Old Vic News

Olivier Award winner John Dagleish will star as Benjamin Button in THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON at the Ambassadors Theatre from Thursday 10th October 2024.

Pentabus has announced Jerwood Foundation support for the 2025 Pentabus Writer in Residence Bursary, and the opening of applications.

The lineup for Amit Sharma's inaugural season as Artistic Director of Kiln Theatre will include the European premiere of Dan McCabe's The Purists, and more.

Today’s subject Simon Godwin is currently living his theatre life as the Artistic Director of DC’s Tony Award winning Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC). He assumed the position in 2019 succeeding the company’s founder Michael Kahn after a stunning 33-year reign.

Kalisha Amaris, Georgia Bradshaw Choolwe Laina Muntanga and Danielle Steers as 'The Joplinaires' in the Tony Award® nominated hit musical A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN.

Queen - a play written entirely in Queen Victoria’s own words, taken from her letters and journals - will play the Assembly Rooms at Assembly Festival, Edinburgh, from 1-25 August 2024.

Jez Butterworth’s new play The Hills of California, directed by Sam Mendes, will open on Broadway this fall! The play will perform a limited engagement at the Broadhurst Theatre with previews beginning in September.

Tony and Olivier Award-winning writer of The Inheritance, Matthew López’s play about loneliness and longing, Reverberation, has been announced as Bristol Old Vic’s flagship autumn production.

The King's Head Theatre has announced the full lineup for its Pride fundraiser, OUTINGS, with performances on June 7, 9, 14, and 21.

Dame Vivien Duffield has made a major gift of £30m to the Clore Duffield Foundation to celebrate its 60th Anniversary.

Experience the award-winning sketch comedy duo GRUBBY LITTLE MITTS at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their surreal and chaotic show, EYES CLOSED, MOUTHS OPEN. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The full cast has been announced for Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’ all-new, highly anticipated second musical, WHY AM I SO SINGLE? 

International circus stars have been assembled for the Giffords Circus 2024 tour, Avalon.

Reigning Queen of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, beloved powerhouse performer Ginger Johnson, is to swap her crown for a crash helmet as she brings her all-new show Ginger Johnson Blows Off! to Soho Theatre for a 3-week season from Monday 23 September - Saturday 12 October. at 9.30pm, followed by her first solo UK tour.

The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced full casting for Gordon Greenberg’s production of The Baker’s Wife – with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Joseph Stein. Learnm ore about the cast here!

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HFH Productions has announced a play set for a London run ahead of Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. Surrender by Sophie Swithinbank in creative partnership with Phoebe Ladenburg will be on at the Arcola Theatre between 19 June and 13 July.

A major new London production of the multi Tony-nominated Broadway musical THE WILD PARTY will open at EartH Hackney, a new 680-capacity venue in Dalston.

The Old Vic has announced that Matthew Warchus, following 11 years leading the organisation, will step  down as Artistic Director in September 2026. 

Theatr Clwyd has announced the cast for their upcoming production of Rope by Patrick Hamilton  which runs from 29 June to 20 July with the press night on Wednesday 3 July. This is a dark comic drama about murder, power and superiority, inspired by a real crime.