Hold onto your Louboutins because the iconic 2006 movie The Devil Wears Prada is receiving a fashionable Olivier nominated musical makeover! With Elton John lending his song-writing genius to the project, lyrics from Shaina Taub, a book by Kate Wetherhead, and direction and choreography from Kinky Boots and Pretty Woman mastermind Jerry Mitchell, it's going to be a hell of a show!

In a promotion from Viscount Bridgerton to the King of England, Jonathan Bailey returns to the stage in 2025 in Nick Hytner's newest production for The Bridge Theatre. Bailey will star as the titular monarch in Richard II, the first of Shakespeare's tetralogy of plays about the wars of succession during the Middle Ages, otherwise known as the 'Henriad'.

The second play in The Jamie Lloyd Company's much anticipated Shakespeare season at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, join Tom Hiddleston and Haley Atwell as they play the 'merrily warring' will-they-won't-they couple Benedick and Beatrice in the Bard's witty romantic comedy. Much Ado About Nothing reunites the director and Hiddleston following their collaboration on Harold Pinter's Betrayal in 2019, an experience Tom described as "one of the most fulfilling and meaningful experiences of my performing life." Adding "I could not be more thrilled to have been given the opportunity to collaborate with (Lloyd) again, this time on one of Shakespeare's most warm-hearted and joyful plays"

Olivier-winning play by James Graham 'Dear England' is back and heading to London's National Theatre! Gareth Southgate's transformation of the England men's national football team in the hearts and minds of the nation is celebrated and explored in Dear England! This gripping play charts the glory, heartache and cultural reset of the Three Lions over the best part of the past decade under Southgate's command.

Two-time Tony Award winner John Lithgow reprises his 2025 Oliver nominated role as Roald Dahl on the West End stage in this vital portrait of the author and his widely publicized antisemitic views, directed by Nicholas Hytner. Described by playwright Mark Rosenblatt as an "uncomfortably funny, urgent and provocative night in the theatre", the drama takes place at the height of Dahl's best-selling career, concerning the fallout from his interview with The New Statesman.

Stephen Sondheim's final musical, Here We Are - critic's pick in the New York Times - runs in London this year! Created by Sondheim and David Ives and directed by Joe Mantello, the production draws inspiration from the surrealist dinner parties of the films of Luis Bunuel. In Here We Are, a group of friends embarks on a surreal journey through increasingly bizarre dining experiences, only to find themselves trapped in a mysterious room where they confront their secrets, desires, and the looming chaos of the outside world.

Ewan McGregor plots a much anticipated West End return as he heads to the Wyndham's Theatre in spring 2025 to star in this brand-new play by Lila Raicek. His first time back on the London stage in 17 years, My Master Builder reunites the Star Wars actor with director Michael Grandage. McGregor enthuses: "It's such a thrill be returning to the stage and to work with Michael again, an actor's director with whom I have had some of my happiest working experiences." Expect something big as My Master Builder (inspired by Henrik Ibsen's classic drama The Master Builder) takes to the stage, beginning performances in April.

Multi-award winning stage and film star Brian Cox (Succession) stars in Oliver Cotton's new play The Score, transferring to the West End following a successful run at Theatre Royal Bath in 2023. Directed by Trevor Nunn (Les Miserables), Cox portrays the legendary genius of composer Johann Sebastian Bach, as he finds himself in a fateful encounter with the King of Prussia, Frederick II.

Plenty of us fondly remember rushing down to the shops to pick up each new release of "NOW, That's What I Call Music!", the thrice-yearly compilation of Top-10 hits that has become a mainstay in British culture since the 80s. Now, from comedian Pippa Evans and director and choreographer Craig Revel Horwood (Strictly Come Dancing) comes a brand new musical inspired by the classic compilations! Premiering in Autumn 2024, NOW That's What I Call A Musical tells a story which many of us lived, through the classic songs from "NOW..." compilations through the ages!

Much loved British actor Tamsin Grieg stars in a London revival of Deep Blue Sea at Theatre Royal Haymarket in spring 2025! An insightful masterpiece created by Terrence Rattigan in 1952, the play follows a woman who defies conservative 1950's convention to leave her husband for a dashing ex-RAF pilot.