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.

Pack your marmalade sandwiches and get down to the Savoy Theatre, to welcome the world's most beloved bear to the stage! Paddington: The Musical makes its eagerly awaited debut in 2025, bringing Michael Bond's timeless tale of the iconic bear from deepest darkest Peru - a true British national treasure - to the London stage now!

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.

Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties was a Broadway smash when it premiered in 2013, so much so that its run was extended three times. The play went on to earn three Tony Award nominations, including Best Play, and saw Judith Light scoop up the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for her role as Faye. Now, this virtuosic comedy-drama makes its Hampstead Theatre debut.

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.

Celebrating 25 years! Soon-to-be-married Sophie is desperate to find her father to walk her down the aisle; unfortunately, her mother Donna has no idea who it is. After discovering three possible candidates in her mother's diary, she fires off three invitations to the men, who all arrive together on the idyllic Greek island where Sophie and Donna live. When Donna discovers her three old flames are back in her life, she must confront her past and organise the wedding with the help of her outrageous friends! Laughter, sunshine, and of course, ABBA songs galore are in full splendor in this, the ultimate feel-good musical!

In the nearly 40 years since its premiere, Claude Schonberg And Alain Boublil's musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's doorstop of a novel has become the benchmark of musical theatre. An epic score, passionate story, and phenomenal scale are part of the magic, but it's truly the wonder of seeing a live performance that does it the most justice. Seen by an audience that numbers over 70 million, it's safe to say that Les Miserables is the world's most popular musical - and then some.

Cameron Mackintosh brings the mean streets of Victorian London to life in this Olivier-award winning staging of Lionel Bart's theatrical classic, with all-new choreography and direction from Matthew Bourne! Based on Charles Dickens's novel, the story follows young orphan Oliver Twist as he looks for friends and a new family while navigating his way through life in London where danger lurks at every corner. Set to a timeless score that includes standards 'Food, Glorious Food', 'Oliver!', 'Oom-Pah-Pah', 'You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two', and many more, don't miss this exciting revival as it sweeps into the Gielgud Theatre.

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?".

Starting this winter at the Garrick Theatre, Patrick Marber directs a revival of Mel Brook's hilarious history-making musical adaptation of his 1967 film! A twelve-time Tony-winner, The Producers is a riot of song, dance and scandalously funny silliness that follows the unscrupulous Broadway producer Max and his hapless accountant Leo as they attempt to mount the most notorious flop the stage has ever seen! Don't miss this all time classic on its return to the West End!

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!

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!

Join the Gruffalo's Child as she embarks on an exciting adventure in Tall Stories' captivating musical adaptation of the beloved book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler! On a stormy night, the Gruffalo's Child secretly heads out into the deep dark wood, against her father's advice about the Big Bad Mouse who lurks there.

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.