UK THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 50

Alice Birch’s Romans, a novel is an expansive portrait of literary masculinity through the ages.

After a run at the Manchester International Festival, A Single Man, “a vital portrait of queer love and loss,” is currently performing at the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera & Ballet.

Lock a few theatre characters in a room together, sit them around a dinner table and they surely won’t leave without revealing a few hidden resentments, infidelities, or family secrets they thought they’d take to their graves.

Michael McKeever's play mixes fact, gossip, and invention in a spicy drama that offers a biting comment on the grime behind the glitter of Hollywood.

Now that days are getting colder and nights are getting longer, it’s time to get spooky.

Conor McPherson’s modern classic The Weir has opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre, running until 6 December 2025, in a new production directed for the first time by the playwright himself.

The National Theatre’s Dear England, James Graham’s Olivier Award-winning play about Gareth Southgate and the England men’s football team, has begun its first national tour.

The hit romantic musical comedy WAITRESS will return to tour the UK and Ireland, opening at the New Wimbledon Theatre from Saturday 28 March 2026.

A new production of Alan Ayckbourn's psychological comedy WOMAN IN MIND will star Sheridan Smith in a strictly limited West End run at the Duke of York's Theatre.

Hope Mill Theatre has announced the full cast for the special fundraising concert of Victoria Wood's ACORN ANTIQUES THE MUSICAL which will be performed in Manchester and London.

Due to demand, a pre-tour London date has been added to the Samantha Barks Cathedral Tour.

More than 150 artists, actors, musicians, writers, and public figures gathered in London on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, for the sold-out Together for Palestine concert, raising nearly £1.

Birmingham Rep will present its family Christmas classic The Snowman for its 28th year at Sadler’s Wells’ home in the West End, the Peacock Theatre, with a six-week run in November.

Menier Chocolate Factory has announced three upcoming shows beginning performances this winter.

New Wolsey Theatre and Salisbury Playhouse will co-produce a major revival of Daphne du Maurier's Don't Look Now this Autumn.

All new rehearsal photos have been released for the UK and Ireland Tour of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile.

This monthly series of creative conversations with artists about their life, work and process will take place at the Underbelly Boulevard Soho on the first Wednesday of every month led by ESP CEO & Producer James Bierman.

It's fair to say general consensus is never work with your family, yet Amit Noy is doing the exact opposite in his piece A Big Big Room Full of Everybody's Hope.

Incredible as it seems, globally renowned magicians Penn & Teller have finally got around to their first residency in London’s theatre district.

Adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks’ 1968 film of the same name, with lyrics by Brooks and music by Brooks and Glen Kelly.

Paul Coulter’s 5 Mistakes That Changed History is an ingenious historical exploration, which is as sharp in its storytelling as it is rich in historical detail.

More than half of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 835 employees will be eligible to apply for voluntary redundancy amid the company's challenging financial situation.

Voila! Theatre Festival - London's biggest panlingual theatre festival - will return to the capital with its largest programme to date.

The full cast has been announced for the musical stage adaptation and concert performances of THE BOOK THIEF, based on the best-selling novel by Markus Zusak, which also adds two extra performances due to popular demand.

Casting has been announced for a brand-new staging of Into The Woods at the Bridge Theatre.