Theatre
Why Am I So Single?
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss are the dynamic duo behind the fringe-to-West Finish musical capturing star that grew to become Six. Right here is their follow-up musical comedy, a couple of pair of eternally single besties who can’t perceive why they’re single. In a self-referential stroke paying homage to A Unusual Loop, the buddies are determining the story of their subsequent musical.
Garrick theatre, London, 27 August-13 February 2025
The Concern of 13
Adrien Brody is an Oscar winner with a monitor report for charisma on display screen however now he makes his London stage debut because the lead on this true-life drama, written by Lindsey Ferrentino. It tells the story of Nick Yarris, whose wrongful conviction for homicide led him to spend greater than twenty years on loss of life row.
Donmar Warehouse, London, 4 October-30 November
The Tempest
Jamie Lloyd follows up his noirish tackle Romeo & Juliet with a devoted season of Shakespeare performs within the West Finish. If Tom Holland brought about a stir as one half of the star-cross’d couple, the wattage is arguably much more blinding with Sigourney Weaver forged as Prospero, making her London stage debut. Little doubt, Lloyd will put his personal unpredictable spin on this traditional. Brace your self.
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, 19 December-1 February 2025
Juno and the Paycock
It’s at all times a deal with to see Mark Rylance tread the boards however this manufacturing of Seán O’Casey’s 1922 drama additionally options Succession actor J Smith-Cameron reverse him, and is directed by Matthew Warchus. Famously tailored for display screen by Alfred Hitchcock, the story dramatises a household dwelling in 1922 Dublin, throughout the turbulence of the Irish civil conflict.
Gielgud theatre, London, 21 September-23 November
A Raisin within the Solar
Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking American traditional about household, racist discrimination and assimilation, was the primary play by a Black feminine playwright to be staged on Broadway in 1959. It’s revived by Headlong theatre firm, recognized for innovation, and directed by Tinuke Craig who payments it as a “related, contemporary new manufacturing for right now”.
Leeds Playhouse and touring to Lyric Hammersmith, Oxford Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse, 13 September-2 October
Turning into Nancy
A brand new musical based mostly on a coming-of-age novel by Terry Ronald. The story is ready in 1979 and revolves round a sixth-former with a sensational singing voice who’s given the feminine lead in his college play (Oliver!), which causes scandal amongst dad and mom and classmates. Directed and choreographed by the Tony award-winning Jerry Mitchell.
Birmingham Rep, 2 October-2 November
The Historical past Boys
Eight brilliant college students at a Sheffield grammar have their sights set on Oxbridge, however their academics can’t agree on the very best pedagogic fashion to get them there. Alan Bennett’s 2004 play gained a number of awards on its first outing. This Twentieth-anniversary manufacturing will tour throughout 9 venues in England and Scotland after opening at Theatre Royal Bathtub in late August.
UK tour, 3 September–2 November
Conflict Horse
This internationally acclaimed phenomenon has change into probably the most profitable play within the historical past of the Nationwide Theatre since its authentic run, scooping greater than 25 awards. It additionally impressed a era of youngsters, adults and theatre-makers with its spectacular puppetry. Nick Stafford’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s wartime story of heroism and sacrifice now returns, dramatising the tender friendship between a boy and his horse, Joey, and travelling from rural Devon to the trenches of the nice conflict.
UK and Eire tour, 5 September to eight November 2025
Odyssey ’84
This new drama telling the story of the 1984 miners’ strike is impressed by Homer’s Odyssey. It follows a married couple embroiled within the strike, and shines a lightweight on the ladies who performed a key function within the stand-off with the British authorities in addition to the worldwide help of the miners.
Sherman theatre, Cardiff, 11-26 October
Sufficient of Him
Based mostly on a real story dramatising the lifetime of an enslaved African, Joseph Knight, who was dropped at Perthshire by a plantation proprietor and have become the centre of a landmark authorized battle, Might Sumbwanyambe’s play gained nice acclaim when it premiered in 2022. This remount is a Nationwide Theatre of Scotland and Pitlochry Pageant theatre co-production with a brand new forged.
Traverse theatre, Edinburgh, 22-26 October at Traverse after which touring in Scotland and UK
Comedy
Ben Elton
When Ben Elton final toured the UK, it was his first stab at standup for 15 years. Fortunately, the eminence grise of other comedy nonetheless had what it takes, and the present was successful. So, in shorter order this time, Motormouth is again, with a brand new present: Genuine Stupidity.
Barbican, York, 1 September, then touring
Mo Gilligan
The affable Peckham man spent this spring touring the US, the place he has his sights set on superstardom. That standing has been secured, and double fast too, within the UK – to which Gilligan now returns with a tour of his new set, Within the Second.
Grand theatre, Leeds, 5 September, then touring
Nish Kumar
Local weather collapse, revenue inequality, Gaza … “My standup setlists appear like a list of human distress,” says former Mash Report man Kumar. But when anybody could make the state of the nation furiously humorous, with a much-needed dose of dyspeptic political comedy, it’s him.
Oxford Playhouse, 6 September, then touring
Ania Magliano
One among UK comedy’s most noteworthy up-and-comers, Magliano has made her identify with a trio of Edinburgh fringe hours combining emotional significance, flippantly worn with clever and spry standup. Her newest, Forgive Me, Father, about her commitment-phobia, now excursions.
Soho Theatre, London, 14-26 October, then touring
Natalie Palamides
No identify in world comedy comes with a larger assure of pleasure, of one thing new and sudden occurring, than Palamides. The LA clown broke out along with her gender-crossing Netflix particular Nate in 2020. She now returns along with her outrageous romcom pastiche, Weer, by which she performs each halves of a relationship.
Soho theatre, London, 6-30 November
Dance
The Black Saint and the Sinner Girl
A welcome return for Clod Ensemble’s incredible fusion of music and dance, with the Nu Civilisation Orchestra enjoying Charles Mingus’s 1963 album The Black Saint and the Sinner Girl and the viewers invited as much as dance alongside professionals. A uncommon occasion of viewers participation that isn’t awkward, simply joyous.
Barbican, London, 19-21 September
Luna
A world premiere from Birmingham Royal Ballet, the ultimate a part of a trilogy of ballets drawing on Brummie historical past and tradition (the newest being Black Sabbath: The Ballet). Luna celebrates nice girls of Birmingham, from Mary Lee Berners-Lee to Malala Yousafzai, made by an all-female artistic group together with choreographers Seeta Patel and Arielle Smith.
Birmingham Hippodrome, 3-5 October; Sadler’s Wells, London, 22-23 October
BalletLorent: Snow White
Choreographer Liv Lorent takes a fairytale and creates two completely different variations, one a family-friendly present to take the children to, the opposite delving into the extra complicated, grownup themes on this story of an ageing lady, the depraved queen, seeing her energy fade as her magnificence does.
Northern Stage, Newcastle, 31 October-3 November
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
An intensive tour (until June 2025) marking the thirtieth anniversary of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, the present that made Bourne’s profession. The twist is that the swans are all males, wild birds as a substitute of dainty maidens, and whereas there’s the comedy Bourne’s recognized for, he plunges into the darkness too.
Theatre Royal Plymouth, 11-16 November, then touring
