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: 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, Mara Huf, Forbes Masson, Phillip Olagoke, Mason Alexander Park, James Phoon, Tim Steed, Mika Onyx Johnson, Gerald Kyd
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, Lucy Briers, Anita Reynolds, Georgina Rich
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: 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.
- Theatre: National Theatre (Lyttelton)
- First Preview: February 20, 2025
- Opening: February 27, 2025
- Playwright: Michael Abbensetts
- Director: Lynette Linton
- Cast: Karl Collins, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Raphel Famotibe, Arinzé Kene, Colin Mace, 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?
- Theatre: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- First Preview: February 20, 2025
- Opening: February 27, 2025
- Playwright: Oliver Cotton
- Director: Trevor Nunn
- Cast: Brian Cox, Nicole Ansari-Cox, Peter De Jersey, Juliet Garricks, Stephen Hagan, Jamie Wilkes, Christopher Staines, Toby Webster, Matthew Romain, James Gladdon
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.
- 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.
- Theatre: Menier Chocolate Factory
- First Preview: March 8, 2025
- Opening: March 17, 2025
- Playwrights: Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen
- Director: Gordon Greenberg
- Cast: James Daly, Safeena Ladha, Dianne Pilkington, Charlie Stemp
Bram Stoker’s horror classic gets a comic makeover in this lightning-fast gender-bending reimagining that features a Gen Z pansexual Count Dracula in the midst of an existential crisis.
- Theatre: National Theatre (Olivier)
- First Preview: March 10, 2025
- Opening: March 18, 2025
- Playwright: James Graham
- Director: Rupert Goold
- Cast: Gwilym Lee, Liz White
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: Victoria Chen, Ai Ninomiya, Ami Okumura Jones, Dai Tabuchi, Jacqueline Tate
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: 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.
- 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: Greg Barnett, Sam Barrett, Jack Chambers, Kelly Hampson, Douglas Hansell, Jewelle Hutchinson, Connor Wood
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: Southwark Playhouse
- Opening: April 4, 2025
- Book: Bryony Lavery
- Music and Lyrics: Frances "Eg" White
- Director: Nick Winston
- Cast: Max Bowden, Paul Jacob French, Tori Allen-Martin
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…
- 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.
- 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: 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.
- Theatre: Donmar Warehouse
- Opening: April 18, 2025
- Playwright: Patrick Marber
- Director: Matthew Dunster
- Cast: Alfie Allen, Hammed Animashaun, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Brendan Coyle, Kasper Hilton-Hille, Daniel Lapaine
Sunday night. Stephen hosts a weekly poker game in the basement of his failing London restaurant. All the usual suspects are there; the chef, the waiters, the errant son…but tonight a stranger has come to play. As the stakes get higher, the game turns savage…now no one’s safe when everything's on the line.
- Theatre: Old Vic Theatre
- First Preview: April 10, 2025
- Opening: April 24, 2025
- Playwright: Conor McPherson
- Director: Conor McPherson
- Cast: Derbhle Crotty, Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty, Brian Gleeson, Aisling Kearns, Seán McGinley, Hannah Morrish, Chris O’Dowd, Rosie Sheehy
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.
- 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: Jamie Muscato, Frances Mayli McCann, Corbin Bleu, Amber Davies, Joel Montague, John Owen-Jones, Jon Robyns, Rachel Tucker
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…
- Theatre: Wyndham's Theatre
- First Preview: April 17, 2025
- Opening: April 29, 2025
- Playwright: Lila Raicek
- Director: Michael Grandage
- Cast: Ewan McGregor, Elizabeth Debicki, Kate Fleetwood, David Ajala, Mirren Mack
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.
- 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.
- 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, Chumisa Dornford-May, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Richard Fleeshman, Harry Hadden-Paton, Cameron Johnson, Rory Kinnear, Jane Krakowski, Denis O'Hare, Martha Plimpton, Paulo Szot
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.
- Theatre: Noël Coward Theatre
- First Preview: April 14, 2025
- Opening: May 6, 2025
- Playwrights: Henry Lewis and Henry Shields
- Director: Matt Di Carlo
- Cast: Dave Hearn, Chris Leask, Henry Lewis, Charlie Russell, Henry Shields, Greg Tannahill, Nancy Zamit, Adele James
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.
- 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…
- 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’.
- Theatre: Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
- First Preview: May 10, 2025
- Opening: May 20, 2025
- Book: Robert Horn
- Music and Lyrics: Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally
- Director: Jack O'Brien
- Cast: Ben Joyce, Sophie McShera, Georgina Onuorah, Monique Ashe-Lamer, Jonathan Andrew Hume, Keith Ramsay, Matthew Seadon-Young, Steven Webb
Maizy and Beau are getting hitched, when the corn that protects their small community starts to die. The town needs answers. But who will dare to venture beyond the borders of Cob County?
- Theatre: Barbican Theatre
- Opening: May 24, 2025
- Book: Joseph Stein
- Music: Jerry Bock
- Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick
- Director: Jordan Fein
- Cast: TBA
It’s 1905 in the tiny village of Anatevka where Tevye, a Jewish milkman, lives his life by their proud traditions. For his five daughters, that means a visit from the matchmaker. As each daughter challenges his beliefs, against the backdrop of a changing world, can Tevye hold on to his roots, or must he bend to the will of his children and learn to embrace the unfamiliar?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Theatre: Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- First Preview: June 6, 2025
- Opening: June 24, 2025
- Book: Robert Horn and Kwame Kwei-Armah
- Music: Alan Menken
- Lyrics: David Zippel
- Director: Casey Nicholaw
- Cast: Luke Brady, Candace Furbert, Sharlene Hector, Brianna Ogunbawo, Malinda Parris, Robyn Rose-Li, Mae Ann Jorolan, Trevor Dion Nicholas, Stephen Carlile, Craig Gallivan, Lee Zarrett
Ancient Greece. A time of gods, mortals… and Hercules, who isn’t quite either. But if he’s not a god, how can he possibly save the world from Hades? It’s one thing flexing those pecs, but going from zero to hero requires a different kind of strength.
- 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.
- Theatre: London Palladium
- First Preview: June 14, 2025
- Opening: June 27, 2025
- Book and Lyrics: Tim Rice
- Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Director: Jamie Lloyd
- Cast: TBA
Fuelled by ambition and passion, Eva Perón rose from poverty to become the most powerful woman in Latin America. A symbol of hope to many Argentines, her star shone brightly as she captured the nation’s heart and divided its soul.
- Theatre: Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
- First Preview: June 28, 2025
- Opening: July 8, 2025
- Playwright: Dominic Cooke
- Director: Tinuke Craig
- Cast: TBA
By a secluded beach Callum and Sephy meet in secret; life-long friends living on separate sides of a divided world. When Callum, from a Nought family, is accepted to Sephy’s prestigious Cross school, will it bring them closer, or will the hate and fear that surrounds them drive them apart?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- Theatre: Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
- First Preview: August 2, 2025
- Opening: August 11, 2025
- Book: Alan Jay Lerner
- Music: Frederick Loewe
- Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
- Director: Drew McOnie
- Cast: Danielle Fiamanya, Louis Gaunt
Crash landed in the Highlands of Scotland, WW2 fighter pilots Tommy and Jeff are searching for a way home, whilst just beyond the hills, sisters Fiona and Jean are preparing for a wedding. Over the course of one chance day in the dreamlike village of Brigadoon, their stories entwine. But can love endure in this enchanting place where everything is not quite as it seems?
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
- Theatre: Birmingham Repertory Theatre
- First Preview: November 14, 2025
- Opening: November 20, 2025
- Book: Humphrey Ker and David Reed
- Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Lyrics: Tim Rice
- Director: Phillip Breen with Becky Hope-Palmer
- Cast: TBA
It’s Christmas in Victorian London but in the West End – where dreams come true and nothing bad ever happens – a flurry of performers are suddenly dying mid-scene. Scotland Yard rules out foul play…until the world’s greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, discovers an intriguing link to The Twelve Days of Christmas. The game is afoot!