Latest West End Theatre News And Features

Jane Asher and Olivier Award nominees Charlotte Wakefield and Michael Xavier are the leading lights of this year’s summer season of plays at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, it’s been announced. 

Singin' In The Rain will close at the West End's Palace Theatre on 8 June following a successful run that began in February 2012. 

Once is aptly named. A world apart from the spectacle of most West End musicals, the 8-times Tony Award winning show about an anonymous Dublin singer-songwriter’s brief, intense romance with a visiting Czech musician uniquely finds its strength in intimacy and understatement. 

Spice Girls musical Viva Forever! has announced it will close at the Piccadilly Theatre on 29 June. 

Roald Dahl’s spooky little girl Matilda is a smash hit with Broadway audiences. With the announcement today that Tim Minchin and Dennis Kelly’s musical based on Dahl’s classic chidren’s book has conjured up a remarkable 12 nominations for the 2013 Tony Awards, she looks set to dominate awards season too. 

The stage version of classic '90s Brit-flick The Full Monty is coming to the West End. The comic drama about a group of hard-pressed Northern steelworkers who turn to stripping as a way to improve their lot will begin performances at the Noël Coward Theatre on 27 February 2014 and run until 14 June.

Dame Helen Mirren (pictured) was the toast of the 37th Olivier Awards ceremony at London’s Royal Opera House last night. 

Author Roddy Doyle (pictured) and director Jamie Lloyd rolled up at the West End’s Palace Theatre today, 23 April, to announce the imminent arrival of their hotly-anticipated new musical The Commitments. The show is adapted by Man Booker Prize-winner Doyle himself from his best-selling 1987 novel, which was previously adapted into a hit, Oscar-nominated movie directed by Alan Parker in 1991.