There's something magical about London's live theatre especially if it means the chance to see celebrities on the West End. When there's the perfect symbiosis between sizzling script and super hot star, we want to be in the front seats, watching – annoyingly, so does everyone else.
For a star safari, here's the shows to book fast, before the herds of superfans!
From the global fame of Gandalf and Magneto, to an illustrious 60 year stage career at the RSC, National Theatre and across the West End, Sir Ian McKellen is firmly within National Treasure territory and widely regarded as one of our finest living actors. Don't miss your chance to see him play Shakespeare's tragic King.
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After winning everyone over playing Princess Margaret in The Crown, Vanessa Kirby returns to the stage to play a 'wild and newly single' party in a fresh, contemporary version of Strindberg's Miss Julie.
After an eleven-year hiatus, The Lord of the Rings actor Orlando Bloom is making a much-awaited return to the London stage in Tracy Letts’ celebrated dark comedy Killer Joe.
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X Factor contestant turned popstar and actress Alexandra Burke brings impressive vocals and star power to a revival of 1980s hit Chess the Musical.
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After years playing a brooding, often shirtless, Cornish heartthrob in popular BBC drama Poldark, Aidan Turner comes to the London stage to play a cat-loving terrorist in Martin McDonagh's play The Lieutenant Of Inishmore.
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American actor Laura Linney makes her UK stage debut at London's newest theatre this summer in a stage adaptation of best-selling book My Name Is Lucy Barton. The Golden Globe and Emmy winning star, who you will recognise from Frasier, Mystic River and Love Actually, is a regular on Broadway.
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Paul Anderson, who is best known for playing Arthur Shelby in hit series Peaky Blinders, makes his stage debut to play radical evangelist Tartuffe in a dual-language update of the classic French play.
Rumour has it that Dutch director Ivo van Hove will join forces with the luminous Gillian Anderson to bring 1950s film All About Eve to the stage. The casting has not yet been officially confirmed, but we're crossing our fingers!
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