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Poster artwork for the stage musical Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story on Stage, showing a couple performing the story's signature lift against a hot pink background
Upcoming and New Shows

Dirty Dancing to return to the West End at the Prince Edward Theatre

Dirty Dancing is to return to the West End at the Prince Edward Theatre. Exact performance dates have not yet been confirmed, and the move follows a further delay to the opening of the new Capital Theatre, where the…

Key art for The Animals Come to the Table, a megaphone lying on the stage of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Artwork photography by Johan Persson
Upcoming and New Shows

Annette Badland and Finbar Lynch lead the world premiere of The Animals Come to the Table

Shakespeare’s Globe has named the company for The Animals Come to the Table, a world premiere by Timberlake Wertenbaker that opens by candlelight in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in December.

The cast of Nine Night at Kiln Theatre: Sonya Cassidy, Estella Daniels, Llewella Gideon, Ava Hinds-Jones, Gary McDonald, Dani Moseley and Javone Prince
Cast Changes and Announcements

Full cast announced for Nine Night at Kiln Theatre as the run extends to January

Seven actors will make up the family at the centre of Natasha Gordon’s Nine Night at Kiln Theatre this winter. The run has been extended before rehearsals have begun, and now plays to 2 January 2027.

Key art for Cinderella at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
Cast Changes and Announcements

Chrissie Bhima is Cinderella as the Lyric Hammersmith names its panto cast

Chrissie Bhima takes the title role in Cinderella, the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre pantomime, in a company of nine announced today.

Natalie Anderson, Karen Hauer, Grant Almirall, Nicole-Lily Baisden, Matthew Maddison and Wendi Peters, principal cast of the Singin' in the Rain UK and Ireland tour
Cast Changes and Announcements

Karen Hauer and Natalie Anderson to share Lina Lamont on the Singin' in the Rain tour

Karen Hauer and Natalie Anderson will share Lina Lamont on the UK and Ireland tour of Singin' in the Rain, which opens in Bromley in January 2027 and settles at Sadler's Wells for a month the following summer.

Nick Abeel, Regan Sims, Kyle Schaefer and Kelly Robinson in Fly, You Fools!. Photo by Mike Bryk
Upcoming and New Shows

Fly, You Fools! brings its Middle-earth parody to Southwark Playhouse Borough

The Tolkien parody Fly, You Fools! plays its first London dates at Southwark Playhouse Borough from 25 November, after two sold-out seasons at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Tickets are on sale now.

The seven guest actors newly announced for An Oak Tree at The Other Palace: Sean Gilder, Brian Gleeson, Sophie Melville, Juliet Stevenson, Rhashan Stone, Olivia Williams and Ria Zmitrowicz
Cast Changes and Announcements

Juliet Stevenson and Olivia Williams among seven more guest actors for An Oak Tree

Francesca Moody Productions has added seven more names to the guest line-up for An Oak Tree at The Other Palace, where a different actor takes the second role at every performance without having read or rehearsed a word…

Maisie Smith as Audrey with the Audrey II puppet in rehearsals for Little Shop of Horrors. Photo by Rosie Moore / The Social Sort
Upcoming and New Shows

Maisie Smith meets her man-eating namesake as Little Shop of Horrors readies for Manchester

Final rehearsal photographs have been released of Little Shop of Horrors at Hope Mill Theatre, with Maisie Smith in the jaws of the plant that shares her character’s name, four days before the Manchester production…

Monet Marquis, Nkara Stephenson and Halle Brown, the cast of Home Song at the Unicorn Theatre
Cast Changes and Announcements

Monet Marquis and Nkara Stephenson cast in Home Song as the Unicorn's baby musical returns

The Unicorn Theatre has named the company for Home Song, an interactive musical written for babies, which returns to the theatre's Clore studio next month.