On the London stage

Ulster American at Riverside Studios

The Lyric Hammersmith

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre’s spring/summer 2024 season will open in April 2024 with Minority Report. The sci-fi thriller based on the short story by Philip K. Dick will be followed by Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White, set in 1918 South Carolina. The Promise will play in the Studio. Australian pop musical FANGIRLS closing the season. 

* www.lyric.co.uk 

* Burte Tsogbadrakh at burte.tsogbadrakh@lyric.co.uk 

Ulster American 

Woody Harrelson, Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland will star in David Ireland’s social satire Ulster American at Riverside Studios for an eight week season from 4 December 2023. An Oscar-winning American actor, an English director and a Northern Irish playwright are about to begin rehearsals for a new play, one that could transform each of their careers. But when it turns out that they’re not on the same page, the night threatens to spiral out of control. 

* www.riversidestudios.co.uk/see-and-do/ulster-americanannouncement-89161/ 

* Kate at kate@breadandbutterpr.uk 

Dr. Strangelove 

Steve Coogan will lead the cast of Dr. Strangelove, the first ever stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s work at the Noël Coward Theatre from 8 October 2024. 

* www.drstrangelove.com 

* Nada Zakula at nada.zakula@storyhousepr.co.uk

Mean Girls 

The Broadway musical Mean Girls will in run at the Savoy Theatre from June 2024. The show is based on the 2004 movie about Cady Heron, a homeschooled teenager attending high school for the first time. 

* www.thesavoytheatre.com/shows/mean-girls 

* Esther Beaumont at esther.beaumont@dawbell.com 

Catherine Tate, The Enfield Haunting

The Enfield Haunting 

The Enfield Haunting opens at the Ambassadors Theatre on 6 December 2023. The Hodgsons had no idea what a poltergeist was when, in the summer of 1977, furniture and toys started moving of their own accord. An ordinary, working-class family, who lived in a north London council house became the centre of one of the most famous poltergeist events in the world. 

* www.enfieldhauntingplay.com/ 

* Nada Zakula at nada.zakula@storyhousepr.co.uk

The Society of London Theatre 

The Society of London Theatre is an umbrella organisation for West End theatre in London, which provides a collective voice for the theatre owners, producers and managers of all the major commercial and grant-aided theatres across then UK capital. 

* www.solt.co.uk and www.OfficialLondonTheatre.com 

* Erin Croasdale at erin@soltukt.co.uk