The shows coming to London next. New productions, transfers, revivals and booking extensions, with opening dates, venues and casting as soon as they are announced — so you can book before word gets out.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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