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A Midsummer Night's Dream

By William Shakespeare

Enter a world where the veil between the everyday and the extraordinary grows joyfully thin. As night deepens on the eve of a royal wedding, a company of amateur performers prepares a play for the big day and invite you to step into their story. Follow a group of giddy...

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Grace Pervades

By David Hare

Ralph Fiennes gives a career defining performance as Sir Henry Irving, the first actor ever to be knighted and the greatest star of the Victorian stage. The story begins in 1878 at the Lyceum Theatre, where the ambitious actor-manager Henry Irving recruits Terry to be his leading lady. The plot explores...

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Tender

By Dave Harris

The Dancing Bears strip club is failing. Ten covers on a Saturday night. One booking next week. The new club down the street are packing fifty women a night with their twelve-inch synchronised dicks. When the boss's daughter shows up, she realises they're gonna need a bigger show.

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Recent Openings

Let the Right One In

By John Ajvide Lindquist — Adapted by Jack Thorne

Underbelly Boulevard, Soho
& touring

Previews05 May 2026
Opens/Press Night07 May 2026
Closes23 May 2026
Running Time2 hours 15 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere of this adaptation
Presented ByNYT REP Company in association with Marla Rubin Productions Ltd

Oskar is a lonely boy from a broken home. He's bullied at school and is longing for friendship. Eli is a troubled girl who's just moved in next door. She never goes to school and is compelled to fill an eternal emptiness. When a series of brutal killings plagues the neighbourhood, these two young misfits make a deep connection, sensing in each other a kindred spirit. But the shocking truth about Eli tests Oskar's loyalty - and love - beyond all imaginable limits.

See cast, creatives, and 4 reviews

The Psychic

By Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman

Theatre Royal, York

Previews29 April 2026
Opens/Press Night06 May 2026
Closes23 May 2026
Running Time2 hours 20 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere
Presented ByYork Theatre Royal

Popular TV psychic Sheila Gold loses a high-profile court case, which brands her a charlatan. It costs her not only her reputation, but a fortune in legal fees. When a wealthy couple ask Sheila to conduct a seance to attempt to make contact with their late child, Sheila senses an opportunity to bleed them for money. What follows makes her question everything she's ever believed and leads her on a journey into the darkest corners of her life. This twisted new thriller from the creators of the international smash hit Ghost Stories, brings thrills, laughs and shocks back to the stage - in the World Premiere of this electrifying and unmissable play.

See cast, creatives, and 6 reviews

Magic

By David Haig

Chichester Theatre, Chichester

Previews24 April 2026
Opens/Press Night05 May 2026
Closes16 May 2026
Running Time2 hours 25 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere
Presented ByChichester Festival Theatre

'Exclude the impossible and what is left, however improbable, must be the truth.' Harry Houdini is the greatest illusionist the world has ever known. Arthur Conan Doyle is the creator of literature's most brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes. Their mutual admiration blossoms into a profound friendship, even as they discover a shared obsession with spiritualism. Conan Doyle believes fervently in the psychic world and the promise of reunion with his dead son; Houdini is determined to demonstrate it's a cruel fraud. Which of these sparring partners will be proved right: the genius writer of fiction or the infallible magician? Based on extraordinary historical events, Magic asks what we're prepared to believe, and why.

See cast, creatives, and 6 reviews
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