What theatre productions are you looking forward to booking for 2026?

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My DH and I have started going to the theatre Saturday matinees more regularly now our kids are older teens and we can leave them home alone on Saturday afternoons!!

We have booked Dracula so far as Australian friends have raved about it but wondering what else is coming out that people are excited about?

We went a couple of weeks and felt it was dated. Self Esteem was fabulous..we've seen her a couple of times...but thought the actual play wasn't great. A few people didn't return for 2nd half. At least the tickets were a reasonable price!

Just booked for The Orestaia at The Bridge. Wasn’t a fan of Into The Woods, but otherwise never seen anything there that I didn’t love.

Would love to see Jesus Christ Superstar, having seen it about 45 years ago, but can’t find a seat for under £190 😩

I agree with all of that.

I loved the cast, and had they replaced much of the stilted parade of discursive exchanges with more songs / band performances it would have been better!

I can see that if it’s time it was an interesting piece as 60s idealism was replaced by the 70s, and as an early play by Hare it was structurally flawed.

I wasn’t emotionally engaged at all.

But I had a good seat for £26 and enjoyed Self Esteem’s performance.

Booked Jesus Christ Superstar for July last week but nothing else booked until then and starting to get the itch.

I keep getting ads for The Cherry Orchard with Kristin Scott Thomas which I like the sound of. Anyone else made any more bookings?

I haven't seen Teeth and smiles yet, it's booked for May but I am off to The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry on Thursday.

We have - (oh dear. I had no idea the list was already this long...)

Just saw Into The Woods which I loved, and Our Town in Kingston which was very good (last night so Michael Sheen made a speech at the end)

Summerfolk (NT)
Henry V (RSC)
A Dolls House (Almeida)
Liasons Dangereuses (NT)
Authenticator (NT)
Driftwood (RSC)
Resistible rise of Arturo Ui (RSC)
Tempest (RSC)
War Horse
Under The Shadow (Almeida)
Black Comedy (Orange tree)
Cherry Orchard (RSC)
The Story (NT)
A month in the country (Donmar)
The Oresteia (The Bridge)
As You Like it (RSC)
The Sea (Bath)
Murder in the Cathedral (Orange Tree)
Owain and Henry (Cardiff)
Julius Caesar (RSC)
Middlemarch (RSC)
Jungle Book (RSC)
Three Muskateers (RSC)

I LOVED Harold Fry and have been very tempted to go again this week

Now that is an impressive list!

I agree, and most of them I haven’t heard of before.

I saw it this afternoon - it's great! I've read the book and saw the film

I’ve got a matinee ticket to Glengarry Glen Ross in June at the Old Vic. I’m going to take a half day from work & I can walk to the theatre from the office

I saw Broken Glass a few days ago at the Young Vic. I’ve been there before but didn’t know about the lucky dip tickets they sell, so I thought I’d save some money and get one of those. It’s not much of a gamble since the theatre is quite small. I had a good seat four rows from the front and mostly enjoyed the play. Such a great bargain for £12.50.

For many reasons I probably won’t be back in London until the end of the year and I hope to see Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Soho Place theatre.