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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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