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Playhouse Post Opens Doors On Soho Facility After Halo Assets Deal

EXCLUSIVE: Soho’s post-production village has had its fair share of closure over recent years, but here’s news of something opening. Playhouse Post has officially opened doors to its new 12,000 sq ft facility on Noel Street in London’s West End, with newly refurbished cutting rooms overlooking Soho and end-to-end post-production services provided. Kim Bartley’s Lemonade, […]

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Oct 5, 2026 · byDeadline

Breaking Baz: Why LFF Opener ‘Elsinore’ Is A Triumphant Epitaph For An Extraordinary Man

There was a hush when Ian Charleson appeared on the National Theatre’s Olivier Theatre stage as Hamlet, having taken over the role from Daniel Day Lewis in Richard Eyre’s 1989 production. I had known that the Scottish-born actor was ill. I was aware of the rumors spoken of quietly in various West End hangouts: that […]

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Oct 5, 2026 · byDeadline

Gillian Anderson Explains Confrontation With “Distracting” Superfans Who Sat In Front Row Of West End Show: “We Can All See You”

Gillian Anderson has explained why she asked a group of superfans not to sit in the front row of her West End stage show, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Anderson is performing at Soho Place Theatre and was filmed confronting audience members following a performance. In the video, posted just after midnight on Sunday morning […]

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Oct 5, 2026 · byDeadline

Rowan Atkinson to bring Mr Bean, Blackadder and more to West End in new show

The actor will perform famous TV sketches – as well as new material created with Richard Curtis, Ben Elton and Howard Goodall – in Rowan Live, which opens in February Rowan Atkinson will return to the stage next year to play Blackadder, Mr Bean and other comic characters from across his career in a West End show, Rowan Live. The production, which will have a short run of 30 performances, is to feature new routines as well as his famous sketches from TV shows including Not the Nine O’Clock News. “It is 40 years since I last did a comedy sketch show in the West End,” said Atkinson. “I thought it would be fun to perform again the sketches that began it all for myself and [writer] Richard Curtis, and in which my most well-known characters originated, alongside some surprise new material written especially for this show.” He and Curtis will be collaborating once more with Blackadder writer Ben Elton and its composer Howard Goodall. Continue reading...

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Oct 5, 2026 · byThe Guardian

Gillian Anderson responds to backlash after telling ‘distracting’ fans to stop sitting in front row

The actor, who is performing on the West End, was filmed telling theatre fans ‘you can’t come 20 times and sit in the front row, it’ll drive me mad’ Gillian Anderson has come under fire after the actor was filmed telling a group of fans that they were “distracting” her by repeatedly sitting in the front row while she performs in London’s West End. The Sex Education and X-Files star was filmed outside the Soho Place theatre where she’s performing in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , telling a group of fans: “You guys cannot sit in the front row. I do not care; you cannot sit in the front row. It’s so distracting.” Continue reading...

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Oct 5, 2026 · byThe Guardian

From Snakes on a Plane to the Bois de Boulogne: Waud seeks Hollywood ending in the Arc

Film producer is certainly not a typical owner of the second favourite for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe with Maltese Cross part of a remarkable script As George Waud is the first to concede, he is not a typical owner of the second favourite for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. “No,” he said this week, three days out from the most prestigious and valuable race of the European season, when his colt Maltese Cross will take on runners from racing’s superpowers. “And for that reason, I’m making the most of it.” The backstory that has led Waud to the Bois de Boulogne on the first Sunday in October started in London, includes 23 years in Los Angeles as he worked his way up from the bottom rung of the movie industry, and more recently, a co-producer role on the award-winning revival of Cabaret in London’s West End. And from the day in the 1970s when Waud took a trip to Newmarket with his mother, racing has been a thread in the fabric. Continue reading...

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Oct 2, 2026 · byThe Guardian

Hay Fever review – Richard E Grant and Christine Baranski host Coward’s country house shenanigans

Wyndham’s theatre, London Grant brings shock-haired vigour as a vain novelist forced to welcome his boho children’s surprise guests in comedy of clipped social embarrassment Hay Fever, now one of Noël Coward’s best-known and most-performed works, hasn’t always been a smash hit. British critics who found its West End debut in 1925 amusing enough nevertheless noted its lack of plot, and the first Broadway production was a flop. A critic for Vogue called it “funny in places”, which sounds like the kind of stinging putdown you’d expect from the playwright’s own hand. A century of performances have proved the play’s lasting power, but its comic effect has always lain less in the words as written than their delivery – it is, after all, about a family that is “artificial to the point of lunacy”. At their centre is diva Judith Bliss, who has retired from the stage to take up the role of country hostess. When she, her husband and their self-consciously bohemian children Sorel and Simon all invite surprise guests for the weekend, the unfortunate attendees find themselves embroiled in a self-serving drama of exquisite embarrassment. Continue reading...

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Oct 1, 2026 · byThe Guardian

Rachel Zegler, Diego Rodriguez and James Olivas on Bringing ‘Evita’ to Broadway and Reimagining the Iconic Balcony Sequence for Times Square

Rachel Zegler hesitated when “Evita” director Jamie Lloyd pitched her on his big idea for their West End revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical. Zegler was portraying Argentine first lady Eva Perón as a modern pop star, and Lloyd wanted his leading lady to perform the show’s best-known song, “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina,” […]

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Oct 1, 2026 · byVariety

Ballet Star Tiler Peck to Make London West End Debut in Susan Stroman’s ‘Little Dancer’ (EXCLUSIVE)

New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck will make her West End debut in “Little Dancer,” the Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty musical about the girl who posed for Edgar Degas’ famous sculpture. It opens at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket on Feb. 15, 2027. Susan Stroman directs and choreographs the limited run, which will […]

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Oct 1, 2026 · byVariety

‘Stranger Things was a train you can’t jump off’: Gaten Matarazzo on his return to the stage

The actor we know as Dustin was a ‘theatre kid’ from age 11. Now he’s starring in a new staging of Rent. He discusses why the musical is as relevant as ever – and what it’s like being a child star in the internet age Rent is a study in both joy and despair. The 90s rock opera spawned the kinds of irrepressible musical numbers – Seasons of Love, Take Me Or Leave Me – that would become Broadway standards, mastered and massacred in choir auditions and high schools across the world. Jonathan Larson’s self-described attempt “to bring musical theatre to the MTV generation” is also a capitalist critique: a drama about a bohemian coterie of penniless creatives sticking it to the man, all while their circle is ravaged by HIV and Aids. It still feels highly relevant today; see: What You Own – sample lyric “And when you’re living in America / At the end of the millennium / You’re what you own”. Gaten Matarazzo says “that song may arguably be more impactful now than in 1996, considering what we know about what American media and world media would become, and our access to constant mind-numbing noise …” This autumn, he makes his West End debut as Mark, the struggling film-maker who chronicles the lives of his friends in New York’s East Village, and serves as the show’s de facto narrator. Continue reading...

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Sep 24, 2026 · byThe Guardian

‘Evita’ on Broadway: West End Stars Diego Rodriguez, James Olivas to Reprise Roles Alongside Rachel Zegler (EXCLUSIVE)

Diego Rodriguez and James Olivas will star alongside Rachel Zegler in “Evita,” which opens on Broadway next spring. Rodriguez and Olivas are reprising their roles as Che and Juan Perón, respectively, from last summer’s acclaimed West End production. As previously announced, Zegler is reprising her Olivier Award-winning role as Argentinian first lady Eva Perón. Director […]

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Sep 22, 2026 · byVariety

Industry Entertainment Signs Olivier Award Nominee Heather Agyepong

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Heather Agyepong has signed with Industry Entertainment for management. This comes following her breakout run in Shifters, the hit West End two-hander in which she starred opposite Tosin Cole. The play transferred to the West End following a sell-out run at the Bush Theatre with Idris Elba coming on board to co-produce. Agyepong’s […]

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Sep 14, 2026 · byDeadline

‘Sunday in the Park With George’ Revival Scrapped After Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey Exit

The 'Wicked' co-stars had been set to lead the West End performance next summer, but Empire Street Productions has confirmed the show "will no longer proceed as scheduled."

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Sep 14, 2026 · byThe Hollywood Reporter

‘Oh, Mary!’ Live Capture Starring Cole Escola To Debut On HBO & HBO Max In 2027

A live capture of Oh, Mary!, the hit, award-winning Broadway and West End stage comedy written by and starring Cole Escola will debut on HBO in 2027, the network announced today. The program is the filmed capture of the July 28, 2026, performance that took place at the Trafalgar Theatre in London’s West End, with […]

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Sep 10, 2026 · byDeadline

Sacha Baron Cohen lined up for Quentin Tarantino’s West End playwriting debut

The Ali G and Borat creator is reported to be taking the lead in The Popinjay Cavalier, a swashbuckling comedy Tarantino is developing for early 2027 He will soon be seen resuming his old Staines rudeboy persona in the film Ali G: Who Iz I? , but Sacha Baron Cohen may also be eyeing a new departure – on stage. The actor will reportedly star in Quentin Tarantino’s first play, The Popinjay Cavalier , which is billed as a “ rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise” and a “sweeping celebration of theatre and its heightened romance”, set in 1830s Europe. According to Deadline , Baron Cohen will play the swashbuckling title character in the play, which Tarantino will also direct. Continue reading...

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Sep 10, 2026 · byThe Guardian

Sacha Baron Cohen lined up for Quentin Tarantino’s West End playwriting debut

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Sep 10, 2026 · byThe Guardian

Don’t sashay away! The BBC’s decision to cancel Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK is sickening in all the wrong ways

The hyper-flamboyant and hilariously filthy show is an inclusive, celebratory platform for queer culture. The broadcaster’s choice to nix it is giving stupidity The BBC is canning RuPaul’s Drag Race UK – a decision that, in my household, will bring the number of regularly watched programmes on the Beeb down from one to zero. It’s a decision that will no doubt please enemies of LGBTQ+ culture, but otherwise seems inexplicable. For a start, Drag Race UK regularly pulls in 1 million viewers a week, which hardly seems like a show in its death throes (even if this is down from a previous high of 1.5 million). RuPaul’s Drag Race is also a bona fide cultural phenomenon. Since the US version started in 2009, it has brought tons of performers to national, or even global, attention who would otherwise still be plying their trade in provincial gay bars. Jinkx Monsoon from the US is now starring in Oh Mary! in London’s West End; the UK’s La Voix made it on to Strictly; and Bimini Bon-Boulash, who “stepped their pussy up” to astonishing effect in season two, has made records, modelled and written a book. Continue reading...

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Sep 10, 2026 · byThe Guardian