The reviews are in for English National Ballet’s Rhythm Riot, the triple bill that opened the company’s season at Sadler’s Wells on 24 September. Artistic director Aaron S.
The reviews are in for The First Year (of the Gaza Genocide in the Media), BÉZNĂ Theatre’s documentary piece at New Diorama Theatre, which examines how UK news outlets reported the twelve months from 7 October 2023.
Chichester Festival Theatre is ending its main-house season with a rave, and the reviews are in for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which opened on 25 September.
The critics have been to Richmond for a small and quiet light, Stephanie Street’s play about Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, the Special Operations Executive wireless operator sent into occupied France in 1943.
The producers of Paddington The Musical have put 130 pairs of seats for the new company's final dress rehearsal at the Savoy Theatre on 28 October into a £10 prize draw, with the proceeds going to the children's charity…
Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup are seen on stage as Martha and George for the first time, in production photographs from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? released on the day of its press night at @sohoplace.
The reviews are in for The Standard of Living, James Graham’s new play about the economist John Maynard Keynes, which opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 29 September.
Faulty Towers The Dining Experience will play its 4,000th West End performance on 22 January 2027, opening a year that also brings 15 years in London and 30 since the show began in Brisbane.
Julian Hoult will play Toad and Kingdom Sibanda will play Ratty in The Wind in the Willows, the Rose Theatre's world-premiere Christmas show, which runs in Kingston upon Thames from 25 November 2026 to 3 January 2027.
The first trailer is out for Thelma & Louise, the new musical from Callie Khouri and Neko Case, midway through its world premiere run at the Young Vic.
Honor Santa Barnes's one-woman dark comedy Florence is coming to Park90 at Park Theatre for a single week in November, following its runs at The Other Palace and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The first rehearsal photographs have been released for York Theatre Royal's revival of The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood's retelling of the Odyssey, with Amelia Bullmore as Penelope.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding is heading back to the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre for five weeks, from 28 January to 27 February 2027, less than a year after its UK premiere there.
Stephanie Greenwood and Sean Hart make up the two-person cast of Relative Motion, Greenwood’s new play about coercive control, which runs at Southwark Playhouse Borough from 11 November to 5 December 2026.
Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage is coming back to London for a 15-week season at the Prince Edward Theatre, from 19 January to 24 April 2027.
Lucian Msamati plays Edward and Ama Qamata makes her UK stage debut as Matha in The Afronauts, Ryan Calais Cameron’s new play about Zambia’s bid for space in 1964, which opens at the Royal Court Theatre on 14 November.
Spencer Phillips, whose career includes senior roles at Ticketmaster and LW Theatres, has been appointed chair of Queen's Theatre Hornchurch's board of trustees as the theatre begins its search for a new chief executive.
Evan Alexander Smith joins Stranger Things: The First Shadow on Broadway tonight as Dr. Brenner, and will play the role to the end of the New York run in January. The Phoenix Theatre production continues in London.
The British musical that has been running on Broadway for five years will hold its last Sing-Along performance there on Thursday 29 October, ahead of a New York closing date of 3 January 2027.
Cadel: Lungs On Legs, the award-winning solo play in which Connor Delves cycles 27km on stage at every performance, arrives at Riverside Studios for a five-week London premiere season from Tuesday 13 October.
A new musical about the young women who painted glowing watch dials in 1920s New Jersey gets its world premiere next spring.
Wicked has passed twenty years at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, and the production marked the milestone with a weekend of celebrations that brought former Glindas and Elphabas back to the building.
The first production photographs of Sylvia on tour have been released, with Beverley Knight MBE back as Emmeline Pankhurst and Naomi Katiyo as her daughter.
Production photographs of Skylar Astin and Sarah Hyland in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club have been released, the first look at the pair in the roles they are playing on their West End debuts.
The first production photographs from the UK tour of By Royal Appointment have been released, with Jane Asher as The Queen and Laura Main as her Dresser.
Writer and actor Jacob O'Connor brings his first play, Act of God, to the Riverside Studios this November, with a reluctant young man sent on a ten-week therapy-via-poetry course.
Debbie McGee will play Miss Lynch in the new UK and Ireland tour of GREASE The Musical, which opens at the Theatre Royal Plymouth on Friday 23 April 2027.
Tickets for Christmas by Candlelight at Hyde Park Winter Wonderland go on sale at midday on Wednesday 30 September, from £35, for six sing-along concerts in a purpose-built 1,000-seat arena between 5 and 23 December.
Paddington The Musical has named the company that will take it into a second year at the Savoy Theatre. Abbie Purvis and Hassan Taj alternate as the Paddington on Stage Performer from 28 October.
The first pictures from the rehearsal room have been released for Cloud 9, Caryl Churchill's 1979 play, which opens at the National Theatre's Lyttelton in November under the direction of Dominic Cooke.
Dónal Finn, Suranne Jones and Tanya Reynolds have each been given a single performance of An Oak Tree at The Other Palace, walking on stage opposite Tim Crouch having never read or rehearsed the play.
Tickets for the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory go on sale at 2pm today, and Michael Ball has marked the moment with a first recording of Pure Imagination.
Sinatra The Musical will give a gala performance at the Aldwych Theatre on 15 October in aid of Nordoff and Robbins, the UK’s largest music therapy charity.
Lashana Lynch will lead the world premiere of dissent, written and directed by debbie tucker green, in the Main House at the Young Vic from 5 March - 24 April 2027.
A shipping container will sit on The Cut from 24 March - 24 April 2027, and inside it, in total darkness, Eulogy will walk audiences through a hotel that is not there.
FlawBored, the disability-led company behind It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure, bring What’s The F**king Point? to the Maria at the Young Vic from 2-24 April 2027.
Edward Watson and Meow Meow will star in A Hunger Artist in the Maria at the Young Vic from 9-26 June 2027, directed and choreographed by Arthur Pita.
The Pelicot Trial, the documentary theatre piece drawn from the case that made Gisèle Pelicot a household name across Europe, will be given once in London, on 30 November 2026, in the courtroom chamber at London County…
Nadia Fall has filled the last four slots in the Young Vic’s 2026/27 season, and only one of them sits inside the theatre. General booking opens at 11am on 7 October.
Michael Ball plays Willy Wonka at the London Coliseum next summer, in an entirely new staging of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory built at Curve in Leicester. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday 29 September.
Rachel Zegler returns to the West End in the new year with Rachel Zegler - Live In London, a concert residency of 14 performances at @sohoplace. Tickets go on general sale at 12pm on Wednesday 30 September.
The Comedy About Spies has played its last performance at the Adelphi Theatre, and Mischief has announced a UK tour for 2027.
British designers Chloe Lamford and Gareth Owen join the creative team for Imitation of Life, the new Lynn Nottage and John Legend musical, whose principal casting around Adrienne Warren has now been confirmed.
Lee Mead returns to the Adelphi Theatre on Sunday 11 July 2027 with a new solo concert, Twenty Years in Technicolour, twenty years on from the television vote that handed him the title role in Joseph and the Amazing…
Marc Brenner’s first pictures of Hay Fever in performance have been released, with Christine Baranski and Richard E. Grant leading Noël Coward’s comedy at Wyndham’s Theatre until 12 December 2026.
Production photographs have been released for Jerker, Robert Chesley’s two-hander, which runs at Waterloo East Theatre until 18 October.
The first production photographs from the touring The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time have been released, and five more venues have joined the 2027 leg of the tour.
Five more venues have joined the first UK and Ireland tour of Hadestown, and the Southend, Northampton, Woking, Oxford and Wimbledon weeks go on sale on 2 October.
The Squint Playwriting Award is open to applicants for the first time since 2023, offering eight early-career London writers from low-income backgrounds a paid six-month programme and an industry showcase at Theatre…
The reviews are in for Tru, which opened at the Menier Chocolate Factory on Sunday 27 September 2026. Jay Presson Allen’s 1989 play puts Jesse Tyler Ferguson alone in Truman Capote’s New York apartment in December 1975…
The winner of the International Award at The Stage Awards 2026 returns to the stage next spring with Rædsel, a Danish play by Anna Bro, and is asking for £10,000 to keep the UK's only theatre translator mentorship…
Axelle Fanyo sings Floria Tosca and Chaz'men Williams-Ali sings Cavaradossi in English National Opera's new Tosca, which opens at the London Coliseum on 30 October.
Sadie Sink has been voted Best West End Debut Performer at The Stage Debut Awards 2026, the one prize of the night settled by the public, at a ceremony that spread its two acting categories across four winners.
The first production image from Rent in the West End has been released, taken as the company played the Life Cafe. Jonathan Larson’s musical began performances at the Tom Stoppard Theatre on 26 September 2026.
Few press nights this month have split the critics as sharply as Three Men in a Boat, the world premiere of Al Smith’s adaptation of Jerome K Jerome’s 1889 novel, directed by Christopher Haydon at the Rose Theatre in…
The critics have filed on The Urmetazoan, Alex Rugman’s debut play in the Hampstead Theatre Downstairs studio, which puts two estranged sisters in a bare Florida bungalow a fortnight before one of them leaves Earth for…
The notices are in for Table 17, Douglas Lyons’ UK premiere at the Kiln Theatre, in which two exes meet over dinner two years after their engagement collapsed and talk their way back through the wreckage.
Lucas Iverson joins A Ghost in Your Ear, the headphone horror play Jamie Armitage made for Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, as its New York run is recast and re-dated.
Wicked has welcomed its 14 millionth visitor to the Apollo Victoria Theatre, four days before the production marks 20 years in the West End.
The first production images from The Standard of Living are out, with Rory Kinnear as John Maynard Keynes and Natalia Osipova on pointe as Lydia Lopokova.
Bristol Old Vic has released the first rehearsal pictures for Lanny, the stage premiere of Max Porter's Booker-nominated novel, adapted by Bea Roberts and directed by Nancy Medina. It opens on 16 October 2026.
Jolyon Coy, Natalie Dunne, Gloria Obianyo, Joseph Potter and Ferdy Roberts have been cast alongside Janie Dee in Speculations, the world premiere Sir Trevor Nunn directs at the Marylebone Theatre from 30 October.
Ashley Joseph plays Robin in Robin Hood and the Merry Mandem, the new East London pantomime at Stratford East running from 21 November 2026 to 2 January 2027. Yolanda Mercy writes and Jade Lewis directs.
Rosetta Life, the arts-in-health charity, turns 25 this year and marks it with Learn From Us, a new disability dance theatre piece devised with people living with brain injury.
Extra performances have been added to Affluenza at Riverside Studios before the first preview has been played, and the run now reaches 28 November 2026.
The notices are in for The Last Ship, Sting’s musical about a Wallsend shipyard facing closure, which has reached the Theatre Royal Drury Lane for a run of barely a fortnight at the end of a world tour.
Jamie Hale and the disabled-led company CRIPtic Arts stage Romeo and Juliet in The Pit at the Barbican from Thursday 13 to Saturday 15 May 2027, with every performance BSL-interpreted, captioned, audio-described and…
WITNESS, adapted by Suzann McLean and David Fielding from Alex Wheatle's novella, transfers from Theatre Peckham to The Pit at the Barbican for three days in March 2027.
Tickets are £21.50 for Zoo Co's Three Men On A Billboard, which runs in The Pit at the Barbican from Monday 8 to Saturday 13 February 2027 and is live-directed from audience suggestions every night.
Boy Blue turn 25, and the company marks it with A Night With Boy Blue at the Barbican Theatre from Friday 19 to Sunday 21 February 2027 — students and professionals on the same stage, tickets from £22.
The French-Norwegian puppetry company Plexus Polaire brings A Doll's House to the Barbican Theatre from Wednesday 3 to Saturday 6 February 2027, with artistic director Yngvild Aspeli as Nora and life-sized puppets as…
SAIGON, the restaurant-set production by French director Caroline Guiela Nguyen, runs at the Barbican Theatre from Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 March 2027. Standard tickets start at £24.
The first production photographs from Table 17 put Marisha Wallace and Jamael Westman on opposite sides of one small table at Kiln Theatre, where Douglas Lyons’ romantic comedy reaches its press night tonight.
The Brown Suite, a dance production set to the music of James Brown, Etta James and Sam Cooke, opens a thirteen-venue UK tour at Richmond Theatre on 30 September.
Wedding Fayre, a new folk-punk musical from the disabled-led company Graeae and Derby Theatre, opens in Derby next February before a UK tour to six more venues.
The Barbican has published Theatre and Dance: Spring 2027, a nine-event season running from January to May across the Barbican Theatre and The Pit.
Carly Bawden and Annie Wensak are among fifteen actors joining Giles Terera for the Old Vic’s tenth anniversary production of A Christmas Carol, which runs from 10 November 2026 to 9 January 2027.
A new Caryl Churchill play is coming to the Almeida Theatre, and it runs a quarter of an hour. Triumph plays for one week only, from Friday 16 to Friday 23 October 2026, with Kate O'Flynn and Matthew Beard in the cast.
The 75th anniversary tour of The Mousetrap runs at the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton from 19-24 October, its only Merseyside date, with a press performance on Monday 19 October.
Emily Woof performs her one-woman show Revolver at Soho Theatre on Dean Street from 24 November to 5 December 2026, co-produced with Shared Experience in the company’s fiftieth anniversary year.
Olivier Award winner Sam Tutty is among the performers announced for A Tectonic Cabaret, the annual benefit held by Tectonic Theater Project at the Edison Ballroom in New York on Monday 26 October.
The first production images have been released from Tru at the Menier Chocolate Factory, with Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Truman Capote and Charlotte d’Amboise alongside him.
On Your Bike Baffo! reaches Jackson’s Lane on Sunday 4 October, with two performances in a day. The clowning show from OH! Productions is built for children aged 3-8, and it has picked up five-star notices on the road.
Brinkhoff-Moegenburg's photographs of the new company at the Lyric Theatre are out, and they put Nathan Sykes, Danielle de Niese, Shaun Dooley, Fayth Ifil and Malinda Parris on stage in Hadestown for the first time.
Emma Salvo and Sophie-Louise Dann will play Greta and Lamia in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, completing the ten-strong company for the new British musical's world premiere at HOME in Manchester.
Megan Louise Wilson and Jeffrey Mundell will perform in Room 13, the experiential horror co-produced by Immersive Octopus and Battersea Arts Centre from 16 October to 1 November.
BalletBoyz have named the eight dancers who will lead Six Lethargies, the world premiere marking the company’s 25th year at Sadler’s Wells this November.
Shakespeare's Globe has opened a new Research & Collections Centre designed by Allies and Morrison, giving its library and archive a public home on Bankside for the first time.
The Runway recruitment drive is over. The Devil Wears Prada The Musical has confirmed the full company that will take it into a third year at the Dominion Theatre, with two of the headline moves coming from inside the…
Booking for ABBA Voyage at ABBA Arena now runs to Monday 28 June 2027, and 170,000 tickets have been released for the new period. The London concert experience turns five in May 2027.
The National Theatre has released the first rehearsal images for its nationwide schools tour of Bacchae, Nima Taleghani's reworking of his own Olivier production for an audience that will watch it in a school hall.
Flora Montgomery and Oliver Alvin-Wilson lead the company of Ghosts, Richard Eyre's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen, which begins previews at the Jermyn Street Theatre on 8 October.
Twenty-one performers and five young actors have been announced for Scrooge the Musical at the SEC Armadillo in Glasgow, completing the company around Marti Pellow, Karen Dunbar and Gavin Mitchell.
Bill Kenwright Ltd has released a set of new production photographs from the autumn 2026 UK tour of Blood Brothers, taken by Jack Merriman and showing Vivienne Carlyle as Mrs Johnstone alongside Sean Jones and Joe…
Melting Pot has released the first production photographs from the UK and Ireland tour of Paranormal Activity, which opened at Richmond Theatre on Saturday 5 September 2026 and travels the country until June 2027.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre has released the first production images for I’ll Be Seeing You, the world premiere of a new play by Martin Sherman starring Simon Russell Beale and Fra Fee.
A Class of Your Own, a new show for eight to twelve year olds built with young people who have been excluded from school, gets its world premiere at Polka Theatre on 3 October before a single date in Luton a week later.
The Old Vic’s production of A Christmas Carol, written for the theatre by Jack Thorne and conceived and directed by its artistic director Matthew Warchus, returns to New York in November, with Olivier Award winner Andy…
Chichester Festival Theatre has published the first production photographs of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the show that closes its Festival 2026 season, with Munya Chawawa as Bottom and Eve Ponsonby as Titania.
Jenna Bonner steps up from the ensemble to play Andy Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada from 20 October, with Taila Halford continuing as Emily Charlton.
Antonia Kinlay, Mirain Haf Roberts, Llinos Daniel, Hedydd Dylan and Charlotte Gray make up the company of The Revlon Girl, which returns to Park Theatre from 26 October to 14 November 2026.
The first rehearsal images have been released for The Cherry Orchard, which brings Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan to the Harold Pinter Theatre next month in Ian Rickson’s production of Chekhov’s last play.
Hampstead Theatre has released the official trailer for Kimberly Akimbo, the Tony Award-winning musical starring Maria Friedman. The production runs until Saturday 7 November 2026.
Sheffield Theatres has released the first rehearsal images for Twelfth Night, with Mathew Horne as Malvolio and Jamie Glover directing. The production opens at the Crucible on Saturday 10 October 2026.
Rose Theatre has released the first production photographs from Three Men in a Boat, the world premiere comedy by Al Smith now running in Kingston upon Thames until Saturday 10 October 2026.
Julian Ovenden, Louise Dearman and Ricardo Afonso are the first performers named for West End Does: Christmas, which leaves Cadogan Hall for St Marylebone Church and gives a single concert there on Sunday 20 December…
Kelle Bryan and Joanne Clifton will share the role of Miss Hedge on the 10th anniversary UK tour of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, with Divina De Campo as Hugo/Loco Chanelle.
Magic Mike Live has opened a new booking period at the London Hippodrome, with performances now on sale through to Sunday 2 January 2028 and tickets from £42.
The producers of SIX have released the musical's first Korean-language studio album worldwide, sung by six of the Queens who opened the show in Seoul, and ahead of a second Korean season this December.
Bones takes the title role in Jack and the Beanstalk, the sixth all-drag pantomime from TuckShop, which runs at the Emerald Theatre from Wednesday 2 December 2026 to Sunday 10 January 2027.
Jonathan Church has announced his first season as Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival in Ontario, a 75th-anniversary playbill of thirteen productions that he opens by directing the Canadian premieres of Wolf…
Speakerphone Productions and Soho Theatre have released the first production photographs of HAM, Hotter Project’s vegan hijacking of Hamlet, six days before it opens on Dean Street.
Daniel Ryan and Beverly Rudd lead the new names in the full company for The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, which opens in the Dorfman on 2 December before touring England in the new year.
Intermission Youth brings Julius Caesar Remixed to the Omnibus Theatre in Clapham for a four-week run this November, adapted by Darren Raymond and directed by Stephanie Badaru.
AMDG Productions give Shakespeare’s Cousin, Jonathan Moore’s play about the Elizabethan poet-priest Robert Southwell and the man sent to break him, its first performance at the White Bear Theatre on 10 November.
Audiences in Portugal, Germany and France have stormed the stage, shouted the actors down and thrown fruit. At the Dorfman, they coughed.
The first production photographs of the company playing The Phantom of the Opera’s fortieth birthday season have been released, with Jordan Donica behind the mask and Beatrice Penny-Touré as Christine Daaé.
Waking Ned Devine becomes a stage musical at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast in February 2027, with music and lyrics by Markéta Irglová and Glen Hansard, a book by David Hein and direction by John Doyle.
Cameron Mackintosh has released the first photograph of Matt Lucas in costume as Fagin, hours before the comedian makes his first entrance in Oliver! at the Gielgud Theatre.
Three of the co-stars who surrounded Rachel Zegler at the London Palladium will go with her to Broadway when Jamie Lloyd’s Evita opens at the Winter Garden Theatre next spring.
Newbury's Watermill Theatre has named the company for its Christmas show, Michael Morpurgo's Pinocchio, back two years after its first run at the theatre.
Dirty Dancing is to return to the West End at the Prince Edward Theatre. Exact performance dates have not yet been confirmed, and the move follows a further delay to the opening of the new Capital Theatre, where the…
Arts Council England has published the full details of its next National Portfolio, the five-year investment programme that will set the public funding of producing theatres, opera houses and dance companies from April…
Shakespeare’s Globe has named the company for The Animals Come to the Table, a world premiere by Timberlake Wertenbaker that opens by candlelight in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in December.
Seven actors will make up the family at the centre of Natasha Gordon’s Nine Night at Kiln Theatre this winter. The run has been extended before rehearsals have begun, and now plays to 2 January 2027.
Chrissie Bhima takes the title role in Cinderella, the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre pantomime, in a company of nine announced today.
Karen Hauer and Natalie Anderson will share Lina Lamont on the UK and Ireland tour of Singin' in the Rain, which opens in Bromley in January 2027 and settles at Sadler's Wells for a month the following summer.
The Tolkien parody Fly, You Fools! plays its first London dates at Southwark Playhouse Borough from 25 November, after two sold-out seasons at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Tickets are on sale now.
Francesca Moody Productions has added seven more names to the guest line-up for An Oak Tree at The Other Palace, where a different actor takes the second role at every performance without having read or rehearsed a word…
The reviews are in for Crime and Punishment, the debut production of the new London company Off By Heart, running at the Jack Studio Theatre in Brockley until Saturday 26 September 2026.
The reviews are in for We’ll Always Have Paris, Paul Kalburgi’s new play at the White Bear Theatre in Kennington, and the critics have come back warm but not unanimous.
The reviews are in for The Turn of the Screw at the Arcola Theatre, where Morgan Lloyd Malcolm has rebuilt Henry James’s 1898 ghost story for Blackeyed Theatre as an interrogation: the governess, played by Amy Tara…
Final rehearsal photographs have been released of Little Shop of Horrors at Hope Mill Theatre, with Maisie Smith in the jaws of the plant that shares her character’s name, four days before the Manchester production…
The Unicorn Theatre has named the company for Home Song, an interactive musical written for babies, which returns to the theatre's Clore studio next month.
Lucie Jones will play Jenna Rink again in the North American premiere of 13 Going on 30 – The Musical, which runs at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto from December 2026.
Over 120,000 tickets have gone on sale for Mamma Mia! The Party at The O2, carrying the ABBA dining show through to Sunday 28 November 2027. X Factor winner Sam Bailey plays Debbie until April 2027.
Annabel Smith, Isabel Butt, Erika Poole, Gigi Zahir and Henry Miller make up the company of What Would Jarvis Do?, Laura Grillo’s Britpop-haunted comedy, which runs at the Omnibus Theatre in Clapham from 6-16 October.
Further tickets have gone on sale for Les Misérables at the Sondheim Theatre, taking the West End production’s booking period through to 2 October 2027.
Shochiku and Askonas Holt bring KABUKI, a triple bill of classic dance pieces, to Sadler’s Wells Theatre on 30-31 January 2027. It is the art form’s first London staging in 17 years, and tickets are on sale now from £15.
Booking opened on Monday for Miss Saigon at the Prince Edward Theatre, where Cameron Mackintosh, in association with Michael Harrison, will present a new production of the musical from 13 May 2027.
Daniel Craig, India Amarteifio and Rose Ayling-Ellis were among those reading letters to their younger selves at Letters to My Younger Future Self, the National Youth Theatre’s seventieth-birthday gala at the Royal…
Cate Blanchett has asked audiences to stop filming during performances of Electra/Persona at the National Theatre, in a clip an audience member posted to Instagram on 18 September.
The reviews are in for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: New Works, the first of two programmes the company brought to Sadler’s Wells this month and its first London season under artistic director Alicia Graf Mack.
The reviews are in for Deep-Heat Rivalry, the musical parody of the ice-hockey romance Heated Rivalry, running at The Other Palace Studio until 11 October.
The first production photograph of Harry Judd as Coach Bolton in Disney’s High School Musical has been released.
The reviews are in for Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, Simon Reade’s adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s trilogy of 1920s London novels, running at Southwark Playhouse Borough until 17 October.
The director Anthony Page, who led the Royal Court through its battles with the Lord Chamberlain and later won a Tony Award on Broadway, has died at the age of 90.
The American composer and songwriter Duncan Sheik, who won two Tony Awards for Spring Awakening and whose new musical Nero opens in London in November, has died at the age of 56.
The Tony-winning Cuban musical its producers want to bring to London in 2027 has spent the autumn adding players to its Broadway company rather than winding it down.
Woolwich Works is skipping panto this Christmas. Its festive programme runs from 22 November to 3 January and is led by Neon Sun – Roller Circus and Protein's dance-theatre The Magic Flute, with drag, a solo A Christmas…
Maisie Smith sings Somewhere That's Green in a new video and song recording from Little Shop of Horrors, released a week before the revival opens at Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester.
Nine actors have been named alongside Tamsin Greig in Cranford at the Orange Tree Theatre, where Josh Roche directs a new adaptation of the Elizabeth Gaskell novel from 3 November.
One hundred stalls seats will be sold at £20 each for the first preview of Rent on Saturday 26 September, over the counter at the Tom Stoppard Theatre from midday. Front-row seats are £30 at every other preview.
It is the first revival of Alcina since Richard Jones’ staging won an Olivier Award for its 2022 premiere, and it opened at the Royal Opera House on 15 September with most of that original company intact.
The Royal Opera opened its 2026/27 season on 10 September with a sixth revival of Kasper Holten’s 2014 staging of Don Giovanni, Mozart and Da Ponte’s comedy of a serial seducer that turns, without warning, into a…
The Phantom of the Opera turns forty in October, and Cameron Mackintosh is marking it with a single gala performance at His Majesty’s Theatre on Friday 9 October 2026.
The reviews are in for Thelma & Louise: A New Musical, the world premiere staging of Callie Khouri’s Oscar-winning road movie, which opened at the Young Vic on 16 September with a score by the alt-country songwriter…
Andrew Lloyd Webber has gone back to the 1986 master tapes of the Original London Cast Recording of The Phantom of the Opera and remixed them for the first time, with the new album arriving on the musical's 40th…
The Marlowe Theatre has shared the first photographs of its production of A Tale of Two Cities, now running in Canterbury ahead of a UK tour that continues into 2027.
Inès Mazdon Delas leads a company of four in Toto, the world premiere musical made from Ximo Abadia's picture book about a donkey with ambitions in space, which opens at Polka Theatre in Wimbledon on 10 October.
The first rehearsal images are out for Letters to My Younger Future Self, the National Youth Theatre’s one-night 70th anniversary show at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 20 September, with Daniel Ings at work…
Adrian Lester, Hadley Fraser and Julianne Pundan are among the performers in contention at the UK Theatre Awards 2026, whose shortlists were announced today, with Nottingham Playhouse ahead of every other theatre on…
The reviews are in for Million Dollar Quartet, Jonathan O’Boyle’s production of the jukebox musical, which has come to The Arts at Marble Arch from the Barn Theatre in Cirencester with its principal cast intact.
Stefan Dennis and George Rainsford head the seven-strong company announced for The King’s Speech, which opens at the Barn Theatre in Cirencester on 9 October before a UK tour running from January to July 2027.
Production photographs are out for Deep-Heat Rivalry, the adults-only hockey romp from Trevor Ashley and Phil Scott now running at The Other Palace Studio until 11 October.
Hackney Empire is 125 this year, and the first ten months of its anniversary programme are now public: a new opera by Renell Shaw, the return of Ballet Black, a Talawa gala and the annual pantomime are among the…
Wills Mercado will play the title role in Stick Man at the Bloomsbury Theatre this Christmas, while Sam Makepeace-Beach leads a second company for the show's first festive season in Sheffield.
The notices are in for Darkling, Titas Halder’s solo play set in Bhopal before and after the 1984 gas leak, with Linnea Berthelsen carrying ninety unbroken minutes as the girl who grows up in the shadow of the factory.
Lisa Palfrey, Sharon Morgan and Ifan Huw Dafydd are among the seven actors cast in Monument, the world premiere by Rhys Warrington that brings the Royal Court’s 70th anniversary year to a close this December.
Joel Harper-Jackson, the current star of Sinatra the Musical, will front A Sinatra Christmas By Candlelight, a one-night festive concert at the Aldwych Theatre on Sunday 6 December 2026.
Hannah Kremer and Katrina Lyndon will share the title role in Matthew Bourne's Cinderella as New Adventures marks the wartime ballet's 30th anniversary with a 17-venue UK tour, taking in a Christmas season at Sadler's…
The reviews are in for The Seven Deadly Sins / The Human Voice at the Charing Cross Theatre, a double bill that sets Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s sung satire of ambition beside Francis Poulenc and Jean Cocteau’s…
Titanique gives its final West End performance at the Criterion Theatre on Sunday 3 January 2027. Myra DuBois then takes Ruth on the road, as the musical's first UK tour opens at Theatre Royal Newcastle in September…
Bristol Old Vic is taking A Brit?ish Museum and Dead Air out of its King Street home and into 19 of the city's secondary schools this autumn, at no cost to the schools, as theatre leaders warn that young people's access…
Diana Vickers will play Wendy Darling in Club NVRLND when the immersive nightclub musical opens at The Vaults in November, with Le Fil returning as Tiger Lily.
The notices are in for Golden Boy, Clifford Odets’ 1937 boxing drama, revived by Sam Yates at the Almeida Theatre with Josh O’Connor back on stage after a decade on screen, playing Joe Bonaparte, the violinist who…
The Royal Mint has struck an official UK 50p for Wicked, timed for the musical's 20th anniversary at the Apollo Victoria Theatre on Sunday 27 September.
Scott Gallagher plays his first pantomime Dame, James-Royden Lyley takes the title role and Yna Montarde is Princess Jasmine in Aladdin, which runs at the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton from 5 December 2026 - 3 January…
London City Ballet has been named a core partner in The Royal Ballet: FUTUREWORKS, a five-year programme announced by Royal Ballet and Opera to give choreographers working in classical ballet a settled structure in…
Rosie O'Donnell will play the Narrator for a fortnight in Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54 — the Broadway production presented by the British group Trafalgar Entertainment.
Brighton Dome has set out an autumn of theatre, dance and circus across all three of its venues, led by a new play from Inua Ellams. Christmas brings Duck Pond, Circa's circus retelling of Swan Lake, to the Concert Hall.
Inua Ellams's new play Once Upon a Time in Sokoto runs at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange for five nights in November, as the first production from Touring Together, a nationwide initiative built to take new theatre out to…
Woodhill, which tells the story of three real deaths in custody through choreography, music and the families' own words, runs at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange this autumn carrying five stars from The Guardian and the…
The first rehearsal images of Lolly Adefope as Mary Todd Lincoln have been released, twelve days before she takes over the title role in Oh, Mary! at the Trafalgar Theatre.
Alex Young hosts this year's Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize at The Other Palace on Monday 12 October, and the thirteen performers singing the twelve songs in contention have now been announced.
The first notices are in for Fire Fire, John Webber’s two-hander about class and the climate, which opened at the Arcola Theatre on Friday 11 September 2026.
Warren Carlyle will direct two invited readings of For the Love of Miss Lucy, a new gothic comedy by Mary Lynn Dobson, at Underbelly Boulevard Soho on Thursday 1 October 2026.
Clive Rowe directs this year's Hackney Empire pantomime and plays Dame Trot in it, with Kat B alongside him as Simple Simon Trot. The full company for Jack and the Beanstalk was announced today.
Jamie Bogyo and Glenn Adamson will play Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde in Stoker Wilde, a new glam-rock musical playing seven performances at Wilton’s Music Hall from 27-31 October 2026.
Headlong has released the first production photographs of Fences, now open at Leeds Playhouse and bound for the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in October.
The first rehearsal photographs have arrived from the UK tour of Back to the Future The Musical, with Roger Bart back as Doc Brown and Axel Duffy as Marty McFly ahead of opening night in Bristol next month.
Ethan Rouse and Bill Stanley will play Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy in the reimagined one-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which begins performances at the Palace Theatre on Friday 9 October 2026.
Rose Ayling-Ellis has joined the cast of Letters to My Younger Future Self, the National Youth Theatre 70th anniversary show at the Royal Festival Hall. It runs for one performance only, on Sunday 20 September 2026.
The reviews are in for Night City, Max Wilkinson’s new play about three people working nights in London’s gig economy, which opened at the Southwark Playhouse Borough on 10 September.
Bradley Walsh will host Raise the Roof! at the Victoria Palace Theatre on 1 November, a single evening staged jointly by Denville Hall and Elstree Studios to mark the hundredth year of each.
Witness for the Prosecution has extended at London County Hall until September 2027, taking Agatha Christie’s courtroom thriller into a tenth year, and a sixteenth cast has been announced to see it there.
Legally Blonde The Musical opens at the London Coliseum on 22 March 2027 for a strictly limited season, with Amber Davies carrying her touring Elle Woods into the West End. Tickets are on sale now, from £20.
Voila! Theatre Festival has announced its 2026 programme: 101 shows and events in 60 languages, made by 450 artists, across eight London venues from 2-22 November.
Operation Mincemeat has added 36 more weeks to its UK and Ireland tour, carrying it through 2027 and into Belfast, Dublin and nine further cities. Tickets go on general sale on 25 September.
StarKid bring Nerdy Prudes Must Die to the Apollo Theatre for five weeks from February 2027, with the entire original company crossing the Atlantic to play it.
The National Theatre has named the full company for The Jungle Book, the world premiere of Anupama Chandrasekhar’s new adaptation, with Olivier winner Hiran Abeysekera as Mowgli and 30 performers in the Olivier this…
Moulin Rouge! The Musical marks five years in the West End with a one-off fan performance at the Piccadilly Theatre on Wednesday 11 November, where every seat in the house costs £25.
The first production images have been released for The Pianist, a new musical built from Władysław Szpilman’s own compositions, which has its world premiere at the Park Theatre next month.
The Barbican has confirmed that its planned 2027 production of Sunday in the Park with George will not go ahead as scheduled, twelve days after the producers said they were reshaping it around a new company.
My Neighbour Totoro will close at the Gillian Lynne Theatre on Sunday 3 January 2027, the producers announced today.
Charlotte d’Amboise joins Jesse Tyler Ferguson in Tru, Jay Presson Allen’s Truman Capote play, which begins previews at the Menier Chocolate Factory on Saturday 19 September and opens on 27 September.
Jack Thorne used a speech at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Sunday to set out five things he wants the Government to do about AI and writers.
A new site-specific play that puts most of its audience on a bus, When The Blackbird Sings has its world premiere in Oxford from 23 September to 11 October, directed by Erica Whyman and presented by the Schwarzman…
Thirteen more actors join Keira Knightley, Stephen Dillane and Luke Thompson in Robert Icke’s stage adaptation of The Lives of Others, which begins previews at the Adelphi Theatre on 14 October.
The Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury has appointed Thabo Stuck-Mekela as its first Director of Vocational Strategy, a new director-level post created to expand the theatre’s vocational training and to build fresh routes…
The first London production images have been released for Under the Influence, the comedy musical written and performed by Carine Gilbert and Frances Gilbert with Shona Maule, now running at the King’s Head Theatre…
Megan Hilty and Rachel Tucker will lead a new concert staging of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the London Palladium next spring, directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle with an orchestra of 30.
Thirty-nine years after she first played the part in the same building, Tilda Swinton is back at the Royal Court in Man to Man, Manfred Karge’s monologue about a German widow who puts on her dead husband’s clothes and…
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. Seventeen of them so far, and eleven 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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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