Newcastle Theatre News

Unicorn Theatre is presenting the new stage adaptation of multi-award-winning writer Malorie Blackman's beloved novel Pig Heart Boy. See what the critics are saying and read the reviews.

Tom Chambers will  play the beloved detective Inspector Morse in a new stage production, Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts. The production opens in Birmingham on Thursday 28 August 2025 ahead of a major UK tour.

Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird will now embark on its first ever UK & Ireland tour. The production opens in September 2025. Learn more here!

The full cast has been announced for the upcoming world première of brand-new musical Wild Rose, written by Nicole Taylor and directed by John Tiffany. Learn more here!

Unicorn Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and Children's Theatre Partnership has announced the full cast for the powerful new stage adaptation of multi-award-winning writer Malorie Blackman's beloved novel Pig Heart Boy. 

Casting has been announced for Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s worldwide cult phenomenon Ghost Stories, which is set to embark on its first full UK national tour opening at Churchill Theatre, Bromley.

Currently playing to sold-out houses at London’s Apollo Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue, John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers – The Play will embark on a major theatre tour for 2025 and 2026.  

Joe McElderry will perform as Pharaoh in further dates of the upcoming Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat UK tour.

Brand new production photos have been released from the acclaimed production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which has just opened at Leeds Playhouse. Check out the photos here!

Casting has been announced for the UK and Ireland tour of The Shark Is Broken, the behind- the-scenes West End and Broadway hit comedy about the making of the movie Jaws.

UK pop band Steps have announced that their official musical HERE & NOW, which has been wowing audiences in Birmingham for the last few weeks, will embark on a major UK and Ireland tour next year.

Boublil and Schönberg’s musical, MISS SAIGON, will embark on a new major UK tour beginning next year. This production will open at the Newcastle Theatre Royal in October 2025. Check out the full tour schedule here!

Full UK and Ireland tour dates have been announced for Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, as it returns for its 30th anniversary with a 2024-25 tour, visiting 19 venues across 29 weeks.

Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,  a West End run has been announced for THE LAST LAUGH. Written and directed by Paul Hendy, this new play will run at the Noël Coward Theatre in London’s West End from 25 February to 22 March 2025.

The critically acclaimed hit supernatural thriller 2:22 - A Ghost Story will embark on an extensive UK-wide tour, opening at Manchester Opera House on 4 August 2025, and continuing through to June 2026. 

Matthew Bourne's award-winning THE MIDNIGHT BELL will be returning in 2025, opening at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on Thursday 15 May.  It will then embark on a 17-week countrywide tour including many venues for the first time with this production. Full tour schedule below.

Further casting has been announced for the second tour of the acclaimed London Palladium production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

The full cast and additional tour venues have been set for the UK tour of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, celebrating the  75th Anniversary of the publication of C.S. Lewis novel which opens at Leeds Playhouse on 14 December 2024.

Papatango has announced the full cast of Chris Foxon’s adaptation of The Watch House, based on the novel by Robert Westall. George Turvey directs Donald McBride (Arthur/Geordie), Catherine Dryden (Fiona/Prudie/Da Souza/Timmo) and Aoife Kennan (Anne).

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1975 iconic blockbuster Jaws, the critically acclaimed Olivier award-nominated West End and Broadway production, The Shark Is Broken, will embark on a UK and Ireland tour next year.