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The cast prepares for the return of 2:22 - A Ghost Story to London's West End. Running for a strictly limited 10-week season at the Gielgud Theatre, where the second cast of the show performed in 2020/21, the season also runs concurrently with the hugely successful and record-breaking UK tour which concludes in Salford in

Our Mutual Friend has been turned into a musical with a new title, London Tide, which sounds duller and more forgettable than the original. Why change the name? To confuse fans of Dickens, presumably, and to keep the theatre half-empty while heaps of tickets are sold at a discount. At the end of Act One,

With its heavy mood and gnomic song lyrics, this updated reimagining of Our Mutual Friend is like a 19th-century noir

James Fritz’s genre-defying, queer play runs until 18 November

What became known as the ‘Cleveland Street Scandal’ is given a rather amusing treatment here, which doesn’t provide the audience with much of an imposing sense of danger...

James Fritz frames a Victorian story as folk tragedy and political interrogation – exuberant in its ambition, just occasionally not quite fulfilling its potential

The Flea focuses on crisis, class, cover-ups, and the crown in a retelling of the Cleveland Street scandal of 1889.

Fans anticipating the 2:22 A Ghost Story on UK stage tour were given a first look at what is to come on Wednesday.

Loose Women star Frankie Bridge has been announced as the actress who will replace Sophia Bush in 2:22 A Ghost Story, after the One Tree Hill actress was forced to pull out of the London play due to illness

Frankie Bridge will join the cast of 2:22 - A Ghost Story playing the character Lauren in her West End debut after Sophia Bush has had to withdraw from the production due to illness. Frankie Bridge will perform from August until the end of the run on 17 September.