- Theatre: Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
- First Preview: July 13, 2024
- Opening: July 23, 2024
- Book, Music, and Lyrics: Yve Blake
- Director: Paige Rattray
- Cast: Eve De Leon Allen, Miracle Chance, Jasmine Elcock, Max Gill, Thomas Grant, Max James Hodge, Terique Jarrett, Lena Pattie Jones, Debbie Kurup, Mary Malone, Gracie McGonigal, Nicky Wong Rush
Meet Edna: she’s 14, she’s a misfit, and she’s in love with Harry. There’s just one problem: Harry’s in the world’s biggest boy band, has 38 million fans, and doesn’t know she exists. When Harry’s band announces a tour stop in Edna’s hometown of Sydney, Australia, she knows this is her destiny – her one chance to meet him. But how on EARTH will she get Harry’s attention?! And exactly how far is she prepared to go in the name of love?
- Theatre: National Theatre (Lyttelton)
- First Preview: July 17, 2024
- Opening: July 25, 2024
- Playwright: Frank Galati, adapted from John Steinbeck
- Director: Carrie Cracknell
- Cast: Cherry Jones
The Joads, a family of sharecroppers in Oklahoma, are driven west by the Depression and the drought of the Dust Bowl, in Frank Galati's adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel.
FANTASTICALLY GREAT WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
- Theatre: The Other Palace
- First Preview: July 20, 2024
- Opening: July 25, 2024
- Book: Chris Bush
- Lyrics: Chris Bush, Miranda Cooper
- Music: Miranda Cooper, Jennifer Decilveo
- Director: Amy Hodge
- Cast: Georgia Grant-Anderson, Elena Breschi, Meg Hateley, Charlotte Jaconelli, Anelisa Lamola, Aaliyah Monk, Summer Priest, Rachel Seirian
Join Jade as she breaks away from her group and finds herself in the Gallery of Greatness, where she meets the incredible wonder women: Frida Kahlo, Rosa Parks, Marie Curie and Emmeline Pankhurst to name just a few.
- Theatre: Riverside Studios
- Opening: July 30, 2024
- Playwright: Sabdra Tsing Lo
- Director: Racky Plews
- Cast: Caroline Aaron, Brooke Adams, Marilu Henner, Melanie Mayron
Welcome to Jules’ stunning Brentwood mansion, where hangry (she's on a sugar cleanse) Marilyn is throwing a surprise birthday brunch for Claudia, who hates birthdays. Champagne corks pop—and tempers flare—when their long-estranged celebrity friend Zoey crashes the party, fresh from her TED Talks.
- Theatre: Sadler's Wells Theatre
- Opening: July 31, 2024
- Book: James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante
- Lyrics: Edward Kleban
- Music: Marvin Hamlisch
- Director: Nikolai Foster
- Cast: Adam Cooper, Carly Mercedes Dyer
A Chorus Line is a stunning concept musical capturing the spirit and tension of a Broadway chorus audition. Exploring the inner lives and bittersweet ambitions of professional Broadway performers, the show features one powerhouse number after another. Memorable musical numbers include "What I Did for Love, "One," "I Can Do That," "At the Ballet," "The Music and the Mirror," and "I Hope I Get It." A brilliantly complex fusion of song, dance, and compellingly authentic drama, A Chorus Line was instantly recognized as a classic.
- Theatre: Park Theatre
- First Preview: July 31, 2024
- Opening: August 3, 2024
- Playwright: Tawni O'Dell
- Director: Jez Bond
- Cast: Amanda Abbington
From New York Times best-selling author Tawni O’Dell comes the powerful true story of a mother desperately trying to hold her family together after a devastating event changes the course of their lives.
- Theatre: Regent's Park Open Air
- First Preview: July 27, 2024
- Opening: August 6, 2024
- Book: Joseph Stein
- Music: Jerry Bock
- Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick
- Director: Jordan Fein
- Cast: Adam Dannheisser, Lara Pulver, Liv Andrusier, Natasha Jules Bernard, Greg Bernstein, Noa Bodgner, Ralph Bogard, Lawrence Boothman, Hannah Bristow, Georgia Bruce, Georgia Dixon, Jonathan Dryden Taylor, David Freedman, Helen Goldwyn, Dickon Gough, Thomas-Lee Kidd, Beverly Klein, Daniel Krikler, Darya Topol Margalith, Gregor Milne, Raphael Papo, Alex Pinder, Michael S. Siegel, Alex Tranter, Dan Wolff, Dylan Saffer
It’s 1905 in the tiny village of Anatevka where Tevye, a Jewish milkman, lives his life by their proud traditions. For his five daughters, that means a visit from the matchmaker… But as each daughter challenges his beliefs, against the backdrop of a changing world, can Tevye hold on to his roots, or must he bend to the will of his children and learn to embrace the unfamiliar?
- Theatre: Charing Cross Theatre
- Opening: August 12, 2024
- Book and Lyrics: James P. Farwell
- Music: Giovanni Paisiello
- Director: John Walton
- Cast: TBA
The Fabulist – named after the term many top-tier magicians use to describe themselves — is a romantic musical comedy set in a movie studio in Tuscany in 1929. A wandering fabulist, Agrofontido, is smitten with the eccentric screenwriter Clarice and seeks her hand. Unfortunately, the characters find that romance can get complicated in a hurry.
- Theatre: Gillian Lynne Theatre
- Opening: August 15, 2024
- Book: L. Frank Baum
- Lyrics: E.Y. Harburg, Tim Rice
- Music: Harold Arlen, Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Director: Nikolai Foster
- Cast: Aston Merrygold, Femi Akinfolarin, The Vivienne, Allan Stewart, Alex Bourne, Aviva Tulley, Benjamin Yates, Nic Greenshields, Emily Bull, Abigail Matthews, David Burrows, Adam Craig, Cole Dunn, Tyler Ephraim, Olivia Kate Holding, Thomas Kalek, Sadie Levett, Kelsie-Rae Marshall, Martin McCarthy, Rose Ouellette, Fanja Parent, Alexandra Regan, Nathan Routledge, Sydney Spencer
- Theatre: Trafalgar Theatre
- Opening: August 16, 2024
- Playwright: John Buchan, adapted by Patrick Barlow from an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon
- Director: Nicola Samer
- Cast: Tom Byrne, Safeena Ladha, Eugene McCoy, Maddie Rice, Jacob Daniels, Hannah Parker
Part espionage thriller and part slapstick comedy, the production features four actors who portray all the characters and all the action from the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film, including the chase atop the Flying Scotsman train, a bi-plane crash and the death-defying finale in London’s Palladium Theatre.
- Theatre: Sadler's Wells Peacock Theatre
- Opening: August 20, 2024
- Book: Randy Johnson
- Music and Lyrics: Various
- Director: Randy Johnson
- Cast: Mary Bridget Davies, Sharon Sexton
With a voice like whiskey and a laugh like pure joy, Janis Joplin took the music scene by storm. Simultaneously rough and vulnerable, Joplin was dubbed the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, proving music wasn’t just a man’s world anymore. Packed with classic songs (“Piece of My Heart, “Summertime,” “Mercedes Benz”), the show also shines the spotlight on trailblazers who influenced Janis – like Bessie Smith, Etta James and Aretha Franklin.
- Theatre: Theatre Royal Bath
- First Preview: August 15, 2024
- Opening: August 21, 2024
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Director: Ralph Fiennes
- Cast: Gloria Obianyo, Harriet Walter
For Rosalind and Orlando, it is love at first sight, but family feuds are destined to keep the young would-be lovers apart. When Rosalind is banished from the court of Duke Frederick, she runs away with her cousin Celia to the Forest of Arden, where they explore new identities and find that the forest is a place where the possibilities for love and connection are infinite.
- Theatre: Garrick Theatre
- Opening: August 27, 2024
- Book, Music and Lyrics: Lucy Moss, Toby Marlow
- Director: Lucy Moss
- Cast: Jo Foster, Leesa Tulley, Noah Thomas
Two perpetually single friends can't figure out why they're so single or what to write their next musical about.
- Theatre: Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
- First Preview: August 22, 2024
- Opening: August 29, 2024
- Playwright: Tife Kusoro
- Director: Monique Touko
- Cast: Selorm Adonu, Kadiesha Belgrave, Ebenezer Gyau
Urban legend has it that Baitface steals the faces and lives of Black Boys. All it takes is walking underneath a pair of trainers suspended on a telephone wire, face uncovered. Khaleem, Joy and Kai are just trying to get through school. On the night of an alleged crime, when the spirit of Baitface the Gullyman rears its head, their lives, identities and friendships begin to disintegrate.
- Theatre: Old Vic Theatre
- First Preview: August 22, 2024
- Opening: September 3, 2024
- Playwright: Tom Stoppard
- Director: Max Webster
- Cast: James McArdle
Playwright Henry and actress Annie fall in love while cheating on their spouses, then marry and cheat on each other, unable to let his intense intellect and her intense emotions keep them from appreciating their love.
- Theatre: Marylebone Theatre
- Opening: September 5, 2024
- Conceived by Alisa Khazanova
- Director: Maxim Didenko
- Cast: Alisa Khazanova, Valentin Tszin
A searing multimedia performance based on the last words of women accused of political crimes in Russian courts, The Last Word is conceived and performed by acclaimed actor Alisa Khazanova. These powerful, outspoken messages from the courtroom form one of the last surviving bastions of free speech imaginable in contemporary Russia. The performance brings together the last words of defendants such as Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot, Alla Gutnikova, Sasha Skochilenko, Zarifa Sautieva and others to shine a light on their courage and to paint a timely and devastating picture of Russia’s current regime.
- Theatre: Bush Theatre
- First Preview: September 6, 2024
- Opening: September 12, 2024
- Playwright: Waleed Akhtar
- Director: Anthony Simpson-Pike
- Cast: TBA
Best friends Zaid and Neelam shared a dream: get away, make it as playwrights, build a future where they’re free to be themselves. Together, always. Years later, things are far from what they expected. Zaid’s life has kinda stalled – half out the closet, living at home and still chasing the dream. While Neelam’s has taken a completely different path, as she chooses to prioritise her own happiness. As their lives pull further apart and a mess of things left unsaid hangs between them, it becomes less and less clear if they’ll ever find a way back to each other.
- Theatre: Stage Door Theatre
- First Preview: September 4, 2024
- Opening: September 13, 2024
- Music and Lyrics: Neil Bartram
- Book: Brian Hill
- Director: Robert McWhire
- Cast: TBA
- Theatre: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Opening: September 13, 2024
- Playwright: Samuel Beckett
- Director: James Macdonald
- Cast: Lucian Msamati, Ben Winshaw
Vladimir and Estragon wait on a deserted country road to meet a person named Godot. Killing time with hat tricks and half-remembered stories, they dawdle through one of the greatest dramas of the 20th century. In Beckett’s absurd, anarchic world, life is vaudeville and tragedy, philosophy and confusion, all seamlessly woven together with the playwright’s masterful blend of poetry and humor.
CAKE: THE MARIE ANTOINETTE PLAYLIST
- Theatre: The Other Palace
- Opening: September 13, 2024
- Book: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Tasha Taylor Johnson
- Music and Lyrics: Tasha Taylor Johnson, Jack McManus
- Director: Bronagh Laga
- Cast: Zizi Stralen, Renée Lamb
Combining a multi-genre pop score with 18th century France, Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist, retells a story that sparked a revolution.
Marie Antoinette’s reign was blighted by gossip and scandal. But when she is implicated in a crime to defraud the crown jewellers of a diamond necklace, it is not just her reputation at stake, but the monarchy and France itself.
- Theatre: Young Vic Theatre
- First Preview: September 10, 2024
- Opening: September 17, 2024
- Book: Sarah Ruhl
- Music and Lyrics: Elvis Costello
- Director: Kwame Kwei-Armah
- Cast: Ramin Karimloo, Anoushka Lucas, Stavros Demetraki, Olly Dobson, Emily Florence, Howard Gossington, Andrew Coshan, Sadie-Jean Shirley, Chris Jenkins, Durone Stokes, Vicki Lee Taylor, Annie Wensak, Jasmin Colangelo, Bobby Windebank
When local radio producer Marcia Jeffries interviews drunk drifter “Lonesome Rhodes” in his jail cell, she immediately sees his potential and gives him a slot on her show. But as Lonesome's fans grow more clamorous and the politicians start taking notice, Marcia realizes she has unleashed a force she can no longer control.
- Theatre: The Watermill Theatre
- Opening: September 20, 2024
- Playwright: David Seidler
- Director: Emma Butler
- Cast: TBA
This new production of David Seidler’s play The King’s Speech takes an intimate view of one of life’s most unorthodox relationships between Bertie, the soon-to-be-crowned King George VI, and speech therapist Lionel Logue. As Hitler’s threat on Europe encroaches, Bertie fights his own battle to overcome his speech impediment at the time his country needs him most.
- Theatre: Rose Theatre
- Opening: September 20, 2024
- Playwright: Suzanne Heathcote
- Director: Christopher Haydon
- Cast: TBA
What if you discovered your whole reason for being was not about your life but about making someone else’s possible? Your dreams, your desires, your love for another, all of them irrelevant in a world that values only what you give, without question or condition, to someone you’ve never met and will never know. Memory and reality collide in this stunning new staging that challenges us to think about what it means to be human. What it means to have hope and heart — to love and to lose.
- Theatre: National Theatre (Olivier)
- First Preview: September 11, 2024
- Opening: September 24, 2024
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Director: Lyndsey Turner
- Cast: David Oyelowo, Luke Aquilina, Anushka Chakravarti, Anton Cross, Patrick Elue, Peter Forbes, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Conor McLeod, Jordan Metcalfe, Richard Pryal, Jordan Rhys, Stephanie Street, John Vernon
Unrivalled in the art of war, undefeated on the field of battle, Coriolanus is Rome’s greatest soldier. When a legendary victory brings the opportunity of high office, he is persuaded to stand for election. But while populist politicians tell the people what they want to hear, Coriolanus refuses to play the game. As Rome’s most celebrated warrior becomes its most dangerous enemy, the future of the city and its hero hang in the balance.
- Theatre: King's Head Theatre
- First Preview: September 18, 2024
- Opening: September 24, 2024
- Playwright: Jonathan Tolins
- Director: Kirk Jameson
- Cast: Rob Madge
Meet Alex, an out-of-work actor who finds himself working beneath Barbra Streisand’s Malibu home in her legendary basement shopping mall. A big hit in New York and London, Buyer & Cellar is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs.
- Theatre: Gillian Lynne Theatre
- Opening: September 24, 2024
- Playwright: Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power
- Director: Sam Mendes
- Cast: John Heffernan, Aaron Krohn, Howard W. Overshown, Cat Beveridge, Anyssa Neumann
On a cold September morning in 1844, a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers, and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish - Lehman Brothers - spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, triggering the largest financial crisis in history.
- Theatre: Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
- First Preview: September 20, 2024
- Opening: September 26, 2024
- Playwright: Michael Rosenblatt
- Director: Nicholas Hytner
- Cast: John Lithgow, Elliot Levey
It’s the summer of 1983, The Witches is about to hit the shelves and Roald Dahl is making last-minute edits. But the outcry at his recent, explicitly antisemitic article won’t die down. Across a single afternoon at his family home, and rocked by an unexpectedly explosive confrontation, Dahl is forced to choose: make a public apology or risk his name and reputation.
- Theatre: Menier Chocolate Factory
- First Preview: September 21, 2024
- Opening: September 27, 2024
- Playwright: Arthur Wing Pinero, adapted by Nancy Carroll
- Director: Paul Foster
- Cast: George Blagden, Nancy Carroll, Joe Edgar, Phoebe Fildes, Rosalind Ford, Dom Hodson, Dillie Keane, Nicholas Rowe, Laurence Ubong Williams, Romaya Weaver, Matthew Woodyatt
- Theatre: Harold Pinter Theatre
- Opening: October 1, 2024
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Director: Max Webster
- Cast: David Tennant, Cush Jumbo, Moyo Akandé, Annie Grace, Brian James O’Sullivan, Casper Knopf, Cal MacAninch, Kathleen MacInnes, Alasdair Macrae, Rona Morison, Noof Ousellam, Raffi Phillips, Jatinder Singh Randhawa, Ros Watt, Benny Young
When three witches deliver some surprising prophecies, Macbeth hatches a plan to murder the king and claim the throne for himself. Provoked by his wife and preoccupied with greed, Macbeth begins his tragic descent into madness.
- Theatre: National Theatre (Dorfman)
- First Preview: September 25, 2024
- Opening: October 2, 2024
- Playwright: Tanika Gupta
- Director: Pooja Ghai
- Cast: Raj Bajaj, Natalie Dew, Marc Elliott, Stephen Fewell, Shobna Gulati, Avita Jay, Meera Syal, Zubin Varla
An ambitious Michelin-Star chef, Queenie is used to having the last word. But when her children notice gaps in her memory and her grip on reality loosening, they are faced with an impossible choice. As Raj, Gopal and Kamala battle to reconcile their life-long duty to their mother, the ramifications of their decision take on a heartbreaking permanence.
- Theatre: Gielgud Theatre
- First Preview: September 21, 2024
- Opening: October 3, 2024
- Playwright: Sean O'Casey
- Director: Matthew Warchus
- Cast: Mark Rylance, J. Smith-Cameron
Jack Boyle is out of work and determined to stay that way. He postures and drinks with his sidekick Joxer while his long-suffering wife Juno struggles to support their family and maintain their dilapidated tenement flat. Their son Johnny, crippled fighting in the revolution, cowers indoors to avoid the bitter new civil war, while his sister Mary considers her options for the future. When a handsome visitor arrives with news of an inheritance, the family begins to plan their new life, but their apparent salvation soon reveals itself to be the cause of their ruin.
- Theatre: Wyndham's Theatre
- Opening: October 4, 2024
- Playwright: Robert Icke, adapted from Sophocles
- Director: Robert Icke
- Cast: Mark Strong, Lesley Manville
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK
- Theatre: Marylebone Theatre
- Opening: October 4, 2024
- Playwright: Nathan Englander
- Director: Patrick Marber
- Cast: Joshua Malina
Adapted from Nathan Englander's Pulitzer finalist short story of the same name, the play follows two high school friends who, after years apart, reunite at a dinner party with their respective husbands that goes off the rails.
- Theatre: Trafalgar Theatre
- Opening: October 5, 2024
- Playwright: John Webster, adapted by Zinnie Harris
- Director: Zinnie Harris
- Cast: Jodie Whittaker
Recently widowed and in search for a new lease of life, the Duchess defies her family’s wishes by remarrying beneath her class. However, when her brothers, driven by insurmountable greed and rage, discover her second marriage they unleash a series of cruel and devastating punishments against her that repress her power. But will their vicious atrocities come back to haunt them?
- Theatre: National Theatre (Lyttelton)
- First Preview: September 27, 2024
- Opening: October 8, 2024
- Playwright: Alexander Zeldin
- Director: Alexander Zeldin
- Cast: Lee Braithwaite, Emma D'Arcy, Jeremy Killick, Tobias Menzies, Nina Sosanya
Two sisters reunite on the anniversary of the death of their father. Their uncle has remodelled their family home, in an attempt at a fresh start. But one sister’s sudden reappearance threatens to shatter this fragile idyll as she demands justice for the pain she carries. Amid the debris and the new extension, guilt, grief and greed battle it out in the family’s competing dreams of their future. When we are faced with the suffering of others, even those closest to us, can we look away?
- Theatre: Noel Coward Theatre
- Opening: October 8, 2024
- Playwright: Armando Ianucci, Sean Foley
- Director: Sean Foley
- Cast: Steve Coogan
- Theatre: Donmar Warehouse
- First Preview: October 4, 2024
- Opening: October 10, 2024
- Playwright: Lindsey Ferrentino
- Director: Justin Martin
- Cast: Adrien Brody
Nick’s got a story to tell you. About how a routine traffic stop turned into a conviction for murder. About how he spent the next 22 years on Death Row. About how he finally petitioned the court to ask not for an appeal, but for his execution date. And about what happened next…
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
- Theatre: Ambassadors Theatre
- First Preview: October 10, 2024
- Opening: TBA
- Book: Jethro Compton
- Music: Darren Clark
- Lyrics: Jethro Compton, Darren Clark
- Director: Jethro Compton
- Cast: TBA
Under the light of a full moon, something most curious occurs… Benjamin Button is born old. Bound to the fate of growing younger each day, Benjamin wants nothing more than to live a little life. But will he ever find a place to belong? Only time and tide will tell…
- Theatre: Bush Theatre
- First Preview: October 9, 2024
- Opening: October 14, 2024
- Playwright: Azan Ahmed
- Director: Esme Allman
- Cast: Azan Ahmed
Days after his father’s passing, English teacher Yusuf discovers a dusty mixtape that changes everything he knew about a man who barely spoke. Turns out, Mustafa spent the 90s rapping about pretty girls and Kilburn life, plotting dreams of superstardom with his best friend Omar. How did this passionate wordsmith become a silent statue? Yusuf’s mourning is overtaken by a journey into the past. Threaded together by Omar’s thumping beats and his father’s bars, Yusuf uncovers secrets that turn his world upside-down.
THE FORSYTE SAGA - PARTS 1 AND 2
- Theatre: Park Theatre
- First Preview: October 11, 2024
- Opening: October 18, 2024
- Playwright: John Galsworthy
- Director: John Roche
- Cast: TBA
London, 1886. Wealthy solicitor Soames Forsyte is a man of property, and his beautiful wife Irene is his most prized possession. When he commissions an architect to build him a house in which to keep her, the cracks in their marriage finally begin to show, until something happens so shocking that it tears the Forsyte family apart. Years later, Soames’ daughter Fleur is haunted by the family secret when history begins to repeat itself…
- Theatre: Hope Mill Theatre
- First Preview: October 17, 2024
- Opening: October 20, 2024
- Book: Tim Maner
- Lyrics: Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner
- Music: Alan Stevens Hewitt, Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer
- Director: William Whelton
- Cast: TBA
Lizzie The Musical explores the life of Lizzie Borden, who was accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an axe in the late summer of 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts. The musical delves into her complex psyche and speculates on the motivations she may have had: loss of inheritance, history of sexual abuse, oppression, and madness.
- Theatre: Barbican Theatre
- Opening: October 22, 2024
- Playwright: Emma Rice and Hanif Kureishi
- Director: Emma Rice
- Cast: TBA
South London in the late seventies. High unemployment, high inflation, food shortages and strikes. But despite the winter of discontent, 17-year-old Karim’s life is about to explode into glorious technicolour as he navigates a path to enlightenment. Or at the very least, Beckenham.
- Theatre: Dominion Theatre
- Opening: October 24, 2024
- Book: Kate Wetherhead
- Music: Elton John
- Lyrics: Shaina Taub
- Director: Jerry Mitchell
- Cast: Vanessa Williams, Georgie Buckland, Amy Di Bartolomeo, Matt Henry
Runway magazine. The supreme authority of the high-fashion world, and the new home of assistant Andy Sachs. It’s a position a million people would kill for, but under the sharp stilettos of Runway’s legendary editor-in-chief, Miranda Priestly, the job is no dream. Up against Miranda’s blistering leadership and stratospheric expectations, Andy is pushed to the edge, forced to choose between her career and her own happiness. Based on the hit film and featuring an all-star creative team, The Devil Wears Prada, The Musical is a glamorous and hilarious story about finding your place and discovering what matters most.
- Theatre: Wilton's Music Hall
- Opening: October 29, 2024
- Libretto: W.S. Gilbert
- Music: Arthur Sullivan
- Director: Sasha Regan
- Cast: TBA
Frederic, mistakenly apprenticed to a band of pirates when a child, is now out of his indentures and, once free, vows to devote himself to the pirates' extermination. However, when a secret of his birth is revealed, Frederic finds his sense of duty put to the test.
- Theatre: Bush Theatre
- First Preview: November 9, 2024
- Opening: November 14, 2024
- Playwright: Beru Tessema
- Director: Daniel Bailey
- Cast: TBA
Manny dreams of being a big dog – but right now he’s hocking fake designer goods, living with his mum and dealing with her new boyfriend. The glittery skyscrapers of Canary Wharf he sees out the window every day have never seemed so far away. But when his best friend offers him a way to make money faster than he could ever imagine, he pulls his whole family into a world that’s almost too good to be true.
- Theatre: Old Vic Theatre
- First Preview: November 9, 2024
- Opening: November 20, 2024
- Playwright: Jack Thorne, adapted from Charles Dickens
- Director: Matthew Warchus
- Cast: TBA
Transporting audiences to a bitterly chilly Christmas Eve night, a hard-hearted miser is visited by four ghosts, who take him on a journey to worlds past, present and future. But will Scrooge save himself from the results of a lifetime of fear and selfishness, now that he can see the ramifications of his lonely existence?
- Theatre: The Other Palace
- Opening: November 23, 2024
- Book: Joe Tracz
- Music and Lyrics: Rob Rokicki
- Director: Lizzi Gee
- Cast: TBA
Adapted from the book Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Percy Jackson, the 12-year-old son of Poseidon, struggles with dyslexia and ADHD as he's pulled into an unfamiliar, mythological world full of treacherous encounters and challenges thrust upon him by the Greek Gods.
- Theatre: Bush Theatre
- First Preview: November 19, 2024
- Opening: November 25, 2024
- Playwright: Eleanor Tindall
- Director: Emily Aboud
- Cast: TBA
Ivy has life sorted; she’s got a flat, a boyfriend and she knows exactly where it’s all headed. Except there is this thing that she tries not to think about. The thing she left in her childhood bedroom. Ash is having the time of her life. Fresh from leaving a bad relationship, she’s got no idea what’s next. But there’s something about her new flat. The wallpaper pulses and sometimes it sounds like a heartbeat. Two women. A chance meeting. Giddy kisses they never should have shared. Tender is the story of two people who find each other without even knowing they were looking.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
- Theatre: National Theatre (Lyttelton)
- First Preview: November 20, 2024
- Opening: November 28, 2024
- Playwright: Oscar Wilde
- Director: Max Webster
- Cast: Sharon D Clarke, Ncuti Gatwa, Hugh Skinner, Richard Cant, Amanda Lawrence, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen
Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so. While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy takes on a similar facade. Unfortunately, living a double life has its drawbacks, especially when it comes to love. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.
- Theatre: Barbican Theatre
- Opening: December 3, 2024
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Director: Eleanor Rhode
- Cast: Matthew Baynton
With Mathew Baynton (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) as Bottom, this hilarious production of Shakespeare’s captivating comedy will transport you from deepest midwinter to the most magical of midsummer nights. As four young lovers are faced with the prospect of unhappy marriage or worse, they flee the court of Athens and stumble into an enchanted forest, where the real and fairy worlds collide.
- Theatre: National Theatre (Olivier)
- First Preview: November 23, 2024
- Opening: December 5, 2024
- Playwright: Noel Streatfeild, Kendall Feaver
- Director: Katy Rudd
- Cast: Melanie-Joyce Bermudez, Sonya Cullingford, Jenny Galloway, Nadine Higgin, Helen Lymbery, Xolishweh Ana Richards, Sid Sagar, Grace Saif, Josin Salinger, Daisy Sequerra, Eryck Brahmania, Cordelia Braithwaite, Michelle Cornelius, Courtney George, Georges Hann
In a crumbling house full of dinosaur bones and fossils, three adopted sisters – Pauline, Petrova and Posy – are learning who they are and what they want to be. Under the watchful eyes and guidance of their guardian Sylvia, Nana, and some unlikely lodgers, they fight to pursue their individual passions. But in a world that wasn’t built for women with big ambitions, can they forge a future, keep their family together, and even learn a dance or two along the way?
- Theatre: Menier Chocolate Factory
- First Preview: November 26, 2024
- Opening: December 9, 2024
- Book: Mel Brooks, Thomas Meehan
- Music and Lyrics: Mel Brooks
- Director: Patrick Marber
- Cast: TBA
Mel Brooks' adaptation of his 1968 film features fading producer Max Bialystock, who convinces accountant Leo Bloom to partner with him in producing Springtime for Hitler, a guaranteed flop, and then running off with the money they've raised.
NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812
- Theatre: Donmar Warehouse
- First Preview: December 7, 2024
- Opening: December 16, 2024
- Book, Music, and Lyrics: Dave Malloy
- Director: Tim Sheader
- Cast: TBA
Arriving in the glittering opulent world of Moscow High Society, the impulsive and romantic Natasha Rostova awaits the return of her fiancé from the front lines. But when she falls under the spell of an intoxicating aristocrat, it is up to the unlikely hero, Pierre, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation.
- Theatre: Old Vic Theatre
- First Preview: January 21, 2025
- Opening: February 4, 2025
- Playwright: Ella Hickson, adapted from Sophocles
- Director: Matthew Warchus and Hofesh Schechter
- Cast: Rami Malek, Indira Varna
- Theatre: Bridge Theatre
- First Preview: February 10, 2025
- Opening: February 18, 2025
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Director: Nicholas Hytner
- Cast: Jonathan Bailey
Richard II is charismatic, eloquent and loved by his friends. And a disastrous King – dishonest, capricious and politically incompetent. Echoing down the centuries is the perennial problem: how to deal with a ruler who has a rock solid right to rule but is set on wrecking the country he leads. Shakespeare’s subtle, ambiguous and beautiful play finds feudal England on the cusp of modernity, as a divinely sanctioned monarch is confronted, in the figure of Henry Bolingbroke, by the hard-headed pragmatism of real authority.
- Theatre: Donmar Warehouse
- First Preview: February 14, 2025
- Opening: February 20, 2025
- Playwright: Anna Mackmin
- Director: Anna Mackmin
- Cast: Tamsin Greig, Celia Imrie
Bo is busy - balancing the pressures of work and the needs of her struggling daughter. When her mother, the irrepressible force-of-nature Beth, is admitted to hospital following a stroke, the practical realities of the present collide with the complexities of their past.
- Theatre: National Theatre (Olivier)
- First Preview: March 10, 2025
- Opening: March 18, 2025
- Playwright: James Graham
- Director: Rupert Goold
- Cast: TBA
The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game? With the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt to take team and country back to the promised land.
- Theatre: Gillian Lynne Theatre
- First Preview: March 8, 2025
- Opening: March 20, 2025
- Playwright: Tom Morton-Smith
- Director: Phelim McDermott
- Cast: TBA
Exploring the magical fantasy world of childhood and the transformative power of imagination, My Neighbour Totoro follows one extraordinary summer in the lives of sisters Satsuki and Mei as they are swept up in exciting adventures with their new neighbours – transported to a long-forgotten realm of spirits, sprites, and natural wonder.
- Theatre: Donmar Warehouse
- First Preview: June 20, 2025
- Opening: June 26, 2025
- Playwright: Lynne Nottage
- Director: Lynette Linton
- Cast: Samira Wiley
New York, 1905. Esther sews exquisite lingerie for women from all walks of life. Successful and fiercely independent, she dreams of opening her own beauty salon, but can’t shake the longing to fall in love. When she begins to receive beautiful letters from a lonesome stranger, it looks like it could just be her ticket to happiness.
