Sadler's Wells will collaborate with Kneehigh and Theatre Royal Stratford East on new Bollywood musical Wah! Wah! Girls from playwright Tanika Gupta and composer Niraj Chag directed by Emma Rice. It will be at the Peacock Theatre from 24 May to 23 June, and extracts will be presented at Latitude Festival on 14 July.
San Francisco Ballet will present the UK première of Three Mixed Bills from 14 to 23 September at Sadler's Wells.
Edward Hall's production of Chariots of Fire, adapted by Mike Bartlett from Colin Welland's screenplay, for Hampstead Theatre will transfer to the Gielgud Theatre from 22 June.
Whitley Bay theatre company Cloud Nine are to present a new one-act dark comedy by Whitley Bay playwright Dick Curran in a North Shields pub. Curran's Company will run at the Low Lights on the North Shields Fish Quay from 28th to 30th May at 8pm.
Grist to the Mill will present new comedy Punchline by Ross Ericson that explores the nature of comedy and why on earth anyone would want to be a comedian at The Vibe Gallery, Brick Lane, London from 17 May to 3 June.
Scamp Theatre's production of Michael Morpurgo's children's novel Private Peaceful, adapted by Simon Reade, will run at Theatre Royal Haymarket from 18 to 29 September while the National Theatre production of One Man, Two Guvnors is on a 2-week break.
Tales from the River Thames is a site-specific, devised, promenade show from New International Encounter Theatre and the Unicorn Theatre that begins at the Unicorn in London and is based on stories written by London schoolchildren. It will run from 12 to 23 June.
SOOP will bring its devised play Scallywags about auxilliary units set up during World War II to protect Britain in the event of Nazi occupation to the Oxford Festival Fringe from 1 to 10 June.
LeanerFasterStronger by Kaite O'Reilly tells the story of one man’s pursuit to be the best at Sheffield Crucible Lyceum Studio from 23 May to 2 June.
The Two Most Perfect Things will celebrate the lives of musical writers Noël Coward and Ivor Novello at Riverside Studios in London from 27 June to 21 July.
Ovalhouse's first large-scale commission will be Be Good Revolutionaries from Dirty Market set in the hideaway house of a rebel leader's family somewhere in the jungle in 1967. It will be at the south London theatre from 6 to 23 June.
Another Children's TV character is brought to the stage by Nickelodeon in Dora the Explorer Live! Search for the City of Lost Toys, which will have a limited run at the Apollo Theatre in London from 28 Autust to 16 September 2012 after opening at the Globe Theatre, Blackpool Pleasure Beach from 10 to 20 August. There will be a tour in 2013.
Compaňía Nacional de Teatro de México and Royal Shakespeare Company collaborate on a production of A Soldier in Every Son—The Rise of the Aztecs by Luis Mario Moncada, translated by Welsh playwright Gary Owen and directed by Argentinian-born RSC associate director Roxana Silbert for the World Shakespeare Festival. It will be at the Swan Theatre in Stratford from 29 June to 28 July.
King's Head Theatre in London will open its celebrations of Arnold Wesker's 80th birthday with the London première of his false memory play Denial from 15 May to 9 June.
Cartoon de Salvo will present the second of its 15th birthday productions, The Irish Giant, at Southwark Playhouse from 23 May to 9 June.
Elspeth Turner's The Idiot at the Wall, set on a Hebridean island in the wake of World War One, will be the inaugural production for new theatre company FirstBicycle at the Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh on 31 May, 1 June and 7 to 9 June.
Greenhouse Theatre Company's production of Mercury Fur by Philip Ridley, directed by Ned Bennett, will transfer to Trafalgar Studios 2 for a run from 29 May to 23 June following a successful run at The Old Red Lion Theatre in March.
Ireland's Druid Theatre Company will perform a trilogy of Tom Murphy plays—Conversations on a Homecoming, A Whistle in the Dark and Famine—directed by Garry Hynes at Hampstead Theatre from 20 to 30 June.
New musical A Dream Across the Ocean is a new musical about the West Indian Pentecostal community who were part of the Windrush generation that came to Britain between the 1940s and the 1960s which will première at The Ashcroft Theatre in Croydon on 11 and 12 August.
National Theatre of Scotland and Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh will present Abi Morgan's 27 at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow from 17 to 26 May and Cambridge Arts Theatre from 6 to 9 June.
Alan Cumming will star in a reworking of Shakespeare's Macbeth from director John Tiffany set in a psychiatric unit in which Cumming plays all of the parts for National Theatre of Scotland. It will be at Tramway in Glasgow from 13 to 20 June and Lincoln Centre Festival, New York from 5 to 14 July.
Forced Entertainment will present the UK première of The Coming Storm at Battersea Arts Centre as part of LIFT 2012 from 19 to 23 June.
Eleanor Rhode will direct The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey with a cast of John Bett, Neil McCaul and Simon Lee Phillips, running from 19 June to 14 July.
James Le Feuvre and Faye Winter will star in Bash, by Neil LaBute—consisting of the three one-act plays Iphigenia In Orem, A Gaggle of Saints and Media Redux—directed by Olivia Rowe at Barons Court Theatre in Hammersmith from 5 to 17 June.
Thea Sharrock will direct the stage musical version of the film The Bodyguard starring Heather Headley as Rachel Marron and Lloyd Owen as Frank Farmer with a book by Alex Dinelaris and a score featuring songs that were hits for the film's star Whitney Houston, previewing at the Adelpho Theatre from 6 November.
Anton Chekhov's Vaudevilles and other sketches translated and adapted by Michael Frayn will be premièred by Mercurius at The Jack Studio Theatre, Brockley Jack, London from 29 May to 16 June.
Theatre Delicatessen will perform Shakespeare's Henry V at its new Marylebone home from 22 May to 30 June.
Southwark Playhouse will revive the Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart musical Mack and Mabel starring Norman Bowman as silent movie director Mack Sennett and Laura Pitt-Pulford as his female star Mabel Normand for an 8-week season at The Vault from 5 July to 25 August.
Zebedee Productions will perform Steven Berkoff's The Messiah at the World War II buker in Dalston, London from 15 to 26 May.
Ruth Sherlock, Paul Wood and Zoe Lafferty's The Fear of Breathing—Stories from the Syrian Revolution will be directed by Lafferty at Finborough Theatre, running from 17 July to 11 August.
London's Finborough Theatre will revive English composer Edward German's patriotic pageant Merrie England with a libretto by Basil Hood, directed by Alex Sutton, for just nine Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinées from 27 May to 12 June.
Robert Hastie commemorates the tenth anniversary of the death of John McGrath by directing his Events While Guarding The Bofors Gun at Finborough Theatre—the first London production since 1966—from 22 May to 16 June.
The first London revival of Faith by Meredith Oakes since its Royal Court Première in 1997 will star former Eastenders actor Charlie Clements and be directed by Drew Baker at The Courtyard Theatre, London from 23 May to 16 June.
Lucy Bailey's production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya adapted by Mike Poulton and starring Iain Glen and Charlotte Emmerson, will return to The Print Room in London for just three weeks from 18 June to 7 July after a sold-out run in April.
The Old Vic will bring the Sheffield Theatres production of Democracy by Michael Frayn to London directed by Paul Miller as part of the Sheffield Michael Frayn season. With a cast of Andrew Bridgmont, David Cann, Patrick Drury, Richard Hope, William Hoyland, Ed Hughes, David Mallinson, Aidan McArdle, James Quinn and Rupert Vansittart, the production will run from 15 June to 14 July.
Lia Williams will direct Leanne Best in the role of Sal in the world première of Frank McGuinness's new play The Match Box, the story of one woman’s journey through forgiveness, revenge and redemption, after a family tragedy has far reaching consequences for everyone, which will run at the Liverpool Playhouse Studio from 14 June to 7 July.
Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice will be directed by Elizabeth Newman for the Octagon Theatre in Bolton with Katie Elin-Salt in the title role, Sue Devaney as her mother Mari, Matt Healy as Ray Say and Max Beesley Snr as nightclub owner Mr Boo. It runs from 31 May to 23 June.
Oily Cart and the Royal Shakespeare Company have collaborated on In a Pickle, an interactive theatre production that introduces 2- to 4-year-olds to Shakespeare inspired by The Winter's Tale. It will be in the Swan Room at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon from 23 May to 17 June.
UNTitled Theatre will perform Beast by Elena Bolster, acclaimed at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe and awarded the Judges Special Award at the Limerick Unfringed Festival in 2010, at the White Bear Theatre in London from 29 May to 17 June.
The musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes based on the unfinished novel by Charles Dickens will transfer from the Landor Theatre in South London to the Arts Theatre in the West End with its star Wendi Peters, former cast member of Coronation Street, running from 18 May to 17 June.
Edward Hall's production of Chariots of Fire for Hampstead Theatre, adapted by Mike Bartlett from Colin Welland's screenplay, will transfer to the Gielgud Theatre in London from 22 June.
Waxwing Theatre will present a new piece of devised theatre Tangent, a tale of adolescence, love affairs, classmates hell bent on distraction and teachers struggling to cope, at the New Diorama Theatre from 22 May to 9 June.
Commemorating the 600th anniversary of the birth of Joan of Arc, The Rose, Bankside will present GB Shaw's Saint Joan directed by Constanza Hola from 8 May to 1 June.
Epidemic is a new musical with book and lyrics by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and music and lyrics by Suzy Davies based on a concept by Steve Winter based on interviews with more than 250 Londoners on obesity and mental health and performed by more than 120 volunteers aged 16 to 60 from across London.
It will be performed in the Old Vic Tunnels in London from 20 to 27 May.
The third Theatre Local season from the Royal Court Theatre will see two of its productions move to the CLF Arts Café in Peckham: Belong by Bola Agbaje from 31 May to 23 June and Vera Vera Vera from 4 to 28 July.
9 To 5 The Musical, written by Patricia Resnick with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton based on the film, will be the fourth "Manchester Gets It First"-badged production to première in Manchester, running at the Opera House from 12 to 20 October.
Rupert Goold will co-direct with Micheal Fentiman his own adaptation of C S Lewis's classic children's novel The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe which will star Sally Dexter as the White Witch, Forbes Masson as Mr Tumnus the fawn and Brian Protheroe as the Professor. It will be performed in Kensington Gardens in London from 8 May to 9 September.
The Royal Court Theatre will take two of its largest-ever hits Posh by Laura Wade and Jumpy by April De Angelis to the Duke of Yorks Theatre in London's West End, the first from 11 May to 4 August and the second from 16 August to 3 November.
Little Angel Theatre in London will perform The Ugly Duckling, based on the Hans Christian Andersen story and performed by puppets accompanied by live music and voices. for ages 3 years and over from 19 May to 8 July.
Phil Willmott will direct a new three-part adaptation ofThe Oresteia by Aeschylus called The Trojan War and Peacefor a free event to honour the Ancient Greek spirit of the Olympic Games in a collaboration between London's Steam Industry and movement director Javier De Frutos.
The event will take place on the south bank of the Tames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge from Thursdays to Sundays from 5 July to 5 August.
Shakespeare's Globe is to transfer its all-male productions of Richard III and Twelfth Night starring Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry to the Apollo Theatre in the West End from 2 November 2012 to 3 February 2013.
Morphic Graffiti will present the Leslie Bricusse and Frank Wildhorn adaptation of Robert Louis Stephenson's gothic horror Jekyll and Hyde at the Union Theatre in Southwark from 16 May to 16 June.
Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape will be directed by Kate Budgen at Southwark Playhouse, running from 16 May to 9 June.
Kim Cattrall will return to the role of Cleopatra in Janet Suzman's production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, which originated last year at the Liverpool Playhouse, opposite Michael Pennington at Chichester Festival Theatre from 7 to 29 September.
Cornwall's Kneehigh Theatre Company will perform a stage version of classic sitcom Steptoe and Son adapted and directed by artistic director Emma Rice in a co-production with West Yorkshire Playhouse. Full details yet to be announced.
The acclaimed production of Michael Frayn's Noises Off at the Old Vic will transfer to the Novello Theatre for a limited season from 24 March to 30 June.
Nicholas Hytner is to direct Adrian Lester as Othello opposite Rory Kinnear as Iago in spring 2013 at the National Theatre.
Nicholas Hytner is to direct the premiere of Alan Bennett's new play People at the National next autumn. No dates or casting have yet been announced.
Julian Fellowes, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, who worked together on Mary Poppins, are to collaborate on a new musical version of The Wind in the Willows. No dates or venue have yet been set.
According to a report in Variety, Disney will be producing a stage version of Shakespeare in Love, written by Tom Stoppard and directed by Jack O'Brien. Sonia Friedman will co-produce and Variety says the play will open in the West End, although no other details are available.
A stage musical version of James Jones’ 1951 novel From Here To Eternity is being planned for 2012. It will be composed by young musician Stuart Brayson with additional lyrics by Tim Rice, who also co-produces. Tamara Harvey will direct. No dates or venue have been announcd but it is expected that it will play in London.