On the Wire

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.

Wayward Productions, led by Judith Dimant, today announce their inaugural production of Enda Walsh’s adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Walsh also directs, reuniting him with Cillian Murphy, following the huge success of their past collaborations: Disco Pigs, Ballyturk and Misterman.

The West End season of the award-winning Bat Out Of Hell - The Musical must end at the Dominion Theatre on Saturday 5 January 2019. Meanwhile, the North American Tour opens in Toronto, Canada on 16 October 2018 and the German language premiere will open in Oberhasuen, Germany on 2 November 2018.

The Almeida's theatre transfer of The Twilight Zone to the Ambassadors is now on sale on London Box Office.

As Robert Hastie’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream opens at Sheffield Theatres, he announces further programming to complete the current season.

Joining the previously announced co-production with Out of Joint – Kate Bowen’s Close Quarters; the Christmas musical Kiss Me, Kate directed by Paul Foster; Caroline Steinbeis’ production of Rutherford and Son; debbie tucker green’s hang and the world première of Standing at the Sky’s Edge with book by Chris Bush and music and lyrics by the internationally acclaimed musician Richard Hawley;are the world première of a major new stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s Man Booker Prize winning Life of Pi by Lolita Chakrabarti,directed by Max Webster; and Third Angel’s The Department of Distractions – a co-production with Northern Stage, produced in association with Sheffield Theatres.

Foxfinder, the Dawn King play currently running at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, will close early in the West End, playing its final performance later this month.

The play, which opened last month, was set to run until 5th January 2019. It will now close in the West End later this month, on 20th October.

Foxfinder received mixed reviews when it opened at the Ambassadors, despite the play receiving a positive response from critics when it premiered at the Finborough Theatre in 2011, and winning the Papatango Playwriting Prize.

Wayne Sleep will lead the cast of its 2018 family pantomime, Aladdin, in the role of Abanazar from 29 November to 6 January 2019 at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.

Come From Away makes its European premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, before opening at London's Phoenix Theatre on 30 January 2019. The launch will be celebrated at Canada House on Trafalgar Square on Wednesday 10 October. By invitation only.

The Press Night for Waitress has been changed from the 5th March 7.30pm to the 7th March at 7.30pm.

The 7.30pm performance on the 5th March has now been put on-sale at the Off Peak Preview pricing.

Please note, although the 6th March performances (matinee and Evening) are now classed as ‘Previews’, these will still be sold at the RUN prices.

Any individual bookings already made for the 7th March Press Night will be honoured and we hope to make some further seats available for sale in the next few days.