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Rose Theatre Kingston today announce the opening of The Creature [Frankenstein Retold], a new production based on the classic by Mary Shelley. Adapted for the stage by Ciaran McConville and directed by Lucy Morrell, the production wil run from the 27th-29th February. 

Cast includes: Billy Brown (Henri/Landlord), Eleanor Clark (The Creator), Katherine Liley (Flic/Safi), Louis Mertens (Mr Kirwin/Elias/Aleksei), Joshua King Milne (Professor Waldman/Fira/ Moritz), Frankie Oldham (Mr Kremp/Vadim), Anna Pryce (The Creature), Francis Redfern (Ralf Wile) and Daisy Tucker (Elizabeth) - all Rose Youth Theatre alumni. 

Sam Crane (Farinelli And The King, 1984) will star as Sergio Blanco in the UK première of The Rage of Narcissus, directed by Daniel Goldman. The production opens at Pleasance Theatre on the 21st of February 2020, where it will run until the 8th of March.

Following sell-out performances at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and The Bush Theatre, Richard Gadd's Baby Reindeer will transfer to the Ambassadors Theatre for a strictly limited season from April 2nd-May 2nd 2020 before heading to BAM, in New York.

From the 6-8th March 2020, London's Southbank Centre will play host to the WOW (Women Of The World) Festival.

This year marks WOW's 10th anniversary, with the line-up including a range of Day Pass and ticketed events featuring some of the world’s most exciting performers, activists and voices. 

This summer, the world premiere of The Garden Of Words, a new theatrical adaptation based on the anime from Makoto Shinkai/ CoMix Wave Films, comes to London's Park Theatre. 

The production will run from the 16th of July-15th August 2020. 

God of Carnage - Yasmina Reza's award-winning examination of middle-class parenting - celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Now playing at Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre until 18 January 2020, the production will continue on to Theatre Royal Bath (20 – 25 January), then to Theatre Royal Glasgow (27 January – 1 February), Cambridge Arts Theatre (3 – 8 February) and Rose Theatre Kingston (10 – 15 February).

Due to personal reasons, Stephanie J. Block has had to cancel her performance at London's Cadogan Hall on the 12th of April 2020. 

Of the upheaval, Block says:

"The last few days have been a whirlwind of unexpected events and, sadly, I must reschedule my Sunday, April 12th 2020 concerts. HOWEVER, within those last 48 hours, the producers, Cadogan Hall and I have worked hard to secure another date this season. So hold onto those tickets because I’m comin’ for you this summer! Everyone who has purchased seats will be automatically transferred to the corresponding matinee or evening performance for August 30th, 2020."

Spearheading celebrations in light of their 25th year as a company, Frantic Assembly's I Think We Are Alone (a major new play by Sally Abbott) will premiere at the Theatre Royal Plymouth on the 3rd of February before embarking on a UK Tour. 

Tour venues and dates as follows: Liverpool Playhouse (11th-15th Feb), King’s Theatre Edinburgh (17th-21st Feb), Theatre Royal Stratford East (25th Feb-21st Mar), Leicester Curve (24th-28th Mar), Nuffield Southampton Theatre (31st Mar-4th Apr), Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford (14th-18th Apr), Northern Stage Newcastle (21st-25th Apr), Bristol Old Vic (28th Apr-2nd May), Oxford Playhouse (4th-9th May) and The Lowry Salford (12th-16th May). 

Exploring the divergent lives of two sisters, award-winning playwright Chloë Moss' latest work Run Sister Run will open at Sheffield Theatres on the 27th of February 2020 before tranferring to the Soho Theatre from the 25th March-2nd May.

Cast includes: Lucy Ellinson; Helena Lymbery; Lucas Button and Silas Carson.

The next Waitress London Cast Album Karaoke Night has been confirmed for Wednesday 15 January 2020, hosted by Lucie Jones and David Hunter in partnership with Encore Tickets.

Audience members can sign up before the show for the chance to sing one minute of any song from Waitress live on stage at the Adelphi, accompanied by the show’s musical director Katharine Woolley.

For one night only, West End stars Alice Fearn and Emma Hatton will perform in The Spark of Creation, a gala fundraiser celebrating the work of Stephen Schwartz at the Park Theatre on the 18th of January, 2020. 

Starring Toby Jones and Richard Armitage, Conor McPherson's adaptation of Uncle Vanya is set to open at the Harold Pinter Theatre on the 23rd of January. The production will run until the 2nd of May, with tickets available to book now. 

Cast also includes: Rosalind Eleazar, Aimee Lou Wood, Anna Calder-Marshall, Dearbhla Molloy, Peter Wight and Ciarán Hinds. 

& JULIET has extended its booking period for individuals up to Sat 3rd October, 2020.

Kevin Elyot's Coming Clean will be staged at the Trafalgar Studios in the New Year, with previews from the 2nd-8th of January 2020, running until the 1st of February 2020. 

Cast includes Lee Knight as Tony, Elliot Hadley as William/Jurgen, Stanton Plummer-Cambridge as Greg and Jonah Rzeskiewicz as Robert. 

In the New Year, Evelyn Hoskins is set to join the cast of hit musical Waitress in the role of Dawn. Original cast member Marisha Wallace is also due to return to the West End production.

Quality Street, Laurie Sansom's debut production as Artistic Director of Northern Broadsides, will be opening in Halifax, February 2020. Casting is as follows: 

Jessica Baglow will play the title role of Phoebe Throssel and Dario Coates as love interest, Valentine Brown. Further cast features Jim English as Fanny Willoughby/Arthur, John Gully as Recruiting Sergeant/Spicer/Georgy, Claire Hackett as Patty, Louisa May Parker as Susan Throssel, Alicia McKenzie as Mary Willoughby, Sophie Mercell as Charlotte Parratt and Gabriel Paul as Ensign Blades/Isabella.

Fresh from a critically acclaimed run on Broadway, Will Eno's award-winning play, The Realistic Joneses, is due to be staged at the Theatre Royal Bath from the 6th of February to the 7th of March 2020. The full cast includes: Corey Johnson, Sharon Small, Jack Laskey and Clare Foster. 

On Monday 16th December, tickets will go on sale for the highly anticipated 2020 Thursford Christmas Spectacular. Bookings can be made from 9:30am. 

The 2019 production is currently playing until the 23rd of December, this year. 

Aimie Atkinson will play ‘Vivian’ and Danny Mac will play ‘Edward’ in the smash hit PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL at the Piccadilly Theatre from 13 February 2020 where it will play for a strictly limited engagement of 46 weeks.

& JULIET has extended its booking period up to 4th July, 2020.

Extra show dates have now been added to the 32-week run of new musical The Prince of Egypt at the Dominion Theatre in 2020. These are: Tuesday 14 April, Tuesday 11 August and Tuesday 25 August 2020, all at 2.30pm.

Channing Tatum's Magic Mike Live extends its booking period at London's Hippodrome Casino due to unprecedented demand. The performance schedule will change on the 20th of January 2020 to accomodate additional weekend shows, with tickets on sale from today - Wednesday 4th December - at 10am. 

The Phantom of The Opera has been extended to 17th October 2020. Tickets for this new booking period are now on sale.

Robert Icke (The Wild Duck, Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Oresteia, 1984) wins prestigious 65^th Evening Standard Theatre Award, for The Doctor, ahead of its West End transfer. The 2019 awards ceremony, which took place last night, Sunday 24 November, at the London Coliseum, saw Robert Icke pick up the award for Best Director, a joint award for The Doctor and his production of The Wild Duck at the Almeida in 2018.

LES MISERABLES at the Sondheim Theatre has been extended and is now booking from April to October 2020.

Sales for individual customers to see Come From Away are now on sale for performances from Monday 17th February 2020 to 23rd May 2020.

THE BOOK OF MORMON has been extended and its new booking period is now live for sale. The new booking until date is Saturday 8 February 2020.

Mamma Mia – has been extended and its new booking period is now live for sale. Extended dates are 9th March 2020 - 19th September 2020.

Over 200,000 new tickets are released for sale today for TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL based on the life of legendary artist Tina Turner which is now booking at the Aldwych Theatre in the West End to 27 June 2020.

Come from Away extends at the Phoenix Theatre until 15th February 2020. The performance on 18th November has been cancelled and a performance added on Friday 22nd November. This performance will begin at 5.00pm and the evening will move to 8.30 for this performance only.

THE LION KING extends to 15 December 2019. Tickets are now on general sale to individuals.

THE WORST WITCH will be running from 24 July – 8 SSeptember for 60 performances at the Vaudeville Theatre.

THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY today announces an extension of its Olivier Award-nominated show to run until Sunday 3 May 2020, as it celebrates its third birthday in the West End. Tickets for the new booking period are now on sale. Tonight marks the 1,423rd performance at The Criterion, the 7,115th theft of the diamond and the 10,584th appearance of the seagulls!

Public booking for the West End production of Dear Evan Hansen opens next week on Monday 8 April 2019 at 10am BST. The Production will release additional tickets following a sell-out priority booking period.

Over 200,000 new tickets will go on public sale at 12 noon on Friday 25 January 2019 taking bookings for TINA at the Aldwych Theatre to Saturday 21 December 2019.

Reprising their highly praised performances from the Almeida run are Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Adrianna Bertola and Neil Haigh, who will be joined for the West End premiere by Alisha Bailey, Natasha J Barnes, Nicholas Karimi, Dan Crossley, Dyfan Dwyfor, Lauren O’Neill and Matthew Steer.

The Twilight Zone will be opening at the Ambassadors Theatre from 4 March 2019.

Katharine McPhee is set to star in the West End premiere of Waitress as Jenna Hunterson, opening at the Adelphi Theatre next year.

McPhee will make her West End debut in this production, reprising her Broadway performance as Jenna Hunterson after playing the role for a four month engagement in 2018.

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s production of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD will return for a UK tour in 2019, opening at Curve Leicester on 7 February.

Matilda the Musical has been extended from Tue 22 October 2019 to Sun 24 May 2020.

Mythic @ Charing Cross Theatre has been extended and is booking until 15th December 2018.

Audiences have two weeks left to catch Ken Urban’s arresting new drama A Guide for the Homesick, with its ‘mesmerizing performances’ (Aleks Sierz, Theatre Times) by the talented Douglas Booth and Clifford Samuel. This gripping new drama completes its hit run on 24 November 2018. The production is directed by Jonathan O’Boyle and produced by Stage Traffic Productions.

The Comedy About a Bank Robbery at the Criterion Theatre has been extended. The new performances are from 9th April to 3rd Nov 2019.

Todrick Hall will star as Billy Flynn in CHICAGO from 19 November 2018 until the end of the show’s run at the Phoenix Theatre on 5 January 2019.

True West has extended its booking period by an extra week at the Vaudeville Theatre. The production will now play until Saturday 23 February 2019.

The performance schedule and prices remain the same for the additional week.

Aladdin at the Prince Edward Theatre has been extended until Saturday 1st June 2019.

Les Misérables is extending its run at the Queen’s Theatre from Monday 4 March 2019 to Saturday 29 June 2019.

London Box Office has an exclusive offer for 42nd Street with Band A tickets for £42 top price. The offer is valid from 29 October – 21 December (all performances). Book by 31 October. + No booking fee on all other price bands from 22 Oct-21 Dec. Book by 18 November.

Devil You Know Theatre Company is delighted to announce the first London production since 2005 of the multi-award winning play THE RUBENSTEIN KISS by James Phillips, opening at Southwark Playhouse for a limited 4-week run from 14 March 2019, directed by Joe Harmston. There will be a national press night on 18 March 2019.

Full casting has been announced for the special 10^th anniversary tour of American Idiot – the ground breaking Tony award-winning rock musical with music by punk-pop and multi Grammy award-winning band Green Day. Leading the cast is: Waterloo Road’s Tom Milner as Johnny; 2013’s X Factor third place runner-up Luke Friend as St Jimmy; and 2016 X Factor finalist Sam Lavery as Whatsername.

The cast is completed by: Glenn Adamson (Theo); Laura Marie Benson (Lesley); Jennifer Caldwell (Swing); Joshua Dowen (Tunny); Raquel Jones (Extraordinary Girl); Daniel Law (Swing); Rory Maguire (Gerard); Shekinah McFarlane (Alysha); Siobhan O’Driscoll (Heather); Samuel Pope (Will); Alexandra Robinson (Libby); and Christian Tyler-Wood (Declan).

Due to popular demand, Alexandra Burke and Duncan James will extend their runs in CHICAGO at the Phoenix Theatre. Alexandra Burke will play Roxie Hart until 10 November 2018 and Duncan James will play Billy Flynn until 17 November 2018. Laura Tyrer will play Velma Kelly until 20 October followed by Josefina Gabrielle who returns to the role of Velma Kelly from 22 October – 5 January 2019.

Please note: Alexandra Burke will not appear between 15 – 24 October 2018 and Duncan James will not appear between 6 - 12 November 2018. Sarah Soetaert will play the role of Roxie Hart between 15 – 24 October 2018.