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What's announced and what's in previews in the West End.

This is a schedule of upcoming London shows, organized by opening date. To view all London shows, upcoming and currently running, check out our London listings page.

BALLET SHOES

  • Theatre: National Theatre (Olivier)
  • First Preview: November 23, 2024
  • Opening: December 5, 2024
  • Playwright: Noel Streatfeild, Kendall Feaver
  • Director: Katy Rudd
  • Cast: Sonya Cullingford, Jenny Galloway, Nadine Higgin, Helen Lymbery, Xolishweh Ana Richards, Sid Sagar, Grace Saif, Josin Salinger, Daisy Sequerra, Eryck Brahmania, Cordelia Braithwaite, Michelle Cornelius, Courtney George, Georges Hann, Yanexi Enriquez, Pearl Mackie, Stacy Abalogun, Philip Labey, Sharol Mackenzie, Nuwan Hugh Perera, Katie Singh, Katie Lee

In a crumbling house full of dinosaur bones and fossils, three adopted sisters – Pauline, Petrova and Posy – are learning who they are and what they want to be. Under the watchful eyes and guidance of their guardian Sylvia, Nana, and some unlikely lodgers, they fight to pursue their individual passions. But in a world that wasn’t built for women with big ambitions, can they forge a future, keep their family together, and even learn a dance or two along the way?

THE PRODUCERS

  • Theatre: Menier Chocolate Factory
  • First Preview: November 26, 2024
  • Opening: December 9, 2024
  • Book: Mel Brooks, Thomas Meehan
  • Music and Lyrics: Mel Brooks
  • Director: Patrick Marber
  • Cast: Mark Antolin, Andy Nyman, Harry Morrison, Joanna Woodward, Trevor Ashley, Raj Ghatak, Charis Alexandra, Michael Franks, Matt Gillett, Leah Harris, Hana Ichijo, Esme Kennedy, Josh Kiernan, Alex Lodge, Kelsie-Rae Marshall, Chloe Saunders, Jermaine Woods, Nolan Edwards

Mel Brooks' adaptation of his 1968 film features fading producer Max Bialystock, who convinces accountant Leo Bloom to partner with him in producing Springtime for Hitler, a guaranteed flop, and then running off with the money they've raised.

OLIVER!

  • Theatre: Gielgud Theatre
  • Opening: December 14, 2024
  • Book, Music, and Lyrics: Lionel Bart
  • Director: Matthew Bourne
  • Cast: Simon Lipkin, Shanay Holmes, Aaron Sidwell, Billy Jenkins, Philip Franks, Oscar Conlon-Morrey, Katy Secombe, Stephen Matthews, Jamie Birgett, Cian Eagle-Service, Raphael Korniets, Jack Philpott

Oliver is a young orphan living in Victorian England. After escaping a workhouse and an abusive apprenticeship, he finds himself amongst a group of petty thieves and pickpockets, and so begin Oliver's whirlwind adventures and his search to find the true love of a family. Lionel Bart's Tony® and Olivier Award®-winning musical interpretation of Charles Dickens' classic novel has been regarded as a masterpiece among audiences for seven decades.

NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812

  • Theatre: Donmar Warehouse
  • First Preview: December 7, 2024
  • Opening: December 16, 2024
  • Book, Music, and Lyrics: Dave Malloy
  • Director: Tim Sheader
  • Cast: Declan Bennett, Chumisa Dornford-May, Daniel Krikler, Eugene McCoy, Annette McLaughlin, Maimuna Memon, Jamie Muscato, Cedric Neal, Chloe Saracco, Cat Simmons

Arriving in the glittering opulent world of Moscow High Society, the impulsive and romantic Natasha Rostova awaits the return of her fiancé from the front lines. But when she falls under the spell of an intoxicating aristocrat, it is up to the unlikely hero, Pierre, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation.

THE TEMPEST

  • Theatre: Theatre Royal Drury Lane
  • First Preview: December 7, 2024
  • Opening: December 17, 2024
  • Playwright: William Shakespeare
  • Director: Jamie Lloyd
  • Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Jude Akuwudike, Jason Barnett, Selina Cadell, Mathew Horne, Mara Huf, Forbes Masson, Mason Alexander Park, James Phoon, Oliver Ryan, Tim Steed

The legendary Sigourney Weaver makes her West End debut as Prospero in this enchanting story of revenge and forgiveness.

CYRANO

  • Theatre: Park Theatre
  • First Preview: December 11, 2024
  • Opening: December 17, 2024
  • Playwright: Virginia Gay, after Edmond Rostand
  • Director: Clare Watson
  • Cast: Virginia Gay

Cyrano is the most interesting person in any room – a wordsmith, a charmer. She works twice as hard and runs twice as fast as the pretty boys, because she’s deeply ashamed of something about herself. Enter Roxanne: brilliant and beautiful, with a penchant for poetry and a way with words, just like Cyrano. But Roxanne only has eyes for Yan: hot, manly Yan; all brawn-and-no-brains Yan; who is dumbstruck around Roxanne. Probably shy, right? Until suddenly he starts saying the most amazing things. But it’s not Yan writing these perfect love scenes, it’s Cyrano …

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, 1936

  • Theatre: Trafalgar Theatre
  • Opening: December 28, 2024
  • Playwright: William Shakespeare, adapted by Brigid Larmour and Tracy-Ann Oberman
  • Director: Brigid Larmour
  • Cast: Tracy-Ann Oberman

Tensions in London’s East End are rising and Shylock, a resilient single mother and hard-working businesswoman, is desperate to protect her daughter’s future. When the charismatic merchant Antonio comes to her for a loan, a high-stakes deal is struck. Will Shylock take her revenge, and who will pay the ultimate price?

TITANIQUE: UNE PARODIE MUSICALE

  • Theatre: Criterion Theatre
  • First Preview: December 9, 2024
  • Opening: January 9, 2025
  • Playwright: Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli, Tye Blue
  • Director: Tye Blue
  • Cast: Darren Bennett, Lauren Drew, Jordan Luke Gage, Stephen Guarino, Rob Houchen, Kat Ronney, Charlotte Wakefield, Layton Williams, Freddie Ting, Adrianne Langley, Madison Swan, Rodney Vubya, Kristina Walz

Want to find out what really happened to Jack and Rose on that fateful night? Our story begins when Céline Dion hijacks a Titanic Museum tour and enchants the audience with her totally wild take, recharting the course of Titanic’s beloved moments and characters with her iconic song catalog.

KYOTO

  • Theatre: @sohoplace
  • Opening: January 9, 2025
  • Playwright: Joe Murphy, Joe Robertson
  • Director: Stephen Daldry, Justin Martin
  • Cast: Stephen Kunken, Jenna Augen, Olivia Barrowclough, Jorge Bosch, Nancy Crane, Andrea Gatchallan, Togo Igawa, Kwong Loke, Dale Rapley, Raad Rawl, Ferdy Roberts

Welcome to the Kyoto Conference Centre, 11 December 1997. The nations of the world are in deadlock and 11 hours have passed since the UN’s landmark climate conference should have ended. Time is running out and agreement feels a world away. The greatest obstacle: American oil lobbyist and master strategist, Don Pearlman…

THE LONELY LONDONERS

  • Theatre: Kiln Theatre
  • First Preview: January 10, 2025
  • Opening: January 16, 2025
  • Playwright: Roy Williams
  • Director: Ebenezer Bamgboye
  • Cast: TBA

1950s London. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry ‘Sir Galahad’ Oliver is impatient to start his new life in London. Carrying just pyjamas and a toothbrush, he bursts through Moses Aloetta’s door only to find Moses and his friends already soured on city life. Will the London fog dampen Galahad’s dreams? Or will these Lonely Londoners make a home in a city that sees them as a threat?

INSIDE NO. 9 - STAGE/FRIGHT

  • Theatre: Wyndham's Theatre
  • Opening: January 18, 2025
  • Playwright: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
  • Director: Simon Evans
  • Cast: Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith

Expect the unexpected as the acclaimed BBC TV series comes to life on stage, weaving its signature web of twisted tales and black humour. From the eerie to the absurd, Inside Number 9 - Stage/Fright combines comedy and horror with a dramatic script that will leave you guessing until the very end.

SECOND BEST

  • Theatre: Riverside Studios
  • Opening: January 24, 2025
  • Playwright: Barney Norris
  • Director: Michael Longhurst
  • Cast: Asa Butterfield

At ten years old, Martin Hill was on the brink of stardom, down to the final two contenders for the role of Harry Potter but narrowly missing out. Now an adult, Martin is about to embark on the ultimate adventure – fatherhood. As he navigates this whirlwind of emotions, he is pulled back to that pivotal moment in his past as he struggled to move beyond imagining what his life might have been.

THE YEARS

  • Theatre: Harold Pinter Theatre
  • Opening: January 24, 2025
  • Playwrights: Annie Ernaux (memoir), Eline Arbo (adaptation), Stephanie Bain (English adaptation)
  • Director: Eline Arbo
  • Cast: Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindra, and Harmony Rose-Bremner

Based on Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s fearless masterpiece, five actors create an unapologetic portrait of a woman shaped by her rapidly-changing world.

OEDIPUS

  • Theatre: Old Vic Theatre
  • First Preview: January 21, 2025
  • Opening: February 4, 2025
  • Playwright: Ella Hickson, adapted from Sophocles
  • Director: Matthew Warchus and Hofesh Schechter
  • Cast: Rami Malek, Indira Varna

It’s a cold case but, according to the Oracle, if the murderer of old King Laius is found and punished then all will be well. The people turn to their new King, Oedipus, the man who solved the riddle of the Sphinx, to hunt down the perpetrator and bring salvation. He vows to succeed whatever the cost and so begins an unstoppable pursuit of the truth through a harrowing labyrinth of fear and love.

SCISSORHANDZ: A MUSICAL REINVENTED

  • Theatre: 
  • First Preview: January 23, 2025
  • Opening: January 30, 2025
  • Playwright: Bradley Bredewg
  • Director: Bradley Bredewg
  • Cast: Jordan Kai Burnett, Emma Williams, Dionne Gipson, Lauren Jones, Annabelle Terry, Ryan O'Connor, Richard Carson, Candida Mosoma, Luke Cairns, Grace Towning

Leave your inhibitions at the door and get ready to find your new obsession as we celebrate Tim Burton's beloved hero/weirdo with a phenomenal selection of your favorite 90s and 00s hits - including hits from Taylor Swift, Alanis Morissette, Lady Gaga and many more.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

  • Theatre: Noël Coward Theatre
  • Opening: February 3, 2025
  • Playwright: Tennessee Williams
  • Director: Rebecca Frecknall
  • Cast: Paul Mescal, Anjana Vasan, Patsy Ferren, Dwane Walcott

A return engagement of Rebecca Frecknall's gritty, Olivier Award-winning revival of Tennessee Williams's blistering masterpiece.

ELEKTRA

  • Theatre: Duke of York's Theatre
  • First Preview: January 24, 2025
  • Opening: February 5, 2025
  • Playwright: Sophocles, translated by Anne Carson
  • Director: Daniel Fish
  • Cast: Brie Larson, Stockard Channing, Marième Diouf, Greg Hicks, Patrick Vaill

Elektra follows its titular character in the days following her father's assassination and the return of her long-lost brother, Orestes, both looking to avenge the murder.

CLUELESS THE MUSICAL

  • Theatre: Trafalgar Theatre
  • Opening: February 15, 2025
  • Book: Amy Heckerling
  • Music: KT Tunstall
  • Lyrics: Glenn Slater
  • Director: Rachel Kavanaugh
  • Cast: TBA

Cher Horowitz is the most popular student at Beverly Hills High, renowned for her unique talent at finding love for others. She’s about to embark on her biggest project yet – making over her awkward new friend, Tai, and setting her up with the most handsome boy in school. But what happens to Cher when, for the first time, everything is not perfect? This fresh musical comedy is fun, fashionable, and, like, so way cool.

RICHARD II

  • Theatre: Bridge Theatre
  • First Preview: February 10, 2025
  • Opening: February 18, 2025
  • Playwright: William Shakespeare
  • Director: Nicholas Hytner
  • Cast: Jonathan Bailey

Richard II is charismatic, eloquent and loved by his friends. And a disastrous King – dishonest, capricious and politically incompetent. Echoing down the centuries is the perennial problem: how to deal with a ruler who has a rock solid right to rule but is set on wrecking the country he leads. Shakespeare’s subtle, ambiguous and beautiful play finds feudal England on the cusp of modernity, as a divinely sanctioned monarch is confronted, in the figure of Henry Bolingbroke, by the hard-headed pragmatism of real authority.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

  • Theatre: Theatre Royal Drury Lane
  • First Preview: February 10, 2025
  • Opening: February 19, 2025
  • Playwright: William Shakespeare
  • Director: Jamie Lloyd
  • Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Hayley Atwell

Tom Hiddleston is Benedick and Hayley Atwell is Beatrice. Two of their generation’s finest actors collaborate with director Jamie Lloyd again in this savagely funny and beautifully tender battle of wits.

BACKSTROKE

  • Theatre: Donmar Warehouse
  • First Preview: February 14, 2025
  • Opening: February 20, 2025
  • Playwright: Anna Mackmin
  • Director: Anna Mackmin
  • Cast: Tamsin Greig, Celia Imrie

Bo is busy - balancing the pressures of work and the needs of her struggling daughter. When her mother, the irrepressible force-of-nature Beth, is admitted to hospital following a stroke, the practical realities of the present collide with the complexities of their past.

THE SCORE

  • Theatre: Theatre Royal Haymarket
  • Opening: February 20, 2025
  • Playwright: Oliver Cotton
  • Director: Trevor Nunn
  • Cast: Brian Cox, Nicole Ansari-Cox

Spring 1747, Potsdam, Prussia. Johann Sebastian Bach reluctantly visits the court of Frederick II, Europe’s most ambitious and dangerous leader. The two men could hardly be more different. Bach is deeply religious, Frederick is an atheist. Bach loathes war, Frederick revels in it. Bach studies scripture, Frederick reads military history. Frederick remains in awe of Bach’s genius however and has mischievously prepared a musical conundrum that he hopes will baffle the composer and amuse his court. The explosive events of the following days could not have been predicted by either man.

ALTERATIONS

  • Theatre: National Theatre (Lyttelton)
  • First Preview: February 20, 2025
  • Opening: February 27, 2025
  • Playwright: Michael Abbensetts
  • Director: Lynette Linton
  • Cast: Arinzé Kene, Cherrelle Skeete

Walker Holt has big dreams for his tailor’s shop, and an even bigger order to complete. Over the course of 24 hours he must work tirelessly to satisfy his new client’s impossible tailoring needs. But as the night goes on, it’s not just the trouser hems that start to fray as tensions rise and Walker’s friendships and relationships are pushed to their limits. His success comes at a cost, but what price is he willing to pay?

THE LAST LAUGH

  • Theatre: Noel Coward Theatre
  • Opening: February 25, 2025
  • Playwright: Paul Hendy
  • Director: Paul Hendy
  • Cast: Bob Golding, Simon Cartwright, Damian Williams

Direct from a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, this brand-new laugh-a-minute play re-imagines the lives of three of Britain's all-time greatest comedy heroes – Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse.

THE SEAGULL

  • Theatre: Barbican Theatre
  • First Preview: February 26, 2025
  • Opening: March 6, 2025
  • Playwright: Anton Chekhov, adapted by Duncan MacMillan and Thomas Ostermeier
  • Director: Thomas Ostermeier
  • Cast: Cate Blanchett, Tom Burke, Priyanga Burford, Emma Corrin, Zachary Hart, Paul Higgins, Tanya Reynolds, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jason Watkins

Arkadina is a celebrated actress whose larger-than-life presence dominates both the stage and her personal relationships. Arriving at her family's country estate for the weekend, she finds herself caught up in a storm of conflicting desires. Her playwright son, Konstantin, struggles to step out of her shadow as he pursues his own artistic ambitions and her lover Trigorin (Tom Burke), becomes the object of affection for the aspiring young actress Nina.

DEAR ENGLAND

  • Theatre: National Theatre (Olivier)
  • First Preview: March 10, 2025
  • Opening: March 18, 2025
  • Playwright: James Graham
  • Director: Rupert Goold
  • Cast: TBA

The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game? With the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt to take team and country back to the promised land.

MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO

  • Theatre: Gillian Lynne Theatre
  • First Preview: March 8, 2025
  • Opening: March 20, 2025
  • Playwright: Tom Morton-Smith
  • Director: Phelim McDermott
  • Cast: TBA

Exploring the magical fantasy world of childhood and the transformative power of imagination, My Neighbour Totoro follows one extraordinary summer in the lives of sisters Satsuki and Mei as they are swept up in exciting adventures with their new neighbours – transported to a long-forgotten realm of spirits, sprites, and natural wonder.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS

  • Theatre: Theatre Royal Bath
  • First Preview: March 22, 2025
  • Opening: March 27, 2025
  • Book: Jay Dyer
  • Music and Lyrics: Steven Lutvak
  • Director: John Doyle
  • Cast: Scarlett Strallen, Sally Ann Triplett, Nicola Hughes, Gary Milner, Liam Tamne, Joaquin Pedro Valdes, Alistair Brammer, Mark Meadows, Damian Humbley

For over a decade, Alfred Hitchcock Presents was must-see television in America, as the whole country joined to watch some of Hollywood’s biggest stars in episodes of mystery, mayhem and classic Hitchcockian wit, presented by the man himself. This world premiere musical weaves together spine-tingling episodes to take audiences on a whodunnit musical journey like no other. Featuring a jazz-infused score and a cast of characters who simply can’t help themselves from getting into the kind of delicious trouble that only Mr. Hitchcock could concoct, all will be reminded that we think we know a lot but…we do not.

STILETTO

  • Theatre: Charing Cross Theatre
  • First Preview: March 24, 2025
  • Opening: March 31, 2025
  • Book: Tim Luscombe
  • Music and Lyrics: Matthew Wilder
  • Director: David Gilmore
  • Cast: TBA

In Italy during the 18th century, an average of 5,000 boys were castrated annually. Almost exclusively, they came from poor families. Their treble voices intact, castration promised those who survived a chance to earn fame and fortune by singing female roles in the opera. A few made it, but most didn’t and were swept aside.

MIDNIGHT COWBOY

  • Theatre: Southwark Playhouse
  • Opening: April 4, 2025
  • Book: Bryony Lavery
  • Music and Lyrics: Frances "Eg" White
  • Director: Nick Winston
  • Cast: TBA

Joe Buck is a young man desperate to escape his dead-end past. Leaving everything behind, to seek wealth and glory in the big city, he meets a man just as lost as he is - Rico 'Ratso' Rizzo. The pair join forces, prepared to do whatever it takes to achieve their dreams, even if it means surrendering a part of themselves. But New York ain’t no dream - it’s a jungle and survival requires sacrifice…

SHANGHAI DOLLS

  • Theatre: Kiln Theatre
  • First Preview: April 3, 2025
  • Opening: April 10, 2025
  • Playwright: Amy Ng
  • Director: Katie Posner
  • Cast: TBA

When two penniless actresses meet in Shanghai at auditions for Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, they quickly become inseparable. But as political upheaval rips through China, their tumultuous friendship will alter not only the course of their lives, but the course of history. One will become China’s first female director. The other, the architect of the Cultural Revolution.

MURIEL'S WEDDING

  • Theatre: Curve Theatre, Leicester
  • Opening: April 10, 2025
  • Book: PJ Hogan
  • Music and Lyrics: Kate Miller-Heidke, Keir Nuttall, ABBA
  • Director: Simon Phillips
  • Cast: Megan Ellis, Annabel Marlow

Undateable. Unemployable. Unstoppable. Stuck in a dead-end life in Porpoise Spit, Muriel dreams of the perfect wedding – the white dress, the church, the attention. Unfortunately, there’s one thing missing: a groom. Following her dreams to Sydney, Muriel ends up with everything she ever wanted – a man, a fortune and a million social media followers. That’s when things start to go really wrong.

KRAPP'S LAST TAPE

  • Theatre: York Theatre Royal
  • Opening: April 14, 2025
  • Playwright: Samuel Beckett
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: Gary Oldman

Every year on his birthday, Krapp has tape-recorded an assessment of his life so far. Now, having just turned 69, he listens with mixed emotions to the tape he made 30 years earlier. Anger and regret entwine in ironic counterpoint with a memory of epiphany, just as the voice of Krapp’s long-ago self counterpoints the new recording he now begins to make.

THE BRIGHTENING AIR

  • Theatre: Old Vic Theatre
  • First Preview: April 10, 2025
  • Opening: April 24, 2025
  • Playwright: Conor McPherson
  • Director: Conor McPherson
  • Cast: TBA

The family home is more than merely a building. It can be a destination of pilgrimage, an inherited investment, a repository of memory or even magic. And, for brother and sister Stephen and Billie, home is all they have. Mucking along in their decaying farmhouse, they’re doing just fine. That is, until the arrival of an ex-clergyman uncle with an unscrupulous plan, a sister-in-law seeking a miracle, and a prodigal brother hell-bent on trouble.

THE GREAT GATSBY

  • Theatre: London Coliseum
  • First Preview: April 11, 2025
  • Opening: April 24, 2025
  • Book: Kait Kerrigan
  • Music and Lyrics: Jason Howland, Nathan Tysen
  • Director: Marc Bruni
  • Cast: TBA

Meet mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby. He entertains the rich and famous with riotous parties at his Long Island mansion yet never joins in. Gatsby longs instead to reunite with his former flame Daisy Buchanan, but Daisy comes from another lifetime, long before the money…

MY MASTER BUILDER

  • Theatre: Wyndham's Theatre
  • First Preview: April 17, 2025
  • Opening: April 29, 2025
  • Playwright: Lila Raicek
  • Director: Michael Grandage
  • Cast: Ewan McGregor

On the eve of July 4th in the Hamptons, Elena Solness, a publishing magnate, is preparing to throw a party to celebrate her architect husband, Henry Solness, as he unveils his latest masterpiece. Their already vulnerable union is shattered by the unexpected arrival of Mathilde, a former student of Henry’s, with whom he previously shared an intimate connection. As the evening unfolds, each find themselves face to face with a reckoning that indelibly tilts the axis of their lives.

GIANT

  • Theatre: Harold Pinter Theatre
  • First Preview: April 26, 2025
  • Opening: May 1, 2025
  • Playwright: Mark Rosenblatt
  • Director: Nicholas Hytner
  • Cast: John Lithgow, Elliot Levey

It’s the summer of 1983, The Witches is about to hit the shelves and Roald Dahl is making last-minute edits. But the outcry at his recent, explicitly antisemitic article won’t die down. Across a single afternoon at his family home, and rocked by an unexpectedly explosive confrontation, Dahl is forced to choose: make a public apology or risk his name and reputation.

HERE WE ARE

  • Theatre: National Theatre (Lyttelton)
  • First Preview: April 23, 2025
  • Opening: May 3, 2025
  • Book: David Ives
  • Music and Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
  • Director: Joe Mantello
  • Cast: Tracie Bennett, Rory Kinnear, Denis O'Hare

It’s a perfect day for brunch. Leo and Marianne Brink have found the ideal spot to take their friends. With great reviews, impeccable service and an extensive menu it seems like nothing could go wrong. But after a series of strange events interrupt their meal, they soon realize they’ve bitten off more than they can chew.

THE COMEDY ABOUT SPIES

  • Theatre: Noël Coward Theatre
  • First Preview: April 14, 2025
  • Opening: May 6, 2025
  • Playwrights: Henry Lewis and Henry Shields
  • Director: Matt Di Carlo
  • Cast: TBA

A rogue British agent steals plans for a top-secret new weapon. Spies from the CIA and the KGB assemble at London’s Piccadilly Hotel to track down the British mole and obtain the file. When a young British couple and an older actor auditioning for the title role in the first James Bond film check into the hotel, the stakes reach boiling point in this riotous world of Cold War farce.

THE DEEP BLUE SEA

  • Theatre: Theatre Royal Haymarket
  • Opening: May 7, 2025
  • Playwright: Terence Rattigan
  • Director: Lindsay Posner
  • Cast: Tamsin Greig, Finbar Lynch

When you’re stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea can sometimes look very inviting. In this powerful drama of passion versus loyalty, Hester Collyer, the daughter of a clergyman and wife of a judge is floundering in the closing stages of a hopeless affair. Freddie Page, her lover, a handsome but shallow ex-Battle of Britain pilot, is out of his depth in their relationship, overwhelmed by the strength of an emotion he is incapable of reciprocating…

JUST FOR ONE DAY

  • Theatre: Shaftesbury Theatre
  • Opening: May 15, 2025
  • Book: John O'Farrell
  • Music and Lyrics: Various
  • Director: Luke Sheppard
  • Cast: Craige Els

Political unrest, social revolution, boom and bust. In a decade of neon and noise, one moment made the world stand still and brought 1.5 billion people together – and they all have a story to tell about ‘the day rock ‘n’ roll changed the world’.

THE FROGS

  • Theatre: Southwark Playhouse
  • First Preview: May 23, 2025
  • Opening: May 27, 2025
  • Book: Burt Shevelove, Nathan Lane (adaptation)
  • Music and Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
  • Director: Georgie Rankcom
  • Cast: Kevin McHale

Shaken by a divided and despairing political climate (sound familiar?), Dionysos and trusty sidekick Xanthias take a leap of faith—straight into Hades. Their mission? Find a cure for an ailing world.

KING OF PANGEA

  • Theatre: King's Head Theatre
  • First Preview: June 7, 2025
  • Opening: June 11, 2025
  • Book, Music, and Lyrics: Martin Storrow
  • Director: Richard Israel
  • Cast: TBA

Welcome to the island of Pangea—where the sun never sets, the house band keeps the beat, and the loved ones you’ve lost could be right around the corner. When Christopher Crow faces the loss of his relentlessly hopeful mother, he escapes to the only place that makes sense - the imaginary island of his childhood. With help from a wise-cracking prophet, a swaggering ship captain, and a star-gazing poetess, Christopher sets off on a journey to claim his sovereignty… if he can only put the pieces back together in time.

LONDON ROAD

  • Theatre: National Theatre (Olivier)
  • First Preview: June 5, 2025
  • Opening: June 12, 2025
  • Book: Alecky Blythe
  • Music: Adam Cork
  • Lyrics: Adam Cork and Alecky Blythe
  • Director: Rufus Norris
  • Cast: TBA

Autumn, 2006. The everyday life of the Suffolk town of Ipswich is shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The occupant of No. 79 London Road is arrested, charged and finally convicted of the murders. Caught in the headlines and the invasion of their quiet road, the community grapples with what it means to be at the epicentre of the tragedy.

INTIMATE APPAREL

  • Theatre: Donmar Warehouse
  • First Preview: June 20, 2025
  • Opening: June 26, 2025
  • Playwright: Lynn Nottage
  • Director: Lynette Linton
  • Cast: Samira Wiley

New York, 1905. Esther sews exquisite lingerie for women from all walks of life. Successful and fiercely independent, she dreams of opening her own beauty salon, but can’t shake the longing to fall in love. When she begins to receive beautiful letters from a lonesome stranger, it looks like it could just be her ticket to happiness.

NYE

  • Theatre: National Theatre (Olivier)
  • First Preview: July 3, 2025
  • Opening: July 10, 2025
  • Playwright: Tim Price
  • Director: Rufus Norris
  • Cast: Michael Sheen

From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred to as the politician with greatest influence on our country without ever being Prime Minister. Confronted with death, Nye’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill in an epic Welsh fantasia.

SING STREET

  • Theatre: Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
  • First Preview: July 8, 2025
  • Opening: TBA
  • Playwright: Edna Walsh
  • Music and Lyrics: Gary Clark and John Carney
  • Director: Rebecca Taichman
  • Cast: TBA

It’s Dublin, 1982, and sixteen year old Conor can’t catch a break. His parents are fighting, his brother won’t leave the house and he’s not fitting in at his new Catholic school. Enter Raphina, a mysterious girl who’s too cool for school and on the lookout for a modelling job. In an effort to impress, Conor hires her to star in a music video for his band. Only problem is he doesn’t have a band. Yet.

THE SHOW ON THE ROOF

  • Theatre: King's Head Theatre
  • First Preview: July 11, 2025
  • Opening: July 15, 2025
  • Book: Tom Ford
  • Music and Lyrics: Alex Syiek
  • Director: TBA
  • Cast: TBA

Welcome to the Howdy Pardner Drive-In, Boise, Idaho, USA — it's 1955, and each night, Al Travelstead puts on a floor show… on the roof! But tonight will be a little different. Tonight Al tells the story he doesn’t want to tell. The story of what happened back in 1955 when moral panic swept through the community. When fear and suspicion over hidden lives sent this town into a tailspin. Will Al’s Show on the Roof reveal the truth behind the tunes? The secrets beneath the sequins? Well you’ll just have to find out for yourself…

101 DALMATIANS

  • Theatre: The Other Palace
  • First Preview: July 18, 2025
  • Opening: TBA
  • Book: Johnny McKnight
  • Music and Lyrics: Douglas Hodge
  • Director: Bill Buckhurst
  • Cast: TBA

When fashionista Cruella de Vil plots to swipe all the Dalmatian puppies in town to create her fabulous new fur coat, there’s trouble ahead for Pongo and Perdi and their litter of adorable, tail-wagging young pups.

 
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