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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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An Ideal Husband

By Oscar Wilde

Present day. London. Sir Robert Chiltern is riding high on all the very best that modern life has to offer a man of his impeccable taste and pristine reputation. He's got it all: the house, the wife, the style. All seems well until the arrival of the crafty Mrs Cheveley,...

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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.

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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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Little Shop Of Horrors

Book and lyrics by Howard Ashman. Music by Alan Menken — Based on the film by Roger Corman with screenplay by Charles Griffith

Northern Stage, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
& touring

Previews08 May 2026
Opens/Press Night13 May 2026
Closes23 May 2026
Running Time2 hours 20 minutes
First PerformedWPA Theatre Off-Broadway 1982
UK premiere Comedy Theatre London 1983
Presented ByNorthern Stage & Derby Theatre

With music by Alan Menken (Disney's The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast) and book and lyrics by Howard Ashman (also Disney's The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast), Little Shop of Horrors is a madcap mash-up of sci-fi, Motown and B-movie horror. Meet Seymour Krelborn, a down-on-his-luck flower shop assistant who stumbles upon a strange and exotic plant with a sinister secret: it thrives on human blood. As the plant's appetite grows, so does Seymour's fame and fortune – but at what cost?

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