Theresa Ikoko’s award-winning play returns to London for the first time since its 2016 premiere, in the Young Vic’s Maria studio and in the hands of Ewa Dina, this year’s JMK Award winner.
The notices are in for Tartuffe (Remixed), Darren Raymond’s rewriting of Molière’s 1664 farce for a Nigerian-Jamaican family gathering in London for a wedding, with Mark Rylance as the bogus cleric Pastor Blake and a…
Ava Pickett’s Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy opened at Theatre Royal Stratford East on 10 September, and the reviews are in. Fifteen of them so far, and nine give it four stars.
Mere Mortals has opened Sadler’s Wells’ autumn season, and it is San Francisco Ballet’s first London visit since 2019 — the company now under Tamara Rojo, in a seventy-minute piece choreographed by Aszure Barton to a…
Ten years after the Royal Court first staged it, The Children has returned to London at the Lyric Hammersmith, with Meera Syal, Kerry Fox and Declan Conlon as three retired nuclear physicists living just outside an…
Noah Schnapp makes his stage debut in a world premiere that asks whether a young man can be raised too rich to have known better. Here is everything you need to know about Affluenza before you book.
The Olivier-winning revival opens on Tuesday 22 September and books to 9 January 2027, with tickets from £15. Here is what to expect from Into the Woods if you are deciding whether to go now.
The National Theatre has programmed its full year for 2027 with thirteen productions, eight of them world premieres, a return to repertory playing in the Lyttelton and a revival of West Side Story in the Olivier.
A trailer has arrived for Into the Woods, the Olivier-winning revival that opens at the Noel Coward Theatre on 22 September.
The first rehearsal images for Affluenza are out, and Donald Sage Mackay has joined Noah Schnapp and company ahead of previews from 26 September.
Thirty years on, Rent returns to the West End in a new production, with Gaten Matarazzo making his West End debut. Here is everything you need to know before you book.
Rehearsal images are out for Rent at the Tom Stoppard Theatre, where Gaten Matarazzo plays Mark from 26 September.
The Lyric Hammersmith has released production images for The Children, with Meera Syal, Declan Conlon and Kerry Fox. Press night is tonight.
Nick Mohammed takes the role of The Host in The Traitors - Acts of Betrayal at the Gillian Lynne Theatre from May 2027, after being sworn in by Claudia Winkleman.
The reviews are in for You’re So Special, Julia Grogan’s one-woman follow-up to Playfight, running at Soho Theatre until 26 September in a production directed by Rachel Lemon.
The reviews are in for for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, Ntozake Shange’s 1970s choreopoem, which has reopened the rebuilt Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick in a production directed by…
Hamilton is now booking at the Victoria Palace Theatre until 2 October 2027, following a sold-out season with Broadway’s original Aaron Burr.
The reviews are in for Kimberly Akimbo, the five-time Tony Award-winning musical by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori, which has finally reached this side of the Atlantic at the Hampstead Theatre in a production…
Jerker plays a three-week season at Waterloo East Theatre from 26 September, forty years after Robert Chesley wrote it.
Paranormal Activity now books to 2 January 2027 at the Ambassadors Theatre, in the same week the show opens a UK and Ireland tour.
The Young Vic has released the first production images for the world premiere of Thelma & Louise, the new musical from Callie Khouri and Neko Case.
The National Theatre’s Ballet Shoes tours the UK from August 2027, with Anton Du Beke making his first appearance in a National Theatre production.
What Would Jarvis Do? runs at the Omnibus Theatre from 6-16 October, after two sold-out development performances at the same address.
Concord Theatricals has released Operation Mincemeat for performance by under-19 companies across the UK and Eire, in a full-length edition scaled for casts of between 13 and 87.
Ninety years ago Noël Coward wrote Still Life as one of the ten short plays of Tonight at 8.30, and it went on to become Brief Encounter, which is the version almost everybody knows.
Thirty years after Toronto and a quarter of a century after Broadway, Jane Eyre has finally reached London, in a pared-back chamber version of the John Caird and Paul Gordon musical staged by Caird himself with Megan…
Four more names join Lolly Adefope in Oh, Mary! at the Trafalgar Theatre from 28 September 2026, completing the cast that takes over from Jinkx Monsoon and company.
Polka Theatre will hand out 10,000 free tickets to London and Surrey schools in 2026/27 and widen three creative learning programmes, after receiving nearly 17,000 ticket requests last year.
Myra DuBois will stay aboard Titanique at the Criterion Theatre for four more weeks, playing Ruth until Sunday 8 November 2026.
Johannes Radebe: Finally Home has added a second London date, a 2.30pm matinee at the London Palladium on 9 May 2027, with tickets on sale now.
Twelve years into its West End run, The Play That Goes Wrong has pushed its booking period at the Duchess Theatre out to 31 January 2028, carrying Mischief’s first West End show into the company’s twentieth anniversary…
Death Note The Musical is returning to the Barbican Theatre for a second London run, playing from 23 March to 15 May 2027.
The Yard Theatre has released production images for for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, the revival that reopens the rebuilt Hackney Wick venue and runs to 17 October 2026.
Rosamund Pike makes her Broadway debut in the National Theatre's Inter Alia from 10 November 2026, and two of her West End co-stars are going with her.
The first production images have been released of Tilda Swinton in Man to Man at the Royal Court, her first stage appearance in more than 30 years, ahead of press night on 11 September 2026.
Rachel Barry, Jimena Larraguivel, Ashley Margolis and Ben Wiggins join Beverley Klein in Memoriam, running at Southwark Playhouse Borough from 22 October to 21 November 2026.
Full casting is in for the first UK tour of Back to the Future The Musical, which opens at the Bristol Hippodrome on 8 October 2026 - and Roger Bart has extended his run as Doc Brown into a fourth city.
Twenty-nine walkers covered 58 West End theatres in fifteen miles on Sunday, raising more than £6,000 for the theatrical charity Acting for Others and beating the event’s previous record.
Laura Main takes over as The Dresser in By Royal Appointment, joining Jane Asher for a UK tour that opens in Cambridge on 24 September 2026.
The notices are in for Krapp’s Last Tape at The Cockpit, and they are unusually hard to separate from the circumstances of the performance.
Burning Down the House, a world premiere from Breach Theatre, runs at the Schwarzman Centre in Oxford from 25 September - 10 October 2026, and tells the story of the woman whose life Ibsen turned into Nora.
New Forest Open Air Theatre has launched a fundraising campaign to build a 300-seat seasonal theatre in the woods at Hinton Admiral, aiming to open for the 2027 summer season.
Nadia Dawber, James El-Sharawy, Sama Rantisi and Ghantus Wael make up the company for the world premiere of Application 39, Ahmed Masoud's satire about a Gaza awarded the 2048 Olympic Games.
The Barn Theatre production of Million Dollar Quartet will visit 23 venues between January and July 2027, opening at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on 26 January.
Mischief has named the actors who will take Christmas Carol Goes Wrong around the UK from late October and into the Wyndham's Theatre for six weeks over Christmas, with original company member Dave Hearn among them.
Annette McLaughlin returns as Mrs Wilkinson and Lesley Joseph takes on Grandma in the full company announced today for Billy Elliot the Musical, which tours the UK and Ireland from November before a limited West End…
Elizabeth Anderson takes over as Katniss Everdeen and Vinnie Copeland as Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games: On Stage from 23 October, as the Troubadour Canary Wharf production begins its second year.
Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch has named the company for Robin Hood, its family pantomime this Christmas, which opens on 18 November and runs to 2 January 2027.
The reviews are in for Annie Wobbler (Revisited), which began at the Finborough Theatre on 2 September and runs there until 26 September.
Rehearsal images have been released for The Standard of Living, James Graham's new play about John Maynard Keynes, which begins previews at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 21 September with Rory Kinnear in the lead.
Tyrone Huntley stays on as Judas Iscariot for the Theatre Royal Drury Lane season of Jesus Christ Superstar, where nine performers will share King Herod between them.
Teri Hatcher takes over as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada at the Dominion Theatre from 20 October 2026, becoming the third actress to run Runway in the West End after Vanessa Williams and Debbie Kurup.
The notices are in for Holy Fool, Rosalind Adler and Lea Sellers’ new play at the Park Theatre, which follows Dmitri Shostakovich from the denunciation of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 1936 through four decades of…
Sheffield Theatres has released production photographs of King Lear at the Crucible, with Ian McDiarmid in the title role and Titas Halder directing. The run ends on Saturday 19 September.
Oxford Playhouse will stage In Praise of Love, Terence Rattigan’s rarely performed penultimate play, from 13 February to 6 March 2027, directed by artistic director Mike Tweddle.
The reviews have landed for The Story, the UK premiere of Tracey Scott Wilson’s newsroom drama in the Olivier, and the critics are markedly more divided than the billing suggested.
The notices are in for A Month in the Country, Lyndsey Turner’s revival of Brian Friel’s version of Turgenev, and the Donmar has a warmly received autumn opener on its hands.
Production photographs have been released for the UK premiere of Jane Eyre, the John Caird and Paul Gordon musical now running at Southwark Playhouse Elephant until 24 October 2026, with Charlie Burn as Jane and Ashley…
Two new plays complete the first year of the Ryan Calais Cameron Season at the Broadway Theatre in Catford: Cranes by Demi Wilson-Smith from 23 September, and How To Keep Warm in Winter by Kaleb D’Aguilar from 14…
The Royal Shakespeare Company production of George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones: The Mad King will open in London in 2027, after a sold-out world premiere season in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Harry Judd joins Disney’s High School Musical as Coach Bolton, playing the final two performances in Salford on Saturday 19 September before taking the role for the whole of the production’s London run.
Crossroads Live and Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures have brought the end of the West End run of Beetlejuice The Musical forward, and the Prince Edward Theatre production will now play its last performance on Saturday 2…
Seven puppies in training for Guide Dogs UK spent an afternoon on the set of The Play That Goes Wrong at the Duchess Theatre, meeting the cast and watching extracts as part of their training.
The original cast recording of 13 Going on 30 – The Musical is released on Friday 4 September 2026, taken from the show’s sold-out world premiere run in Manchester and published by Decca Records.
The first images of the new principal cast of Hadestown have been released, with Nathan Sykes as Orpheus, Danielle de Niese as Persephone and Shaun Dooley as Hades from 15 September.
Taylor Mac brings two shows to London this winter: a one-night orchestral premiere at the Royal Festival Hall in November, and a week of Holiday Sauce at Soho Theatre Walthamstow in December.
Kimberly Akimbo, the Tony Award-winning musical, makes its European premiere at Hampstead Theatre this week. Production images have been released ahead of the official opening night, showcasing the cast led by Olivier…
Hannah Akhalu, Tara Tijani and Sewa Zamba will play the three friends in Girls, Theresa Ikoko's award-winning play, in the Young Vic's Maria from 22 October - 21 November 2026.
Brick Lane Music Hall stages a new murder mystery musical, The Pleasures of Fanny, from 2-6 October 2026, with the audience seated at tables and asked to name the killer over lunch, afternoon tea or dinner.
Maya Bartley O'Dea, Samantha Begeman, Nina Bowers and Gemma Barnett will each play a version of the title role in NINA, the debut play by director Caroline Williams, opening at Battersea Arts Centre on 6 October 2026.
The Unicorn Theatre has named the six performers who will lead Pocket Money, a new interactive show about money for seven to twelve-year-olds.
Five West End alumni return for one night on 17 September to mark 20 years of Avenue Q, which now closes at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 3 January.
James Graham’s Olivier-winning Punch heads the Belgrade Theatre’s spring 2027 season, which also brings a world premiere written by the theatre’s own artistic director. General booking opens on 10 September.
Polka Theatre has cast its two festive shows: a beatboxed Peter Pan from 14 November, and Little Bulb’s Antarctica for the under-sevens from 27 November.
Rehearsal images are out for Sylvia, which opens its UK tour in Leicester on 24 September and finishes with five performances at the Royal Albert Hall — a building that banned the Pankhursts in 1913.
Victoria Scone and River Medway lead the King’s Head Theatre panto this Christmas, in both the family show and its adults-only twin. Tickets start at £15.
The new musical built from Victoria Wood’s songbook comes to the Menier Chocolate Factory from 21 November, with Ria Jones and Sally Ann Triplett reprising their roles.
Samuel Blenkin returns as Hamlet in the London premiere of Hamlet Hail to the Thief, and the full company of fourteen actors and ten musicians is now confirmed.
Schools and university groups across the UK and Ireland can stage Mamma Mia! for the first time, 27 years after it opened in the West End.
Rehearsals have begun for the new Little Shop of Horrors, and every September performance at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre has sold out before the first preview.
Production photographs have been released for Holy Fool, the Shostakovich play now running at Park Theatre, which has added two more Carducci Quartet concerts alongside the run.
Rehearsal images have been released for Three Men in a Boat, a new comedy with songs opening at Rose Theatre in Kingston on 18 September.
The Yard Theatre has added two weeks to its revival of Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem, which now runs to 17 October and reopens the rebuilt Hackney Wick venue.
The reviews are in for Electra/Persona, the world premiere in which Benedict Andrews welds Sophocles's Electra to Ingmar Bergman's 1966 film Persona, and has Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss toss a coin in front of the…
A new video gives a first listen to Great Adventure from Kimberly Akimbo, sung by the European premiere cast at Hampstead Theatre a week before opening night.
Jonathan Bailey has stepped away from Sunday in the Park with George a month after Ariana Grande left the same production. The Barbican run goes ahead in summer 2027, with new casting to be announced.
Michael Ball will play Willy Wonka in a brand-new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the London Coliseum next summer, with tickets on sale from 29 September.
Four young performers will share the role of The Boy in Birmingham Rep’s new staging of The Snowman, with Olivier-winning Paddington designer Tahra Zafar making the Snowman costume.
Mei Mac and Isabella Wei will play the two roles in The Hungry Ghost, a debut play billed as a sexy horror rom-com, at the Bush Theatre from 1 October.
Nine performers from the UK and Ireland, New York and Australian companies share a single Candy Store in a video released for Heathers Day, filmed across three continents.
Five plays picked from roughly 4,000 unsolicited scripts get a staged reading in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs from 14 September, at £8.50 a ticket.
Sara Poyzer and Richard Standing return as Donna and Sam in a new West End cast for Mamma Mia! from 12 October, and booking now runs to 2 October 2027.
Sapling, which won the 2025 Women’s Prize for Playwriting, gets its world premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond from 5 June 2027.
The Reckoning tours to Coventry and Chichester in the new year before returning to the Arcola Theatre in February, timed to the fifth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Tickets for Denouement go on sale at 10am on Friday 4 September 2026, for a six-date UK tour running from 29 May to 5 June 2027.
Every singer who opened Angel’s Bone in Manchester this spring returns for the opera’s six-performance run at the London Coliseum in October.
The notices are in for Jeeves Takes Charge, the one-man Wodehouse anthology that Hugh Wooldridge first directed in 1980 and has now revived at the Charing Cross Theatre, with Sam Harrison playing all twenty-two…
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