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Time Out
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Everything you need to know about West End Live 2025 in Trafalgar Square this weekend: dates, timings and full lineup
Well, it's the right weather for it. The West End's annual free outdoor musical theatre festival West End Live returns right on time for the sunniest weekend of the year. Whether you've been planning your whole weekend around it for months now or you've only just heard of it and think it sounds like a fun idea, here we've everything you need to know. What happens at West End Live? It's basically an outdoor musical theatre concert. Performers from most musicals currently running in the West End – and a few coming to town soon – perform a song or two live, generally in costume, sometimes with full choreography bells and whistles. Where is West End Live? It's in good old Trafalgar Square, in its usual events area. When is West End Live 2025? This weekend: it runs Saturday June 21 11am to 5pm and Sunday June 22 noon to 5pm. Do I need a ticket? Nope, West End Live is free. HOWEVER it is enormously popular, particularly the first couple of hours on the Saturday when most of the really big hitters squeeze in their performance before their 2.30pm matinee. There is no truly great way of guaranteeing a slot here other than getting in early, though obviously Trafalgar Square is an open space and you should be able to hear the songs if you're in the general vicinity. If you want a more chilled out experience come down Sunday or later Saturday afternoon. Will anyone famous be performing? We tend not to know as the shows don't say in advance what songs they'll be doing and therefore who will be performing. However, it has been confirmed that Rachel Zegler will be representing Evita, though we don't know what song(s) she'll be doing (if it's too busy to get in then remember you can see her do 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina' live on Argyll Street just a few hours later). Is there any shade? No! And on Saturday the temperatures are due to go as high as 32 degrees (Sunday should be a comparatively mild 26 degrees). Wear sun cream. Hydrate. Don't be a hero. Musical theatre needs you healthy. Complete West End Live 2025 lineup and set times Saturday June 21 11am – Disney's Hercules 11.05am – Moulin Rouge! The Musical 11.15am – Operation Mincemeat 11.25am – Wicked 11.35am – Hadestown 11.45am – The Devil Wears Prada Noon – Just For One Day 12.10pm – Evita 12.15pm – Cabaret 12.20pm – MJ The Musical 12.30pm – Matilda The Musical 12.35pm – Tina – The Tina Turner Musical 12.45pm – Hamilton 12.50pm – The Phantom of the Opera 1.05pm – Les Misérables 1.20pm – Back to the Future The Musical 1.30pm – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 1.40pm – The Book of Mormon 1.45pm – Clueless 1.50pm – The Great Gatsby 2pm – Mamma Mia! 2.10pm – Brigadoon 2.20pm – Starlight Express 2.30pm – Six 2.40pm – The Producers 2.50pm – Sabrage 3pm – Magic Mike Live 3.05pm – Burlesque The Musical 3.20pm – Sing Street 3.30pm – Westway Presents: Marisha Wallace 3.40pm – Coven 3.50pm – Roles We'll Never Play 4.10pm – National Youth Music Theatre 4.20pm – Divina De Campo 4.25pm – Oscar at the Crown 4.45pm – Finale and Farewell Sunday June 22 Noon – Disney's The Lion King 12.05pm – The Producers 12.15pm – The Great Gatsby 12.25pm – Fiddler on the Roof 12.30pm – My Neighbour Totoro 12.35pm – Pop Off Michelangelo! 12.50pm – Oliver! 1pm – Titanique 1.05pm – Calamity Jane 1.10pm – The Choir of Man 1.20pm – Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby 1.25pm – Lovestuck 1.35pm – Six 1.45pm – The Diana Mixtape 1.50pm – Janie Dee's Beautiful World Cabaret 2pm – Bat Out of Hell 2.15pm – The Addams Family 2.20pm – Magic Mike Live 2.30pm – Sabrage 2.35pm – Burlesque The Musical 2.45pm – The Frogs 2.55pm – Ride the Cyclone 3pm – Showstopper! The Improvised Musical 3.15pm – 101 Dalmatians 3.20pm – This is My Family 3.30pm – G4 3.45pm – Westway Presents: 20 Years of West End Live Concert 4.55pm – Finale and Farewell West End Live is in Trafalgar Square, Sat Jun 21 and Sun Jun 22.
New York Times
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Broadway ‘Cabaret' Will Feature Billy Porter as One Final Emcee
Billy Porter, who won a Tony Award for the musical 'Kinky Boots' and starred in the television series 'Pose,' will return to Broadway as the Emcee in the revival of 'Cabaret.' And then, that revival is planning to close. Earlier this year, Porter portrayed the Emcee in the London production of 'Cabaret,' opposite Marisha Wallace as Sally Bowles. On Wednesday, the revival's producers announced that Porter and Wallace would reprise their performances in New York, starting July 22 and running until Oct. 19. The show's producers said they plan to end the New York run at that point, though it will continue in London. The New York production opened in the spring of 2024, starring Eddie Redmayne; it was nominated for nine Tony Awards, and won one, for its scenic design. (The August Wilson Theater was converted into a club-like setting with preshow performances in the lobby spaces and rings of seats, some with small cafe tables, around the stage.) The show is a hit in London, and it swept the Olivier Awards there. But the initial reception was much cooler in New York. Reviews were mixed — in The New York Times, the critic Jesse Green called the director Rebecca Frecknall's staging 'misguided.' Although it sold well with Redmayne in the lead role, it has struggled since — its weekly grosses peaked at $2 million in May 2024, but last week they were $763,000. Set in Berlin in 1929 and 1930, it depicts a group of people linked by a nightclub whose livelihoods and lives are threatened by the rise of Naziism. The show has had a succession of performers in the lead roles, starting with Redmayne and Gayle Rankin, followed by Adam Lambert and Auli'i Cravalho; and now Orville Peck and Eva Noblezada. The show is expensive to stage — it cost up to $26 million to capitalize, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission — and has been expensive to run as well. It has not recouped its capitalization costs. With music by John Kander, a book by Joe Masteroff, and lyrics by Fred Ebb, the show is a classic, first staged on Broadway in 1966 and revived three times previously. It was adapted into a Hollywood film in 1972; both the film and the first two Broadway productions starred Joel Grey as the Emcee.
