Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals and Jamie Lloyd for The Jamie Lloyd Company today announce the full cast and creative team for Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita. The production, directed byJamie Lloyd, opens at The London Palladium on Tuesday 1 July, with previews from 14 June, and runs until 6 September 2025.

James Olivas will play Juan Perón opposite the previously announced Rachel Zegler (Eva Perón) and Diego Andres Rodriguez (Che), joined byAaron Lee Lambert as Agustín Magaldi and Bella Brown as The Mistress / Alternate Eva.

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Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals and Jamie Lloyd for The Jamie Lloyd Company today announce Diego Andres Rodriguez as Che in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita. He joins the previously announced Rachel Zegler (Eva Perón), with full cast and creatives to be announced. The production, directed by Jamie Lloyd, opens at The London Palladium on Tuesday 1 July, with previews from 14 June, and runs until 6 September 2025.

Jamie Lloyd said today, “Before he even graduated, Diego made his professional debut as Artie in our production of Sunset Blvd. on Broadway, in which he also understudied and played the leading role, Joe Gillis. He is an incredible young actor and a fantastic vocalist. We’re so thrilled he will be making his West End debut in Tim and Andrew’s iconic musical.”

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Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals and The Jamie Lloyd Company today announce Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita, directed by Jamie Lloyd, opening at The London Palladium. The production runs 14 June – 6 September 2025, with press night on Friday 27 June.

Full cast and creatives to be announced. Tickets to go on sale in 2025, dates to be announced. Sign up for priority booking here:www.evitathemusical.com

Michael Harrison said today, “It’s an honour to return to The London Palladium next summer, with my 14^th production at the theatre. I’m even more delighted, alongside The Jamie Lloyd Company, to be presenting Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s glorious musical, Evita, and to be collaborating again with Jamie following Sunset Blvd.”

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The Jamie Lloyd Company today announces the on sale dates for its new production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing starring Tom Hiddleston (Benedick) and Hayley Atwell(Beatrice), directed by Jamie Lloyd. The production opens at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Wednesday 19 February, with previews from 10 February, and runs until 5 April 2025.

Tickets for Much Ado About Nothing go on sale to those signed up for priority booking on Tuesday 8 October at 11am; general booking opens on Wednesday 9 October at 11am. Full cast and creatives to be announced.

Sign up for priority booking here or here. 

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The Jamie Lloyd Company today announces the full cast for William Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Directed by Jamie Lloyd, The Tempest opens on Thursday 19 December, with previews from 7 December 2024, running until 1 February 2025.

Sigourney Weaver (Prospero) is joined by Jude Akuwudike (Alonso), Jason Barnett (Stephano),Selina Cadell (Gonzalo), Mathew Horne (Trinculo), Mara Huf (Miranda), Forbes Masson(Caliban), Mason Alexander Park (Ariel), James Phoon (Ferdinand), Oliver Ryan (Sebastian) and Tim Steed (Antonio).

The Tempest is the first production in The Jamie Lloyd Company’s season of Shakespeare at Theatre Royal Drury Lane; it is followed by Much Ado About Nothing starring Tom Hiddleston(Benedick) and Hayley Atwell (Beatrice). Also directed by Jamie Lloyd, Much Ado About Nothing opens on Wednesday 19 February, with previews from 10 February, and runs until 5 April 2025. On sale dates and full cast and creatives to be announced.

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Following a multi-Olivier award-winning run in London, a stunning new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s legendary SUNSET BLVD, directed by two-time Tony Award^® nominee and multiple Olivier Award^® winner Jamie Lloyd, is one of Broadway’s most anticipated events of the fall.

To mark the show’s Broadway premiere at the St. James Theatre, starring Olivier Award and GRAMMY Award^® nominee Nicole Scherzinger, a powerful new cast recording, SUNSET BLVD: The Album, will be released October 25^th on The Other Songs label. Pre-order the physical and digital editions here.

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Today, it was announced that two-time Tony Award^® nominee and multiple Olivier Award^® winner Jamie Lloyd will direct a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. Waiting for Godot will open on Broadway in the Fall of 2025 at an ATG theater to be announced with Reeves playing ‘Estragon’ and Winter playing ‘Vladimir.’

Reeves is one of Hollywood’s most beloved stars having appeared in over 100 feature films including cinematic hits like the John Wick series, The Matrix films, and Constantine; dramas such as My Own Private Idaho, Dangerous Liaisons, and The Gift; and comedies like Parenthood, Something’s Gotta Give, and Always Be My Maybe. Waiting For Godot will mark Reeves’ Broadway debut.

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The Jamie Lloyd Company today announces a season of Shakespeare at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane with The Tempest starring BAFTA winner Sigourney Weaver, who is being awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 81^st Venice International Film Festival, making her West End debut as Prospero; and Much Ado About Nothing starring Tom Hiddleston (Benedick) and Hayley Atwell (Beatrice), both directed by Jamie Lloyd.

The two productions run at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, owned and operated by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LW Theatres, marking the first Shakespeare plays to be presented at the venue since Peter Brook’s production of The Tempest starring John Gielgud in 1957. The Tempest opens on Thursday 19 December, with previews from 7 December 2024, running until 1 February 2025, and Much Ado About Nothing opens Wednesday 19 February, with previews from 10 February, running until 5 April 2025. Full cast and creatives to be announced.

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Today, the Evening Standard announces the 2022 shortlist for the 66^th Evening Standard Theatre Awards. The shortlist features the biggest names and emerging talents from the London stage over the last eighteen months, who are recognised across nine award categories. Among the contenders are globally-renowned actors and actresses and hit shows including: Oklahoma!, Cabaret, The Father and the Assassin and Best of Enemies.

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