Sheridan Smith is gearing for the opening night of Funny Girl at the Menier Chocolate Factory on 2 December 2015, and the news just dropped that the production will transfer to the Savoy Theatre in the West End on 9 April 2016 for a 12 week run, soon after the run finishes at the Menier on 5 March 2016.
West End Theatre News and Reviews
29 Oct
New Shows 
Funny Girl is headed for the West End!
By Oliver Mitford Thursday, October 29 2015, 13:31
28 Oct
Reviews 
Review: CATS at the London Palladium
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, October 28 2015, 18:05
Tickets to review CATS are allocated by the West End's least helpful, indeed only unhelpful, press agent. And for the second year running I was informed there wasn't room for me. Perhaps that's why she gets some of the best shows, she keeps riff-raff like us out!
Anyway I've never actually seen CATS so, appropriately, curiosity got the better of me and I thought I'd buy a seat, the cheapest I could find, at the back, right at the top.
28 Oct
News
London's most amazing theatre experience is also its best kept secret
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, October 28 2015, 13:42
The most extraordinary theatrical event you’ll ever encounter is a project unpromisingly called YOU ME BUM BUM TRAIN. Now several years in, it’s so incredibly popular that you have to enter into a lottery just to get a ticket. Talk to anyone who’s been and you’ll be met with a sort of glow and an enigmatic silence. So, what on earth is it?
28 Oct
New Shows
People, Places and Things transfers to Wyndham's in the West End
By Oliver Mitford Wednesday, October 28 2015, 13:27
The acclaimed National Theatre production of Duncan Macmillan’s new play People, Places and Things has announced its transfer to the West End in March next year.
A co-production with Headlong, People, Places and Things opened at the Dorfman Theatre at the Royal National Theatre in September 2015 and received four and five star reviews, as well as selling out for the majority of the run.
27 Oct
New Shows
Can a new West End production of PRIVATE LIVES eclipse our memory of the last one?
By Phil Willmott Tuesday, October 27 2015, 16:14
It’s been announced that the Ambassadors Theatre Group, the West End’s most powerful producers are mounting a new production of Noel Coward’s popular comedy PRIVATE LIVES. The production will tour major UK venues before it pitches up in London at a venue to be announced.
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