30th Anniversary production! You heard that right, RENTheads, after last being seen in the West End in 1999, RENT is returning to London with Gaten Matarazzo making his West End debut as Mark Cohen! Electrifying the musical theatre landscape when it premiered on Broadway back in 1996, Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer and Tony-winning RENT remains an unmissable experience to this day. Bursting with energy and a rocking score, Rent tells the story of a band of young artists living in New York, who are determined to overcome the fear of HIV that hangs over them.

Riding high off the back of sold-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Turbine Theatre, and the Garrick, oh, and an Olivier nomination for good measure, don't miss Rob Madge's exuberant celebration of growing up queer in this triumphant, touching, and hilarious production. Reminiscing on the time they tried to stage a full-scale Disney parade in their living room, with Rob playing all the characters from Mary Poppins to Ariel and their dad on stage management duties, enjoy this re-staging of the storied event!

A bold and daring new production of the Kander and Ebb classic; Cabaret is now playing at the Playhouse Theatre. This immersive new take introduces audiences to Berlin's seedier side at the Kit Cat Club. So put down the knitting, the book and the broom and prepare for a night out you won't soon forget!

Debuting playwright and performer Tafadzwa Muchenje joins forces with director Rosie MacPherson to co-create an urgent piece of theatre, produced and presented by the UK's first "Theatre Company of Sanctuary", Stand and Be Counted. Ripples is grounded in real events, standing as a blistering commentary on the UK's hostile immigration landscape and the very real experiences of the human beings it comes for. Stand and Be Counted is a theatre company working with refugees and migrants to foster opportunities to develop, create, perform and be platformed. Sitting somewhere between the arts and social activism, they are well positioned to help tell this story.

Biographical drag comedy Savage arrives in 2027, charting the life, times and legacy of Paul O'Grady and his "Blonde Bombsite", Lily Savage! Savage, developed with the personal blessing of the late O'Grady himself before his passing, stars RuPaul's Drag Race UK champion Danny Beard and features a script by multi-award winner Jonathan Harvey (Beautiful Thing), directed by Nikolai Foster. Paul O'Grady's life was a story as inspiring as writer could write, with working class roots, self-reinvention and the power of 20th-century queer counterculture in Britain all central to his journey. The production is set to tour the UK in February before a West End transfer.

The National Theatre stages Cloud 9, an early-career masterwork from the celebrated award-winning playwright Caryl Churchill (Top Girls, Serious Money) this year. Directed by the National's associate director Dominic Cooke (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Follies), the revival marks the latest collaboration in a long running professional association between Cooke and Churchill. A trademark, hard-hitting work from Churchill with themes of oppression both colonial and sexual, further details and casting will soon be announced.