Key art for Speculations at the Marylebone Theatre, showing Janie Dee as Dorothy Kilgallen
Cast Changes and Announcements

Jolyon Coy and Gloria Obianyo join Janie Dee in Trevor Nunn's Speculations

Jolyon Coy, Natalie Dunne, Gloria Obianyo, Joseph Potter and Ferdy Roberts have been cast alongside Janie Dee in Speculations, the world premiere Sir Trevor Nunn directs at the Marylebone Theatre from 30 October.

Key art for Robin Hood and the Merry Mandem at Stratford East. Photography by Michael Wharley, design by Steph Pyne.
Cast Changes and Announcements

Ashley Joseph leads the Merry Mandem as Stratford East names its Robin Hood cast

Ashley Joseph plays Robin in Robin Hood and the Merry Mandem, the new East London pantomime at Stratford East running from 21 November 2026 to 2 January 2027. Yolanda Mercy writes and Jade Lewis directs.

Jen Chandler and Elvie Rose Christiansen Head hold hands with arms outstretched against projected foliage in Learn From Us. Photo by Luke Waddington
Theatre News

Rosetta Life marks 25 years with Learn From Us, a new disability dance theatre tour

Rosetta Life, the arts-in-health charity, turns 25 this year and marks it with Learn From Us, a new disability dance theatre piece devised with people living with brain injury.

Writer and director Andy Sandberg and Noah Schnapp in rehearsal for Affluenza at Riverside Studios. Photo by Justine Matthew
Upcoming and New Shows

Affluenza adds extra dates at Riverside Studios before previews begin

Extra performances have been added to Affluenza at Riverside Studios before the first preview has been played, and the run now reaches 28 November 2026.

Sting and the ensemble of The Last Ship at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
London Theatre Reviews

Review Roundup: THE LAST SHIP at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane

The notices are in for The Last Ship, Sting’s musical about a Wallsend shipyard facing closure, which has reached the Theatre Royal Drury Lane for a run of barely a fortnight at the end of a world tour.

A performer in a wheelchair reaches out across a rehearsal studio during work on Jamie Hale and CRIPtic Arts' Romeo and Juliet. Photo by Shona Louise
Theatre News

CRIPtic Arts and Jamie Hale close the Barbican's spring season with a disabled-led Romeo and Juliet

Jamie Hale and the disabled-led company CRIPtic Arts stage Romeo and Juliet in The Pit at the Barbican from Thursday 13 to Saturday 15 May 2027, with every performance BSL-interpreted, captioned, audio-described and…

Three performers between two vertical blue strip lights on the set of WITNESS. Photo by Adrianne McKenzie
Theatre News

WITNESS, adapted from Alex Wheatle's novella, transfers from Theatre Peckham to the Barbican

WITNESS, adapted by Suzann McLean and David Fielding from Alex Wheatle's novella, transfers from Theatre Peckham to The Pit at the Barbican for three days in March 2027.

Key art for Zoo Co's Three Men On A Billboard: two performers lean on a blank red billboard against a yellow sky, with three tiny figures standing on the gantry below
Upcoming and New Shows

Zoo Co take the 261-day billboard contest into The Pit at the Barbican

Tickets are £21.50 for Zoo Co's Three Men On A Billboard, which runs in The Pit at the Barbican from Monday 8 to Saturday 13 February 2027 and is live-directed from audience suggestions every night.

The Boy Blue company massed on a darkened stage with arms raised. Photo by Sophie Bradbury
Theatre News

Boy Blue mark 25 years with A Night With Boy Blue at the Barbican

Boy Blue turn 25, and the company marks it with A Night With Boy Blue at the Barbican Theatre from Friday 19 to Sunday 21 February 2027 — students and professionals on the same stage, tickets from £22.