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.
Jamie Muscato and Sharon Rose lead the full West End company of One Day, the musical version of David Nicholls’ novel, which begins performances at the Garrick Theatre on 17 November.
Julene Robinson, Emile John and Dudley O’Shaughnessy will lead How To Keep Warm in Winter, the 1970s Caribbean love story that closes the Ryan Calais Cameron Season at Catford’s Broadway Theatre from 14-25 October 2026.
Kate Duchêne takes the title role in Shakespeare’s Globe’s Julius Caesar, one of four actors in Joe Hill-Gibbins’s candlelit staging at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, which begins on 6 November 2026.
Glenn Close will close the London season of Jesus Christ Superstar as King Herod, taking the role for the final week at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane from 4-9 January 2027 as the last of nine guest stars to play it.
Juliet Stevenson, Adjoa Andoh, Rosie O'Donnell, Samuel West and Olivia Williams are among the first 15 names announced for the UK premiere of The Pelicot Trial, a single four-hour performance at London County Hall on 30…
Christine Rice and Jacques Imbrailo play the estranged siblings at the heart of Iphigénie en Tauride, as English National Opera stages Gluck’s opera for the first time in a new production by Lyndsey Turner at the London…
Katherine Senior both writes and appears in Spitfire Girls, which reaches London for the first time at Park Theatre from 27 January 2027.
Gemma Dobson, Rachel Pickup and Jimmy Fairhurst are among the names completing the company of Victoria Wood's dinnerladies, which opens its UK tour at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley in January 2027 and comes back to…
Iain Lauchlan will play Dame Dorothy Do-It in the Belgrade Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast, a pantomime he has also written and is directing, with Abiola Falokun making her professional stage debut as Belle.
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