Latest West End Theatre News And Features

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. 

Dirty Dancing is set to boogie into the West End's Piccadilly Theatre on 7 July. The hit stage version of the classic '60s-set Patrick Swayze flick will come off its successful UK tour and step up to the line for a 7-month run at the Piccadilly following the closure of Spice Girls musical Viva Forever! on 29 June. 

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

Darren Day (pictured) will head the cast of The Golden Voice, the new musical by Nick Fogarty that will play at London's Arts Theatre through the summer from 19 June. 

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.

There's a major cast shake-up happening at mega-musical Mamma Mia! at the West End's Novello Theatre. In fact, it's the biggest in the smash Abba show's history, with 24 of the 33 cast members changing on Monday 10 June. 

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. 

Record-breaking hit musical Wicked is welcoming back actress Harriet Thorpe in the role of Madame Morrible from 22 April until 16 November 2013 at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre. She replaces Louise Plowright, who has been obliged to withdraw from the role due to ill health.