ANNOUNCEMENTS

Following its New York debut and an acclaimed, award-winning run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, the electrifying pop-rock musical transfers to London with Matt Terry, Dalton Harris, Jaymi Hensley, Joaquin Pedro Valdes, Leonardo Vieira and Alex Hayden.

Riverside Studios is thrilled to announce details of the first special events being staged to celebrate the West London venue’s 50th anniversary including appearances from Helen Mirren, Lenny Henry and Gyles Brandreth

The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, and Gate Theatre, Dublin are delighted to announce the cast for Poor - Aisling O’Mara, Hilda Fay, Aidan Kelly, Sue Collins, John Cronin, Shauna Harris, Ben Morris, Hollie Lawlor and Pippa Owens. Opens 1 May at Belgrade Theatre.

Polka Theatre’s Artistic Director and Joint Chief Executive Helen Matravers , Executive Director and Joint Chief Executive Lynette Shanbury , and the whole team are pleased to share production images for Who Let The Gods Out – a hilarious brand-new stage musical based on the first adventure in the brilliant ‘Who Let The Gods Out’ series, with book and lyrics by the series’ bestselling author Maz Evans . The show will run in Polka’s Adventure Theatre from Saturday 7 Februar

The new Queens will take up their crowns in the West End from Tuesday 24 February, as the home-grown musical sensation continues its run at the Vaudeville Theatre, now booking until January 2027.

Counterminers, M&M Ents, and The Playground Theatre, are proud to share production photos of Spanish Oranges, the debut play by Alba Arikha, Samuel Beckett’s goddaughter, with direction from Myriam Cyr to take place at The Playground Theatre in West London next year. Spanish Oranges will run at The Playground Theatre from Wednesday 11 February – Saturday 7 March, with a press performance on Monday 16 February.

On the eve of the opening of a major new exhibition, the actress who currently portrays Anne Boleyn in the West End stepped into the ill-fated Queen’s childhood home of Hever Castle, to come face-to-face with one of her earliest surviving images.

The Watermill Theatre and Theatre by the Lake are delighted to share the production photos for Lark Rise to Candleford, written by Tamsin Kennard and based on the book by Flora Thompson.

Following its New York debut and an acclaimed, award-winning run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, the electrifying pop-rock musical World’s Greatest Lover transfers to London this spring. The production opens at The Other Palace on Sunday 12 April 2026, playing until Sunday 7 June 2026, with a national press night on Wednesday 22 April.

Artistic Director Jez Bond, Executive Director Catherine McKinney, and the whole team at Park Theatre today announce further details of Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] 4, the next instalment of its hugely popular fundraising comedy spectacular, which returns from 11 May – 27 June 2026 with the most ambitious version yet.

Unequal Productions presents Heartsink, a new bittersweet comedy written by former GP Farine Clarke, and directed by Sean Turner (Why I Stuck A Flare Up My Arse for England, The Play That Goes Wrong), which will play at Riverside Studios from 21 April – 10 May, with a press night on Friday 24 April.

CEO and Artistic Director Iwan Lewis, Executive Director Liam McMullan, and the whole team at the Barn Theatre in Cirencester, are delighted to share the production photos for Built By Barn World Premiere of Men Behaving Badly: The Play, (Friday 30 January – Saturday 7 March, with a national press night on Tuesday 3 February).