A Planning Guide for University Theatre – 2025/6 Season

From genre-defying contemporary works to classic stories, these plays and musicals are ideal for your upcoming productions or showcases at university or drama school. With cast sizes ranging from two to ‘expandable’, these titles offer your students the perfect opportunity to collaborate on a showstopping production.

PLAYS

Contemporary Plays

365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks (US/UK)
(Collection, Comedy and Drama / Flexible Cast Size)
In 2002, the incomparable Suzan-Lori Parks wrote a play every day for a year. Theatre makers may present an assortment of selected plays from the collection.

A Very Expensive Poison by Lucy Prebble (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 8m)
At the time of global crises and a looming new Cold War, the play sends us careering through the shadowy world of international espionage from Moscow to Mayfair.
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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulk and Rachael Wagstaff (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 9m)
Based on Sebastian Faulks’s international bestselling novel, Birdsong tells the story of a soldier haunted by his past.

Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties by Jen Silverman (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 5w)
Jen Silverman’s hilarious play explores anger, sex, love and the “thea-tah” through the experiences of five women named Betty.

Constellations by Nick Payne (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1m)
A play about free will and friendship; it’s about quantum multiverse theory, love and honey. One relationship. Infinite possibilities.

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand and Martin Crimp (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 10m)
Cyrano, in this free adaptation by Martin Crimp, seduces in raps and rhymes, using his linguistic brilliance to help another man win the heart of his one true love.

Dance Nation by Clare Barron (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 9w, 2m)
Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. A play about ambition, growing up and how to find our souls in the heat of it all.

Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 2w, 5m)
Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. With contemporary characters and ingenious plot twists, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.
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First Touch by Nathaniel Price (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 5m)
Inspired by the recent football abuse scandals, First Touch is a gripping and heartfelt drama about what it takes to fulfil your dreams.

Hangmen by Martin McDonagh (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 2w, 12m, 2 any gender adult)
What’s the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they’ve abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars dying to hear Harry’s reaction to the news, a peculiar stranger lurks, with a very different motive for his visit.

House of Ife by Beru Tessema (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 2m)
A tense, funny and explosive drama exploring what it means to belong, and what happens when a family’s secrets shake its foundations.

I, Joan by Charlie Josephine (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 6m, 1 any gender adult)
A powerful and joyous new play, this retelling of Joan of Arc’s story is alive and queer and full of hope.

Kodachrome by Adam Szymkowicz (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 2m)
Suzanne, a photographer in  the small town of Colchester, offers us glimpses of romance in all its stages. A play about love, nostalgia, the seasons and how we learn to say goodbye.

Lights Over Tesco Car Park by Jack Bradfield and Poltergeist Theatre (UK)
(Short Play / 4 any gender adult)
Robert reported lights over the Tesco car park. Then he told us an alien was coming to stay in his spare room. With the help of some historical abduction stories, a latex alien mask, and a bucket of flying saucers, we’re working out whether to believe him.

Lotus Beauty by Satinder Kaur Chohan (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w)
The lives of five multigenerational women are intertwined at Reita’s Salon, where clients can wax lyrical about their day’s tiny successes or have their struggles massaged, plucked or tweezed away.

Love and Information by Caryl Churchill (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / Flexible Cast Size)
In this fast moving kaleidoscope, more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.
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Mr. Burns, a post-electric play by Anne Washburn and Michael Friedman (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play with Music, Dark Comedy / 5w, 3m)
With The Simpsons as its inspiration, this imaginative dark comedy is an animated exploration of how the pop culture of one era might evolve into the mythology of another.

Our Country’s Good by Thomas Keneally and Timberlake Wertenbaker (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 17m)
Set in Botany Bay in 1789, this sweeping play tells of the rehearsals for the first play to be performed in Australia.

Plague over England by Nicholas de Jongh (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 14m)
Sir John Gielgud, then at the zenith of his theatrical career, was arrested in a Chelsea public lavatory. This compelling play relates Gielgud’s emergency to the country’s political mood and depicts a nation in the grip of a gay witch-hunt.

Posh by Laura Wade (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 11m)
Welcome to the Riot Club, an elite student dining society where the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and bloody good wine.
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2012 West End production of Posh (Tristram Kenton)

Pride and Prejudice (Davies) by Andrew Davies and Jane Austen (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 13w, 7m)
Adapted from Andrew Davies’ hit 1995 BBC TV series, this delightful comedy of manners revolves around the tumultuous relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy.

Robin Hood (Grose) by Carl Grose (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 7w, 8m)
With a lashing of humour, heart and a forest full of secrets, Carl Grose spins a thrilling new take on the classic tale.

Shakespeare in Love by Tom Stoppard and Lee Hall (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 6w, 18m)
Based on the Academy Award-winning movie, this enchanting, hilarious, romantic stage play reimagines William Shakespeare’s creative process – and explores his inspiration – as he writes Romeo and Juliet.

Shebeen by Mufaro Makubika (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 5m)
As tensions mount on a night filled with rum, calypso and dancing, and with the shebeen under threat from the police, everyone is forced to confront the uncomfortable truths their relationships are built upon.

SHEWOLVES by Sarah Middleton (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2w)
An uplifting, funny and empowering play about forging friendships when you’re a bit weird, the power of hope and the underestimated smartness of teens.

She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 6w, 3m)
This high-octane dramatic comedy – laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres and 90s pop culture – is a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.

Shopping and Fucking by Mark Ravenhill (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 4m)
A witty and shocking look at a world saturated with consumerism through the lives of disconnected youth.
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Sleepova by Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w)
A frank, funny and moving coming-of-age story, Sleepova is an ode to Black women, their boundless spirits and wild dreams.

Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea by Julia Izumi (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 2m, 2 any gender)
This playful, quirky, loose adaptation of The Little Mermaid, about a Little Rain Cloud who falls in love with a human, unpacks some personal history about Hans Christian Andersen.

Spitfire Girls by Katherine Senior (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 2m plus ensemble)
Inspired by the extraordinary true stories of the women who dared to fly during WWII and the incredible bond that tied them together.

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs by Tom Baker, Clem Garritty, Natasha Hodgson, Zoë Roberts, Oliver Jones and David Cumming (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy / 2w, 2m)
Based on the book by Doctor Who’s Tom Baker, this madly hilarious, frenetic scream of a show is a multi-rolling masterpiece that tells the gloriously grisly tale of one scoundrel’s attempt at infamy.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon and Simon Stephens (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5w, 5m)
This stage adaptation of Mark Haddon’s bestselling, award-winning novel offers a richly theatrical exploration of his touching and bleakly humorous tale.

The Flick by Annie Baker (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1w, 3m)
In a run-down cinema in Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35mm film projectors in the state. A hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.

The Girl on the Train by Rachel Wagstaff, Paula Hawkins and Duncan Abel (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 4m)
Rachel Watson learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching through a train window has suddenly disappeared. She soon finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

The Lovely Bones by Bryony Lavery and Alice Sebold (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 4m)
A stage adaptation of Alice Sebold’s unique coming-of-age tale about life after loss.

The Pitchfork Disney by Philip Ridley (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 3m)
This unsettling, dreamlike piece has surreal undertones and thematically explores fear, dreams and story-telling in the East End of London.
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The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 10w)
Nine American girls on a local soccer team navigate big questions and wage tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors.

This Restless House by Zinnie Harris
Part One: Agamemnon’s Return (UK); Part Two: The Bough Breaks (UK); Part Three: Electra and Her Shadow (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 8w, 8m)
Based on Aeschylus’ Oresteia. Zinnie Harris reimagines this ancient drama, using a contemporary sensibility to rework the stories, placing the women in the centre.

Underdog: The Other Other Brontë by Sarah Gordon (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama  / 3w, 5 any gender plus ensemble)
Sarah Gordon’s new play is an irreverent retelling of the life and legend of the Brontë sisters, and the story of the sibling power dynamics that shaped their uneven rise to fame.

Vardy V Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial by Liv Hennessy (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 3m)
Edited from seven sensational days of High Court transcripts, witness the case of Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney unfold in their own words.

We Could All Be Perfect by Hannah Morley (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w)
A furious and funny new play for anyone who has ever witnessed the power of a teenage girl.

2024 Broadway production of Our Town (Daniel Rader)

Classic Plays

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 6m)
Blanche is forced to face the truth of her own troubled past – and ultimately descends into madness – when she moves into the home of her younger sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley Kowalski.
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Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 3m)
Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. A story of the advance of one of the couples to material prosperity and independence and the decline of the others.
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Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 7w, 9m)
A unique take on the classic murder mystery, this chilling play explores the realms of the sadistic mind and the devastating effects of long-term psychological abuse.
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August Wilson’s Fences by August Wilson (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 5m)
In 1957 Pittsburgh, Troy Maxson, an embittered former star of the Negro baseball leagues, takes out his frustration on his wife and son, who now wants his own chance to play ball.
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Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w, 2m)
This smash comedy hit offers wit, conflict and big laughs as a fussy, cantankerous novelist finds himself haunted by the ghost of his late first wife.
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Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 2m)
In 1941, German physicist Werner Heisenberg arrives in Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. Though they revolutionised atomic science in the 1920s, they now find themselves on opposite sides of a world war.

Moby Dick – Rehearsed by Orson Welles and Herman Melville (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 12m)
In this thrilling stage play from Oscar winner Orson Welles, a Shakespearean theatre company presents Melville’s classic tale about Captain Ahab’s obsessive pursuit of the White Whale.

Our Town by Thornton Wilder (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 7w, 17m)
Described by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written,” Our Town depicts the simple daily lives of two families as their children fall in love, marry and eventually die.
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Persuasion by Jane Austen and Jeff James (UK)
(Full-Length Play / 5w, 4m, 1boy)
When Captain Wentworth proposed to Anne eight years ago, he had only love and ambition to offer. Talked out of accepting his proposal by her family, Anne’s never quite got over her first love.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2w, 14m)
A fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play.
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The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow and John Buchan (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 1w, 1m, 2 any gender)
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python, and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre.

The Hothouse by Harold Pinter (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 6m)
It is Christmas Day and a mysterious death and an unexpected birth are troubling Roote, the director of a Government ‘rest home’.
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Norris) by Bertolt Brecht and Bruce Norris (UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 8m)
Brecht’s satirical masterpiece about the rise of a demagogue, Arturo Ui. This version set in Chicago, a city of jazz and gangsters, prohibition and poverty.
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Time and the Conways by J.B. Priestley (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 4m)
The Conways are having a party to celebrate Kay’s 21st birthday. At the party, Kay, with frightening clarity, sees her family 20 years in the future.
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Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 6m)
Childress’s 1955 play – which premiered on Broadway in 2021 – is a funny, moving and heartbreaking look at racism, identity and ego in the high-stakes world of New York theatre.

Uncle Vanya (Schreck) by Heidi Schreck and Anton Chekhov (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 5m)
Heidi Schreck’s gorgeous, contemporary translation of Chekhov’s enduring masterpiece is refreshingly funny, deeply moving and strikingly immediate.

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4m, 1boy)
Two wandering tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait by a lonely tree, to meet up with Mr. Godot, an enigmatic figure in a world where time, place and memory are blurred and meaning is where you find it.
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (US/UK)
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 2m)
Over a long night of malicious games, insults, humiliations, betrayals, painful confrontations and savage witticisms, the secrets of two couples are laid bare, and illusions are viciously exposed.

MUSICALS

2015 Broadway Production of Fun Home (Jenny Anderson)

Musicals

[title of show] by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 2w, 2m, 1 any gender)
This innovative musical-about-a-musical celebrates the meaning of art, the challenges of being an artist and the strength of friendship. Also available in a clean version (US/UK).

35mm: A Musical Exhibition by Ryan Scott Oliver and Matthew Murphy (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical / 2w, 3m plus ensemble)
A picture is worth 1,000 words — what about a song? This intricately woven collection of stories told through song reimagines what the modern American musical can be.

A Chorus Line by Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 9w, 10m)
The groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning classic explores the inner lives and bittersweet ambitions of professional musical performers at a high-stakes Broadway audition.
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A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 1m, 6 any gender)
A blisteringly funny masterwork exposes the heart and soul of a young artist grappling with desires, identity and instincts he both loves and loathes.

Amélie by Craig Lucas, Daniel Messé, Nathan Tysen and Daniel Messé (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy  /  5w, 7m, 1 girl plus ensemble)
This quirky, charming West End and Broadway musical tells the story of Amélie, an extraordinary young woman who lives quietly in the world but loudly in her mind.

American Psycho by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Duncan Sheik and Bret Easton Ellis (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dark Comedy / 8w, 8m)
This ruthless and daring musical, based on the electrifying novel, tells the story of Patrick Bateman, a young Wall Street banker with impeccable taste and unquenchable desires.

Anastasia: The Musical by Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 5m, 1 girl plus ensemble)
A dazzling show transports its audience from the twilight of the Russian Empire to the euphoria of Paris in the 1920s, as a brave young woman sets out to discover the mystery of her past.

Anything Goes by Cole Porter, P.G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, Timothy Crouse and John Weidman (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 4m plus ensemble)
A hilarious shipboard romp wrapped in one of Cole Porter’s most magical scores. It’s delightful, delicious and de-lovely!
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Be More Chill by Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4w, 6m plus ensemble)
The fan-favourite musical Be More Chill is a rocking new sci-fi musical about growing up, high school, and what we’re willing do to get what we want.

Carrie: The Musical by Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford, Lawrence D. Cohen and Stephen King (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 5w, 2m plus ensemble)
In this chilling and thought-provoking musical, misfit Carrie White is bullied at school and abused at home. But she has a special power, and if pushed too far, she’s not afraid to use it.

City of Angels by Larry Gelbart, Cy Coleman and David Zippel (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 8w, 8m)
A smart and stylish film noir musical, Tony Award winner City of Angels captures the gritty sights and sounds of Hollywood’s classic detective movies, all set to a brilliant, bluesy jazz score.

Crazy For You® by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Ken Ludwig (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 4m plus ensemble)
City slicker falls for hometown girl in this ebullient romantic comedy featuring cowboys, showgirls, high-energy production numbers, and a glorious score from George and Ira Gershwin.
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Doctor Zhivago by Michael Weller, Michael Korie, Amy Powers, Lucy Simon and Boris Pasternak (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 3w, 5m)
A sweeping Broadway musical adaptation of the classic Nobel Prize-winning novel about love in the final days of czarist Russia.

Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens by Bill Russell and Janet Hood (US/UK)
(Musical Revue, Drama / flexible cast size)
A celebration of lives lost to AIDS, told in free-verse monologues with a blues, jazz and rock score.

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie by Tom MacRae, Dan Gillespie Sells and Jonathan Butterell (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 8w, 10m)
Jamie New doesn’t quite fit in, and terrified about the future. Supported by his brilliant, loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies, and steps out of the darkness into the spotlight.

Family Album (Iconis) by Joe Iconis and John Simpkins (US/UK)
(Musical Revue, Dramatic Comedy / 10 any gender)
This dynamic, contemporary song cycle is a collection of character songs from the point of view of criminals, monstrous creatures, house pets, automatons, artists and other various weirdos.

First Date by Austin Winsberg, Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4w, 3m)
When blind date newbie Aaron is set up with serial-dater Casey, a casual drink at a busy NYC restaurant turns into a hilarious high-stakes dinner. Also available in a 5-actor version (US/UK).

Footloose by Dean Pitchford, Walter Bobbie and Tom Snow (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 7w, 8m plus ensemble)
This stage adaptation of the hit film celebrates the exhilaration of youth, the wisdom of listening to one another, and the power of forgiveness.

Fun Home by Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron and Alison Bechdel (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 4w, 2m, 1 girl, 2 boys)
When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to explore her relationship with the volatile, brilliant man whose secrets defined her family.

HAIR by Gerome Ragni, James Rado  and Galt MacDermot (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 5m plus ensemble)
The Grammy and Tony Award-winning hit musical remains relevant as ever as it celebrates community, identity, politics, peace, and what it means to be a young person in a changing world.

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (2018 Version) by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts (US/UK)
(Musical Revue, Comedy / 2w, 2m)
This crowd-pleasing comedy takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum know as “the relationship”.

Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn by Irving Berlin, Gordon Greenberg and Chad Hodge (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 3m, 1 boy plus ensemble)
The beloved film classic comes to the stage in a charming crowd-pleaser featuring one glorious Irving Berlin number after another, each celebrating a different festivity.

Jasper in Deadland by Hunter Foster and Ryan Scott Oliver (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dark Comedy / 4w, 5m)
This fresh, compelling pop-rock musical, inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, follows 16-year-old Jasper Jarvis as he travels through the afterlife on a mission to save his best friend, Agnes.

Lysistrata Jones by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 6w, 6m)
Adapted from Aristophanes’ classic Greek comedy, Lysistrata Jones takes student activism to a whole new level and celebrates the journey of discovering and embracing who you truly are.

2015 Broadway production of Doctor Zhivago (Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade)

Nine by Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 22w, 1m, 4 boys)
Celebrated but impetuous film director Guido Contini, succumbing to the pressures of shooting his latest epic, suffers a midlife crisis.

Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 2w, 2m)
Four young New Yorkers intersect as they each search for fulfilment, happiness, love and cabs.

Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dark Comedy / 3w, 6m)
The original kitschy rock ’n’ roll sci-fi gothic musical is more fun than ever!

Rock of Ages by Chris D’Arienzo and Ethan Popp (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 10w, 7m plus ensemble)
Rock of Ages takes you back to the time of big bands with big egos playing big guitar solos and sporting even bigger hair! Features hits including Night Ranger, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister and more.

Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway Version) by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Douglas Carter Beane (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 5w, 4m plus ensemble)
This contemporary take on the classic tale features Rodgers & Hammerstein’s beloved songs with an up-to-date, uproarious and romantic libretto by Douglas Carter Beane.
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Ruthless! by Joel Paley and Marvin Laird (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 7w)
Eight-year-old Tina Denmark knows she was born to play Pippi Longstocking, and she will do anything to win the part in her school musical. (“Anything” includes murdering the leading lady!)

Sweet Charity by Neil Simon, Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields, Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4w, 4m plus ensemble)
With a tuneful, groovy, mid-1960s score and a hilarious book, Sweet Charity captures all the humour and heartbreak of Life in the Big City for an unfortunate but irrepressible optimist.

The Grinning Man by Carl Grose, Tom Morris, Tim Phillips and Marc Teitler (UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dark Comedy / 5w, 7m)
A fairy-tale love story streaked with pitch-black humour, lashings of Gothic horror and swashbuckling adventure.

The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 4w, 4m plus ensemble)
In this lush, romantic musical set in 1958, a mother and daughter vacationing in Italy are forced to reconsider their future when the daughter falls in love with a local Florentine boy.

The Mad Ones by Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 1m)
Samantha Brown balances on the edge of her future, car keys in hand. This dynamic contemporary musical explores friendship, loss and redemption with passion and heart.

The Secret Garden by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 10w, 12m, 1 girl, 1 boy plus ensemble)
The enchanting, Tony Award-winning musical based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 novel is a compelling tale of forgiveness and renewal.

The Spitfire Grill by James Valcq, Fred Alley and Lee David Zlotoff (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 4w, 3m)
Based on the hit 1996 film, this heartwarming and inspirational musical, set in a small Wisconsin town, is a tale of redemption, perseverance and family.

The View UpStairs by Max Vernon (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 2w, 8m)
A young fashion designer from 2017 is transported to the UpStairs Lounge, a vibrant 70s gay bar, sparking a journey of self-exploration spanning two generations of queer history.

The Wild Party by Michael John La Chiusa, George C. Wolfe and Joseph Moncure March (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 7w, 8m)
A jazz- and gin-soaked party in 1920s Manhattan is the setting for this musical fable about debauchery, decadence and sexual freedom.

Twelfth Night by Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4w, 7m plus ensemble)
This musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s comedy, a classic story of love and mistaken identity, features an original jazz-funk score.

Vanities: The Musical by Jack Heifner and David Kirshenbaum (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 3w)
This life-affirming musical captures a portrait of the lives, loves and dreams of three young women growing up during the turbulent 60s and 70s and reconnecting in the late 80s.

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz, Clark Gesner, Michael Mayer and Andrew Lippa (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 2w, 4m plus ensemble)
Happiness is great musical theatre! With charm, wit and heart, this delightfully unassuming show explores life through the eyes of Charlie Brown and his friends in the Peanuts gang.

Zombie Prom by John Dempsey, Dana P. Rowe, Mac Tumminelli and Hugh M. Murphy (US/UK)
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 5w, 5m plus ensemble)
This girl-loves-ghoul rock ’n’ roll off-Broadway musical is set in the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal.

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