Alex Wood
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well this is terrifying in an exciting sort of way
The London Palladium announced as venue for the 24th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards ceremony
#WOSAwards
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so weird that, in a nod to the stage show, there'll be an unused dragon at the top of the screen at all times that will only make sense if you've read the book
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never imagined that this would be how i heard this for the first time
🚨 extended snippet of ariana grande’s “popular” from the upcoming “wicked” movie.
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immovable disney/marvel object meets the unstoppable idgaf spoiler force of patti lupone
Kathryn Hahn, Joe Locke and Patti LuPone tease a “hilarious, and deep” ‘Agatha’
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Lily Allen joins Olivia Rodrigo on
#Glastonbury2022
stage to sing “F**k You” - dedicated to five members of the US Supreme Court
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bit late to it but staged season 3 episode 2 is just 20 minutes of sublime tv
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ticketmaster after they hit send on those UK pre-sale emails for taylor swift
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If there was time to:
Flag with ticket agents,
make new closing date artwork,
Ask your publicists to prep a press release,
Give a quote,
Decide it should be placed exclusively and send to them under embargo
You probably had time to confirm all old and new teams were informed
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buzzing for the age-blind production of Dear Evan Hansen
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next to normal and mean girls having the same West End opening night is musical theatre's barbenheimer
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Emma Rice, fuming, watching the lighting used at the globe for new year’s eve
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Anyone who saw The Color Purple
@CurveLeicester
will know
@Fia_Dan
is incredible - but she blew the roof off
@TheatreRoyalDL
in her Elsa debut!
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This account is now exclusively dog photos and teasing theatre news
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Starring in 2:22 A Roast Story
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Today is my five year anniversary at WhatsOnStage!
Going to celebrate by reading this letter from my husband Jamie. We've been on the rocks lately but I think things are on the up
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photo makes it look like Sunak has joined the cast of the new sister act revival
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current theatre head-scratch is that we've got The Real Ones at the Bush Theatre, The Real Thing at the Old Vic, The New Real running at The Other Place and The Other Place at the National Theatre
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meanwhile in a dressing room at the phoenix theatre this winter
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That’s right, we’re announcing 2:23 A Shrek Story
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that moment when you find out your hit novel is being adapted into a musical via Twitter
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Spent a few hours meeting the newest member of the Wood/Ralfe household today:
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Aimee Lou Wood is delivering some of the best acting through song in the West End right now
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Tom Francis could sing I'm Just Ken at the Oscars but Ryan Gosling could never do a single-shot Sunset Boulevard promenading through the Royal Albert Hall
#OlivierAwards
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given they've had 9 to 5 and pretty woman back-to-back the Savoy FOH team are in for a real culture shock
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Anyone who'd been planning on doing a show that has been cancelled and wants to be spotlighted on
@WhatsOnStage
please message: am going to be doing a feature highlighting the amazing work itching for an audience
It is with broken hearts that we announce the decision to cancel VAULT Festival 2022. Our full statement follows in the thread below and is available now on our website at:
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Congratulations to everyone team
@HeathersMusical
for saying no to the pandemic and producing an absolute smash of a West End ride - the perfect tonic for these turbulent times.
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wow –
@WatermillTh
has sold out its entire socially distanced outdoor summer season! great sign for such a wonderful venue.
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i'm going to write a musical about the legal battle between two productions running in the same month that are both based on Gwyneth Platrow's legal battle
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We've started adding backstage and band credits to these types of articles where possible because, quite frankly, anyone making shows happen, no matter where they are in the production, should be shouted about!
Nice to see some producers adding the info to their PRs as well.
The Prince of Egypt reveals full company for West End return next month
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the three most recent doctor who doctors will be on stage at the same time within a mile of each other this november
Breaking: Jodie Whittaker to star in The Duchess in the West End
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One of the warmest, loveliest people I've ever interviewed. What a legend.
Gavin Creel's acceptance speech at the 2014 WhatsOnStage Awards:
"I just want to say a quick thank you to this town. I love the Columbia Road Flower Market, I love your pub culture, I love Sunday roasts, I love Hyde Park in the summer. I love this West End community and theatre
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Obviously today is a sad, horrible day - but the sheer outpouring of emotion, anecdote, revelation and memory is why this community is so brilliant.
Sondheim helped steward thousands of us, helping us find friends, companions and kindred spirits, making sense of a messy world.
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On my way to work from the
@WhatsOnStage
office for the first time in exactly six months.
Some really good stories coming up this morning - lots of positive momentum around theatres this weekend - it is small steps but safe returns and support for artists is always exciting.
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This is not how I expected to hear this for the first time
New and longer clip of Cynthia Erivo’s “Defying Gravity”.
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When was the last time a performer won an Olivier and Tony Award for the same role in the same show and, most notably, in the same season
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if only we'd trained in cyber we'd have learned how to make the font size bigger
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A month’s worth of theatre news in the next 14 hours, by the way
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Feel as though there are two very different forms of “jukebox” musical - bio musicals (Jersey Boys, GUSU) and original narratives (& Juliet, Mamma Mia, Pussycat) and they are worlds away from each other. Should the word “jukebox” be retired
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niche love for actors playing the same role in different shows
Gary Wilmot joins The Wizard of Oz revival at The London Palladium
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Theatremakers rehearsing for theatre's return – let me know who you are and if you want to take over the
@WhatsOnStage
instagram – we want to see what you're up to!
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west end shows need to stop announcing they're closing after 7pm
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the collective gasp of heathers and waitress fans heard across the land
Cast for Grease at the Dominion Theatre announced with
@MrPeterAndre
set to make his West End debut
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Given timothee chalamet was at the Kit Kat club I hereby declare the rumour mill that he’ll be cast as the emcee one day is in session
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in retrospect announcing the cast of the bake off musical on april fools was always playing with fire
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Bad luck to whoever has to be sat behind Boy George at a Phantom gala night
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In the last eight days shows at the
@bushtheatre
have won an Olivier, a Critics’ Circle Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize - quite the tally.
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Would be great if we had a culture minister keener on backing culture rather than blocking creatives on Twitter...
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been sat on this image for yonks
Tomorrow! Theatres return for the first time in five months – what are you going to see?
Check out our rolling list of reopenings:
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Massive west end / Broadway news dropping overnight + lots of lovely stuff coming tomorrow
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Rob Madge is one of the most exciting talents on any stage right now, so I feel like this postponement will only give them more time to do exciting and brilliant things
Rob Madge’s My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) postpones Broadway run
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Set to take the West End by storm...break a leg to the
@frozenlondon
team for official opening night tonight!
Photos by Johan Persson
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All-white cast amateur In the Heights revival do “96,000”
Ed Davey doing an aqua aerobics class at Cheltenham Lido
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I'd probably be looking at WOS at:
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10.15am.
It's been a busy evening.
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at the barriers for leicester square tube station a 20-something showed us his programme: 'Just saw my friend make her west end debut in
@frozenlondon
. it was amazing'
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Some personal news - Carrie and I moved out of London and into a lovely house! Now officially a commuter.
Please visit for idyllic countryside walks and the occasional magpie squawks
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can't say I had mark shenton / lily allen twitter beef on my 2023 predictions list
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Congratulations to the massive
@HairsprayLondon
team for finally getting the opening night they deserved: brilliant performances all round and Lizzie Bea led it all with ease.
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After seeing the first preview of
@frozenlondon
I swore to Carrie we’d come back and watch it again - and now we get to see
@Fia_Dan
’s first Elsa!
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big day for comebacks for things that were big in 2016
BREAKING: New production of Dear Evan Hansen to embark on UK tour
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Can’t really explain it, haven’t got the words - but Billy Elliot really was something special. So great being back at Curve for the afternoon - see the show before it disappears!
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the MCU (
@mischiefcomedy
universe) is expanding with a couple of spin-off series
Mischief to present three shows at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer
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for those wondering, whatsonstage's editorial team is being entirely run by two morning coffees, a daily berocca and regular jogs around regents park listening to 1989 to cool down after frantic publishing
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i like to think that somewhere in north london is a storage unit dedicated to housing the almeida's fake brick wall used in all their west end transfers
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Isn't Tom Hollander a bit old to play Romeo
Breaking: Tom Holland to star in Jamie Lloyd's Romeo and Juliet in the West End
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how will i get my weekly exercise if i no longer have to sprint for the last train from waterloo
National Theatre to trial 6.30pm start times for select shows
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now here's me wondering if
@CarrieHFletcher
will get ALW to sync up the Frozen and Cinderella runtimes so she and
@OliverOrmson
can do the commute home together
Lead casting and company announced for Frozen in the West End
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why would rachel zegler and kit connor share two halves of this and tag it in verona i just can't work it out
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Thoughts on
#InTheHeightsMovie
– social embargo just lifted.
@jonmchu
is the best thing to happen to musical films in a long time. He builds on his work in CRA and blends visual extravagance with grounded tales of a joyful community.
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if you're on a train out of london watching me write up the new six tour cast... you're not
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if it helps this confirms it's the west end rather than just 'London'
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maybe the real sunday in the park with george with jake gyllenhaal and annaleigh ashford in the west end was the friends we made along the way
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