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Key art for West End Does: Christmas 2026 at St Marylebone Church, showing a decorated Christmas wreath on a deep blue background. No photographer credited.
Upcoming and New Shows

West End Does: Christmas names its 2026 line-up and leaves Cadogan Hall

Julian Ovenden, Louise Dearman and Ricardo Afonso are the first performers named for West End Does: Christmas, which leaves Cadogan Hall for St Marylebone Church and gives a single concert there on Sunday 20 December…

Key art for the 10th anniversary UK tour of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, showing Ashcon Rahmani as Jamie New with Kelle Bryan and members of the company. No photographer credited.
Cast Changes and Announcements

Kelle Bryan, Joanne Clifton and Divina De Campo join the 10th anniversary tour of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

Kelle Bryan and Joanne Clifton will share the role of Miss Hedge on the 10th anniversary UK tour of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, with Divina De Campo as Hugo/Loco Chanelle.

The cast of Magic Mike Live at the London Hippodrome. Photo by Pamela Raith
Upcoming and New Shows

Magic Mike Live extends its London run to January 2028

Magic Mike Live has opened a new booking period at the London Hippodrome, with performances now on sale through to Sunday 2 January 2028 and tickets from £42.

Album artwork for SIX: The Musical (Korean Original Cast Studio Recording), released on the 6 Music label
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SIX releases its first Korean-language studio album ahead of a second Seoul season

The producers of SIX have released the musical's first Korean-language studio album worldwide, sung by six of the Queens who opened the show in Seoul, and ahead of a second Korean season this December.

The auditorium of the Stratford Festival Theatre, its thrust stage and curved rows of empty seats lit in deep red, with the Stratford Festival logo across the centre
Theatre News

Jonathan Church sets out his first Stratford Festival season

Jonathan Church has announced his first season as Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival in Ontario, a 75th-anniversary playbill of thirteen productions that he opens by directing the Canadian premieres of Wolf…

Bones, who plays Jack in TuckShop’s all-drag pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk at the Emerald Theatre
Upcoming and New Shows

Bones leads TuckShop’s all-drag Jack and the Beanstalk at the Emerald Theatre

Bones takes the title role in Jack and the Beanstalk, the sixth all-drag pantomime from TuckShop, which runs at the Emerald Theatre from Wednesday 2 December 2026 to Sunday 10 January 2027.

Mary Higgins as Hamlet and Ell Potter as Gertrude in HAM at Soho Theatre. Photo by Jonny Ruff
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First production images for HAM as Hotter Project’s Fringe hit reaches Soho Theatre

Speakerphone Productions and Soho Theatre have released the first production photographs of HAM, Hotter Project’s vegan hijacking of Hamlet, six days before it opens on Dean Street.

Francesca Mills and Jill Halfpenny in the artwork for The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at the National Theatre. Photo by Lillie Eiger
Cast Changes and Announcements

Daniel Ryan and Beverly Rudd complete the company for The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at the National Theatre

Daniel Ryan and Beverly Rudd lead the new names in the full company for The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, which opens in the Dorfman on 2 December before touring England in the new year.

Key art for Julius Caesar Remixed, presented by Intermission Youth at Omnibus Theatre
Upcoming and New Shows

Intermission Youth to stage Julius Caesar Remixed at Omnibus Theatre

Intermission Youth brings Julius Caesar Remixed to the Omnibus Theatre in Clapham for a four-week run this November, adapted by Darren Raymond and directed by Stephanie Badaru.