The Rep presents Khaled Hosseini’s powerful, poignant new production of A Thousand Splendid Suns, the spiritual sequel to The Kite Runner.

In 1992, in an Afghanistan ravaged by war, an orphaned Laila is left alone in an increasingly threatening world. Her older neighbour Rasheed is quick to open his home and takes Laila as his second wife.

Rasheed’s first wife Mariam, has no choice but to accept her younger, and now pregnant, rival. As the Taliban take over, life for all of them becomes a desperate struggle, and the two women find themselves unlikely allies.

The multi-award-winning National Theatre production of JB Priestley’s iconic An Inspector Calls rolls into the Alexandra this May.

When Inspector Goole arrives unexpectedly at the prosperous Birling family home, their peaceful dinner party is shattered by his investigations into the death of a young woman.

Since 1992, Stephen Daldry’s critically acclaimed production of An Inspector Calls has won an astounding 19 major awards, including four Tony Awards and three Olivier Awards.

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.

An unlikely musical Shakespeare retelling ditches the original ending of one of the most infamous love stories of all time, instead focusing on an entirely different path for Juliet.

& Juliet is created by the Emmy-winning writer of Schitt’s Creek, offering Juliet a second chance at life and love, backed by a pounding soundtrack of huge pop anthems.

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

The smash hit Peaky Blinders stage adaptation, The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, returns to Birmingham later this year.

Written by Peaky Blinders co-creator Stephen Knight, the production is part theatre/dance show, part gig, blending electric choreography from the renowned Rambert dance company with a live band performing hits from the show’s stacked soundtrack.

Following hugely successful runs both in London and internationally, the hilarious and heartwarming Kim’s Convenience comes to The Rep this July.

Inspired by the Netflix phenomenon, which follows a family-run Korean store, the show is written by Ins Choi, who described the play as his ‘love letter to his parents and to all first-generation immigrants who now call Canade their home’.

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’.

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.