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Here is where you will read about new shows, upcoming productions, and West End gossips!
19 Dec
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A West End Tale of Tina Turner Announced
By Phil Willmott Monday, December 19 2016, 12:00
25 Nov
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Carousel follows Sweeney and Boulevard to English National Opera
By Phil Willmott Friday, November 25 2016, 14:57
The enterprising producers begin this years critically acclaimed production of SUNSET BOULEVARD starring Glenn Close and the previous years mega-revival of SWEENEY TODD have just announced that their next collaboration with English National Opera at the Coliseum will be CAROUSEL. This revival of the much loved Rodgers and Hammerstein classic from 1945 will star Alfie Boe and Catherine Jenkins.
04 Nov
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Enjoy an evening of West End bafflement!
By Phil Willmott Friday, November 4 2016, 15:37
The Menier Chocolate Factory's new production of Tom Stoppard's TRAVESTIES broke their box office records by selling out ahead of its first preview.
If you missed out on tickets there’ll be another chance to see it when it transfers to the West End in February next year with TV star Tom Hollander reprising his role as Henry Carr, a minor British diplomat in Zurich in 1917 who encounters a surreal mob of fictional and real life characters.
10 Oct
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Actor RUFUS SEWELL is on top form as he returns to the West End
By Phil Willmott Monday, October 10 2016, 15:01
The actor Rufus Sewell has been very busy recently and you can currently enjoy two superb pieces of TV acting by him. He is impossibly handsome and utterly terrifying in the Amazon Prime hit, THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, as a Nazi Officer and impossibly handsome and adorably kind in ITV’s VICTORIA in which he plays Queen Victoria’s first love, Lord Marlborough.
23 Sep
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Dream casting announced for a timely revival of one of the greatest plays ever written
By Phil Willmott Friday, September 23 2016, 13:45
Talk about dream casting! Imelda Staunton, who cemented her reputation as West End goddess and national treasure recently with her performances in musicals GYPSY and SWEENEY TODD will play Martha in the drama WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?.
When people debate the greatest plays ever written this one is regularly in top 10s and rightly so, when acted well it is one of the most devastating evenings of theatre you can encounter.
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