Avenue Q Announces West End Revival Casting!

Avenue Q has announced the full company for its 2026 West End revival, marking 20 years since the musical first arrived in London.

The Tony Award-winning show will return in a brand-new production at the Shaftesbury Theatre, running from 20 March until 29 August 2026. The engagement coincides with the musical’s 20th anniversary and follows a successful concert staging at the Sondheim Theatre in 2024.

Produced by Kevin McCollum and Jamie Wilson Productions, the revival will reunite key members of the original creative team and will feature the original Broadway puppets. Jason Moore returns to direct, with puppet design by Rick Lyon, orchestrations and arrangements by Stephen Oremus and set design by Anna Louizos, all reprising their roles from the show’s original production.

New creative contributions for the revival include choreography by Ebony Molina, costume design by Jean Chan, lighting design by Tim Lutkin, sound design by Paul Groothuis, video design by Nina Dunn for Pixellux, and puppetry coaching by Iestyn Evans and Andy Heath for Talk to the Hand Puppets. Casting is by Pearson Casting. Original West End cast member Julie Atherton will serve as associate director, with musical supervision and direction by Benjamin Holder.

Written by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, with a book by Jeff Whitty, Avenue Q is a sharply funny and often irreverent musical that blends human performers with puppets to explore adulthood, relationships and modern anxieties. The story follows Princeton, a bright-eyed college graduate who moves into a rundown New York apartment building and is guided — sometimes misguidedly — by his unconventional neighbours. The show famously won three Tony Awards in 2004, including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book.

The London cast for the 2026 season will feature Emily Benjamin as Kate Monster and Lucy The Sl*t, Noah Harrison as Princeton and Rod, Meg Hateley as Mrs T and Bad Idea Bear, Oliver Jacobson as Brian, Charlie McCullagh as Nicky, Trekkie Monster and Bad Idea Bear, Amelia Kinu Muus as Christmas Eve and Dionne Ward-Anderson as Gary Coleman. They are joined by ensemble members Jasmine Beel, Jonathan Carlton, Angelis Hunt, Lesley Lemon, Jessica Niles Kadi and Joshua Williams-Ward.

Avenue Q originally opened in the West End in 2006 at the Noël Coward Theatre, before transferring to the Gielgud Theatre and later Wyndham’s Theatre, where it closed in 2010. The upcoming run will be staged in a reduced-capacity Shaftesbury Theatre while refurbishment work continues at the venue.

Tickets for the 2026 revival are now on sale.

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