Terri Paddock

Years before Private Lives or Blithe Spirit, The Master #NoelCoward began mastering his craft with #TheRatTrap.

Troupe Theatre's centenary reimagining at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social offers a rare opportunity to delve into the playwright's early genius.

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Following sell-out runs at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, theatre company & Pleasance associate artists Maybe You Like It will make their London debut at @pleasance.co.uk from 22 Apr-9 May with a double bill: historical comedy drama Down to Chance & PowerPoint farce Sorry (I Broke Your Arms and Legs).

'When two brilliant egoists marry... there is bound to be trouble.'

Signs ready for tonight's #TheRatTrap post-show Q&A at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social. Any Qs for director & cast about this centenary reimagining of #NoelCoward's first play?

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Robin Hiley & Becky Hope-Palmer’s new Scottish musical Lifeline will have its London premiere at @swkplay.bsky.social from 28 Mar-2 May.

Alex Howarth directs the show, presented by Charades Theatre Company, which is inspired by historical events surrounding Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming.

Only Fools & Horses star Tessa Peake-Jones will lead Bren Gosling’s heartfelt comedy drama Invisible Me about love, lust & dating after 60 when the show plays from 8 Apr-2 May at @swkplay.bsky.social.

Produced by BACKSTORY and & Joe Brown, the production is directed by Scott Le Crass.

Double Olivier Award-winning actor Henry Goodman will play Gregory Solomon in Arthur Miller’s drama The Price, running at Marylebone Theatre from 17 Apr-7 Jun. The production is directed by Jonathan Munby whose recent work includes acclaimed productions of King Lear & The Merchant of Venice.

Imogen Stubbs will star as Leni Riefenstahl in Wendy Oberman & Jonathan Lewis’ play A Thing of Beauty, about the film icon whose work inspired Steven Spielberg – but who was blighted by her association with the Nazis.

Cahoots Theatre Company’s production will run at the Tabard Theatre 5 Feb-1 Mar.

When a Mormon mom joins Grindr… heaven help her gay son!

Jessica Martin will star in the European premiere of Ronnie Larson’s play Grindr Mom, a comedy about faith, family & very unexpected connections. Gerald Armin directs the production which runs at @waterlooeast.bsky.social from 18 Feb-1 Mar.

NEW Q&As! Join me in Feb for new #OffWestEnd shows.

🐀 Thu 5 Feb - #TheRatTrap at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social

🎶 Thu 12 Feb - @balladlines.bsky.social at @swkplay.bsky.social

A centenary reimagining of a Noel Coward comedy + a homegrown Scottish folk musical.

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Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Lesley Manville, Francesca Mills, Sandra Oh & Letitia Wright lead Indhu Rubasingham’s @nationaltheatre.org.uk programme for 2026.

Multi-award winner Oh makes her NT debut in Martin Crimp’s adaptation of The Misanthrope. Oscar winner Blanchett stars in Electra / Persona.

Mark Kitto, Kerill Kelly, Matthew Hartley, Claire-Monique Martin, Tom Everatt, Jonathon Nielsen-Keen & Simon Chappell are cast in Savage by Claudio Macor, ‘throwing a cold, harsh light on the horrors of conversion therapy’, running at the White Bear Theatre from 25 Feb-15 Mar @lambco.bsky.social.

It Walks Around The House At Night from award-winning theatre company @thickskintheatre.bsky.social creeps into @swkplay.bsky.social Borough from 4-28 Mar for its London premiere.

Tim Foley’s horror features George Naylor & Oliver Baines & is directed by ThickSkin’s artistic director Neil Bettles.

Poppy Gilbert & Stuart Thompson will lead the cast in FLYBY, a new musical by Theo Jamieson, directed & co-created by @adamlenson.bsky.social.

Originally developed in 2025 by the @nationaltheatre, the show will have its world premiere at @swkplay.bsky.social Borough from 3 Apr-16 May #FLYBYMusical.

House of the Dragon star Abigail Thorn & Stage Debut Award nominee Joe Pitts will star in Blink, the acclaimed 2-hander by Olivier-nominated writer Phil Porter.

Presented by Metal Rabbit Productions, the play is directed by Simon Paris & will run at @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social 19 Feb-22 Mar.

Paul Bradshaw’s double bill of tell me straight & the world prem of aggy will feature Bradshaw himself, Buck Braithwaite, Jade Anouka, Imogen Frances, Matthew Jordan, Jean-Luke Worrell & Jack Gittins.

Runs @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social 3-28 Mar, presented by @shprods.bsky.social & telling tales.

Conceived & dir by Nicolas Kent, the Ukraine Unbroken season runs at the @arcolatheatre.bsky.social from 26 Feb-26 Mar.

The featured plays are by David Edgar, Cat Goscovitch, David Greig, Jonathan Myerson & Natalka Vorozhbit (translated by Sasha Dugdale). Co-produced by Nick of Time Productions.

LAMBCO Productions presents Savage by Claudio Macor, dir by Robert McWhir, at the White Bear Theatre 25 Feb-15 Mar.

The piece is a harrowing exposé of a flawed medical concept (gay conversion therapy) which ultimately failed but destroyed thousands of lives in the process @lambco.bsky.social.

NEW Q&As! Join me in Feb for new #OffWestEnd shows.

🐀 Thu 5 Feb - #TheRatTrap at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social

🎶 Thu 12 Feb - @balladlines.bsky.social at @swkplay.bsky.social

A centenary reimagining of a Noel Coward comedy + a homegrown Scottish folk musical.

terripaddock.com/upcoming-eve...

Rachel Pickup & Alan Turkington have been cast in Jerome Kilty’s Dear Liar – adapted from the correspondence of George Bernard Shaw & Mrs Patrick Campbell, directed by AD Stella Powell-Jones. The production runs from 5 Feb-7 Mar at London’s @jstheatre.bsky.social.

Daniel Abbott, Gina Bramhill, Zoe Goriely & Ailsa Joy join Ewan Miller, Lily Nichol & Angela Sims in Kirsty Patrick Ward’s production of Coward’s The Rat Trap at @parktheatrelondon.bsky.social 28 Jan-14 Mar.

Co-produced by Ashley Cook for Troupe, the play has been reimagined by Bill Rosenfield.

What’s Wrong With Benny Hill?, exploring the meteoric rise & lonely fall of one of Britain’s most successful – & now most controversial – comedians will run at @WhiteBearTheatr from 12-24 Jan. Written by Mark Carey the show has original music by Kevin Oliver Jones. Presented by Stratford Theatre Co.

My first Q&A of 2026 follows the 7pm show of Finn Anderson & Tania Azevedo’s @balladlines.bsky.social on 12 Feb, premiering at @swkplay.bsky.social Elephant 23 Jan-21 Mar.

Presented by Aria Entertainment & KT Producing, Ballad Lines weaves one family’s hopes, sacrifices & songs across generations.

Killian Thomas Lefevre & Yiftach ‘Iffy’ Mizrahi will join Tony Award-winning actor-musician Levi Kreis to complete the cast for the UK premiere of Kreis’ new musical Already Perfect, running at the @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social from 9 Jan-15 Feb, directed by Dave Solomon. Larry Lelli produces.

The world premiere of Spanish Oranges, the debut play by Alba Arikha, Samuel Beckett’s Goddaughter, directed by Myriam Cyr, will run at The Playground Theatre from 11 Feb-7 Mar.

Star of Bond film The Living Daylights, Maryam D'Abo leads a cast that also includes Jay Villiers & Arianna Branca.

After a series of sold-out Australian seasons, Yentl, Kadimah Yiddish Theatre’s acclaimed new adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s story, will make its international premiere at Marylebone Theatre 6 Mar-12 Apr.

The show is presented by Wild Yak Productions in association with Counterminers CIC.

Gabriel Akuwudike, Fiona Button, Angus Cooper, Seamus Dillane, Leila Farzad, Tim Frances, Holly Godliman, Isis Hainsworth, William Lawlor, Colin Mace, Prasanna Puwanarajah & Matthew Steer are cast in @oldvictheatre.bsky.social’s production of the late Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, running 24 Jan–21 Mar.

LA–based writer & comedian Sam Morrison’s Sugar Daddy will run at Underbelly Boulevard Soho from 5 Mar-4 Apr.

The new staging of this story of love & loss, seagull attacks, New York muggers & a surprise diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes follows acclaimed runs in Edinburgh, London, New York & more.

The world premiere of 1.17am, or until the words run out by Zoe Hunter Gordon, directed by Sarah Stacey, will run at @finboroughtheatre.bsky.social 10 Feb-7 Mar.

The play, co-produced by ZAVA Productions, arrives at the venue following 3 acclaimed sold-out previews at @theatre503.bsky.social.

Sir Tom Stoppard obituary One of Britain’s most outstanding playwrights famed for the ‘hypnotised brilliance’ of his prose and dialogue

West End theatres will dim their lights for 2 minutes at 7pm today (2 Dec) in remembrance of the great & good playwright Tom Stoppard

Stoppard, who has died aged 88, won an Academy Award for Shakespeare In Love, 3 Laurence Olivier Awards & 5 Tony Awards

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The Tony Award-winning musical Kimberly Akimbo will have its European prem at Hampstead Theatre in 2026 alongside 5 new plays & the London stage directing debut of Stanley Tucci (Springwood by Richard Nelson).

Also includes the debut of David Pearson, a graduate of Hampstead’s INSPIRE programme.