- Theatre: Apollo Theatre (Shaftesbury)
- First Preview: May 4, 2024
- Opening: May 15, 2024
- Playwright: John Cleese and Connie Booth, adapted for the stage by John Cleese
- Director: Caroline Jay Ranger
- Cast: Adam Jackson-Smith, Anna-Jane Casey, Paul Nicholas, Hemi Yeroham, Victoria Fox, Rachel Izen, Steven Meo, Kate Russell-Smith, Nicola Sanderson, Greg Haiste, Danny Bayne, Neil Stewart, Emma Fenny, Mia Austen, John Hasler, Dale Superville, Suzy Bloom, Ben Jacobson
Nearly 50 years since it first hit our TV screens, the iconic sitcom is now a brand-new stage play, adapted by comedy legend John Cleese and directed by Caroline Jay Ranger.
- Theatre: Young Vic Theatre
- First Preview: May 14, 2024
- Opening: May 21, 2024
- Book and Lyrics: Stew
- Music: Stew and Heidi Rodewald
- Director: Liesl Tommy
- Cast: Giles Terera, Rachel Adedeji, Keenan Munn-Francis, David Albury, Nadia Violet Johnson, Renée Lamb, Caleb Roberts
Music is the freight train to ride for this electrifying Tony Award-winning travelogue of identity, acceptance and love. A young man discovers his musical calling and sets off for Europe, leaving behind his mother and comfortable suburban life. In his rebellion filled with sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, he yearns for something in life that he thinks can only be found in art. Bursting with energizing punk, blues, gospel, and jazz music, this rock concert spin on musical theatricality radiates with humor, passion and heart.
- Theatre: Regents Park Open Air Theatre
- First Preview: May 17, 2024
- Opening: May 22, 2024
- Book and Lyrics: Suhayla El-Bushra
- Music: Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab
- Director: Emily Lim
- Cast: Joanna Adaran, Audrey Brisson, Malinda Parris, Nuwan Hugh Perera, Elisa Zavou, Laura Buhagiar
The Enormous Crocodile is weaving his way through the jungle in search of delicious little fingers and squidgy podgy knees. Only the other jungle creatures can foil his secret plans and clever tricks, but they’re going to have to find a large amount of courage to stop this greedy brute.
- Theatre: Menier Chocolate Factory
- First Preview: May 18, 2024
- Opening: May 22, 2024
- Music and Lyrics: Jerry Herman
- Director: Hannah Chissick
- Cast: Cassidy Janson, Jesica Martin, Julie Yammanee
Jerry's Girls celebrates the life and legacy of legendary award-winning Broadway composer Jerry Herman.
- Theatre: @sohoplace
- Opening: May 22, 2024
- Book, Music, and Lyrics: Laurence O'Keefe, Kevin Murphy
- Director: Andy Fickman
- Cast: TBA
September, 1989. Westerberg High is terrorized by a shoulder-padded, scrunchie-wearing junta: Heather, Heather and Heather, the hottest and cruelest girls in all of Ohio. But misfit Veronica Sawyer rejects their evil regime for a new boyfriend, the dark sexy stranger J.D., who plans to put the Heathers in their place - six feet under. Deliciously, darkly funny, romantic and moving, Heathers: The Musical is a truthful, uplifting parable for anyone who’s ever been in love, in trouble, or in high school.
- Theatre: Duke of York's Theatre
- First Preview: May 11, 2024
- Opening: May 23, 2024
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Director: Jamie Lloyd
- Cast: Tom Holland, Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, Freema Agyeman, Michael Balogun, Tomiwa Edun, Mia Jerome, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Ray Sesay, Nima Taleghani, Joshua-Alexander Williams
Tom Holland is Romeo in Jamie Lloyd’s pulsating new vision of Shakespeare’s immortal tale of wordsmiths, rhymers, lovers and fighters.
- Theatre: Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
- First Preview: May 17, 2024
- Opening: May 23, 2024
- Playwright: Margaret Perry
- Director: Katie Mitchell
- Cast: Emma D'Arcy, Kayla Meikle, Ben Whishaw
Bluets is a story about depression and desire, pleasure and pain, and a person possessed by a lifelong obsession with the colour blue. Communing with artists like Joni Mitchell, Derek Jarman, Andy Warhol and Billie Holiday, blue is their constant companion as they navigate the devastating pain of a life-altering heartbreak.
- Theatre: The Watermill Theatre
- Opening: May 23, 2024
- Playwright: Calum Finlay
- Director: Katie-Ann McDonough
- Cast: Charlie Russell, Corey Montague-Sholay, Harry Kershaw, Kim Ismay, George Howard, Jade May Lin
The overdue story of the other Mendelssohn, Fanny imagines that Fanny Mendelssohn intercepts a letter addressed to ‘F. Mendelssohn’ inviting Felix to play for Queen Victoria. As the true composer of the song "Italien", she decides to hide the letter, don her brother’s clothes, and take his place at the palace…cueing a race across Europe and a furious Felix.
- Theatre: Gielgud Theatre
- Opening: May 25, 2024
- Playwright: Danny Robbins
- Director: Matthew Dunster and Isabel Marr
- Cast: James Buckley, Stacey Dooley
In the supernatural thriller, Jenny believes her new home is haunted, but her husband Sam isn’t having any of it. They argue with their first dinner guests, old friend Lauren and new partner. Belief and skepticism clash, but something feels strange and frightening, and that something is getting closer, so they’re going to stay up… until 2:22… and then they’ll know.
KATHY AND STELLA SOLVE A MURDER!
- Theatre: Ambassadors Theatre
- Opening: May 25, 2024
- Book: Jon Brittain
- Music: Matthew Floyd Jones
- Lyrics: Jon Brittain and Matthew Floyd Jones
- Director: Jon Brittain and Fabian Aloise
- Cast: Bronté Barbé, Rebekah Hinds, Elliot Broadfoot, Chelsea Hall, Hannah-Jane Fox, Sorelle Marsh, Ben Redfern, Imelda Warren-Green, Elliotte Williams-N'Dure
BFFs Kathy and Stella host Hull's least successful true crime podcast. When their favourite author is killed they are thrust into a thrilling whodunnit of their own! This big-hearted, laugh out loud musical follows the unlikely crime-fighting duo as they put their friendship on the line to become part of the story. Can they crack the case, (and become global podcast superstars) before the killer strikes again…?
FUN AT THE BEACH ROMP-BOMP-A-LOMP!!
- Theatre: Southwark Playhouse
- First Preview: May 24, 2024
- Opening: May 29, 2024
- Book: Martin Landry
- Music and Lyrics: Brandon Lambert
- Director: Mark Bell
- Cast: Tom Babbage, Ellie Clayton, Damien James, Janice Landry, Katie Oxman, Jack Whittle, Bradley Adams, Dixie Newman, Martin Landry
It’s a hot, sunny day at the beach and everyone is gearing up for a competition that will change (or end) their lives forever: the legendary Beach Romp-Bomp-a-Lomp!! Everyone wants to be King or Queen of the Beach, but who will get the crown? And will they all fall in love and live happily ever after? As the competition progresses through an increasingly deadly series of beach events, the biggest question of all is: can this show find yet another excuse to crowbar in a song?! YES!
- Theatre: Garrick Theatre
- Opening: May 31, 2024
- Book: Martha Geelan
- Music and Lyrics: Jack Godfrey
- Director: Martha Geelan
- Cast: Ashley Goh, Bradley Riches, Grace Towning, Jaina Brock-Patel, Lauren Conroy, Lucy Carter, Max Mulrenan, Morgan Philips, Nathan Johnston, Rowan Macpherson, Viola Maisey, Zoë Athena
Summer is done. Year 11 is here. Being a child is out. Being a grown up is in. Time for more parties, more responsibility and, oh yeah…becoming a parent to a plastic robot baby simulator. After a rise in pregnancies among the year above, the school’s sex education department are compelled to take action. Fuelled by a blistering pop-rock score, Babies follows nine classmates as they take on their most important school project yet: keeping a fake baby alive for an entire week. As the pressures of teenage life collide with the demands of parenting, the students are forced to ask themselves: what is it I really want? who is it I really want to be?
- Theatre: Savoy Theatre
- Opening: June 5, 2024
- Book: Tina Fey
- Lyrics: Nell Benjamin
- Music: Jeff Richmond
- Director: Casey Nicholaw
- Cast: Charlie Burn, Georgina Castle, Elèna Gyasi, Grace Mouat, Elena Skye, Tom Xander, Daniel Bravo, Lucca Chadwick-Patel, Ako Mitchell, Zoë Rainey, Tia Antoine-Charles, Georgia Arron, Liam Buckland, Shonah Buwu, Baylie Carson, Freddie Clements, Siobhan Diffin, Clíona Flynn, Fergie Fraser, Angus Good, Jenny Huxley-Golden, Holly Liburd, Corey Mitchell, Mervin Noronha, Aharon Rayner, Trèzel Sergeant, Josh Singleton, Annie Southall, Lillia Squires, Tommy Wade-Smith, Holly Willock
Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the wild and vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. How will this naïve newbie rise to the top of the popularity pecking order? By taking on The Plastics, a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George. But when Cady devises a plan to end Regina’s reign, she learns the hard way that you can’t cross a Queen Bee without getting stung.
- Theatre: Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
- First Preview: May 31, 2024
- Opening: June 6, 2024
- Playwright: Alice Childress
- Director: Monique Touko
- Geraldine Alexander, Deborah Ayorinde, Lachele Carl, Lylianna Eugene, Poppy Gilbert, Poppy Graham, Diveen Henry, Saskia Holness, Patrick Martins, Bethan Mary-James, Wren Stembridge, David Walmsley, Owen Whitelaw
Summer 1918. Julia Augustine, an industrious young African-American woman, moves to a small seaside town in South Carolina, hoping to live a quiet, anonymous life. Her discreet manner arouses the interest of her boisterous neighbors who discover her secret -- a long-standing love affair with Herman, a white man. Tensions explode when Herman's family arrives in the neighborhood.
- Theatre: Charing Cross Theatre
- First Preview: June 1, 2024
- Opening: June 7, 2024
- Book and Lyrics: Seeun Choun
- Music: Jongyoon Choi
- English Adaptation: Tom Ramsay, Emma Fraser
- Literal Translation: Ahreumbi Rew
- Director: Sarah Meadows
- Cast: Alisa Davidson, Chrissie Bhima, Thomas Josling, Richard Meek, Christopher Killik, Dean Makowski-Clayton, Rio Maye, Yujin Park, Isabel Snaas, Maya Kristal Tenenbaum, Lucy Yonug
Marie Curie is certain that she can make a name for herself and change the course of science in the progress as she arrives from her native Poland to study at Sorbonne University in Paris. When she discovers Radium, a new chemical element, she’s lauded with the Nobel Prize but is faced with an overwhelming moral dilemma. Whilst Marie is discovering the lifesaving potential of Radium to cure cancer, factory workers handling Radium are succumbing to the insidious grip of radium poisoning.
- Theatre: Jermyn Street Theatre
- First Preview: June 5, 2024
- Opening: June 10, 2024
- Playwright: Adrian Lukis
- Director: Guy Unsworth
- Cast: Adrian Lukis
Join Pride and Prejudice’s most roguish gentleman, George Wickham, on the eve of his sixtieth birthday, to lift the sheets on what exactly happened thirty years from where we left him and discover his own version of some very famous literary events. What really happened with Mr. Darcy? Were his feelings for Lizzie real? What about Georgina and Lydia?
- Theatre: Garrick Theatre
- Opening: June 13, 2024
- Playwright: James Graham
- Director: Kate Wasserberg
- Cast: George Caple, Dominic Carter, Helen Carter, Aron Julius, Nathan McMullen, Lauren O'Neil, Jamie Peacock, Barry Sloane, Liam Tobin, Mark Womack
Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser are used to hard work and providing for their families. But there is no work and there is no money. What are they supposed to do? Work harder, work longer, buy cheaper, spend less? They just need a chance. Life is tough but the lads can play the game. Find jobs, avoid the ‘sniffers' and see if you can have a laugh along the way.
- Theatre: Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
- First Preview: June 13, 2024
- Opening: June 17, 2024
- Playwright: Stewart Pringle
- Director: Jack McNamara
- Cast: TBA
The year is 1554, the true Golden Age of English football. It’s the Allen Valley Whitsun Game, and men will die today. This is the big game, and it’s been raging for hours. Percy and Rowan are out in the middle of nowhere, miles from the action, when a stranger joins them, a stranger with tidings that will blow their world apart. Time passes. Night falls. The great chain of being collapses. And they’re losing the bloody football.
- Theatre: Barbican Theatre
- First Preview: June 4, 2024
- Opening: June 18, 2024
- Book: Bella and Sam Spewak
- Music and Lyrics: Cole Porter
- Director: Bartlett Sher
- Cast: Stephanie J. Block, Adrian Dunbar, Charlie Stemp, Georgina Onuorah, Josie Benson, Jack Butterworth, Jude Owusu, Carl Au, Jordan Crouch, Gary Milner, James Hume, Alisha Capon, Shani Cator, Maya de Faria, Amelia Kinu Muus, Jacqui Jameson, Lucas Koch, Alex Lodge, Nell Martin, Anna McGarahan, John Stacey, Harrison Wilde, Robin Kent, Barry Drummond, Emily Goodenough, Maddie Harper
Two divorced — and flamboyantly egocentric — performers find themselves starring opposite each other in a musical version of Taming of the Shrew in Cole Porter and Sam and Bella Spewack's tribute to the theatre, in all its greasepaint and glory.
- Theatre: Park Theatre
- First Preview: June 19, 2024
- Opening: June 24, 2024
- Playwright: Vicki McKellar, Guy Masterson
- Director: Guy Masterson
- Cast: TBA
On Wednesday, 1 August 1962, seven people gathered at Marilyn Monroe’s home to celebrate her new $2m two-picture deal with 20th Century Fox. At 04:30 the following Sunday, 5 August, her apparent suicide was called in to the police and was reported as a drugs overdose. But the truth is far more shocking: She was found unconscious by her housekeeper the night before at 22:35, and subsequently died at 23:40, all after a late visit from a very important guest… The same seven people then regathered in her home on Saturday night – and yet her death was only reported nearly 5 hours later. What did they talk about?
- Theatre: Regent's Park Open Air
- First Preview: June 15, 2024
- Opening: June 25, 2024
- Playwright: Holly Robinson, Anna Himali Howard
- Director: Anna Himali Howard
- Cast: Theo Angel, Richard Clews, George Fletcher, Amanda Hadingue, Molly Hewitt-Richards, Jack Humphrey, Avita Jay, Hannah Khalique-Brown, Patrick Osborne, Sharan Phull, Archana Ramaswamy, Brydie Service
Spoilt and abandoned, 10-year-old Mary Lennox is sent from India to Yorkshire, and put into the care of an Uncle she has never met. At Misselthwaite Manor, a broken-hearted house full of secrets and strange noises, Mary discovers a garden as lost and neglected as she is. If she can learn to make friends with robins, grumpy gardeners, and a boy who speaks to animals, Mary might be able to bring more than just the garden back to life.
- Theatre: Wyndham's Theatre
- First Preview: June 18, 2024
- Opening: June 26, 2024
- Book and Lyrics: Brian Yorkey
- Music: Tom Kitt
- Director: Michael Longhurst
- Cast: Caissie Levy, Trevor Dion Nicholas, Jack Ofrecio, Jamie Parker, Jack Wolfe, Eleanor Worthington-Cox
Diana Goodman is a suburban mom struggling with bipolar disorder. Her daughter, Natalie, is a stressed-out overachiever about to snap. And Dan, her exhausted architect husband, is determined to keep everything “normal.” As Diana’s symptoms worsen, and effective treatment remains elusive, the Goodmans must confront their shared griefs and struggles and learn how to finally connect with each other.
- Theatre: Troubadour Wembley Park Theate
- First Preview: June 8, 2024
- Opening: June 30, 2024
- Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Lyrics: Richard Stilgoe
- Director: Luke Sheppard
- Cast: Jeevan Braich, Kayna Montecillo, Jade Marvin, Al Knott, Eve Humphrey, Tom Pigram, Ollie Augustin, Charles Butcher, Renz Cardenas, Catherine Cornwall, Jamie Cruttenden, Kelly Downing, Asher Forth, Sam Gallacher, Lucy Glover, Pablo Gómez Jones, Scott Hayward, Lilianna Hendy, Lewis Kidd, Hannah Kiss, Oscar Kong, Emily Martinez, Deearna McLean, Marianthe Panas, David Peter-Brown, RED, Bethany Rose Lythgoe, Ashley Rowe, Elly Shaw, Gary Sheridan, Jessica Vaux, Jaydon Vijn, Lara Vina Uzcatia, Sharon Wattis, Ashlyn Weekes
Little steam engine Rusty enters a cross-country race against the flashier trains Greaseball and Electra, hoping to impress pretty sidecar Pearl, in this musical look at a fantasy train world from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe.
- Theatre: National Theatre (Olivier)
- First Preview: June 22, 2024
- Opening: July 2, 2024
- Playwright: Simon McBurney and Complicité
- Director: Simon McBurney
- Cast: Richard Katz, Kostas Phillippoglou
A body is found in the ice, and a woman is looking for her father while a man searches for his lost lover. This story is as much about origins as it is about memory, and remembering what is lost. Mnemonic asks: what is our place in the natural world? How have human relationships with the environment shaped patterns of migration? Who are we, and where do we come from?
- Theatre: The Watermill Theatre
- Opening: July 2, 2024
- Book: Mark Bramble
- Lyrics: Michael Stewart
- Music: Cy Coleman
- Director: Jonathan O'Boyle
- Cast: TBA
Step right up and enter the dazzling world of P.T. Barnum, where imagination and ambition know no bounds. Delight at every sight, wonder and miracle as the creator of spectacle comes to town with a sensational show featuring a whole host of characters.
- Theatre: Theatre Royal Bath
- First Preview: June 27, 2024
- Opening: July 3, 2024
- Playwright: David Hare
- Director: Jeremy Herrin
- Cast: Ralph Fiennes
Grace Pervades tells the extraordinary story of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, the greatest stars of the Victorian stage, and Ellen's troubled and brilliant children - Edith Craig and Edward Gordon Craig - who made their own profound contribution to the development of British theatre.
I'M GONNA MARRY YOU TOBEY MAGUIRE
- Theatre: Southwark Playhouse
- First Preview: June 28, 2024
- Opening: July 3, 2024
- Playwright: Samantha Hurley
- Director: Tyler Struble
- Cast: Tessa Albertson, Kyle Birch, Anders Hayward
Dealing with an absent father, a neglectful mother, and mean-spirited classmates, Shelby Hinkley's eighth grade is proving to be a hard time. To cope with it all, Shelby focuses on the best thing about 2004: Spiderman. When leading an online fan club is no longer enough, she decides to kidnap and marry Tobey Maguire; but will the actor live up to her happily-ever-after fantasies?
- Theatre: Donmar Warehouse
- First Preview: June 28, 2024
- Opening: July 4, 2024
- Playwright: Dominique Morisseau
- Director: Matthew Xia
- Cast: Tobi Bamtefa, Branden Cook, Pamela Nomvete, Racheal Ofori
As the Great Recession of 2008 begins to decimate industries across America, the once-gleaming “Motor City” has lost its luster. At one of its still-standing auto factories, four colleagues-turned-friends hear rumors that their plant is facing foreclosure. Faye, Dez, Shanita and Reggie all have different stakes in the company should it go under, which they grapple with in the break room as the fear of losing their jobs looms. In the final chapter of her acclaimed Detroit trilogy, Dominique Morisseau wrestles with questions of grief, loyalty and self-preservation while exploring the monumental impact of the Recession-era economy on middle-class life.
- Theatre: Harold Pinter Theatre
- First Preview: June 28, 2024
- Opening: July 5, 2024
- Book: Riko Sakaguchi, Rinne Groff
- Music: Frank Wildhorn
- Lyrics: Carly Robin Green, Tracy Miller
- Director: Nick Winston
- Cast: TBA
Your Lie In April, is an adaption of a manga favourite story, brings to life the poignant story of Kōsei Arima, a young piano prodigy, and his inability to play following his mother’s death. He strikes a friendship with violinist Kaori Miyazono and she slowly encourages him to perform again.
- Theatre: Menier Chocolate Factory
- First Preview: July 6, 2024
- Opening: July 17, 2024
- Book: Joseph Stein
- Music and Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
- Director: Gordon Greenberg
- Cast: Lucie Jones, Clive Rowe, Bobbie Chambers, Mark Extance, Josefina Gabrielle, Jack Gardner, Hana Ichijo, Michael Matus, Robyn Rose, David Season-Young, Matthew Season-Young, Joaquin Pedro Valdes
The arrival of a new Baker and his younger wife turns a provincial French village upside down in this cult classic musical from the legendary Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein.
- Theatre: London Palladium
- First Preview: July 6, 2024
- Opening: July 18, 2024
- Book: Michael Stewart
- Music and Lyrics: Jerry Herman
- Director: Dominic Cooke
- Cast: Imelda Staunton, Andy Nyman, Jenna Russell, Tyrone Huntley, Harry Hepple
- Theatre: Eventim Apollo
- Opening: July 19, 2024
- Book and Lyrics: David Lindsay-Abaire
- Music: Jeanine Tesori
- Director: TBA
- Cast: Antony Lawrence, Todrick Hall, Joanne Clifton, Cherece Richards, James Gillan
A benign green ogre and his sidekick Donkey save the land from an evil lord and rescue a lovely princess from a terrible fate. Based on the blockbuster movie and the book by William Steig.
- Theatre: Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
- First Preview: July 13, 2024
- Opening: July 23, 2024
- Book, Music, and Lyrics: Yve Blake
- Director: Paige Rattray
- Cast: TBA
Meet Edna: she’s 14, she’s a misfit, and she’s in love with Harry. There’s just one problem: Harry’s in the world’s biggest boy band, has 38 million fans, and doesn’t know she exists. When Harry’s band announces a tour stop in Edna’s hometown of Sydney, Australia, she knows this is her destiny – her one chance to meet him. But how on EARTH will she get Harry’s attention?! And exactly how far is she prepared to go in the name of love?
- Theatre: National Theatre (Lyttelton)
- First Preview: July 17, 2024
- Opening: July 25, 2024
- Playwright: Frank Galati, adapted from John Steinbeck
- Director: Carrie Cracknell
- Cast: Cherry Jones
The Joads, a family of sharecroppers in Oklahoma, are driven west by the Depression and the drought of the Dust Bowl, in Frank Galati's adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel.
- Theatre: Regent's Park Open Air
- Opening: July 27, 2024
- 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… But 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: Sadler's Wells Theatre
- Opening: July 31, 2024
- Book: James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante
- Lyrics: Edward Kleban
- Music: Marvin Hamlisch
- Director: Nikolai Foster
- Cast: TBA
A Chorus Line is a stunning concept musical capturing the spirit and tension of a Broadway chorus audition. Exploring the inner lives and bittersweet ambitions of professional Broadway performers, the show features one powerhouse number after another. Memorable musical numbers include "What I Did for Love, "One," "I Can Do That," "At the Ballet," "The Music and the Mirror," and "I Hope I Get It." A brilliantly complex fusion of song, dance, and compellingly authentic drama, A Chorus Line was instantly recognized as a classic.
- Theatre: Sadler's Wells Peacock Theatre
- Opening: August 20, 2024
- Book: Randy Johnson
- Music and Lyrics: Various
- Director: Randy Johnson
- Cast: Mary Bridget Davies, Sharon Sexton
With a voice like whiskey and a laugh like pure joy, Janis Joplin took the music scene by storm. Simultaneously rough and vulnerable, Joplin was dubbed the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, proving music wasn’t just a man’s world anymore. Packed with classic songs (“Piece of My Heart, “Summertime,” “Mercedes Benz”), the show also shines the spotlight on trailblazers who influenced Janis – like Bessie Smith, Etta James and Aretha Franklin.
- Theatre: Theatre Royal Bath
- First Preview: August 15, 2024
- Opening: August 21, 2024
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Director: Ralph Fiennes
- Cast: Gloria Obianyo, Harriet Walter
For Rosalind and Orlando, it is love at first sight, but family feuds are destined to keep the young would-be lovers apart. When Rosalind is banished from the court of Duke Frederick, she runs away with her cousin Celia to the Forest of Arden, where they explore new identities and find that the forest is a place where the possibilities for love and connection are infinite.
- Theatre: Garrick Theatre
- Opening: August 27, 2024
- Book, Music and Lyrics: Lucy Moss, Toby Marlow
- Director: Lucy Moss
- Cast: Jo Foster, Leesa Tulley, Noah Thomas
Two perpetually single friends can't figure out why they're so single or what to write their next musical about.
- Theatre: Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
- First Preview: August 22, 2024
- Opening: August 29, 2024
- Playwright: Tife Kusoro
- Director: TBA
- Cast: TBA
Urban legend has it that Baitface steals the faces and lives of Black Boys. All it takes is walking underneath a pair of trainers suspended on a telephone wire, face uncovered. Khaleem, Joy and Kai are just trying to get through school. On the night of an alleged crime, when the spirit of Baitface the Gullyman rears its head, their lives, identities and friendships begin to disintegrate.
- Theatre: Bush Theatre
- First Preview: September 6, 2024
- Opening: September 12, 2024
- Playwright: Waleed Akhtar
- Director: Anthony Simpson-Pike
- Cast: TBA
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 4, 2024
- Opening: September 13, 2024
- Music and Lyrics: Neil Bartram
- Book: Brian Hill
- Director: Robert McWhire
- Cast: TBA
- Theatre: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Opening: September 13, 2024
- Playwright: Samuel Beckett
- Director: James Macdonald
- Cast: Lucian Msamati, Ben Winshaw
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.
- 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
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: TBA
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: 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: 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
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: 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
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
- 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
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: TBA
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: TBA
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: TBA
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: Dominion Theatre
- Opening: October 24, 2024
- Book: Kate Wetherhead
- Music: Elton John
- Lyrics: Shaina Taub
- Director: Jerry Mitchell
- Cast: Vanessa Williams
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: 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: 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
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: National Theatre (Olivier)
- First Preview: November 23, 2024
- Opening: December 5, 2024
- Playwright: Noel Streatfeild, Kendall Feaver
- Director: Katy Rudd
- Cast: TBA
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: 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: 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.
