New British musical *Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)* has extended performances by seven weeks at the Criterion Theatre in the West End. The show is now booking until 31 August.

Jim Barne and Kit Buchan's musical transferred to the West End earlier this month, following a sold-out, extended run at London's Kiln Theatre.

The production stars Olivier Award winner Sam Tutty (*Dear Evan Hansen*) as Dougal and Dujonna Gift (*Hamilton, Caroline or Change, Motown: The Musical*) as Robin....

'Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)' extends performances through August 2024

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Olivier Award winner Sam Tutty and Dujonna Gift star in this adorable two-hander by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan. Performances have been extended to 31 August.

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”...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

The multi-Olivier-winning play continues its West End run. *Life of Pi* will play an extended booking period through 30 October. *Life of Pi* is at the [Wyndham’s Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/wyndhams-theatre). [*Life of Pi* tickets are on sale now.](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/19234-life-of-pi)

The *Life of Pi* play won five Olivier Awards earlier this year, including Best New Play, Best Actor, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Set Design and Best Lighting Design. [Read all the Olivier Award winners here](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/2022-olivier-awards-winners). 

Based on Yann Martel’s award-winning novel of the same name, *Life of Pi* follows a sixteen-year-old boy who recalls the tragic events of being a shipwreck’s sole human survivor. While making his painstaking way to shore, he is accompanied by a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. 

The *Life of Pi* cast includes Hiran Abeysekera as Pi, Mina Anwar as Ma, Nicholas Khan as Father, Payal Mistry as Rani, Tom Espiner as Father Martin and Commander Grant-Jones, Raj Ghatak as Mamaji and Pandit-Ji, Syreeta Kumar as Mrs Biology Kumar and Zaida Khan, David K.S. Tse as Mr Okamoto, Kirsten Foster as Lulu Chen, Habib Nasib Nader as Cook and Voice of Tiger.

The seven puppeteers who operate the Richard Parker tiger are Fred Davis (Tiger Head), Daisy Franks (Tiger Hind), Romina Hytten (Tiger Heart), Tom Larkin (Tiger Head), Tom Stacy (Tiger Hind) and Scarlet Wilderink (Tiger Heart). [Find out more about the *Life of Pi* puppets.](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/interviews/puppetry-designers-nick-barnes-and-finn-caldwell-on-creating-magic-in-life)

Max Webster directs *Life of Pi*. Set and costume design is Tim Hatley, with puppet movement and design by Finn Caldwell and Nick Barnes, lighting design by Tim Lutkin, and sound design by Carolyn Downing.

*Life of Pi* is at the Wyndham’s Theatre.

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Following a critically and commercially successful world premiere at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre, *Life of Pi* transfers to Wyndham's Theatre in London. See *Life of Pi* in London before it closes in January 2023. 

Yann Martel's *Life of Pi* novel was adapted into a film in 2012 which, directed by Ang Lee, was a huge success. Grossing over $600 million at the box office, the film, which starred Suraj Sharma, was nominated for nine Academy Awards, taking home four including Best Director and Best Original Score.

*Life of Pi* is an epic voyage across the ocean, adapted beautifully for the stage by Lolita Chakrabarti. Chakrabarti's works include *Red Velvet* at the Garrick Theatre and *Hymn* at the Almeida Theatre. In 2021, Chakrabarti was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama.

Chakrabarti's stage adaptation premiered at Sheffield Theatres in June 2019 to positive reviews from theatre critics. The *Life of Pi* play features inventive direction by Max Webster, with life-size puppets designed by Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell. 

*Life of Pi* won five Olivier Awards in 2022, including Best New Play, and a shared award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play for the seven actors who portray the Richard Parker tiger puppet.

## What is *Life of Pi* about?

*Life of Pi* is a play that's based on Yann Martel's Man Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name. *Life of Pi* centres on the title character, the sole human survivor of a shipwreck along with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Together, the boy, the beast and a menagerie must learn to coexist on a lifeboat as they battle for survival.

## Who is Richard Parker in *Life of Pi*?

Richard Parker is the name of the tiger in *Life of Pi.* The tiger is given such a human name due to miscommunication. Richard Parker's original name was Thirsty, but due to a mess up in paper work, his name became Richard Parker.

## How long is *Life of Pi*?

The *Life of Pi* running time is 2 hours and 10 minutes, including a 15-minute interval. Matinee performances begin at 2:30pm or 3:00pm and evening performances begin at 7:00pm.

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Stranded at sea… with a tiger. After a sell-out premier in Sheffield, this adaptation of the hit novel comes to the West End for a highly anticipated run.
Stunning life-size puppetry helps bring the story of Pi and his tiger Richard Parker to life, in a script by recent OBE awardee Lolita Chakrabarti. 
Join the journey of *Life of Pi* at Wyndham’s Theatre today.

Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize for his celebrated novel, which works both as a thrilling adventure tale and as a fascinating exploration of different philosophies, faiths and ideas. 

Both elements remain in the stage play: in fact, the very art of storytelling, and how we use it to make sense of our lives, is on display, since the show features Pi recalling past events to two people while he’s in hospital.

The clever stage adaptation is by Lolita Chakrabarti, known as both an actress and a writer. Her previous plays include *Red Velvet*, about the 19th-century African-American actor Ira Aldridge, which starred her husband Adrian Lester. 

Bringing the *Life of Pi* world to life also required an innovative creative team, including director Max Webster, set and costume designer Tim Hatley, video designer Andzrej Goulding, lighting designer Tim Lutkin, sound designer Carolyn Downing, and puppetry specialists Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell. The latter pair previously worked on *Angels in America*, and Caldwell on the original *War Horse*.

## What to Watch For:

- Martel’s novel was previously adapted into a film by Ang Lee, in 2012. Starring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan and Rafe Spall, it featured ground-breaking visual effects work and was critically acclaimed. The movie was nominated for 11 Oscars and won four, including a Best Director award for Lee.
- The look of the animal puppets was inspired by driftwood, tying them visually into the concept of the shipwreck, and are designed so that you see their skeletons working. They’re made out of Plastazote, plywood, aluminium and nylon, with bungee cords allowing their joints to stretch.
- There are multiple puppeteers in the company, working in teams and rotating shows, since it’s such a taxing effort to work the puppets and requires incredible levels of skill and coordination. Even though each move is carefully rehearsed ahead of time, there are always slight variations on each night, keeping it fresh.
- Which belief system would you rely on in a crisis? As Pi is stranded, he imagines various people in his life offering him advice to help him cope – including religious faith, pragmatic logic, mathematical analysis and morality. It’s one of the interesting ways that Martel’s theories come through in the play.

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A teenage boy adrift at sea for 227 days with only a Royal Bengal tiger for company? Yann Martel's Booker Prize-winning philosophical novel&nbsp;<a href="https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/19234-life-of-pi" target="_blank">Life of Pi</a> is the ultimate adaptation challenge - which is what makes this triumphant Sheffield Crucible production, now playing in the West End, such a pleasure. It's a clear team effort: serious theatrical craft and creative brilliance that results in images of hallucinatory beauty.Hiran Abeysekera plays Pi Patel, who loses his family when the ship carrying them and the inhabitants of their zoo from India to Canada is struck by a storm. He makes it to a lifeboat, followed by some of those zoo animals: a hyena, an injured zebra, an orangutan, and Richard Parker the tiger - so called because a clerk mixed up the names on the form and gave the great cat his captor's moniker.Pi relates his extraordinary tale to two strangers in a Mexican hospital room: a harried transport investigator and a consulate official. This framing device is the weakest element of the production, bluntly spelling out Martel's exploration of narrative and belief systems, and the two figures are unfortunate stereotypes: the stern Japanese man and the cuddly Canadian woman. The heart sinks whenever we return to this plodding present.Otherwise, this is a gorgeous staging by adaptor Lolita Chakrabarti and director Max Webster: vivid, witty, poignant and wondrous. It conjures up whole worlds, beginning with the zoo owned by Pi's parents. A giraffe pokes its head through one of the windows, a zebra shies away from its pen, and a goat playfully butts Pi - all courtesy of War Horse puppeteers Finn Caldwell and Nick Barnes.The detailed physicality is riveting, particularly the tiger, whose joints uncoil like springs as he pounces on his prey before curling up to lick his paws. Equally impressive is the way that it conveys the rich inner lives of these animals. I'm afraid to say I immediately overinvested in the doomed goat - a rookie error. But that's the point here: we must meet the production with our own imagination and empathy, to be part of the team effort.From the zoo, we head to a teeming street market and then to the ship, as Pi's parents decide to leave a politically turbulent India. (Talk of how government corruption damages a whole nation has extra resonance right now.) Here Tim Hatley's design, Tim Lukin's lighting and Andrzej Goulding's video combine to incredible effect, giving us water crashing over the ship's deck, pounding rain and sheer terror. Later, as Pi drifts in his lifeboat, we get huge skies, rocking waves, pinprick stars and glowing fish - a seascape somewhere between remarkably real and thrillingly mystical.That works beautifully for Martel's tale, which must function as both adventure yarn and complex analogy. Pi isn't just testing his physical will but his understanding of various religions and methods, whether pure logic, mathematical analysis or morality, as well as figuring out how best to process trauma. All of those elements are carried by the phenomenal Hiran Abeysekera, who gives us the raw struggle to cling to life as well as the quick-witted, enigmatic Pi who proves slippery with facts.There are good supporting turns from Mina Anwar, Nicholas Khan and Payal Mistry as Pi's family, and Tom Espiner as Commander Grant-Jones, the stuffy upper-crust author of a survival guide which Pi discovers while at sea - and which provides some welcome levity.President Barack Obama wrote to Martel saying that Life of Pi was "an elegant proof of God, and the power of storytelling." While not everyone will agree with the first part of that, this production certainly has a spiritual or otherworldly sensation, and it absolutely demonstrates the transporting joy of magnificent theatrical storytelling.<a href="https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/19234-life-of-pi" target="_blank">Life of Pi is at the Wyndham's Theatre. Book Life of Pi tickets on London Theatre.</a>Photo credit:&nbsp;Hiran Abeysekera (Pi) Tom Larkin (Tiger Head) Nicholas Khan (Pi's Father) (Photo by Johan Persson)

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After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a sixteen year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors - a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?

Winner of 5 Olivier Awards, including 'Best New Play', *Life of Pi* is based on one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction – the smash hit adaptation of an epic journey of endurance and hope.

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Fresh from breaking Box Office records earlier this year, prepare to welcome The Unfriend back to the West End for a strictly limited run at Wyndham’s Theatre from 16 December.

The Wyndham’s Theatre opened on 16 Nov. 1899. The theatre was commissioned by Charles Wyndham who also managed the [Criterion Theatre.](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/criterion-theatre) 

The Wyndham’s welcomed its first long-running production – Sandy Wilson’s musical *The Boyfriend* which opened on 14 Jan. 1959 and ran for over 2,000 performances. Another successful musical came to the theatre in 1972, the Roundhouse’s production of Stephen Schwartz’s *Godspell*, which ran for three years. The theatre has seen many notable actors grace the stage, including Alec Guinness, [Vanessa Redgrave](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/actor-profile/vanessa-redgrave), Diana Rigg and Madonna.

In May 2005, the Wyndham’s Theatre was bought by Cameron Mackintosh through his company Delfont Mackintosh Theatres. The theatre was renovated in 2008 and plays regularly run for limited engagements at the Wyndham's Theatre.

## Wyndham's Theatre Seating Information

The auditorium has four levels - Stalls, Royal Circle, Grand Circle and Balcony.

In the Stalls, the front four rows of seating are not raked, but other than that the seats in the Stalls offer excellent views of the stage.

Only the seats in Row G of the Royal Circle are affected by the overhang of the Grand Circle. Seats are well raked, offering great views of the stage.

The Grand Circle is set very high in this theatre.

The Balcony is set behind and above the Grand Circle, so does feel far from the stage, but the view is unobstructed.

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