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The best theatre shows in London for 2026 not to miss
From ‘Beetlejuice the Musical’ to Cynthia Erivo’s ‘Dracula’, it’snaother huge year for London theatre
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Jonathan Bailey and Ariana Grande will star in ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ at the Barbican
The ‘Wicked’ couple will reunite for what may well be the single most musical theatre thing to have ever happened
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Here’s what the new Punchdrunk show is
There will be no reviews for ‘Lander 23’. But the immersive legends let us take a look anyway
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The 10 best new London theatre shows opening in January 2026
From High Noon to Cirque du Soleil, it’s a busy start to the London theatre year
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The best London theatre shows of 2025
The London theatre year is over – here were the ten best things to happen in it
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The Tempest
As a schoolchild in the late ‘90s I swear to god I saw a production of The Tempest – I think at Malvern Theatre – that mostly consisted...
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Cable Street
The far right on the streets, an agenda-filled press and a nation caught in a cost-of-living crisis being encouraged to blame immigrants for its...
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Mrs President
History has not been kind to Mary Todd Lincoln. Wife to one of America’s most mythologised presidents, she became, conveniently, the ‘mad...
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Wicked
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Immersive theatre town experience Phantom Peak is opening a new venue in London
The Wild West-themed interactive town will close its original outpost in February
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Tickets are now on sale for the huge new Frank Sinatra musical coming to London’s West End in summer 2026
Set on a fateful night in 1942, big budget bio drama ‘Sinatra the Musical’ touches down this summer at Aldwych Theatre
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Adrian Lester returns to London’s West End to star in ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’
He’ll don a big fake nose for his first West End role in a decade, a transfer for the RSC’s Stratford-upon-Avon hit at the Noël Coward Theatre
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Old Vic
One of London's most storied theatres, the Old Vic – which opened its doors in 1818 – was the first home of the National Theatre, under the...
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National Theatre
Arguably the greatest theatre in the world, the Royal National Theatre is also one of London's most recognisable landmarks and perhaps this country's foremost...
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Royal Court Theatre
London's premiere new writing theatre, the Royal Court made its name in the 1950s when it was synonymous with kitchen sink dramas and the Angry Young Men, and...
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Shakespeare's Globe
Built in 1599 and destroyed by fire in 1613, the original Globe Theatre was at the heart of London’s seedy South London entertainment district in William...
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Lyric Hammersmith
A beacon of culture in Hammersmith, the Lyric's distinctive look is largely down to a fusion of the building's 1970s structure, the theatre's Victorian...