The latest news on live theatre across the UK — regional productions, touring shows, and local openings.
Milton Keynes Theatre has announced its vibrant Summer Season for 2026, featuring a line-up of West End hits, concerts, drama, comedy, family favourites, dance, and opera.
With countless depictions of Queen Victoria in the media, Daisy Goodwin has managed to create something original and thought-provoking.
BALLET CENTRAL announced its 2026 UK tour, featuring 11 performances from May 14, including London dates at the Britten Theatre in July, with works by Kenneth MacMillan, Ashley Page, and two new commissions.
All new production photos have been released from the UK & Ireland tour of LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL starring Strictly Come Dancing Finalist and West End star Amber Davies.
NIUSIA, a one-woman show by Beth Paterson exploring Jewish identity and intergenerational Holocaust memory, will tour to Brighton and London in May following award-winning runs at the Melbourne, Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe.
CBEEBIES HOUSE PARTY LIVE! announced a UK tour visiting Bury St Edmunds, Derby, Hull, Newport, Northampton, Salford, and York, featuring Andy Day, Mister Maker, and more CBeebies stars in a BSL-interpreted family show.
Actor and yoga professor Mayuri Bhandari brings THE ANTI 'YOGI' to Soho Theatre from 6–16 May 2026, a multimedia solo show using dance, poetry, and live percussion to challenge the commercialization of Western yoga.
THE FRESHWATER FIVE, a debut play about Isle of Wight fishermen convicted of drug smuggling who maintain their innocence, comes to Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre on 1 May as part of a 2026 national tour.
York Theatre Royal has released rehearsal photos from THE PSYCHIC, a new play written and directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman.
To mark its 25th anniversary, the Genesis Foundation will host a limited-ticket showcase and drinks reception at the Royal Court Theatre.
Brighton Festival has announced the full line-up for the 2026 edition of the largest annual curated multi-arts festival in England.
This summer, Belfast TradFest will once again transform the streets and venues of Belfast - a proud UNESCO City of Music.
Good songs and good performances but a curiously mixed message from Sara Bareilles's smash hit show
“Can We Talk About This?” (Work in Progress) by South London comic Fitzgerald Honger will come to the Glitch, Waterloo.
Applications will open for the fourth year of the programme, via the Making Moves webpage on Monday 13 April, the closing date is Sunday 31 May.
Birmingham Hippodrome and leading Midlands artist development organisation, In Good Company, have announced a new partnership.
Shakespeare in the Squares has announced its annual return to London’s outdoor spaces and leafy squares this summer for its tenth anniversary production, Love’s Labour’s Lost
Dissecting how local paranoia is manufactured and the intoxicating pull of conspiracy culture, triple Fringe First Award winners Xhloe and Natasha's new show delves into the dark side of American mythos and the theatre of mass distraction.
Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile—here adapted by Ken Ludwig and directed by Lucy Bailey—arrives on stage with all the glamour and menace you’d hope for: a sun-soaked cruise, a clutch of suspiciously well-dressed passengers, and, inevitably, a murder that sends everything spiralling.
Welsh National Opera will bring 80th Anniversary Season to Milton Keynes Theatre, including The Flying Dutchman and Blaze of Glory! Learn more about the shows here.
The Royal Ballet will present the world premiere of a new work by Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor as part of Wayne McGregor: Alchemies.
English National Ballet and English National Ballet School present a national tour of MY FIRST BALLET: CINDERELLA, a family-friendly adaptation of the classic story designed for young audiences.
Underbelly Boulevard Soho has announced its Summer 2026 season, featuring a mix of cabaret, comedy, magic, and theatre.
PARK THEATRE will present five new productions this summer and autumn, including the world premiere of HOLY FOOL and adaptations of THE PIANIST and BULL.
The newcomer-nominated sketch group CRYBABIES will return to the Edinburgh Fringe in August with their new horror-comedy show, The Scaring, directed by Jon Brittain.
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Love You to Amsemsam and Back Upstairs at the Gatehouse (8/04-8/06) |
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National Dance Company Wales - Blue | Glas Festival Theatre (9/11-9/11) |
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United We Stand Live - Andy Cole & Andy Mitten Nerve Centre (8/15-8/15) |
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Christmas with the Royal Choral Society The Royal Albert Hall (12/07-12/07) |
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Live Odyssey Camden Market (5/22-12/20) |
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Helsinki Leaks ´25: An Inconvenient Peace Upstairs at the Gatehouse (8/19-8/23) |
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Black Panther (12A) The Royal Albert Hall (10/09-10/09) |
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The Go-Between St George’s Theatre (8/20-8/20) |
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Back to the Future The Musical Bristol Hippodrome (10/08-11/21) |
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The Extraordinary Life of a Rat Racer theSpace on the Mile (8/07-8/15) |
