The first non-replica UK staging of Disney's High School Musical had its official opening night at Lowry in Salford on Thursday 27 August, with Russell T Davies and a run of Manchester screen names in the audience.
A trailer is out for Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy, days before Ava Pickett’s new play has its world premiere at Theatre Royal Stratford East with Michelle Dockery as Helen.
Patti LuPone brings her concert Matters of the Heart to the London Coliseum for two nights, on 14 and 15 February 2027. Tickets go on general sale on 4 September.
Atlantic Records will issue physical editions of the The Lost Boys cast album on 30 October, on CD and double vinyl. Pre-orders opened today; the recording is already streaming.
Production photography has been released for Present Laughter, Noël Coward’s comedy of theatrical celebrity, now running at Theatre Royal Bath before a UK tour.
The first notices are in for Anansi the Spider, the Unicorn Theatre family show now running on the picnic lawn at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.
Hot Mess has put out a new track, One in a Trillion, written for its London run and sung by Morgan Gregory. The musical closes at The Other Palace on Sunday 6 September.
The Choir of Man is coming back to London for Christmas, opening at The Arts at Marble Arch on 10 December 2026 and booking to 14 February 2027. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday 2 September.
Wild Yak and the Marylebone Theatre have announced the world premiere of Speculations, a political thriller by Torben Betts directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, with Janie Dee as the journalist who refused to accept the…
The complete recording of Evita, captured live at the London Palladium during Jamie Lloyd's sold-out run last summer, is released today on triple vinyl and across the streaming services, six months before the production…
The first rehearsal images are out for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, with Gillian Anderson as Martha and Billy Crudup as George. Marianne Elliott directs in the round, opening at @sohoplace on 21 September.
Rosie O'Donnell has joined the producing team of Indigo, a new musical about a non-speaking autistic teenager that its producers intend to bring to London in 2027.
A Slow Fire, Simon Stephens’s play about two men waiting out an unnamed catastrophe in a locked bunker, has reached the Jermyn Street Theatre after a first run with Dublin’s Glass Mask company — and the critics have…
Tim Curry, who created Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show at the Royal Court in 1973 and was three times nominated for a Tony, has died at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 80.
The Devil Wears Prada will now play the Dominion Theatre until 25 September 2027, with tickets for the new period on sale from 25 pounds. Matt Henry stays as Nigel until February 2027.
The first production photos have been released for High School Musical, now running at Lowry in Manchester before it transfers to Troubadour Theatre - Wembley in October.
Rehearsal photographs have been released for Hay Fever, which plays Wyndham's Theatre from 22 September to 12 December 2026. Christine Baranski and Richard E. Grant lead Emily Burns's production of Noël Coward's comedy.
With a Nanny McPhee musical now confirmed for London in summer 2027, it is worth remembering how well the city has done out of the nanny musical. Three of them have held major houses in the past two decades.
Emma Thompson's long-gestating Nanny McPhee musical is finally moving. Story House PR teased the show on Wednesday evening ahead of a full announcement on Thursday morning, and this is what is already on the record.
Rehearsal images have been released for The Pianist, the first musical to be drawn from Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir and to build itself around the composer's own music.
English National Opera brings the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angel's Bone to the West End in October, and follows it with a new staging of Tosca at the London Coliseum from 30 October.
Henry Shields and Allie Dart join most of the original UK company of Christmas Carol Goes Wrong for its Manchester and Portsmouth dates in November, before the production makes its North American premiere in Los Angeles…
Sketch trio Crybabies bring their horror comedy The Scaring straight from Edinburgh to Soho Theatre for three weeks from 3 September, directed by Jon Brittain for Francesca Moody Productions.
Corpse, Kirsty Mann's account of a haunting based on a true story, will run at Soho Theatre from 2 to 13 February 2027 following its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Fuccbois: Live In Concert, the Australian comedy-boyband show from writer and composer Bridie Connell, plays Soho Theatre from 2 to 5 September after a month at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Roleplay, the one-woman comedy-thriller written and performed by Hannah Reilly, comes to Soho Theatre from 22 October to 21 November, straight from a four-star run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Tom Dugan's one-man play Wiesenthal, about the Holocaust survivor who spent forty years hunting Nazi war criminals, plays Wilton's Music Hall from 1-5 September after a month at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Vivienne Carlyle returns as Mrs Johnstone for the autumn leg of Bill Kenwright's touring production of Blood Brothers, which opens in Weston-super-Mare on 8 September.
Pride, the new British musical drawn from the 1984 miners' strike and the friendships it made, moves to the Bridge Theatre on 12 November 2026 after sold-out runs in Cardiff and at the National Theatre.
An indie-folk musical that reworks Georg Büchner's unfinished Woyzeck and promotes Marie to equal billing opens at Charing Cross Theatre in September, with Brenock O'Connor and Jade Oswald at the head of a company of 14…
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe closes on 31 August, but five of this year's shows already have London dates in the diary: four transfers to Soho Theatre across September, October and November, and a three-week Young Vic…
Speakerphone Productions opens two shows in London next month: Under the Influence, a new musical comedy at the King's Head Theatre from 8 September, and HAM, a Fringe First-winning twist on Hamlet, at Soho Theatre from…
Christine Baranski makes her West End debut opposite Richard E. Grant in Noël Coward’s Hay Fever this autumn. Here is everything you need to know before you book.
Alexa Lopez will make her West End debut as Mimi in RENT, as the producers complete the company for Jonathan Larson’s musical at the newly renamed Tom Stoppard Theatre this autumn.
The reviews are in for Who Killed Marilyn?, the world premiere now running at the Emerald Theatre, in which Pixie Lott plays Marilyn Monroe and narrates her own life and death from beside the bed where her body was…
The Marlowe Theatre has released the first pictures from the rehearsal room for A Tale of Two Cities, the Rattigan and Gielgud stage version of Dickens’s novel of the French Revolution, which opens in Canterbury next…
Francesca Moody Productions has named the first eight guest actors who will join Tim Crouch in An Oak Tree at The Other Palace, among them Gemma Whelan, Rosalie Craig, Sacha Dhawan and Hammed Animashaun.
The reviews are in for As You Like It, the Globe's summer staging of Shakespeare's forest comedy of disguise and courtship, co-directed by Sean Holmes and Charlie Josephine, who also plays Orlando.
The reviews are in for How the Other Half Loves, Alan Ayckbourn’s 1969 comedy of suburban infidelity, revived in the round at the Old Vic by Phillip Breen as part of Matthew Warchus’s farewell season.
The first UK non-replica staging of Disney's High School Musical plays its opening performance in Manchester tonight, with Jason Donovan as Coach Bolton before the show heads to Wembley for Christmas.
Brenock O'Connor and Jade Oswald will lead a 14-strong actor-muso company in Franz & Marie, a new musical reworking of Buchner's Woyzeck, which opens at Charing Cross Theatre on 28 September.
Woolwich Works has announced an autumn programme led by Ethiopian Dreams, a new show from Circus Abyssinia, and Buffy Revamped, the award-winning solo comedy that races through all 144 episodes of the cult series in 70…
The critics have been round to Beverly’s for cheese and pineapple. Abigail’s Party, Mike Leigh’s 1977 anatomy of suburban aspiration and marital warfare, has reached the West End at the Harold Pinter Theatre, following…
Nancy Carroll, Will Close, Charles Edwards and Ophelia Lovibond are among those joining Christine Baranski and Richard E. Grant in Hay Fever, which opens at Wyndham's Theatre next month.
The first rehearsal photographs have arrived for Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy, with Michelle Dockery and Laura Aikman leading the world premiere of Ava Pickett's new play at Stratford East from 3 September.
London Theatre Company has released a set of behind-the-scenes photographs from The Oresteia, Simon Stone's production starring Mary-Louise Parker and David Morrissey, which runs at the Bridge Theatre until 19 September.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical turns five at the Piccadilly Theatre this autumn, and marks it with a substantially refreshed company. From 12 October, James Doherty takes over as Harold Zidler and Daniel Fraser as The Duke.
Caissie Levy, this year's Tony Award winner for Best Actress in a Musical, returns to London for one night with Caissie Levy Live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Sunday 13 December 2026.
A Both-And Voyage (Aksel and Space Grandma), a new two-hander by Ekaterina Harrison, opens the VOYAGES Festival at the White Bear Theatre on 25 August.
The first production images of Jinkx Monsoon in Oh, Mary! have been released, catching her West End debut as Mary Todd Lincoln at the Trafalgar Theatre.
The Mousetrap will now play at St Martin's Theatre until 18 July 2027, with tickets on sale as the world's longest running play approaches its 75th anniversary.
Janette Manrara, Rupert Young, Juliet Cowan and Wallis Currie-Wood join Noah Schnapp in Affluenza, the world premiere that opens the Mainstage Season 26/27 at Riverside Studios on 26 September.
The Barn Theatre's production of Million Dollar Quartet has completed its company for this autumn's London run, with Connor Payne, Christopher Erasmus, Joe Bence and Joey Bradick joining the previously announced Darren…
The shortlist for The Stage Debut Awards 2026, in association with Netflix, has been announced, with Sadie Sink, Noah Jupe, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes among those recognised for breakthrough work on and off…
The first production images have been released for the UK tour of Burlesque the Musical, with Faye Brookes as Tess Richarde and a run that now stretches to Canterbury in May 2027.
Production images have been released for Anansi The Spider, the Unicorn Theatre and Regent's Park Open Air Theatre retelling of the West African and Caribbean trickster tales, playing on the Picnic Lawn until 6…
New production images have been released for Brainiac Live, which has under two weeks left at the Garrick Theatre before taking the West End staging out on a UK tour this autumn.
Rehearsal images have been released for Headlong's revival of Fences, which opens at Leeds Playhouse next month before a five-venue tour that includes a month at the Lyric Hammersmith.
The company of the new revival of Little Shop of Horrors appears together on film for the first time in a specially recorded megamix, released today ahead of runs at Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre and the Liverpool…
Production images have been released for the touring revival of Barnum, with Matt Rawle back in the title role and on the tightrope until the tour closes at the end of October.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is past its halfway point, but there is still time to catch these five productions: a camp Australian beach comedy, a Danish song cycle built from anonymous internet confessions, a…
One of the most talked-about shows of this year's Edinburgh Fringe is heading south: HAM, Hotter Project's vegan rewrite of Hamlet, plays Soho Theatre from 29 September to 31 October.
Chile's Ballet de Santiago will cross the Atlantic for the first time in September 2027, bringing Swan Lake to the London Coliseum for a single week under the direction of former Birmingham Royal Ballet principal César…
Ten years on from its last London outing, Woody Sez: The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie arrives at the Underbelly Boulevard Soho this September, with David M. Lutken back in the role he devised.
Romeo and Hamed, a debut play in verse by Scott Horgan, plays Riverside Studios from 2 to 6 September, with every performance creatively captioned.
Production images have been released of Sam Harrison playing all twenty-two characters in Jeeves Takes Charge, the Olivier Award-winning P.G. Wodehouse adaptation now back in London at Charing Cross Theatre.
Bart Johnson, Coach Bolton in the original Disney films, dropped in on the final week of rehearsals for Disney's High School Musical, which opens at Lowry in Salford on Saturday.
Palestinian actor and comedian Alaa Shehada extends his Fringe First-winning one-man show The Bridge with three further performances at Assembly George Square Studios.
Pictures have been released from this year's West End Woofs (and Meows), the live dog and cat adoption event hosted by Dame Elaine Paige and Bernadette Peters at St Paul's Church, Covent Garden.
Edinburgh Fringe sell-out Club NVRLND is bringing its all-night party to The Vaults in Waterloo, opening on 14 November and booking through to the end of January.
The Comedy About Spies has opened at the Adelphi Theatre to a run of five-star notices, and Mischief have added an extra midweek matinee before the limited season closes on 26 September.
Rehearsal pictures are out for Present Laughter, in which Tracy-Ann Oberman plays a role written for a man – the first female Essendine – opposite James Dreyfus and Adrian Lukis.
New Brighton’s Floral Pavilion has set out its autumn and winter programme, led by the West End comedy The Last Laugh, the 75th anniversary tour of The Mousetrap and the venue’s Christmas pantomime Aladdin.
Rehearsal pictures have arrived for the 75th anniversary UK and Ireland tour of The Mousetrap, which opens in Birmingham on 3 September before visiting more than 25 cities.
The line-up for Letters to My Younger Future Self has grown again, with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Susan Wokoma, James Graham and Daniel Ings among the alumni heading back to the National Youth Theatre for its 70th birthday…
Writing teams have until 27 September to put a new musical forward for MTFestUK 2027, the eighth edition of The Other Palace’s new-work festival, which returns to the venue’s studio in January and February 2027.
Tickets are on sale now for The Snowman, which returns to the Peacock Theatre from 21 November 2026 to 3 January 2027 in a completely new production directed and choreographed by Will Tuckett, with prices from £18.
London Theatre Week has returned for its biggest edition yet, with more than 80 productions offering seats at £15, £25 or £35 from today until 13 September.
Disney Theatrical Group's stage adaptation of The Greatest Showman will premiere at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in spring 2027, with Oliver Tompsett and Samantha Barks leading the company.
First look images have been released of Jason Donovan and the cast in rehearsals for the first UK non-replica production of Disney's High School Musical.
The dinosaur puppets from the Olivier Award-winning family show Dinosaur World Live were caught roaming St Pancras International this week.
First look rehearsal images have been released for Holy Fool, a new play about Dmitri Shostakovich's battle to preserve his artistic voice under Stalin, running at Park Theatre from 27 August.
The 27th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards will return to the London Palladium for a fourth year, with the ceremony taking place on Sunday 28 February 2027.
Maddie Rice, of Fleabag and Pickle Jar fame, is at the Edinburgh Fringe with Goodbye Dandelion, the first show to receive the Underbelly Futures Fund Award.
Sheer Luck Holmes, a brand-new comedy murder mystery from the team behind Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, embarks on a UK tour this October.
Jamael Westman joins Marisha Wallace and Michael Rishawn in the UK premiere of Douglas Lyons' romantic comedy Table 17, running at Kiln Theatre from 17 September 2026.
Noah Schnapp, known to millions as Will Byers in Stranger Things, will make his stage debut in the world premiere of Affluenza at Riverside Studios from 26 September 2026.
The notices are in for Death Note: The Musical, the first fully staged English-language version of Frank Wildhorn's adaptation of the Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata manga, now at the Barbican Theatre until 12 September.
Park Theatre has announced Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley as its Park200 Christmas show, a festive return to the world of Pride and Prejudice told from the perspective of its most overlooked sister, running from 2…
The first rehearsal images have been released for Tartuffe (Remixed), Darren Raymond's new adaptation of Molière's comedy starring Mark Rylance, which opens at the Marylebone Theatre on 4 September 2026.
The full cast has been announced for the 20th anniversary UK and Ireland tour of Jersey Boys, led by Luke Baker as Frankie Valli, with the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical booking through 2027.
Stage and screen stars Skylar Astin and Sarah Hyland will make their West End debuts in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club from 21 September 2026, playing the Emcee and Sally Bowles.
The Island, a brand-new actor-musician musical adaptation of Victoria Hislop's international bestseller, will receive its world premiere at The Mill at Sonning next summer, leading the theatre's newly announced 2027…
Keith Alessi's sell-out Edinburgh Fringe show Tomatoes Tried to Kill Me but Banjos Saved My Life has celebrated its 100th performance at Summerhall Arts, having raised £750,000 for the venue and its artists.
The full cast has been announced for the West End run of The Last Ship, Sting’s newly adapted musical, which plays a limited season at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane from 22 September to 3 October.
Center Stage Records has announced the release of the EP for Sappho: The Poetess, the solo musical written and performed by Hayley Canham, which arrives on digital and streaming platforms on Wednesday 12 August.
Under the Influence, the new musical comedy by The Gilbert Twins and Shona Maule, transfers from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to the King's Head Theatre from 8 to 26 September 2026.
Cordelia Lynn, Carley Magee, Tolu Okanlawon and AJ Yi have been named the recipients of the 2026 Playwrights '73 bursaries, each receiving £15,000 and an 18-month attachment to a UK theatre.
Richard Thomas, the Olivier Award-winning composer of Jerry Springer: The Opera, joins House of Life as musical supervisor, with New York's P3 Productions joining as producers for the show's Edinburgh Festival Fringe…
Stage and TV star Jennifer Ellison will play Ms Heron / Ms Norbury / Mrs George in selected cities on the 2026/2027 UK and Ireland tour of Mean Girls The Musical, which tours until January 2027.
Rehearsal photography and an EPK have been released for The Silence of the Lambs, with Mollie Gallagher making her professional theatre debut as Clarice Starling opposite John Partridge as Dr Hannibal Lecter, ahead of a…
Rehearsal photos have been released for Kimberly Akimbo ahead of its UK premiere at Hampstead Theatre, with four-time Olivier Award winner Maria Friedman playing Kimberly Levaco from 28 August.
BAFTA-nominated Lolly Adefope will make her West End debut as Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary! at the Trafalgar Theatre, playing a 10-week season from 28 September until 5 December 2026.
London Theatre Company have released a first look trailer for The Oresteia, written and directed by Simon Stone and starring Mary-Louise Parker and David Morrissey, now playing at the Bridge Theatre until 19 September…
Nick Mulvey will perform on Sunday 27 September, completing the line-up for Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's Live Music Week, presented in partnership with Communion ONE from 22 to 27 September 2026.
Producer Brian Fenty has announced the principal cast for the 75th anniversary UK tour of The Mousetrap, which opens in Birmingham on 3 September 2026 before visiting more than 25 cities.
The Young Vic have released a first-listen music video for For A Change, performed by Amy Lennox and Rachel Tucker, ahead of the world premiere of Thelma & Louise in September.
The Bush Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for Before We Forget, a new devised production from its 18-25 Young Company, running on the main Holloway stage from 18 to 22 August.
The Barn Theatre's acclaimed production of Million Dollar Quartet transfers to London this autumn, with Darren Day reprising the role of Sam Phillips for a strictly limited season at The Arts at Marble Arch from 4…
First casting has been announced for the major UK and Ireland tour of the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, which opens at Theatre Royal Plymouth on 6 October 2026.
Three years after closing its gates, Punchdrunk will reopen the set of The Burnt City in Woolwich this September for a one-weekend-only screening of Persephone, a new film of the hit immersive production.
The Watermill Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for the world premiere stage adaptation of Murder Before Evensong, starring Ian Hallard as Canon Daniel Clement, with two extra performances added due…
Dame Maureen Lipman’s acclaimed run in Allegra comes to a close this week, with the final performance at the Harold Pinter Theatre on Saturday 8 August 2026 marking the production’s landmark 100th show.
From a sold-out Elaine C. Smith comedy to a one-man cycling epic performed live on a Tour de France bike, here are nine shows worth booking at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, four of which have just been named in…
First look images have been released for Theatre Royal Plymouth's new production of Fame The Musical, which stars Shanay Holmes as Miss Sherman and runs until 15 August.
Little Angel Theatre will open its historic marionette collection to the public for the first time in a generation with Marionettes: An Exhibition Celebrating String Puppets, a free exhibition running from 22 August to…
The Marlowe Theatre has announced the full cast and 2026-27 UK tour dates for A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens' epic novel adapted for the stage by Terence Rattigan and John Gielgud and directed by Michael Fentiman.
Brand-new production images and pictures from the star-studded gala night have been released for Now You See Me Live, the illusion spectacular playing a five-week season at the London Coliseum until Sunday 6 September…
Global reggae icon Shaggy will reprise his role as the Wallsend Ferryman alongside Sting in The Last Ship for two performances only, as the reimagined musical plays a strictly limited run at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane…
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