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Current Productions

Miss AmericanaA Tribute to Taylor Swift

Count Arthur StrongA Christmas Carol

Rhys DarbyThe Legend Returns

Rory BremnerMaking an Impression

Chris McCauslandYonks!

Jenny EclairJokes Jokes Jokes Live

The Ugly Duckling

Suzi RuffellThe Juggle

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Girls & Boys

Animal Farm

Babatunde AlesheHigh Expectations

John CalePOPtical Illusion Tour 25

Andy ZaltzmanThe Zaltgeist

Larry DeanDodger

Lou SandersNo Kissing in the Bingo Hall

Jack and the Beanstalk

Past Productions

Famehungry

Nan, Me & Barbara Pravi

Su PollardStill Fully Charged

Gareth MaloneSing-Along-a-Gareth: My Life Through Song

Randall MunroeWhat If?

Henry RowleyJust Literally

Dr Louise NewsonHormones and Menopause – The Great Debate

Talawa FirstsLove in Gravitational Waves / Bougie Lanre’s Boulangerie

Give Me The Night

Tatty MacleodFugue

Dear Zoo

Dear Zoo

Lucy BeaumontThe Trouble and Strife

Between the CoversLive

Maisie AdamAppraisal

Jenny EclairJokes Jokes Jokes Live

A Raisin in the Sun

Count Arthur StrongA Christmas Carol

Andy ParsonsBafflingly Optimistic

Rotten

Nish KumarNish, Don’t Kill My Vibe

Josh PughExistin’ La Vida Loca

Surfacing

Queer Planet

Ruby WaxI’m Not as Well as I Thought I was

Fern BradyI Gave You Milk To Drink

As SHE Likes It

The Three Bears

Rich HallShot From Cannons

Scummy MummiesGreatest Hits

Science Museum Live

Punt and Dennis

Speed Dial

Rewind

Grace CampbellGrace Campbell Is On Heat

James O’BrienIn Conversation about his new book – How They Broke Britain

The Horne Section

Reginald D HunterThe Man Who Could See Through Sh*t

Dear Evan Hansen

Self-Raising

Liberation Squares

Lucy BeaumontThe Trouble and Strife

Miles JuppOn I Bang

The Kite Runner

Troy HawkeThe Greeters Guild

Anton Du BekeAn Evening with Anton and Friends

Punch

The Children

The Trials

Minority Report

Do You Believe in Ghosts?

The Tannahill Weavers

The Story of Guitar Heroes

Identities

GeckoKin

Chris McCauslandYonks!

Guz KhanLive

Richard HerringRichard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

Julian ClaryFistful of Clary

Brian Bilston & Henry Normal

Outspoken

Freeman

Ruby Wax – How to be Human

Fup

Mark Steel – Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright

The New Nigerians

Rob Newman – Total Eclipse of Descartes

Paul Merton’s Impro Chums

Rachel Parris – It’s Fun to Pretend

Rich Hall – Rich Hall’s Hoedown

Julian Clary – Born to Mince

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Robin Hood and the Babes In the Wood

Lee Ridley – Lost Voice Guy

Missing

Blood Brothers

Disney’s Aladdin Jr.

Nish Kumar – It’s In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves

No Such Thing as a Fish

David O’Doherty – You Have to Laugh

Wonderland

Foil, Arms and Hog – Craicling

The Life I Lead

The Memory of Water

Skellig

One Night in Miami…

Mark Steel – Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright

Juliet and Romeo

Gypsy Queen

Henning Wehn – Get On With It

Morgan & West – Parlour Tricks

The Ronnie Scott’s Story – 60th Anniversary Concert

Morgan & West – Utterly Spiffing Magic Show for Kids (and Grown-ups!)

Ian McKellen on stage with Tolkien, Shakespeare, Others and You

Reginald D Hunter – An Amerifcan Facing the Beast

Mo Amer and Guz Khan

James Acaster – Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999

Sleeping Beauty

Ben Elton – Ben Elton Live

Gill Sims – Why Mummy Doesn’t Give a ****! An Evening With Gill Sims

Count Arthur Strong – Is Anybody Out There?

AniMalcolm

Tim Vine – Sunset Milk Idiot

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Pizza Shop Heroes

Outspoken

The Long Walk Back

MADD College Nottingham

Rhymes Against Humanity – The Improvised Musical

Shit-Faced Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Funeral Director

Assassins

LIT

An Enemy of the People

Austentatious

Sindhu Vee – Sandhog

Electrolyte

The Horne Section – That’s How I Like My Tour

Motionhouse Dance Theatre – Charge

Sourpuss – Lori Hopkins

David Baddiel Trolls: Not The Dolls

The Scummy Mummies Show

Graeme Swann & Henry Blofeld – Dancing Down the Wicket

Daliso Chaponda – Blah Blah Blacklist

Holes

Andromeda and Me

Digging Deep

Private Peaceful

It’s True, It’s True, It’s True

Black Men Walking

Boxes

Boar

Five Years

Pinocchio

Iain Stirling – Failing Upwards

Josie Long – Tender

Vikki Stone – Song Bird

Really Want to Hurt Me

Sarah Keyworth – Dark Horse

Getting the Third Degree

Wireless Wise

The Big Chris Barber Band

Al Murray – the Pub Landlord – Landlord of Hope and Glory

Gyles Brandreth – Break a Leg

Chris Ramsey

The London Film Music Orchestra – Performs Freddie Mercury & Queen in Concert

Becoming Electra: A Queer Mitzvah

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Judy Collins

Tommy Tiernan – Paddy Crazy Horse

Identical

Oliver Twist

First Touch

Piaf

Moonlight and Magnolias

Siobhan Philips

The Merchant of Venice

Mark Billy Billingham – An Evening with Mark “Billy” Billingham

An Evening with Katherine Parkinson

Alexei Sayle – Stand-up

Lava

David O’Doherty – whoa is me

Shit-Faced Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet

The International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella UK – Quarterfinal

Gecko – Institute

Swinging at the Cotton Club

Johnny Ball – Wonders Beyond Numbers

Night of the Living Dead Remix LIVE!

Choir Boy

Red Ellen

Jack and the Beanstalk

Man on the Moon

A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story

Ladykiller

Beauty and the Beast

All The Beds I Have Slept In

Sophia & Cinzia

Shagged, Married, Annoyed

All of Me – (the possibility of future splendour)

Rob Newman – Philosophy Show

The Tannahill Weavers

Chris Ramsey

Never Forever – 40th Anniversary Show

Tiff Stevenson – Mother

Here

The Remains of Logan Dankworth

Fly Half

Katie Wright School of Dance – Bedazzled

Bridget Christie – Who Am I?

Hello Again – The Story of Neil Diamond

Stewart Lee – Snowflake/Tornado

Rush – The Story of Reggae

Funeral Flowers

John Shuttleworth – John Shuttleworth’s Back!

The Johnny Cash Roadshow – The Man in Black Tour

Missimp – It’s a Trap: The Improvised Star Wars Show

Bec Hill – Out of Order

Limitless: In Conversation with Astronaut Tim Peake

Ed Byrne – If I’m Honest

Sophia & Cinzia – Sophia & Cinzia Present, The Girls Bathroom – Live!

Gyles Brandreth – Break a Leg

Hello Again

The Simon and Garfunkel Story

Rootless Island Baby – Staged Reading

Tracy Quaife School of Theatre Dance – Dance Express 2021

Rush – The Story of Reggae

Bubble

Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour

Major Labia

Wolf

Ghost Stories with Mark Gatiss

A Double Bill of New Work by East Midlands Talent

Katie Wright School of Dance – Bedazzled

Yotam Ottolenghi – A Life in Flavour

Jenny Eclair – Sixty! (FFS!)

Rosalie, Sandra and Jodie – Live in Concert

Hand Me Down

Shuck – Work-in-Progress

Cinderella

Reginald D Hunter – Bombe Shuffler

Jack and the Beanstalk

Omid Djalili – The Good Times Tour

The Greatest Play in the History of the World…

Boar

Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour

Viggo Venn

Count Arthur Strong – And This Is Me!

LIT

Bubble

Still Life

West End Leading Ladies – On Demand

Simon Amstell – Spirit Hole

No Such Thing as a Fish

Sophia & Cinzia – Sophia & Cinzia Present, The Girls Bathroom – Live!

Paul Merton’s Impro Chums

The Tempest

Gordon Buchanan – 30 Years in the Wild

Little Red Riding Hood

Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats

The Glad Game

Nottingham Global Roots Festival – Global Carnival!

Srishti – Nina Rajarani Dance Creations – Sevens

Ronnie Scott’s All Stars – The Ronnie Scott’s Soho Songbook

The Glad Game

Dracula – One Man’s Search for the Truth…

Gecko – The Wedding

First Touch

All The Beds I Have Slept In

Sexy Lamp

Fly Half

Slow Violence

Flo & Joan – Sweet Release

Barry Humphries – The Man Behind the Mask

Barry Humphries – The Man Behind the Mask

A Tale of Two Cities

Aladdin

Paul Chowdhry – Family-Friendly Comedian (no children)

Help I Sexted My Boss

Botis Seva – BLKDOG

Hello Again – A Tribute to Neil Diamond

Fireman Sam – Saves the Circus

The Simon and Garfunkel Story

Help I Sexted My Boss – The Boys Are Back Tour

The Johnny Cash Roadshow – From the Ashes Tour

Jinkx Monsoon & Major Scales – Together Again, Again!

Motionhouse Dance Theatre – Nobody

Identical

Nish Kumar – Control

Henning Wehn – It’ll All Come Out in the Wash!

Gill Sims – Tits, Gits and Little Sh*ts

Chris McCausland – Speaky Blinder

David O’Doherty – whoa is me

Shit-Faced Shakespeare – Macbeth

Lava

Funeral Flowers

Giovanni Pernice – Made in Italy

Aidy the Awesome

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Clothes They Stood Up In

Nine Night

Much Ado About Nothing

Dick Whittington

An Evening with Reverend Richard Coles and Friends

Joanne McNally – The Prosecco Express

Scummy Mummies – The New Scummy Mummies Show

SheWolves

The King of Reggae: The Man, The Music

Andy Hamilton – An Evening Out with Andy Hamilton

The Mountaintop

Missimp – It’s a Trap: The Improvised Star Wars Show

Austentatious – the Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Austentatious – the Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Gary Barlow – A Different Stage

Sophia & Cinzia – Sophia & Cinzia Present, The Girls Bathroom – Live!

Paul Young – Behind the Lens

Rhymes Against Humanity – The Improvised Musical

Kevin Bridges – The Overdue Catch-Up

Show of Hands – Tyne to Tamar 2020

Henry Blofeld (OBE) – My Dear Old Things

Brown Girls Do It Too – Mama Told Me Not To Come

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Al Murray – the Pub Landlord – Gig for Victory

Sinatra – Raw

Stewart Lee – Basic Lee

The Tiger Lillies – From the Circus to the Cemetery

An Evening with Graham Norton

Rich Hall – Shot From Cannons

Gareth Malone – Sing-a-long-a-Gareth

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Quiet Rebels

Fishcat

The Greatest Magician

The Great Almighty Gill

Acoustickle present Indian Summer

Tim MinchinAn Unfunny Evening with Tim Minchin and his Piano

Prue Leith – Nothing in Moderation

Pinocchio

Abba The Story

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Tim Vine – Breeeep!

John Cooper Clarke – The I Wanna Be Yours Tour

Ministry of Science – Science Saved the World

Candy

Far from the Norm – Mama

Family Tree

Blue Badge Bunch

Fireman Sam – Saves the Circus

Babatunde Aleshe – Babahood

Cinderella

Keith Brymer Jones – Life, Clay, and Everything

Simon Brodkin – Screwed Up

Rhymes Against HumanityThe Improvised Musical

Upfront Comedy

Village Idiot

Jayde Adams – Men, I Can Save You

Lucy BeaumontThe Trouble and Strife

Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour

The Simon and Garfunkel Story

Fastlove

Fastlove

Ray Bradshaw – Deaf Com 1

A Good Neet Aht

The Nature of Forgetting

I Heart Michael Ball

Twirlywoos Live!

Gyles BrandrethCan’t Stop Talking

David Wilson – My Life with Murderers

Kenny ThomasThe Brit Soul Ascending Tour

Phil Wang – Wang In There, Baby!

Troy HawkeSigmund Troy’d!

Bridget ChristieWho Am I?

Liza Pulman and Joe Stilgoe

The Story of Guitar Heroes

Happy Hour Live – The Round Sheep Tour

Giovanni PerniceLet Me Entertain You

Adam RoweWhat’s Wrong With Me?

Hansel and Gretel

Twelfth Night

The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man

A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story

SheWolves

Hello Again – A Tribute to Neil Diamond

Nashville Bad Boys of Country

Liza Pulman and Joe Stilgoe

Biggest stories of the month

Wicked movie: every musical easter egg we spotted in the film

Wicked movie: every musical easter egg we spotted in the film

A Streetcar Named Desire with Paul Mescal to return to the West End before New York run

A Streetcar Named Desire with Paul Mescal to return to the West End before New York run

Lead cast revealed for Hercules in the West End

Lead cast revealed for Hercules in the West End

New 620-seat Capital Theatre to open in London – beginning with Dirty Dancing

New 620-seat Capital Theatre to open in London – beginning with Dirty Dancing

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