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The Latest Breaking News from West End

Let's raise a glass to Bill Kenwright, one of theatre's great risk-takers

The sad news of the impresario's passing reminds us of the importance of taking a creative gamble

Evening Standard

Bill Kenwright death: Everton chairman and West End producer dies aged 78

Kenwright was a giant of West End theatre production as well as a hugely influential figure at Everton football club over the past three decades

The Independent UK

London workspaces: Landsec's Marcus Geddes on Lucent, demand and if five-day office week will return

Sat behind the capital's most famous advertising board, Marcus Geddes sounds confident that property giant Landsec will have no trouble lining up a tenant for the last remaining floor of office space at Lucent, a large West End island site that has undergone a major redevelopment and is home to…

Evening Standard

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Z Hotels to open new central London site as West End accommodation pipeline swells

The hotel company has lined up a £23 million co-loan from OakNorth Bank and property lender ASK Partners

Evening Standard

The Hunger Games stage adaptation coming to the West End

Script is being written by Olivier-winning playwright Conor McPherson

The Independent UK

Keith Baxter obituary

Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on Broadway

The Guardian - UK

Clint Dyer on the NT at 60 and Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard - The Standard Theatre Podcast

Plus we talk to Charlie Brooks about her 'emotional' West End debut

Evening Standard

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West End's Frozen actress Samantha Barks welcomes a son - and reveals the newborn's name

The theatre star announced she was expecting her first child in August

Evening Standard

Layton Williams responds to Strictly viewers complaining about his dance experience

‘Strictly’ viewers have suggested that Williams has an unfair advantage due to his professional performance experience in West End productions

The Independent UK

Sam Mendes to direct new Jez Butterworth play in London’s West End

The show, opening next January, will be one of the most anticipated productions of 2024

The Independent UK

Pet Shop Boys accuse Drake of singing West End Girls on his new album without their permission

Drake’s song ‘All the Parties’ includes the lyrics: ‘East End boys and West End girls’

The Independent UK

My London: Adam Kay

Doctor turned author and comedian Adam Kay sips cocktails at Soho Hotel, can’t resist a West End show and swans around town by royal horse and carriage (apparently)

Evening Standard

West End theatre issues statement after Just Stop Oil storm Les Miserables

Five people were arrested after protestors invaded the stage at the Sondheim Theatre

The Independent UK

Peter Wilson obituary

Leading West End producer who took over the Theatre Royal in Norwich in 1992 and completely transformed its fortunes

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

Central London office take-up tumbles but rents for top space improve

City and West End rents for top quality office spaces have improved in what will be a welcome update for landlords in a tough leasing market, as new data shows total take-up has slumped.

The Independent UK

Strictly winner Rose Ayling-Ellis picks up gong at The Stage Debut Awards 2023

The stage and TV star fought off competition from a shortlist that included Normal People star Paul Mescal and Star Trek’s Zachary Quinto.

Evening Standard

Darren Criss at London Palladium: Date, tickets, setlist, guests

Darren Criss will perform songs from his career on his West End debut next month when he takes to the stage for one night only.

AAP

Major development planned for iconic brewery site

Two years after the last pints were poured at the century-old West End brewery in Adelaide, the state government has revealed plans for a major redevelopment.

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The Guardian - UK

‘I think it’s a new artform’: Chris Fonseca, the man bringing Deaf dance to the mainstream

With his primetime TV appearances, West End shows, tours and plans for a film, choreographer Chris Fonseca is using music and dance to explore his identity. But he rejects tokenism, and ‘it’s not a Ted talk’

Evening Standard

Condé Nast seeks buyer for longstanding London headquarters

Fashion-loving property investors have the rare opportunity to acquire a famous office where supermodels and designers have visited, with the West End site that Vogue publisher Condé Nast is set to leave on the market.

The Guardian - UK

Seeing double: two visions of the Enfield poltergeist visit English theatres

The 1970s case that sparked headlines about supernatural activity has inspired a pair of stage productions. How does a fringe show compete with a starry West End behemoth?

The Independent UK

Everything we know about Vogue World, London’s answer to the Met Gala

As Anna Wintour brings a ‘multi-act celebration of the British performing arts’ to London’s West End for the first time, Ellie Muir finds out what we can expect from the fashion extravaganza

Evening Standard

Elizabeth Line stations first to get superfast 4G connectivity are revealed

Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road become first West End Tube stations to get 4G and 5G - with ‘better signal in tunnels than above ground’

The Guardian - UK

Colin Spencer also made gay theatre history as a playwright

Letter: His play Spitting Image about a gay partnership broke new ground in the West End, says Colin Chambers

Evening Standard

Lily Allen rushed off stage during The Pillowman performance amid ‘emergency evacuation’

Her West End play was interrupted by a fire alarm

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