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Wicked Witches - A Popular Panto for Adults!


Gather your friends and frenemies for the most outrageous, salacious panto in town. It's Wicked Witches - A Popular Panto, but this one's after dark ...



Bill Fellows, Katherine Dow Blyton, and More Join GERRY & SEWELL Cast


by Stephi Wild - December 10, 2025

Screen stars have joined the cast of the hit production Gerry & Sewell as it makes its West End debut with a two-week run at the Aldwych Theatre. Learn more here!...

Cast Set For THE LOST LIBRARY OF LEAKE STREET At The Glitch


by Stephi Wild - November 06, 2025

VAULT Creative Arts has announced the cast bringing The Lost Library of Leake Street to life this Christmas. The cast is led by Ronay Poole and Malcolm Jeffries. Learn more here!...

Luke Hereford's NICE THINGS: A QUEER LOVE STORY to Premiere at Pleasance Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 06, 2025

The new play by Luke Hereford will make its world premiere at Pleasance Theatre, London in a production directed by Izzy Rabey and co-produced by Porter's Theatre, Cardiff, where the play will also run....

Jessica Regan's Solo Show 16 POSTCODES Will Make London Premiere at King's Head Theatre


by Stephi Wild - October 22, 2025

Following its critically acclaimed sell-out run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024, The Spontaneity Shop has announced Jessica Regan’s solo show 16 Postcodes will make its London premiere at King’s Head Theatre. ...

Emma Zadow's SWANS ARE ARSEHOLES is Coming to Criterion Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 15, 2025

Acclaimed BBC NC writer and performer Emma Zadow will make her West End debut with a new dark comedy Swans Are Arseholes, staged at the historic Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly Circus....

Interview: 'We're In A Moment of Endurance': Writer and Actor Megan Ita O'Rourke on Grief and Inspiration for Her Play 384 DAYS


by Amber-Rae Stobbs - October 17, 2025

Megan Ita O’Rourke is an actor-writer with a gift for creating stories that share a positive light on vulnerability. During a raw time in her life, after the passing of her father, O’Rourke wrote a poem full of inner thoughts and openness. That very same poem would transform beautifully into her deb...

GWYNETH GOES SKIING Return Engagement Now In Previews at SoHo Playhouse


by A.A. Cristi - October 12, 2025

SoHo Playhouse's return engagement of the smash hit comedy, Gwyneth Goes Skiing, created, directed and performed by Awkward Productions' Linus Karp and Joseph Martin, began previews this weekend....

GWYNETH GOES SKIING to Return To SoHo Playhouse This Fall


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 26, 2025

SoHo Playhouse will present a return engagement of the smash hit comedy, Gwyneth Goes Skiing, created, directed and performed by Awkward Productions' Linus Karp and Joseph Martin. ...

WICKED WITCHES: A POPULAR PANTO! Comes to the Pleasance Theatre


by Stephi Wild - September 18, 2025

This winter, audiences are invited somewhere over the rainbow with Wicked Witches - A Popular Panto!, where they can enjoy a Wicked and The Wizard of Oz inspired pantomime at London’s Pleasance Theatre. ...

Theatre Channel To Launch WHAT THE FRINGE 2025 Live From Edinburgh


by A.A. Cristi - August 14, 2025

Theatre Channel will debut What the Fringe 2025, a brand-new original live broadcast series sponsored by Pleasance Theatre Trust, offering audiences an insider’s view of the world’s largest celebration of live performance. ...

Past Shows

The Glaswegian


A story of Love, Loss and Adventure. Chuck has spent a lifetime in Glasgow, and now on one final bus journey he revisits his past. ...

Speed Dial
Speed Dial
3/8 - 3/12/2022


Tone. Dial. Ring.In finals week a lonely Professor is waiting for a call. When hes chased by the ringing of every phone he passes, he ...

Blowhole
Blowhole
8/31 - 9/11/2021


BLOWHOLE is an outrageously raw and brazenly queer new comedy depicting life and love in your twenties. Written and performed by Benjamin Salmon (Soho Writers ...

Michael Morpurgo’s I Believe in Unicorns


Michael Morpurgos I Believe in Unicorns will be performed at Pleasance Theatre from Wednesday 31st July Monday 26th August, 10.30am at Pleasance Two. The show ...

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