The festive classic to end all classics, no holiday season is complete without taking your seats for a showing of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol - and this year, Mark Gatiss' version of Dickens' winter ghost story is coming to haunt the Alexandra Palace Theatre again in 2025. A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story - a thrillingly atmospheric take on the tale - promises to sweep you up in this supernatural Victorian world, with the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformative supernatural Christmas Eve visitations.

The day of triumph has surely arrived! Cole Escola's Tony-winning play is finally set to transfer to the West End. Oh Mary! the dark comedy is set to star Mason Alexander Park as former United States First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, breaking down her life from the inside, and in Escola's own words, through the lens of an idiot. Tony Award winner Sam Pinkleton directs. Don't miss out on this exciting and hilarious chance to see the First Lady as you've never seen her before!

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a new play by Jack Thorne. It is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The critically acclaimed production is the most awarded new play in theatre history, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has won 24 major theatre awards in the UK and is the most awarded play in the history of the Olivier Awards, winning a record-breaking nine awards including Best New Play. The production has also won 25 major US awards with six Tony Awards including Best Play.

Swapping sixth-form drama for Costco's checkout lanes, Heartstopper's Emmy Award-winning Joe Locke isn't shy when it comes to stories of friendship and love. He now makes his West End debut this autumn in the UK premiere of Clarkston, an intimate, gut-wrenching play by Drama Desk winner and BAFTA nominee Samuel D. Hunter - best known for 2012's The Whale, which later won Brendan Fraser an Oscar when adapted for film.

Sheridan Smith makes a triumphant stage return in Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind, opening in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre this December, before taking to the road to play in Sunderland and Glasgow in spring 2026. A dark comedy that follows housewife Susan after her reality is split in two after a bump on the head, Woman in Mind is a heartfelt and humourous examination of family and identity, with a psychological twist.

Nominated for 13 2024 Tony Awards and winner of five, including Best Play! Written by David Adjmi, with songs by Will Butler of Arcade Fire, this heavily buzzed production takes you on a wild ride through the day-to-day of five rock musicians making an album in the early 70s. The story itself is one of infighting, frustration, romance, and rock'n'roll excess (all the things you'd expect from a disagreeing 70's band). David Adjmi notes he drew inspiration from iconic band Fleetwood Mac and came up with the idea while listening to Led Zeppelin and pondering "What would it have been like to be in the studio when this was being recorded?".

An electrifying play from Liz Duffy Adams, Born With Teeth captures an imagined meeting between two of the greatest playwrights of all time; celebrated talent of the age, Kit Marlowe, and new-in-town country bumpkin, one William Shakespeare. As all the horrors of the Elizabethan age spin chaos on the streets, this back-room face-to-face paints a provocative and intimate portrait of their relationship, with dramatic results.

Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter, The Banshees of Inisherin) makes his long-awaited West End debut in Conor McPherson's masterpiece this autumn following a launch at Dublin's Olympia Theatre. Premiering in 1997 at The Royal Court, The Weir won the coveted trinity of theatre awards: the Evening Standard, Critics' Circle, and Olivier Awards for Best New Play, cementing McPherson's status as a playwright.

Bryan Cranston returns to the West End this November to be reunited with acclaimed director Ivo Van Hove for this brand new production of Arthur Miller's blistering play of familial strife, set in the aftermath of World War II. Starring alongside Paapa Essiedu and Marianne Jean-Baptiste, All My Sons marks Cranston and Van Hove's second project together after 2017's blockbuster stage adaptation of Network, which added both a Tony and Olivier to Cranston's already stuffed trophy cabinet.

Academy Award-winner Eric Roth (Dune; Forrest Gump) and Olivier-winning director Thea Sharrock (After the Dance on Broadway; Equus in the West End) bring a world-premiere stage adaptation of the 1952 classic Western High Noon to the Harold Pinter Theatre! A creative team full of Tony, Emmy and Olivier Award-winners bring the play to life, including designer Tim Hatley, lighting designer Neil Austin's, and an original score by Chris Egan, while Tony and Emmy Award-winner Billy Crudup (The Morning Show) and Olivier Award-winner Denise Gough (Andor) star!

Pack your bags for a trip to Fawlty Towers as Britain's most beloved '70s sitcom heads on a nationwide tour following a successful West End run (with two extensions), adapted by the show's original writer and star, John Cleese - nearly fifty years after its debut. Directed by Caroline Jay Ranger (Only Fools and Horses: The Musical), the stage adaptation brings this iconic comedy to life. First broadcast in September 1975, Fawlty Towers is widely regarded as one of the greatest British sitcoms of all time - and now you have the chance to relive the chaos on stage.

J.M Barrie's beloved tale receives an exciting reimagining in this update from Ella Hickson, with direction from Jonathan Munby. Originally premiered in 2013 as part of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre's Christmas season in Stratford-Upon-Avon and also directed by Munby, the popular retelling returned to Stratford a few years later, followed by runs in Leeds and Edinburgh and finally culminating in this grand transfer to The Barbican. Fresh and witty, this family-friendly show will get you in the festive spirit!

Humbugs beware! This affectionate production brings Charles Dickens's classic tale to life once again for Christmas 2025! First debuting in 2017 at London's iconic Old Vic Theatre, this adaptation from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child writer Jack Thorne and Old Vic Artistic Director Matthew Warchus has been praised for its joyful and warmhearted approach to the fable. Prepare to meet a brand new Scrooge in Paul Hilton as this gloriously festive crowd-pleaser returns!

Transferring to the Barbican following its run in Stratford-Upon-Avon is the Prasanna Puwanarajah-directed Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's delightfully spirited tale of Viola, a shipwrecked orphan who takes matters into her own hands when stranded on the shores of the ancient isle of Illyria. With music by Matt Maltese bringing a contemporary flavour to this production, Twelfth Night includes Shakespearean mainstays - mistaken identity, mischief, a shipwreck and, of course, his deft wit, yet this RSC staging has been praised for its search in between the lines of the text, revealing new insight to an age-old classic.

Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger's Drift comes to the stage for the first time, with a UK tour of the show set to begin in autumn 2025, running through to 2026. Adapted by director Guy Unsworth, this thrilling new production is based on Caroline Graham's Chief Inspector Barnaby series of novels, which inspired the famous ITV show. Casting has yet to be announced, but with an expert creative team of producers Nicholson Green Productions and Colin Ingram Ltd, the show is sure to do more than justice to the beloved detective drama.

For over three decades, Stephen Mallatratt's masterful adaptation of Susan Hill's terrifying tale thrilled audiences in the West End, raising pulses and eliciting shrieks at every performance. Now it's time for the rest of the UK to experience the chilling nightmare for themselves. You have been warned!