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.
Rehearsals have begun for the new Little Shop of Horrors, and every September performance at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre has sold out before the first preview.
Rehearsal images have been released for Three Men in a Boat, a new comedy with songs opening at Rose Theatre in Kingston on 18 September.
Michael Ball will play Willy Wonka in a brand-new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the London Coliseum next summer, with tickets on sale from 29 September.
Sapling, which won the 2025 Women’s Prize for Playwriting, gets its world premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond from 5 June 2027.
The Reckoning tours to Coventry and Chichester in the new year before returning to the Arcola Theatre in February, timed to the fifth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Tickets for Denouement go on sale at 10am on Friday 4 September 2026, for a six-date UK tour running from 29 May to 5 June 2027.
Patti LuPone brings her concert Matters of the Heart to the London Coliseum for two nights, on 14 and 15 February 2027. Tickets go on general sale on 4 September.
Production photography has been released for Present Laughter, Noël Coward’s comedy of theatrical celebrity, now running at Theatre Royal Bath before a UK tour.
The Choir of Man is coming back to London for Christmas, opening at The Arts at Marble Arch on 10 December 2026 and booking to 14 February 2027. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday 2 September.
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