Emma Williams News

Mercury Musical Developments and Stiles + Drewe in partnership with PW Productions have announced the star-studded cast that will appear at this year's Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize.

West End performers will bring Adam Guettel’s song cycle Myths & Hymns to life in Union Chapel in July. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

SCISSORHANDZ: A Musical Reinvented is now playing at Southwark Playhouse. See what the critics are saying about the production and read the reviews here!

Much like the Inventor creating the titular character, Scissorhandz - A Musical Reinvented has a lot to love about it but could do with some tinkering to fix its narrative issues.

Check out all-new photos from SCISSORHANDZ: A Musical Reinvented, now playing at Southwark Playhouse for an exclusive 10-week engagement closing on 29 March.

A reimagining is underway of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Matthew Warchus will serve as director for the forthcoming film, which will be written by Enda Walsh.

Fire up those engines! Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the classic family musical starring Dick Van Dyke, is being reimagined with a new film. The project is aiming for a theatrical release with Amazon MGM Studios, though dates are unknown at this time.

SCISSORHANDZ has found its lead cast! SCISSORHANDZ will open at Southwark Playhouse, Elephant from 23 January 2025. Learn more about the show and the cast here!

Love is a complicated business – and so is bringing a debut play to the stage. But writer and performer Alys Williams has successfully navigated both with her new show, The Light House, which brings love, light and hope to Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre on 29 February.

Check out photos from the opening night of the UK and Ireland tour of HAMILTON at the Manchester Palace Theatre on Tuesday 21 November 2023!

Alys Williams' new play, The Light House, which brings love, light and hope to the Bramall Rock Void at Leeds Playhouse from 5-7 October. 

The annual CFT summer blockbuster delivers West End quality again at considerably more affordable prices - time to book a train or set the satnav

The full company has been announced for Adam Penford’s new production of The Sound of Music, running at Chichester Festival Theatre from 10 July – 3 September

The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Nashville Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

A stellar line-up of 12 musical theatre Stars, along with host Michael D. Xavier, will bring festive stardust and glitter to Covent Garden's The Actor's Church on the Sunday before Christmas, as they perform in a special concert in aid of Children with Cancer UK (CwCUK) accompanied by the students of MX Masterclass (MXM).

Shepherd University's contemporary theater studies program announces its production of The Thanksgiving Play. The comedy will be professionally performed on Broadway in 2023. The Shepherd University production will be the regional premiere.

Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett with book and lyrics by Marsha Norman and music by Lucy Simon, the Tony Award-winning musical THE SECRET GARDEN returns to the West End for a one-night-only concert celebration at The London Palladium on Sunday 28 August. Watch Westlife's Mark Feehily and Hadley Fraser sing 'Lily's Eyes' here!

Leeds Playhouse and Nottingham Playhouse have announced the full cast who will star the regional premiere of Natasha Gordon's critically acclaimed play NINE NIGHT. This comedic and heartfelt production will play in Leeds from 24 September – 15 October ahead of transferring to Nottingham from 19 October – 5 November.