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

Louise Dearman, Alice Fearn and Rachael Wooding, who share Grizabella on the Cats UK and Ireland tour. Photo by Jay Brooks
Cast Changes and Announcements

Louise Dearman, Alice Fearn and Rachael Wooding to share Grizabella on the Cats tour

Louise Dearman, Alice Fearn and Rachael Wooding will divide the role of Grizabella between them on the UK and Ireland tour of Cats, the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production that opens at Theatre Royal Plymouth on…

Artwork for The Wind in the Willows at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, showing Toad, Ratty, Mole and Badger in a red motor car on a snowy riverbank
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Kingston's Rose Theatre casts The Wind in the Willows for Christmas

Julian Hoult will play Toad and Kingdom Sibanda will play Ratty in The Wind in the Willows, the Rose Theatre's world-premiere Christmas show, which runs in Kingston upon Thames from 25 November 2026 to 3 January 2027.

Stephanie Greenwood in promotional artwork for Relative Motion at Southwark Playhouse Borough
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Stephanie Greenwood and Sean Hart star in Relative Motion at Southwark Playhouse Borough

Stephanie Greenwood and Sean Hart make up the two-person cast of Relative Motion, Greenwood’s new play about coercive control, which runs at Southwark Playhouse Borough from 11 November to 5 December 2026.

The Afronauts company at the Royal Court launch party. Photo by Minji Suh
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Lucian Msamati and Ama Qamata lead the cast of The Afronauts at the Royal Court

Lucian Msamati plays Edward and Ama Qamata makes her UK stage debut as Matha in The Afronauts, Ryan Calais Cameron’s new play about Zambia’s bid for space in 1964, which opens at the Royal Court Theatre on 14 November.

A vast structure breaks apart in fire and forked lightning above a fogbound stage, two figures below it. Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
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Evan Alexander Smith plays Dr. Brenner for the final weeks of Stranger Things on Broadway

Evan Alexander Smith joins Stranger Things: The First Shadow on Broadway tonight as Dr. Brenner, and will play the role to the end of the New York run in January. The Phoenix Theatre production continues in London.

The company of GREASE The Musical, 2024 cast. Photography by Marc Brenner
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Debbie McGee to play Miss Lynch in the Grease UK and Ireland tour

Debbie McGee will play Miss Lynch in the new UK and Ireland tour of GREASE The Musical, which opens at the Theatre Royal Plymouth on Friday 23 April 2027.

Hassan Taj, Sonny Monaghan and Abbie Purvis, who join the new company of Paddington The Musical at the Savoy Theatre. Photo by Hugo Glendinning
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Paddington The Musical names its new West End company for a second year

Paddington The Musical has named the company that will take it into a second year at the Savoy Theatre. Abbie Purvis and Hassan Taj alternate as the Paddington on Stage Performer from 28 October.

Dónal Finn, Suranne Jones and Tanya Reynolds, who each take one performance of An Oak Tree at The Other Palace
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Dónal Finn, Suranne Jones and Tanya Reynolds join the guest line-up for An Oak Tree

Dónal Finn, Suranne Jones and Tanya Reynolds have each been given a single performance of An Oak Tree at The Other Palace, walking on stage opposite Tim Crouch having never read or rehearsed the play.

Artwork for dissent by debbie tucker green, the title sprayed in black on a red wall, at the Young Vic
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Lashana Lynch to lead debbie tucker green’s dissent at the Young Vic

Lashana Lynch will lead the world premiere of dissent, written and directed by debbie tucker green, in the Main House at the Young Vic from 5 March - 24 April 2027.