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Christopher C. Gibbs as Simon Wiesenthal in Wiesenthal. Photo by Rod Penn
Upcoming and New Shows

Wiesenthal returns to London for a week at Wilton's Music Hall

Tom Dugan's one-man play Wiesenthal, about the Holocaust survivor who spent forty years hunting Nazi war criminals, plays Wilton's Music Hall from 1-5 September after a month at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Sean Jones as Mickey and Joe Sleight as Eddie in Blood Brothers
Cast Changes and Announcements

Vivienne Carlyle returns as Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers autumn casting

Vivienne Carlyle returns as Mrs Johnstone for the autumn leg of Bill Kenwright's touring production of Blood Brothers, which opens in Weston-super-Mare on 8 September.

The cast of Pride in the initial runs at the Sherman Theatre and the National Theatre. Photo by Manuel Harlan
Upcoming and New Shows

Pride transfers to the Bridge Theatre in November, with tickets on sale 2 September

Pride, the new British musical drawn from the 1984 miners' strike and the friendships it made, moves to the Bridge Theatre on 12 November 2026 after sold-out runs in Cardiff and at the National Theatre.

Mary Higgins as Hamlet and Ell Potter as Gertrude in HAM, transferring to Soho Theatre. Photo by Jonny Ruff
Upcoming and New Shows

The Edinburgh Fringe shows transferring to London this autumn

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe closes on 31 August, but five of this year's shows already have London dates in the diary: four transfers to Soho Theatre across September, October and November, and a three-week Young Vic…

The Gilbert Twins and Shona Maule in Under the Influence at the King's Head Theatre. Photo by Marina Solar Fernandez for Neon Eye
Upcoming and New Shows

Under the Influence and HAM open in London this September

Speakerphone Productions opens two shows in London next month: Under the Influence, a new musical comedy at the King's Head Theatre from 8 September, and HAM, a Fringe First-winning twist on Hamlet, at Soho Theatre from…

The full company of RENT at the Tom Stoppard Theatre. Photo by Oliver Rosser
Cast Changes and Announcements

Alexa Lopez to play Mimi as full casting is announced for RENT

Alexa Lopez will make her West End debut as Mimi in RENT, as the producers complete the company for Jonathan Larson’s musical at the newly renamed Tom Stoppard Theatre this autumn.

Rehearsals for A Tale of Two Cities. Photo by Marc Brenner
Theatre News

First look in rehearsals for the Marlowe Theatre’s A Tale of Two Cities

The Marlowe Theatre has released the first pictures from the rehearsal room for A Tale of Two Cities, the Rattigan and Gielgud stage version of Dickens’s novel of the French Revolution, which opens in Canterbury next…

The eight guest actors announced for An Oak Tree at The Other Palace: Clare Perkins, Hammed Animashaun, Gemma Whelan, Rosalie Craig, Bessie Carter, Tom Mothersdale, Sacha Dhawan and George Fouracres
Cast Changes and Announcements

Gemma Whelan, Rosalie Craig and Sacha Dhawan among first guest actors for An Oak Tree

Francesca Moody Productions has named the first eight guest actors who will join Tim Crouch in An Oak Tree at The Other Palace, among them Gemma Whelan, Rosalie Craig, Sacha Dhawan and Hammed Animashaun.

The company of Disney's High School Musical. Photo by Matt Crockett
Upcoming and New Shows

Disney's High School Musical begins performances at Lowry

The first UK non-replica staging of Disney's High School Musical plays its opening performance in Manchester tonight, with Jason Donovan as Coach Bolton before the show heads to Wembley for Christmas.