Pink Rabbit asks, between jest and brutal honesty, whether women’s desires can be freely expressed within the families, cultures and faiths which raised them. It began as five minutes of inspiration at drama school and has been evolving with its writer and performer, Farah Ashraf, ever since, winning a Bestie Award and the Shedload-of-Future Fund on the way to its official London debut at Soho Theatre.

Alone on stage, Farah plays Amna, an eighteen-year-old British Pakistani woman who is one person at home and another online, and who lets the audience in on what her mother must never hear.

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Production details

Venue: Soho Theatre (Upstairs), 21 Dean Street, London W1D 3NE

Runs: Tuesday 24th November - Saturday 12th December 2026

Running time: 70 minutes

Age guidance: 16+

Tickets: From £15

Instagram: Farah Ashraf Pink Rabbit

When Aixa Amarante Productions founded RepresentAsian, the question was simple: where are the Asian voices in West End musical theatre? Three years on, the answer is getting louder.

Hosted by EastEnders icon Nina Wadia OBE at the Lyric Theatre on 9th November, the concert brings together some of the most exciting Asian performers working in West End musical theatre today and gives three emerging artists their very first West End stage.

Olivier Award-winner James Hameed, celebrated for his extraordinary dual portrayal of Paddington Bear and the Young Man in Paddington The Musical at the Savoy Theatre, joins a stellar line-up including Nadim Naaman, Roshani Abbey, Soophia Foroughi, Hiba Elchikhe, Zheng Xi Yong and Mia Kobayashi. Alongside them, graduates from Guildford School of Acting and the Royal Academy of Music will perform on a professional West End stage for the first time.

All proceeds go towards a scholarship at The Boury Academy. Last year’s concert funded its first recipient. This year’s will fund the next one.

Complimentary chai from Dishoom on arrival.

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Lyric Theatre, 29 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 7ES
Monday 9th November 2026, 7:30pm
Tickets from £20

Eighty years after Josephine Leslie first wrote it under a man’s name to be taken seriously, The Ghost & Mrs Muir is finally getting the stage it deserves.

Director Kenneth Hoyt has known for twenty-six years that there was a musical waiting inside the 1945 novel. Now, with writer Peter Sham and composer Kevin Purcell joining him, that musical is finally taking shape.

At its heart the story is simple. A woman decides to live on her own terms. The ghost who shares her house decides to stay. What happens between them is anything but simple.

The announcement comes as Sham and Purcell are in the final stages of bringing their musical adaptation of To Catch A Thief to London’s West End.

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Book & Lyrics: Peter Sham
Music: Kevin Purcell
Directed by: Kenneth Hoyt
In development: Workshops US and London 2027; West End 2028
Website: theghostandmrsmuir.com

Fifty years ago, Stage One was founded on a simple conviction: that the producers who build British theatre deserve the same investment as the work they champion. Half a century on, that conviction has not changed. The people have.

This year’s nine bursary recipients, each receiving up to £20,000 alongside mentoring and professional development, arrive from across the industry and beyond it. The nine recipients are Aixa Amarante Naranjo, Patrick Bone, Millie Brierley, Sam Edmunds, Mina Moniri, Zoe Novello, Suher Sofi, Kate Taylor and Lucy Wood. One holds a PhD in molecular biophysics from Oxford. One is a British Somali founder whose work has been seen at the National Theatre, Soho Theatre and Bristol Old Vic.

What they share is not a background or a route in. It is a refusal to wait to be invited in.

Meet them at stageone.org.uk.

Stage One’s patrons are Sir Cameron Mackintosh and Dame Judi Dench.

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The Tabard Theatre in Chiswick has a habit of producing musicals that punch well above their weight. With a 2023 Standing Ovation Award for Best Director and a Pub Theatre of the Year title to its name, Take Note Theatre knows exactly what it is doing — and its latest production is no exception.

Who Put the Bomp? is a new musical by Keith Strachan, who co-wrote Cliff Richard’s 1988 number one Mistletoe and Wine and created the West End hits Dreamboats and Petticoats and Dancing in the Streets. The show follows a group of London teenagers who discover the music their grandparents loved and find, in the golden age of Doo Wop and early rock ’n’ roll, something that speaks directly to their own lives.

Already nominated for five Fringe Theatre Awards and described as “a night of pure distilled joy” by London Pub Theatres, it is the kind of story that sounds simple but rarely is.

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Venue: Tabard Theatre, 2 Bath Road, Chiswick, London W4 1LW (Turnham Green, 1 minute’s walk)
Runs: Wednesday to Saturday until 7 November 2026
Tickets: From £20. Book online

Guildford Shakespeare Company are celebrating their twentieth anniversary year with an immersive murder mystery set inside a real working brewery. A Brew To A Kill takes over the entirety of Hogs Back Brewery in Tongham, Surrey this autumn.

It is the 1950s. The Gloucester family are relaunching their struggling brewery. There is a rival. There is a gangster. And just before the ribbon is cut on the refurbished Tap Room, there is a body. The audience does not watch. They move through the Hop Hanger, the Brew House, the Dutch Barn and a fourth undisclosed location, interrogating suspects, hunting for clues and deciding who to trust. Written by Eli Murton, who also wrote GSC’s previous murder mysteries, and is directed by GSC co-founder Matt Pinches. The previous productions sold out. This one looks set to do the same.

Running: 24th October to 15th November 2026 (33 performances)
Venue: Hogs Back Brewery, Manor Farm, The Street, Tongham, Farnham GU10 1DE
Instagram: @guildfordshakespeare

Book tickets here.

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Everyone knows the monster. But who remembers the man?

Shadow Road Productions’ new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde takes a fresh look at the haunting classic, exploring not only the darkness embodied by Edward Hyde, but also the brilliant, flawed and deeply human man whose choices unleashed him.

Written and directed by Emma King-Farlow, and featuring just four actors, live music and inventive multi-role storytelling, Jekyll & Hyde: Remember Me is an intimate sixty-minute journey into memory, guilt and responsibility, asking one timeless question: how should a complicated human being be remembered?

Performed for audiences of just 18 at a time at the Shadow Road Studio in Barnes.

Running: 24th October to 8th November 2026
Performances: 3pm and 7pm on selected dates
Running time: 60 minutes
Tickets: £16 (adults) / £12 (children)
Venue: Shadow Road Studio, Barnes SW13 9HW

Book tickets here.

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