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Step right up and enter the dazzling world of P.T. Barnum, where imagination and ambition know no bounds at @newwimbtheatre this week.
"A show full of extreme peaks and troughs."
📷 Pamela Raith
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🎭 ✨INTERVIEW✨🎭
As Wilko: Love and Death and Rock 'n' Roll continues its UK tour, arriving at Theatre Royal Windsor on 5 October, we spoke to writer, Jonathan Maitland, about the show and the man himself.
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Now playing at Arts Theatre Cambridge, By Royal Appointment is a behind the scenes peek into the world of our most popular monarch & the image she presented to the world.
"Nostalgic, lighthearted & enjoyable."
📷 Robert Day
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James Graham's The Standard of Living tells the astonishing story of rebel economist and member of the Bloomsbury Group, John Maynard Keynes.
"A wonderful tribute to his [Keynes] impact on the modern world."
📷 Manuel Harlan
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Murder Before Evensong is a gripping new stage adaptation of Reverend Richard Coles’ bestselling mystery, now playing at the Watermill Theatre.
"A perfect cosy interlude for autumnal evenings in rural England."
📷 Alex Brenner
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🎭 ✨RETURNING TO THE WEST END✨🎭
Record-breaking global hit DIRTY DANCING – THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE will return to London for a strictly limited season at the Prince Edward Theatre from 19 January – 24 April 2027.
📷 Michael Wharley
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🎭 ✨NEW MUSICAL✨🎭
Casting has been announced for the concert production of UNFOLDING, which will take to the stage at @pborokeytheatre on 13 November.
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🎭 ✨CONCERTS ANNOUNCED✨🎭
CHRISTMAS BY CANDLELIGHT is heading to Hyde Park Winter Wonderland this festive season, presented by Simon Gordon and Daniel Wood of Concerts by Candlelight.
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🎭 ✨CAST ANNOUNCEMENT✨🎭
Much-loved TV, radio and stage personality Debbie McGee will play Miss Lynch in the new UK & Ireland tour of GREASE The Musical.
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🎭 ✨CAST ANNOUNCEMENT✨🎭
Day of the Jackal star Lashana Lynch will lead the cast of dissent, an explosive new play from Olivier and BAFTA Award winner Debbie Tucker Green, which plays at London’s @YoungVicTheatre from 5 March – 24 April 2027.
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🎭 ✨CONCERT ANNOUNCED✨🎭
West End star @LeeMeadofficial will celebrate two decades on stage with his brand-new solo concert, TWENTY YEARS IN TECHNICOLOUR, live at London’s Adelphi Theatre on 11 July 2027.
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🎭 ✨DATES ADDED✨🎭
Further dates and venues have been added to the first-ever UK & Ireland tour of @HadestownUK, which begins in February 2027.
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🎭 ✨WINNERS ANNOUNCED✨🎭
The winners of @TheStage Debut Awards 2026, in association with Netflix, were revealed last night at a star-studded ceremony at 8 Northumberland Avenue in London.
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🎭 ✨ONE NIGHT ONLY✨🎭
BRIT Award winner, actor, presenter and celebrated Cabaret Emcee @MattjWillis is returning to @kitkatclubldn for a very special one-night-only event on 4 October.
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Douglas Lyons' romantic comedy about former lovers reuniting to confront the relationship they left behind, Table 17, is now playing at @KilnTheatre.
"This smart & engaging production is well worth booking a table for."
📷 Steve Gregson
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🎭 ✨CAST ANNOUNCEMENT✨🎭
The remaining cast has been announced for the world premiere of Torben Betts’ SPECULATIONS at @MaryleboneTHLDN, directed by legendary theatre and film director Trevor Nunn.
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@Hadestownukmay be a well-known journey, but this new cast makes it feel like a journey worth experiencing all over again.
"Incredibly strong."
📷 Brinkhoff-Moegenburg
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🎭 ✨INTERVIEW✨🎭
The Phantom is back for his second act: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies is returning to London in an award-winning concert production at the London Palladium this Oct.
We spoke to Holly James, who plays Fleck, to discover more.
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Inspired by Sting‘s childhood, @LastShipMusical is a powerful new production, now playing at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
"There is no denying the power of a story told with an equal mixture of grit and elegance."
📷 Nienke de Groot
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🎭 ✨CAST ANNOUNCEMENT✨🎭
Emma Salvo, who originated the role of Janice in the Olivier Award-winning West End production of Come From Away, will play Greta in the world premiere of THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE at @HOME_mcr this Christmas.
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