By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN? Monday 20 July and runs through 19 September 2026 RUNTIME: 215 minutes (including 2 15-minute intervals)
Can a play ever be too long?
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN? Saturday 18 July, and runs through 5 September 2026. Transfers to Theatre Royal Drury Lane 16 October through 9 January 2027. Tickets Also UK tour 11 February 2027 through 23 October 2027 RUNTIME: 125 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
The summer success of last year’s Olivier Award-winning EVITA! perhaps made this resurrection of a recent Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of an Andrew Lloyd Webber classic an obvious choice as follow up.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN? Thursday 16 July and runs through 15 August 2026 RUNTIME: 75 minutes (without interval)
Galvin (pictured above left) makes his London theatre debut while his husband Ben Platt is about to open across town in new musical Midnight At The Never Get at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: Awards potential
WHEN? Monday 13 July, opens 20 July and runs through 12 September 2026 RUNTIME: 100 minutes (no interval)
As this musical reaches its conclusion we can hear sniffing, stifled sobbing and crying around our front row seat showing the work’s immediate emotional impact.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN? Sunday 21 June, opens 24 June and runs through 22 August 2026 RUNTIME: 90 minutes (no interval)
We really weren’t expecting to love this new musical as much as we did and we wonder whether it is its creators’ fondness for the awkward British humour of Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and the Pythons that won us over.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: **** RUNTIME: 70 minutes (without interval)
WHEN?: Monday 22 June, opens 30 June and runs through 15 August 2026
Meet troubled police officer Joe, played by Russell Tovey (Constellations, Vaudeville Theatre), who takes a series of 999 calls in this real-time thriller set in London.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ***1/2
WHEN? Saturday 20 June, opens 29 June and runs through 18 July 2026 RUNTIME: 160 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
Seeing this play on this night at this venue has long been an ambition.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN? Friday 19 June, runs through 21 June 2026 RUNTIME: 85 minutes (no interval)
The big draw of this workshop production of a new musical is the central role for the Olivier Award-nominated Jo Foster (Into The Woods, Bridge Theatre and Why Am I So Single?, Garrick Theatre).
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ***1/2
WHEN? Sunday 14 June, opens 23 June and runs through 6 September 2026 RUNTIME: 85 minutes (no interval)
Hot Mess was shortlisted for our Best New Musical 2025 monsta and last year we said of it: ‘We’d definitely recommend catching it on this short run and wouldn’t be at all surprised if it scorches its way to the West End next.’
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN? Saturday 13 June, opens 25 June and runs through 12 September 2026 RUNTIME: 160 minutes (with a 20-minute interval) Update: Transfers to the Bridge Theatre 12 November 2026 Tickets
The audience rises as 1 at the curtain to give this musical re-imagining of the beloved 2014 film about lesbian and gay support for the miners during their 80s industrial action the adulation it deserves.
