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Avenue Q

By Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx

Avenue Q is back on the block. After two decades, the three time Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q returns to the West End in all its glory. Fresh out of college and searching for his purpose, Princeton ends up in a shabby apartment on New York's rundown Avenue Q....

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

By Dale Wasserman. Based on the novel by Ken Kesey

Inside a psychiatric facility, Chief Bromden has been silent for years — confined and maligned by a system that labels, divides and forgets. But he has a story to tell. He's just been waiting for someone to listen. Enter Randle P. McMurphy, a gambler and provocateur whose defiance unsettles the...

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Heart Wall

By Kit Withington

It's Friday night and Franky is back at her local pub for the first time in years. Pints are poured, Motown music drifts from the tinny speakers, and karaoke starts at eight. It's reassuringly familiar. Like nothing's changed. But, haunted by grief, Franky's family are quietly unravelling around her. Her...

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Recent Openings

Between the River and the Sea

By Yousef Sweid & Isabella Sedlak

Royal Court Theatre - Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London

Previews15 April 2026
Opens/Press Night20 April 2026
Closes09 May 2026
Running Time1 hour 5 minutes
First PerformedMaxim Gorki Theater, Berlin 2025
UK premiere Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025
Presented ByMaxim Gorki Theater

Yousef was raised as a Christian-Arab-Palestinian-Israeli kid in Haifa, and is now raising two Jewish-Arab-Austrian kids in Berlin. Only he's facing a custody battle, so things are getting complicated... A story about family, fear, and imagining a future beyond borders. 

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The Wooster Group: Nayatt School Redux

By Elizabeth Lecompte, Spalding Gray & The Wooster Group

The Coronet Theatre, London

Previews17 April 2026
Opens/Press Night17 April 2026
Closes25 April 2026
Running Time1 hour 20 minutes
First PerformedThe Performing Garage New York 1978
UK premiere of this new reworking
Presented ByThe Wooster Group

Nayatt School Redux opens with Wooster Group member Kate Valk, who reveals newly-restored archival recordings of Gray's original performance, mixed with her own stories. Gray described his beginnings in the theatre and played LPs from his record collection including an LP of T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party. The Group's current company reinvent scenes from the original production, culminating in the climactic sequences of The Cocktail Party.

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The History Boys

By Alan Bennett

Old Red Lion Theatre, London

Previews14 April 2026
Opens/Press Night16 April 2026
Closes25 April 2026
Running Time2 hours 30 minutes
First PerformedNational Theatre London, 2004
Presented ByGlassroom Company

Eight boys in pursuit of sex, sport, and a spot at Oxbridge. Four teachers with distinctly different approaches. One moment in time. The chasm between school and university – between boyhood and becoming. Marking the London debut of Australian theatre group Glassroom Company, this new, swirling production of Alan Bennett's modern classic explores how we preserve memory, and the shaping forces of education and adolescence. What is lost? What is carried forward? What can never quite be reclaimed?

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