10 Exciting New Shows in London in 2025 - 2026

All aboard as the stage adaptation of the Academy Award-winning Western film pulls into London this December. When a figure from Will Kane’s past threatens his future, he must make a tough decision. As the clock ticks down in real time, Will must choose if he should stay and face his demons, or flee on the high noon train with his beloved. High Noon features an adapted script from the Oscar-winning writer behind Forrest Gump and stars Oliver and Tony winners Denise Gough and Billy Crudup.

This stunning new show from Succession writer and Bruntwood Prize for Playwrighting winner Anna Jordan comes to London for a strictly limited run to celebrate the 30th anniversary of acclaimed theatre company Frantic Assembly. Lost Atoms charts a relationship between two people as they traverse their past and imagine their future. Are they destined to be together, or doomed from the start? This kaleidoscopic love story is moving, funny and unmissable - book your tickets today.

When Harold’s humdrum life is disrupted by the news that an old friend is terminally ill, he copes in the most unexpected of ways - by setting out on an unplanned cross-country walk. As Harold traverses the country and shares small acts of kindness with strangers along the way, he uncovers forgotten memories about himself, too. This “pitch-perfect” (The Times) musical, based on the best-selling novel, stars Mark Addy (Game of Thrones) and Jenna Russell (Hello, Dolly!) and comes to London following a critically acclaimed run at Chichester Festival Theatre.

Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby return for one last laugh in this final chapter of the beloved comedy series. Griff Rhys Jones stars as Jim Hacker, who is now an Oxford don and seeks out his old pal as Sir Humphrey, played by Clive Francis, to help save him from cancellation. Written by BAFTA-winning Yes, Minister co-creator Jonathan Lynn, I’m Sorry Prime Minister is dedicated to Lynn’s late writing partner Antony Jay and is filled with nostalgia, biting political comedy and plenty of laughs. Secure your tickets today!

This powerful play about grief, love and police violence is a lyrical “verbal feast” (Chicago Tribune), mashing up heightened Shakespeare-inspired verse with hip hop rhythms in a piece that’s part magic realism, part brutal political examination, all dazzling. Written by the late Chadwick Boseman, best known for his acting work in Black Panther and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the UK premiere of this breathtaking play comes to the Globe for a strictly limited run.

While it might “suck to be you”, it’ll suck just a little bit less this Spring as Avenue Q returns to the West End for the first time in over two decades. This hilarious, irreverent musical about a borough of New York populated by disaffected puppets and humans, who must muddle through life is “Sesame Street for grown-ups” (EW). Featuring hit songs including “It Sucks to be Me”, “The Internet is For P*rn” and “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist”, this equal opportunity offender is sidesplitting, silly and surprisingly heartfelt.

Stranger Thing’s star Sadie Sink makes her West End debut this spring in Romeo and Juliet, a new revival by Olivier-winning, boundary-pushing writer-director Robert Icke. Sink is joined by Hamnet’s Noah Jupe also in his London Theatre debut, as the star-crossed lovers from rival families who unexpectedly fall for one another. This explosive new production of Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy promises to the the play of the season - secure your tickets today.

It’s showtime, London! This hilarious, Tony-nominated adaptation of the Tim Burton film has had rumours of a London transfer swirling since it premiered on Broadway in 2019, and now the West End can say his name at last. Lydia Deetz is grieving her mum and feels ignored by her dad, so she enlists mild-mannered ghosts, The Maitlands, to haunt him into caring again. But the couple are new to the whole "being dead thing", and when they fail to spook Lydia's dad, unhinged demon Beetlejuice steps in, and chaos ensues…

In a marshy field in Essex, three women gather to discuss friendship, survival, and the downfall of the recently executed queen, Anne Boleyn. Though these ordinary women couldnt be farther from court life, the impact of Boelyn’s downfall has sent ripples through the country, and the impact is keenly felt. This innovative new play merges modern language with an unflinching portrait of power and patriarchy. This West End transfer sold out its initial run at the Almeida Theatre, so dont miss out - book today.

This new play from Pulitzer finalist Rajiv Joseph (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) reimagines the run0up to Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination - the event that is believed to have triggered WWI. The play reframes the real-life perpetrator Gavrilo Princip, a young man dying of tuberculosis, as not a cunning mastermind but as a sick, naive boy - susceptible to propaganda - who is desperate to leave his mark on history, however he can… Archduke makes its UK debut this summer  - don't miss it.