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.
The King’s Head Theatre in Islington has announced its programme for January to May 2027. Alongside the two premieres, it brings in productions from the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and two returning comedies, which open the year. Tickets for the season are on sale now.
Senior producer and programmer Zoe Weldon said: “We’re kicking off the year with a comedic bang, bringing some much-needed laughter to the January blues, before moving into a fantastic programme of bold new writing and some of the very best work to emerge from the Edinburgh Fringe 2026.”
Saving Alan Turing
Saving Alan Turing runs from 21 April to 30 May 2027, with press night on 28 April. The play covers the last 18 months of the mathematician and codebreaker’s life: his unlikely friendship with the psychiatrist Dr Franz Greenbaum, and the persecution he faced as a gay man in 1950s Britain.
It is the third play by Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky to be staged at the venue. Their The Gang of Three and In the Print both sold out there before touring the UK.
Kirsty Patrick Ward directs, with the Gang of Three creative team back together: set and costume design by Libby Watson, lighting by Jamie Platt, sound by Dominic Brennan and casting by Harry Gilbert. James Quaife is general manager for Luminous Entertainment Group. The producers are Keith Johnston, The Spontaneity Shop and Luminous Entertainment Group. Casting has not yet been announced.
Fault
Fault, a new psychological thriller by Tom Ratcliffe, runs from 3 to 28 March 2027. Its central character is an openly gay professional tennis player close to breaking into the world’s top ten. A former best friend reappears with a secret that could end his career, and the play deals in ambition, betrayal and match-fixing.
Ratcliffe wrote Evelyn and Wreckage. He directed Breeding in the theatre’s opening season at its new home, and has previously been a guest artistic director there.
God Is a Woman: The Musical
The season opens with Luisa Omielan in God Is a Woman: The Musical, from 5 to 9 January 2027. The BAFTA Breakthrough comedian has played the venue before. Adapted from Omielan’s stand-up special of the same name, the solo show retells the Bible with Mary Magdalene at its centre and asks how the story would read had women written it. It mixes comedy, music and audience participation.
Omielan’s earlier shows include What Would Beyoncé Do?!, Am I Right Ladies?! and Politics for Bitches. The production was developed over the past year in the United States.
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story
Awkward Prods brings back Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story from 19 to 31 January 2027, marking the show’s fifth anniversary. Diana tells an outrageously unreliable version of her life from heaven, through drag, puppetry, multimedia and audience participation. The award-winning comedy has played to sold-out houses internationally, and is also bound for off-Broadway.
The company, also behind Gwyneth Goes Skiing, Linus Karp Was Hit With An Umbrella and The Fit Prince, will also revive its first show, how to live a jellicle life: life lessons from the 2019 hit movie musical ‘Cats’, for two nights. Those dates are still to be announced.
Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight
John Kolvenbach’s solo play Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight receives its London premiere from 3 to 21 February 2027, with Jim Ortlieb performing. The Olivier Award-nominated playwright’s piece centres on a man starved of human contact who turns to the audience for it, and blurs the line between performer and spectator.
Furniture Boys
Emily Weitzman’s solo comedy Furniture Boys plays three dates, 25-27 February 2027, after runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse. Weitzman wrote it and performs it; Kate Doyle and Jacob Combs direct. Set in a furniture showroom, it turns ex-boyfriends into futons and break-ups into broken chairs, using clowning and spoken word to ask what lasts. The Guardian gave it four stars, and The New York Times recommended it.
For Dolores
Fishamble, the Olivier Award-winning Irish company, presents For Dolores from 31 March to 17 April 2027. Eva O’Connor wrote it and Jim Culleton directs. It follows Mo and Réaltín, whose close friendship begins at university, through love, motherhood and the mistakes that shape them.
The play won Summerhall’s Bragi Award at the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, sold out there and at the Galway International Arts Festival, and was one of Rolling Stone UK’s top Fringe picks.
Booking
All of the productions above are on sale now at the King’s Head Theatre, which also offers Pay What You Can performances, an Under 35s Membership and a local N1 Membership.
