Cassidy Janson News

The Gaiety Musical Theatre Festival has announced the full main stage line up for this year's festival at Ragley Hall, Warwickshire.

⁦⁦Keala Settle will be joining the cast of & Juliet in the West End in the role of Nurse beginning March 29. Find out how long she'll be in the show and more...

West End and Broadway favourite Marisha Wallace will join fellow headliners Kerry Ellis (We Will Rock You, Wicked, Oliver!), Lee Mead (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Wicked, Legally Blonde the Musical) and Cassidy Janson (&Juliet, Beautiful: The Carol King Musical, Avenue Q) at Gaiety Musical Theatre Festival on Sunday 1st May 2022.

& JULIET is celebrating its second anniversary in London’s West End with the release of brand new production photographs.

Samantha Barks is set to release a new studio album, titled 'Into The Unknown' on November 12. The album will be released under new record label, Westway.

Cassidy Janson was playing Anne Hathaway in &Juliet when West End theatres closed in 2020. Before the show reopens, the Olivier Award-winning star of Beautiful, Chess and most recently The Mousetrap, will be playing Virginia Woolf in a one-off performance of Well-Behaved Women at Cadogan Hall on 3 September. Janson spoke to us about the show.

MAGIC is back in the West End! This summer at the Palace Theatre, the world’s greatest illusionists and mentalists are coming together in Wonderville, a jaw-dropping display of magic, illusion and technological trickery that will electrify, surprise and leave theatregoers in awe at what they are seeing on stage.  

Learn more about the award-winning production, the new cast, and how to purchas tickets here!

Lambert Jackson today announce Well-Behaved Women, a new song cycle by Carmel Dean celebrating women across history. Directed by Julie Atherton, with musical direction by Ellie Verkerk, the concert runs for one night only at Cadogan Hall on Friday 3 September 2021.

Photos have been released from the first concert of the series for Monday Night at the Apollo - which were performed in front of a socially distanced audience at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue on Monday 24 May, and simultaneously livestreamed to viewers at home via the theatre discovery platform Thespie.

The Mousetrap was the very first West End production up and running again (post-lockdown) last night. Yesterday BroadwayWorld's Tom Hayden Millward (@WestEndReporter) interviewed the show's producer (Adam Spiegel) and two members of the 'All Star' West End cast, who are helping to relaunch it, at the St. Martin's Theatre.

The lineup has been confirmed for the second concert of the series for Monday Night at the Apollo – which will be performed in front of a socially distanced audience at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue on Monday 14 June, and simultaneously livestreamed to viewers at home.

Larry Saperstein (“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series”), Jawan M. Jackson (Ain’t Too Proud, Motown), Cassidy Janson (& Juliet, Wicked), and more are the latest guests to be featured on theatre and entertainment podcast DRAMA. with Connor & Dylan MacDowell. 

The concert will be simultaneously livestreamed to viewers at home via the theatre discovery platform Thespie, which is dedicated to bringing the best live and recorded theatre to audiences around the world.

The long-running West End production of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is currently eyeing a May 17 reopening.

& Juliet has announced that it is returning to the West End on 24 September 2021. The production is now booking into 2022.

Crazy Coqs, Soho's unique live entertainment venue within the Brasserie Zédel complex, announces the re-opening of the venue on 17 May 2021 – pending further government announcements – with a full programme from 17 May – 30 June 2021, offering both live shows and simultaneous live streams for audiences who cannot make it to the venue in-person.

The Make A Difference Trust today announce the release of the charity single I Dare You. The track featuring a host of stars of the West End stage will be released on Tuesday 16 March 2021.

The Make A Difference Trust today announce the release of the charity single I Dare You. The track featuring a host of stars of the West End stage will be released on Tuesday 16 March 2021.

This March, Broadway On Demand will present a very special solo concert series featuring the biggest names on the West End, filmed from the historic London Coliseum Theatre, “Tonight at the London Coliseum.”