UK Amateur Theatre Season Planning Guide 2025-26

Looking for your next show-stopping shows in the new season? Concord Theatricals have 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 genre. Below that, you’ll find a selection of outstanding plays, organised the same way.

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

MUSICALS

Classic

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

A Chorus Line by Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 9w, 10m)

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

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

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

HAIR by Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Galt McDermot
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 5m +ensemble)

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

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

Kiss Me, Kate (Revised 1999) by Cole Porter, Sam Spewack and Bella Spewack
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 7m +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 and Joe Darion
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 5w, 6m +ensemble)

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

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

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

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4f, 6m +ensemble)
Visit the Rodgers & Hammerstein Collection for more titles!

The Life by Cy Coleman, Ira Gasman and David Newman
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 5w, 5m)

The SpongeBob Musical by Stephen Hillenburg, Kyle Jarrow, Tina Landau and 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)

The Wizard of Oz (RSC Version) by L. Fran Baum, Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg and Herbert Stothart
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 5m +ensemble)

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

2017 Broadway production of Amélie (Joan Marcus)

Comedies & Dark Comedies

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

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

An American in Paris by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Craig Lucas
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 5m +ensemble)

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

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

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

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

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

Hands on a Hardbody by Doug Wright, Amanda Green, Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 6w, 9m)

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

Nunsense by Dan Goggin
(Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 5w)
Visit the Nunsense Collection for more titles!

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

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

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

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 and Marc Teitler
(Full-Length Musical, Dark Comedy / 5w, 7m)

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

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

Drama

110 in the Shade (Revised) by N. Richard Nash, Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 2w, 5m +ensemble)

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

A Tale of Two Cities: The Musical (Broadway Version)
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 5w, 9m, 1 girl +ensemble)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No Way to Treat a Lady by Douglas J. Cohen and William Goldman
(Full-Length Musical, Dramatic Comedy / 2w, 2m)

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

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

Superhero by John Logan and Tom Kitt
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 3w, 5m)

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

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

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

The Spitfire Grill by James Valcq, Fred Alley and Lee David Zlotoff
(Full-Length Musical, Drama / 4w, 3m)

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

Well-Behaved Women by Carmel Dean
(Musical Revue, Drama / 4w, expandable to dozens)

2016 Public Theater production of Tiny Beautiful Things (Joan Marcus)

PLAYS

Comedies & Dark Comedies

Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2w, 4m)
Visit the Neil Simon Collection for more titles!

Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w, 2m)
Visit the Noël Coward Collection for more titles!

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

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

Ken Ludwig’s Leading Ladies by Ken Ludwig
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 5m)
Visit the Ken Ludwig Collection for more titles!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Full Monty by Simon Beaufoy
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 11m, 1boy)

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

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

2019 West End production of Cyrano de Bergerac (Marc Brenner)

Drama

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

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

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

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks and Rachel Wagstaff
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 9m)

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

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

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

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

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

How Not To Drown by Nicola McCartney and Dritan Kastrati
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 5 any gender)

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

No Man’s Land by Harold Pinter
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 4m)
Visit the Harold Pinter Collection for more titles!

Our Town by Thornton Wilder
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 7w, 17m)
Visit the Thornton Wilder Collection for more titles!

Possession by Sasha Hails
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 2m)

Quiz by James Graham
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 7m)
Visit the James Graham Collection for more titles!

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

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

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

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

The Lovely Bones by Bryony Lavery and Alice Sebold
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 4m)

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

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

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

Waiting for Anya by Michael Morpurgo and Simon Reade
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 6m)

Zameen by Satinder Kaur Chohan
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 4m)

2015 Tricycle Theatre production of Ben Hur (Tristram Kenton)

Farce

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

Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 4m)
Visit the Alan Ayckbourn Collection for more titles!

Ben Hur by Patrick Barlow
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 1w, 3m)

Boeing Boeing by Marc Camoletti, Beverley Cross and Francis Evans
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 2m)

The Weird Will of Willy Williams by David Tristram
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 2m)
Visit the David Tristram Collection for more titles!

Noises Off by Michael Frayn
(Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 5m)

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

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

2005 West End production of And Then There Were None (Tristram Kenton)

Thrillers & Mysteries

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 8m)
Visit the Agatha Christie Collection for more titles!

Blue Murder by Peter Nichols
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 5m)

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

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

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 4m)

2015 Manhattan Theatre Club production of Constellations (Joan Marcus)

Small Casts (Monologues, Two-handers & Three-handers)

A Pretty Shitty Love by Katherine Chandler
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1m)

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

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

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

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

Jacaranda by Lorna French
(Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1m)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Two by Jim Cartwright
(Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1w, 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.