Disney’s The Lion King will welcome 14 new members to its cast of over 50 actors, singers and dancers when it reopens this summer with Kayi Ushe taking on the role of Simba

The full cast has been announced for Magic Mike Live which reopens at The Hippodrome Casino on Friday 21st May

Gaynor Faye will join Adam Woodyatt in the UK tour of Peter James’ Looking Good Dead which opens at Leicester Curve in July

Interview: Charlotte Bennett will direct the world premiere of Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me by Amy Trigg, which won The Women’s Prize for Playwriting, and will reopen the Kiln Theatre

Charles Court Opera are hitting the high notes coming out of lockdown with the London premiere of Express G&S and a UK tour of its acclaimed production of Iolanthe