UK Amateur Theatre Season Planning Guide 2024-25

Need some fresh ideas for your next theatre show? Concord Theatricals has you covered! Here’s a dynamic selection of celebrated and noteworthy titles that would be perfect for you and your audience.

First we’ve listed a broad array of great musicals, organised by cast size and further subdivided into contemporary or classic shows. Below that, you’ll find a selection of outstanding plays organised the same way. If you’re skimming the list, here’s how they’re arranged:

• Large-Cast Musicals (Contemporary)
• Large-Cast Musicals (Classic)
• Small-Cast Musicals (Contemporary)
• Small-Cast Musicals (Classic)
• Large-Cast Plays (Contemporary)
• Large-Cast Plays (Classic)
• Small-Cast Plays (Contemporary)
• Small-Cast Plays (Classic)

For more ideas, visit Concord Theatricals in the UK. Break a leg in your upcoming season!

MUSICALS

Large-Cast Musicals (Contemporary)

Amélie by Craig Lucas, Daniel Messé & Nathan Tysen
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 5w, 7m, 1 girl +Ensemble)

Calendar Girls: The Musical by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 10w, 5m, 1 girl, 2 boys)

Carrie: The Musical by Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford, Lawrence D. Cohen & Stephen King
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 5f, 2m +Ensemble)

Doctor Zhivago by Michael Weller, Michael Korie, Amy Powers, Lucy Simon & Boris Pasternak
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 3f, 5m)

Flowers for Mrs Harris by Paul Gallico, Richard Taylor & Rachel Wagstaff
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 6w, 4m)

Miss Littlewood by Sam Kenyon
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 9w, 3m)

Rock of Ages by Chris D’Arienzo
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 10f, 7m)

Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ The Musical by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 3m, 1 girl, 3 boys)

The Grinning Man by Carl Grose, Tom Morris, Tim Phillips & Marc Teitler
(Full-Length Musical, Dark Comedy / 5f, 7m)

The SpongeBob Musical by Stephen Hillenburg, Kyle Jarrow, Tina Landau & Others
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 16 any gender)

The Wild Party by Michael John La Chiusa, George C. Wolfe and Joseph Moncure March
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 7w, 8m)

Large-Cast Musicals (Classic)

42nd Street by Harry Warren, Al Dubin, Michael Stewart, Mark Bramble & Bradford Ropes
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 7f, 6m + Ensemble)

Anything Goes (2022 Revision) by Cole Porter, P.G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Timothy Crouse & John Weidman
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3f, 4m +Ensemble)

An American in Paris by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin & Craig Lucas
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 4f, 5m)

Baker Street by Jerome Coopersmith, Marian Grudeff & Raymond Jessel
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 2w, 4m)

Footloose by Tom Snow, Dean Pitchford, Walter Bobbie, Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar, Kenny Loggins & Jim Steinman
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 7f, 8m +Ensemble)

Gypsy by Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim & Gypsy Rose Lee
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 6f, 2m +Ensemble)

Happy Days – A New Musical (Full-Length Version) by Garry Marshall & Paul Williams
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 7w, 10m)

Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun (Stone) by Irving Berlin, Herbert Fields & Dorothy Fields
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 6m, 2 girls, 1 boy +Ensemble)

Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn by Irving Berlin, Gordon Greenberg & Chad Hodge
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3f, 3m, 1 boy +Ensemble)

Mame by Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, Jerry Herman and Patrick Dennis
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 6w, 6m +Ensemble)

Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh & Joe Darion
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 5f, 6m +Ensemble)

Nice Work If You Can Get It by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin & Joe DiPietro
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 5f, 5m +Ensemble)

Oh What A Lovely War by Ted Allan, Charles Chilton, Joan Littlewood & Gerry Raffles
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 4f, 11m)

Once Upon a Mattress by Mary Rodgers, Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller and Marshall Barer
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4w, 7m +Ensemble)

Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway Version) by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II & Douglas Carter Beane
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 5w, 4m +Ensemble)

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4f, 6m +Ensemble)

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s State Fair by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Tom Briggs & Louis Mattioli
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 7f, 9m, 1 girl)

Smile (Ashman) by Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Ashman
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 10w, 6m, 2 boys)

The Secret Garden by Marsha Norman, Lucy Simon & Frances Hodgson Burnett
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 10f, 12m, 1 girl, 1 boy +Ensemble)

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg & Herbert Stothart
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 3f, 5m, 16 any gender)

Titanic by Peter Stone and Maury Yeston
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 14w, 23m)

Top Hat by Irving Berlin, Howard Jacques & Matthew White
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 2f, 4m +Ensemble)

2016 Broadway production of American Psycho (Jeremy Daniel)

Small-Cast Musicals (Contemporary)

[title of show] by Jeff Bowen & Hunter Bell
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 2f, 2m, 1 any gender)

American Psycho by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa & Duncan Sheik
(Full-Length Musical, Dark Comedy / 8f, 8m)

First Date by Austin Winsberg, Alan Zachary & Michael Weiner
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4f, 3m)

Fun Home by Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron and Alison Bechdel
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 4w, 2m, 1 girl, 2 boys)

Gutenberg! The Musical! by Scott Brown and Anthony King
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 2m)

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (2018 Version) by Joe DiPietro & Jimmy Roberts
(Musical Revue, Comedy / 2f, 2m)

Mrs Beeton Says… by Eamonn O’Dwyer and Helen Watts
(Full-Length Musical / 5w, 3m)

Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 2f, 2m)

Ruthless! by Joel Paley & Marvin Laird
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 7f, with flexible gender casting)

The Canterville Ghost by Peter Quilter & Oscar Wilde
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 2f, 2m, 6 any gender, 2 boys or girls)

The Rink by Terrence McNally, John Kander & Fred Ebb
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 3w, 5m)

This is My Family by Tim Firth
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 1m, 1 girl, 1 boy)

Small-Cast Musicals (Classic)

Dames at Sea by George Haimsohn, Robin Miller & Jim Wise
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 4m)

Nunsense by Dan Goggin
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 5f)

Queen of the Mist by Michael John LaChiusa
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 3w, 4m)

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing, conceived by Walter Bobbie
(Musical Revue, Comedy / 3f, 2m)

Smoke on the Mountain by Connie Ray, Alan Bailey, Mike Craver & Mark Hardwick
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3f, 4m)

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz, Clark Gesner, Michael Mayer & Andrew Lippa
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 2f, 4m +Optional Ensemble)

2015 Broadway production of Dames at Sea (Jeremy Daniel)

PLAYS

Large-Cast Plays (Contemporary)

‘Allo ‘Allo 2 – ‘The Camembert Caper’ by Jeremy Lloyd, David Croft, David Pibworth, David Lovesy and Steve Clark
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 6f, 11m)

A Very Expensive Poison by Lucy Prebble
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 8m)

Chariots of Fire by Mike Bartlett
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2f, 32m, 2 boys, 7 any gender)

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand & Martin Crimp
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4f, 10m)

Glorious!: The True Story of Florence Foster Jenkins, the Worst Singer in the World by Peter Quilter
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4f, 2m)

I, Joan by Charlie Josephine
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4f, 6m, 1 any gender)

Ken Ludwig’s Leading Ladies by Ken Ludwig
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3f, 5m)

Pride and Prejudice (Davies) by Andrew Davies & Jane Austen
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 13w, 7m)

Regeneration by Nicholas Wright & Pat Barker
(Full-Length Play / 1w, 8m)

Robin Hood (Grose) by Carl Grose
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 7w, 8m)

Shakespeare in Love by Lee Hall, Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 6f, 18m)

She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 6f, 3m)

Stepping Out by Richard Harris
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 9f, 1m)

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach
(Drama / 8w, 6m)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon & Simon Stephens
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5f, 5m)

Large-Cast Plays (Classic)

Black Coffee by Agatha Christie
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3f, 10m)

Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Tenor by Ken Ludwig
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4f, 4m)

Our Town by Thornton Wilder
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 7f, 17m)

See How They Run! by Philip King
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 6m)

The Ghost Train (Revised) by Arnold Ridley
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4f, 5m)

The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2f, 5m)

The Plough and the Stars by Sean O’Casey
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 10m)

The Stepmother by Githa Sowerby
(Full-Length Play / 5w, 4m)

2022 Bush Theatre Production of House of Ife (Marc Brenner)

Small-Cast Plays (Contemporary)

Alice in Wonderland by Poltergeist Theatre, Jack Bradfield & Gerel Falconer
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3f, 2m)

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood & Simon Reade
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2f, 3m)

Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3f, 3m)

Constellations by Nick Payne
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1f, 1m)

Consuming Passions by Alan Ayckbourn
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 2m)

Denouement by John Morton
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3f, 2m)

Hansard by Simon Woods
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1f, 1m)

Home, I’m Darling by Laura Wade
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4f, 2m)

House of Ife by Beru Tessema
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 2m)

Mustard by Eva O’Connor
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1f)

Native Gardens by Karen Zacarías
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2f, 2m)

Poor Lonely Man by Pam Valentine
(Short Play, Drama / 3w)

Sheila’s Island by Tim Firth
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4f)

Teechers Leavers 22 by John Godber
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2f, 1m)

The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow & John Buchan
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 1f, 1m, 2 any gender)

The Alternative by Michael Patrick & Oisín Kearney
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 4m)

The Son by Florian Zeller & Christopher Hampton
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3f, 3m)

Tiny Beautiful Things by Nia Vardalos & Cheryl Strayed
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1f, 3 any gender)

Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial by Liv Hennessy
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 3m)

Small-Cast Plays (Classic)

Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2f, 4m)

Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5f, 2m)

Educating Rita by Willy Russell
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1f, 1m)

God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza & Christopher Hampton
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2f, 2m)

Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1m)

No Man’s Land by Harold Pinter
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4m)

Same Time, Next Year by Bernard Slade
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 1f, 1m)

Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2m)

The Cemetery Club by Ivan Menchell
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4f, 1m)

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4m, 1 boy)

For more great plays and musicals, visit Concord Theatricals in the UK.