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Sherlock Holmes

By Joel Horwood

London, 1890, a city rapidly expanding, devouring all in its path. Fresh off the success of his first big case, Sherlock Holmes misuses his time, until an unknown woman and a mysterious jewel arrive at 221b Baker Street. As the chase begins, and with lives on the line, can Holmes and...

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1536

By Ava Pickett

Kings don't kill their wives, right? Tudor England. A field in Essex. Three women meet in secret, hungry for gossip from London. Word spreads of a clash between King Henry VIII and his Queen, Anne Boleyn. And closer to home, another rumour begins to catch fire. As these women...

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Mother Courage and Her Children

By Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Anna Jordan

With war raging all around her, Mother Courage sells food and clothing to soldiers, switching allegiance when it suits her and striving to keep her business and children alive at all costs. Bloody battlefields are her marketplace, her wagon, her stall. Her remarkable and brutal story is told through humour...

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Recent Openings

Eclipse

By John Morton

Chichester Theatre - Minerva Theatre, Chichester

Previews08 May 2026
Opens/Press Night14 May 2026
Closes06 June 2026
Running Time1 hour 50 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere
Presented ByChichester Festival Theatre, ROYO in association with Wessex Grove

In the kitchen of an old Devon rectory, the daughter who stayed and the son who moved away make conversation with their current and former partners, the milkman, the postman, the care workers. They talk about the weather, the roads, the toaster, the bins. About anything except the simmering tensions between them, as their father lies mortally ill in the next room. Until the unspoken emotions and conflicts of years boil over. Eclipse is a painfully funny, acute and delicate play about our struggle to communicate, in the face of life and of death. And our infinite capacity for drinking tea.

See cast, creatives, and 6 reviews

Stage Kiss

By Sarah Ruhl

Hampstead Theatre - Downstairs, London

Previews08 May 2026
Opens/Press Night14 May 2026
Closes13 June 2026
Running Time2 hours 10 minutes
First PerformedGoodman Theatre Chicago USA 2011
UK Premiere
Presented ByHampstead Theatre

Lauren and Humphrey; Elizabeth and Richard; Brad and Angelina. It's famously hard for actors to keep romance under wraps after the director shouts 'cut'. Fact and fiction are so easily blurred under the dazzling haze of the spotlights. It's the first day of rehearsal for long-forgotten melodrama, The Last Kiss. Enter - a plot twist. Art imitates life, as our two leading actors have an explosive romantic history of their own. With opening night approaching, a passionate affair may be waiting in the wings...

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

By Richy Hughes & Tim Sutton — Based on the book by William Kamkwamba

@sohoplace, London

Previews25 April 2026
Opens/Press Night14 May 2026
Closes18 July 2026
Running Time2 hours 45 minutes
First PerformedSwan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon 2026
West End premiere
Presented ByRoyal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Kenny Wax Limited, & Chuchu Nwagu Productions

Based on the international best-selling book, this bold and uplifting new musical tells the extraordinary true story of William Kamkwamba. In drought-stricken Malawi, a 13-year-old boy dreams of saving his village. Nobody believes he can – not his father, his friends, nor his community. As crops fail and hope runs dry, William finds inspiration in scraps of old machinery and a handful of library books. What he lacks in resources, he makes up for in determination, grit and imagination, and a windmill begins to take shape. Can William defy expectations and harness the power of the wind to bring energy, life, and hope to his people?

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