Stage shows to see in June 2025

It’s a big month for big revivals!

Two massive Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice hits are back in the UK, including an actor-musician biblical tale and a star-led West End summer show. As well as fan-favourites, 42nd Street, tick, tick… Boom! and Grease.

But if new musicals are more your thing, there are plenty of those too – including the arrival of Disney’s Hercules, plus a romantic comedy about dating. Check out our June picks below.

tick, tick… Boom!

This is the life, bo-bo, bo-bo-bo! Kate Wasserberg has started her first season as artistic director, and the reopening of Theatr Clwyd with a boom! She’s directing Jonathan Larson’s musical, exploring the struggles of a young artist pursuing his dreams.

Plays at Theatr Clwyd from 2 to 28 June

Grease

Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Blackpool Grand Theatre are joining forces to co-produce a new production of Grease! Tell me more, tell me more, you say? Well, you can find out about casting here!

Plays at Blackpool Grand Theatre from 4 to 14 June, then at Pitlochry Festival Theatre from 18 June to 27 September

Disney’s Hercules

Bless our souls! Hercules is finally heading to the West End. Productions have been seen in New Jersey and Hamburg, but in London, it is Luke Brady who will “Go the Distance” and play the titular Greek hero.

Plays at Theatre Royal Drury Lane from 6 June

Lovestuck

Written by the two creators behind My Dad Wrote a Porno, new musical Lovestuck follows Lucy, who at the end of her first date with Peter, finds herself stuck upside-down in his bathroom window… See who’s starring!

Plays at Stratford East from 6 June to 12 July

King of Pangea

Martin Storrow’s new musical is another to open at the King’s Head Theatre in north London. A folk musical love letter to the worlds we create for ourselves to escape from the realities we’d rather not face after intense loss, it’s based on Storrow’s own experiences, and has been in development for several years. Expect something stirring and moving!

Plays at the King’s Head Theatre from 7 June to 6 July

4.48 Psychosis

Sarah Kane’s final play will be staged at the Royal Court in London this month (before heading to the Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon), 25 years after its original debut. Reuniting the original creative team and cast, the new collaboration marks the return of the play that examines the protagonist’s struggles with severe depression.

Plays at the Royal Court Theatre in London from 12 June to 5 July before transferring to Stratford-upon-Avon, where it will continue performances to 27 July

The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs

This Pride month, why not check out Iman Qureshi’s musical comedy? It follows a lesbian choir striving for a place on the Pride mainstage – and the cast features a host of famous faces. Previously sold out at Soho Theatre, this newly expanded version provides another chance for our readers to see it!

Plays at Kiln Theatre from 13 June to 12 July 

Evita

There’s nothing to cry about – Evita is back in the West End! Director Jamie Lloyd once more takes on the Webber-Tim Rice musical about Argentina’s first lady, and we’ve had it confirmed that this will be an “evolution” of his 2019 Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production. Rachel Zegler is playing the iconic Eva Perón, with Diego Andres Rodriguez as her Che.

Plays at The London Palladium from 14 June to 6 September

42nd Street

If you want to meet those dancing feet, look no further than Leicestershire (or if you really want the cast list, click here!). Kilworth House Theatre will be in the money with their open-air revival of the 1980 stage musical about staging a musical.

Plays at Kilworth House Theatre from 17 June to 13 July

This Bitter Earth

Fresh out of the Kit Kat Club, Billy Porter is trying his hand at directing. Omari Douglas stars as Jesse in the new production, opposite Alexander Lincoln as Neil. Written by Harrison David Rivers, the piece follows a young Black writer and his white activist lover, and asks, “What is the real cost of standing on the sidelines?”

Plays at the Soho Theatre from 18 June to 26 July

How to Win Against History

To mark the 150th anniversary of Henry Cyril Paget’s birth, the musical comedy about the fifth Marquis of Anglesey is back in a new production. This time, it has been reimagined for a larger space, with much of the originating cast returning – have a listen to them in action!

Plays at Bristol Old Vic from 19 June to 12 July

Intimate Apparel

Samira Wiley leads Lynn Nottage’s play, which is set in 1905 New York. She plays Esther, a woman who creates exquisite lingerie for a range of women while dreaming of greater independence. The production reunites Nottage with the director Lynette Linton.

Plays at the Donmar Warehouse from 20 June

Jesus Christ Superstar

A brand-new actor-musician production of Jesus Christ Superstar, we hear you ask? Holy news! The revival is headed to the Watermill Theatre under artistic director Paul Hart. The piece promises to spill out of the intimate venue and into the garden in a semi-immersive staging. Set to star are Michael Kholwadia, who will play Jesus, Max Alexander-Taylor as Judas and Parisa Shahmir as Mary.

Plays at the Watermill Theatre from 24 June to 21 September

Shout! The Mod Musical

Featuring over 30 1960s tunes, including “You’re My World”, “Downtown”, “Son of a Preacher Man”, and “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’”, the musical follows five women as they look to a magazine advice column for help.

Play Upstairs at the Gatehouse from 25 June to 20 July

Indigo

This new musical features music and lyrics by Scott Evan Davis and a book by The Great Gatsby’s Kait Kerrigan. Telling the story of three generations of women navigating their need to reach one another, it explores living with Alzheimer’s, autism, and synaesthesia, and the bonds that unite a family.

Plays at Curve’s Studio Theatre in Leicester from 26 June to 19 July