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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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Here Comes J Edgar! - A Comedy Musical

Book and Lyrics by Harry Shearer & Tom Leopold

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...

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Recent Openings

Good For Her!

By Mollie Semple

The Other Palace Theatre, London

Previews21 July 2026
Opens/Press Night22 July 2026
Closes26 July 2026
Running Time1 hour 15 minutes
First PerformedTheatre503 London, 2025
Presented ByMollie Semple

Iris is broke, exhausted, and running out of time. She's spent years chasing a version of success that always seems just out of reach, haunted by the belief that if she stops she'll disappear entirely. Between humiliating auditions and obsessive doomscrolling (mostly stalking a girl from school who somehow got everything right), something darker is demanding her attention: her mother. Her mother's voice is always ringing in her ears. Thinner, better, more. But now, as her mother grows weaker and begins to depend on her, the pressure hasn't lifted. It's just changed shape. And Iris is starting to unravel.

See cast, creatives, and 4 reviews

Trainspotting - The Musical

By Irvine Welsh

Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
& touring

Previews15 July 2026
Opens/Press Night22 July 2026
Closes05 September 2026
Running Time2 hours 30 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere
Presented ByInHouse Records, Nica Burns & Irvine Welsh

Cult heroes of youth culture; Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud, Tommy, and Kelly are back, alongside an ensemble cast and a live band. Featuring some of the electrifying tracks from the film that defined a generation, together with catchy, confrontational and celebratory original songs, set to become singalong, dance-along classics, this is more than nostalgia amplified, it's a genre-defying new musical that speaks to our contemporary malaise of defiance in the face of an uncertain future. Radical, invigorating and life-affirming, this provocative, unforgettable experience will have even the most sceptical leave on a consciousness-altering high. This is the story of the outsiders, the rebels, a brand-new, expectation defying musical, pumping in live and loud defiance across the West End stage.

See cast, creatives, and 10 reviews

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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