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Phantom Of The Opera sequel revealed

08.10.09
Andrew Lloyd Webber today unveils the long-awaited sequel to The Phantom Of The Opera - Love Never Dies.... more

Lloyd Webber: Internet is Somalia of lawless piracy

03.04.09
Andrew Lloyd Webber has launched a scathing attack on the internet, calling it a "Somalia of unregulated theft and piracy"... more

Off the record

23.01.09
Andrew Lloyd Webber may want to turn us into winners but he risks just making us look daft.... more

Phantom sequel will premiere in three cities at the same time

29.12.08
A sequel to the Phantom Of The Opera is to open in three cities at the same time next year - making theatrical history... more

Lloyd Webber is top of theatre bill

23.12.08
Andrew Lloyd Webber has been the most influential figure in theatre over the past decade, according to The Stage newspaper... more

A glowing, stripped down Sunset Boulevard

16.12.08
Small is better and sometimes beautiful when it comes to the scaled-down, intimate version of Sunset Boulevard.... more

Lloyd Webber in bid to expand musical empire

14.10.08
Andrew Lloyd Webber is bidding to expand his musical empire by buying one of the most powerful back catalogues in theatre... more

Casualty star takes Sound Of Music lead

29.07.08
Actor Simon MacCorkindale is to take over as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound Of Music next month... more

A tale of two Nancys: Jodie's joy after her shock win... but tears for judges' favourite Jessie

31.05.08
Former cruise ship singer Jodie Prenger clearly wasn't the judges' choice to land the part of Nancy in a West End production of Oliver! ... more

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber would do anything to show his 'Nancys' a real good time

28.05.08
The finalists of BBC's I'd Do Anything, who are all battling to play Nancy in the West End production of Oliver, dined at The Ivy in Covent Garden with the show's main judge Andrew Lloyd Webber... more

Theatre threat

09.05.08
Andrew Lloyd-Webber's case that listing requirements should be eased for theatres, to make refurbishment more affordable, deserves thought at the Culture Department... more

Prize violinist who nearly didn't show

09.05.08
Nicola Benedetti, the former BBC Young Musician of the Year, won the Young British Classical Performer prize at the Classical Brit awards but almost didn't show up at the ceremony.... more

Sarah Brightman rolls back the years - is she looking better than she did 25 years ago?

09.04.08
She has sold 26 million albums in a career that spans three decades - now soprano superstar Sarah Brightman is rolling back the years with a raunchy new look. The 47-year-old turned up at the Classical Brit Awards in S&M-style black leather boots, and dramatic puffball-style dress ... more

Spacey attacks BBC over promoting Lloyd Webber shows

31.03.08
Kevin Spacey has attacked the BBC for promoting West End musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber at the expense of other British theatre... more

Spacey attacks BBC over Lloyd Webber shows

31.03.08
Kevin Spacey has criticised the BBC for backing Andrew Lloyd Webber's West End shows at the expense of other British theatre.... more

Hairspray sweeps the board at Laurence Olivier Awards

10.03.08
West End musical Hairspray has swept the board at the Laurence Olivier Awards, scooping four of the prestigious accolades. Its star, Leanne Jones, was named best actress in a musical for her role as teenager Tracy Turnblad... more

Hot Summer! Hollyoaks star triumphs as Lloyd Webber's new Maria in Sound of Music

04.03.08
A musical star has been born as Hollyoaks star Summer Strallen made her debut in Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Sound of Music. In his bravest experiment yet, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber merged fiction with fact to introduce his new Maria via the teenage soap opera. But has he again managed to solve a problem like Maria? And will his gamble on the Hollyoaks star pay off? ... more

A reality TV star is born

20.07.07
Lee Mead charmed nine million TV viewers to win the starring role in Joseph and, after opening night this week, the critics love him too.... more

A heavenly triumph of kitsch and camp

18.07.07
Lee Mead, winner of the BBC's Any Dream Will Do, flaunts quite the smallest ego of any Joseph Nicholas de Jongh has seen.... more

Problem with Maria my fault says Lloyd Webber

21.03.07
Andrew Lloyd Webber today blamed himself for the problems that have blighted his Sound Of Music star Connie Fisher.... more

Shilpa in talks over Lloyd Webber musical

30.01.07
Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty could be set to star in a major West End revival of Bombay Dreams.... more

Sending in the clowns

10.01.07
Rogers, Hammerstein and Lloyd Webber are among the luminaries parodied in Musical Of Musicals. And it's superb entertainment, says Fiona Mountford.... more

Auction of airwaves 'will end musicals'

04.01.07
Andrew Lloyd Webber says musicals could be silenced forever, amid plans to sell off the technology used for wireless microphones on-stage.... more

Nazi claim halts sale of Lloyd Webber's Picasso

09.11.06
As the £30 million Absinthe Drinker is withdrawn from auction at the last minute, we reveal a secret deal over another masterpiece looted by the Germans during the war.... more

Lloyd Webber's £30m Picasso 'seized by Nazis'

07.11.06
Andrew Lloyd Webber has been temporarily blocked from selling a £30 million Picasso painting after a German professor claimed it was confiscated from his family by the Nazis.... more

Sound of mishap as leading actor quits

06.11.06
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new £4 million revival of The Sound Of Music was today thrown into turmoil when his leading man abruptly withdrew from the show after just two previews.... more

Tim Rice attacks 'ghastly' West End musicals

06.11.06
Awar-winning lyricist Sir Tim Rice has criticised "ghastly" musicals dominating the West End, calling the recent stage version of Eighties' film Dirty Dancing cynical.... more

Phantom celebrates 20th birthday

09.10.06
The Phantom of the Opera - the Lloyd Webber musical seen by more than 100 million people in 25 countries - is 20 years old today.... more

Lloyd Webber's £35m mortgage paid off

03.10.06
Andrew Lloyd-Webber will no longer have to find £150,000 per month after a new deal allowed him to pay off his £35 million mortgage.... more

The tills are alive...

15.09.06
Andrew Lloyd Webber explains how reality TV show, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, has sparked a box office boom and his plans for making the West End even better.... more

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