Theatre
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Stefan Bednarczyk and David Webber lead the cast of It’s a Wonderful Life! at Jermyn Street Theatre

Stefan Bednarczyk, Mary Higgins, Iniki Mariano, Griffin Stevens, David Webber and Lachlan Werner make up the six-strong company of It’s a Wonderful Life!, Jessica Lazar’s Christmas staging of the Frank Capra classic as…

Molly Rainford as Vivian Ward and Danny Walters as Edward Lewis in artwork for the Pretty Woman: The Musical UK tour
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Molly Rainford to make her stage debut as Vivian Ward on the Pretty Woman tour

Molly Rainford will play Vivian Ward in her first stage role when Pretty Woman: The Musical sets out on a new UK tour next spring, with Danny Walters opposite her as Edward Lewis and Bernadette Bangura as Kit De Luca.

Edna Turnblad and the company in a previous UK tour of Hairspray. Photo by Pamela Raith
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Katie Brace returns as Tracy Turnblad as the Hairspray tour adds 2028 dates

Katie Brace is back as Tracy Turnblad for the 2027-28 UK and Ireland tour of Hairspray, which has added eight more dates running into spring 2028 and will hold open auditions in London later this month.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Truman Capote holding a copy of In Cold Blood in Tru. Photo by Johan Persson
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Royal Ballet dancer Nathalie Harrison becomes The Swan in Tru at the Menier

Nathalie Harrison, a dancer with The Royal Ballet for close to 20 years, steps into the role of The Swan opposite Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Tru from 27 October, staying with the production until it closes at the Menier…

The full cast of Jumpers at Hampstead Theatre
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Rhea Norwood and James Corrigan lead the full company of Jumpers at Hampstead Theatre

Rhea Norwood and James Corrigan now have their company: twelve more actors join them in Hampstead Theatre's revival of Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, which begins previews on 25 November.

Gemma Sutton and Josh St Clair, who lead the cast of Anything Goes at The Mill at Sonning
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Gemma Sutton and Josh St Clair to lead Anything Goes at The Mill at Sonning

Gemma Sutton is Reno Sweeney and Josh St Clair is Billy Crocker in The Mill at Sonning's festive revival of Anything Goes, which runs from 19 November 2026 to 17 January 2027.

Khalid Abdalla, Mathew Baynton, Phoebe Campbell, Caitlin FitzGerald, Jack Holden, Melanie La Barrie and Sid Sagar, the latest guest actors for An Oak Tree
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Mathew Baynton and Olivier winner Jack Holden join the An Oak Tree guest list

Mathew Baynton, Jack Holden and Caitlin FitzGerald are among seven more actors who will each walk on stage unrehearsed opposite Tim Crouch in An Oak Tree at The Other Palace before the run ends on 15 November 2026.

Artwork for Santa's First Christmas at the Unicorn Theatre: Santa and his elves decorating a Christmas tree
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Stephen Kirkham to play Santa in the Unicorn's world premiere of Santa's First Christmas

Stephen Kirkham plays the title role in Santa's First Christmas, a new Christmas dance show from Olivier Award winner James Cousins that premieres at the Unicorn Theatre in November, and the rest of the seven-strong…

Cast artwork for Aladdin at Nottingham Playhouse: John Elkington, Danny Hendrix, Tom Hopcroft, Bradley Judge, Thomas Levi, Eloise Runnette, Lara Sas and Mary Suarez
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John Elkington and Ben Thornton lead Nottingham’s Aladdin and Lichfield’s Robin Hood pantomimes

John Elkington is back in Widow Twankey’s frocks for Aladdin at Nottingham Playhouse, while Ben Thornton takes the title role in Robin Hood, the Lichfield Garrick’s first home-grown pantomime in more than a decade.