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Casting has been announced for the return of ALICE IN WONDERLAND to London, with Ailsa Erskine as Alice and Kate Malyon as Cheshire Cat joining returning cast members at Riverside Studios and Soho Theatre Walthamstow.

Ty Fanning, Ami Okumura Jones, Kirsty Bushell, and Pippa Winslow are set to lead the West End return of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY at the Ambassadors Theatre for its fourth extension.

Riverside Studios announced the full programme for Bitesize Festival VII, featuring over 50 performances across theatre, comedy, cabaret, dance, film, and live music as the venue marks its 50th anniversary.

Eventim Apollo, the London live entertainment venue, will launch Eventim Apollo: OPEN this summer, a special series giving the public the chance to experience the Apollo in a new way through three events: Centre Stage, H+F Spotlight and Venue Tours.

Method in Madness Co. will present the world premiere of BACHELORS OF FINE ARTS at Edinburgh Fringe, a musical comedy satirizing elite US drama school culture through original pop and country-tinged songs.

Shakespeare's Globe announced the full cast for LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, directed by Indiana Lown-Collins in her Globe directorial debut, featuring flamenco dancers and a singer alongside a 14-member cast.

Merrigong Theatre Company will present TWO WEEKS, an intimate play by Siobhán Doran-Chaston, at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre. The production follows a young couple as a countdown begins toward a life-changing event.

Scrum Theatre announced a summer programme of writing workshops, masterclasses, and intensives at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, featuring sessions with David Hare, Philip Shelley, Josh Azouz, and other practitioners.

As New York prepares for the 2026 Tony Award nominations and honors the recent Lucille Lortel winners, producers are facing tough questions about whether traditional 8 PM curtain times are driving audiences away. The business landscape is shifting heavily behind the scenes, marked by the merger of licensing giants BMG and Concord, looming strike ballots in the West End, and the Kennedy Center's controversial two-year shutdown. Despite these logistical and financial challenges—including a devastating embezzlement case at a Pennsylvania community theatre—there is plenty of positive momentum to report, from the rapid financial recoupment of the Suffs national tour to new initiatives supporting theater education and large-scale playwriting.

Riverside Studios has announced the world premiere of RON, a genre-defying new solo show written and performed by Ted Walliker, running in Studio 2 at the Hammersmith venue. RON marks the first in-house co-production from Riverside Studios.

The Mainstage Prize, a new £10,000 national playwriting award supported by Riverside Studios, launched with former RSC Head of New Work Pippa Hill chairing the judging panel. The inaugural theme is horror.

Heartsink, a bittersweet medical comedy by Unequal Productions that's premiering at Riverside Studios, is a little gem. In only 85 minutes (no interval) writer Farine Clarke, a former GP, deftly deals with weighty issues such as an overstretched NHS, technology versus humanity, racism, assisted dying, the generation gap and how physicians need to learn to heal themselves. 

ThickSkin's ghost story IT WALKS AROUND THE HOUSE AT NIGHT will tour the UK this autumn, with George Naylor reprising his role as Joe in the comedy-horror production supported by Queen's Theatre Hornchurch.

Riverside Studios has announced details of more special events being staged to celebrate the West London venue's 50th anniversary. Learn more about the lineup here!

CADEL: LUNGS ON LEGS, the solo show about Australian cycling legend Cadel Evans, will present its London premiere at Riverside Studios. Connor Delves performs live on the actual bike Evans rode to win the Tour de France.

The production of ALICE IN WONDERLAND, adapted by Penny Farrow and directed by Nate Bertone, will return to London this summer with runs at Riverside Studios and Soho Theatre Walthamstow, following its UK premiere at the Marylebone Theatre.

First seen at last year's Edinburgh fringe, Jules Coyle's semi-verbatim play, Managed Approach, now comes to Riverside Studios for a short, but important run. Between 2014 and 2020, a local government initiative in Holbeck, Leeds allowed sex workers to operate under certain regulations and was known as the Managed Approach. The play explores the experiences of both sex workers and residents whose lives are impacted by the scheme in a number of surprising and sometimes shocking ways.

Olivier Award winner Jenna Russell joins the full cast of SINATRA THE MUSICAL, set to begin performances June 3, 2026 at London's Aldwych Theatre, featuring over 20 Sinatra hits.

Renu Arora, the award winning disabled actor, singer, writer and composer, has been awarded the Peggy Ramsay Foundation Grant. The £5,000 award supports the development of The Burgundy Book.

At a ceremony at the National Theatre, the Critics’ Circle announced the winners of the 2026 Theatre Awards. These are the only prizes to be entirely voted for by the professional theatre critics who are members of the Circle. Check out photos of the winners below.