Victorian thriller opens the open-air season The first major production of the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's 2026 season is Sherlock Holmes, which runs until 6 June 2026. In a thrilling new mystery by Joel Horwood, we are in the London of 1890 and, with Holmes having solved his very first case. But with nothing on the horizon to test his unique ...

Matilda The Musical, is inspired by the Matilda a 1988 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. It was adapted for the stage by the Royal Shakespeare Company, with a book by Dennis Kelly and original songs by Tim Minchin and saw its world premiere at the RSC's home in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2010. Since then, the production has garnered well o...

Searing drama at its absolute finest The Price, at the Marylebone Theatre until 7 June 2026, is a pinnacle production of Arthur Miller's searing drama. First premiered on Broadway in 1968, the play continues to have a genuine resonance nearly 60 years later. This production gives us masterful performances from four actors at the absolute top of the...

The template for urban planning Port Sunlight survives today as arguably the finest example of early urban planning in the UK, and one of the finest surviving examples of industrial worker villages in the world In 1888 William Hesketh Lever bought a parcel of Wirral marshland on the banks of the River Mersey, William Lever to build his Lever Brothe...

Ruth the Musical – Lives laid bare The premier of Ruth - the Musical has its world premier at Wilton's Music Hall, in London's East End, until 28 March 2026. This is a substantial piece of musical drama, with relevance to recent history and indeed today, and it is surely not the last time the production will be available to theatre audiences. Moreo...

Storyhouse, in Chester, England, is staging MacBeth from 11 to 22 March 2026. Director Jamie Sophia Fletcher has created a stark, shrapnel-sharp, surreal evening in the theatre, with moments of very dark humour. It takes and twists Macbeth, while still delivering the ironic desperation and ultimate desolation of this most tragic of Shakespeare's tr...