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Magic

By David Haig

'Exclude the impossible and what is left, however improbable, must be the truth.' Harry Houdini is the greatest illusionist the world has ever known. Arthur Conan Doyle is the creator of literature's most brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes. Their mutual admiration blossoms into a profound friendship, even as they discover...

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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

By Hilary Mantel. Adapted by Alexandra Wood

It's late summer, 1983. Out in the street, the world is waiting to greet Margaret Thatcher as she emerges from hospital. Just routine surgery – what on earth could go wrong? But here in this room her life is up for deadly debate… and history is holding its breath. Two people....

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The Psychic

By Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman

Popular TV psychic Sheila Gold loses a high-profile court case, which brands her a charlatan. It costs her not only her reputation, but a fortune in legal fees. When a wealthy couple ask Sheila to conduct a seance to attempt to make contact with their late child, Sheila senses an...

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Recent Openings

Dinner

By Moira Buffini

Omnibus Theatre, London

Previews06 May 2026
Opens/Press Night08 May 2026
Closes24 May 2026
Running Time2 hours
First PerformedNational Theatre London, 2002
Presented ByKai Creative Studio

It's 2002: New Labour reigns, the Enron scandal intensifies, and she's still just Mrs Parker-Bowles. The retro-futuristic sheen of the Y2K cultural revolution is in full swing, pulsing to the iPod beat of Grime and Nu-Metal. But in a fog-bound house, the world recedes and a dinner is served.  Paige is celebrating the publication of her husband's self-help bestseller. Her menu is dramatic and deliberate, all served with the deeply attentive assistance of a vigilant waiter. The eclectic mix of guests – an artist, a scientist and a “news babe” – arrive as planned, until an unexpected stranger is disgorged from the darkness.  Knives and tongues sharpen as Aperitif pours into Starter, Starter smashes into Main, Main melts into Dessert. The fog closes in, secrets comes to the boil, questions bubble over: do you ever really know someone? Is the psychological apocalypse a cosmic wake up call? Can you really murder someone with pliers?  And most urgently… any dietary requirements?

See cast, creatives, and 4 reviews

Foal

By Titas Halder

Finborough Theatre, London

Previews05 May 2026
Opens/Press Night08 May 2026
Closes30 May 2026
Running Time1 hour 30 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere
Presented ByIndira Varma and HFH Productions In association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre

A.K. wants to escape the Island. Live a good life. But the sea draws you back. When a dreadful secret comes to light, A.K. returns to his home town to confront the shadows of his childhood and put right a terrible wrong. The thing is, he's worried about the other version of himself, the one who lives inside his ribcage. An exhilarating fever dream, Foal is a revenge thriller set in the era of the Sony Walkman; a lyrical, urgent new play about masculinity, compassion, and retribution.

See cast, creatives, and 6 reviews

Fourteen Again

By Tom MacRae

The Victoria Wood Theatre, Bowness-on-Windermere

Previews01 May 2026
Opens/Press Night07 May 2026
Closes06 June 2026
Running Time2 hours 20 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere
Presented ByBowness Theatre Festival

Peggy is recently divorced and lost in life, when a chance meeting with her childhood best friend, Lou, forces her to think about the trials and triumphs of their teenage years together. But thought soon becomes reality when Peggy wakes up to find that she is literally Fourteen Again, not only reunited with teenage Lou, but also with her future husband Duncan. Peggy must fix the mistakes of her past to get back her present – but which mistakes? Should she mend her relationship with Duncan? What is the dark and unspoken rift between her and Lou that pulled their friendship apart and ruined Lou's life? Can Peggy help Lou in time and earn them both a better future?

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