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A play that deserves a larger audience in 2025

Traditional fringe panto offers value and and the comfort of familiarity and escapism at Christmas

Watch a video of the Mean Girls cast playing Fetch or Not Fetch! Find out what the cast thinks of Boxing Day Leftovers, leaving food out for Santa, yorkshire puddings on a Christmas dinner, matching family pajames, inflatable snowmen, and more!

From the bold new musicals aimed at Gen Z audiences, to classic play revivals and experimental dance productions, London has offered a variety of shows across its stages this year.

When circus is performed well, it is as high an art form as perfectly executed ballet or impeccable Shakespearean oratory.

Pan is back with songs and spectacle and a lesson about what really matters in life

The Jamie Lloyd Company presents The Tempest,  the first production in a season of Shakespeare in London’s iconic Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

As achingly monotone as it is aggressively monochrome.

Joint CEOs Artistic Director Paul Hart and Executive Director Claire Murray, and the whole team at Newbury's Watermill Theatre has announced full casting for the first show in the 2025 season, The Autobiography of a Cad.

For a family living in London, there is a diverse catalogue of Christmas shows ripe for attendance.

BroadwayWorld is excited to debut the exclusive track 'Mama Ma' from the world premiere recording of the National Theatre production of Phaedra.

Tiny and Tall Productions are heading on a UK tour with a stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie's best-selling children's book The Detective Dog.

See what the critics are saying about Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Almeida Theatre.

Watch a new trailer video for RSC's production of Twelfth Night, directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah.

With enough vim and vigour to light up the nearby town hall, Revel Puck Circus brings The Ruckus back to their hometown of Walthamstow as part of their Winter Festival.

Rick Astley returns to the Royal Albert Hall for his Swinging Christmas big band concert.

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Kingsley Ben-Adir lead a fine cast in an impressive, if gruelling, examination of the destructive power of mendacity

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical will be extending its run at The Other Palace in London.

Virginia Gay's Cyrano is billed as 'after Edmond Rostand' and is far more than a faithful adaptation of the classic tragic tale of doomed romance.

The National Theatre has announced that Gwilym Lee will play former England manager Gareth Southgate in the return of James Graham’s production of Dear England at the Olivier Theatre.

In an evolving year of children’s theatre, the themes of climate change and sustainability reign supreme, with a lean towards immersive and inclusive theatre with excellent changes in the industry meaning prior access resources are provided as a matter of course.

Watch a scene from All's Well That Ends Well at Shakespeare's Globe.

Watch the production trailer video for Robin Hood and the Christmas Heist now! The cast includes Matthew Ganley as Robin Hood, Emma Manton as Marian, Andrew Whitehead as Sherriff of Nottingham, and Jodie Cuaresma as Much.

This February, the Southbank Centre will host the annual Imagine Children's Festival - London's leading arts festival for families.

Discover what the critics thought about Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 at London's Donmar Warehouse.