6 h. ago Lily Allen adds extra West End Girl tour date for 2026: How to get tickets

British pop star chose theatre venues specifically to showcase the songs from her new album

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8 h. ago Elaine Paige promises King signed copy of new album as she receives damehood

The West End star was honoured for services to music and charity at a ceremony at Windsor Castle.

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54 h. ago First glimpse of Paddington as Peru’s most famous bear stars in new West End musical

Fans have had a first look at the latest incarnation of Paddington Bear, as the much-loved character stars in a new West End musical.

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61 h. ago First look at Paddington The Musical ahead of its West End opening

Paddington The Musical, which opens on Saturday, follows the bear after he arrives in London

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3 d. ago Audience reduced to tears by Paddington Bear reveal for new West End musical

The stage design of the beloved illegal immigrant bear has been a tightly guarded secret for years

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5 d. ago Lily Allen announces first tour in seven years after releasing explosive album West End Girl

Lily Allen has shared a huge announcement with her fans in the wake of releasing her first new music in seven years, West End Girl, which she discusses her split from David Harbour

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5 d. ago Rachel Zegler will return to London’s West End to star in another classic musical

Rachel Zegler will return to London’s West End to star in another classic musical  Time Out

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5 d. ago Lily Allen announces West End Girl tour for 2026: How to get tickets

British pop star chose theatre venues specifically to showcase the songs from her new album

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5 d. ago Lily Allen brings West End Girl tour to Cardiff and has hand

Lily Allen's West End Girl has been causing waves in the music community and is her first release since her split with Stranger Things star, David Harbour

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5 d. ago How to get Lily Allen tickets for West End Girl 2026 Tour including two Manchester dates

Everything you need to know about securing tickets to Lily Allen's upcoming tour

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5 d. ago ‘Paddington: The Musical’: The West End Will Now Look After This Bear

‘Paddington: The Musical’: The West End Will Now Look After This Bear  The New York Times

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8 d. ago Alexandra Burke to play Queen of Funk in I’m Every Woman The Chaka Khan Musical

Burke will headline the new musical about the award-winning singer.

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1 week ago Lily Allen explains who ‘Madeline’ is on explosive album West End Girl

Mysterious woman is mentioned numerous times on new album

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1 week ago 'Woke' producers cut 'deaf, dumb and blind' line from The Who's Pinball Wizard in Live Aid West End musical

Fans have now accused the show's producers of 'wokery at its worst' and said people 'should boycott the show if the lyrics aren't reinstated'.

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1 week ago Lily Allen has always been the queen of the confessional – West End Girl is a perfect exercise in unsparing honesty

Younger artists like Charli XCX have mastered what Allen owned first: a kind of ironic detachment that makes any suggestion of female artists being ‘hysterical’ much harder. With her new album, the pop star is so back, says Roisin O’Connor

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1 week ago Opinion: Lily Allen's evisceration of David Harbour heartbreak is a high watermark for celebrity confessions

West End Girl is more than a tell-all — it’s a baller power move

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1 week ago ‘I don’t make it easy for myself’: divorce and desire power Lily Allen’s autofictional comeback

The singer has brought her seven-year music hiatus to an end with a new album, West End GirlWhen Lily Allen released her fifth album on Friday morning, there were as many headlines breaking down the contents of the record as there were actual reviews of the music.West End Girl, surprise-announced on Monday, appears to concern the 40-year-old British pop star’s divorce from the US actor David Harbour, who stars in the Netflix sci-fi series Stranger Things. Continue reading...

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1 week ago West End Girl by Lily Allen: A masterpiece album of betrayal

Lily Allen’s first album in seven years is a searing takedown of a dying relationship that reminds us all how confessional pop is done best: with actual confessions

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1 week ago Disgraced rock star Ian Watkins died from stab wound to the neck, inquest hears

The 48-year-old died after an alleged attack at HMP Wakefield, where he was serving a 29-year sentence for child sexual offences.

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1 week ago Lily Allen: West End Girl – a gobsmacking autopsy of marital betrayal

(BMG)Allen’s first album in seven years traces the fallout from an open relationship, but as well as being cathartic and candid, these stylistically varied songs have melodies that sparkleIt is seven years since Lily Allen last released an album. No Shame was Mercury-nominated and far better reviewed than 2014’s Sheezus – not least by Allen herself – but it was also her lowest-selling album to date. You could have taken that as evidence pop had moved on. In Britain, 2018 was a year that the well-mannered boy/girl-next-door pop of George Ezra, Jess Glynne and Ed Sheeran held sway; Allen seemed symbolic of a messier, mouthier era. Afterwards, Allen stepped away from music, concentrating instead on what you’d have to call a diverse portfolio of interests, including acting, podcasting, launching her own sex toy and selling photographs of her feet to fetishists on OnlyFans.But pop has a habit of developing in a cyclical way. When Olivia Rodrigo brought Allen on stage at Glastonbury in 20...

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