- Smash hit AGE IS A FEELING written and performed by Haley McGee to play to its biggest audience yet, Soho Theatre Walthamstow, 5-7 March 2026.
- Commissions to celebrate the opening of Soho Theatre Walthamstow: Bryony Kimmings’ BOG WITCH and pantomime by Susie McKenna, ALADDIN & THE MAGIC LAMP.
- Transfers from UGLY SISTERS (piss/CARNATION), DEAR YOUNG MONSTER (Pete MacHale), HEARTBREAK HOTEL (EBKM), ENGLISH KINGS KILLING FOREIGNERS (Nina Bowers and Philip Arditti), REALLY GOOD EXPOSURE (Megan Prescott), BATSHIT (Leah Shelton), and JURASSIC (Tim Foley)
- Returns from REVENGE: AFTER THE LEVOYAH (Nick Cassenbaum) and MY ENGLISH PERSIAN KITCHEN (Hannah Khalil from a story by Atoosa Sepehr)
- World Premieres of 2024 Verity Bargate Award-winning play LITTLE BROTHER (Eoin McAndrew), PRIVATE VIEW (Jess Edwards) and PERIOD PARRRTY (Gayathiri Kamalakanthan)
Soho Theatre today announces a season of 15 productions, championing new theatre voices and fresh perspectives across venues, in line with its commitment to platforming the most exciting emerging talent in British and international theatre.
The season will feature the limited 2026 revival run of Haley McGee’s Olivier-nominated, Fringe First Award-winning play AGE IS A FEELING, following sold out and critically-acclaimed runs at Soho Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Soulpepper in Toronto. With original direction by Soho Theatre Associate Director Adam Brace and subsequent direction by Mitchell Cushman, the show charts the seminal moments, rites of passage and turning points in an adult life – your life – from the day you turn 25 through to your death. Every performance, the audience chooses six from twelve stories, as part of the lifespan that unfolds across the show. The remaining stories are left untouched, celebrating the glorious and melancholy unknowability of human life.
Earlier this year, 2022 Verity Bargate Award winner Sam Grabiner took home the Olivier Award for Best New Production in Affiliate Theatre for BOYS ON THE VERGE OF TEARS, which opened at Soho Theatre last year to rave reviews. This year will see the world premiere of the 2024 Verity Bargate Award winning play LITTLE BROTHER, written by Eoin McAndrew and directed by Emma Jordan. It was selected from 1,700 entries by a judging panel chaired by Character 7’s Stephen Garett, and composed of industry experts: Moira Buffini, Anupama Chandrasekhar, Alan Cumming, Anthony Lau and Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem.
Also making its world premiere will be Tamil poet and sex educator Gayathiri Kamalakanthan’s debut play PERIOD PARRRTY, a queer ode to Tamil self-determination, as well as PRIVATE VIEW, the debut play from award-winning writer and director Jess Edwards. Pete MacHale’s debut solo show DEAR YOUNG MONSTER, following a young trans man exploring his identity. Also on their way are the Edinburgh transfers of critically-acclaimed shows including piss/CARNATION’s UGLY SISTERS, an experimental devised piece dissecting womanhood directed by Joanna Pidcock, as well as Leah Shelton’s BATSHIT, hailing from Australia, exploring the pathology of female mental health, and Megan Prescott’s debut solo show REALLY GOOD EXPOSURE returns to Soho Theatre following a sold-out run during our Soho Rising festival earlier this year. Story, science and a synth combine in an exhilarating performance in HEARTBREAK HOTEL, from acclaimed New Zealand company EKBM, joining the line-up with Tim Foley’s JURASSIC. Contemporary Shakespeare adaptions are deconstructed in dark comedy ENGLISH KINGS KILLING FOREIGNERS by Nina Bowers and Philip Arditti, following a run at Camden’s People Theatre last year. After sold-out runs at Soho Theatre and the Yard, Nick Cassenbaum’s Jewish heist comedy REVENGE: AFTER THE LEVOYAH comes back to Soho Theatre’s Main House, alongside 2024 Edinburgh Fringe hit MY ENGLISH PERSIAN KITCHEN, Hannah Khalil’s life-affirming play inspired by an original true story by best-selling cookery author Atoosa Sepehr, ahead of a tour to Bristol, Dublin and Belfast this October.
Also in the Soho Theatre Walthamstow theatre programme and previously announced: an overwhelmed mother meets an eco-warrior, and chaos ensues in Bryony Kimmings’ first solo show in five years, BOG WITCH and Soho Theatre’s first ever pantomime ALADDIN & THE MAGIC LAMP, written and directed by Susie McKenna. Listings available below.
On the new season, our theatre team made up of Head of Theatre David Luff, Theatre Programme Manager Rose Abderabbani, Creative Associates Pooja Sivaraman and Alessandro Babalola, Theatre Producer Eve Allin, Associate Director (Literary) Max Elton and Touring and Festivals Producer Maddie Wilson had this to say:
“Soho Theatre has a 25 year history championing new voices and we’re proud to continue this rich tradition with our sparkling new season, putting emerging artists and international voices at the heart of our programme.”
“Our upcoming season features the Soho Theatre Walthamstow transfer of Haley McGee’s spellbinding AGE IS A FEELING, our first ever pantomime, written and directed by the legend that is Susie McKenna, premieres from Bryony Kimmings, Eoin McAndrew and Kali Theatre, the revival of our 2024 smash hit MY ENGLISH PERSIAN KITCHEN and Soho Theatre transfers of brilliant Edinburgh and London fringe hits, including the devastatingly funny ENGLISH KINGS KILLING FOREIGNERS.
With debut shows and returning hits across both our venues, we’re celebrating fearless storytelling from some of London’s most exciting voices.”
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LISTINGS (in chronological order)
piss / CARNATION presents
UGLY SISTERS
By Laurie Ward and Charlie Cowgill
Wed 25 Jun – Sat 12 Jul
Soho Theatre – Upstairs
From £14
On the day The Female Eunuch is issued in America, a transgender woman rushes up to Germaine Greer and says: thank you – thank you so much for all you’ve done for us girls. Ugly Sisters is an operatic, heretic, parasitic and hallucinatory retelling of this very moment, of sisterhood, of all feminist history. piss / CARNATION return to Soho Theatre after a blistering, sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe.
Just Something Different LTD presents
DEAR YOUNG MONSTER
By Pete MacHale
Tue 5 – Sat 16 Aug
Soho Theatre – Upstairs
From £13
Struggling at the beginning of his medical transition, a young trans man has dropped out of university and returned to his quiet hometown. His friends are away, the locals are becoming increasingly hostile, his body is transforming before his very eyes into someone he doesn’t quite recognise yet and it’s all becoming too much… Until he catches a midnight screening of Frankenstein. At last, when he looks into the monsters big, dead, sad eyes, staring down at him from the screen, he feels seen.
EBKM presents
HEARTBREAK HOTEL
Tue 19 – Sat 23 Aug
Soho Theatre – Upstairs
From £13
Story, science and a synth combine in an exhilarating performance that examines what happens in our bodies when we’re bereft. From acclaimed New Zealand company EBKM (Yes Yes Yes), Heartbreak Hotel tracks a woman’s broken heart in a wrenching and relatable journey that’s studded with classic break-up songs and razor-sharp observations on the physiology of love.
Suzanna Rosenthal Productions presents
REALLY GOOD EXPOSURE
By Megan Prescott
Tue 2 – Sat 13 Sep
Soho Theatre – Upstairs
From £13
Molly was a child star, now she’s considering getting into porn. What would you do if your acting career peaked in 2009 (well before the Me Too movement) and you hadn’t booked another role in years? Exposed for working as a stripper, dumped by her agent, and shunned by the public, Molly’s giving mainstream success one last shot. Enter a world of child stars, strip clubs, and casting couches – and question what it means to earn a living as a performer.
Realfake Theatre in association with Soho Theatre present
ENGLISH KINGS KILLING FOREIGNERS
By Nina Bowers and Philip Arditti
Tue 16 Sep – Sat 18 Oct
Soho Theatre – Upstairs
From £13
Following its critically acclaimed run at the Camden People’s Theatre this laugh out loud Shakespeare deconstruction is coming to Soho Theatre. This tell-all dark comedy peels back the skin of English cultural identity revealing the streaming battlefield that lies beneath… would you die for your country? Originally commissioned and presented by Camden People’s Theatre.
Soho Theatre presents
MY ENGLISH PERSIAN KITCHEN
By Hannah Khalil from a story by Atoosa Sepehr
Tue 30 Sep – Sat 11 Oct
Soho Theatre – Main House
From £13
What would you take if you were forced to leave home with no hope of returning? How would you make a fresh start somewhere completely new? This is the true story about one woman who loses everything. Written by award-winning Hannah Khalil from the story by Atoosa Sepehr, and directed by Chris White, the hit play returns after sell-out runs in 2024 at Soho Theatre and Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Also touring to Bristol Old Vic (Tue 14 – Sat 18 Oct), Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire, (Tue 21 – Wed 22 Oct), and Lyric Theatre, Belfast (Fri 24 – Sat 25 Oct)
Avalon & Tellus Studio present
BOG WITCH
by Bryony Kimmings
Thu 9 – Sat 25 Oct
Soho Theatre Walthamstow
From £24
Bryony Kimmings was wrangled enough. Single mum, sick kid, slammed with work, terrible anxiety barely keeping it together…she didn’t have time to think about the planet, thanks. But then she fell in love with an eco-warrior and all hell broke loose. In Kimmings’ first show for nearly half a decade, Bog Witch is a show about uncertain times and finding new ways to be happy, commissioned and created to celebrate the opening of Soho Theatre Walthamstow. Previously at Soho Theatre, Bryony Kimmings’ award-winning and critically acclaimed shows Fake it ’til You Make It, Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model, Seven Day Drunk and Sex Idiot.
Soho Theatre presents
LITTLE BROTHER
Written by Eoin McAndrew
Directed by Emma Jordan
Thu 16 Oct – Sat 22 Nov
Soho Theatre – Main House
From £13
When Brigid gets a call from her brother Niall in the middle of the night, she knows something’s wrong. After he ends up in hospital, Niall moves in with Brigid as she helps him piece his life back together. Little Brother is a compelling exploration of a sibling relationship set in modern-day Belfast directed by Emma Jordan, award-winning Artistic Director of Prime Cut Productions.
Eoin McAndrew’s darkly comic and beautifully observed new play shines a light on the crisis of care in Northern Ireland, the strength of a brother-sister bond and the unpredictable journey towards recovery. Sometimes being there for the people you love is very very very difficult.
Kali Theatre and Soho Theatre present
PERIOD PARRRTY
By Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
Thu 23 Oct – Sat 22 Nov
Soho Theatre Upstairs
From £14
A Tamil teenager is preparing for their period party – a traditional ritual meant to mark womanhood. But Krish isn’t a girl. And this ‘celebration’ feels more like the opening act of a never-ending performance. As expectations mount, Krish decides to take control. With help from their best friend Brenavee and a growing chosen family, Krish flips the script to throw the degendered party of their dreams.
NOMINEE – Tony Craze Award
Leah Shelton & Quiet Riot present
BATSHIT
by Leah Shelton, Directed by Ursula Martinez
Wed 24 Sep – Sat 27 Sep
Soho Theatre – Main House
From £14
Fresh from an award-winning run at Edinburgh Fringe, psycho-siren Leah Shelton’s acclaimed work BATSHIT, directed by Olivier award-winning Ursula Martinez, is a powerful reckoning with the myths and misconceptions of female madness. A theatrical gut-punch inspired by her grandmother’s incarceration for seeking independence in 1960s Australia, this one-woman tour de force tears apart the labels used to control and undermine women through razor-sharp wit, raw storytelling, and unflinching performance.
Speakerphone Productions present
PRIVATE VIEW
By Jess Edwards, Directed by Annie Kershaw
Thu 27 Nov – Sat 20 Dec
Soho Theatre Upstairs
From £13
Two people meet, fuck, fall in love – hard. It’s magic; it’s powerful; it’s incandescent. But what makes something a love story? And what happens when you get so closely entangled that you can hardly tell where you end and they begin? As need eclipses want, this rom-com starts to turn properly dark. From debut playwright Jess Edwards, Private View delves into intimacy, power, and identity to capture the beauty, intensity, and messiness of queer love.
ADMA and Ransack Theatre present
JURASSIC
By Tim Foley
Tue 18 – Sat 29 Nov
Soho Theatre Upstairs
From £13
A late-night screening of a certain Steven Spielberg classic causes carnage on a university campus. What starts as a misunderstanding about the film quickly spirals into mass redundancies and bizarre conspiracies. The fight for academic survival is on! A ridiculous satire about fake news and fossils, written by Bruntwood Prize-winning playwright Tim Foley (“A striking talent” – The Guardian).
Soho Theatre Walthamstow
ALADDIN & THE MAGIC LAMP
Written & Directed by Susie McKenna
Sat 6 Dec 25 – Sun 4 Jan 26
Soho Theatre Walthamstow
From £10
Soho Theatre presents the first ever annual pantomime at Soho Theatre Walthamstow, Aladdin & The Magic Lamp. This modern retelling of the pantomime you know and love, set in the Walthamstow you know and love, with all the mayhem and magic, wise-cracking genies, mischievous monkeys, soul funk music and heroic adventure your heart’s desire! Written and directed by the award-winning actor, director, writer and Panto legend Susie McKenna.
Plotnek Productions and Nick Cassenbaum presents
REVENGE: AFTER THE LEVOYAH
By Nick Cassenbaum
Mon 8 Dec – Sat 24 Jan 26
Soho Theatre – Main House
From £11
Nick Cassenbaum’s two-hander comedy heist, directed by Emma Jude Harris, romps through 2018 Jewish Essex. Through madcap comedy and biting satire, this explosive tale blows the roof off what it means to be Jewish in the UK.
Soho Theatre presents
AGE IS A FEELING
Written & performed by Haley McGee
Thu 5 – Sat 7 Mar 2026
Soho Theatre Walthamstow
From £16
Inspired by hospices, mystics and trips to the cemetery, Age is a Feeling wrestles with our endless chances to change course while we’re alive. A covert rallying cry against cynicism and regret. A call to seize our time. Written and performed by Haley McGee, this never-the-same-twice show is a gripping story about how our relationship with mortality shapes the way we live. Charting the seminal moments, rites of passage and turning points in an adult life – your life – from the day you turn 25 through to your death, Age is a Feeling celebrates the glorious and melancholy unknowability of human life. Supported by NJA Limited.