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.

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.

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.

All-round icon Lulu goes back to where it all started, starring in the story that first catapulted her to acting fame! To Sir, With Love is a new concert production of the original tale, produced by Kris Lythgoe and Darren Bell, with a fresh new score by John Farrar and Kara DioGuardi. Directed by Sheldon Epps and featuring Wayne Brady and Lulu herself - nearly six decades after her film debut alongside Sydney Poitier proved to the world she was far more than just a singer - the special production is staged at the Gillian Lynn Theatre in November!

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!

The Royal Shakespeare Company and Joe Hishaishi's multi-Olivier Award-winning My Neighbour Totoro is returning to the West End stage in March 2025! Combining the Ghibli joy, Hishaishi's glorious score, puppetry and more than a little bit of magic, this spectacular show is adapted from Hayao Miyazaki's film by playwright Tom Morton-Smith, with puppets from Basil Twist and direction from triple Oliver award winner Phelim McDermott.

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.

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!

Oscar Award winner Alicia Vikander makes her stage debut alongside The Walking Dead star Andrew Lincoln in a bold new version of Henrik Ibsen's classic, directed by Simon Stone (Yerma, Phaedra) in his Bridge debut! A transitional work that bridges Ibsen's realist phase (A Doll's House, Ghosts) and his later, more symbolic plays (The Master Builder, When We Dead Awaken), The Lady From The Sea centres on characters haunted by the past, but for this show, the future looks bright as it swims to the Bridge Theatre for a strictly limited nine-week run!

Head into the surrounds of the Grand Chamber of London County Hall for this innovative staging of Agatha Christie's dazzling play that casts you as the jury in the case of the Crown versus Leonard Vole. Directed by Lucy Bailey with design by William Dudley, follow the evidence as Vole attempts to prove his innocence and avoid a date with the hangman.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts' critically lauded drama Mary Page Marlow finally gets its UK Premiere at the Old Vic, directed by Matthew Warchus! With Oscar and BAFTA-winning Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking; The Client) and Oscar-nominated Andrea Riseborough (Birdman; To Leslie) taking the role of Mary Page during different stages of her life, the play arrives in London having premiered in Chicago in 2016 followed by an acclaimed run Off-Broadway in New York in 2018. Played by 6 different actresses in the original runs, Mary is a meek accountant in Ohio with two children, living a life that few would expect to be as intricate or moving as it is.

The celebrated National Theatre production of Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners makes a much-anticipated transfer to the West End, starring Olly Alexander, with direction from Max Webster. Widely considered one of the funniest plays in the English language, The Importance of Being Earnest is a breezy and delightful comedy of manners shot through with Wilde's biting wit, join Jack, Algy, Gwendolyn, and Cecily as they discover that the course of true love never did run smooth under the watchful eye of battleaxe, Lady Bracknell.