RuPaul’s Drag Race star Todrick Hall to join the London cast of CHICAGO
Star of RuPaul’s Drag Race, American Idol and YouTube sensation 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. Todrick will join Sarah Soetaert as Roxie Hart, Josefina Gabrielle as Velma Kelly, Mazz Murray as Mama […]
Reflecting on the 2018 West End Wilma Awards (plus photos and videos)
Was it really a whole week ago that we held the 5th West End Wilma Awards?! I am only just starting to process the whole thing now I am back home in Paris and can enjoy some time to breathe. The Wilma Awards takes at least six months of planning and so it is a […]
Are theatregoers ‘entitled’ to get autographs after a seeing a show?
Earlier this week, someone posted a photo online of a sign outside of the Gielgud Theatre, saying that Patti LuPone and Rosalie Craig would not be coming out of the stage door between the matinee and the evening performance and that if people wanted autographs, they could leave their items at the stage door to […]
Kerry Ellis joins 1,000 West End Stage students to record A Million Dreams in aid of NSPCC Childline
Kerry Ellis, star of the West End and Broadway, has teamed up with 1,000 West End Stage students, for a special charity fundraising recording of A Million Dreams from the hit film, The Greatest Showman. All proceeds will go to the NSPCC’s Childline service (0800 1111), which is there to give young people a voice […]
Ian McKellen celebrates his 80th birthday with a new solo show, touring across the UK
Tolkien, Shakespeare, others …and you! Ian McKellen is to celebrate his 80th birthday next year by raising funds for theatres, with a new solo show which will play on 80 stages across the UK. It all begins in January 2019 with a Tour of London from the National Theatre to the Theatre Royal Stratford East, […]
Check out these rehearsal images of Kit Harington and Johnny Flynn in TRUE WEST
Check out these rehearsal images of Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) and Johnny Flynn (Beast and US TV series Genius), who are starring in Sam Shepard’s ferociously funny, modern classic, True West, the first UK production of Shepard’s work since his death last summer. True West will play a limited season at the Vaudeville Theatre […]
The Light In The Piazza comes to London for 20 performances only
The Light in the Piazza is a touching and heartwrenching love story set in Florence during the summer of 1953. It has been described by the New York Times as having “the most intensely romantic score of any musical since West Side Story”. It will be performed on the stage of the Royal Festival Hall […]
Winners announced for the West End Wilma Awards 2018
West End Wilma, the mother and son theatre blogging duo, are delighted to announce the winners of the 5th annual Wilma Awards In association with Free@LastTVLtd which took place on Sunday 4 November 2018 at the Arts Theatre in London’s West End. This year saw eleven acts recognised in categories such as Best Understudy (Jordan Fox […]
Broadway musical AMELIE heads to the UK
Amélie The Musical, an adaptation of the much-loved 2001 award-winning film Amélie, will have its UK stage premiere at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury from 11 April to 18 May, and then embark on an extensive UK tour from 20 May. With music by Hem’s Daniel Messé, lyrics by Nathan Tysen and Daniel Messé and […]
Britain’s Got Talent winners COLLABRO search for youth choirs to join their 2019 tour
Collabro are launching a nationwide search to find 51 youth choirs to join them on their 2019 Road to the Royal Albert Hall tour. Following the success of #CollabroChoirs during their last tour, the world’s most successful musical theatre group are now appealing to youth and school choirs, and youth theatre companies across the UK […]