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London’s West End Set for a Spectacular 2027 as Major Musicals, Star Names and New Productions Prepare to Take Centre Stage
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London’s West End Set for a Spectacular 2027 as Major Musicals, Star Names and New Productions Prepare to Take Centre Stage

London’s West End is already shaping up for an exciting 2027, with a mixture of much-loved musicals returning to the capital, acclaimed productions making the journey from Broadway and beyond, and ambitious new plays bringing some of the biggest names in entertainment to the London stage. From the long-awaited return of Billy Elliot the Musical to a new stage adventure from filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, theatre audiences will have plenty to look forward to. Established favourites will continue to attract visitors from across the UK and overseas, while fresh adaptations and revivals promise to give theatregoers new reasons to visit Theatreland. With productions spanning comedy, drama, romance, dance and spectacular musical theatre, 2027 looks set to be a year in which nostalgia and the...
Amadeus – National Theatre
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Amadeus – National Theatre

Director Michael Longhurst’s 2016 production of Peter Shaffer’s iconic play is a stunning piece of theatre starring Lucian Msamati as Salieri alongside Adam Gillen as Mozart with the musicians of Southbank Sinfonia cleverly weaved into the action providing live accompaniment to the story. We begin at Salieri’s end as he recalls the almost Faustian bargain he made with God at the age of sixteen: to become a fêted and famous composer in exchange for living a virtuous life and honouring God at every turn. Fast forward to 1881 Vienna and all Salieri’s dreams have come true in the court of Emperor Joseph II (Tom Edden). But nobody expected Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A rowdy young prodigy who arrives with his wife to be, Constanze (Karla Crome), determined to leave his mark  Whi...