Gird your loins! The stylish stage musical version of *[The Devil Wears Prada](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/34706-the-devil-wears-prada)* is strutting into London’s West End, bringing one of the most fearsome (semi-)fictional villains to theatre: Miranda Priestley, editor-in-chief of *Runway* magazine. She was immortalised on film by Meryl Streep, and now Vanessa Williams inherits her withering gaze and icy putdowns.

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As the comedy classic makes its fashionable entrance at the Dominion Theatre, get to know Elton John's fabulous songs for this stage musical adaptation.

Willkommen Billy and Marisha! New casting has been announced for the roles of The Emcee and Sally Bowles in [*Cabaret*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/23939-cabaret-tickets) at the Kit Kat Club in London. 

From 28 January 2025, Emmy, Tony and Grammy Award winner Billy Porter will play The Emcee and double Olivier Award nominee Marisha Wallace will play Sally Bowles.

Porter recently played Pray Tell in series *Pose*, which earned him an Emmy Award as well as Golden Globe and Critics...

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Billy Porter, who originated the role of Lola in *Kinky Boots* on Broadway, will play The Emcee, while Marisha Wallace, who received an Olivier nomination for *Guys & Dolls*, will play Sally Bowles.

LondonTheatre.co.uk has launched its Black Friday and Cyber Monday theatre ticket sales, with up to 40% off over 50 participating shows, including long-running play [*The Mousetrap*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/333-mousetrap-tickets) and West End favourite [*Les Misérables*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/300-les-miserables-tickets).

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Give the gift of theatre this Christmastime when you save up to 40% on tickets to West End and Off-West End shows — here are some of the best gift options.

Cyber Monday is the best time of year to book your West End theatre tickets at exclusive prices. Save up to 40% when you get tickets to West End shows during Cyber, and see some of the biggest West End shows in town. Book tickets for popular West End musicals like *The Book of Mormon* and *MJ The Musical*. Maybe you're looking for a comedy play like *The Play That Goes Wrong*, or tickets to see a classic ballet like *The Nutcracker*.

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We might be heading into the coldest, darkest time of the year, but it’s the most festive season for theatre – so banish the December chill with a trip to a London show. There’s so much to choose from, whether you’re looking for the perfect Christmas outing or the latest must-see play or musical.

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If you think of comedy plays currently running in the West End, *The Play That Goes Wrong* probably comes to mind. Mischief Theatre, a British comedy acting troupe, is the mastermind behind these West End hits. They’re not just one trick ponies though — their improvisational shows and TV series have garnered critical acclaim. 

[*The Play That Goes Wrong*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/345-play-that-goes-wrong-tickets) is Mischief Theatre’s smash-hit play. Since the first performance in...

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Find out more about the leading British drama troupe, the brains behind hilarious shows like *The Play That Goes Wrong* and *The Comedy About a Bank Robbery.* 

Are you a Traitor or a Faithful? *The Traitors: Live Experience*, a stage production inspired by the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning TV series, is set to open in the West End in spring 2025. A theatre and dates have yet to be announced.

In *The Traitors* TV show, which premiered in the U.K. in 2022, contestants are split into two groups: Traitors and Faithfuls. Via various challenges and games, must try to find out and eliminate the members of the other group to win a prize.

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The interactive stage show inspired by the hit reality TV series will allow audience members to compete with other theatregoers in various challenges.

Mischief have announced their next West End show *The Comedy About Spies*, which opens at the Noël Coward Theatre next year. Performances begin on 14 April 2025.

Written by original Mischief company members Henry Lewis and Henry Shields, and directed by Matt Di Carlo, *The Comedy about Spies* is set in 1960s London, and follows a British agent who steals plans for a top-secret new weapon. 

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Written by Mischief company members Henry Lewis and Henry Shields, *The Comedy about Spies* follows a British agent who steals plans for a top-secret new weapon. 

UPDATE:&nbsp;The Last Five Years&nbsp;will now play for an extended run at Southwark Playhouse, with performances now scheduled to November 14th.&nbsp;Molly Lynch&nbsp;and&nbsp;Oli Higginson&nbsp;will return to their roles of Cathy and Jamie.Jason Robert Brown's award-winning musical <a href="https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/the-last-five-years">The Last Five Years</a> will return to the <a href="https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/southwark-playhouse">Southwark Playhouse</a> to continue its run, after the production was cut short in March due to the closure of theatres as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.&nbsp;The Southwark Playhouse will reopen its doors with The Last Five Years in a reduced capacity auditorium and socially-distanced cast and audience membersThe hit two-person musical about the unfolding of a relationship is known for its score and unconventional plot structure. Cathy tells her story in reverse, starting with the end of their turbulent relationship, whilst Jamie tells his story chronologically from the spark of their initial meeting. The two characters meet only once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.This revived production, originally directed by Jonathon O'Boyle, will open to previews on 1 October and will run for four weeks through to 31 October.&nbsp;Casting for the musical will be announced for a later date.&nbsp;

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After two engagements at <a href="/theatres/southwark-playhouse">Southwark Playhouse</a> in 2020, Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years receives its West End premiere at the <a href="/theatres/garrick-theatre">Garrick Theatre</a>. The Last Five Years begins performances at the <a href="/theatres/garrick-theatre">Garrick Theatre</a>&nbsp;from 17 September - 17&nbsp;October, with The Last Five Years tickets on sale now. Book The Last Five Years tickets in London.&nbsp;The Last Five Years is an emotionally powerful musical that follows just two characters, Jamie and Cathy. Falling in and out of love over the course of five years, their stories are told in reverse chronology to one another. For Jamie, we meet him at the start of the relationship before things go sour. For Cathy, her story becomes a happier one as her life is told from the split to their first meeting. The two characters meet only once, at their wedding in the middle of the show. But, they don't stay together for too long, and all too soon Jamie and Cathy just hold memories of one another.The Last Five Years in London is an actor-musician production, meaning cast members play music throughout the show to accompany their musical performances. A four-piece band also play music, but if you're looking for an immersive musical experience, you'll want to see The Last Five Years.Casting for The Last Five Years in London stars Molly Lynch as Cathy and Oli Higginson as Jamie. They both reprise their roles from the Southwark Playhouse productions, which both took place&nbsp;in 2020. In a <a href="/reviews/the-last-five-years-at-southwark-playhouse-soars-even-higher-after-shutdown">five star review of The Last Five Years for LondonTheatre.co.uk</a>, "this The Last Five Years is more than fine: for the first time in my experience of a much-produced show, the characters' giddiness and desolation, their rapture and heartache, propelled me tearily into the night."The Last Five Years features an original book, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. Jason Robert Brown is an award-winning American composer whose musical hits include Parade, 13, <a href="/show/songs-for-a-new-world">Songs for a New World</a> and <a href="/show/the-bridges-of-madison-county">The Bridges of Madison County</a>. For The Last Five Years, Jason Robert Brown won two Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics. Perhaps unbelievably, The Last Five Years has never been on Broadway, but could 2021 change this?Songs in The Last Five Years include "Still Hurting", sung by Cathy at the top of the show. Other standout musical numbers include "Moving Too Fast" and "A Summer in Ohio". The only song sung by both Cathy and Jamie is "A Miracle Would Happen/When You Come Home to Me", and it's when their characters meet for the first (and only) time in the show. Listen to The Last Five Years below.The Last Five Years tickets in London are on sale now. Book The Last Five Years tickets now.

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Jamie is falling in love. Cathy is falling out of love. But can they remain together forever? The love lives of two New Yorkers cross over in *The Last Five Years*. *The Last Five Years* is a musical with just two characters, as they lay their hearts bare to the audience and share their tales of whirlwind romances and eventual breakups. As their stories are told in differing chronologies, they only meet at one moment for the show. You’ll fall in love with both characters, wishing you could tell them what’s in their pasts and future. But in the end, there’s only one way their stories will end. Book *The Last Five Years* tickets to discover Jamie and Cathy’s relationships. 

After two acclaimed runs at Southwark Playhouse, The Last Five Years in London makes its West End debut at the Garrick Theatre. This production of *The Last Five Years* was staged at Southwark Playhouse in 2020. Both Lynch and Higginson were nominated for Best Lead Performance as Cathy and Jamie respectively. *The Last Five Years* is one of Jason Robert Brown’s most successful musicals of all time, and will definitely tug at your heartstrings. So book *The Last Five Years* tickets in London today.

## What to Watch For
- Molly Lynch plays Cathy. Lynch was previously in *The Light in the Piazza* at Royal Festival Hall, which starred Dove Cameron in her London premiere.
- Oli Higginson plays Jamie. As well as playing Jamie, Oli Higginson was recently in *The Haystack* at Hampstead Theatre.
- *The Last Five Years* is by Jason Robert Brown, whose musicals include *Songs for a New World, Parade* and *13*. 
- For this production of *The Last Five Years*, the two actor-musicians will play their own live musical accompaniment too. 
- *The Last Five Years* has also been adapted into a musical film. Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan starred in The Last Five Years on screen, and the film was released in 2014. 


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The last five years? Hell, what about the last seven months? That's how long it's been (give or take a week) since Jonathan O'Boyle's terrific Off-West End revival of Jason Robert Brown's musical theatre mainstay saw its original run truncated by Covid-driven lockdown. In fact, I was among the audience on that fateful Monday (March 16) when&nbsp;L5Y, as this show is famously known in shorthand, was one of the very few shows to perform that evening, the rest of&nbsp;London&nbsp;theatreland having gone dark in response to government dictates announced just hours before.&nbsp;The audience that March evening knew what the production's blazing cast did not, at least not yet: that their show was about to be tossed on to the scrap heap, or so one had every right to fear. Particular huzzahs, therefore, to Southwark Playhouse for bringing back a staging that has in every way been enriched by the passage of time, and for finding a way to adjust the fact of playgoing itself to the stringent requirements set in place due to the pandemic. Those range from a rigorous one-way system in place upon arrival at the venue to screens erected between (some) seats so as to protect strangers from undue intimacy. Drinks are brought to your table in the bar, and the after-performance buzz was inevitably diluted by an inability to mingle.Who cares, though, about the post-show vibe when the play more than ever must be the thing? I date back with this musical to its 2002 Off-Broadway premiere with Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott, which is to say before a time when Brown's structurally audacious song cycle had become the musical theatre touchstone that it remains to this day. (London, in particular, returns regularly to this title, including a lockdown version seen virtually over the summer that was directed by its female lead, Lauren Samuels; a starry revival a few years ago paired 2019 Olivier winner Jonathan Bailey, of&nbsp;Company&nbsp;renown, with Samantha Barks under the direction of Brown himself.)Maybe it's just our current thirst for theatre in whatever form, or perhaps the performers feel a renewed sense of occasion in simply being able to take to a stage when so many of their colleagues remain out of work.&nbsp;Whatever the reason, the production this time around possesses a newfound emotional amplitude that is something to behold. "Everybody bleeds," Oli Higginson's Jamie Wellerstein remarks late in a piece that tells his story forward even as that of his eventually discarded spouse, Cathy Hiatt, is told backwards, from its wounded finish through to the eager and avid beginning of a romance that across the five years of the title has gone seriously sour. (In many ways, a sprightly audition sequence included, Brown's dazzlingly varied score pays homage to&nbsp;Merrily We Roll Along, the reverse-narrative musical scored by Brown's great forbear, and influence, Stephen Sondheim.) At times, he will play the piano while she sings, and vice versa, while George Dyer's band tears into a score that couples jazz, rock, and klezmer, the wistful giving way to the comic and ending on a crushing note of farewell. (The closing word, "goodbye," felt all too prescient back in March.)The material exists to be driven by its cast, and Higginson and his&nbsp;co-star, Molly Lynch (the London cover for Dove Cameron in&nbsp;The Light in the Piazza&nbsp;in what seems a theatrical lifetime ago), seem to have amped up the passion and pain of parts that come with self-evident showstoppers, complete with musical theatre buttons, alongside other songs where numbers merge seamlessly into a propulsive whole. Playing a "shiksa goddess" who can't keep up with either her husband's growing prominence, or his sexual appetite, Lynch conveys the pain of being sidelined professionally, yes, but romantically as well, in a semi-autobiographical piece rooted in Brown's own marital disarray back in the day.Jamie as written can seem a heel: a self-glorifying cad who refuses to "lose," he tells us, simply because Cathy "can't win." But not long himself out of the Guildhall drama school, where I first saw him in, of all shows, Sondheim's&nbsp;Merrily, Higginson brings an electrifying stage presence, and serious vocal chops, to this portrait of the show's composer-creator as a questing young man who is represented in the pages of The New Yorker at a time when a lot of other 20something writers would have been manning the till at Barnes and Noble. (Or, more accurately given this show's landscape, The Strand.)"I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine," Jamie repeats at one point as if willing himself towards a psychic space into which no degree of external approbation can deliver him. But this&nbsp;The&nbsp;Last Five Years&nbsp;is more than fine: for the first time in my experience of a much-produced show, the characters' giddiness and desolation, their rapture and heartache, propelled me tearily into the night.The Last Five Years&nbsp;runs until 14 November at <a href="https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/show/the-last-five-years/" target="_blank">Southwark Playhouse</a>.Photo credit:&nbsp;Oli Higginson and Molly Lynch in The Last Five Years at Southwark Playhouse (Photo by Pamela Raith Photography)

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The Garrick Theatre is a renowned and historical theatre venue located in the heart of London, Charing Cross Road, near Leicester Square. Opened in 1889, it was named after the stage actor David Garrick. Designed by Walter Emden and C.J. Phipps, it is built with an exquisite blend of classical and baroque architectural styles, giving it a unique touch of elegance. The theatre boasts a theatrical heritage unrivalled in its history of performances, artists, and premieres, hosting a variety of world-class productions ranging from dramatic plays, farces, comedic performances, to Shakespearean plays. With a seating capacity of 656 spread across three levels - stalls, dress circle, and grand circle - the theatre offers an intimate atmosphere, drawing audience closer to the performances and making it a favourite venue for both theatre-goers and performers. Along with the splendid auditorium, the theatre contains bars at each level providing a comfortable space for refreshment. The theatre is equipped with state-of-the-art systems offering excellent audio and visual experiences. A visit to the Garrick Theatre is a step back into time, offering classic London theatre experience in a beautiful and iconic venue. 

## How to Get There
The Garrick Theatre is easily accessible by various modes of transport. If you are using the London Underground, the closest Tube stations are Leicester Square (Northern, Piccadilly) and Charing Cross (Bakerloo, Northern). By bus, several bus routes pass close to the theatre, including the numbers 24, 29 and 176. If driving, the nearest car park is Q-Park Chinatown.

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The Garrick Theatre opened in 1889, and is named after actor David Garrick. When the theatre was built, architects discovered an underground river on the site!

The theatre became associated with comedy in 1982 with a four-year run of the farce *No Sex Please, We’re British*. This was the longest-running show at the Garrick, until J. B. Priestley’s *An Inspector Calls* transferred from the [Aldwych Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/aldwych-theatre) in 1995 and resided for six years.

In recent years, a number of musicals have played here, including *A Little Night Music*, *Chicago*, and *The Scottsboro Boys*. In 2015, [Kenneth Branagh](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/stars-on-stage/kenneth-branagh) took up residency at the Garrick for a year-long season of plays with his own theatre company. 

## Garrick Theatre Seating Information

The auditorium has three levels – Stalls, Dress Circle and Grand Circle. In the Stalls, the view of the top of the stage is slightly obscured by the overhang of the Dress Circle from Row N onwards. 

In the Dress Circle, the view of the stage is not obscured by the overhang of the Upper Circle, but the ceiling can feeel low for those in the last row. The seats are designed in a horseshoe shape around the theatre and the Dress Circle offers good sightlines.

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The Garrick Theatre, opened in 1889, is associated with comedy and musicals, and has housed popular shows like 'An Inspector Calls'. It features three seating levels.

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The Garrick Theatre is an iconic London venue, known for its architectural elegance, rich history, and hosting top-tier productions.

The production had a brief run last Spring but was closed due to COVID-19 restrictions.

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