What's On

19 Sept 2025

Let’s face it: few theatre invitations are more likely to make audiences flinch than the words “climate play.” For many, the phrase conjures images of didactic monologues, dystopian doom, or eco-preaching that makes you feel like you're being force-fed vegetables. You might expect a few charts, a crisis montage, and a quietly despairing audience stumbling into the lobby wondering what they’re supposed to do next.

12 Sept 2025

In a time when smartphones are an extension of our very selves and social media feeds pulse relentlessly with an unending stream of news, gossip, and outrage, theatre has taken an innovative step to explore one of the most pervasive modern compulsions: doomscrolling. The new fringe production Doomscroll Till I Die boldly translates this ubiquitous experience into a visceral stage performance, offering both a critique and a celebration of our relationship with digital media.

7 Sept 2025

A punk rocker, a soap star, and a bloke from Essex walk into a bar: the unlikely origins of a fringe hit. Verbal Diary was first conceived by cult musician John Otway and soap royalty Paul Bradley in 1984, a strange, chaotic piece that lived at the Edinburgh Fringe before vanishing. Decades later, Tom Johnson, an actor and comedian with a taste for the absurd, stumbled across the forgotten script and arranged to meet them in a pub to discuss its return. In the process, they allowed Johnson to take the reins and quietly make one of the most loved fringe shows of the year.

3 Sept 2025

At this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, playwright and performer Priyanka Shetty has been named one of the recipients of the Scotsman Fringe First Award, recognising her powerful and urgent solo piece #CHARLOTTESVILLE. Presented by stage and screen icon Miriam Margolyes, the award is one of the most coveted honours at the Fringe, celebrating exceptional new writing in theatre.

1 Sept 2025

At the Bush Theatre, beneath the intimate hush of low lights and bare staging, something quietly devastating unfolds. Not Your Superwoman, the searing new drama by Emma Dennis-Edwards and co-creator Lynette Linton, is more than just a story about mothers and daughters—it is a visceral confrontation with generational inheritance, emotional survival, and the myth of strength as salvation.

14 Aug 2025

The Camden Fringe has always been a space for emerging voices to take creative risks, and this year, Li Zhuolang brings something especially bold: a superhero story that explores cultural identity, self-perception, and the limits of how others see us.

8 Jul 2025

The Duke of York’s Theatre is set to play host to the explosive return of Teeth ‘n’ Smiles, as Wessex Grove and Gavin Kalin Productions revive David Hare’s landmark play to mark its 50th anniversary.

6 Jul 2025

Following a sold-out run at Soho Rising Festival and a standout reception at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, actor and writer Megan Prescott returns to London with her bold one-woman show Really Good Exposure, running at Soho Theatre from 2 to 13 September 2025.

19 Jun 2023

Dracula’s return to London marks a milestone in the 2026 theatre calendar—not only for Cynthia Erivo’s stage return but for the audacity of the creative approach. This is theatre in transformation, daring audiences to confront fear, desire, identity—and the monsters that lie within.

10 Jun 2025

In Am I Losing My Mind or Just My Figure?, audiences are introduced to Fin, a spirited woman in her late twenties who is navigating the turbulent seas of modern adulthood.

5 Jun 2025

This autumn, Sir Grayson Perry—one of Britain’s most distinctive artists and cultural commentators—will take to the stage in a nationwide tour with his new live show Are You Good?, an exploration of morality, identity, and the illusions we hold about our own virtue.