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!
Timothée Chalamet is a young actor on his way to world domination. And now he's coming to the London stage. The Call Me By Your Name star comes to The Old Vic for a Pulitzer-nominated drama about a young man and his grandmother.
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A star cast assembles to re-invent the Oedipus myth on the West End. Helen Mirren and Mark strong lead a modern, English-language version of Sophocles' tragedy, as re-imagined by visionary theatre-maker Robert Icke.
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Romance, rebellion and tragedy come to the National Theatre in 2020 as two rising stars take on Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers. Josh O'Connor (The Crown) and Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose) play the title parts in new production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Simon Godwin.
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Jake Gyllenhaal makes his long-awaited return to the London stage in a musical revival that delighted audiences and critics alike on Broadway. 'Performing Sunday in the Park with George... was one of the greatest joys of my career,' Gyllenhaal enthused. 'I've also deeply missed the West End and so to be bringing Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical there is both humbling and thrilling.'
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Golden Globe winner Jessica Chastain will swap the big screen for the London stage to make her UK theatre debut in a production of A Doll's House.
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X-Men actor James McAvoy returns to the stage to star in a new, freely-adapted version of French classic Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Whoopi Goldberg will be back in the habit to play Deloris Van Cartier in an all-singing all dancing stage adaptation of hit 90s film Sister Act. And Jennifer Saunders will star as Mother Superior. Oh happy days!
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