Royal Court

CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT Will Embark on Spring UK Tour
by Stephi Wild - Dec 11, 2025

This Spring, audiences are invited on a trip that will transport them back to the euphoria and chaos of Northern England in the 1990s. Learn more about the tour here!

Cast Set For DEEP AZURE at Shakespeare's Globe
by Stephi Wild - Dec 11, 2025

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the full cast and creative team of Deep Azure in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Learn more about the production and the cast here!

Martha Loader Awarded the 2025 George Devine Award For THE TOWN
by Stephi Wild - Dec 11, 2025

Ipswich playwright Martha Loader has been awarded the 2025 George Devine Award for her play The Town, which confronts how an act of societal transgression impacts the lives of those orbiting it.

Soho Theatre's Verity Bargate Award Returns in January
by Stephi Wild - Dec 11, 2025

Soho Theatre has announced the 2026 submissions launch for the Verity Bargate Award, the UK’s longest established playwriting prize sponsored by Character 7.

Review: BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO, Young Vic
by Franco Milazzo - Dec 10, 2025

Bengal Tiger At Baghdad Zoo, arriving now at the Young Vic for its long-overdue European premiere, is ostensibly about the American occupation of Iraq. Really, though, Rajiv Joseph’s Pulitzer-nominated work is about two things: a gold-plated toilet seat stolen from Uday Hussein (son of Saddam and recreational rapist, torturer and murderer), and the sheer, unforgivable absurdity of existence.

Full Cast and Creative Team Set For GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU?
by Stephi Wild - Dec 9, 2025

Full cast and creative team have been announced for the world-premiere of Guess How Much I Love You? by Luke Norris, the first production in the Royal Court Theatre's 70th Anniversary Season.

Collective Fringe Festival Will Return With New Programme in 2026
by Stephi Wild - Dec 9, 2025

Collective Arts Community Trust has announced the return of Collective Fringe, an artist led festival that platforms emerging and upcoming creatives. Learn more here!

2026 New Stages Festival Lineup Revealed at The Goodman
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 1, 2025

New plays will ring in the new year at The Goodman when the popular annual New Stages Festival returns. This year’s line-up features the newest works by some of the country’s hottest playwrights.

Comedian Leila Navabi Announces 2026 UK Tour Of RELAY
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 28, 2025

Leila Navabi will bring her one-person punk-musical comedy RELAY to venues across the UK in 2026. Tickets will go on sale on November 27, 2025. The production follows Navabi’s critically praised 2024 festival run and builds on the success of her debut Edinburgh Fringe hour.

UK Musical Theatre Conference Set for April 2026 at Soho Theatre Walthamstow
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 28, 2025

Musical Theatre Network and Mercury Musical Developments' next UK Musical Theatre Conference will take place at Soho Theatre Walthamstow in London in April 2026.

The Marsh Berkeley to Present A VERY SCRUMPY HOLIDAY CAROL Holiday Variety Cabaret
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 26, 2025

The Marsh Berkeley and the ghosts of politicians' past, present and future have a message this holiday season with an irreverent variety show, A Very Scrumpy Holiday Carol starring Joyful Raven as the laughably notorious King Scrump.

Cast Announced For SWEETMEATS At Bush Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 26, 2025

The Bush Theatre and Tara Theatre will present the world premiere of Sweetmeats, a new play by Karim Khan, beginning previews on 7 February 2026 in London.

THE SHITHEADS By Jack Nicholls Comes To The Royal Court
by Stephi Wild - Nov 26, 2025

The Royal Court Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for the World Premiere of Jack Nicholls' debut play The Shitheads. Learn more here!

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS Will Make Stage Premiere in the UK in 2026
by Stephi Wild - Nov 25, 2025

The Silence of the Lambs will make its world stage play premiere in 2026. Television writer and playwright Gina Gionfriddo will bringThomas Harris' gripping literary masterpiece to the stage in a new modern adaptation directed by Nikolai Foster.

Bess Wohl, Jen Silverman and More Named as Finalists for The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 24, 2025

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has revealed this year's finalists for the prestigious international playwriting award- the largest and oldest award recognising women+ writers for plays of outstanding quality written for the English-speaking theatre. 

Initial Casting Set For THE MANNINGTREE WITCHES at Mercury Theatre Colchester
by Stephi Wild - Nov 24, 2025

Mercury Theatre Colchester has announced initial casting for the world premiere production of award-winning Mercury Playwright Ava Pickett’s new play The Manningtree Witches.

Festive Choirs For THE GRAND CHRISTMAS CONCERT Are Announced
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Nov 24, 2025

Community choirs and performers from all around the Liverpool city region and Halton have been working hard with Jay McWinen over the past few months for a collaborative festive concert which celebrates diversity, culture, age, ethnicity, ability or disability coming together as one to show how our region of the Northwest of England can example community inclusion through the art of group singing.

MY BROTHER'S A GENIUS Comes to Sheffield Theatres
by Stephi Wild - Nov 24, 2025

Writer of The RSC's Cyrano de Bergerac and The Royal Court's Poet in da Corner and Theatre Centre Resident Writer, Debris Stevenson will present a new play, My Brother's a Genius at Sheffield Theatres.

THE UNWITTING MAGICIAN Comes to UCPAC
by Stephi Wild - Nov 24, 2025

American Theater Group, in partnership with the Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC), will present a special work in development, The Unwitting Magician by Jeremy Dobrish as part of its free Play Reading Series.

Anna Ziegler's EVENING ALL AFTERNOON Will Make World Première At The Donmar Warehouse
by Stephi Wild - Nov 20, 2025

Anna Ziegler's new play Evening All Afternoon will make its world première at the Donmar Warehouse next year. Diyan Zora, making her Donmar debut, directs Anastasia Hille and Erin Kellyman in this new play.