Features

Longer reads on London theatre: everything-you-need-to-know guides to the shows about to open, deep dives into productions and venues, and the background behind the biggest nights in the West End.

Alaa Shehada, writer and performer of The Bridge
Features

Everything you need to know about The Bridge at the Bush Theatre

Alaa Shehada's Fringe First winner arrives at the Bush Theatre on 28 October for a little over two weeks, carrying a container of olive oil and a great deal of history.

Key art for Garry Starr: Classic Penguins at The Other Palace
Features

Everything you need to know about Garry Starr: Classic Penguins at The Other Palace

Garry Starr takes his flipper-footed dash through the Penguin Classics to The Other Palace from 22 October, for a run of ten weeks with tickets currently from £24. Here is everything you need to know before you book.

Key art for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the London Coliseum, with Michael Ball as Willy Wonka
Features

Everything you need to know about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the London Coliseum

Michael Ball plays Willy Wonka at the London Coliseum next summer, in an entirely new staging of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory built at Curve in Leicester. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday 29 September.

Key art for Girls by Theresa Ikoko, directed by Ewa Dina, at the Young Vic
Features

Everything you need to know about Girls at the Young Vic

Theresa Ikoko’s award-winning play returns to London for the first time since its 2016 premiere, in the Young Vic’s Maria studio and in the hands of Ewa Dina, this year’s JMK Award winner.

The company of Affluenza with writer and director Andy Sandberg in rehearsal at Riverside Studios. Photo by Justine Matthew
Features

Everything you need to know about Affluenza at Riverside Studios

Noah Schnapp makes his stage debut in a world premiere that asks whether a young man can be raised too rich to have known better. Here is everything you need to know about Affluenza before you book.

Cinderella and the stepsisters in Into the Woods at the Noel Coward Theatre, from the production trailer
Features

What to expect from Into the Woods at the Noel Coward Theatre

The Olivier-winning revival opens on Tuesday 22 September and books to 9 January 2027, with tickets from £15. Here is what to expect from Into the Woods if you are deciding whether to go now.

The company of Rent in rehearsal, with Gaten Matarazzo standing on a table. Photo by Pamela Raith
Features

Everything you need to know about Rent at the Tom Stoppard Theatre

Thirty years on, Rent returns to the West End in a new production, with Gaten Matarazzo making his West End debut. Here is everything you need to know before you book.

Nanny McPhee London Musical
Features

Nanny McPhee joins the West End's long line of magical nannies

With a Nanny McPhee musical now confirmed for London in summer 2027, it is worth remembering how well the city has done out of the nanny musical. Three of them have held major houses in the past two decades.

Franz & Marie at Charing Cross Theatre
Features

Everything you need to know about Franz & Marie at Charing Cross Theatre

An indie-folk musical that reworks Georg Büchner's unfinished Woyzeck and promotes Marie to equal billing opens at Charing Cross Theatre in September, with Brenock O'Connor and Jade Oswald at the head of a company of 14…