BBC News Published image captionThere will have been 17 months between the last show and the reopening date Smash hit musical Hamilton is planning to be back in London's West End this summer, more than a year after it closed because of the pandemic. Producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh said the award-winning show about the USA's founding fathers would resume at the Victoria Palace Theatre from 19 August. He said he was "delighted" to give the news after an "incredibly hard year". Many shows are making plans to reopen from 17 May with social distancing, and from June 21 with no restrictions. Those dates depend on the third and fourth steps on the government's reopening roadmap remaining on track.