The latest news on live theatre across the UK — regional productions, touring shows, and local openings.
Relish Theatre will present Acid's Reign After Dark, a one-night-only late-night event at Pleasance London hosted by RuPaul's Drag Race UK finalist Bimini, featuring cabaret, live performances, and more.
Hundreds of secondary school students from across Greater London will perform at Cadogan Hall for Step Live 2026, the annual dance event run by Step into Dance, a partnership between Royal Academy of Dance and Jack Petchey Foundation.
Bilston Operatic Company announced full casting for WE WILL ROCK YOU at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, marking the company's 99th year and 64th production at the venue, with Connor Welch as Galileo and Lara Pugh as Scaramouche.
West End star Lucie Jones will return to reprise the role of Jenna in the UK and Ireland tour of the smash hit romantic musical comedy WAITRESS, playing King's Theatre, Glasgow, Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield and Lowry, Salford.
Olivier Award-winning actress Janie Dee has been appointed patron of Buxton Opera House, joining Lady Jasmine Cavendish in the role.
Talawa, the UK's leading Black British theatre company, will mark its 40th anniversary with a black carpet showcase at Hackney Empire, featuring live music, performances, and excerpts spanning four decades.
Whether you grew up with the 1968 film or are learning about it for the first time, this Chitty Chitty Bang Bang proves that with some imagination, theatrical magic can come from the simplest things.
Five major regional theatres — Birmingham Hippodrome, Leeds Heritage Theatres, Norwich Theatre, Newcastle Theatre Royal, and Marlowe Canterbury — launched RITA at Westminster, presenting data showing £781m in projected five-year economic impact.
You can now get a first look inside rehearsals for The Swamp Dwellers at Utopia Theatre Creative Hub in Sheffield, UK.
Play Nicely Theatre's one-woman show about coercive relationships and societal pressures on women, There is a Light and a Whistle for Attracting Attention, will tour Norwich, Buxton, Manchester, and London.
Scottish playwright George Grant's In the Cold Light, an EdFringe Leading Light Prize nominee, will make its debut at Canal Café Theatre in Little Venice, London, for three performances only.
All new photos have been released from the rehearsal room for Million Dollar Quartet at the Barn Theatre in Cirencester.
Cafe 1001 announced details of its anniversary celebration, a two-day event taking place at its longstanding home on Brick Lane.
Polka Theatre will present a full summer season including ARTHUR, a new co-production based on Arthurian legend, and THERE'S A TIGER IN THE GARDEN, adapted from Lizzy Stewart's award-winning book, alongside workshops and immersive shows for young audiences.
Iranian comedian Sepideh Kaav brings her solo hour 1979: PERSIANALITY DISORDER to Edinburgh Fringe, blending dark comedy and political satire about growing up Iranian, exile, and survival.
Leicester’s Curve theatre has revealed this year’s festive production for children and families, a new stage adaptation of Kes Gray’s DAISY AND THE TROUBLE WITH CHRISTMAS, which will run in Curve’s Studio Theatre.
Stiwdio Clwyd has announced the inaugural cohort for Tearing The Roof Off, a major new artist development initiative designed to support the next generation of Welsh theatre-makers as they expand their practice and step into larger creative spaces.
Pleasance London's Autumn 2026 theatre season brings together ambitious new work, international collaboration, emerging voices and returning favorites, as the venue celebrates 30 years of championing artists and new ideas.
Heartbreaking, thought-provoking and beautifully staged, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is one of those productions that stays with you.
Phil&Ben Productions and PW Productions announced a UK tour of Frederick Knott's classic thriller DIAL M FOR MURDER, premiering in Eastbourne before visiting multiple cities as part of a collaboration to revitalise mid-scale touring drama.
Imitating the Dog and The Dukes co-produce REMEMBER ROMEO, a multimedia stage production intertwining Shakespeare's tragedy with an original story of love, lost memory, and ageing, opening at The Dukes in Lancaster before touring UK venues and Switzerland.
The Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough will present the first ever in-the-round staging of CALENDAR GIRLS THE MUSICAL, the Gary Barlow and Tim Firth show, as part of a co-production with three other UK theatres.
Lionsgate and GEA Live announced THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON IN CONCERT, a live-to-film UK tour featuring a 12-piece rock and orchestral ensemble performing Alexandre Desplat's score in sync with the full film on a cinema screen.
Journalist and author Robert Nurden's debut play EMPTY, based on his book about men without children, will have its world premiere at London's Drayton Arms Theatre, directed by OFFIE-nominated David Furlong.
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Blue | Glas The Roses Theatre (11/05-11/05) |
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David Moore Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall (10/17-10/17) |
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The Go-Between New Wolsey Theatre (9/04-9/05) |
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Cyrano de Bergerac Norden Farm Centre (6/13-9/05) |
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Steve Steinman''s BAT - Bat Out of Hell 50th Anniversary Tour Vaillant Live, Derby (11/04-11/04) |
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London Community Gospel Choir at Christmas The Royal Albert Hall (12/16-12/16) |
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Trainspotting The Musical The Alexandra (11/30-12/05) |
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The Extraordinary Life of a Rat Racer theSpace on the Mile (8/07-8/15) |
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Trevor Nelson's Soul Christmas The Royal Albert Hall (12/17-12/18) |
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The Go-Between Sheringham Little Theatre (9/14-9/14) |
