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.
- Theatre: Bush Theatre
- First Preview: September 6, 2024
- Opening: September 12, 2024
- Playwright: Waleed Akhtar
- Director: Anthony Simpson-Pike
- Cast: Nnabiko Ejimofor, Anthony Howell, Mariam Haque, Nathaniel Curtis
Best friends Zaid and Neelam shared a dream: get away, make it as playwrights, build a future where they’re free to be themselves. Together, always. Years later, things are far from what they expected. Zaid’s life has kinda stalled – half out the closet, living at home and still chasing the dream. While Neelam’s has taken a completely different path, as she chooses to prioritise her own happiness. As their lives pull further apart and a mess of things left unsaid hangs between them, it becomes less and less clear if they’ll ever find a way back to each other.
- Theatre: Stage Door Theatre
- First Preview: September 10, 2024
- Opening: September 13, 2024
- Music and Lyrics: Neil Bartram
- Book: Brian Hill
- Director: Robert McWhire
- Cast: Tim Edwards, Markus Sodergren
- Theatre: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Opening: September 13, 2024
- Playwright: Samuel Beckett
- Director: James Macdonald
- Cast: Lucian Msamati, Ben Winshaw, Tom Edden, Jonathan Slinger, Luca Fone, Alexander Joseph, Ellis Pang, Dean Graham, David Lee-Jones
Vladimir and Estragon wait on a deserted country road to meet a person named Godot. Killing time with hat tricks and half-remembered stories, they dawdle through one of the greatest dramas of the 20th century. In Beckett’s absurd, anarchic world, life is vaudeville and tragedy, philosophy and confusion, all seamlessly woven together with the playwright’s masterful blend of poetry and humor.
CAKE: THE MARIE ANTOINETTE PLAYLIST
- Theatre: The Other Palace
- Opening: September 13, 2024
- Book: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Tasha Taylor Johnson
- Music and Lyrics: Tasha Taylor Johnson, Jack McManus
- Director: Bronagh Laga
- Cast: Zizi Stralen, Renée Lamb, Millie O'Connell, Travis Ross, Lila Eccles, Tarik Frimpong, Sunny Lee, Zara MacIntosh, Emma Robotham-Hunt, Manu Sarswat
Combining a multi-genre pop score with 18th century France, Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist, retells a story that sparked a revolution.
Marie Antoinette’s reign was blighted by gossip and scandal. But when she is implicated in a crime to defraud the crown jewellers of a diamond necklace, it is not just her reputation at stake, but the monarchy and France itself.
- Theatre: Young Vic Theatre
- First Preview: September 10, 2024
- Opening: September 17, 2024
- Book: Sarah Ruhl
- Music and Lyrics: Elvis Costello
- Director: Kwame Kwei-Armah
- Cast: Ramin Karimloo, Anoushka Lucas, Stavros Demetraki, Olly Dobson, Emily Florence, Howard Gossington, Andrew Coshan, Sadie-Jean Shirley, Chris Jenkins, Durone Stokes, Vicki Lee Taylor, Annie Wensak, Jasmin Colangelo, Bobby Windebank
When local radio producer Marcia Jeffries interviews drunk drifter “Lonesome Rhodes” in his jail cell, she immediately sees his potential and gives him a slot on her show. But as Lonesome's fans grow more clamorous and the politicians start taking notice, Marcia realizes she has unleashed a force she can no longer control.
- Theatre: The Watermill Theatre
- Opening: September 20, 2024
- Playwright: David Seidler
- Director: Emma Butler
- Cast: Peter Sandys-Clarke, Arthur Hughes, Aamira Challenger, Rosa Hesmondhalgh, Christopher Naylor, Stephen Rahman Hughes, Jim Kitson
This new production of David Seidler’s play The King’s Speech takes an intimate view of one of life’s most unorthodox relationships between Bertie, the soon-to-be-crowned King George VI, and speech therapist Lionel Logue. As Hitler’s threat on Europe encroaches, Bertie fights his own battle to overcome his speech impediment at the time his country needs him most.
- Theatre: Rose Theatre
- Opening: September 20, 2024
- Playwright: Suzanne Heathcote
- Director: Christopher Haydon
- Cast: Amelie Abbott, Susan Aderin, Matilda Bailes, Nell Barlow, Maximus Evans, Angus Imrie, Princess Khumalo, Emilie Patry, Tristan Waterson
What if you discovered your whole reason for being was not about your life but about making someone else’s possible? Your dreams, your desires, your love for another, all of them irrelevant in a world that values only what you give, without question or condition, to someone you’ve never met and will never know. Memory and reality collide in this stunning new staging that challenges us to think about what it means to be human. What it means to have hope and heart — to love and to lose.
- Theatre: National Theatre (Olivier)
- First Preview: September 11, 2024
- Opening: September 24, 2024
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Director: Lyndsey Turner
- Cast: David Oyelowo, Luke Aquilina, Anushka Chakravarti, Anton Cross, Patrick Elue, Peter Forbes, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Conor McLeod, Jordan Metcalfe, Richard Pryal, Jordan Rhys, Stephanie Street, John Vernon
Unrivalled in the art of war, undefeated on the field of battle, Coriolanus is Rome’s greatest soldier. When a legendary victory brings the opportunity of high office, he is persuaded to stand for election. But while populist politicians tell the people what they want to hear, Coriolanus refuses to play the game. As Rome’s most celebrated warrior becomes its most dangerous enemy, the future of the city and its hero hang in the balance.
- Theatre: King's Head Theatre
- First Preview: September 18, 2024
- Opening: September 24, 2024
- Playwright: Jonathan Tolins
- Director: Kirk Jameson
- Cast: Rob Madge
Meet Alex, an out-of-work actor who finds himself working beneath Barbra Streisand’s Malibu home in her legendary basement shopping mall. A big hit in New York and London, Buyer & Cellar is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs.
- Theatre: Gillian Lynne Theatre
- Opening: September 24, 2024
- Playwright: Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power
- Director: Sam Mendes
- Cast: John Heffernan, Aaron Krohn, Howard W. Overshown, Cat Beveridge, Anyssa Neumann
On a cold September morning in 1844, a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers, and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish - Lehman Brothers - spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, triggering the largest financial crisis in history.
- Theatre: Kiln Theatre
- First Preview: September 19, 2024
- Opening: September 25 2024
- Playwright: Rob Drummond
- Director: Amit Sharma
- Cast: Richard Cant, Gavi Singh Chera, Brian Vernel, Sharlene Whyte
Rob is putting science and scepticism to the test in his new play. For research, he speaks to Mary, a mother trying to make the best decisions for her family, Toby, an angry son who distrusts institutions, and Edward Jenner, the father of modern vaccinations. The more he listens, the more he struggles to keep his own subjectivity off the table, which begs the question – how do you know who to trust?
- Theatre: Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
- First Preview: September 20, 2024
- Opening: September 26, 2024
- Playwright: Michael Rosenblatt
- Director: Nicholas Hytner
- Cast: John Lithgow, Elliot Levey, Rachael Stirling, Tessa Bonham Jones, Romola Garai, Richard Hope
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.
- Theatre: Menier Chocolate Factory
- First Preview: September 21, 2024
- Opening: September 27, 2024
- Playwright: Arthur Wing Pinero, adapted by Nancy Carroll
- Director: Paul Foster
- Cast: George Blagden, Nancy Carroll, Joe Edgar, Phoebe Fildes, Rosalind Ford, Dom Hodson, Dillie Keane, Nicholas Rowe, Laurence Ubong Williams, Romaya Weaver, Matthew Woodyatt
Nancy Carrol's brand-new adaptation of Arthur Wing Pinero's classic farce centering on Sir Julian Twombley, who struggles to shore up his political reputation as his wife and son run up massive debts and reporters lurk around every corner.
- Theatre: Charing Cross Theatre
- Opening: September 27, 2024
- Playwright: Takuya Kato, translated by Andrew Eglinton and Mika Eglinton.
- Director: Takuya Kato
- Cast: Susan Momoko Hingley, Mark Takeshi Ota, Jay Faisca
Takashi and Narumi are a married couple, working for a major contractor on a project to migrate humans to the Moon where a city is being established where humanity’s ideal new life can begin. But they suddenly encounter an unexpected setback to their plans…
- Theatre: Harold Pinter Theatre
- Opening: October 1, 2024
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Director: Max Webster
- Cast: David Tennant, Cush Jumbo, Moyo Akandé, Annie Grace, Brian James O’Sullivan, Casper Knopf, Cal MacAninch, Kathleen MacInnes, Alasdair Macrae, Rona Morison, Noof Ousellam, Raffi Phillips, Jatinder Singh Randhawa, Ros Watt, Benny Young
When three witches deliver some surprising prophecies, Macbeth hatches a plan to murder the king and claim the throne for himself. Provoked by his wife and preoccupied with greed, Macbeth begins his tragic descent into madness.
- Theatre: National Theatre (Dorfman)
- First Preview: September 25, 2024
- Opening: October 2, 2024
- Playwright: Tanika Gupta
- Director: Pooja Ghai
- Cast: Raj Bajaj, Natalie Dew, Marc Elliott, Stephen Fewell, Shobna Gulati, Avita Jay, Meera Syal, Zubin Varla
An ambitious Michelin-Star chef, Queenie is used to having the last word. But when her children notice gaps in her memory and her grip on reality loosening, they are faced with an impossible choice. As Raj, Gopal and Kamala battle to reconcile their life-long duty to their mother, the ramifications of their decision take on a heartbreaking permanence.
- Theatre: Gielgud Theatre
- First Preview: September 21, 2024
- Opening: October 3, 2024
- Playwright: Sean O'Casey
- Director: Matthew Warchus
- Cast: Mark Rylance, J. Smith-Cameron, Paul Hilton, Aisling Kearnes, Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty, Ingrid Craigie, Anna Healy, Chris Walley, Seán Duggan, Leo Hanna, Jessica Cervi, Caolan McCarthy, Bryan Moriarty, John Rice, Jacinta Whyte
Jack Boyle is out of work and determined to stay that way. He postures and drinks with his sidekick Joxer while his long-suffering wife Juno struggles to support their family and maintain their dilapidated tenement flat. Their son Johnny, crippled fighting in the revolution, cowers indoors to avoid the bitter new civil war, while his sister Mary considers her options for the future. When a handsome visitor arrives with news of an inheritance, the family begins to plan their new life, but their apparent salvation soon reveals itself to be the cause of their ruin.
- Theatre: Wyndham's Theatre
- Opening: October 4, 2024
- Playwright: Robert Icke, adapted from Sophocles
- Director: Robert Icke
- Cast: Mark Strong, Lesley Manville, Samuel Brewer, Michael Gould, Sara Hazemi, Gary McDonald, Bhasker Patel, Phia Saban, Jordan Scowen, June Watson, James Wilbraham, Jim Creighton, Derek Elroy, Celia Nelson, Jake Rory
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK
- Theatre: Marylebone Theatre
- Opening: October 4, 2024
- Playwright: Nathan Englander
- Director: Patrick Marber
- Cast: Joshua Malina, Caroline Catz, Dorothea Myer-Bennett, Simon Yadoo, Gabriel Howell
Adapted from Nathan Englander's Pulitzer finalist short story of the same name, the play follows two high school friends who, after years apart, reunite at a dinner party with their respective husbands that goes off the rails.
- Theatre: Trafalgar Theatre
- Opening: October 5, 2024
- Playwright: John Webster, adapted by Zinnie Harris
- Director: Zinnie Harris
- Cast: Jodie Whittaker
Recently widowed and in search for a new lease of life, the Duchess defies her family’s wishes by remarrying beneath her class. However, when her brothers, driven by insurmountable greed and rage, discover her second marriage they unleash a series of cruel and devastating punishments against her that repress her power. But will their vicious atrocities come back to haunt them?
- Theatre: National Theatre (Lyttelton)
- First Preview: September 27, 2024
- Opening: October 8, 2024
- Playwright: Alexander Zeldin
- Director: Alexander Zeldin
- Cast: Lee Braithwaite, Emma D'Arcy, Jeremy Killick, Tobias Menzies, Nina Sosanya
Two sisters reunite on the anniversary of the death of their father. Their uncle has remodelled their family home, in an attempt at a fresh start. But one sister’s sudden reappearance threatens to shatter this fragile idyll as she demands justice for the pain she carries. Amid the debris and the new extension, guilt, grief and greed battle it out in the family’s competing dreams of their future. When we are faced with the suffering of others, even those closest to us, can we look away?
- Theatre: Noel Coward Theatre
- Opening: October 8, 2024
- Playwright: Armando Ianucci, Sean Foley
- Director: Sean Foley
- Cast: Steve Coogan
- Theatre: Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
- First Preview: October 3, 2024
- Opening: October 9, 2024
- Playwright: Oli Forsyth
- Director: Daniel Raggett
- Cast: Phil Dunster, Craige Els, Anjana Vasan
A man hijacks a plane. The plane begins to fall. Fight or flight. Back on the ground, survivors Ray and Sylvia struggle to reconcile their responses to this life-changing event. As cracks appear in their relationship, one closes themselves off, the other can’t focus on anything else.
- Theatre: Donmar Warehouse
- First Preview: October 4, 2024
- Opening: October 10, 2024
- Playwright: Lindsey Ferrentino
- Director: Justin Martin
- Cast: Adrien Brody, Nana Mensah, Michael Fox, Aidan Kelly, Posi Morakinyo, Cyril Nri, Ferdy Roberts, Tommy Sim'aan
Nick’s got a story to tell you. About how a routine traffic stop turned into a conviction for murder. About how he spent the next 22 years on Death Row. About how he finally petitioned the court to ask not for an appeal, but for his execution date. And about what happened next…
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
- Theatre: Ambassadors Theatre
- First Preview: October 10, 2024
- Opening: TBA
- Book: Jethro Compton
- Music: Darren Clark
- Lyrics: Jethro Compton, Darren Clark
- Director: Jethro Compton
- Cast: Matthew Burns, Jonathan Charles, Oonagh Cox, John Dagleish, Katy Ellis, Anna Fordham, Clare Foster, Philippa Hogg, Damien James, Elliot Mackenzie, Ann Marcuson, Jack Quarton, Benedict Salter
Under the light of a full moon, something most curious occurs… Benjamin Button is born old. Bound to the fate of growing younger each day, Benjamin wants nothing more than to live a little life. But will he ever find a place to belong? Only time and tide will tell…
- Theatre: Bush Theatre
- First Preview: October 9, 2024
- Opening: October 14, 2024
- Playwright: Azan Ahmed
- Director: Esme Allman
- Cast: Azan Ahmed
Days after his father’s passing, English teacher Yusuf discovers a dusty mixtape that changes everything he knew about a man who barely spoke. Turns out, Mustafa spent the 90s rapping about pretty girls and Kilburn life, plotting dreams of superstardom with his best friend Omar. How did this passionate wordsmith become a silent statue? Yusuf’s mourning is overtaken by a journey into the past. Threaded together by Omar’s thumping beats and his father’s bars, Yusuf uncovers secrets that turn his world upside-down.
THE FORSYTE SAGA - PARTS 1 AND 2
- Theatre: Park Theatre
- First Preview: October 11, 2024
- Opening: October 18, 2024
- Playwright: John Galsworthy
- Director: John Roche
- Cast: Fiona Hampton, Joseph Millson, Flora Spencer-Longhurst
London, 1886. Wealthy solicitor Soames Forsyte is a man of property, and his beautiful wife Irene is his most prized possession. When he commissions an architect to build him a house in which to keep her, the cracks in their marriage finally begin to show, until something happens so shocking that it tears the Forsyte family apart. Years later, Soames’ daughter Fleur is haunted by the family secret when history begins to repeat itself…
- Theatre: Hope Mill Theatre
- First Preview: October 17, 2024
- Opening: October 20, 2024
- Book: Tim Maner
- Lyrics: Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner
- Music: Alan Stevens Hewitt, Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer
- Director: William Whelton
- Cast: Kayleigh McKnight
Lizzie The Musical explores the life of Lizzie Borden, who was accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe in the late summer of 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts. The musical delves into her complex psyche and speculates on the motivations she may have had: loss of inheritance, history of sexual abuse, oppression, and madness.
- Theatre: Duke of York's Theatre
- Opening: October 21, 2024
- Playwright: Bess Wohl
- Director: Lynette Linton
- Cast: Lily Collins, Álvaro Morte
Late night in Barcelona. An American tourist goes home with a handsome Spaniard. What begins as a carefree, one-night stand becomes an invitation to danger, as the personal and political catastrophically intertwine.
- Theatre: Barbican Theatre
- Opening: October 22, 2024
- Playwright: Emma Rice and Hanif Kureishi
- Director: Emma Rice
- Cast: Dee Ahluwalia, Ankur Bahl, Tommy Belshaw, Rina Ratania, Natasha Jayetileke, Naveed Khan, Deven Modha, Katy Owen, Simon Rivers, Lucy Thackeray, Ewan Wardrop
South London in the late seventies. High unemployment, high inflation, food shortages and strikes. But despite the winter of discontent, 17-year-old Karim’s life is about to explode into glorious technicolour as he navigates a path to enlightenment. Or at the very least, Beckenham.
- Theatre: Southwark Plahouse
- First Preview: October 18, 2024
- Opening: October 23, 2024
- Book: Eric Holmes
- Music: Nat Zegree
- Lyrics: Eric Holmes, Nat Zegree
- Director: Christian Durham
- Cast: Keala Settle
Following her Mother’s terminal cancer diagnosis Malia’s life is thrown into turmoil. Yet as she navigates the next stage of her own life, Malia finds solace and strength in her writing and in her stories, Malia creates an imaginative world where a brave bird named Willow mirrors her own journey of resilience and growth. Through the support of her friends, the guidance of her family, and her own inner resolve (along with a banging soundtrack), Malia learns to face her fears and embrace hope, discovering that even in the darkest times, we can find the courage to soar.
- Theatre: Dominion Theatre
- Opening: October 24, 2024
- Book: Kate Wetherhead
- Music: Elton John
- Lyrics: Shaina Taub
- Director: Jerry Mitchell
- Cast: Vanessa Williams, Georgie Buckland, Amy Di Bartolomeo, Matt Henry
Runway magazine. The supreme authority of the high-fashion world, and the new home of assistant Andy Sachs. It’s a position a million people would kill for, but under the sharp stilettos of Runway’s legendary editor-in-chief, Miranda Priestly, the job is no dream. Up against Miranda’s blistering leadership and stratospheric expectations, Andy is pushed to the edge, forced to choose between her career and her own happiness. Based on the hit film and featuring an all-star creative team, The Devil Wears Prada, The Musical is a glamorous and hilarious story about finding your place and discovering what matters most.
- Theatre: King's Head Theatre
- First Preview: October 23, 2024
- Opening: October 25, 2024
- Playwright: Jonathan Maitland
- Director: Oliver Dawe
- Cast: TBA
A chance meeting leads a writer to investigate his mother’s secret past and trawl through memories of her colourful life. It’s perfect subject matter for a play. But should he be exposing her private life for public entertainment? And why is he starring in the play as himself?
- 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?
- Theatre: Wilton's Music Hall
- Opening: October 29, 2024
- Libretto: W.S. Gilbert
- Music: Arthur Sullivan
- Director: Sasha Regan
- Cast: TBA
Frederic, mistakenly apprenticed to a band of pirates when a child, is now out of his indentures and, once free, vows to devote himself to the pirates' extermination. However, when a secret of his birth is revealed, Frederic finds his sense of duty put to the test.
- Theatre: Bush Theatre
- First Preview: November 9, 2024
- Opening: November 14, 2024
- Playwright: Beru Tessema
- Director: Daniel Bailey
- Cast: TBA
Manny dreams of being a big dog – but right now he’s hocking fake designer goods, living with his mum and dealing with her new boyfriend. The glittery skyscrapers of Canary Wharf he sees out the window every day have never seemed so far away. But when his best friend offers him a way to make money faster than he could ever imagine, he pulls his whole family into a world that’s almost too good to be true.
- Theatre: Old Vic Theatre
- First Preview: November 9, 2024
- Opening: November 20, 2024
- Playwright: Jack Thorne, adapted from Charles Dickens
- Director: Matthew Warchus
- Cast: TBA
Transporting audiences to a bitterly chilly Christmas Eve night, a hard-hearted miser is visited by four ghosts, who take him on a journey to worlds past, present and future. But will Scrooge save himself from the results of a lifetime of fear and selfishness, now that he can see the ramifications of his lonely existence?
- Theatre: Kiln Theatre
- First Preview: November 14, 2024
- Opening: November 22, 2024
- Playwright: Dan McCabe
- Director: Amit Sharma
- Cast: TBA
On their stoop in Queens, New York, Lamont, a legendary emcee and Mr Bugz, a hall-of-fame DJ, have been winding up Gerry, a musical lover, for as long as they can remember. But when two young women, Nancy and Val, put their rap battling skills to the test, they are forced to confront their convictions on race, sexuality and music. Struggling with secrets and their fears for the future, they realise they have more in common than they thought.
- Theatre: The Other Palace
- Opening: November 23, 2024
- Book: Joe Tracz
- Music and Lyrics: Rob Rokicki
- Director: Lizzi Gee
- Cast: TBA
Adapted from the book Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Percy Jackson, the 12-year-old son of Poseidon, struggles with dyslexia and ADHD as he's pulled into an unfamiliar, mythological world full of treacherous encounters and challenges thrust upon him by the Greek Gods.
- Theatre: Bush Theatre
- First Preview: November 19, 2024
- Opening: November 25, 2024
- Playwright: Eleanor Tindall
- Director: Emily Aboud
- Cast: TBA
Ivy has life sorted; she’s got a flat, a boyfriend and she knows exactly where it’s all headed. Except there is this thing that she tries not to think about. The thing she left in her childhood bedroom. Ash is having the time of her life. Fresh from leaving a bad relationship, she’s got no idea what’s next. But there’s something about her new flat. The wallpaper pulses and sometimes it sounds like a heartbeat. Two women. A chance meeting. Giddy kisses they never should have shared. Tender is the story of two people who find each other without even knowing they were looking.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
- Theatre: National Theatre (Lyttelton)
- First Preview: November 20, 2024
- Opening: November 28, 2024
- Playwright: Oscar Wilde
- Director: Max Webster
- Cast: Sharon D Clarke, Ncuti Gatwa, Hugh Skinner, Richard Cant, Amanda Lawrence, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen
Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so. While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy takes on a similar facade. Unfortunately, living a double life has its drawbacks, especially when it comes to love. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.
- Theatre: Barbican Theatre
- Opening: December 3, 2024
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Director: Eleanor Rhode
- Cast: Matthew Baynton
With Mathew Baynton (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) as Bottom, this hilarious production of Shakespeare’s captivating comedy will transport you from deepest midwinter to the most magical of midsummer nights. As four young lovers are faced with the prospect of unhappy marriage or worse, they flee the court of Athens and stumble into an enchanted forest, where the real and fairy worlds collide.
- Theatre: National Theatre (Olivier)
- First Preview: November 23, 2024
- Opening: December 5, 2024
- Playwright: Noel Streatfeild, Kendall Feaver
- Director: Katy Rudd
- Cast: Melanie-Joyce Bermudez, 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
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?
- 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, Charis Alexandra, Michael Franks, Matt Gillett, Leah Harris, Hana Ichijo, Esme Kennedy, Josh Kiernan, Alex Lodge, Kelsie-Rae Marshall, Chloe Saunders
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.
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: TBA
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.
- Theatre: Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- First Preview: December 7, 2024
- Opening: December 17, 2024
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Director: Jamie Lloyd
- Cast: Sigourney Weaver
The legendary Sigourney Weaver makes her West End debut as Prospero in this enchanting story of revenge and forgiveness.
- 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 …
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: TBA
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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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: TBA
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Theatre: Donmar Warehouse
- First Preview: June 20, 2025
- Opening: June 26, 2025
- Playwright: Lynne 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.
