Directed by Andrew Keates (As Is and Dessa Rose – Trafalgar Studios), Dark Sublime, the debut play by Michael Dennis, is a love-letter to British sci-fi television – both those that make it and those that adore it. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are as essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. Theatre Fan? A tribute to the community of fandom, Dark Sublime examines the feeling of belonging that comes with finding your place among the outcasts. Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s multi award-winning musical MARY POPPINS returns to its original West End home, This joyous new musical shares the incredible real-life story of the 7,000 air passengers from all over the world who were grounded in Canada during the wake of 9/11. But director Jamie Lloyd has had a year that some of his peers might trade their entire careers for. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is now postponed at the London Palladium to 2021. Top 10 theatre shows in London. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West. Directed by Samuel West, it's an intelligent and philosophical show delivered with a delightful lightness of touch. Where most playwrights shy away from trying to convey the internet, she lets it spill messily across the stage. Featuring all the characters and songs you love alongside a brand new score and a few added surprises, Back to the Future: The Musical is the hilarious, high-voltage story you know...but with added plutonium. Whether you fancy a big-name musical or something a bit more 'off-West End', we've handpicked ten of our favourite shows so you can experience London theatre at its best. Greg is an award-winning writer with a huge passion for theatre. By writing 100 unnamed scenes, then cleverly selected and shaped by director Maria Aberg, Birch used form to illustrate the random fragments of life, sometimes tender, sometimes not. The Mischief Theatre Company’s two shows – The Play that Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a … Not everyone gets Annie Baker and her blend of slackerish naturalism and supernatural flourishes. Now John’s son Jim Sullivan has teamed up with comedy giant Paul Whitehouse to write and produce a script and score to honour his father’s legacy; recreating the iconic series into a brand-new, home-grown British Musical spectacular. JT, This delightful Canadian musical by married couple Irene Sankoff and David Hein was the perfect antidote for our vile times, recounting how a tiny town in Newfoundland looked after the passengers and crew of 38 planes diverted to their local airport after 9/11. JT, Dame Maggie Smith was a shoo-in for the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress at this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards, for her exquisitely-timed, delicately nuanced performance in Christopher Hampton’s solo show about Goebbels’ stenographer. with an intense look at migration, corruption in Malta and the horrific realities that British expats choose to ignore. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella is the exciting new musical comedy starring Carrie Hope Fletcher, set to completely reinvent the world’s best-loved fairytale when it opens in London’s West End in March 2021. It’s common for ‘social media’ to be discussed as a catch-all term for that thing young people do. But I’m awarding the fairy crown to Nicholas Hytner for his promenade production at the Bridge (Bunny Christie pick up Best Design for it at our Theatre Awards). It is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The Show Must Go On! © 2020 Time Out England Limited and affiliated companies owned by Time Out Group Plc. Directors Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell found hidden depths in the Miller classic when they recast the Loman family as African-American. Here we take a look at the shows we don’t think you’ll want to miss as we run down our Top Ten New London Theatre Shows to See in 2019. Betrayal/Evita/Cyrano de Bergerac. Co-produced with Chicago’s Steppenwolf it featured superb performances from US stars Francis Guinan and K Todd Freeman but also from Hackney-born Cecilia Noble as world-weary police officer Ivy. It doesn’t feel like the sort of year where a single … Read on! It won Lee-Jones this year’s Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright and I’m full of joy that the Royal Court have promised it’ll be back next year. 1. SIX, ‘the most uplifting piece of new British musical theatre,’ (Evening Standard) is holding court at London’s Lyric Theatre for a strictly limited season. But ‘The Antipodes’ delighted her fans with a witty, elliptical look at everything from office politics to the nature of time. Set during 9/11, it tells the story of how an unlikely community formed on the edge of an unimaginable tragedy. The oldest and first dedicated online London theatre guide, News and tickets for over 250 West End & off-West End shows, Follow us for the latest theatre newsTwitter Facebook Instagram. Juliet Stevenson, in the lead role, just gets better and better. It’s our pick of the plays, musicals and theatre-adjacent ‘other’ that ran in London in 2019. This was a pared-down, sexed-up staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s unlikely evergreen hit about Argentina’s Eva Peron, with a belting central performance from Samantha Pauly. Whether you’re looking to visit one show in the capital this year or have a whole spreadsheet of London shows to see, Official London Theatre is where to book your tickets. Marc Elliott, Tyrone Huntley, Lucie Jones and Jenna Russell will star in the filmed production, recorded at the London Coliseum. From unforgettable star turns from the likes of Andrew Scott and Dame Maggie Smith to blazingly brilliant debut plays and brand new artistic directors, 2019 has delivered another year of exceptional theatre. Heads up! JT, Winner of Best Play at this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Lynn Nottage’s heartfelt script not only showed how economic hardship leads to racism and other hatreds, but gave prominent roles to three middle-aged, working class women. Register with your social account or click here to log in. From festive favourites to Christmas treats for all the family, we have the ultimate guide to the best Christmas shows in London to see this year. Read our reviews of ‘Betrayal’, ‘Evita’ and ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’. In a madcap ride through the biggest stories and best-loved characters from the wonderful world of pantomime, our dastardly double act dash from rubbing Aladdin’s lamp to roaming the golden streets of Dick Whittington’s London and making sure that Cinderella gets to the ball. Book the best London theatre tickets through the ultimate guide to the West End, Official London Theatre. DIVORCED, BEHEADED and now LIVE AT THE LYRIC! Double Olivier nominees Dan and Jeff return for the tenth anniversary of Potted Panto, hot on the heels of their world tour of Harry Potter parody Potted Potter. In an energetic and vibrant new staging of the record breaking 1990s London Palladium production, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s family classic is set to entertain a whole new generation. With hardly any set and no prosthetic nose for the superb James McAvoy, this was a delight for the senses and the imagination. Terrible things that might have affected you or people you know and love. Tom Burke was very good in the lead in Ian Rickson’s production, but the evening really belonged to Hayley Atwell as a heartbreaking Rebecca West and Giles Terera as the malevolent Kroll.