August 2025 – New shows in the West End

Check out the top shows opening in London and the West End in August 2025.

August always brings a late-summer surge of new productions to London, even if the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe is stealing some of the West End’s thunder.

There’s a selection of ten premières and major revivals in the following list, ranging from immersive cinema-concert hybrids, to open-air golden-age musicals and brand-new dramas starring some of Britain’s best-loved talent.

August in London arrives like a shot of showbiz adrenaline: Secret Cinema’s Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical turns Evolution London in Battersea Park into Rydell High, while Duncan Macmillan’s life-affirming Every Brilliant Thing brings starry solo turns to @sohoplace. Romance blooms under the trees as Brigadoon plays under the stars at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and dance takes a gritty turn at Sadler’s Wells with Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby. History thunders back with the National’s War Horse at New Wimbledon Theatre, and classic period courtroom drama A Man for All Seasons at the Harold Pinter. Across the river, Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe revels in music, misrule and open-air mischief, while literary sparks fly when Ncuti Gatwa’s Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel’s Shakespeare meet in Born With Teeth at Wyndham’s Theatre. Families step through the wardrobe at Sadler’s Wells for The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, and the month caps off with Mel Brooks’ riotous The Producers returning to the West End.

It’s a snapshot of the West End at its most eclectic, so take a look at what’s on the West End this August.

Also see: ALL NEW shows opening in August & ALL SHOWS playing in August

Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical

Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical – Evolution London, from 1 August

Secret Cinema turns Battersea Park into Rydell High, dropping audiences into a 1950s fairground complete with live bandstands and diner booths before a full screening-cum-stage show of the film. Expect carnival rides, choreographed flash mobs and sing-along finales!

Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical

Evolution, London

Every Brilliant Thing

Every Brilliant Thing – @SohoPlace Theatre, from 1 August

Duncan Macmillan’s life-affirming monologue gets a starry rotating cast – Lenny Henry opens the run, followed by Jonny Donahoe, Ambika Mod, Sue Perkins and Minnie Driver, each actor taking solo charge of the audience-interactive story about a child’s list of life’s small joys.

Every Brilliant Thing

@sohoplace Theatre, London

Brigadoon

Brigadoon – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, from 2 August

Not seen in London for 35 years, Lerner & Loewe’s Highland fantasy returns in a new adaptation by Rona Munro and dance-driven staging by Drew McOnie. The natural setting promises mist-wreathed romance as the mythical village materialises at dusk.

Brigadoon

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London

War Horse

War Horse – New Wimbledon Theatre, from 5 August

The National Theatre’s puppet-powered epic gallops back to the capital on its new three-year tour. Handspring’s life-sized horses remain the emotional heartbeat of Michael Morpurgo’s WWI tale, in this award-winning and much-loved production.

War Horse

National Theatre - Olivier Theatre, London

A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons – Harold Pinter Theatre, from 6 August

Martin Shaw reprises Sir Thomas More opposite Gary Wilmot as The Common Man in Jonathan Church’s revival of Robert Bolt’s moral-political showdown. After a sell-out UK tour, the play settles into the West End for one month only — expect plenty of courtroom tension and Tudor intrigue.

A Man for All Seasons

Harold Pinter Theatre, London

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night – Shakespeare’s Globe, 8 August

Director Robin Belfield promises a “weather-drunk” production that leans into the Globe’s open-sky unpredictability. Live music, gender-bending disguise and balcony banter meet Elizabethan architecture—an evergreen comedy made fresher by real sunsets and the occasional seagull cameo.

Twelfth Night (Globe)

Shakespeare's Globe, London

Born With Teeth

Born With Teeth – Wyndham’s Theatre, from 13 August

Liz Duffy Adams’ sharp two-hander imagines a dangerous pub-room encounter between Christopher Marlowe and the young William Shakespeare. Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa and Sex Education’s Edward Bluemel spark off each other under Daniel Evans’ direction, mixing literary rivalry, sexual tension and political paranoia.

Born With Teeth

Wyndham's Theatre, London

Juniper Blood

Juniper Blood – Donmar Warehouse, from 16 August

Award-winning playwright Mike Bartlett (Unicorn) returns to the stage with Juniper Blood, a searing new drama directed by James Macdonald and featuring an impressive cast including Hattie Morahan, Jonathan Slinger and Sam Troughton.

Juniper Blood

Donmar Warehouse, London

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe – Sadler’s Wells, from 20 August

Fresh from its West End run, this lavish C.S. Lewis adaptation celebrates the novel’s 75th anniversary with towering puppets, actor-musicians and winter-wonderland visuals. Sadler’s dance-friendly stage should make the battles with the White Witch even more kinetic.

The Producers

The Producers – Garrick Theatre, from 30 August

Patrick Marber’s Menier Chocolate Factory smash transfers to the West End, giving Mel Brooks’ Tony-laden spoof its first major West End airing in two decades. Andy Nyman leads as scheming Max Bialystock alongside Marc Antolin’s neurotic Leo Bloom, in this camp, chaotic, tap-dancing classic.

The Producers

Garrick Theatre, London