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NEWS: BABY WANTS CANDY’S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SHAMILTON COMES TO THE OTHER PALACE

Created in Los Angeles in 2016, Shamilton!, the “deliriously entertaining” (Musical Theatre Review), hip hop, improv comedy show, has played to sold-out crowds around the world, earning rave reviews and a devoted following, including acclaimed sold-out runs at the 2023, 2024 and 2025 Edinburgh Fringe. 

NEWS: NICHOLAS BAILEY & SUSAN PENHALIGON TO STAR IN THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY UK TOUR OF AGATHA CHRISTIE’S ICONIC THRILLER ‘THE MOUSETRAP’

Producer, Brian Fenty, is delighted to announce that Nicholas Bailey and Susan Penhaligon will star as Major Metcalf and Mrs Boyle respectively in the 75th anniversary UK tour of Agatha Christie’s iconic thriller and the world’s longest running play, The Mousetrap. The tour will begin in September 2026 running through to 2027. The tour forms part of wider plans to celebrate The Mousetrap’s year with more exciting celebrations to be announced.

NEWS: ROYO presents POLICE COPS THE MUSICAL Workshop Presentations at Battersea Arts Centre

Following a sell-out run at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, two riotous hit-runs at Southwark Playhouse and two Off West End Theatre Awards (Best New Musical & Best Choreography), POLICE COPS: THE MUSICAL returns for a limited run of public work-in-progress workshop presentations at Battersea Arts Centre from 25 September to 3 October 2026.

NEWS: Frigid Jones’s Diary: The Unauthorised Comedy Parody announced for The Other Palace

Following the successful parody Homo Alone in 2024 and last year’s Lovers Actually, which is The Other Palace Studio’s best-selling show in the venue’s history, Jodie Prenger (Coronation Street, I'd Do Anything) is back for a fourth time alongside Neil Hurst (Fat Friends The Musical, Casualty) with a new festive fan favourite, Frigid Jones’s Diary: The Unauthorised Comedy Parody.

NEWS: Enemies. Lovers. Cast Members. Meet The Full Company Of Deep-Heat Rivalry

Loosely inspired by a certain hit TV series (and we mean very loosely), this camp, chaotic, and deliciously inappropriate new comedy smashes together locker room drama, forbidden romance, parody songs, and absolutely no knowledge of sport whatsoever. Add in nudity (yes, really), shameless innuendo, with a score that ranges from power ballad to party pop, and you’ve got a show that’s less about hockey—and more about hooking up.

NEWS:  Roald Dahl’s THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE THE MUSICAL returns to London this summer 

The Roald Dahl Story Company is delighted to present Roald Dahl’s THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE THE MUSICAL in London this Summer. This wickedly funny family musical will play a 4-week run at Lyric Hammersmith from Wednesday 29 July until Saturday 22 August 2026, marking the show’s return to London following previous runs at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. 

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