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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

The edge-of-your-seat supernatural thriller is ready to haunt the rest of the UK after scaring West End audiences silly since 2021! 2:22 - A Ghost Story is brought to you by award-winning writer and creator of hit BBC podcast The Battersea Poltergeist, Danny Robins, and directed by Matthew Dunster. Will you believe in ghosts once the clock strikes 2:22?

For the first time ever, one of William Shakespeare's greatest comedies is staged at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, directed by Holly Race Roughan with Naeem Hayat! The tale of an enchanted forest full of fairy folk, and the unsuspecting mortals who stumble into it, is a brilliant example of the height of Shakespeare's comedy all wrapped up in the universal theme of love and the complications that are bound to come with it. Don't miss it!

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.

Winner of two Olivier Awards including Best New Entertainment or Comedy Play! The West End is being turned upside down due to this exciting new addition to the Duffer Brother's Stranger Things universe! Taking us back to the town of Hawkins in 1959, this new story by Kate Trefry, the Duffer Brothers, and playwright of the moment, Jack Thorne, features some of the Netflix show's favourite characters, including a young Jim Hopper, Joyce Maldonado and Bob Newbie as they grapple with the first shadows of danger in the sleepy small town. With a whopping five Olivier nominations, this West End gem is not to be missed!

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.

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.

In 1952, Agatha Christie's sprawling and intricate new whodunnit, The Mousetrap (based on her radio play, Three Blind Mice), opened in the West End on a very strict condition; no one was to ever give away the plot of the show. To this day, seventy years later, audiences have abided by the rule, ensuring that whether it is your first or 30th time seeing it, the experience and the discovery of "whodunnit" will come as a surprise!

Now eyeing up a decade in the West End, Mischief Theatre's bonkers theatrical farce is one of the capital's most consistent audience favourites. The original production from the company, discover where it all began, and get ready to ache from laughing as anything that can go wrong, will!

Rajiv Joseph's extraordinary Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-nominated play comes to London for its European premiere, opening at the Young Vic Theatre this Winter. Helmed by Omar Elerian and featuring David Threlfall, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo is a darkly comic examination of the US' invasion of Iraq. This singular piece of writing is the definition of must-see theatre.

All stemming from the story of a normal couple plagued by a malevolent unseen force told through 'found-footage', Paranormal Activity reinvigorated the horror genre on its 2007 release, and now it's changing the game once more as it comes to the stage. An original story from acclaimed Punchdrunk founder and artistic director Felix Barrett and playwright Levi Holloway, be prepared for thrills in the theatre as this new chapter in the 'Paranormal universe unfolds live!