Two of our most debonair actors, the American Christine Baranski and the very British (though Swaziland-born and raised) Richard E Grant take on the high comedy roles of retired actress Judith and novelist David Bliss in Noël Coward’s Hay Fever. The cast also includes the recognisable faces of Nancy Carroll, Charles Edwards, Will Close, and Ophelia Lovibond as guests at a weekend house party from hell.

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The effortlessly elegant Kristin Scott Thomas has a long association working with director Ian Rickson, and the pair’s latest project is a revival of Chekhov’s melancholy masterpiece The Cherry Orchard. She plays kind-hearted but flighty landowner Ranevskaya, opposite Stephen Mangan as her eccentric brother Gayev (seen onstage this summer in The Truth).

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Another power pairing: Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup are storming the stage as warring faculty spouses Martha and George in Marianne Elliott’s new production of Edward Albee’s blistering exposé of marital disharmony. Their partnership is sure to be utterly electrifying!

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Keira Knightley has been a leading lady for about 25 years now and Luke Thompson set hearts aflutter as this season's “Prince Charming” in Bridgerton. They join forces this autumn in Robert Icke’s stage version of the acclaimed East Berlin-set film as a playwright and his actress partner, with Stephen Dillane as a ruthless Stasi officer.

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A Broadway baby from an early age, Stranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson) now makes his West End debut as aspiring filmmaker Mark in the 30th-anniversary revival of Jonathan Larson’s RENT, a defining show for the Y2K generation. Matarazzo and his co-stars – including up-and-coming musical theatre stars Travis Ross, Billy Nevers, Danielle Fiamanya, and Jeevan Braich – are sure to make it thoroughly relevant for Gen Z.

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Another Stranger Things star is taking to the stage on this side of the pond this autumn – Noah Schnapp (who plays Will Byers in the Netflix megahit) also makes his London debut, in the new play Affluenza by Andy Sandberg at Hammersmith's Riverside Studios, set in the ultra-wealthy Hamptons. The production also features former Strictly Come Dancing professional Janette Manrara making her debut in a play.

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Another exciting West End debut is actor and comedian Lolly Adefope as the latest performer to take the title role in Oh, Mary! Perhaps best known for her performance as Georgian noblewoman Kitty in the sitcom Ghosts, Adefope has form with historical character comedy and we look forward to seeing her shake Mary’s bratty ringlets!

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Following a successful run in New York earlier this year, Modern Family star and Tony winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson reprises his role as Truman Capote in biographical play Tru in a transformed Menier Chocolate Factory. In a 4-star review, LondonTheatre.co.uk’s reviewer described him as “captivating in the role: camp, catty, and totally unapologetic”.

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Ferguson’s Modern Family niece Sarah Hyland makes her West End debut as the latest Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (she has appeared on Broadway in The Great Gatsby and Just in Time). Her Emcee is Skylar Astin, who is best known for his performances as Jesse Swanson in Pitch Perfect and its sequel. A real American pop culture pairing!

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Gird your loins! Vanessa Williams’s red stilettos will be filled by her Desperate Housewives co-star Teri Hatcher from 20 October. Hatcher’s previous musical theatre credits include Cabaret and The Addams Family in the US. She was adorable as the ditzy Susan Mayer in Desperate Housewives, so we’re excited to see how she handles formidable!

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2027 is sure to get off to a scintillating start as Lesley Manville and Anna Maxwell Martin, two of our finest actresses, team up as mother and daughter Violet and Barbara in the first London revival of Tracy Letts’s dark comedy August: Osage County. Violet is a recent widow and prescription drug addict and Barbara’s marriage is in trouble, and all sorts of secrets raise their heads...

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Omigod, you guys! Legally Blonde returns to London in spring 2027 with musical theatre actress and Strictly Come Dancing finalist Amber Davies as pink-obsessed aspiring lawyer Elle Woods. Bend and snap up your tickets for this feel-good and empowering show now!

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Another musical comes to the London Coliseum in summer 2027, starring a West End leading man who has been a household name since the 1980s. Michael Ball plays eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka in a new production of the musical version of the Roald Dahl favourite. The delicious new production is sure to showcase Ball at his most twinkly and mischievous!

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The National Theatre has some huge stars set to appear on its stages in 2027. Forever beloved as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke stars in the National Theatre’s revival of David Hare’s Plenty, celebrating the writer’s 80th birthday, directed by Richard Eyre. A true prestige production.

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This autumn, The Crown’s Emma Corrin stars as Elizabeth Bennet in Netflix’s new version of Pride and Prejudice. In February 2027, they make their National Theatre as the vulnerable Catharine in Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly Last Summer. Catharine’s aunt and manipulator is played by none other than the truly formidable Dame Harriet Walter.

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One of the most celebrated talents of his generation, Paul Mescal makes his debut at the National Theatre as son Biff in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, directed by Rebecca Frecknall, with whom he previously worked on A Streetcar Named Desire (for which he won an Olivier Award). Tracy Letts (author of August: Osage County) and Monica Dolan play his parents Willy and Linda Loman.

Mescal will also star in A Whistle in the Dark, Tom Murphy's 1961 play about a family of Irish immigrants and gangsters living in Coventry, which will also be seen at Dublin's Abbey Theatre.

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