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

Artwork for Stiles and Drewe’s Honk! at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester
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Timi Akinyosade to play Ugly in Honk! at the Barn Theatre, Cirencester

Timi Akinyosade takes on the title duckling in Honk! at the Barn Theatre this Christmas, in a company headed by Claire-Marie Hall and directed by Ryan McBryde.

Louisa Lytton and James Alexandrou in the cast artwork for Casserole at Playhouse East. Image courtesy of Playhouse East
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Louisa Lytton and James Alexandrou set to reunite on stage in Casserole at Playhouse East

Louisa Lytton and James Alexandrou, who shared the Square in EastEnders, are reuniting in a new production of Casserole at Playhouse East in Haggerston this Christmas, their first time on stage together.

George Renshaw, Le Fil and Diana Vickers outside The Vaults in Leake Street for Club NVRLND. Photo by Lucas Dove
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George Renshaw to play Peter Pan as Club NVRLND completes its cast at The Vaults

George Renshaw will play Peter Pan in Club NVRLND, with Ceili O’Connor as Tink and Peter Caulfield as The Crocodile rounding out the company before the nightclub musical opens at The Vaults on 14 November.

Terence Frisch, Philippa Carson and Nikita Johal (top row) with Michael Lambourne, Lakesha Cammock and Anna Tolputt (bottom row), the lead cast of A Christmas Carol: The Pantomime at Watford Palace Theatre
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Terence Frisch and Michael Lambourne lead Watford Palace Theatre's A Christmas Carol pantomime

Terence Frisch puts on the frocks for a fourteenth pantomime at Watford Palace Theatre, playing the dame opposite Michael Lambourne's Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol: The Pantomime, whose full lead cast has now…

Caroline Sheen, Darren Lawrence, Gillian Elisa, Matthew Woodyatt, Sarah Pugh and Kirsty Malpass in Pride from its runs at the Sherman Theatre and the National Theatre. Photo by Manuel Harlan
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Pride the Musical confirms its Bridge Theatre company, introduced by stars of the film

Samuel Barnett is back as Jonathan in Pride the Musical, leading a Bridge Theatre company in which fifteen performers return from the earlier runs and Ryan Kopel, Dan Hand, Grant Neal and Carl Spencer join.

The company of Sinatra The Musical at the Aldwych Theatre. Photo by Birgit and Ralf Brinkhoff
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Sam Brown steps in as Frank Sinatra while Joel Harper-Jackson recovers from a calf injury

Joel Harper-Jackson is taking time away from Sinatra The Musical at the Aldwych Theatre to recover from a calf muscle injury, and Sam Brown is covering the role of Frank Sinatra in the meantime.

Campaign artwork for The Three Musketeers at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre: three musketeers in seventeenth-century costume leaping against an orange background
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Simon Oskarsson is D’Artagnan as the RSC’s The Three Musketeers names its full cast

Simon Oskarsson will be D’Artagnan in The Three Musketeers for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Told by an Idiot, with Laura Rogers as Milady and Aitor Basauri as The Plot Teller.

The cast of Jack and the Beanstalk at the Mercury Theatre Colchester, from top left: Kemi Clarke, Christopher Edwards, Dara Gleeson, Daisy Greenwood, Lucie Henderson, Sasha Latoya, Jaimie Pruden, Dee Dee Rivers, Antony Stuart-Hicks and Dale Superville
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Kemi Clarke is Jack as the Mercury Theatre completes its Jack and the Beanstalk cast

Kemi Clarke returns to the Mercury Theatre to play Jack Trott in Jack and the Beanstalk, as six more names complete the company for Colchester's 2026 pantomime, running 21 November 2026 - 17 January 2027.

Neil Morrissey, who plays Duncan in Fourteen Again at the Menier Chocolate Factory
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Neil Morrissey joins Ria Jones and Sally Ann Triplett in Fourteen Again at the Menier

Neil Morrissey will play Duncan in Fourteen Again, the new musical built from Victoria Wood’s songs, when it reaches the Menier Chocolate Factory this winter.