If you're not yet ready to say goodbye to summer, you can enjoy outdoor theatre at the Globe until late October. Don’t miss your chance to catch Sean Holmes and Charlie Josephine’s joyous, lavishly costumed production of Shakespeare’s gender-bending rom-com, which LondonTheatre.co.uk's reviewer described as “a raucously entertaining take on this surpassingly sweet comedy”.

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Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony-winning musical about a teenager with a rare genetic condition that makes her age at four times the usual speed may well be the quirkiest musical of the year, and it also has an enormous heart. Three-time Olivier winner Maria Friedman takes the title role, with former Elphaba Alice Fearn as her zany Aunt Debra.

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Did you know that on 4 December 1956, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins found themselves together at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee and embarked on an impromptu jam session? Here’s your chance to be a fly on the wall as these four extraordinary musicians share their stories and extraordinary talents.

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The celebrated 1991 female-led comedy-drama road movie comes to the stage as a musical adapted by Oscar-winning original screenwriter Callie Khouri with a score by Neko Case. Amy Lennox and Rachel Tucker star as the titular freedom-seeking duo. We can’t wait to see their chemistry in action – and how they stage the final scene!

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Arriving in London via New York and LA, Douglas Lyons’s romcom explores what happens when ex-fiancés Jada and Dallas meet up for dinner after seven years apart – they’re over each other, right? Tony winner Zhailon Levingston (Cats: The Jellicle Ball) directs Olivier nominees Marisha Wallace (Guys & Dolls) and Jamael Westman (Hamilton) – expect sparks to fly!

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If you’re looking to expand your personal curriculum this autumn, try James Graham’s new play about macroeconomics – and there's also sure to be plenty of human interest in this play about Bloomsbury Group economist John Maynard Keynes, who had quite a colourful personal life. Rory Kinnear leads the cast as Keynes, with Royal Ballet principal Natalia Osipova making her dramatic acting debut as his wife, the ballerina Lydia Lopokova.

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Edward Albee’s seminal drama about marital strife receives a starry revival directed by Marianne Elliott and led by Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup as warring faculty spouses Martha and George. Fuelled by alcohol and resentments, their toxic marriage erupts in front of their young guests – it's a back-to-school experience like no other!

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Christine Baranski and Richard E. Grant play host to a chaotic weekend in the country in Noël Coward’s classic comedy of bad manners. Retired actress Judith Bliss lives for attention and she has a captive audience with her motley group of houseguests – but how long can they handle it before they reach breaking point?

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Kristin Scott Thomas returns to the West End in a new production of Chekhov’s last play, a tragicomedy about a family on the verge of irreversible change. The production is directed by Scott Thomas’s regular collaborator Ian Rickson in a new version by Conor McPherson, with a supporting cast that includes Stephen Mangan, Peter Wight, and Ruby Bentall.

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American theatremaker Andy Sandberg directs five new plays this season at Riverside Studios, starting with this self-penned offering about the ripple effects of power and privilege following a drunken teenager’s car crash. Stranger Things actor Noah Schnapp makes his London debut alongside Strictly Come Dancing’s Janette Manrara.

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Marking the 30th anniversary of the rock musical’s debut in New York (and the untimely death of its creator Jonathan Larson), Luke Sheppard (Paddington) helms a major revival for a new generation. Stranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo leads the cast as protagonist Mark, joined by other exciting young talents including Travis Rogers, Alexa Lopez, and Jeevan Braich.

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If you didn’t get the chance to get lost in the woods at the Bridge Theatre, here’s another opportunity in the West End. The 2026 Olivier Award winner for Best Musical Revival, Jordan Fein’s production showcases the Sondheim favourite at its very best and LondonTheatre.co.uk’s reviewer concluded that “this spellbinding production has everything you could wish for and more”.

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Texas-born playwright Joy Nesbitt makes her Royal Court debut with this fascinating-sounding new play with a dual timeline. In 1862, Ginnie Good raises five children in a cabin as a war rages outside. In the present day, a woman rents the cabin on Airbnb to conjure her ancestors. What do we hear when we listen to the voices of the past?

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Can you believe it’s been 20 years since Disney’s High School Musical was released? It remains as youthful as ever, and you’d never have experienced this kind of up-close-and-personal immersive production staged on the East High basketball court. McFly’s Harry Judd plays Coach Bolton alongside a host of young talent as the stagey and sporty kids.

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Keira Knightley, Luke Thompson, and Stephen Dillane star in this stage adaptation of the 2006 German film about the surveillance of a group of East Berlin residents in the 1980s. Writer and director Robert Icke, known for his innovative use of technology, is sure to pull all the stops out for a real thriller.

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