It's easy to look into dull, dark, abstemious January and think that nothing nice will happen again ever. But look again. There's already a plethora of plays, which promise a whole year of drama, comedy, inspiration and star-spotting. Take some time to book tickets now and you'll be in for a bright, exciting 2018.
From the global fame of Gandalf and Magneto, to an illustrious 60 year stage career at the RSC, National Theatre and across the West End, Sir Ian McKellen is firmly within National Treasure territory and widely regarded as one of our finest living actors. Don't miss your chance to see him play King Lear on the West End.
Read more ...
Sixty years since Harold Pinter shifted the boundaries of theatre with his first major play, The Birthday Party, a top-notch team of creatives revive the menacing comedy. Toby Jones, Zoe Wanamaker, Stephen Mangan and Pearl Mackie add extra star power.
Read more ...
Annie Baker's play The Flick was a sellout success at the National's Dorfman Theatre in 2016. It cemented Baker's reputation as one of America's brightest young talents with a gift for capturing the ordinary cadences of conversation – and it scared away a fair few traditionalists, too. This year, Baker returns with a new play about the uncanny impact of inanimate objects.
Read more ...
Ben Whishaw and Michelle Fairley lead a coup in Nicholas Hytner's promenade production of Julius Caesar. It's the second show to grace the Bridge Theatre and, with Hytner's proven pedigree for staging Shakespeare, it's likely to be the show to really put this new theatre on the map.
Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical drama A Long Day's Journey Into Night comes to the West End after an impressive opening at the Bristol Old Vic, where it was hailed 'marvellous... a glory', 'electrifying, intense' and 'tantalisingly close to perfection'.
Read more ...
Carey Mulligan returns to the Royal Court to lend some Hollywood star dust to a new play that boasts the talents of writer Dennis Kelly (Matilda the Musical, RSC and West End) and director Lyndsey Turner (Hamlet, Barbican; Posh, Royal Court).
Read more ...
Before Elsa, Anna and Olaf the Snowman made Frozen synonymous with feel-good family festivity, playwright Bryony Lavery wrote a darkly psychological thriller about a family torn apart by tragedy. Now Doctor Foster star Suranne Jones leads a revival.
Ingmar Bergman's masterful 1982 film Fanny and Alexander is re-imagined for the stage. Expect gilded Scandi backdrops and a rich, complex portrait of childhood, family ties, godlessness and, ultimately, love.
Superstition, ambition and bloody violence come to the National Theatre as Rufus Norris directs Macbeth. Veteran actors Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff play the power-hungry couple.
Read more ...
Emma Rice's jubilant stage adaptation of the classic film returns with a new site-specific production merging stage and silver screen.
Read more ...
It's an epic two-part play about gay life in New York in the shadow of the AIDs crisis... No, not Tony Kushner's Angels in America, but a world premiere by Matthew Lopez, which comes to the Young Vic to ask: ‘What do gay men hand down from one generation to the next? What do we learn from our past? How do we heal? How do we change?’
Read more ...
Baz Lurhmann,(Moulin Rouge!, Romeo and Juliet and The Great Gatsby ) brings his trademark spectacle and glamour to the stage in a musical theatre adapation of his 1992 film Strictly Ballroom.
Read more ...![The Way of the World ] Donmar Warehouse. Photo by Eivind Hansen](/images/uploads/cw-20722.jpg)
The Way Of The World is, according to William Congreve, that of money, desire and duplicity. Now the classic comedy of manners comes to the Donmar Warehouse in a new production by director James Macdonald.
Read more ...
Finishing off a hat trick of hits over the last year, James Graham's Quiz comes to the West End. Much like Labour of Love and Ink, this new play makes thrilling theatre from real life events. Quiz draws on the traditions of TV gameshows to explore the 'coughing major' scandal that shook ITV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
Read more ...
Looking for theatre that meets the 'two women converse about something other than a man' requirement of the Bechdel test? Well, you can’t do better than a story written by Alison Bechdel, the cartoonist and writer who coined the term. This musical theatre adaptation of Bechdel's memoir comes to the Young Vic after causing a sensation in New York.
Read more ...
Rogers and Hammerstein's classic 1951 musical The King and I comes to London after impressing at New York's Lincoln Center. Bartlett Sher's new production has has already been praised by critics as 'resplendent' and 'clarifying'.
Read more ...
Poldark's Aidan Turner makes his West End debut to play an Irish terrorist with a penchant for cats in a revival Martin McDonagh's disturbingly dark comedy The Lieutenant Of Inishmore.
Read more ...
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 – gets a fresh, feminist makeover. Instead of a male hero, we have Rosalie Craig making the main part female.
Read more ...If you click «Log in with Facebook» and are not a Culture Whisper user, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and to our Privacy Policy, which includes our Cookie Use
