Mamma Mia! – A Feel-Good Triumph at MK Theatre Mamma Mia! has been winning hearts since it first opened in London’s West End in 1999, becoming one of the world’s most successful jukebox musicals. Its winning formula inspired the hugely popular 2008 film, starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Amanda Seyfried, followed by the 2018 sequel. Yet, for all the film’s star power, this 2026 UK touring production at Milton Keynes Theatre proves that nothing quite compares with the magic of live...

Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, adapted for the stage by Simon Stephens, is one of those rare pieces of theatre that manages to be both profoundly moving and wonderfully entertaining. Now touring the UK in 2026, this production remains as fresh, inventive and thought-provoking as ever. Haddon’s original novel, published in 2003, tells the story of Chris Boone, a mathematically gifted teenager who sets out to investigate the mysterious death of his neighbour’s...

Riveting, Unnerving and brilliantly theatrical Some stories become so iconic that bringing them to the stage might seem an almost impossible challenge. Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs is certainly one of them. First published as Harris’s 1988 novel, it was transformed into Jonathan Demme’s celebrated 1991 film, and now, in 2026, it receives a new theatrical adaptation by Gina Gionfriddo. The ethos of this production is not simply to recreate the familiar film, but to return to the...