A new revival of *Oliver!* will transfer to the West End this December. Lionel Bart's adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel will open at the Gielgud Theatre.

The cast will include Simon Lipkin (*Elf*) as Fagin, Shanay Holmes (*Miss Saigon*) as Nancy, Aaron Sidwell (*The Lord of the Rings*) as Bill Sikes, Billy Jenkins (*Dodger*) as the Artful Dodger, and Philip Franks (*Art*) as Mr Brownlow. 

The production will be directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, in collaboration with Cameron...

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Lionel Bart's adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel will have direction and choreography by Matthew Bourne. It opens at the Gielgud Theatre in December.

When someone says the words "Moulin Rouge", what do you think of first? We tend to think of the lascivious, nighttime behaviour mixed with the lavishness and luxuriousness of a sizzling nightclub. If you've watched the film and even been to visit the Moulin Rouge in Paris, you'll love [*Moulin Rouge! The Musical*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/23350-moulin-rouge-the-musical-tickets) at the [Piccadilly Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/piccadilly-theatre).

Baz Luhrmann's...

Everything you need to know about 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' in London

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Dom Simpson and Tanisha Spring play Christian and Satine in *Moulin Rouge! The Musical* in the West End. Read our guide to learn more about this spectacular show.

Nicholas Hytner’s immersive production of [*Guys & Dolls*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/25504-guys-and-dolls-tickets) has announced its final extension at London's Bridge Theatre. The show will now run until 4 January 2025.

The production, which opened at the theatre in March 2023, recently won the Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer for Arlene Phillips with James Cousins.

*Guys & Dolls* stars Owain Arthur (*The History Boys, One Man, Two Guvnors, The Lord of the Rings*) as...

'Guys & Dolls' extends performances through January 2025

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Nicholas Hytner’s immersive production recently won the Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer for Arlene Phillips's work with James Cousins.


Find out the full list of winners at the 2024 Olivier Awards with London Theatre. The ceremony took place at the Royal Albert Hall on 14 April.

Jamie Lloyd's *Sunset Boulevard* won big on the night, with seven awards including Best Actress in a Musical for Nicole Scherzinger for her turn as Norma Desmond, Best Director for Jamie Lloyd, and Best Musical Revival.

*Dear England, Operation Mincemeat*, and *Stranger Things: The First Shadow* all won two awards each.

Sarah Snook scooped Best...

2024 Olivier Awards: Full list of winners

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Hannah Waddingham hosted the 2024 Olivier Awards at the Royal Albert Hall. Jamie Lloyd's *Sunset Boulevard* was the night's biggest winner, and took home seven awards.

[*Heathers the Musical*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/11652-heathers-the-musical) is set to return to the West End, as part of its third national tour. It will open at London's @sohoplace for a limited six-week run on 22 May.

The musical, which is based on the 1989 film of the same name, starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, follows Veronica Sawyer, a high school “nobody” who dreams of becoming popular. When she’s taken in by beautiful but cruel girl group the 'Heathers', her...

'Heathers the Musical' to return to the West End

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The musical had its European premiere at The Other Palace in 2018 and returned to the venue last year, becoming the longest running show in the venue’s history. 


Ivo Van Hove's new musical [*Opening Night*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/36785-opening-night), which is based on John Cassavetes’s 1977 film and stars Sheridan Smith, is set to end its run two months early.

The show opened on 6 March and was due to run until 27 July, but the producers have announced it will now close on 18 May. 

Producers Wessex Grove said: “It is an honour to produce this beautiful new musical in the West End, and everyone at Wessex Grove is proud to have delivered...

Sheridan Smith's 'Opening Night' to finish West End run early 

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The show, conceived and directed by Ivo Van Hove, opened on 6 March and was due to run until 27 July, but producers have announced it will now close on 18 May. 

The full cast has been revealed for the revival of Jerry Herman’s *Jerry Girls* at London's Menier Chocolate Factory. The show opens on 18 May for a limited six-week run.

The musical revue, which celebrates the life and legacy of legendary award-winning Broadway composer Jerry Herman, will star Olivier Award winner Cassidy Janson *(Bare, & Juliet, Beautiful — The Carole King Musical, Wicked The Mousetrap, Avenue Q*), Lyn Paul (*Calendar Girls – The Musical, Blood Brothers, Cabaret, Footloose*),...

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Olivier Award winner Cassidy Janson will star in the musical revue, which celebrates the life and legacy of legendary award-winning Broadway composer Jerry Herman.

The full cast has been revealed for Bartlett Sher's production of the Cole Porter classic musical comedy [*Kiss Me, Kate*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/10471-kiss-me%2C-kate). The show opens at the Barbican in London on 4 June for a strictly limited 15-week run.

Joining the previously announced Adrian Dunbar (*Line of Duty*) as Fred Graham/Petruchio and Stephanie J Block (*Into the Woods, Wicked, Sunset Boulevard*) as Lilli Vanessi/Katharine, will be Josie Benson as Hattie, Jack...

Full cast announced for 'Kiss Me, Kate' at the Barbican

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The Cole Porter classic musical will play a limited 15-week run at London's Barbican Centre, and stars Adrian Dunbar and Stephanie J. Block as the leads.

It’s important to remember that in such a busy season in which plenty of plays and musicals were entirely overlooked and huge names were shut out of creative and acting categories alike, it really is a privilege for this year’s shortlist just to have been nominated. That being said, I still have plenty of thoughts.

## Best New Play
• *Dear England* at National Theatre & Prince Edward Theatre  
• [*The Hills of California*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/36247-the-hills-of-california) at...

The Olivier Awards 2024: who should and who will win?

The West End’s most important night is just around the corner. Mickey-Jo Theatre takes a look at the nominees in some of the main categories, and gives us his predictions.

Spring is in the air. And the biggest night in West End theatre is on the horizon. Hannah Waddingham returns to host the Olivier Awards on 14 April, with shows including *Sunset Boulevard, Dear England*, and *Guys & Dolls* up for awards. [Find out more about the Olivier Awards.](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/whats-on/olivier-awards) But the Olivier Awards is only one evening's worth of a month of theatre to look forward to.

Read on for our top picks for what to see in London this...

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From Sir Ian McKellen returning to Shakespeare in *Player Kings* to bright, bold costumes in *Priscilla the Party!*, here’s the top theatre picks in London this April.

Find out who will star in *Bad Jews* at the Arts Theatre this summer. *Bad Jews* begins previews at the [Arts Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/arts-theatre) on 14 July, ahead of an opening night on 26 July and performances to 25 September. [*Bad Jews* tickets are on sale now.](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/317-bad-jew) 

The *Bad Jews* play follows two cousins, Daphna and Liam, who try to take ownership of their grandfather’s heirloom. As they decide who should keep the heirloom, there's a heated discussion of family, Jewish identity, and their future legacies.

The *Bad Jews* cast includes Ashley Margolis as Liam, Charlie Beaven as Jonah, Olivia Le Anderson as Melody, and Rosie Yadid as Daphna. 

Joshua Harmon’s *Bad Jews* play made its West End premiere at the Arts Theatre in 2015. Harmon’s playwriting credits include *Admissions*, *Skintight*, and *Prayer for the French Republic*. Jon Pashley directs *Bad Jews*.

*Bad Jews* is at the Arts Theatre.

[*Bad Jews* tickets are on sale now.](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/317-bad-jew) 

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Joshua Harmon’s critically-acclaimed play, *Bad Jews*, returns to the West End in 2022. *Bad Jews* is at the Arts Theatre. *Bad Jews* tickets are available on London Theatre now.

The *Bad Jews* play follows a group of relatives who are caught in a tricky position. After their grandfather’s passing, they’re left to decide who should own an important family heirloom. The religious jewellery dates back to the Holocaust and is of cultural significance. But who should be left in possession of the sentimental artefact? Will it be Daphna, Daphna’s cousin Liam, Liam’s girlfriend Melody, or Jonah, that walks away with the “prize”? You’re invited to see a private family fight come to light on stage.

*Bad Jews* premiered off-Broadway in 2012 and received nominations for Best New Off-Broadway play in awards ceremonies across the season. *Bad Jews* then transferred to the Arts Theatre in 2015. Read a [*Bad Jews* review on London Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/reviews/bad-jews). Jon Pashley, will direct the *Bad Jews* play in London in 2022. 

The *Bad Jews* play is by Joshua Harmon. The New York-based playwright made his debut with *Bad Jews*, but has since written *Significant Other*, *Skintight*, *Admissions* and *Prayer for the French Republic*. 

*Bad Jews* is one of a number of family dramas in the West End. *Mad House* plays at the Ambassadors Theatre, while *The Glass Menagerie* is at the Duke of York’s Theatre.

*Bad Jews* tickets are on sale now. Book your *Bad Jews* tickets on London Theatre today.

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There’s nothing like family to bring out your bad side. This critically acclaimed family drama returns after a sell-out run. 
Funny, harsh, and intimate, this hit play provides a glimpse into one family’s deepest secrets.
Claim your place at the table for *Bad Jews* at the Arts Theatre today. 


Joshua Harmon’s debut play *Bad Jews* is back at the Arts Theatre for 11 weeks. See *Bad Jews* in London. Book *Bad Jews* tickets in London on TodayTix.

The *Bad Jews* play is set over one night in a Manhattan apartment. At the start of the play, family members and their partners come together to grieve over their grandfather’s passing. Conversations quickly turn to his possessions, especially a culturally significant heirloom which dates back to the Holocaust. It can’t be split equally between all four people. Someone must own it. But who? 

*Bad Jews* drama ensues pretty quickly when each family member states their case. Should the heirloom belong to Daphna, Daphna’s cousin, Liam, Liam’s girlfriend Melody, or Liam’s brother, Jonah? Throughout Bad Jews, the foursome try to prove they’re more deserving than each other with plenty of consequences. 

Like many of his plays, Joshua Harmon’s *Bad Jews* is a dark comedy which puts families and legacies under a microscope. The play is a decade old but continues to resonate with modern-day events. Discover who takes home the heirloom with *Bad Jews* tickets.

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## What to Watch For: 

- The upcoming *Bad Jews* London performances mark somewhat of a Bad Jews homecoming. When the play first opened in the West End in 2015, performances were at the Arts Theatre. Now, seven years later, Bad Jews is back at the Arts Theatre.
- Joshua Harmon is a New York-based playwright. His London plays include *Admissions*, which ran at Trafalgar Studios in 2019. 
- *Bad Jews* transferred to the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2016.

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Repeated viewings, not to mention a far-from-ideal cast, haven’t been kind to [*Bad Jews*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/317-bad-jew), the Joshua Harmon play that I first saw, and enjoyed, Off Broadway in 2012 and have now encountered in London, in a separate production, three times since.

This current iteration marks a restaging by Jon Pashley of the play’s 2015 London premiere, which was directed by Michael Longhurst and brought to attention the fine American actress Jenna Augen in the play’s defining role of the feisty, damaged Daphna.

A take-no-prisoners firebrand who is revealed by play’s end to also be a psychologically scarred fantasist, Daphna offers a bravura opportunity for an actress but a tricky one, as well. Tune out to her stridency, and you’ve more or less lost the play, given that she is its furious engine, for good or ill: you need to engage with her hairpin turns of emotion right up to the reckoning when Daphna quite literally gets pulled up short by her long, curly hair. 

The role this time round is taken by Rosie Yadid, a newcomer now as Augen was then and a performer whose commitment to the part is never in doubt. But playing a fervently devoted Jew who locks horns over a family heirloom with a cousin, Liam, whose real name is actually Shlomo, Yadid sustains such a vitriolic pitch that she wears the audience out. 

Liam may deride his cousin as a “super-Jew” quick to perceive slights at every turn, but there’s little denying that she’s exhausting company from whom anyone might well seek relief. 

Such unbridled intensity poses a problem for the remaining actors, all of whom seem to have ramped up their responses to breaking point and beyond. You yearn for just a shred of calm and quiet as the stakes are raised, not to mention proper consideration given to infelicities in the plot that never really added up and do so now less than ever. (Characters at least twice retreat from view, but only once is something made of the obvious realisation that every loaded aspersion can be heard through the bathroom door.) 

The situation is one of familial overcrowding: Daphna, short of money, arrives in Manhattan for the funeral of her beloved grandfather, or “poppy”, and finds herself sharing a studio apartment with her indrawn cousin, Jonah (Charlie Beaven, making his West End debut), and Jonah’s assimilationist sibling Liam (a manic Ashley Margolis), a PhD candidate who has missed the actual service but nonetheless arrives primed to do battle. 

The quartet is completed by Liam’s blonde (that’s to say non-Jewish) girlfriend Melody (Olivia Le Andersen), who has studied opera at college but somehow can’t manage a decent impromptu rendition of “Summertime” – a scene entirely at the expense of the character that seems crueller with every renewed exposure: Liam claims to admire Melody’s “purity”, which is a bit rich when Harmon holds that very character in such contempt. 

Daphna, meanwhile, has never heard of *Porgy and Bess*, a cultural gap that itself seems odd given that she can hold forth on Jews who have won the Nobel Prize and is quick to correct the plural of syllabuses to syllabi. So how did the Gershwins pass her by?  

Earlier accounts of this play communicated cross-currents of feeling that get lost in the shouty invective here: Jonah, for one, here seems less an emblem of attempted neutrality and more a cartoonish cipher whose climactic revelation isn’t remotely earned. 

And the conception of Melody put me in mind this time round of Honey in *Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*, another sweet-seeming outlier to the gathering anger who gets relegated offstage before returning in time to be reduced to a hysteric. 

Harmon can pen barbs, that’s for sure, and it was interesting watching those near me recoil in shock or disbelief at some of the more coarse, crude remarks that detonate arguably more forcefully in our newly-sensitised times than they did a decade ago. 

A prolonged set piece about the digestive fate of Jews who happen to eat at the Japanese restaurant Benihana seems as questionable as Melody’s final dismissal of the symbolically-laden medallion, or “chai”, that has been fought over during the preceding 90 minutes. “It was in someone’s mouth,” she says, disgusted, which is itself a disgusting thing to say within this context. 

The rare play to use “Holocaust” as a verb, *Bad Jews* covers the waterfront when it comes to tethering one’s faith to the mast and the lengths to which people will go when ancestry is invoked, and self-identity, too. And yet, I’m not sure so exaggerated a renewal of this play is all that valuable when Harmon’s latest, the much-heralded, large-cast *Prayer for the French Republic*, remains unproduced this side of the Atlantic. Fully acquainted with this play and its nastiness, I’m now ready to be taken by the same playwright somewhere new.

*Bad Jews is at the Arts Theatre to 25 September. Book Bad Jews tickets on London Theatre.*

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The Arts Theatre opened in April 1927. It originally opened with the intention of being a performance space for unlicensed plays. Quickly, the Arts Theatre became known as a venue for shows that were not thought to be commercially viable.

In 1942, the theatre was taken over by Alec Clunes and John Hanau. Their tenure saw over 100 plays produced in a decade, earning the nickname of "The National Pocket Theatre". The [Unicorn Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/unicorn-theatre) enjoyed a 32-year tenure in the late 20th-century, allowing straight plays to perform in the evenings whilst giving the touring children’s theatre company a permanent London home during the day. 

It is now considered an independent commercial theatre, hosting short engagements, as well as cabarets, showcases and stand-up comedians. Recent successes at the Arts Theatre include *Six* and *The Choir of Man.*

## Arts Theatre Seating Information

The auditorium has two levels – Stalls and Circle. It’s an intimate space, so all patrons will feel close to the action. The Circle overhangs the Stalls from Row E.

The seating in the Circle is lightly raked.

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