London

Romeo and Juliet

Choreography and production Johan Kobborg, music Sergei Prokofiev

XENOS

Akram Khan

Old Bridge

Igor Memic

Red Riding Hood

Book and lyrics by Carl Miller, music and lyrics by Robert Hyman

Sleeping Beauty and the Beast

Ben Hales, James Dunnell-Smith, John Woodburn, and Joshua George Smith

Die Zauberflöte

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ballet Icons Gala 2021

Death of England: Face to Face

Clint Dyer and Roy Williams

Yes So I Said Yes

David Ireland

Bonny & Read

Claire Novello, composition by Frederick Appleby

Police Cops The Musical

Zachary Hunt, Tom Roe and Nathan Parkinson

Outwitting the Devil

Direction and choreography Akram Khan, music Vincenzo Lamagna

While the Sun Shines

Terence Rattigan

Jack and the Beanstalk

Will Brenton

Aladdin

Vikki Stone

The Valkyrie

Music Richard Wagner, new English language translation John Deathridge

The Queen of Hearts

Andrew Pollard

The Royal Ballet in 2020

Royal Opera House

Manor

Moira Buffini

The Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare

Life of Pi

Lolita Chakrabarti, based on the novel by Yann Martel

Connecting to Cohan: Lamentation / Tribute / Wind / Nympheas / Canciones Del Alma / Lloyd / Communion / Romany

Choreography Martha Graham, Robert Cohan, Yolanda Yorke-Edgell

The Bolds

Written and adapted for the stage by Julian Clary Songs by Julian Clary and S...

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens, version by Jack Thorne

Past Present: Lamentation / Sea of Troubles / Afternoon Conversation with Dancers / So It Is

Choreography Martha Graham, Kenneth MacMillan, Robert Cohan, Yolande Yorke-Ed...

Constellations

Nick Payne

Beat the Devil

David Hare

Straight White Men

Young Jean Lee

Rare Earth Mettle

Al Smith

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Christopher Durang

little scratch

Rebecca Watson, adapted for the stage by Miriam Battye

Curated by Carlos Triple Bill: City of a Thousand Trades / Imminent / Chacona

Choreography Miguel Altunaga, Daniela Cardim, Goyo Montero / music Mathias Co...

Giselle

Choreography Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, music Adolphe...

Footfalls and Rockaby

Samuel Beckett

Emmeline

Beatrice Hyde

Milk and Gall

Mathilde Dratwa

Dick Whittington - A New Dick in Town!

Jon Bradfield & Martin Hooper; songs by Jon Bradfield

HMS Pinafore or The Lass That Loved a Sailor

Music Arthur Sullivan, libretto W S Gilbert, additional material Cal McCrysta...

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The Sugar House

Alana Valentine

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Regeneration

Novel by Pat Barker, adapted for the stage by Nicholas Wright

The Dresser

Ronald Harwood

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Adapted by Joel Horwood from the novel by Neil Gaiman

Der Rosenkavalier

Richard Strauss

'night, Mother

Marsha Norman

Indecent Proposal

Music by Dylan Schlosberg, book and lyrics by Michael Conley, inspired by the...

Vanara

Music by Gianluca Cucchiara, lyrics by Andrew James Whelan, book by Michael C...

Joe and Ken

John Dunne

Sold

Amantha Edmead

Pride & Prejudice* (*Sort Of)

Isobel McArthur after Jane Austin

Satyagraha

Music Philip Glass, book by Philip Glass and Constance de Jong

Yellowfin

Marek Horn

Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry

Ediited by Richard Norton-Taylor

Broken Lad

Robin Hooper

Flushed

Catherine Cranfield

For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy

Ryan Calais Cameron

The Shark is Broken

Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon

Jenůfa

Music and text by Leos Janáček

Rice

Michele Lee

Love and Other Acts of Violence

Cordelia Lynn

Metamorphoses

Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas and Sabrina Mahfouz

East is East

Ayub Khan Din

The Idea

Composition by Gustav Holst with libretto by Fritz B Hart

Romeo and Juliet

Choreography Kenneth MacMillan, music Sergey Prokofiev

Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell

Devised and directed by Matthew Bourne, choreography Matthew Bourne and Company

The Tragedy of Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Mrs Green

Francesco Baj

The Theatre Channel Episode Eight: Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz

Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical

Music and lyrics by Bob Marley, book by Lee Hall

Message in a Bottle

Directed and choreographed by Kate Prince based on songs of Sting

What If If Only

Caryl Churchill

SIX The Musical

Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss

Horse Country

C J Hopkins

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The Mirror and The Light

Hilary Mantel’s novel adapted by Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles

The Normal Heart

Larry Kramer

Creature

Direction and choreography Akram Khan

Nobody

Created and directed by Kevin Finnan

The Co-Op

Written by Gabriel Fogarty-Graveson and Felix Grainger and devised by Make It...

Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes

Matthew Bourne, based on the film by Michael Powell and Emmeric Pressburger

Mythosphere

Inna Dulerayn

W.A.Y (re-work)

Choreography by Sung Im Her, music by Husk Husk

Malindadzimu

Mufaro Makubika

Shining City

Conor McPherson

The Last Five Years

Jason Robert Brown

The Pleasure Garden

Book and lyrics by Glenn Chandler, music by Charles Miller

The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte)

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder

Relatively Speaking

Alan Ayckbourn

Double Murder

Hofesh Shechter

Small Change

Peter Gill

Can I Live?

Fehinti Balogun

The Lodger

Robert Holman

Is God Is

Aleshea Harris

Camp Siegfried

Bess Wohl

White Witch

Barry Reckord

Come from Away

Book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein

Hamilton

Book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, inspired on Alexander Hamilton ...

Leopoldstadt

Tom Stoppard

The Play That Goes Wrong

Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields

The Seven Streams of the River Ota

Robert Lepage and Ex Machina

Kunene and the King

John Kani

Les Misérables

Book by Alan Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel by Victo...

Matilda the Musical

Based on the novel by Roald Dahl, book by Dennis Kelly, music and lyrics by T...

On Blueberry Hill

Sebastian Barry

The Welkin

Lucy Kirkwood

ROH welcomes NHS staff for Christmas treat

27 November 2021

The Royal Opera House is to welcome more than 1,800 NHS staff and their families to its 2021 Paul Hamlyn Christmas Treat.

For The Culture – Celebrations Of Blackness Festival

21 November 2021

Headliners for Lyric Hammersmith's For the Culture—Celebrations of Blackness Festival announced.

Two perspectives on Maryland

21 November 2021

Script-in-hand readings of Lucy Kirkwood’s response to the murders of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa, Maryland, take place in London and Nottingham.

VAULT Festival at 10

21 November 2021

VAULT Festival returns in the new year with more than 600 events to mark its 10th anniversary.

Bangladesh 50: Tara celebrates independence

21 November 2021

The independence of Bangladesh in 1971 gives its name to Tara Theatre's new season of work.

Tales in two cities - Bethlehem Cultural Festival

21 November 2021

The second Bethlehem Cultural Festival takes place in London and Glasgow (and online) in December.

BalletBoyz returns to screen and stage

21 November 2021

BalletBoyz will return to live performance in March with Deluxe, but, ahead of that, this Christmas, its third feature film, Rumpelstilzchen, will have a cast including Jane Horrocks.

Anything Goes to tour and return to Barbican

18 November 2021

The musical Anything Goes which smashed box-office records at the Barbican Theatre is to tour the UK in the spring and will sail back to the Barbican in summer 2022 for an eight-week residency.

Nutcracker opens ROH cinema season

16 November 2021

The Royal Opera House will open its international Cinema Season with Peter Wright’s production of The Nutcracker.

Sadler’s Wells to open new venue in Stratford

12 November 2021

Sadler’s Wells East Hip Hop Theatre Academy and Choreographic School is due to open in its new venue in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in 2023.

ENB Philharmonic releases Raymonda music

9 November 2021

English National Ballet has released a single of music from the ballet Raymonda on streaming platforms ahead of a full album launch later this month.

Raising a glass to London Pub Theatre winners

7 November 2021

London Pub Theatres Magazine have announced its award winners.

Wolf Witch Giant and Fairy relaxed at Linbury

3 November 2021

The Royal Opera House is to stage its first fully relaxed run of shows with Little Bulb's Wolf Witch Giant Fairy at Linbury Theatre, in association with Farnham Maltings.

Anything Goes: musical smashes box-office record

2 November 2021

The musical Anything Goes has taken £717,000 in a week—the highest grossing week for a musical at the Barbican in its 39-year history.

Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Watson retires after 27 years

28 October 2021

Edward Watson will make his final performance with The Royal Ballet on Saturday 30 October in Wayne McGregor’s new work, The Dante Project.

Ballet Icons return to Coliseum

24 October 2021

The annual Ballet Icons Gala, presented by Ensemble Productions, returns to the stage at the London Coliseum for one night only.

Virtual reality dance Facades tour

23 October 2021

New virtual reality dance experience Facades will première at Phoenix, Leicester in October before touring to Birmingham, Nottingham and London.

Wandsworth Arts Fringe call out for 2022

18 October 2021

Annual festival Wandsworth Arts Fringe is offering to support projects with up to £2,000 of funding for next year's June event.

ROH Chance to Dance film

15 October 2021

The Royal Opera House will celebrate 30 years of its learning outreach programme Chance to Dance with a special World Ballet Day film.

Ballet Black returns to Linbury

15 October 2021

Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black will return to The Linbury Theatre with two new works: Then Or Now and The Waiting Game.

Greta Mendez curates A Time to Breathe festival

15 October 2021

Curated by Greta Mendez MBE, new cross-genre festival A Time To Breathe will span Batuke, contemporary dance, Calypso, choreo-poem, Lover's Rock and more.

ROH to welcome Little Amal

15 October 2021

The Royal Opera House will welcome Little Amal, the 3.5 metre-tall puppet created by Handspring Puppet Company as part of Good Chance Theatre’s The Walk, to spend the eve of her tenth birthday.

Cocktails, drag and dance at the Opera House

15 October 2021

ROH Late will be an evening of drag performances, cabaret, DJ sets and dance at the Royal Opera House, blending the classic and contemporary, celebrating queer identity and culture.

20 years of ROH Jette Parker Young Artists

5 October 2021

This autumn, the Royal Opera House will celebrate 20 years of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme with Meet the Young Artists Week 2021.

Seutin to continue at NYDC

5 October 2021

Alesandra Seutin will continue for a second year as Guest Artistic Director of the National Youth Dance Company for 2021/22.

Full cast revealed for Gatiss’s A Christmas Carol

1 October 2021

The full cast has been revealed for Mark Gatiss’s new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol which will open at Nottingham Playhouse before transferring to London’s Alexandra Palace.

Greenwich Dance podcast returns

29 September 2021

Greenwich Dance’s podcast all about dance, Talking Moves, will return for a fourth series in October.

Voila! Europe 2021

26 September 2021

Voila! Europe 2021 offers an eclectic range of events in person and online.

Farrell joins Gatiss in A Christmas Carol

19 September 2021

Nicholas Farrell is to join the cast of Mark Gatiss’s new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol at Nottingham Playhouse and London’s Alexandra Palace.

McNicol Ballet reimagines Firebird on film

16 September 2021

McNicol Ballet Collective will release Firebird Reimagined, a new dance film, on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

East London Dance new leadership

16 September 2021

Tia Hassan and Kate Scanlan have been jointly appointed to the position of Creative Director and Chief Executive on a job share basis.

Collective IDentity tours exhibition

16 September 2021

Danielle Teale’s Collective IDentity Project work with dancers with Parkinson's will tour an exhibition, Who we are now, and then….

Dance Passion commissions announced

16 September 2021

BBC and One Dance UK announce 14 artists from across the UK commissioned to create new projects as part of Dance Passion 2022.

New Nordics Festival

12 September 2021

The New Nordic Festival, postponed from last year, now comes to London.

ROH autumn streams of opera and ballet

12 September 2021

The Royal Opera House will stream six productions from its 2021/22 season on selected Fridays then on-demand for 30 days.

Royal Opera and Ballet at the movies

12 September 2021

The Royal Opera House has launched its 2021/22 international Cinema Season after sixteen months of closure, broadcasting to more than 2,000 screens across the globe.

Edinburgh, frights and queer canines come to London

12 September 2021

The Pleasance in London hosts Edinburgh transfers alongside the London Horror Festival as part of the new season.

Test and Superspreader Events

2 July 2021

As Terminus Day approaches, we review the current state of play for the events industry.

[Comm]unity is Strength

17 June 2021

National news editor and London reviewer Sandra Giorgetti talks to Jack Studio Theatre artistic director Kate Bannister on the venue's reopening this week.

Could Andrew Lloyd Webber be swapping Cinderella for Midnight Express?

11 June 2021

Lord Lloyd Webber has announced that he will open Cinderella on 25 June, even if that means breaking the law and a potential prison sentence.