Music icon Sting stars in his critically acclaimed musical, The Last Ship, in a revised new production, coming to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane this autumn. Featuring original music by The Police frontman himself, The Last Ship is a heartfelt and empowering musical about the shipbuilding community in his home city of Newcastle, as it reached its breaking point in the 1980s. Debuting in Chicago in 2014, the musical has enjoyed runs on Broadway, the West End, and in Australia. Inspired by Sting's own childhood, The Last Ship features some of the Grammy winner's best-loved songs, including "Island of Souls", "All This Time" and "When We Dance".

Following a sell-out run at The National Theatre, Pride transfers to London's Bridge Theatre, bringing one of Britain's most uplifting true stories to life. Produced by P&P Productions and the National Theatre, the production is helmed by director Matthew Warchus and writer Stephen Beresford, who reunite after collaborating on the BAFTA-winning 2014 film of the same name.

Comedian and actor Andy Sandberg adds a few more strings to his bow as this new play, penned and directed by the SNL and Lonely Island star, enjoys its world premiere this autumn at Riverside Studios. Based on true events, Affluenza is a razor-sharp exploration of power, privilege and generational wealth, as evidenced by one of the most reviled American legal defences of recent times.

From the creators behind the global smash hit musical Les Misrables comes a revival of their Olivier Award-winning masterpiece Martin Guerre, running in London for the first time since the 1990s. Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg's classic musical is completely reimagined in an in-the-round staging at the Old Vic. Directed by Olivier and Tony winner Matthew Warchus (Matilda, God of Carnage), the production features fresh new music by Schonberg and new lyrics by Boublil alongside Annabel Mutale Reed and Paul Hodge.

There ain't nobody on this earth who epitomises funk and soul more than the Queen of Funk herself, Chaka Khan. Now in celebration of the timeless legacy of this musical icon comes I'm Every Woman - The Chaka Khan Musical, an exhilarating show celebrating the life, times and story behind the icon! Directed by Racky Plews, with book by Nia T. Hill and choreographed by Jade Hackett, I'm Every Woman is a must see show for any lover of great music and a great, true story.

Wladyslaw Szpilman's harrowing yet hopeful 1946 memoir receives its world premiere stage adaptation in London. Adapted and directed by Thom Southerland (Titanic the Musical) and featuring the original compositions of Szpilman, who was hailed as "the Polish Gershwin", Andrew Lloyd-Webber collaborator Simon Lee provides the orchestrations for the production, which features an ensemble of actor-musicians capturing the artistic essence of pre-war Warsaw.

Darkling, written by Titas Halder (Foal), arrives at the Holloway Theatre, the Bush Theatre's main performance space, this September-October. Helmed by director Matthew Xia (Tambo & Bones), the arresting work, based on the true story of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, functions as a timely reminder of the human cost of environmental negligence and unfettered industrial expansion. Stranger Things' Linnea Berthelsen plays the lead role, in her debut on the UK stage.

The year is 1890, and the spirit of the Parisian cabaret club has found a new home in London! Through a secret entrance lies the flickering candlelight of the iconic Le Chat Noir, the first ever cabaret club in the world, recreated in an all-encompassing immersive event which is part-theatre, part-live music and part-dining experience. You aren't a spectator, you're fully part of it, dining amongst the icons of the Belle Epoque while musicians weave through the tables and sultry cabaret performers blow you away!

Olivier Award winning actress Janie Dee (Carousel; Follies) plays Dorothy Kilgallen, the legendary American journalist of the 50s and 60s, in this world premiere of Speculations in London. Written by Torben Betts (Murder in the Dark), the political thriller directed by Trevor Nunn digs into the suspicious circumstances in which Marilyn Monroe, JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald died, which have fueled conspiracy theories for decades and continue to capture the minds of many even today. Were the deaths connected? Would Dorothy's journalism seal her fate? Dig deeper into these questions with this riveting new play.

Arcola Theatre plays host to the world premiere of The Banality of Evil by Julia Pascal (Blueprint Medea, Crossing Jerusalem), centred around the then-33-year-old philosopher Hannah Arendt. A vital piece of political theatre grounded in extensive research and eyewitness testimonies, the production brings together elements of satire, cabaret and physical performance, to tell the overlooked stories of women who, trapped in the gears of history, would go on to become some of the century's most important voices.