1. Cynthia Erivo is Dracula

Erivo won our 2024 Best TV/Film Actress monsta for Wicked and recently starred in its sequel which was our 2025 Best Film. Here she is the sole focus of attention in a 1-woman Dracula directed by Kip Williams (The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Theatre Royal Haymarket) which runs at the Noel Coward Theatre 4 February through 30 May 2026. Tickets The 1st 3 preview performances have now been cancelled.

• Read on for reasons including Suede on tour, Fl02, Wuthering Heights and Broken Glass

2. Suede on tour and in Brighton

Suede won our 2025 Best Album monsta for Antidepressants. We last saw them live last year when they debuted that album in full and wrote: ‘The earlier-than-expected start heightens the urgency of the material. Suede are calling it ‘post punk’ and to these ears it’s leaning into goth rock, not a genre we would normally tarry with, but is delivered with the vigour you would expect from a band which is currently producing its most critically acclaimed work – in its 2nd phase.’ We see them on this UK and European tour at the Brighton Centre. Tickets

3. FlO2 or Florence and the Machine at The 02

Recent LP Everybody Scream was an album of the month for us in December 2025 and we wrote: ‘It’s this album’s later songs where the horror of what has happened is brought home not least on the choral, multi-layered vocals of Kraken where Welch reflects: ‘Sometimes my body seems so alien to me … As the water rises up around me.’ There are 2 London gigs at The 02 during a tour which is booking through to Leeds and Reading in August 2026. Tickets

4. Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights

Charli XCX contributes an album of original songs and Fennell follows Saltburn with her doubtless distinctive take on the Emily Bronte classic out 11 February 2026 in the UK starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi alongside Martin Clunes and Adolescence‘s Owen Cooper.

5. A-Teens reform for Melodifestivalen

Sweden chooses its Eurovision entry in the 66th Melodifestivalen throughout February and into March. Read our Heat 1 preview including the return of Swedish UK hitmakers A-Teens, Heat 2 preview Heat 3 preview Heat 4 preview and Heat 5 preview. We’ll be predicting the results once we’ve heard clips of the songs ahead of their heats and then forecasting how they’ll fare in Vienna in May. You can watch on SVT.

6. Broken Glass at the Young Vic

Director Jordan Fein (Into The Woods, Bridge Theatre) helms this Arthur Miller tale set in Brooklyn, New York in 1938. Sylvia Gellburg reads about the violent attacks against Jewish communities carried out an ocean away in Germany as most people look away, believing it will pass. Runs at the Young Vic 21 February through 18 April 2026. Tickets

7. After Miss Julie starring Tom Varey

Patrick Marber (The Producers, Garrick Theatre) reimagines Strindberg on the eve of Labour’s 1945 election win as the daughter of a powerful MP sparks a forbidden flirtation with her father’s chauffer. Tom Varey (TV’s No Offence) stars in Park Theatre’s 90-seater 11 through 28 February 2026. Tickets

8. Tristan at the Other Palace

Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke (Leave To Remain, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith) composed this MTFestUK 2026 participant which plays at the Other Palace 3 to 5 February 2026. Jasper Talbot (The Line Of Beauty, Almeida) stars in this story of the titular liar and a fantasist and those in love with him. Tickets

9. Netflix’s Bridgerton and How To Get To Heaven From Belfast

Lisa McGee’s follow up to Derry Girls (BFI Q&A) is for Netflix with a cast including Tom Basden (The Ballad Of Wallis Island). It’s the story of three friends who investigate the mysterious death of a former school mate. There’s a BFI Q&A this month for this and the next season of Bridgerton.

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