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Northern Ballet's Wuthering Heights. Photo by Guy Farrow
Upcoming and New Shows

Phoenix Dance Theatre's The Breakfast Club leads Sadler's Wells' new 2027 dates

A Saturday detention from 1985 is getting the dance treatment. Phoenix Dance Theatre brings Sincerely, The Breakfast Club to Sadler's Wells East next spring, one of more than 20 productions just added to Sadler's Wells'…

Key art for the 25th anniversary production of Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words. Photo by Hugo Glendinning
Upcoming and New Shows

Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words returns to Sadler's Wells for its 25th anniversary

Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words is coming back for its 25th anniversary, with a four-week London season at Sadler's Wells from 27 July to 21 August 2027 and two performances at Curve, Leicester just before it.

Sukania Venugopal and Radhika Mudaliyar in Counting and Cracking. Photo by Pia Johnson
Upcoming and New Shows

Belvoir's Counting and Cracking heads to Soho Theatre Walthamstow for LIFT 2027

Counting and Cracking, S. Shakthidharan's four-generation Sri Lankan-Australian epic, plays London for the first time next summer, at Soho Theatre Walthamstow from 15 June to 10 July 2027 as part of LIFT.

Richard Canal Tinius in Leonard Nimoy's Vincent, holding a self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh
Upcoming and New Shows

Leonard Nimoy's van Gogh play Vincent comes to Camden People's Theatre

Vincent, the one-man play Leonard Nimoy wrote and first performed in 1978, opens at Camden People's Theatre on 14 January 2027 for six performances, with Richard Canal Tinius playing both van Gogh brothers.

Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman on stage at the Phantom of the Opera 40th anniversary gala, His Majesty's Theatre. Photo by Danny Kaan
Cast Changes and Announcements

Phantom of the Opera extends to October 2027 as Kimberly Blake, Kate Graham and Luke Kempner join

Phantom of the Opera is now booking at His Majesty's Theatre through to October 2027, with Kimberly Blake, Kate Graham and Luke Kempner joining the company on 23 November and Ashley Gilmour back as Raoul.

Scott Gallagher, John-Paul Birss, James Mackenzie, James-Royden Lyley, Rosie Royle, Sean Jones and Yna Montarde in costume for Aladdin at the Floral Pavilion. Photo by Brian Roberts
Cast Changes and Announcements

John-Paul Birss and Rosie Royle join Aladdin at the Floral Pavilion

John-Paul Birss plays the Emperor and Rosie Royle the Spirit of the Ring in Aladdin at the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton, which runs from 5 December 2026 to 3 January 2027.

Matt Willis as the Emcee in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club. Photo by Marc Brenner
Cast Changes and Announcements

Matt Willis returns as the Emcee in Cabaret opposite Sarah Hyland

Matt Willis is going back to the Kit Kat Club: he takes up the Emcee once more in Cabaret for six weeks from 14 December 2026, playing opposite Sarah Hyland as Sally Bowles.

Janie Dee as Dorothy Kilgallen, with Gloria Obianyo as Flo, in Speculations at the Marylebone Theatre. Photo by Helen Maybanks
Theatre News

Production photos show Janie Dee as Dorothy Kilgallen in Trevor Nunn's Speculations

The first production photos from Speculations have arrived on the day of its press night, with Janie Dee as the columnist Dorothy Kilgallen in Torben Betts's new thriller, directed by Trevor Nunn at the Marylebone…

Love and Other Terrors artwork, Theatre Royal Brighton
Upcoming and New Shows

Paul Sellar returns to the stage with ghost-story anthology Love and Other Terrors in Brighton

Playwright Paul Sellar is to bring his first full-scale stage work in more than ten years to Theatre Royal Brighton, where Love and Other Terrors, a collection of six new ghost stories, will be given a single…