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Tim Minchin on composing for Cat In The Hat: ‘I’m best at making people cry’

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Christine Baranski: Hay Fever would be ‘perfect play’ to end my theatre career

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Prima Facie writer hopes Cynthia Erivo-led film highlights ‘nuance of consent’

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HMV to close Oxford Street store three years after reopening historic site

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Joe Lycett and Olivia Cooke announced as latest White Rabbit Red Rabbit stars

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Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber ‘truly grateful’ for Freedom of the City of London

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Phantom Of The Opera to be filmed live for 40th anniversary of West End musical

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Glenn Close to appear as King Herod in West End’s Jesus Christ Superstar

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Rowan Atkinson to star in first West End comedy sketch show in 40 years

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Gillian Anderson speaks out after exchange with ‘distracting’ theatre fans

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William: Dance and make memories to celebrate life of Bowelbabe campaigner

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Rachel Zegler to return to West End next year for first concert residency

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Sadie Sink wins best West End debut performer at 2026 Stage Debut Awards

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Stranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo surprises London crowds with Rent singalong

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Wicked stars celebrate show’s ‘sheer escapism’ on 20th anniversary in London

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Sting says he does not ‘feel any competition’ from AI

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Dani Dyer reunites with Nikita Kuzmin as Strictly pairings for 2026 revealed

The launch show opened with a dance number from the professionals, judges and the new hosts.

Casey Cooper-Fiske and Carla Feric, Press Association

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Spellbinding: Wicked’s 20th birthday in London celebrated with Royal Mint coins

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Unheard Phantom Of The Opera music released to mark 40 years of West End musical

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Teri Hatcher to play Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada: The Musical

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Giles Terera to star as Ebenezer Scrooge in West End’s A Christmas Carol

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Sold-out stage adaptation of hit film Pride transfers to the West End

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Sadie Sink and Tom Fletcher lead nominations for Stage Debut Awards

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The Greatest Showman to open in West End in 2027

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West End and TV star Sheila Mathews dies aged 99

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West End theatre owner ATG to be bought by Ari Emanuel’s Mari

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Time Out set to open first UK food market in 2028

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Burlesque The Musical postpones West End shows to 2027 and delays UK tour

The stage production of the hit 2010 movie was due to kick off its UK tour this weekend in Woking.

Carla Feric, Press Association Entertainment Reporter

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Dame Julia Donaldson hopes Gruffalo stage show introduces children to theatre

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Lesley Manville and Anna Maxwell Martin to lead revival of August: Osage County

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Title Role reads the script with Belmont Derby success

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West End star’s memoir details former relationship with Duke of Edinburgh

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West End theatre to be renamed after late playwright Tom Stoppard

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Happy Valley star James Norton to play Hamlet in new West End production

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Bruno Tonioli: There has never been anyone like Frank Sinatra

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Elton John feels ‘connected’ to Billy Elliot and says film ‘struck a chord’

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Strictly star Johannes Radebe to tour UK and Ireland with new show

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West End’s Shaftesbury Theatre to be renamed Judi Dench Theatre

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The Traitors West End show will ‘do what TV series cannot’

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Actress ‘thrilled’ to join Emmerdale for ‘gripping’ Sugden family storyline

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In Pictures: Buffy star Anthony Head who spiced up 1980s coffee ads

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Sting: Revisiting my childhood for West End show is a kind of therapy

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Lily Allen teases collaboration with Jade on remix of Beg For Me

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Dame Maureen Lipman to return to West End stage as star of Allegra

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West End star to headline in Powys drama

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Mural created to mark 100 years since Eric Morecambe’s birth

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John Lithgow thrilled Roald Dahl play Giant will screen in cinemas across globe

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Jodie Whittaker: Gareth Southgate a ‘revolutionary’ football manager

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Cast announced as Trainspotting: The Musical prepares for UK tour

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Self Esteem releases new song for West End play Teeth ‘N’ Smiles

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Rachel Zegler to star in Broadway production of Evita

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Adrian Lester reveals ‘conversations’ over return of BBC crime drama Hustle

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Keira Knightley returns to West End for stage adaptation of The Lives Of Others

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Andrew Lloyd Webber reveals he is ‘recovering alcoholic’

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Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant to star in Noel Coward’s Hay Fever

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Everything you need to know about Paddington: The Musical after Oliviers triumph

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Paddington The Musical sweeps Oliviers as Evita and Into The Woods also triumph

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