The latest news on live theatre across the UK — regional productions, touring shows, and local openings.
Battersea Arts Centre will present BLOOM 2026, featuring five productions spanning absurdist theatre, immersive performance, and puppetry, all developed and supported by BAC.
Regal Entertainments Ltd announced a new UK tour of RITA, SUE & BOB TOO!, visiting 11 venues across Britain.
Corn Exchange Newbury's 101 Outdoor Arts announced a series of free outdoor performances, including BLOCK, featuring acrobats with large stackable blocks, and WATCHFUL, an outdoor theatre piece exploring a long-term relationship across time.
Acosta Danza Yunior will present NEXT GENERATION at Sadler's Wells East, a mixed bill featuring works by Susana Pous, Juliano Nunes, Didy Veldman, and Kit Holder, performed by recent graduates of the Acosta Dance Academy in Havana.
CADEL: LUNGS ON LEGS, the solo show about Australian cycling legend Cadel Evans, will present its London premiere at Riverside Studios.
Leeds Playhouse has appointed three new trustees to its Board.
Pivot Point Circus will present DARLING at the Brighton Fringe Spiegeltent, combining aerial acrobatics, physical theatre, and comedy.
Performances are underway for the new stage adaptation of James M.
After six weeks of voting, BroadwayWorld readers have crowned Newsies the Ultimate Best Movie Musical in the 2026 edition of BroadwayWorld's Annual Bracket.
Norwich Theatre will present a tour of 3 Migrant Women, a production created and performed by artists with lived experience of displacement, opening at Theatre503 London before touring to venues around the UK.
The Young Company at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre will present WOYZECK, Georg Büchner's unfinished masterpiece, directed by the SJT's Head of Creative Engagement, Rob Salmon.
Thorington Theatre, a 350-seat outdoor woodland venue in Suffolk, announced its upcoming summer season featuring more than 50 shows spanning music, theatre, comedy, and family programming, plus two major community arts initiatives.
Greg Doran, former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and celebrated Shakespearean, revives his acclaimed production of Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare's greatest narrative poem, for a limited UK tour starting in June.
Bodies in Action will present IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, a contemporary dance-theatre work exploring self-worth, visibility, and otherness, at The Source Theatre Stratford.
BYMT will present the world premiere of SEA CHANGE, a new musical by 2025 NMTA winners Elinor Peregrin and Will Jackson, at Birmingham Hippodrome.
The BBC Proms returns in summer 2026, presenting eight weeks of world-class music from an array of leading orchestras, conductors and soloists from across the UK and around the world.
Peter Marinker, 84, will perform Beckett's KRAPP'S LAST TAPE at The Cockpit in London alongside real recordings of himself from when he last played the role over 30 years ago, following a recent Alzheimer's diagnosis.
The Roundhouse Comedy Festival returns to Camden with a lineup including Frank Skinner, Katherine Ryan, Joe Lycett, Sam Campbell, Judi Love, and Kristen Schaal across stand-up, live podcasts, and theatrical comedy shows.
Disney's The Muppet Christmas Carol in Concert Live to Film is coming to Bradford Live this festive season featuring a screening of the film while the musical score is performed live by an orchestra.
Joanna Pickering will bring her solo play DON'T HARM THE ANIMALS to Hay Festival, directed by BAFTA winner Philip John.
Rehearsal photos have been released for THESPIANS, Mischief’s first musical comedy, ahead of its world premiere at Mercury Theatre Colchester.
On Sunday 19 April, the winners of The Pantomime Awards 2026, staged in partnership with Trafalgar Entertainment and ATG Entertainment (ATGE), were announced by the UK Pantomime Association at a star-studded ceremony at Wycombe Swan in High Wycombe, presented by Vernon Kay.
Elaine Cassidy and Katherine Pearce will be joining the cast of Rory Mullarkey’s original play EVEN THESE THINGS, which will have its World Premiere at The Royal Exchange Theatre as part of the 50th anniversary season under the theme ‘A Homecoming’.
Scottish soprano Kelly Mathieson, known for her role as Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera, will present a solo concert at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel, London, with musical director Eoin Mallon.
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The Little Mermaid Greenwich Theatre (8/07-8/23) |
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United We Stand Live - Andy Cole & Andy Mitten Nerve Centre (8/15-8/15) |
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Disney''s Muppet Christmas Carol in Concert - Film with Live Orchestra Symphony Hall (12/08-12/08) |
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Murder Trial Tonight V - Death in the Family O2 City Hall Newcastle (3/27-3/27) |
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What The Ladybird Heard At Christmas Royal & Derngate (11/28-12/31) |
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The Dance Plague of 1518 Upstairs at the Gatehouse (8/11-8/13) |
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Pinocchio: The Pantomime Whitby Pavilion Theatre (12/04-12/05) |
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Count Arthur Strong - And Its Goodnight From Me! Loughborough Town Hall (5/07-5/07) |
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Count Arthur Strong - And Its Goodnight From Me! King's Hall (4/21-4/21) |
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Summer Season 2026 Programme Thorington Theatre, Suffolk (5/22-8/31) |
