A scene from Caroline Guiela Nguyen's Saigon, which comes to the Barbican Theatre in March 2027. Photo by Jean Louis Fernandez
Theatre News

Barbican sets out its spring 2027 theatre and dance season, from MimeLondon to Saigon

The Barbican has published Theatre and Dance: Spring 2027, a nine-event season running from January to May across the Barbican Theatre and The Pit.

Giles Terera as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at The Old Vic, holding a glowing lantern in swirling smoke. Photo by Hugo Glendinning
Cast Changes and Announcements

Carly Bawden and Annie Wensak join Giles Terera in the Old Vic’s 10th anniversary A Christmas Carol

Carly Bawden and Annie Wensak are among fifteen actors joining Giles Terera for the Old Vic’s tenth anniversary production of A Christmas Carol, which runs from 10 November 2026 to 9 January 2027.

Key art for Triumph at the Almeida Theatre: a painted red thumbs-down hand in a blue sleeve, with the title Triumph in red capitals
Upcoming and New Shows

Kate O'Flynn and Matthew Beard star in Caryl Churchill's new short play Triumph at the Almeida

A new Caryl Churchill play is coming to the Almeida Theatre, and it runs a quarter of an hour. Triumph plays for one week only, from Friday 16 to Friday 23 October 2026, with Kate O'Flynn and Matthew Beard in the cast.

The company of the 75th anniversary UK tour of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap
Upcoming and New Shows

The Mousetrap's 75th anniversary tour reaches New Brighton's Floral Pavilion in October

The 75th anniversary tour of The Mousetrap runs at the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton from 19-24 October, its only Merseyside date, with a press performance on Monday 19 October.

Emily Woof holding a copy of The Beatles album Revolver in Revolver at Soho Theatre. Photo by Sheila Burnett
Upcoming and New Shows

Emily Woof brings Revolver to Soho Theatre in a Shared Experience co-production

Emily Woof performs her one-woman show Revolver at Soho Theatre on Dean Street from 24 November to 5 December 2026, co-produced with Shared Experience in the company’s fiftieth anniversary year.

The New York Vocal Collective in performance, singing into microphones in denim
Cast Changes and Announcements

Sam Tutty joins the line-up for A Tectonic Cabaret in New York

Olivier Award winner Sam Tutty is among the performers announced for A Tectonic Cabaret, the annual benefit held by Tectonic Theater Project at the Edison Ballroom in New York on Monday 26 October.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Truman Capote in Tru at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Photo by Johan Persson
Theatre News

First look at Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Truman Capote in Tru

The first production images have been released from Tru at the Menier Chocolate Factory, with Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Truman Capote and Charlotte d’Amboise alongside him.

Baffo surrounded by young audience members in On Your Bike Baffo! from OH! Productions. Photo by Paul Blakemore
Upcoming and New Shows

On Your Bike Baffo! brings its UK tour to Jackson’s Lane on 4 October

On Your Bike Baffo! reaches Jackson’s Lane on Sunday 4 October, with two performances in a day. The clowning show from OH! Productions is built for children aged 3-8, and it has picked up five-star notices on the road.

Danielle de Niese, Malinda Parris, Fayth Ifil, Nathan Sykes and the cast of Hadestown at the Lyric Theatre. Photo by Brinkhoff-Moegenburg
Cast Changes and Announcements

Hadestown releases production photography of its new Lyric Theatre company

Brinkhoff-Moegenburg's photographs of the new company at the Lyric Theatre are out, and they put Nathan Sykes, Danielle de Niese, Shaun Dooley, Fayth Ifil and Malinda Parris on stage in Hadestown for the first time.