Upcoming and New Shows

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.

Upcoming and New Shows

Key art for Zoo Co's Three Men On A Billboard: two performers lean on a blank red billboard against a yellow sky, with three tiny figures standing on the gantry below
Upcoming and New Shows

Zoo Co take the 261-day billboard contest into The Pit at the Barbican

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.

A performer in period dress sits on a sofa beneath towering puppet spider legs in Plexus Polaire's A Doll's House. Photo by Johan Karlsson
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Plexus Polaire bring a spider-haunted A Doll's House to the Barbican Theatre

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…

Two performers at work in the restaurant kitchen of Caroline Guiela Nguyen's SAIGON. Photo by Jean Louis Fernandez
Upcoming and New Shows

Caroline Guiela Nguyen brings SAIGON to the Barbican Theatre in March 2027

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.

A performer in a cream suit holds out a vinyl record labelled The Brown Suite in front of a wall of records
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The Brown Suite opens its UK tour at Richmond Theatre on 30 September

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.

Key art for Wedding Fayre: the title in pink capitals above a toppled wedding cake, a brass horn marked with an anarchy symbol and a spilled HM.GOV briefcase, in front of a razor-wire fence
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Graeae and Derby Theatre to tour new folk-punk musical Wedding Fayre

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.

Key art for Triumph at the Almeida Theatre: a painted red thumbs-down hand in a blue sleeve, with the title Triumph in red capitals
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Kate O'Flynn and Matthew Beard star in Caryl Churchill's new short play Triumph at the Almeida

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 company of the 75th anniversary UK tour of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap
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The Mousetrap's 75th anniversary tour reaches New Brighton's Floral Pavilion in October

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 holding a copy of The Beatles album Revolver in Revolver at Soho Theatre. Photo by Sheila Burnett
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Emily Woof brings Revolver to Soho Theatre in a Shared Experience co-production

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.

Baffo surrounded by young audience members in On Your Bike Baffo! from OH! Productions. Photo by Paul Blakemore
Upcoming and New Shows

On Your Bike Baffo! brings its UK tour to Jackson’s Lane on 4 October

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.