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West End Best Friend is your companion for all things West end and beyond. Our aim is to champion musical theatre performers and shows from around the United Kingdom.

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westendbestfriend.co.uk > news > michelle-gomez-michael-d-xavier-royal-exchange-a-little-night-music

Michelle Gomez and Michael D. Xavier to make Royal Exchange debuts in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (456+ words) West End Best Friend Michelle Gomez and Michael D. Xavier to make Royal Exchange debuts in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC The Royal Exchange Theatre has announced full casting for Stephen Sondheim’s much-loved classic A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, the penultimate production of…...

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Review: KIMBERLY AKIMBO, Hampstead Theatre

4+ day, 14+ min ago   (436+ words) Arriving from Broadway, with five Tony awards nestled in its hand luggage, Kimberly Akimbo has undoubtedly been one of the most anticipated London transfers in recent years. It’s easy to see why it became such a fan favourite across the…...

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westendbestfriend.co.uk > news > review-bigfoot-ripped-my-dog-in-half-i-saw-it-soho-theatre

Review: BIGFOOT RIPPED MY DOG IN HALF I SAW IT, Soho Theatre

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (553+ words) The music doesn't stop there. Songs keep popping up at exactly the right moment, sometimes with a lyric that suddenly fits what's happening – Britney Spears singing "I must confess" being one particularly well-timed example. At first, it's another part of…...

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Review: CRYBABIES: THE SCARING, Soho Theatre

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (381+ words) Fresh from an acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, comedy troupe Crybabies have brought their all-new horror spoof The Scaring to London’s Soho Theatre. It is no easy feat to replicate the success of a fringe production but this…...

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westendbestfriend.co.uk > news > review-right-before-i-go-soho-theatre

Review: RIGHT BEFORE I GO, Soho Theatre

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (155+ words) Performed as a half-staged reading, it can't settle on whether it wants to be page or stage: the passages of dialogue between Zimmerman and his friend, played on this day by Lucy Speed, cry out to be lifted off the…...

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BEST OF THE FRINGE 2026: James??? picks

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1496+ words) Another Edinburgh Fringe is now over, and after a very full few weeks of seeing as much theatre as humanly possible, it is time to attempt the rather impossible task of choosing my favourite shows of the festival. I tend…...

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westendbestfriend.co.uk > news > review-frankenstein-greenwich-theatre-british-youth-music-theatre

Review: FRANKENSTEIN, Greenwich Theatre - British Youth Music Theatre

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (207+ words) Ah Frankenstein - Mary Shelley's classic literary masterpiece has been adapted many a time in TV, film, theatre and everything in between. However, at Greenwich Theatre, something slightly more peculiar is occurring. A musical adaptation, and not just any musical adaptation,…...

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westendbestfriend.co.uk > news > the-choir-of-man-return-london-christmas-26

THE CHOIR OF MAN set to return to London this Christmas

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (206+ words) The producers of the Olivier Award-nominated international smash hit musical THE CHOIR OF MAN have announced that the show will return to London this Christmas, opening at Arts at Marble Arch, powered by TodayTix, on 10 December, playing until 14 February 2027. The…...

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westendbestfriend.co.uk > news > fringe-review-little-animals-studio-theatre-at-traverse-the-lyceum-studio

Fringe Review: LITTLE ANIMALS, Studio Theatre at Traverse @ The Lyceum Studio

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (161+ words) It's the simplicity of Little Animals that allows these ideas the space to breathe. The lights are up, all is laid out bare, only Ready is on the stage. It is this space that becomes cavernous or shrinks to nothing,…...

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Fringe Review: BUGGERS, Upstairs at Pleasance Courtyard

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (409+ words) West End Best Friend Fringe Review: BUGGERS, Upstairs at Pleasance Courtyard Buggers is a soaring, volatile piece of theatre. Charting the troubled relationship of artist Francis Bacon (Alistair Hall) and his lover and muse George Dyer (Peter Clements) in the…...