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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.

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The set of To Die For [A Comedy] beneath its title in red neon, Nederlandse Reisopera's 2026 Dutch touring production
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Elena Langer's comic opera To Die For comes to the London Coliseum for one night

To Die For [A Comedy], Elena Langer's black comic opera about fame and reality television, gets its UK premiere at the London Coliseum on 29 November 2026.

Nia Towle, Gunnar Cauthery, Emma McDonald and Lizzie Annis in Middlemarch Part 2 at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photo by Johan Persson
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First production photos from Nina Raine's two-part Middlemarch at the RSC

The Royal Shakespeare Company has released the first production photos of Middlemarch, Nina Raine's two-part stage version of the George Eliot novel, which opens at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon on Wednesday…

The cast of ENO's Angel's Bone at the London Coliseum. Photo by Tristram Kenton
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Production photos as ENO's Angel's Bone opens at the London Coliseum

Angel's Bone opens at the London Coliseum on 16 October for six performances only. These pictures from the Coliseum show Kip Williams's staging of Du Yun's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, which arrives with its Manchester…

Fat Boy Swim artwork: a yellow swimming cap printed with the title, floating in a swimming pool
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Cathy Forde's Fat Boy Swim becomes a new musical touring Scotland in 2027

Glasgow company Visible Fictions is turning Cathy Forde's novel Fat Boy Swim into a new musical, opening in Giffnock on 28 January 2027 and touring eight Scottish venues in nine days.

Anne-Marie Duff as Julie in Some Woman at the National Theatre. Photo by Ellie Kurttz
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First look: Anne-Marie Duff in Helen Edmundson's Some Woman at the National Theatre

The first production photos from Some Woman are out, showing Anne-Marie Duff as a woman nobody notices until the day she decides she has kept her head down long enough, in Helen Edmundson's new play at the National…

David Tennant (left) and Almeida Theatre artistic director Dominic Cooke. Photo of Dominic Cooke by Philip Sinden
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David Tennant to lead The Entertainer in Dominic Cooke's first Almeida season

David Tennant will play Archie Rice in The Entertainer at the Almeida in early 2028, the headline revival in Dominic Cooke's first season as artistic director.

The company of the 2016 Lincoln Center Theater revival of Falsettos. Photo by Joan Marcus
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Falsettos reunion adds a fourth London Palladium performance

The Falsettos 10th anniversary reunion concert now has a fourth London Palladium performance, on 25 February 2027 at 7.30pm. General sale for all the London dates opens on Friday 16 October.

Laura Kay Bailey in Rowling In It: Villain In Progress
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King's Head comedy Rowling In It: Villain In Progress heads to New York

Rowling In It: Villain In Progress, the solo comedy Laura Kay Bailey wrote about being cast as J.K. Rowling, follows its run at the King's Head Theatre with a New York debut at Asylum NYC from 18-23 December 2026.

Roger Bart as Doc Brown and Axel Duffy as Marty McFly beside the DeLorean in the Back to the Future The Musical UK tour. Photo by Mark Senior
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Roger Bart and Axel Duffy in the first production photos from the Back to the Future UK tour

The UK tour of Back to the Future The Musical has released its first production photos, with Roger Bart as Doc Brown and Axel Duffy as Marty McFly. The tour is at the Bristol Hippodrome until 21 November.