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The Oresteia

By Simon Stone after Aeschylus & Others

A man is faced with the choice of killing his daughter or losing a war. Driven by personal ambition, he brutally murders his child and, in doing so, unleashes a chain of vengeance that rips through his family and community. When he returns home victorious, his wife murders him, and...

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Midnight at the Never Get

By Mark Sonnenblick

1965, New York City. Trevor Copeland and Arthur Brightman's love is against the law. In their secret nightclub act, ?Midnight?, they perform love songs in an act of defiance of a world that demands they stay hidden. As tensions rise at the start of a historic movement, Trevor and Arthur...

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The Jonathan Larson Project

By Jonathan Larson

The Jonathan Larson Project is a show about a young man following his heart in New York City trying to change the world. The show offers a rare and exhilarating window into Larson's creative world, featuring previously unheard songs from the late composer's archives. They illuminate the artistry,...

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Recent Openings

The Cherry Orchard

By Anton Chekhov in a new version by Laura Wade

Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon

Previews10 July 2026
Opens/Press Night21 July 2026
Closes29 August 2026
Running Time2 hours 35 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere of this adaptation
Presented ByRoyal Shakespeare Company

Ranyevskaya and Lopakhin are giants at war over a cherished estate. Madame Ranyevskaya returns from five years in Paris to find her house crumbling under the weight of debt and memory and her beloved cherry orchard under threat. Attempting to mend her extravagance, Lopakhin, the son of a serf, insists that the family must sell it off. Beyond the orchard, people are starving and the aristocracy is in decline. As auction day approaches the household begins to panic. In this collision of past and future, it's dangerous to stand still when the world demands change.

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Here Comes J Edgar! - A Comedy Musical

Book and Lyrics by Harry Shearer & Tom Leopold

King's Head Theatre, London

Previews10 July 2026
Opens/Press Night16 July 2026
Closes16 August 2026
Running Time2 hours 20 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere
Presented ByJ. Edgar Theatre Productions

As Director of the FBI for almost 50 years, Hoover was the most powerful man in America. Yet behind all the machismo and homophobia was his concealed sexuality, his secret partying and his lifelong love affair with his deputy, Clyde Tolson. Here was a man who stopped at nothing to exert his control - yet underneath the petticoats of power lay his own secrets...

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I Can Die Too

By Frances Ruffelle, Sally George & Alan Cumming

Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry

Previews11 July 2026
Opens/Press Night16 July 2026
Closes02 August 2026
Running Time1 hour 20 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere
Presented ByPitlochry Festival Theatre, Lovechild/Evan Sacks & Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

“If you think I'm doing the rest of this in French you've got another thing coming!” A rehearsal from hell. An actress who's way too into her feelings about the role she's playing. And a complete spiral into doubt, defiance, and the uncontrollable urge to sing about it. I Can Die Too is giving fourth-wall-breaking, tragicomedy, musical theatre chaos, all at once. Come and watch something fall apart in real time. It's fine. It's totally fine.

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