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

Emily Lane as Anne Boleyn and Mark Goldthorp as King Henry in Anne Boleyn: The Musical at Hever Castle, 2025. Photo by Daniel Watson
Upcoming and New Shows

Anne Boleyn: The Musical comes to Greenwich’s Old Royal Naval College in 2027

Anne Boleyn: The Musical heads to London next spring, running at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich from 8 May to 5 June 2027, following its open-air world premiere at Hever Castle in 2025.

The Royal Exchange Theatre in-the-round auditorium inside the Great Hall, Manchester. Photo by Andrew Brooks
Upcoming and New Shows

Beverley Knight plays Beatrice as the Royal Exchange unveils an eight-show 2027-28 season

Beverley Knight plays Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing as Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre Company sets out an eight-show 2027-28 season with four world premieres, among them Simon Stephens' The First Blue Thing…

Ell Potter and Mary Higgins in the dressing room, behind the scenes at HAM, Soho Theatre. Photo by Celia Dugua
Upcoming and New Shows

HAM adds Saturday matinees as its Soho Theatre run enters its final fortnight

HAM, the Fringe First-winning Hamlet spin-off from Hotter Project, has added two Saturday matinees before it closes at Soho Theatre on 31 October. A new set of backstage photographs has been released alongside them.

The original cast of Dog Man: The Musical. Photo by Mark Senior
Upcoming and New Shows

Dog Man: The Musical sets a 2027 UK tour and a summer return to the Southbank Centre

Dog Man: The Musical is coming back to the Southbank Centre in London from 29 July - 15 August 2027, the final stop on a 20-venue UK tour that opens in Brighton in January.

Campaign artwork for Subject to Change – A Dance for David Bowie. Creative art direction by Masami Shimizu, photo by Kazuyoshi Shimomura
Upcoming and New Shows

Marcos Morau's David Bowie dance piece is heading to Sadler's Wells in 2028

Subject to Change – A Dance for David Bowie, a new work built on David Bowie's many stage personas, will have its UK premiere at Sadler's Wells in autumn 2028.

The Watermill Theatre in Newbury, then and now
Upcoming and New Shows

Robert Harris's Enigma premieres in the Watermill Theatre's 60th anniversary season

The world premiere of Enigma, a new stage version of Robert Harris's Bletchley Park thriller, is the headline of the Watermill Theatre's 60th anniversary year in 2027, which also brings back The Wipers Times and…

The company of Ilford Boy around the family dinner table at the Donmar Warehouse. Photo by Helen Murray
Upcoming and New Shows

Ilford Boy in pictures as Danny Lee Wynter’s world premiere heads for press night at the Donmar

The first production photos are out for Ilford Boy, Danny Lee Wynter’s new play about growing up in 1990s East London, ahead of its press night at the Donmar Warehouse on Tuesday 20 October.

Made in Liverpool artwork: a world premiere by Gerard McCarthy, directed by Martin Berry, at Exeter Northcott Theatre
Upcoming and New Shows

Made in Liverpool, a new play about Stuart Sutcliffe, to premiere at Exeter Northcott in its 60th year

Made in Liverpool, a new play by Gerard McCarthy about Stuart Sutcliffe, the artist often called the "fifth Beatle", will have its world premiere at Exeter Northcott Theatre from 16 June to 4 July 2027.

Janie Dee, Jolyon Coy, Natalie Dunne, Gloria Obianyo, Joseph Potter and Ferdy Roberts in character for Speculations. Photos by Robert J Wilson
Upcoming and New Shows

Janie Dee thriller Speculations extends to 17 January at the Marylebone Theatre

Speculations, Trevor Nunn's world premiere of Torben Betts's political thriller with Janie Dee, has added two weeks at the Marylebone Theatre and now runs until Sunday 17 January 2027. The new dates are on sale now.