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: 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 – 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’s 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 Ó Mearáin, Matthew Philp, Seb Robinson, Jack James Ryan, Sheridan Townsley, Lucianne McEvoy
It’s Dublin, 1982, and sixteen year old Conor can’t catch a break. His parents are fighting, his brother won’t leave the house and he’s not fitting in at his new Catholic school. Enter Raphina, a mysterious girl who’s 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’t 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’s 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’s 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’s 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: “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity; I have erased this line.” Tonight, Oscar will prove just that when he appears live on national TV in an episode that Paar’s audience—and the rest of America—won’t 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 – 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—first 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: Donmar Warehouse
- First Preview: August 16, 2025
- Opening: August 26, 2025
- Playwright: Mike Bartlett
- Director: James Macdonald
- Cast: Terique Jarrett, Hattie Morahan, Nadia Parkes, Jonathan Slinger, Sam Troughton
Lip and Ruth have left the city behind for a new life on a farm; trying to live differently, live better. But when Ruth’s stepdaughter and her provocative best friend arrive, this quiet rural project is thrown into chaos, as conflicting visions of the future come crashing into the present.
- 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’s 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.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
- Theatre: Noël 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, Seán 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 – the parents of his victim James – ask to meet, sparking a profound transformation in Jacob’s 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 is 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’s true involvement in the activity begins to surface, and he is suddenly confronted by the consequences of his actions.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
- 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’s Christmas in Victorian London but in the West End – where dreams come true and nothing bad ever happens – a flurry of performers are suddenly dying mid-scene. Scotland Yard rules out foul play…until the world’s greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, discovers an intriguing link to The Twelve Days of Christmas. The game is afoot!
