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Archive London Theatre News August 2026

Sarah Hyland and Skylar Astin join Cabaret in major new West End casting

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Sarah Hyland and Skylar Astin join Cabaret in major new West End casting

Sarah Hyland and Skylar Astin are heading to London this autumn to make their West End debuts in ...

12 Aug, 2026 | By Hay Brunsdon

Kate Fahy on Directing Holy Fool: “It Feels Like Such a Necessary Story”

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Kate Fahy on Directing Holy Fool: “It Feels Like Such a Necessary Story”

In 1936, in the year in which he began the great purge which sent 600,000 people in the USSR to t...

12 Aug, 2026 | By Lyn Gardner

Here’s all of the High School Musical On Stage songs you need to remember Wildcat!

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Here’s all of the High School Musical On Stage songs you need to remember Wildcat!

High School Musical is hitting the stage this Autumn in London, so it’s time to getcha head in th...

12 Aug, 2026 | By Alicia Bridge

Death Note at the Barbican Review: A Killer Musical in Every Sense

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Death Note at the Barbican Review: A Killer Musical in Every Sense

I walked into Death Note: The Musical knowing almost nothing about the legendary manga phenomenon...

12 Aug, 2026 | By Hay Brunsdon

Lolly Adefope to join the West End cast of Oh, Mary! as Mary Todd Lincoln

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Lolly Adefope to join the West End cast of Oh, Mary! as Mary Todd Lincoln

Award-winning comedian and actor Lolly Adefope will join the West End cast of the smash-hit comed...

10 Aug, 2026 | By Hay Brunsdon

Lyn Gardner's Weekly Picks

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Lyn Gardner's Weekly Picks

Since the success of Danny Robbins’ 2:22: A Ghost Story, audiences have got a taste for being spo...

10 Aug, 2026 | By Lyn Gardner

Everything You Need to Know about Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Everything You Need to Know about Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

What is Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? about? Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a new produ...

6 Aug, 2026 | By Alicia Bridge

The Lowdown on Death Note: The Musical at the Barbican

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The Lowdown on Death Note: The Musical at the Barbican

What is it? Death Note – The Musical is a musical version of the early 2000s manga created by ...

5 Aug, 2026 | By Lyn Gardner

What Makes Operation Mincemeat One of the West End's Best Musicals?

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What Makes Operation Mincemeat One of the West End's Best Musicals?

Three years after storming into the Fortune Theatre, Operation Mincemeat remains one of the West ...

5 Aug, 2026 | By Hay Brunsdon