Richard Jones News

The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2026–27 season, featuring five new and 12 repertory productions, a special 60th-anniversary gala, and performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

If Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov were a dinner party, Richard Jones’s Russian-language revival at the Royal Opera House would be the dinner date where you arrive bright and curious and leave questioning your life choices, nursing a neat whisky in a corner. This is not an opera that gives up its secrets like a West End musical handing out catchy tunes. It is, in its original 1869 incarnation, seven tableaux of conscience-stripped torment, political intrigue and chorus lines that hammer their point home with power and precision.

The English National Opera will present a new production of RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY, featuring Andre de Ridder and Danielle de Niese. Learn more here!

London Theatre Company has released a trailer and new production photos from Into The Woods. The major new production, directed by Jordan Fein with set and costume design by Tom Scutt, is now playing the Bridge Theatre.

Park Avenue Armory has appointed Deborah Warner as its Anita K. Hersh Artistic Director. Warner was named a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2006.

This is the last chance to vote for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Austin Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

We're in the final weeks to vote for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Austin Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Austin Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Austin Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

London Theatre Company has released photos from the Sitzprobe of Into The Woods. The production, helmed by director Jordan Fein with set and costume design by Tom Scutt, is now in previews.

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Austin Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

London Theatre Company has released photos from the rehearsal room of Into The Woods. The production, helmed by director Jordan Fein with set and costume design by Tom Scutt, will begin previews in December. Check out photos here!

Casting has been announced for a brand-new staging of Into The Woods at the Bridge Theatre. The production is helmed by director Jordan Fein with set and costume designer Tom Scutt.

The show will take place in Sweet @ Keiller Centre as part of the fifth Dundee Fringe at 2.15pm on September 20, 2025. Find out more about the show here!

Adapted from Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, director Richard Jones’s glorious Falstaff makes a welcome return to Glyndebourne, losing none of its charm or deft comedy. It is playful, witty and a pure delight.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has announced a series of in-store signings and performances across the UK the week of her 8th studio album release, ‘Perimenopop’, on 12th September.

Lyn Paul will join the UK and Ireland tour of MARY POPPINS, as Bird Woman from Tuesday 18 November 2025.  Lyn joins the company in Milton Keynes Theatre.

The Royal Ballet and Opera launches its 2025/26 Season, unveiling an unforgettable programme of new commissions, world premieres and much-loved revivals alongside the first annual festival connecting the worlds of opera and technology. 

South Bay Musical Theatre will present a special benefit concert of the Tony Award-winning musical Titanic. Learn more and see how to attend the concert here!

The Finnish National Opera and Ballet has announced its 2025–2026 season which features new contemporary operas, romantic ballet gems, and pulsating street dance The Opera and Ballet season 2025–2026 is a celebration of emotions. We move from one extreme to another, from dark tones towards light and vice versa.