Jaws comedy The Shark is Broken to tour the UK & Ireland in 2025

Hit West End and Broadway comedy The Shark is Broken is heading out on tour in 2025.

Following a sold-out run at the West End’s Ambassadors Theatre, this Olivier Award-nominated comedy by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon is playing theatres across the UK & Ireland in 2025.

Dates of the tour include London’s Richmond Theatre, the Theatre Royal Brighton, Cheltenham Everyman Theatre, The Marlowe Theatre Canterbury and the Guildford Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.

This hilarious, behind-the-scenes drama about the filming of Steven Spielberg’s 1974 blockbuster film JAWS, follows the film’s lead actors – Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss – as they wait for their carnivorous mechanical co-star to be fixed.

Stuck on a boat, and fuelled by alcohol, rivalry and ambition, these three great whites start to bare their teeth.

Co-writer Ian Shaw plays his father Robert Shaw in the play, with further casting to be announced.

The Shark is Broken tour is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott Landis, GFour Productions and Kenny Wax.

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The Shark is Broken UK & Ireland Tour 2025

Oxford Playhouse
23 to 25 January

Malvern Festival Theatre
28 January to 1 February

Salford The Lowry
4 to 8 February

London Richmond Theatre
17 to 22 February

Nottingham Theatre Royal
26 February to 1 March

Bath Theatre Royal
3 to 8 March

Canterbury Marlowe Theatre
11 to 15 March

Newcastle Theatre Royal
18 to 22 March

Guildford Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
24 to 29 March

Plymouth Theatre Royal
31 March to 5 April

Brighton Theatre Royal
7 to 12 April

Cheltenham Everyman Theatre
22 to 26 April

Poole Lighthouse
29 April to 3 May

Birmingham Rep
6 to 10 May

Dublin Gaiety Theatre
13 to 17 May

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Main photo: Demetri Goritsas (Roy Scheider), Ian Shaw (Robert Shaw) and Liam Murray Scott (Richard Dreyfuss) in The Shark is Broken Photo by Helen Maybanks