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Key art for The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: a woman and a young boy carrying suitcases walk towards a lit country house at dusk
Upcoming and New Shows

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to tour the UK from Guildford in 2027

A new stage version of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, adapted by Katherine Moar, opens at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford on 9 September 2027 before touring the UK.

Artwork for Dick Whittington at the King’s Head Theatre, with Victoria Scone and River Medway
Cast Changes and Announcements

Rufus Hound, Vikki Stone and Ginger Johnson among the guest stars for the King’s Head’s adults-only Dick Whittington

Rufus Hound, Vikki Stone, Danielle Steers and Ginger Johnson are among ten one-night guest stars lined up for Dick Whittington: Adults Only, the King’s Head Theatre’s grown-up pantomime this Christmas.

Elizabeth Anderson as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: On Stage. Photo by Johan Persson
Theatre News

First look at the new Hunger Games: On Stage company in production photos

The first production photographs of the second-year company of The Hunger Games: On Stage are out, with Elizabeth Anderson now leading as Katniss Everdeen at Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre.

Kate Winslet, Ambika Mod, Suzy Eddie Izzard and George MacKay, four of the readers in The Pelicot Trial. Suzy Eddie Izzard photo by Amanda Searle
Cast Changes and Announcements

Kate Winslet, Brian Cox and Ambika Mod complete the company of The Pelicot Trial

Kate Winslet, Brian Cox, Ambika Mod and Baroness Helena Kennedy are among the final names for The Pelicot Trial, the documentary play drawn from the Gisèle Pelicot rape trial, which has a single UK performance at London…

The company of The Choir of Man celebrating around the piano on the show's pub set. Photo by Mark Senior
Cast Changes and Announcements

The Choir of Man brings its touring cast to The Arts at Marble Arch

The touring company of The Choir of Man is staying together for London, with all nine principals reprising their roles at The Arts at Marble Arch from 10 December.

The theatre-themed festive lights strung across St Martin's Lane in London's West End
West End News & Gossip

Into the Woods cast lights up St Martin's Lane at the street's first festive switch-on

The company of Into the Woods performed in the street on Tuesday evening before St Martin's Lane's theatre-themed Christmas lights were switched on, the first time the display has had a ceremony of its own.

Sam Pay and Rhiannon Skerritt, who make up the cast of Huddle at the Unicorn Theatre
Cast Changes and Announcements

Sam Pay and Rhiannon Skerritt cast in Huddle at the Unicorn Theatre this Christmas

Sam Pay and Rhiannon Skerritt are the cast of Huddle, the Filskit Theatre penguin show for one- to four-year-olds that returns to the Unicorn Theatre for Christmas, from 27 November 2026 to 3 January 2027.

Briony Martha in the artwork for Parasocial Activity at Southwark Playhouse Borough
Upcoming and New Shows

Fringe First winner Parasocial Activity heads to Southwark Playhouse Borough

Parasocial Activity, the dark comedy that won Briony Martha a Fringe First in Edinburgh this summer, gets its London premiere at Southwark Playhouse Borough in January.

Leslie Odom Jr. in concert at the London Palladium. Photo by Danny Kaan
Theatre News

Leslie Odom Jr.’s two London Palladium concerts in pictures

The first photographs are out from Leslie Odom Jr.’s solo concert at the London Palladium, where the Tony winner, who took the award as Aaron Burr in Hamilton, played two performances on Saturday 31 October 2026.