The Latest Breaking News from the West End

Domestic spending is forecast to be 7% up on last year as cost of living fears ease

Despite the changing needs of businesses, high quality office space in the West End is still in high demand

Rising costs, celebrity casts, plain greed? Whatever the cause, charging hundreds of pounds a seat risks excluding the audiences that theatre’s future depends on

Mary Bridget Davies stars as the legendary singer during its six-week run on London’s West End starting this August

As Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most surreal theatrical extravaganza returns to London, Katie Rosseinsky dives into its bizarre history, from early bafflement over its plot – Elvis, a bisexual engine, disembodied children! – to Arlene Phillips choreographing it all on roller skates

The Broadway star on the return of the hit musical to the West End, mental health struggles, and how she’ll be singing Let it Go for the rest of her life

There is a robust zest that helped it stand out at the Edinburgh Fringe but in the West End, the barrage of gurning and caterwauling is a major turn-off

Forget how it used to be: today, nights in the West End are a better deal than the fashionable spots sporting an “E” postcode, argues Mike Daw

Jazz hands and big ballads are out and ‘writing about real emotions’ is in, as a new wave of musicals exploring body issues, bullying and queer identity hits the capital’s biggest stages. What’s behind this taste for introspection?