Winners of Best Independent Dance Company at the National Dance Awards 2025, London City Ballet, former resident company of Sadler’s Wells, makes its debut at The Rep, showcasing artists rarely seen in the UK in a brand new repertoire.

Based on the famous novel by Michael Morpurgo, the powerful and moving stage adaptation of War Horse comes to The Alexandra this summer. The venue’s stage will be filled with astonishing life-sized horses created by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, as stirring music soundtracks Albert’s treacherous journey to bring his horse, Joey, home.

In what is undoubtedly one of the most talked-about stage shows of the year, Hamlet Hail to the Thief comes to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre this June.

The show merges Shakespeare’s iconic tale with a newly-orchestrated version of Radiohead’s seminal record Hail to the Thief. In this fast-paced distillation of the play, Shakespeare’s words and Radiohead’s album illuminate one another in thrilling new ways as the music becomes a critical part of the narrative.

The Crescent Theatre welcomes Oscar Wilde’s comedic masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, this summer.

A gothic double bill takes over the Blue Orange Theatre in August, as the venue welcomes both Charles Dickens’ The Hanged Man’s Bride and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Body Snatcher.

Both plays will last roughly 45 minutes, with a 15-minute interval in between.

Award-winning drag king, Bi-Curious George, invites audiences into a raucous celebration of queerness and the animal kingdom.

Following repeat sell-out performances at Edinburgh Fringe 2023, the show, which combines comedy, aprody songs and drag in the form fo a nature documentary, seeks to ‘shatter the heteronormative binaries through which we view the natural world’.

Presented by the celebrated The Duke’s Theatre Company, a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s classic tale of ambition, murder and madness comes to the unique al fresco surroundings of Birmingham’s Botanical Gardens.

At the helm of the show is Robert Shaw Cameron (Coronation Street, Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Sheffield Crucible) and designer Jessica Curtis (Hampstead Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Royal National Theatre) alongside a cast of six industry-leading actors.

This September, Birmingham Royal Ballet take inspiration from one of the city’s most iconic musical exports in Black Sabbath – The Ballet. 

Audiences can expect a theatrical evening packed with thrilling dance alongside full orchestrations of legendary Black Sabbath tracks, including Paranoid and Iron man, as well as brand-new orchestral pieces inspired by the group.

Promising a show packed with ‘splendour, eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur and glory’, the first-ever world tour of the multi-award-winning Moulin Rouge! The Musical arrives for a dazzling Birmingham stint this autumn.

The hit stage adaptation is packed with more than 70 iconic songs from both Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary original film and beyond.