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The best way to start off your new year is with plenty of new shows! Happily, London is as busy as ever when it comes to great plays, musicals, comedy, cabaret and more, so you can find loads of enticing options in the West End and beyond in January 2025. 

Noel Streatfeild’s children's classic [*Ballet Shoes*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/43183-ballet-shoes) is continuing the festive cheer long into 2025 at the National Theatre, while [*The...

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Find out the best shows to see in London in January 2025, including exciting new plays, big West End musicals, and Hollywood A-listers coming to town.

The original cast members of the National Theatre and Broadway production of [*Hadestown*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/24465-hadestown-tickets) will reprise their roles for a limited run in the West End next year. They will take over at the Lyric Theatre from 11 February to 9 March 2025. 

Reeve Carney (*Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark*) will return as Orpheus, André De Shields (*The Full Monty, Warp!, The Wiz, Ain’t Misbehaving*) as Hermes, Amber Gray (*Eureka Day, Here We Are, Natasha,...

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Reeve Carney will return as Orpheus, André De Shields as Hermes, Amber Gray as Persephone, Eva Noblezada as Eurydice, and Patrick Page as Hades.

Initial casting has been set for the return of the Olivier Award-winning play [*Dear England*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/43212-dear-england), written by James Graham. The show will return to the National Theatre in London for a 10-week run in March 2025.

Gwilym Lee, who has starred in a number of Shakespeare's plays, as well as the Queen biopic *Bohemian Rhapsody* (2018), will play the lead role of football manager Gareth Southgate, as he attempts to coach the England men's team to...

'Dear England' sets lead casting for National Theatre return

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Gwilym Lee will play the lead role of football manager Gareth Southgate, taking over from Joseph Fiennes who received an Olivier nod for his performance.

[*Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/37379-come-alive) has extended performances at the Empress Museum in London until September 2025.

Inspired by the world of *The Greatest Showman*, *Come Alive!* features Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s songs from the 2017 film, with an original storyline, all within a 700-seat Big Top venue. There's also an immersive pre-show experience, with on-site food options, multiple bars, and circus...

'Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular' tickets now available through September 2025

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*Come Alive!* features Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s songs from the 2017 film — such as "This is Me" and "Rewrite the Stars" — with an original storyline.

The London transfer of Olivier Award winner James Graham's play [*Punch*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/41716-punch), about the true story of a one-punch crime, has been extended by two weeks at the Young Vic. Performances will now run until 26 April.

Graham (*Best of Enemies, Dear England, This House, Sherwood*) brought Jacob Dunne’s moving memoir *Right From Wrong* to the Nottingham Playhouse stage earlier this year. It tells the story of teenager Jacob Dunne, who punches someone one...

James Graham's 'Punch' tickets now available through end of April 2025

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Graham's play is based on Jacob Dunne’s moving memoir *Right From Wrong* and tells his story of a one-punch crime, which has fatal consequences. 

Nobody puts baby in the corner! First-look artist impressions have been released of new west-London venue Capital Theatre, which will open with a production of [*Dirty Dancing*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/43487-dirty-dancing) in October 2025. 

Housed within Westfield London in Shepherd’s Bush, the permanent new theatre venue will hold 620 seats, set over 35,000 square feet, with no customer more than nine rows from the performance stage area.

The auditorium has been designed and...

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Check out these images inside west London's new venue Capital Theatre, which opens with a production of *Dirty Dancing* next autumn.

Casting has been announced for [*The Gift*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/43087-the-gift), which opens at the Park Theatre in London on 22 January.

Nicholas Burns (*Nathan Barley, Benidorm, Black Mirror*) will take on the lead role of Colin. He is joined by Laura Haddock (*Downton Abbey: A New Era, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Inbetweeners Movie*) as Lisa and Alex Price (*Father Brown*, originated Draco Malfoy in *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child* in the West End and on Broadway) as...

Casting announced for 'The Gift' at Park Theatre

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*The Gift* is a comedy that follows Colin after he receives an unexpected cake box from his favourite patisserie, only to find that what's inside is very much not a cake.

Further casting has been announced for the UK premiere of *Here We Are*, which opens at the National Theatre in London on 23 April 2025.

Inspired by two of Luis Buñuel’s films – *The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie* and *The Exterminating Angel* – *Here We Are* is the final musical by Stephen Sondheim. It follows a group of guests at a dinner party, as they realise they’ve bitten off more than they can chew.

Joining this new production are Chumisa Dornford-May (*Natasha, Pierre & The Great...

Further casting announced for final Sondheim musical 'Here We Are'

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Inspired by two of Luis Buñuel’s films, *Here We Are* is the final musical by Stephen Sondheim and follows a group of guests at a dinner party.

Irish actor Paul Mescal is one of the biggest success stories of recent years. Born in 1996 in Maynooth, north County Kildare, Mescal initially aspired to be a footballer but discovered acting after an injury. He trained at Dublin’s Lir Academy of Dramatic Art and began his career as a stage actor.

Mescal’s mainstream breakthrough came in 2020 when he was cast as diffident student Connell Waldron in the television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel *Normal People* opposite Daisy Edgar-Jones....

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The *Normal People* and *Gladiator II* star reprises his role as Stanley Kowalski at the Noël Coward Theatre in the West End for three weeks in February.

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Find out who will star in Jude Christian’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s [*Titus Andronicus*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/25648-titus-andronicus-or-globe-tickets). The play is at [Sam Wanamaker Playhouse](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/sam-wanamaker-playhouse) from 19 January to 15 April. Book *Titus Andronicus* tickets on London Theatre.

The bloody tragedy follows the titular Roman general who embarks on a killing spree. Betrayed by their nation and with a family in tatters, Titus takes justice into his own hands.

Katy Stephens will play Titus, joined by Daneka Etchells, Kirsten Foster, Beau Holland, Mei Mei Macleod, Lucy McCormick, Georgia-Mae Myers, Sophie Russell, Mia Selway, and Kibong Tanji.

Jasmin Kent Rodgman composes original music, as well as cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice. Rose Elnile and Grace Venning co-design the show, with costume supervision by Sian Harris, and lighting design by Ali Hunter. 

*Titus Andronicus* is at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

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Jude Christian adapts and directs Shakespeare’s brutal tragedy, *Titus Andronicus*, at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. 

The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is the ideal location to stage such a gruesome tragedy. As the candles burn throughout the auditorium, audiences are plunged into the mind of rulers who’ll stop at nothing to be successful. In *Titus Andronicus* London performances, an all-female cast star, led by Katy Stephens as Titus and Kirsten Foster as Tamora. 

Jude Christian’s previously worked on Shakespeare plays, including *Othello Macbeth* at Lyric Hammersmith. *Titus Andronicus* marks her debut with a text by the Bard at Shakespeare’s Globe. She’s joined by Liv Morris and George Heyworth — best known as the award-winning musical cabaret act Bourgeois and Maurice — who provide original music for the show.

Set after a 10-year battle, the *Titus Andronicus* play sees the Roman general embark on an era of bloodshed, as he refuses to show mercy to anyone in his way. Not only does Titus feel betrayed after prolonged fighting, he’s also on a mission for justice — can anyone stop him?

### Who is Tamora in *Titus Andronicus*?

In *Titus Andronicus*, Tamora and her sons: Alarbus, Demetrius, and Chiron, are captured by Titus. By manipulating her sons and her lover, Aaron the Moor, Tamora is able to break Titus by getting revenge on the ruler.

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Roman general, Titus Andronicus, refuses to back down. Follow the ruler as he seeks justice in a unique, bloody way.
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*Titus Andronicus* is one of ten tragedies by William Shakespeare. Even though it's one of Shakespeare’s early works, it’s considered to be one of the most brutal. In fact, when it’s previously performed at Shakespeare’s Globe, audience members are said to have fainted during the show! In this production, instead of pools of blood on stage, *Titus Andronicus* in London will see actors blow out candles to indicate deaths. 

## What to Watch For: 

- *Titus Andronicus* will feature original music by cabaret act Bourgeois and Maurice. The award-winning musicians tend to create songs that lean towards the darker side of storytelling, so they’re an ideal fit for this gruesome tale.
- Although it's unknown when Shakespeare published the play, evidence dates *Titus* performances as early as 1594.
- This play contains incidents and themes of anti-black racism, sexual assault and its aftermath, extreme violence and death, including bodily mutilations, cannibalism, rape and self-harm. 

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“Hell hath no fury like an angry Goth,” we’re told late in the blistering new production of [*Titus Andronicus*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/25648-titus-andronicus-or-globe-tickets), soon to be joined by *The Winter’s Tale* in repertory at the [Sam Wanamaker Playhouse](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/sam-wanamaker-playhouse). If that line is itself invented, there’s no denying the show’s fidelity to the nihilistic power of Shakespeare’s bloodiest play, which is presented here without a drop of red dye only to acquire an eerie power through its own determined stylisation. 

Shakespeare’s first tragedy, *Titus* is often dismissed as over-the-top, or remembered for prompting sufficient faints (or walk-outs) that such reactions tend to dominate accounts of this play. (I vividly recall the Globe’s outdoor production in 2014, directed by Lucy Bailey and starring Will Houston, making headlines for the numbers of people unable to stay the course.)

Jude Christian’s current take on the play announces its difference from the start, as the all-female cast make a sleek, even graceful entrance in sleepwear that also suggests the forbidding uniformity of an unspecified work camp: my mind went immediately toward the landscape of *The Handmaid’s Tale*.

Within minutes, they are regaling us with an introductory song courtesy of Liv Morris and George Heyworth that sets in only semi-facetious context the Bard’s fearless glimpse into a gore-filled abyss. The take-no-prisoners narrative embraces virtually every possible atrocity on its way to an ending that might give even *Sweeney Todd* pause. I only wish this account of the play didn’t end with the now-inevitable nod to our woebegone modern times, which would appear to be a contractual obligation of every production in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse these days. 

How bad can the catalogue of woe in *Titus* get? Grim enough, the audience is told in song, that they should by comparison “feel better” about their own terrible lives. And soon we’re off on an unforgiving tale of vengeance and retribution that eventuates in the descent into cannibalism of the Roman general, Titus, in a play whose pile-up of corpses exceeds *Richard III* and *King Lear*, its nearest runners-up. 

How do you communicate the charnel house the characters inhabit without risking self-parody? The director Christian’s clever solution is to allow the gallows humour in the text its due – there are laughs here, believe it or not – while alighting upon a streamlined visual aesthetic that floods the candlelit stage with a baleful power all its own.

Titus has already lost 21 sons by the time we meet him, and it’s a question of when, not if, the death toll will escalate further. The lineup of crazies — possible casualties, all — includes Lucy McCormick’s wild-eyed Roman emperor Saturninus, a presence bendy enough to rival a mad Mr Bean, and Georgia-Mae Myers as the hapless Lavinia, whose bodily eviscerations (Titus’s only daughter loses her hands and her tongue) remain as shocking as ever. 

Alerted near the outset that “everyone dies”, we soon discover that the very candles that define the Wanamaker exist here to be snuffed out. Whether snipped, savaged or liquefied, the candles come to represent a citizenry under siege, enmeshed in a rampaging cycle of chaos and bloodshed that makes of the world of the play an outsized abattoir. 

Some may be put off by a counterintuitively squeaky-clean set that looks as if it has been polished to within an inch of its life, and by the playfulness with which a buzzing fly is here anthropomorphised for comic relief. 

But the play’s progression towards despair, and worse, is powerfully carried by Katy Stephens in the title role, this superb actress exceeding expectation. Not for the first time (she was an astonishing Leonata last summer at this address in *Much Ado About Nothing*), Stephens exhibits a vocal authority that is increasingly rare in Shakespeare, whether at the Globe or elsewhere.

Stephens’s hair unfurling yet more wildly as Titus’s circumstances worsen, the actress locates a thrilling sonority in “who doth molest my contemplation” – the title character’s grandiose way in the fifth act of asking the basic question, “who’s there”? 

And though Titus’s battle with madness is often thought to pale next to that of the more majestic Lear, Stephens honours a misshapen psyche that allows this military man to be referenced as “good” one minute, “fierce” the next, before devolving into a state so abject that it exists beyond emotion. “I have not another tear to shed,” proclaims Titus, though the audience, by that point, very well might. 

*Titus Andronicus* is at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse through 15 April. Book *Titus Andronicus* tickets on London Theatre.

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Anyone under the age of 3 can attend any production for free and they do not require a ticket. Those over 3 years old will require a paid ticket. Some plays, however, do contain adult themes and might not be suitable for younger children.

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In a Globe first, experience the work of Henrik Ibsen, one of the most influential dramatists of all time, in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Joe Hill-Gibbins (The Marriage of Figaro, ENO) directs a new version of this searing exploration of family secrets and forbidden desire.


The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is a spectacular theatrical venue situated in the heart of London. Built as an homage to the private indoor playhouses from the Jacobean era, the theatre design was inspired by historical research and explores the impact of candlelit performances. The Playhouse is part of the renowned Shakespeare's Globe complex and was built adjacent to the Globe Theatre. The splendour of this venue is palpable - from its oak-lined interior, to the bewitching glow of its candlelit performances, it leaves an indelible impression on all who visit. This unique candlelit experience is a signature feature of the Playhouse, lauded for the intimate atmosphere it creates. Impressive to say the least, the theatre also hosts a multitude of events; from productions of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, to expert talks and enlightening guided tours. 

### How to get there 
The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse can be reached via a variety of transport options. If travelling by tube, the closest stations are Blackfriars, Mansion House, and London Bridge. It's also well-connected by numerous bus routes. Alternatively, if you're keen on a scenic walk, the theatre is accessible from the Thames Path, providing a picturesque route to your destination.

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The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Indoor Jacobean Theatre opened its doors to the public for the first time on 9 Jan. 2014. It is the indoor theatre of Shakespeare's Globe, named after the organisation's founder, American actor and director Sam Wanamaker. This indoor venue allows Shakespeare's Globe to present plays throughout the year.

## Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Seating Information

The theatre has two tiers of galleried seating and a pit seating area and is predominantly lit by candles.

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The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe's indoor theatre with two-tier seating, lit mainly by candles, opened in January 2014.

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The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is a historically-inspired, oak-lined London theatre, known for intimate candlelit performances. Accessible via tube, bus, and the Thames Path.

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