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

Artwork for When The Blackbird Sings, a collage blackbird on an Oxford map branch. Illustration by Bry Leighton
Upcoming and New Shows

When The Blackbird Sings: Erica Whyman directs a world premiere on an Oxford bus

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…

Key art for the concert production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the London Palladium
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Megan Hilty and Rachel Tucker to star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in concert at the London Palladium

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.

Janette Manrara and Noah Schnapp in rehearsal for Affluenza at Riverside Studios. Photo by Justine Matthew
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First look at Affluenza in rehearsal as Donald Sage Mackay completes the cast

The first rehearsal images for Affluenza are out, and Donald Sage Mackay has joined Noah Schnapp and company ahead of previews from 26 September.

Gaten Matarazzo on a table with the company in rehearsal for Rent. Photo by Pamela Raith
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First look at Gaten Matarazzo in rehearsals for Rent

Rehearsal images are out for Rent at the Tom Stoppard Theatre, where Gaten Matarazzo plays Mark from 26 September.

Three actors dancing in a wood-panelled seaside cottage in The Children at the Lyric Hammersmith. Photo by Helen Maybanks
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First production images of The Children at the Lyric Hammersmith

The Lyric Hammersmith has released production images for The Children, with Meera Syal, Declan Conlon and Kerry Fox. Press night is tonight.

Stephenson Ardern-Sodje as Alexander Hamilton with the company of Hamilton at the Victoria Palace Theatre. Photo by Danny Kaan
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Hamilton extends its West End booking to October 2027

Hamilton is now booking at the Victoria Palace Theatre until 2 October 2027, following a sold-out season with Broadway’s original Aaron Burr.

Key art for Jerker by Robert Chesley at Waterloo East Theatre, showing the title and a vintage rotary telephone
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Jerker returns to London for a 40th anniversary run at Waterloo East

Jerker plays a three-week season at Waterloo East Theatre from 26 September, forty years after Robert Chesley wrote it.

Ty Fanning as James and Ami Okumura Jones as Lou in Paranormal Activity at the Ambassadors Theatre. Photo by Matt Crockett
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Paranormal Activity extends at the Ambassadors Theatre for a fifth time

Paranormal Activity now books to 2 January 2027 at the Ambassadors Theatre, in the same week the show opens a UK and Ireland tour.

Two performers sing side by side under neon strip lights in Thelma & Louise at the Young Vic. Photo by Helen Murray
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First production images released for Thelma & Louise at the Young Vic

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.