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Despite supermarkets foisting Christmas on us, we’re well and truly into spooky season now – and the latest theatrical horror is the stage adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House.

Blackeyed Theatre excels at bringing classic literature to the stage, breathing new life into various books such as Frankenstein, The Great Gatsby and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – this time they have turned their attention to Henry James’s…

Before Brief Encounter there was Still Life, Noël Coward’s short play which originally formed part of the play cycle Tonight at 8.30.

Based on the ever popular TV series (and latterly Netflix film), the immersive experience Peaky Blinders Underworld is now open in London Bridge Arches.

Not Entirely Serious follows up last year’s Beethoven: I Shall Hear In Heaven with another play about a titan of the classical music world: Tchaikovsky: Child of Glass.

Dido and Aeneas Photo credit: George Veys Ensemble OrQuesta’s production of Dido and Aeneas celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.

There has long been conjecture over the whereabouts of the mooted Shakespeare work Love’s Labour’s Won, with some parties believing it’s just another missing early modern play and others wondering if it was in fact reworked into Much Ado About Nothing.

Cupboard Love Photo credit: Marc Gascoigne Continuing the 2026 Grimeborn Festival is The Opera Makers’ Murder Games: A Double Bill, featuring two modern pieces with a connection to killing.

First performed at Vienna’s Burgtheater in 1790, Barefoot Opera’s production of Mozart & Da Ponte’s Così fan tutte?!

If you were in London and fancied a joyful escape from the men’s football world cup final, chances are you hot-footed it down to the New Wimbledon Theatre to experience Strictly Come Dancing star Nikita Kuzmin’s new touring show, Supernova.

Photo credit: Melinda Sue Gordon / Universal Pictures “In a time of apparent magic…” From the Second World War to the Trojan War, filmmaker extraordinaire Christopher Nolan certainly doesn’t shy away from the big stories – be they huge, world-changing dis…

After having such a great time last year, expanding my coverage more than ever, I decided to go all-in on the BBC Proms once more.