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Full Cast Set for LAUGHING BOY World Premiere at Jermyn Street Theatre


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 21, 2024

Jermyn Street Theatre has revealed the full cast for the world premiere Laughing Boy, written and directed by Stephen Unwin after Justice for Laughing Boy by Sara Ryan. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets. ...

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Will Transfer to the West End


by Stephi Wild - March 20, 2024

The new musical, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON will transfer to the West End's Ambassadors Theatre from Thursday 10 October 2024. ...

Cast Set For Alan Ayckbourn's A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL at Salisbury Playhouse


by Stephi Wild - March 20, 2024

The cast has been announced for Wiltshire Creative's upcoming production of Alan Ayckbourn's A Chorus of Disapproval, completing their 2024 spring season....

Cast Set For the European Premiere of PASSING STRANGE at the Young Vic


by Stephi Wild - March 14, 2024

The Young Vic Theatre has announced casting for the European premiere of the electrifying Tony, Drama Desk and Critics Circle Award-winning rock musical Passing Strange. ...

Photos: First Look At POLICE COPS: THE MUSICAL At Southwark Playhouse Borough


by A.A. Cristi - March 13, 2024

See first look photos of POLICE COPS: THE MUSICAL at Southwark Playhouse Elephant. The limited run will run through 20 April 2024. After five sell-out years at the Edinburgh Fringe, POLICE COPS return with a new version of their first ever musical. ...

Review: LONDON ZOO, Southwark Playhouse


by Gary Naylor - March 12, 2024

Too much left unexplored in biting satire on the workplace and the emerging new media landscape of the 21st century...

Shelley Conn, Philip Glenister, and Isabella Pappas Will Be Featured in Video Design For INSTRUCTIONS FOR A TEENAGE ARMAGEDDON


by Stephi Wild - February 27, 2024

Shelley Conn (Bridgerton), Philip Glenister (Life on Mars) and Isabella Pappas (Stranger Things: The First Shadow) will feature in the video design for Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon....

Review: CABLE STREET, Southwark Playhouse


by Katie Kirkpatrick - February 27, 2024

To say Cable Street has been highly anticipated would be a gross understatement: it’s basically unheard of for a new, Off West End musical to completely sell out its run before a single review has been published. Nevertheless, this little show that could is absolutely deserving of its success, and s...

Giles Terera and Michael Benz Complete the Cast of POWER OF SAIL at Menier Chocolate Factory


by Stephi Wild - February 26, 2024

The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced that Giles Terera and Michael Benz join the cast of the European première of Paul Grellong's Power of Sail, directed by Dominic Dromgoole. Performances run 20 March – 12 May....

Jamie Muscato Adds Performance at Cadogan Hall This Summer


by Stephi Wild - February 23, 2024

Due to popular demand, West End star JAMIE MUSCATO has added another performance to his live concert at Cadogan Hall on Monday 22 July 2024 at 7.30pm. ...

Past Shows

Garry Starr Performs Everything
Garry Starr Performs Everything
11/29 - 12/23/2023


Disgraced actor Garry Starr defies his critics by performing every style of theatre imaginable, thus saving the performing arts from extinction. Starr tears through genres ...

Sugar Coat
Sugar Coat
3/29 - 4/22/2023


After an acclaimed run at VAULT Festival in 2020, the queer, feminist pop-punk hit Sugar Coat returns to Southwark Playhouse as a timely rallying cry ...

WINDFALL
WINDFALL
2/9 - 3/11/2023


Pushed to the edge by their maniacal boss, five downtrodden office workers decide to risk it all on a $500million lottery ticket in the hope ...

The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville Ghost
10/11 - 11/5/2022


Step right up to Oscar Wilde's uproarious vaudeville spectacular The Canterville Ghost which is coming to haunt and delight audiences at the Southwark Playhouse this ...

Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus
9/1 - 10/1/2022


Bringing the supernatural to Southwark this autumn, Lazarus Theatre Company are transforming Christopher Marlowes Elizabethan tragedy into a multi-sensory theatrical experience. Exploring the modern tragedies ...

Yeast Nation (The Triumph of Life)


The European premiere of a bio-historical musical comedy from the Tony-award winning writers of Urinetown opens at the Southwark Playhouse this summer. Yeast Nation (The ...

Mohand & Peter
Mohand & Peter
3/9 - 4/2/2022


Mohand & Peter from PSYCHEdelight, one of the worlds leading creators of theatre made by refugees. The show is inspired by Mohands own life as ...

Gatsby
Gatsby
12/8 - 1/8/2022


Gatsby: The Musical- A staged musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'...

Gatsby: The Musical


This original retelling of Fitzgeralds classic novel pivots the focus to Daisy, with references to the real woman that inspired her character; his wife, Zelda ...

Exile
Exile
11/7


Its 2016. Donnas life is thrown into disarray when she discovers shes pregnant, forcing her to make a secret journey from her home in Ireland ...

Yellowfin
Yellowfin
10/13 - 11/6/2021


A fiercely original new play fusing politically charged drama with biting comedy, Yellowfin delves into the backroom dealings of a future in which all of ...

Staircase
Staircase
6/23 - 7/17/2021


Not seen in London for more than half a century, Staircase by Charles Dyer (1928 2021) was a West End and Broadway hit at its ...

Staircase
Staircase
6/23 - 7/17/2021


Not seen in London for more than half a century, Staircase by Charles Dyer (1928 2021) was a West End and Broadway hit at its ...

You Are Here
You Are Here
5/17 - 6/12/2021


You Are Here is the UK premiere of an intimate, hilarious and heart-breaking tour-de-force musical that will leave you cheering for the resilience of the ...

The Poltergeist
11/20 - 11/21/2020


Philip Ridley's new play The Poltergeist will no longer be performed in front of a live audience at Southwark Playhouse due to England entering a ...

Lipstick
3/4


Lane Stanley; dir: Andy Rogow. World Premiere...


The Last Five Years, a poignant and unconventional musical by Jason Robert Brown, explores the complexities of love and relationships through a fragmented timeline. Unlike ...


Seven classic pantomimes for the price of one! The great British festive tradition returns to the West End, in a whistle-stop tour for all the ...

Superstar
11/26

Islander: A New Musical
Islander: A New Musical
10/2 - 10/26/2019


Eilidh stares out to sea and dreams of a new life beyond her lonely island. Myth and reality collide when the tide washes a mysterious ...

Frankenstein
10/25


In its premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse, the audiences and critics cheered this new adaptation of one of the greatest novels in the English ...

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