Key art for Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap at St Martin's Theatre
Industry News

Denise Silvey to step down as The Mousetrap's artistic director after 32 years

Denise Silvey will leave her post as artistic director of The Mousetrap at the end of 2026, closing a 32-year association with Agatha Christie's thriller. Producer Brian Fenty takes over her responsibilities.

The Legend of Georgia McBride key art
Upcoming and New Shows

Monét X Change to make West End debut in The Legend of Georgia McBride at @sohoplace

Monét X Change will make her West End debut as drag queen Miss Tracy Mills in The Legend of Georgia McBride, the comedy by Matthew López, which plays in the round at @sohoplace from 2 February to 15 May 2027.

Key art for Baboo the Unusual Bee, from the picture book illustrated by Aysha Tengiz, and Let’s Fly, Little Angel Theatre spring 2027
Upcoming and New Shows

Baboo the Unusual Bee premieres at Little Angel Theatre in spring 2027 as Let’s Fly returns

Little Angel Theatre has set its spring 2027 family season. The world premiere of Baboo the Unusual Bee, a new musical from Lliana Bird’s picture book, opens on 6 February, a week after Let’s Fly returns on 30 January.

King’s Head Theatre spring 2027 season artwork, featuring Saving Alan Turing, Fault, God Is a Woman: The Musical, Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight and Furniture Boys
Upcoming and New Shows

Saving Alan Turing and Tom Ratcliffe's Fault premiere in the King's Head Theatre's spring 2027 season

Two new plays, Saving Alan Turing by Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky and Fault by Tom Ratcliffe, get their world premieres in the King’s Head Theatre’s spring 2027 season, which runs from January to May and is on sale now.

Matthew Maddison (Cosmo Brown) and Grant Almirall (Don Lockwood) in rehearsals for Singin' in the Rain. Photo by Johan Persson
Theatre News

First rehearsal photos of Singin' in the Rain ahead of its Crucible Christmas run

Rehearsal photographs are out for Singin' in the Rain, the Crucible's Christmas musical in Sheffield, which opens on 26 November and then heads out on a UK and Ireland tour with a summer stop at Sadler's Wells.

Bo Poraj and Marc Antolin in rehearsals for Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Days of Christmas. Photo by Marc Brenner
Theatre News

Bo Poraj and Marc Antolin in the rehearsal room for Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Days of Christmas

A deerstalker, a chair leg and an ensemble crouched in a huddle: the first rehearsal photos for Sherlock Holmes and the Twelve Days of Christmas catch Bo Poraj and Marc Antolin getting Holmes and Watson ready for…

Three and a Bit key art: a white hand holding up three fingers and a bent fourth against black brushwork. Artwork by Gooze Studio
Cast Changes and Announcements

Matthew Beard, Louisa Harland and Jonathan Slinger cast in Caryl Churchill's Three and a Bit at the Almeida

Matthew Beard, Louisa Harland and Jonathan Slinger are among the eleven performers cast in Three and a Bit, the world premiere of new plays by Caryl Churchill at the Almeida Theatre this winter.

Katy Owen, Tom Fox, Robyn Sinclair, Ian Ross and Dan Parr, the cast of A Child's Christmas in Wales at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath
Upcoming and New Shows

Emma Rice Company brings back Romantics Anonymous and casts A Child's Christmas in Wales

The Emma Rice Company is bringing its musical Romantics Anonymous back to Bath in 2027. It has also named the cast for this Christmas's A Child's Christmas in Wales and set out the rest of the 2027 tour for Tristan &…

Harriet Walter as Brutus in First Encounters: Julius Caesar at The Other Place. Photo by Helen Maybanks
Theatre News

First look at Harriet Walter as Brutus in the RSC's all-female Julius Caesar at The Other Place

The Royal Shakespeare Company has issued new photographs of First Encounters: Julius Caesar from its Stratford-upon-Avon run, showing Harriet Walter as Brutus in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female staging.