From Keira Knightley to High School Musical: it’s the ten biggest and best new London theatre openings in October 2026 timeout.com/london/news/best…

Michelle Terry has announced she’s stepping down as artistic director of the Globe after a decade in charge - she’ll finish her tenure at the end of 2027

The National Theatre’s iconic South Bank building turned 50 at the weekend – now a group of NT luminaries from Indhu Rubasingham to Lesley Manville tell us the classic show they wish they could see (or see again) timeout.com/london/news/nati…

Review: The Nightmare Realm, Avery Manor - This nerve-wracking immersive horror show packs in a seemingly endless series of scares timeout.com/london/theatre/t…

Review: Room 13, Battersea Arts Centre – This short, sharp immersive horror show offers efficient chills that leave you free to enjoy the rest of the night (if you dare!!!)  timeout.com/london/theatre/r…

Review: Ilford Boy, Donmar Warehouse - Danny Lee Wynter’s poignant, funny, semi-autobiographical drama about growing up mixed-race in ’90s east London timeout.com/london/theatre/i…

Review: High School Muscial, Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre - Of course this first UK production of the Disney phenomenon is millennial nostalgia bait – but it’s spectacularly well done timeout.com/london/theatre/h…

Review: Martin Guerre, Old Vic - This radical revamp of the famously troubled ’90s musical is enjoyable but still not that great timeout.com/london/theatre/m…

Review: Some Woman, National Theatre - Anne-Marie Duff stars in this gripping thriller about a middle-aged woman whose bad day turns into a nightmare timeout.com/london/theatre/s…

David Tennant, Caryl Churchill and more in Dominic Cooke’s first season running the mighty Almeida Theatre timeout.com/london/news/domi…

Review: Absurd City, Westfield London - This eye-popping immersive theatre dystopia is massively fun, however you choose to engage with it timeout.com/london/theatre/a…

Review: Fences, Lyric Hammersmith - Intimate, spectacularly well-acted revival of the August Wilson classic timeout.com/london/theatre/f…

Sacha Baron Cohen will make his stage debut in Quentin Tarantino’s The Popinjay Cavalier, opening at the Phoenix Theatre early next year timeout.com/london/news/sach…

Review: Affluenza, Riverside Studios - This hubristic new play revels in wild plot jumps and the baffling withholding of its star Noah Schnapp timeout.com/london/theatre/a…

Review: Nina, Battersea Arts Centre – Smart metatheatrical drama about four actresses auditioning for a ‘challenging’ production of The Seagull  timeout.com/london/theatre/n…

Review: Rent, Tom Stoppard Theatre - ‘Stranger Things’ star Gaten Matarazzo feels out of place in this sexy but shallow take on Jonathan Larson’s masterpiece timeout.com/london/news/rent…

Review: End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Barbican Centre – This ambitious adaptation of Murakami’s early magical realist classic is ravishing but misses the author’s deadpan tone timeout.com/london/theatre/e…

Review: Hay Fever, Wyndham’s Theatre - A brilliant ensemble cast lift a very trad Noël Coward revival, though big name Richard E Grant is underwhelming timeout.com/london/news/hay-…

Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, @sohoplace Sensational off-kilter turns from Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup are made even better by the ultra-intimate staging at @sohoplace timeout.com/london/news/whos…