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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?

Compelling actor who played Kevan Lannister in Game of Thrones, following a notable stage career with the RSC and in the West End

British actor Tom Holland has styled a shorter haircut as first-look pictures show his return to the West End for a production of Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet.

Exclusive: Audience had ‘vitriolic reaction’ to European tone of musical, forced to close early

The pair, whose final season of the hit horror-comedy will air on the BBC this month, say the West End production will feature familiar characters and fresh surprises