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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.
Maya Bartley O'Dea, Samantha Begeman, Nina Bowers and Gemma Barnett will each play a version of the title role in NINA, the debut play by director Caroline Williams, opening at Battersea Arts Centre on 6 October 2026.
The Unicorn Theatre has named the six performers who will lead Pocket Money, a new interactive show about money for seven to twelve-year-olds.
Five West End alumni return for one night on 17 September to mark 20 years of Avenue Q, which now closes at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 3 January.
James Graham’s Olivier-winning Punch heads the Belgrade Theatre’s spring 2027 season, which also brings a world premiere written by the theatre’s own artistic director. General booking opens on 10 September.
Polka Theatre has cast its two festive shows: a beatboxed Peter Pan from 14 November, and Little Bulb’s Antarctica for the under-sevens from 27 November.
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.
Victoria Scone and River Medway lead the King’s Head Theatre panto this Christmas, in both the family show and its adults-only twin. Tickets start at £15.
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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