After the summer lull, we gear up for the busiest and best season for theatre. London theatres are packed with new openings and enticing drama this autumn. We've trawled through the listings to pick out the must-sees – whether you fancy dark comedy from superstar playwrights, celebrity casting, or insightful revivals. Take some time to book tickets now and then slide into the new season smug in the knowledge that there is great theatre ahead.
Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare's sensuous lovers in a large-scale revival of Shakespeare's potent history play.
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Kwame Kwei-Armah kicks off his inaguaral season as head of the Young Vic with a bright, bold musical take on Shakespeare, which has already impressed in New York.
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Visionary director Robert Icke returns to the Almeida after staggering productions of Hamlet, Oresteia and Mary Stuart to re-invent Ibsen's modernist tragedy.
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Eleven years after a dazzling National Theatre premiere, War Horse has won an astounding 25 awards, toured the world, and captivated crowds night after night. It returns to the National Theatre to thrill a new generation of theatre-goers.
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Ever exuberant theatre-maker Emma Rice brings the theatricality of Angela Carter's Wise Children to life in a lively new show at the Old Vic.
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The adventures of hapless hero, Don Quixote, will play out on the West End stage this autumn when the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production transfers to the Garrick Theatre.
Sam Shepard's murky, macho story of two brothers at loggerheads gets a starry revival with Johnny Flynn and Kit Harington.
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Goodbye chippendales, hello Magic Mike. London is in for some serious pecs appeal as a live stage adaptation of hit 2012 film Magic Mike brings bare torsos and steamy acrobatics to Leicester Square's Hippodrome Casino.
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Donmar artistic director Josie Rourke goes beyond the Shakespearean tradition of gender switching to direct a bold #MeToo era version of Measure for Measure.
Greek mythology meets American folk music and classic Orleans Jazz in genre-defying new musical Hadestown, which comes to London after making a splash in Canada.
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It's fitting that the re-opening of Kilburn's neighbourhood theatre includes a stage adaptation from a local writer with global literary credentials. Zadie Smith's breakthrough novel comes to the stage.
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Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company – the 1970 show that set new records with 14 Tony nominations and a new standard for smart, insightful musical theatre – comes to London with a troupe of topnotch talents and a gender-swapped new interpretation for 2018.
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Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards, The Lieutenant of Inishmore) brings his trademark dark comedy to this twisted fairytale about writer Hans Christian Anderson.
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Britain's love affair with Olivier-winning French playwright Florian Zeller continues as family drama The Height of the Storm embarks upon a national tour that begins at the Richmond Theatre and ends at the West End's Wyndham's Theatre.
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