South East

On now

Revelations: Songs Boys Don’t Sing

Craig Revel Horwood

West Cliff Theatre, Clacton-on-Sea

23 May 2025

…Earnest?

Joshua King, Simon Paris and Say It Again, Sorry?

Say It Again, Sorry?

Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe

22–23 May 2025

Three Hens in a Boat

Camille Ucan

Watermill Theatre & Reading Rep

The Watermill Theatre, Newbury

22 May–7 June 2025

The Happiness Index

Jonny & The Baptists

Arts at the Old Fire Station, Oxford

22–23 May 2025

Six

Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss

Aylesbury Waterside Theatre / Norman Bragg Studio, Aylesbury

20–24 May 2025

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë, choreography by Cathy Marston

Northern Ballet

Norwich Theatre Royal, Norwich

20–24 May 2025

An Inspector Calls

J B Priestley

National Theatre

Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes

20–24 May 2025

Handbagged

Moira Buffini

Theatre Nation Partnerships, Queen's Theatre Hornchurch

Oxford Playhouse, Oxford

19–24 May 2025

The Da Vinci Code

Adapted by Duncan Abel and Rachel Wagstaff, based on the novel by Dan Brown

Wiltshire Creative and Mercury Theatre Colchester

Mercury Theatre, Colchester

7–24 May 2025

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Based on the novel by Rachel Joyce, book by Rachel Joyce, music and lyrics by...

Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester

5 May–14 June 2025

Noises Off

Michael Frayn

Theatre by the Lake, New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich, Queens Theatre Hornchurch an...

The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich

1–24 May 2025

Death Comes to Pemberley

P D James, adapted by Duncan Abel and Rachel Wagstaff

The Mill at Sonning and STUDIO RA

The Mill at Sonning Theatre, Reading

1 May–28 June 2025

The Government Inspector

Nikolai Gogol, a new adaptation by Phil Porter

Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester

25 April–24 May 2025

Reviews

Light Fantastic

John Hinton and Laura Mugridge

Ensonglopedia

Komedia Studio, Brighton

10–25 May 2025

The Burning of a Sicilian Whore

Giulia Menichelli

Friends' Meeting House, Brighton

9–18 May 2025

Open Source Intelligence and Counterinsurgency for the Jobbing Hater

Gawa Leung

Brava Guava

Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Bubble

7–10 May 2025

CatGPT

Lentil Industries

Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Bubble

7–10 May 2025

Three Hens in a Boat

Camille Ucan

Reading Rep Theatre & The Watermill Theatre

Reading Rep

1–17 May 2025

Piaf

Pam Gems

Watermill Theatre Company

Watermill Theatre Newbury

4 April–17 May 2025

News

Festival to celebrate the Thames Estuary

16 May 2025

A contemporary arts festival, Estuary 2025—Vessels will celebrate the stories, places and people of the Thames Estuary with nine days of performances and events.

IF: Milton Keynes brings UK and world premières

13 May 2025

The 2025 Milton Keynes International Festival will feature two world premières and 4 UK premières.

“Real surprise”: Daniel Casey who will play DCI Tom Barnaby

Casey to play Barnaby in Midsomer Murders

30 April 2025

Daniel Casey, who played Sgt Troy in the television series Midsomer Murders, will take the role of Inspector Tom Barnaby when the first stage adaptation goes on a UK tour in 2025.

Features

Gerard McCabe and Shaun Blaney in Octagon Theatre Bolton, Barn Theatre & Wiltshire Creative's Stones in his Pockets

Our reviewers' picks of 2024

2 January 2025

Some of BTG's regular reviewers pick out their favourite theatre productions and moments of the year.