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Key art for Jerker by Robert Chesley at Waterloo East Theatre, showing the title and a vintage rotary telephone
Upcoming and New Shows

Jerker returns to London for a 40th anniversary run at Waterloo East

Jerker plays a three-week season at Waterloo East Theatre from 26 September, forty years after Robert Chesley wrote it.

Ty Fanning as James and Ami Okumura Jones as Lou in Paranormal Activity at the Ambassadors Theatre. Photo by Matt Crockett
Upcoming and New Shows

Paranormal Activity extends at the Ambassadors Theatre for a fifth time

Paranormal Activity now books to 2 January 2027 at the Ambassadors Theatre, in the same week the show opens a UK and Ireland tour.

Two performers sing side by side under neon strip lights in Thelma & Louise at the Young Vic. Photo by Helen Murray
Upcoming and New Shows

First production images released for Thelma & Louise at the Young Vic

The Young Vic has released the first production images for the world premiere of Thelma & Louise, the new musical from Callie Khouri and Neko Case.

Anton Du Beke in costume as Great Uncle Matthew for the UK tour of Ballet Shoes. Photo by Matt Crockett
Upcoming and New Shows

Anton Du Beke joins Ballet Shoes for its first UK tour

The National Theatre’s Ballet Shoes tours the UK from August 2027, with Anton Du Beke making his first appearance in a National Theatre production.

A pair of yellow corduroy trousers pegged to a bare branch, key art for What Would Jarvis Do? at the Omnibus Theatre. Photo by Alicia Bridge
Upcoming and New Shows

What Would Jarvis Do? returns to the Omnibus Theatre in October

What Would Jarvis Do? runs at the Omnibus Theatre from 6-16 October, after two sold-out development performances at the same address.

Key art for Operation Mincemeat: The Expanded Cast, the under-19 edition licensed by Concord Theatricals
Theatre News

Operation Mincemeat licensed to schools in a new expanded-cast edition

Concord Theatricals has released Operation Mincemeat for performance by under-19 companies across the UK and Eire, in a full-length edition scaled for casts of between 13 and 87.

Rachel Pickup as Laura in Still Life at Theatre Royal Drury Lane
London Theatre Reviews

Review Roundup: STILL LIFE at Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Ninety years ago Noël Coward wrote Still Life as one of the ten short plays of Tonight at 8.30, and it went on to become Brief Encounter, which is the version almost everybody knows.

Charlie Burn as Jane Eyre with the company at Southwark Playhouse Elephant
London Theatre Reviews

Review Roundup: JANE EYRE at Southwark Playhouse Elephant

Thirty years after Toronto and a quarter of a century after Broadway, Jane Eyre has finally reached London, in a pared-back chamber version of the John Caird and Paul Gordon musical staged by Caird himself with Megan…

Lolly Adefope as Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary! at the Trafalgar Theatre
Cast Changes and Announcements

Full cast announced for Oh, Mary! alongside Lolly Adefope

Four more names join Lolly Adefope in Oh, Mary! at the Trafalgar Theatre from 28 September 2026, completing the cast that takes over from Jinkx Monsoon and company.