Celebrities on stage in London

Game of Thrones

Eurovision runner-up with Space Man

Ryder went from posting covers online to representing the UK at Eurovision in 2022, where Space Man finished second — the best British result in a quarter of a century. Jesus Christ Superstar is his first stage role, and he sings it through the whole Drury Lane run.

Inside No. 9 and The League of Gentlemen

Modern Family

Mitchell in Modern Family, and a Tony winner for Take Me Out. Tru is a one-man play: Ferguson is Truman Capote, alone in his apartment over two days at Christmas.

Shameless and Sex Education

Ghosts and Shrill

Kitty, the Georgian noblewoman in the BBC's Ghosts, and Fran in Shrill; on film, Saltburn and Wicked Little Letters, and on TV, Taskmaster and This Time with Alan Partridge. It is her West End debut, in the part Cole Escola wrote for themselves.

I'm a Celebrity and Hollyoaks

Modern Family

Eleven seasons as Haley in Modern Family made Hyland a household face; Sally Bowles is her West End debut. The Kit Kat Club staging seats the audience around the action in a reconfigured Playhouse Theatre.

Pitch Perfect

Astin was Jesse in the Pitch Perfect films and started on Broadway in Spring Awakening. The Emcee is the part that won both Alan Cumming and Eddie Redmayne awards in this production.

The Good Wife and Mamma Mia!

Two Tonys, and known to most people as Diane in The Good Wife and The Good Fight, or as Tanya in Mamma Mia. Judith Bliss is Coward’s monstrous retired actress, holding court over a weekend from hell.

Withnail and I

Withnail and I made him, and Can You Ever Forgive Me? brought an Oscar nomination. He plays the other half of the Bliss household, opposite Baranski.

W1A

Skyfall and Years and Years

Royal Ballet principal

The X-Files and Sex Education

The X-Files, The Fall and The Crown, plus a formidable stage record: an Olivier for A Streetcar Named Desire at the Young Vic. Martha is one of the great parts, and @sohoplace puts the audience on all sides of it.

The Morning Show and Almost Famous

Crudup won an Emmy for The Morning Show and was the rock star in Almost Famous. He plays George opposite Anderson.

McFly and Strictly Come Dancing

Olivier winner for Hamilton

Paddington and No Time to Die

Q in the Bond films, the voice of Paddington, and an Olivier winner for Against. Eurotrash puts him back with Kathryn Hunter at the Young Vic.

Poor Things

The English Patient and Fleabag

The English Patient, Four Weddings, and Fleabag’s godmother. Ranevskaya, the landowner who cannot bring herself to save the estate, is one of the best-known parts in Chekhov.

Episodes and Green Wing

Episodes, Green Wing, and a long line of comic leads. Lopakhin is the merchant with the plan nobody in the house wants to hear.

Pirates of the Caribbean and Atonement

Pirates of the Caribbean, Atonement and Pride & Prejudice — and almost no stage work since The Misanthrope in 2009. The play is drawn from the Oscar-winning German film about surveillance in East Berlin.

Stranger Things

Dustin in all five seasons of Stranger Things, and a Broadway performer long before that — he was in Les Miserables at nine. Mark Cohen is his West End debut.

Ghosts and Call the Midwife

TV mentalist and illusionist

Brown has made television and stage shows about suggestion and misdirection for over twenty years, with two Oliviers for the stage work. Only Human is a strictly limited season.

Desperate Housewives

Susan in Desperate Housewives and Lois in Lois & Clark. She takes over Miranda Priestly, the part Meryl Streep played on film, for the winter.

The Wanted

Broadchurch and Mr Bates vs The Post Office

Stooshe

Olivier winner for & Juliet

An Olivier for & Juliet, and Carole King in Beautiful before that. Millicent Clyde is the museum taxidermist with designs on the bear.

Joseph and Mamma Mia!

RuPaul's Drag Race winner

Singer and Radio 2 presenter

Ball originated Marius in Les Miserables, won an Olivier for Hairspray and presents on Radio 2. His fortnight is the longest of the guest Herod stints.

The Death of Stalin and Spooks

One of the most decorated stage actors in the country, and familiar from The Death of Stalin and Spooks. He turns up twice this season — a week as Herod, then Hirst in No Man’s Land.

Comedian and actor

Bad Education and Strictly Come Dancing

Fatal Attraction and Sunset Boulevard

Close has three Tony Awards, one of them for Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, a part she also played at the London Coliseum in 2016. She is the last of the guest Herods, for the final week of the run.

EastEnders and Waterloo Road

The Chuckle Brothers

Black Books and Strictly Come Dancing champion

Black Books, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and the 2020 Strictly champion. Vaudevillean mixes stand-up with the musicianship his tours are built on.

Phantom Thread

An Oscar nomination for Phantom Thread, a Tony for Long Day’s Journey into Night, and four series of Mum. Violet Weston is the part at the centre of the play that won Letts the Pulitzer.

Motherland and Line of Duty

Birds of a Feather

The Death of Stalin and Spooks

My Best Friend's Wedding

Borat and Ali G

Quentin Tarantino's first stage play, which he also directs: a swashbuckling comedy set in 1830s Europe. Baron Cohen leads it, and further casting is still to be announced.

Olivier winner and Hackney panto dame

The Vicar of Dibley

The Vicar of Dibley, and one half of French and Saunders. She and Jennifer Saunders play the Ugly Sisters — their first stage appearance together in seventeen years.

Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous, French and Saunders, and Spice World. The Palladium panto puts her back on stage with Dawn French.

Comedian and presenter

Chariots of Fire

Doctor Who and EastEnders

This Morning and Strictly Come Dancing