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Key art for Room 13 at Battersea Arts Centre, showing a figure stepping through an open door into a smoke-filled corridor
Cast Changes and Announcements

Megan Louise Wilson and Jeffrey Mundell to lead Room 13 at Battersea Arts Centre

Megan Louise Wilson and Jeffrey Mundell will perform in Room 13, the experiential horror co-produced by Immersive Octopus and Battersea Arts Centre from 16 October to 1 November.

The company of BalletBoyz suspended above a lone dancer in Six Lethargies
Cast Changes and Announcements

BalletBoyz name the company for Six Lethargies at Sadler’s Wells

BalletBoyz have named the eight dancers who will lead Six Lethargies, the world premiere marking the company’s 25th year at Sadler’s Wells this November.

The company of The Devil Wears Prada The Musical, photographed for the show's third year at the Dominion Theatre. Photo by Matt Crockett
Cast Changes and Announcements

The Devil Wears Prada completes its company for a third year at the Dominion

The Runway recruitment drive is over. The Devil Wears Prada The Musical has confirmed the full company that will take it into a third year at the Dominion Theatre, with two of the headline moves coming from inside the…

ABBA Voyage at ABBA Arena, London. Photo by Ralph Larmann.
Upcoming and New Shows

ABBA Voyage releases 170,000 tickets as booking runs to June 2027

Booking for ABBA Voyage at ABBA Arena now runs to Monday 28 June 2027, and 170,000 tickets have been released for the new period. The London concert experience turns five in May 2027.

Premi Tamang as Nava, Aminita Francis as Vida, Jessica Alade as Demi and Lily Olufemi-Bywaters as Serene in rehearsals for the National Theatre's Bacchae schools tour. Photo by Marc Brenner
Theatre News

First rehearsal images for the National Theatre's Bacchae schools tour

The National Theatre has released the first rehearsal images for its nationwide schools tour of Bacchae, Nima Taleghani's reworking of his own Olivier production for an audience that will watch it in a school hall.

Oliver Alvin-Wilson and Flora Montgomery in rehearsals for Ghosts at Jermyn Street Theatre. Photo by Alex Brenner
Cast Changes and Announcements

Flora Montgomery and Oliver Alvin-Wilson lead Richard Eyre's Ghosts at Jermyn Street Theatre

Flora Montgomery and Oliver Alvin-Wilson lead the company of Ghosts, Richard Eyre's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen, which begins previews at the Jermyn Street Theatre on 8 October.

Key art for Marti Pellow’s Scrooge the Musical at the SEC Armadillo in Glasgow, showing Pellow as Ebenezer Scrooge in a top hat and long Victorian coat, clutching a ledger in a rain-soaked gaslit street
Cast Changes and Announcements

Full company announced for Marti Pellow’s Scrooge the Musical in Glasgow

Twenty-one performers and five young actors have been announced for Scrooge the Musical at the SEC Armadillo in Glasgow, completing the company around Marti Pellow, Karen Dunbar and Gavin Mitchell.

The company of Blood Brothers on the autumn 2026 UK tour. Photo by Jack Merriman
Theatre News

New production images released from the Blood Brothers autumn tour

Bill Kenwright Ltd has released a set of new production photographs from the autumn 2026 UK tour of Blood Brothers, taken by Jack Merriman and showing Vivienne Carlyle as Mrs Johnstone alongside Sean Jones and Joe…

James Bye as James, Hannah Sinclair Robinson as Lou and Caroline Faber as Carolanne in Paranormal Activity. Photo by Johan Persson
Theatre News

First production photos from the Paranormal Activity UK and Ireland tour

Melting Pot has released the first production photographs from the UK and Ireland tour of Paranormal Activity, which opened at Richmond Theatre on Saturday 5 September 2026 and travels the country until June 2027.