Dirty Dancing is to return to the West End at the Prince Edward Theatre. Performance dates have not been announced, and the move follows a further delay to the opening of the new Capital Theatre, where the production was to have been the first show.
The stage musical Dirty Dancing is to return to the West End at the Prince Edward Theatre. The venue was confirmed on Tuesday. Performance dates, booking arrangements and casting have not been announced, and the producers have said fuller details will follow.
The London return had been set for the Capital Theatre, the new house at Westfield London in Shepherd’s Bush, where Dirty Dancing was to be the opening production. That opening has been put back again, and the Prince Edward takes the show instead. It is the second time the run has moved: the Capital’s launch was first delayed in 2025.
The theatre’s own diary gives the clearest sense of when audiences can expect it. Beetlejuice The Musical plays its final West End performance at the Prince Edward on Saturday 2 January 2027, and Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Miss Saigon opens there on Thursday 13 May 2027. Dirty Dancing sits between the two.
The musical is no stranger to the West End. It opened at the Aldwych Theatre in 2006 and ran there for five years, came back at the Piccadilly Theatre in 2013 and the Phoenix Theatre in 2016, and played two further seasons at the Dominion Theatre, in 2022 and 2023. It has toured the UK and overseas between those runs.
Karl Sydow’s production is drawn from the 1987 film starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, which follows Frances “Baby” Houseman through a summer at a Catskills resort and her dance lessons with Johnny Castle. The score keeps the songs the film made familiar, among them Hungry Eyes, Hey! Baby, Do You Love Me? and (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.
