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Artists from the National Theatre of Scotland 2027 programme with a reindeer puppet from The Herds at the season launch. Photo by Kirsty Anderson
Upcoming and New Shows

The Young Team heads for Hammersmith in the National Theatre of Scotland's 2027 season

Kieran Hurley's The Young Team leads the National Theatre of Scotland's 2027 programme, alongside a new thriller from Adura Onashile, a reworked The Trick Is to Keep Breathing and a return tour for Johnny McKnight's…

Linus Karp as Diana in the wedding dress in Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story. Photo by Dave Bird
Cast Changes and Announcements

Geri Allen steps off the screen to play the Queen live in Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story

For four years Geri Allen has been the Queen on a screen in Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story. In January, Allen plays the part in person, as Awkward Prods marks the show's fifth birthday at the King's Head Theatre.

Birdcatcher artwork: a girl with a long plait and a black rucksack looks across at a row of houses. Image by Andrew Billington
Upcoming and New Shows

Birdcatcher adds The Lowry, Nottingham Playhouse and Hereford to its 2027 tour

Birdcatcher, Laura Waldren's play about growing up inside an apocalyptic group, adds The Lowry, Nottingham Playhouse and Hereford College of Arts to its 2027 tour before four weeks in London at Park Theatre.

Spring 2027 at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow: artwork for Vanishing Point, Same Team, Denied!, The Elves and the Shoemaker and more, with the theatre's Gorbals frontage
Upcoming and New Shows

Lifegame, Same Team and a Vanishing Point residency join the Citizens Theatre's spring 2027 season

Glasgow's Citizens Theatre has added Lifegame, Same Team, a Vanishing Point residency and the National Theatre of Scotland's The Trick Is to Keep Breathing to its January to June 2027 programme.

Let the Whale Die campaign image. Photo by Gemma Poyzer, design by Steph Pyne
Upcoming and New Shows

Meg Schadler's Let the Whale Die heads New Perspectives' 2026-27 touring season

East Midlands touring company New Perspectives has set out its 2026-27 season. Let the Whale Die, a new play by Meg Schadler, opens at Royal & Derngate Northampton in April 2027 before a studio tour that includes Park…

Everybody key art for Jermyn Street Theatre: an audience in skull masks beneath the title. Art direction by Emilie Chen, photography by Rich Lakos
Upcoming and New Shows

Jermyn Street Theatre goes in the round for the UK premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Everybody

Atri Banerjee directs the UK premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Everybody at Jermyn Street Theatre from 28 January 2027, with the 70-seat studio turned into an in-the-round space for the first time in more than a…

Georgia May Foote, Ben Richards, Matt Henry, Amy Di Bartolomeo and Lucy Benjamin in the artwork for To Sir, With Love. Photo by Richard Lakos
Upcoming and New Shows

Matt Henry to lead UK tour of new musical To Sir, With Love

Matt Henry will play the teacher Rick Braithwaite in To Sir, With Love, a new musical drawn from E R Braithwaite's memoir, which opens a UK tour at Leeds Grand Theatre on 15 April 2027 and reaches London in May.

Hamnet key art: two clasped hands resting on moss, above the title and credits for adapter Lolita Chakrabarti and director Erica Whyman. Artwork courtesy of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Upcoming and New Shows

Hamnet sets out on its first UK tour, opening at the Lowry in September 2027

The RSC and Neal Street production of Hamnet is heading out on its first UK tour, opening at the Lowry in Salford on 25 September 2027 and visiting 13 venues by spring 2028.

Sally Reid, Elaine C. Smith and Chloe Hodgson in Cathy. Photo by Mihaela Bodlovic
Upcoming and New Shows

Elaine C. Smith brings Cathy home to Glasgow for a Citizens Theatre run in March 2027

Elaine C. Smith returns to the title role of Cathy, Eilidh Loan's sell-out Edinburgh Fringe play, for a Glasgow run at the Citizens Theatre from 11 to 27 March 2027 as part of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival.