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Simon Russell Beale and Fra Fee in I’ll Be Seeing You at Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Photo by Tiu Makkonen
Theatre News

First look at Simon Russell Beale and Fra Fee in Martin Sherman’s I’ll Be Seeing You

Pitlochry Festival Theatre has released the first production images for I’ll Be Seeing You, the world premiere of a new play by Martin Sherman starring Simon Russell Beale and Fra Fee.

Key art for A Class of Your Own, showing a performer with sticky notes reading Joker, Trouble, Worst, Show Off and Happy covering their face
Upcoming and New Shows

Tangled Feet premiere A Class of Your Own at Polka Theatre in October

A Class of Your Own, a new show for eight to twelve year olds built with young people who have been excluded from school, gets its world premiere at Polka Theatre on 3 October before a single date in Luton a week later.

The company of A Christmas Carol at the Perelman Performing Arts Center, New York. Photo by Andy Henderson
Theatre News

The Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol returns to New York with Andy Karl as Scrooge

The Old Vic’s production of A Christmas Carol, written for the theatre by Jack Thorne and conceived and directed by its artistic director Matthew Warchus, returns to New York in November, with Olivier Award winner Andy…

Munya Chawawa as Bottom with members of the company in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Chichester Festival Theatre. Photo by Manuel Harlan
Theatre News

First look at Munya Chawawa as Bottom in Chichester's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Chichester Festival Theatre has published the first production photographs of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the show that closes its Festival 2026 season, with Munya Chawawa as Bottom and Eve Ponsonby as Titania.

The company of The Devil Wears Prada The Musical at the Dominion Theatre
Cast Changes and Announcements

Jenna Bonner steps up from the ensemble as Andy in The Devil Wears Prada

Jenna Bonner steps up from the ensemble to play Andy Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada from 20 October, with Taila Halford continuing as Emily Charlton.

Antonia Kinlay, Mirain Haf Roberts, Llinos Daniel, Hedydd Dylan and Charlotte Gray, the cast of The Revlon Girl at Park Theatre. Photographer not credited in the press release
Cast Changes and Announcements

Full cast announced for The Revlon Girl at Park Theatre

Antonia Kinlay, Mirain Haf Roberts, Llinos Daniel, Hedydd Dylan and Charlotte Gray make up the company of The Revlon Girl, which returns to Park Theatre from 26 October to 14 November 2026.

Stephen Mangan and Kristin Scott Thomas in rehearsal for The Cherry Orchard at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Photo by Johan Persson
Upcoming and New Shows

First look at Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan in rehearsal for The Cherry Orchard

The first rehearsal images have been released for The Cherry Orchard, which brings Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan to the Harold Pinter Theatre next month in Ian Rickson’s production of Chekhov’s last play.

Mathew Horne, right, as Malvolio and Milo Twomey as Sir Toby Belch in rehearsals for Twelfth Night at the Crucible. Photo by Manuel Harlan
Upcoming and New Shows

Mathew Horne’s Malvolio in first rehearsal images for Twelfth Night

Sheffield Theatres has released the first rehearsal images for Twelfth Night, with Mathew Horne as Malvolio and Jamie Glover directing. The production opens at the Crucible on Saturday 10 October 2026.

The company of Three Men in a Boat aboard the boat at Rose Theatre, Kingston. Photo by Helen Murray
Theatre News

First production photographs released for Three Men in a Boat at the Rose Theatre

Rose Theatre has released the first production photographs from Three Men in a Boat, the world premiere comedy by Al Smith now running in Kingston upon Thames until Saturday 10 October 2026.