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: London Palladium
- First Preview: June 14, 2025
- Opening: June 27, 2025
- Book and Lyrics: Tim Rice
- Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Director: Jamie Lloyd
- Cast: Rachel Zegler, Diego Andres Rodriguez, James Olivas, Aaron Lee Lambert, Bella Brown
Fueled by ambition and passion, Eva Per贸n rose from poverty to become the most powerful woman in Latin America. A symbol of hope to many Argentines, her star shone brightly as she captured the nation鈥檚 heart and divided its soul.
- Theatre: Theatre Royal Bath
- First Preview: June 27, 2025
- Opening: July 3, 2025
- Playwright: David Hare
- Director: Jeremy Herrin
- Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Raison, Sharif Afifi, Tom Kanji, Harriet Leitch, Helena Lymbery, Jordan Metcalfe, Jo Mousley, Damian Myerscough, Guy Paul, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Saskia Strallen, Kathryn Wilder
Grace Pervades tells the extraordinary story of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, the greatest stars of the Victorian stage, and Ellen's troubled and brilliant children - Edith Craig and Edward Gordon Craig - who made their own profound contribution to the development of British theatre.
- Theatre: Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
- First Preview: June 28, 2025
- Opening: July 8, 2025
- Playwright: Dominic Cooke
- Director: Tinuke Craig
- Cast: Corinna Brown, Noah Valentine
By a secluded beach Callum and Sephy meet in secret; life-long friends living on separate sides of a divided world. When Callum, from a Nought family, is accepted to Sephy鈥檚 prestigious Cross school, will it bring them closer, or will the hate and fear that surrounds them drive them apart?
- Theatre: The Old Vic
- First Preview: June 24, 2025
- Opening: July 9, 2025
- Book: Conor McPherson
- Music and Lyrics: Bob Dylan
- Director: Conor McPherson
- Cast: Colin Bates, Katie Brayben, Colin Connor, David Ganly, Steffan Harri, Justina Kehinde, Teddy Kempner, Sifiso Mazibuko, Eugene McCoy, Chris McHallem, Maria Omakinwa, Rebecca Thornhill, Lydia White
It鈥檚 1934 and, with life on a knife edge, the community of Duluth are battling their way through the Great Depression. Amongst the dust and the hardship, a鈥痝roup of wayward travellers find each other 鈥� experiencing love, loss, life and everything in between, in a local guesthouse filled with music, hope and soul.
- Theatre: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- First Preview: July 1, 2025
- Opening: July 9, 2025
- Playwright: Beth Steel
- Director: Bijan Sheibani
- Cast: Dorothy Atkinson, Lucy Black, Adrian Bower, Julian Kostov, Aisling Loftus, Sinead Matthews, Ruby Thompson, Philip Whitchurch, Alan Williams
It鈥檚 Sylvia and Marek鈥檚 wedding and you鈥檙e all invited. Over the course of a hot summer鈥檚 day, a family gathers to welcome a newcomer into their midst. But as the vodka flows and dances are shared, passions boil over and the limits of love are tested.
- Theatre: National Theatre (Olivier)
- First Preview: July 3, 2025
- Opening: July 10, 2025
- Playwright: Tim Price
- Director: Rufus Norris
- Cast: Michael Sheen, Remy Beasley, Matthew Bulgo, Ross Foley, Jon Furlong, Daniel Hawksford, Nicholas Khan, Stephanie Jacob, Rebecca Killick, Kezrena James, Tony Jayawardena, Rhodri Meilir, Ashley Mejri, Lee Mengo, Sharon Small
From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin 鈥楴ye鈥� Bevan is often referred to as the politician with greatest influence on our country without ever being Prime Minister. Confronted with death, Nye鈥檚 deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill in an epic Welsh fantasia.
- Theatre: National Theatre (Dorfman)
- First Preview: July 9, 2025
- Opening: July 17, 2025
- Playwright: Shaan Sahota
- Director: Daniel Raggett
- Cast: Adeel Akhtar, Shelley Conn, Dinita Gohil, Thusitha Jayasundera, Humphrey Ker, Fode Simbo, Helena Wilson
The leader of the opposition has been forced to resign in a scandal. Against the odds Angad Singh emerges as the favorite. He could win, he could make history, he could really change things 鈥� as long as his sisters keep their mouths shut.
- Theatre: Eventim Apollo
- Opening: July 18, 2025
- Book: Johnny McKnight
- Music and Lyrics: Douglas Hodge
- Director: Bill Buckhurst
- Cast: Sydnie Christmas, Jeff Brazier, Aston Merrygold, Laura Baldwin, Samuel Thomas, Linford Johnson, Emma Thornett
When fashionista Cruella de Vil plots to swipe all the Dalmatian puppies in town to create her fabulous new fur coat, there鈥檚 trouble ahead for Pongo and Perdi and their litter of adorable, tail-wagging young pups.
- Theatre: Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
- First Preview: July 8, 2025
- Opening: July 18, 2025
- Playwright: Edna Walsh
- Music and Lyrics: Gary Clark and John Carney
- Director: Rebecca Taichman
- Cast: Adam Hunter, Tateyana Arutura, Grace Collender, Harry Curley, Jenny Fitzpatrick, Indiana Hawkes, Cameron Hogan, Lloyd Hutchinson, Jesse Nyakudya, Lochlann 脫 Mear谩in, Matthew Philp, Seb Robinson, Jack James Ryan, Sheridan Townsley, Lucianne McEvoy
It鈥檚 Dublin, 1982, and sixteen year old Conor can鈥檛 catch a break. His parents are fighting, his brother won鈥檛 leave the house and he鈥檚 not fitting in at his new Catholic school. Enter Raphina, a mysterious girl who鈥檚 too cool for school and on the lookout for a modelling job. In an effort to impress, Conor hires her to star in a music video for his band. Only problem is he doesn鈥檛 have a band. Yet.
- Theatre: Savoy Theatre
- First Preview: July 10, 2025
- Opening: July 22, 2025
- Book: Steve Antin and Kate Wetherhead
- Music and Lyrics: Christina Aguilera, Sia, Diane Warren, Todrick Hall, Jess Foley
- Director: Todrick Hall
- Cast: Jess Folley, Todrick Hall, George Maguire, Orfeh, Asha Parker Wallace, Paul Jacob French
When Ali heads to New York City in search of her mother, she finds herself drawn into a dazzling underground world of music and dance that will change her life forever.
- Theatre: National Theatre (Lyttleton)
- First Preview: July 10, 2025
- Opening: July 23, 2025
- Playwright: Suzie Miller
- Director: Justin Martin
- Cast: Rosamund Pike, Jamie Glover, Jasper Talbot
Jessica Parks is smart, compassionate, a true maverick at the top of her career as an eminent London Crown Court Judge. At work she鈥檚 changing and challenging the system one case at a time. But behind the robe, Jessica is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. While managing the impossible juggling act faced by every working mother, an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance. Can she hold her family upright?
- Theatre: Southwark Playhouse
- First Preview: July 17, 2025
- Opening: July 24, 2025
- Book and Lyrics: Mindi Dickstein
- Music: Carmel Dean
- Director: Tara Overfield Wilkinson
- Cast: Chelsea Halfpenny, Naomi Alade, Laura Tyrer, Shahaf Ifhar, Juliette Artigala, Alex Bowen, Molly Cleere, Sam DeFeo, Olivia Hewitt-Jones, Rowan Macpherson, Olivia Mitchell, Billy Roberts, Daniel Robinson
It鈥檚 1987 and young galley cook Tracy has just bought a ten year old, run down yacht. Her plan? To lead the first all-female sailing crew in an ocean race around the world. What is it that makes a person do the unexpected and extraordinary?
- Theatre: Barbican Theatre
- First Preview: July 31, 2025
- Opening: August 6, 2025
- Playwright: Doug Wright
- Director: Lisa Peterson
- Cast: Sean Hayes, Daniel Adeosun, David Burnett, Rosalie Craig, Richard Katz, Ben Rappaport, Eric Sirakian
It鈥檚 1958, and Jack Paar hosts the hottest late-night talk-show on television. His favourite guest? Character actor, pianist, and wild card Oscar Levant. Famous for his witty one-liners, Oscar has a favourite: 鈥淭here鈥檚 a fine line between genius and insanity; I have erased this line.鈥� Tonight, Oscar will prove just that when he appears live on national TV in an episode that Paar鈥檚 audience鈥攁nd the rest of America鈥攚on鈥檛 soon forget.
- Theatre: Harold Pinter Theatre
- Opening: August 6, 2025
- Playwright: Robert Bolt
- Directors: Jonathan Church
- Cast: Martin Shaw, Gary Wilmot, Edward Bennett, Abigail Cruttenden, Nicholas Day, Calum Finlay, Asif Khan, Hari Kang, Sam Parks, Sam Phillips, Louisa Sexton, Timothy Watson, Orlando James, Huw Brentnall
Martin Shaw stars as Sir Thomas More 鈥� scholar, ambassador, Lord Chancellor and friend to King Henry VIII. Above all, he is a man of integrity, loved by the common people and his own family. When Henry demands a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, clearing the way for him to marry Anne Boleyn, the staunchly Catholic Thomas is forced to choose between his loyalty and his own conscience, committing an incredible act of defiance for which he eventually pays the ultimate price...
- Theatre: @sohoplace
- First Preview: August 1, 2025
- Opening: August 7, 2025
- Playwrights: Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
- Directors: Jeremy Herrin and Duncan Macmillan
- Cast: Lenny Henry, Jonny Donahoe, Ambika Mod, Sue Perkins
A nameless protagonist faces a distant father, a suicidal mother, and their own inexplicable deep sadness. And in a spark of childhood genius, they counteract these obstacles by chronicling every brilliant thing in the world鈥攆irst to cheer up their depressed mother, and later for friends, lovers, and themself.
- Theatre: Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
- First Preview: August 2, 2025
- Opening: August 11, 2025
- Book: Alan Jay Lerner
- Music: Frederick Loewe
- Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
- Director: Drew McOnie
- Cast: Danielle Fiamanya, Louis Gaunt, Jasmine Jules Andrews, Edward Baruwa, Norman Bowman, Chrissy Brooke, Cavan Clarke, David Colvin, Gilli Jones, Anne Lacey, Nic Myers, Danny Nattrass
Crash landed in the Highlands of Scotland, WW2 fighter pilots Tommy and Jeff are searching for a way home, whilst just beyond the hills, sisters Fiona and Jean are preparing for a wedding. Over the course of one chance day in the dreamlike village of Brigadoon, their stories entwine. But can love endure in this enchanting place where everything is not quite as it seems?
- Theatre: Theatre Royal Bath
- First Preview: August 15, 2025
- Opening: August 21, 2025
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Director: Ralph Fiennes
- Cast: Gloria Obianyo, Harriet Walter, Dylan Moran, Patrick Robinson, Charlie Rowe
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: Hampstead Theatre
- Opening: September 5, 2025
- Playwright: William Shakespeare
- Director: Max Webster
- Cast: Simon Russell Beale, Emma Fielding, Wendy Kweh, Danny Collins, Thomas Josling, Joel MacCormack, Jerone Marsh-Reid, Sharita Oomeer
When victorious general Titus Andronicus executes his enemy鈥檚 son in a merciless show of vengeance, he has no idea of the evil his actions will incite. As the two sides trade violent acts of retribution, one man revels in the bloodbath.
- Theatre: Garrick Theatre
- First Preview: August 30, 2025
- Opening: September 15, 2025
- Book: Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
- Music and Lyrics: Mel Brooks
- Director: Patrick Marber
- Cast: Andy Nyman, Marc Antolin, Trevor Ashley, Raj Ghatak, Harry Morrison, Joanna Woodward
Down-on-his-luck Broadway producer Max Bialystock schemes with timid accountant Leo Bloom to create the biggest flop in theatre history - only to have it backfire spectacularly, and with thunderous applause.
- Theatre: No毛l Coward Theatre
- Opening: September 18, 2025
- Playwright: Oscar Wilde
- Director: Max Webster
- Cast: Olly Alexander
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: Harold Pinter Theatre
- First Preview: September 12, 2025
- Opening: September 19, 2025
- Playwright: Conor McPherson
- Director: Conor McPherson
- Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Owen McDonnell, Se谩n McGinley, Kate Phillips, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
On a stormy night, four local men gather in an isolated pub in rural Ireland. Their usual banter and everyday lives are disrupted by the arrival of a woman called Valerie. The stories they weave to impress her are gripping, haunting and deeply unsettling. Little do they know that she has a profoundly personal story of her own, the sharing of which will leave them all shaken.
- Theatre: Apollo Theatre
- First Preview: September 22, 2025
- Opening: September 26, 2025
- Playwright: James Graham
- Director: Adam Pearson
- Cast: Alec Boaden, Julie Hesmondhaigh, Tony Hirst, Shalisha James-Davis, Emma Pallant, David Shields
Jacob, a teenager from Nottingham, spends his Saturday nights seeking thrills with his friends. One fateful evening, an impulsive punch leads to fatal consequences. After serving prison time, Jacob finds himself lost and directionless. Searching for answers, Joan and David 鈥� the parents of his victim James 鈥� ask to meet, sparking a profound transformation in Jacob鈥檚 life.
- Theatre: Theatre Royal Bath
- First Preview: October 3, 2025
- Opening: October 9, 2025
- Playwright: Rebecca Lenkiewicz
- Director: Holly Race Roughan
- Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Francesca Annis
Larry is an acclaimed TV celebrity whose life and career are rapidly unravelling. As he is forced to unpick his past and confront his future, the audience are introduced to a collection of unforgettable characters, including his troubled twin brother Richard, his unpredictable former lover Marianne, and his domineering mother Athena.
- Theatre: Royal Court Theatre
- First Preview: October 10, 2025
- Opening: October 16, 2025
- Playwright: Nick Payne
- Director: Marianne Elliott
- Cast: Nicola Walker
A teenager disappears. Time fractures. His mother will never give up hope. The Unbelievers鈥痠s a new play about the moments that shatter our world, and the ones that help us piece it back together.
- Theatre: Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre
- Opening: October 20, 2025
- Playwright: Conor McPherson
- Director: Matthew Dunster
- Cast: TBA
Citizens of Panem. Prepare for an epic spectacle. Follow the journey of fearless heroine Katniss Everdeen as she defies the odds in this gripping tale of courage, hope and unbreakable human spirit.
- Theatre: Wyndham's Theatre
- Opening: November 14, 2025
- Playwright: Arthur Miller
- Director: Ivo van Hove
- Cast: Bryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Paapa Essiedu, Tom Glynn-Carney, Hayley Squires
Respected, self-made businessman Joe prides himself on providing for his wife and their two sons. While wartime delivers profits for the family, it comes at a price when his partner is charged with criminal manufacturing deals, and his eldest son goes missing in action. Peacetime brings little peace of mind as Joe鈥檚 true involvement in the activity begins to surface, and he is suddenly confronted by the consequences of his actions.
- Theatre: Birmingham Repertory Theatre
- First Preview: November 14, 2025
- Opening: November 20, 2025
- Book: Humphrey Ker and David Reed
- Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Lyrics: Tim Rice
- Director: Phillip Breen with Becky Hope-Palmer
- Cast: TBA
It鈥檚 Christmas in Victorian London but in the West End 鈥� where dreams come true and nothing bad ever happens 鈥� a flurry of performers are suddenly dying mid-scene. Scotland Yard rules out foul play鈥ntil the world鈥檚 greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, discovers an intriguing link to The Twelve Days of Christmas. The game is afoot!
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