Again! Step, kick, kick, leap, kick, touch… Again! God, I hope I get it… Originally devised, directed, and choreographed by Michael Bennett with a score by Marvin Hamlisch, the 1975 musical *A Chorus Line* returns to London this summer in a fresh production directed by Nikolai Foster and starring Adam Cooper and Carly Mercedes Dyer.

Cooper plays Zach, the domineering director-choreographer casting the chorus for a new Broadway musical who puts the hopefuls through the wringer – physically and...

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The iconic musical plays at Sadler's Wells this summer in an exciting new production starring Adam Cooper and Carly Mercedes Dyer.

A musical version of a chick flick? With spectacular fashion shows, epic backstabbing and a diva who’ll chill your soul, it could well be groundbreaking. *The Devil Wears Prada* struts into the West End this autumn. With an original score by Elton John and a cast led by Vanessa Williams and Matt Henry, start planning your outfit for the most stylish show in town! 

Based on the bestselling novel by Lauren Weisberger and the film starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, protagonist Andrea “Andy”...

Everything you need to know about 'The Devil Wears Prada' in the West End

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Elton John's musical version of the hit novel and film arrives at London's Dominion Theatre this autumn, starring Vanessa Williams and Matt Henry.


We’re spoiled for choice when it comes to shows in London, and it can be hard to keep up with everything that’s opening – we all have busy lives and it isn’t possible to fit everything in. Fortunately, second chances do sometimes arise!

A whole host of plays and musicals are being reprised in the West End this spring and summer, from celebrated musicals to classic drama and exciting contemporary writing. If it’s a show you’ve loved before, different cast members and venues can provide a whole...

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From *Sister Act* and *Hadestown* to *Standing at the Sky's Edge*, there's a wealth of fantastic shows coming into town – so don't miss out!

Make a joyful noise! West End favourite [Lee Mead](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/stars-on-stage/lee-mead) will join the cast of [*Sister Act*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/28926-sister-act) at the [Dominion Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/dominion-theatre) this June.

Mead is best known for his West End performances in *Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Legally Blonde*, [*Wicked*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/313-wicked-tickets), and, most...

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The London theatre veteran will join Ruth Jones, Alexandra Burke, and more in the musical based on the hit movie, which currently stars Beverley Knight.

The magic returns! [*My Neighbour Totoro*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/25389-my-neighbour-totoro-tickets), the stage adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki's beloved same-named Studio Ghibli movie, will transfer to the West End in 2025. The [Gillian Lynne Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/gillian-lynne-theatre) will host the 34-week run from 8 March to 2 November 2025. Opening night is 20 March.

*My Neighbour Totoro* follows two sisters, Satsuki and Mei, who move to the...

'My Neighbour Totoro' sets West End transfer

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Following two seasons at the Barbican Centre, the acclaimed play adapted from the classic Studio Ghibli film will play a 34-week run at the Gillian Lynne Theatre.

All hail Macbeth! *Macbeth*, starring [David Tennant](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/stars-on-stage/david-tennant) in the title role and Cush Jumbo as Lady Macbeth, will play in the West End this autumn, with performances running at the Harold Pinter Theatre from 1 October to 14 December.

The production comes to the West End from a critically acclaimed premiere at the Donmar Warehouse in fall 2023, with the entire original cast returning. Alongside Tennant (*Doctor Who*) and Jumbo (*The Good...

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo-led 'Macbeth' to transfer to the West End

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The critically acclaimed production played the Donmar Warehouse in 2023, also starring Tennant and Jumbo, and will now have a two-month run in the West End.

Truth is, no one can do what he does. Born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in 1947, Elton John has been one of the world’s most successful pop stars and songwriters since he released “Your Song” in 1970. 

Collaborating with lyricist Bernie Taupin, some of his greatest hits include “Tiny Dancer”, “Rocket Man”, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, “I’m Still Standing”, “Are You Ready for Love”, and, of course, “Candle in the Wind”, which was revised as a tribute to Princess Diana following her death and became a...

Explore the fantastic stage musicals of Elton John ahead of 'The Devil Wears Prada'

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Follow our guide to the shows composed by legendary pop star Elton John, including *The Lion King, Billy Elliot, Tammy Faye*, and the forthcoming West End musical *The Devil Wears Prada*.  

Revivals of musicals are often every bit as revelatory as new takes on classic plays. In recent years, Daniel Fish’s *Oklahoma!* imbued the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein classic with a chillingly contemporary significance without changing a word, and Jamie Lloyd’s stripped back *Sunset Boulevard* recently swept the Olivier Awards.

This summer, *Starlight Express* makes a spectacular return in a specially designed auditorium. There’s star casting aplenty as Imelda Staunton leads *Hello, Dolly!*...

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Relive all the joy of classic West End musicals as they return to London in 2024, including *Hello, Dolly!*, *Starlight Express*, and *Kiss Me, Kate*.

The [London Palladium](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/london-palladium) will show a *Robin Hood* pantomime in December, continuing its annual tradition of presenting a panto each Christmas season. Performances will run from 7 December 2024 to 12 January 2025.

The star-studded cast includes [Julian Clary](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/stars-on-stage/julian-clary) as Robin Hood, Jane McDonald as Maid Marion, Paul Zerdin as Will Scarlet, [Nigel...

Jane McDonald, Julian Clary to lead 'Robin Hood' panto in December

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Numerous award-winning West End actors will join the ninth annual panto at the historic venue, with performances running from December 2024 to January 2025.

*2:22 — A Ghost Story* is set to return to London’s West End for a strictly limited 10-week. The play will open at the Gielgud Theatre on 25 May.

The play premiered at the Noël Coward Theatre in 2020, and featured Lily Allen, Julia Chan, Hadley Fraser, and Jake Wood. A number of famous faces have gone on to star in the production, including Giovanna Fletcher, Tom Felton, Laura Whitmore, Cheryl, and Sophia Bush, among others. This run at the Gielgud marks the play's seventh West End season. ...

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A number of famous faces have starred in *2:22 — A Ghost Story*, including Giovanna Fletcher, Tom Felton, Laura Whitmore, Cheryl, and Sophia Bush. 

[*Bad Jews*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/317-bad-jew) will return to the West End this summer for a limited engagement. *Bad Jews* is at the [Arts Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/arts-theatre) from 14 July 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 and Jewish identity.

Joshua Harmon's play, *Bad Jews* opened in New York in 2012, and subsequently transferred to the West End’s Arts Theatre. Harmon’s playwriting credits include *Admissions*, *Skintight*, and *Prayer for the French Republic* which is currently in New York.

*Bad Jews* casting is to be announced. Jon Pashley directs the production.

[*Bad Jews*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/317-bad-jew) is at the Arts Theatre.

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

*Photo credit: Simon Friend and Joshua Harmon (Photos courtesy of Storyhouse PR)*


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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.*

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