This is a schedule of upcoming London shows, organized by opening date. To view all London shows, upcoming and currently running, check out our London listings page.
- Theatre: Royal Court Theatre
- First Preview: January 16, 2025
- Opening: January 22, 2025
- Playwright: Luke Norris
- Director: Jeremy Herrin
- Cast: Rosie Sheehy, Robert Aramayo, Lena Kaur
A pregnant couple wait for their 20-week scan, as the future they had planned slips through their fingers. A story about starting a family, impossible choices, and enduring love.
- Theatre: Charing Cross Theatre
- First Preview: January 23, 2025
- Opening: January 27, 2025
- Playwright: John Ransom Phillips
- Director: Bronagh Lagan
- Cast: Keala Settle, Hal Fowler
Mary Lincoln is a woman under siege — with her grief, her detractors, and herself. In the shadow of her late husband, President Abraham Lincoln, she battles a world eager to define her and a conscience that will not rest. Accused of treason and shunned by society, she turns to Matthew Brady, the world’s first celebrity photographer to help her reclaim her story. But as the lens turns between them, the power shifts, and their collaboration spirals into a fierce struggle for authorship, truth, and control.
- Theatre: Almeida Theatre
- First Preview: January 22, 2026
- Opening: January 30, 2026
- Book: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
- Music and Lyrics: Duncan Sheik
- Director: Rupert Goold
- Cast: Arty Froushan, Emily Barber, Daniel Bravo, Jack Butterworth, Hannah Yun Chamberlain, Oli Higginson, Kim Ismay, Alex James-Hatton, Anastasia Martin, Millie Mayhew, Posi Morakinyo, Joseph Mydell, Asha Parker-Wallace, Tanisha Spring, Zheng Xi Yong
Patrick Bateman has it all – looks, money, style and status. Engaged to the beautiful Evelyn Williams, he is about to win the prestigious Fischer account for his investment bank and celebrate by dining at Dorsia. But there’s another side to his life that Patrick keeps secret. And people – including those closest to him – keep disappearing…
- Theatre: Aldwych Theatre
- Opening: February 5, 2026
- Playwright: William Nicholson
- Director: Rachel Kavanaugh
- Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Siff, Jeff Rawle, Tony Jayawardena, Timothy Watson
The unexpected love of spirited American poet Joy Davidman transforms the orderly academic life of C.S Lewis – the celebrated author of The Chronicles of Narnia. What begins as a meeting of minds becomes an uplifting and powerful journey of love and the fragile beauty of life.
THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY
- Theatre: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- First Preview: January 29, 2026
- Opening: February 10, 2026
- Book: Rachel Joyce
- Music and Lyrics: Passenger
- Director: Katy Rudd
- Cast: Mark Addy, Jenna Russell, Noah Mullins
Harold Fry was never meant to be a hero. An ordinary man in an ordinary life until a letter from a long-lost friend sends him out the front door… and he keeps on walking. From Devon’s quiet lanes to the windswept streets of Berwick-upon-Tweed, his journey becomes a pilgrimage of love, redemption, and second chances.
- Theatre: Apollo Theatre (Shaftsbury)
- First Preview: January 30, 2026
- Opening: February 12, 2026
- Playwright: Jonathan Lynn
- Directors: Jonathan Lynn and Michael Gyngell
- Cast: Griff Rhys Jones, Clive Francis
Jim Hacker is back — older, but perhaps not wiser, and still utterly baffled by the real world. Hoping for a quiet retirement at the tranquil Hacker College, Oxford, Jim instead finds himself facing the ultimate modern crisis: cancelled by the college committee. Enter the delightfully devious Sir Humphrey Appleby, who has lost none of his love for bureaucracy, Latin phrases, and well-timed obstruction. Can Humphrey outmaneuver the meddling students, the Fellowship, and reality itself? Or is it finally time to say, “I’m Sorry, Prime Minister…”?
- Theatre: Noël Coward Theatre
- First Preview: February 4, 2026
- Opening: February 17, 2026
- Playwright: Kip Williams
- Director: Kip Williams
- Cast: Cynthia Erivo
Cynthia Erivo transforms into all 23 roles in Tony Award® nominated adaptor and director Kip Williams’ intoxicating, blood-pumping reimagining of the immortal gothic horror.
- Theatre: Donmar Warehouse
- First Preview: February 14, 2026
- Opening: February 24, 2026
- Playwright: Anna Ziegler
- Director: Diyan Zora
- Cast: Anastasia Hille, Erin Kellyman
Jennifer is about to become Delilah's stepmother. She wants so badly to connect, but they couldn't be further apart. In a world that’s shifting under their feet, both women have to summon the quiet courage it takes to open their hearts again.
- Theatre: Young Vic Theatre
- First Preview: February 21, 2026
- Opening: March 3, 2026
- Playwright: Arthur Miller
- Director: Jordan Fein
- Cast: Nancy Carroll, Pearl Chanda, Juliet Cowan, Eli Gelb, Alex Waldmann
Brooklyn, New York, 1938. Sylvia Gellburg reads about the violent attacks against Jewish communities carried out an ocean away in Germany. Most people look away, believing it will pass. Not Sylvia. Her obsession grows and soon she loses her ability to walk — a paralysis her husband, Phillip, believes is all in her head. Sylvia forms an undeniable bond with Dr Hyman and soon the cracks in her marriage become impossible to ignore. In the face of silence, Sylvia rises in defiance.
- Theatre: @sohoplace
- First Preview: February 28, 2026
- Opening: March 6, 2026
- Playwright: George Brant
- Director: Monique Touko
- Cast: Beverley Knight, Ntombizodwa Ndlovu
Mississippi, 1946. Sister Rosetta has changed the face of gospel music with her exuberant, electric guitar-playing style. Shunned by straitlaced church folk for performing in nightclubs and glorying in rhythm and blues, she’s persuaded the saintly young singer Marie to join her on a tour of the segregated southern States. But first she has to convert Marie’s pure Sunday sound into something that has just a little more swing…
- Theatre: Royal Court Theatre
- First Preview: March 20, 2026
- Opening: March 26, 2026
- Playwright: Kimberly Belflower
- Director: Danya Taymor
- Cast: TBA
At a high school in a rural town in Georgia, an English class is studying The Crucible, but the students are more preoccupied with navigating young love, sex ed, and a few school scandals. As they delve into the American classic, the students begin to question the play’s perspective and the validity of naming John Proctor the show’s hero.
- Theatre: Harold Pinter Theatre
- First Preview: March 16, 2026
- Opening: March 31, 2026
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Director: Robert Icke
- Cast: Sadie Sink, Noah Jupe
In Verona, in the height of summer, two young people meet at a party. The rest is tragedy. Robert Icke directs Shakespeare’s electrifying and timeless tragic tale of love and innocence.
- Theatre: Shaftesbury Theatre
- First Preview: March 20, 2026
- Opening: April 16, 2026
- Book: Jeff Whitty
- Music and Lyrics: Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx
- Director: Jason Moore
- Cast: TBA
Fresh out of college and searching for his purpose, Princeton ends up in a shabby apartment on New York’s rundown Avenue Q. He quickly meets his new and colorful neighbors where together they navigate the life struggles of work, love and paying the bills in their own hilarious way.
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE / GODOT'S TO-DO LIST
- Theatre: Royal Court Theatre
- First Preview: May 8, 2026
- Opening: May 11, 2026
- Writers: Samuel Beckett and Leo Simpe-Asante
- Director: Gary Oldman
- Cast: Gary Oldman
Starring and directed by Gary Oldman, Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape returns to the Royal Court, where it played in 1958, with a new production by York Theatre Royal. Opening the performance every night is Godot’s To-Do List, a new Beckett-inspired short play by Jerwood New Playwright Leo Simpe-Asante.
THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND
- Theatre: @sohoplace
- First Preview: April 25, 2026
- Opening: May 25, 2026
- Book and Lyrics: Richy Hughes
- Music and Lyrics: Tim Sutton
- Director: Lynette Linton
- Cast: Alistair Nwachukwu, Madeline Appiah, Tsemaye Bob-Egbe, Sifiso Mazibuko
In drought-stricken Malawi, a 13-year-old boy dreams of saving his village. Nobody believes he can – not his father, his friends, nor his community. As crops fail and hope runs dry, William finds inspiration in scraps of old machinery and a handful of library books. What he lacks in resources, he makes up for in determination, grit and imagination, and a windmill begins to take shape. Can William defy expectations and harness the power of the wind to bring energy, life, and hope to his people?
