What’s On Stage February 2026

Theatre highlights this Month include …

Dracula, starring Cynthia Erivo in a tour-de-force performance where she plays 23 characters; Deep Azure, written by the late Chadwick Boseman and directed by Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu; and the highly anticipated The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, directed by Lynette Linton.

You can also catch Beverley Knight alongside Ntombizodwa Ndlovu in Marie and Rosetta.

Miles Written and Directed by Oliver Kaderbhai. Concept by Jay Phelps

Set within a recording studio space in New York, Jay Phelps plays Jay, a contemporary jazz musician seeking answers as he interrogates what it takes to create something truly great. As past and present collide, Davis challenges Jay to confront his own identity as an artist while revisiting moments from his own complex history.

Starring Benjamin Akintuyosi.

Miles runs from Wednesday 4th February – Saturday 7th March @ Southwark Play House

Deep Azure Written by Chadwick Boseman. Directed by Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu.

When her fiancé, Deep, is killed by the police, Azure’s world spirals out of control.

Powered by the spiritual imprint Deep has left on them all, Azure and Deep’s friends – Roshad and Tone – do their best to find peace in the wake of the tragedy. However, the Heavenly MCs of Street Knowledge have other plans for them.

Inspired by the true events of university student Prince Jones, influenced by the poetry of Shakespeare and powered by the pulse of Hip-Hop theatre, Boseman’s cathartic and lyrical epic unfolds in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

Cast includes: Ryn Alleyne, Maxwell Chartey, Elijah Cook, Elijah Cook, Aminita Francis, Selina Jones, Justice Ritchie and Imani Yahshua.

Deep Azure runs from Saturday 7th February – Saturday 11th April @ Shakespeare’s Globe, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Dracula Starring Cynthia Erivo

Deep in the desolate wilderness stands a crumbling castle; a mysterious presence lurking within. For centuries, Count Dracula has waited in hiding. Now, this phantom is coming out of the shadows. As the Count sets his sights on a fresh target, a new kind of terror begins – seductive, unstoppable and dangerously addictive.

Cynthia Erivo transforms into all 23 roles.

Dracula runs from Saturday 7th February – Sunday 31st May @ Noël Coward Theatre

The Tempest Starring Naomi Wirthner

Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and Ariel. Four lost souls stranded on this island with no hope of escape.

As the years pass, they tell themselves a story. A story that is told over and over. A story of past wrongs. A story of desire and revenge. A story of a storm that will rescue and redeem them. A story that conjures other characters out of air, out of thin air. An imagined enchantment.

But will salvation ever really come?

Cast includes: Naomi Wirthner and Tyrone Huggins

The Tempest runs from Sunday 8th February – Sunday 12th April @ Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

The Boy At The Back Of The Class Directed by Monique Touko.

There used to be an empty chair at the back of the class, but now a new boy called Ahmet is sitting in it. He’s nine years old (just like me), but he’s very strange. He never talks and never smiles and doesn’t like sweets – not even lemon sherbets, which are my favourite!

After learning that he has fled his own war-torn country, Ahmet’s classmates have ‘The Greatest Idea in the World’ – a magnificent plan to reunite Ahmet with his family. An unexpected and often hilarious adventure follows, all topped off with a terrific twist.

Told from a child’s perspective, balancing heart and humour, The Boy at the Back of the Class highlights the power of friendship and kindness in a world that doesn’t always make sense and reminds us that everyone needs a place to call home.

Cast includes: Abdul-Malik Janneh

The Boy At The Back Of The Class runs from Wednesday 11th February on a UK tour until Saturday 23rd May

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Directed by Lynette Linton

William wants to build a windmill. Nobody believes he can – not his father nor his friends. Hope feels out of reach where the land is thirsty but the rains don’t come. As drought closes in on his family’s farm and the village he loves, everyone prays for a miracle.

All William has to hand are some library books and scraps of old machinery. The rest must come from within. Will he defy expectations? Will the wind turn the sails of his invention, produce the gift of power, and give hope for tomorrow?

Telling the true story of William Kamkwamba. Based on his memoir and Chiwetel Ejiofor’s film.

Cast includes: Madeline Appiah, Tsemaye Bob-Egbe, McCallam Connell, Lori Baker, Owen Chaponda, Eddie Elliot, Tad Hapaguti, Shaka Kalokoh, Newtion Matthews, Daniel Haswell, Idriss Kargbo, Sifiso Mazibuko, Choolwe Laina Muntanga, Tomi Ogbaro, Alistair Nwachukwu, Alex Okoampa, Helen Pipe, Yana Penrose.

Creative Associate Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Plays at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon from 14 February to 21 March before transferring to @sohoplace from 25 April to 18 July

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind runs from Wednesday 4th February – Saturday 21st March @ the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon transferring to @sohoplace from Saturday 25th April – Saturday 18th July

Midnight by Todrick Hall

Set in America’s South during the nineteenth century, this bold new musical is a sweeping story of love, conflict, and the search for understanding. Sung-through in the tradition of Hamilton, Les Misérables, and Rent, the score is a vibrant mix of gospel, rhythm and blues, classical, pop, rock, opera, folk, and classic musical theatre.

Cast includes: Todrick Hall and Marisha Wallace.

Midnight runs from Friday 20th February – Sunday 8th March 2026 @ Sadler’s Wells East

Crown of Blood by Oladipo Agboluaje. Directed Mojisola Kareem.

A powerful retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth set during the civil wars of 19th-century Yorubaland.

‘Of what use is a good man without ambition’

General Aderemi, fresh from saving the kingdom from invaders is promoted to Field Marshall, thus fulfilling the prophecy of the oracle. When the oracle says he will become King, Aderemi and his wife Oyebisi go on a bloody mission to ensure he sits on the throne.

Cast includes: Kehinde Bankole, Deyemi Okanlawon, Omobolanle Akanbi, Jude Akuwudike, Patrice Naiambana, Adeniyi, Olusola Morolahun, Adura Onashile, Toyin Oshinaike, Mo Sesay & more.

Crown of Blood from Monday 2nd – Saturday 7th @ Sheffield’s Utopia Theatre then on UK tour until Friday 6th March.

Far Gone by John Rwothomack. Directed by Mojisola Kareem

A powerful one-man performance tracing a young boy’s journey from innocence to survival.

Northern Uganda. When Okumu’s village is attacked by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), he and his brother’s lives are changed forever.

Far Gone is a profoundly moving story of a young boy’s journey from childhood innocence to child soldier. Originally co-produced with Sheffield Theatres. Told with humour, poetry and startling physical theatre, Okumu’s experience strikes straight at the heart through a powerful one-man performance written by John Rwothomack and directed by Mojisola Kareem. Inspired by Rwothomack’s own near experience of abduction by the LRA, Far Gone explores how conflict reshapes identity, family and belonging and what it takes to hold onto humanity in the face of violence.

Far Gone Wednesday 11th – Saturday 21st February @ Brixton House

Bitch Boxer By Charlie Josephine. Directed by Prime Isaac

“Women can’t box? You watch.”

It’s 2012 and women are finally allowed to step into the Olympic boxing ring. Chloe Jackson is ready to fight, but life has a way of landing its own punches.

After losing her dad, Chloe is determined to stay strong on her own, because showing her vulnerability may ruin the dream they shared. But will channelling her aggression, fears and determination be enough for Chloe to defeat all in – and outside of – the ring? Or will her strength crumble, just when she needs it most?

Starring Jodie Campbell

Bitch Boxer runs from Wednesday 18th February – Saturday 14th March 2026 @ Arcola Theatre

Marie and Rosetta starring Beverley Knight and Ntombizodwa Ndlovu. Directed by Monique Touko

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the roof-raising ‘godmother of rock ‘n’ roll’, influenced countless musicians from Elvis to Johnny Cash. This sparkling, intimate portrait of Rosetta and her beloved singing partner, Marie Knight, restores these forgotten musical heroines to the spotlight as one of the most remarkable and revolutionary duos in music history.

Mississippi, 1946. Sister Rosetta has changed the face of gospel music with her exuberant, electric guitar-playing style. Shunned by straitlaced church folk for performing in nightclubs and glorying in rhythm and blues, she’s persuaded the saintly young singer Marie to join her on a tour of the segregated southern States. But first she has to convert Marie’s pure Sunday sound into something that has just a little more swing…

Marie and Rosetta runs from Saturday 28th February – Saturday 11th April @sohoplace

All Is But Fantasy… Written, Directed and Compose by Whitney White

A groundbreaking theatrical event of two high-energy gig-theatre performances that revisit the stories of four of Shakespeare’s most famous characters catalysed by a red-hot soundtrack.

Lady Macbeth, Juliet, Emilia, and Richard III step into the spotlight, challenging the stories that shaped them, in this high-voltage fusion of rock, pop, soul, and gospel, created by award-winning artist, writer, and composer Whitney White.

Cast includes: Renée Lamb, Georgina Onuorah, Timmika Ramsay and Whitney White

Until Sunday 21st February 2026 @ RSC Stratford-upon-Avon

Here There Are Blueberries Starring Clifford Samuel

In 2007, a mysterious album featuring Nazi-era photographs arrived at the desk of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. As curators unravelled the shocking truth behind the images, the album soon made headlines and ignited a debate that reverberated far beyond the museum walls.

Cast includes: Clifford Samuel, Caitlin Mallory and Paksie Vernon.

Here There Are Blueberries runs from Saturday 31st January – Saturday 28th February @ Theatre Royal Stratford East

Lost Atoms Starring Hannah Sinclair Robinson

Love’s strange, isn’t it? You think you’re going to feel it in your chest, or your gut. But I swear, I can feel it in every cell.

Jess and Robbie. A chance meeting, some disastrous dates, an extraordinary transformative love. It’s the stuff of fairy tales. Or is it?

Lost Atoms is a wild ride through a life-changing relationship, or Jess and Robbie’s recollection of it. Together they scale the soaring highs and crushing lows, relive the beats of connection, the moments of loss. But are their stories the same? And can their memories be trusted?

Lost Atoms runs from Thursday 29th January – Sunday 28th February @ Leicester’s Curve Theatre