Phantom returns to London with an Irish man behind the mask

Double Olivier Award nominee, Killian Donnelly, from Meath has been cast as The Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera in London

Killian Donnelly as The Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera. Picture: Johan Persson

An actor from Meath will become the face of a long-running, iconic musical as it returns to London’s West End next summer.

Killian Donnelly has been cast as The Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, which will reopen at Her Majesty’s Theatre in June 2021, it has been announced.