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The Old Vic’s production of Amy Herzog’s play 4000 Miles, which was to have featured the West End debut of Timothée Chalamet in a co-starring role opposite Dame Eileen Atkins, has been canceled, the theater company announced today, citing a two-year pandemic-caused delay. In a statement to ticket-holders, theater…

EXCLUSIVE: A new stage play adaption of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is being developed with an eye toward the West End and Broadway. The Tony- and Olivier Award-winning Rob Ashford is set to direct. The announcement was made today by producer Antonio Marion. Current plans are for the play to be developed…

UPDATE, July 23 The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cinderella will restart performances in London next month following what proved to be a temporary halt rather than the “closure” initially suggested by the composer. In a Tweet this morning, the production said, “We are pleased to announce that performances of Cinderella…

Andrew Lloyd Webber has announced the indefinite closure of his new West End musical Cinderella a day before its official opening due to what the composer angrily called “the blunt instrument that is the Government’s isolation guidance” regarding Covid-19. In a tweet Monday morning, Webber said the musical, which…

The Tony Award-winning Dear Evan Hansen will return to Broadway’s Music Box Theatre on December 11, five years after its original opening and 21 months after it, along with all other Broadway productions, shut down due to the Covid pandemic. The return was announced by producer producer Stacey Mindich, who also said…

Sir Tim Rice has written lyrics for some of the most beloved and successful musicals of the past century, from Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to Chess, Evita, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, but these days he’s doing a lot of talking. Like everyone else in the theater…

Update, Thursday Andrew Lloyd Webber took one for the team today, following through with his promise yesterday to participate in the Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine trial to help get live theater up and running again. Along with a photo of himself getting injected with the vaccine, the composer tweeted today, “Just…

Ralph Fiennes has been confirmed to star in London’s Bridge Theatre production of new David Hare play Beat the Devil with a target opening night in September or October. The timeline is dependent on the UK government’s approval of a re-opening plan to allow indoor performances with strict socially distanced audiences…

The Phantom of the Opera might not have left the London theater scene for good after all, assures composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Responding to a newspaper column written by Phantom producer Cameron Mackintosh stating that both the London and UK touring productions are “permanently shut down” due to the financial impact…

Andrew Scott will star in new lockdown play Three Kings, live-streamed from London's Old Vic theatre July 29 – August 1. Stephen Beresford has written the show for the Fleabag and Sherlock actor. It will explore "fathers and sons, the gifts and burdens of inheritance, and the unfathomable puzzle of human…

Blasting the British government for what he says has been “no tangible practical support,” producer Cameron Mackintosh says his company’s West End productions of Hamilton, The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins and Les Miserables won’t reopen until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. “This decision is heart-breaking…

London’s theatre district the West End will remain shuttered until at least May 31 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Society of London Theatre (SOLT), the industry body that represents West End theaters, issued an update this morning UK time. SOLT said in a statement: “We are now cancelling all performances up…