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!
British actor Tom Hiddleston may be famous all around the world thanks to roles in Thor, The Avengers and The Night Manager. but it's on stage where he's best. He returns to star in Harold Pinter's reversed romantic drama.
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With over 70 films to his name, John Malkovich is big screen royalty. But before Dangerous Liaisons, Being John Malkovich and Mulholland Drive made him a household name, Malkovich's career began with theatre. Now, after a 33-year absence, he returns to the stage to star in Bitter Wheat, a sparky new satire on Hollywood sexual harassment by David Mamet.
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The Crown's leading duo star in Lungs by Duncan Macmillan, an emotional environmental rollercoaster that feels tailor-made for the present moment. Instead of Her Royal Highness and the Duke of Edinburgh, they play a married couple debating whether it is morally okay to have a child.
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Before the Hot Priest and obnoxious God Mother, before the BAFTAs and Broadway transfers, before Bond, Star Wars and Villanelle, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag was born on stage. The star will play her comic creation one final time in a revival of the 2013 one-woman show that started the Fleabag phenomenon.
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Andrew Scott returns to the stage to play the part that Noel Coward wrote for himself. Garry Essendine, the narcissistic hero of Present Laughter, is one of Coward's best-loved creations. Scott will don silk pajamas to play the charming matinee idol.
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Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Producers) makes his West End debut alongside Elizabeth McGovern (taking a break from the much-awaited Downton Abbey film) in a tender story by the writer behind hit film Manchester by the Sea.
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Hugh Jackman is one of the most well-known actors in Hollywood, especially due to his role as Logan, aka Wolverine, in the X-Men franchise. But he's also a musical theatre marvel, who has dazzled in The Phantom of the Opera and The Greatest Showman. This summer for Jackman brings his all-singing one-man show to London.
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