UK Theatre Award-winning director Prasanna Puwanarajah revives his “inspired and spellbinding” (The Stage) production, designed by James Cotterill, which sees Freema Agyeman (Olivia), Michael Grady-Hall (Feste), Gwyneth Keyworth (Viola), Daniel Monks (Orsino) and Samuel West as Malvolio

A woman survives a shipwreck and washes up on an unknown shore. Alone and bereaved of her twin brother, she embarks on a secret new life as a go-between for two people in the extremity of love and grief. Caught up in the ensuing love triangle, she experiences the chaos and humanity of unexpected love; and discovers that in Illyria, everyone is hiding something.

With original music and songs composed by singer songwriter Matt Maltese, don’t miss this bittersweet freewheeling miracle of farce, longing, love and life, playing for six weeks only.

A festive experience to be had – playing at the Barbican in London for six weeks only from 8^th December to 17^th January 2026. Tickets from £25. Book now!

For a chance to win a pair of tickets to see Twelfth Night at the Barbican in London take a minute to answer the question below, follow our Instagram account here and send your answer to competitions@theupcoming.co.uk together with your full name, address, mobile number and Instagram handle by Sunday 14^th December 2025 at 11.59pm. We will cross check your name in the list of Instagram followers.

By what name is William Shakespeare commonly known? Click here to send the answer by email

a) The Bard
b) The Minstrel of Avon
c) The Poet of London

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Watch the trailer for Twelfth Night at the Barbican here:

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• Closing date is Sunday 14^th December 2025 at 11.59pm.
• This promotion is open to UK residents only.
• The prize is 1 x pair of tickets to see Twelfth Night at the Barbican in London, valid for week day performances until 14^th January 2026, subject to availability. No cash alternative. Travel not included.
• One winner will be chosen and contacted on Monday 15^th December 2025 at 11.00am.
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This November, SIX the Musical makes herstory once again. Following celebrated sold-out seasons in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, the West End producers are thrilled to welcome the critically acclaimed Japanese cast to London. For one week only they will be performing the same sensational show in Japanese, with English subtitles.

The cast includes Sonim, Meimi Tamura, Maho Minamoto, Harumi, Eliana, Marie Sugaya, Erika Toyohara, Sora Kazuki, Ruki Saito, and renowned singer, actress and model, Airi Suzuki.

From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the microphone to reclaim their identities out of the shadow of their infamous spouse – remixing 500 years of historical heartbreak into a Euphoric Celebration of 21^st-century girl power! SIX is the global sensation that everyone is losing their head over.

Don’t miss your chance to see the Japanese Queens in action at the Vaudeville Theatre in the West End, for eight performances only from Tuesday 4^th to Sunday 9^th November. Book now (from £34.50)!

For a chance to win four tickets for SIX the Musical take a minute to answer the question below, follow our Instagram account here and send your answer to competitions@theupcoming.co.uk together with your full name, address, mobile number and Instagram handle by Tuesday 28^th October 2025 at 11.59pm. We will cross check your name in the list of Instagram followers.

How many performances will the Japanese cast of SIX the Musical perform in London’s West End? Click here to send the answer by email

a) 8
b) 10
c) 12

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Watch the teaser trailer for SIX the Musical here:

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• Closing date is Tuesday 28^th October 2025 at 11.59pm.
• This promotion is open to UK residents only.
• The prize (1) is four tickets for SIX Japan the Musical in the West End valid for all performances from 6^th to 9^th November 2025, subject to availability. No cash alternative. Travel not included.
• One winner will be chosen and contacted on Wednesday 29^th October 2025 at 10.00am.
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The Upcoming has a pair of tickets for Sing Street at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre to give away to a lucky winner.

After sell-out runs in Boston and New York, the UK premiere of Sing Street is playing at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre to rave reviews from critics and audiences. Featuring the “the coolest ensemble currently treading a London stage” (Broadway World), the show is brought to you by a Tony Award winning team, including Enda Walsh (Once), Rebecca Taichman (Indecent) and Sonya Tayeh (Moulin Rouge!), with music from Gary Clark (Danny Wilson), bringing John Carney’s beloved coming-of-age film to life.

It’s Dublin, 1985, and 16-year-old Conor can’t catch a break. Enter Raphina, a mysterious girl who’s too cool for school and on the lookout for a modelling job. In an effort to impress, Conor hires her to star in a music video for his band. Only problem is he doesn’t have a band. Yet.

“It’s a show that lifts you up” (Financial Times) and “has the energy of your favourite band’s first gig” (The Standard).

For a chance to win a pair of tickets for Sing Street at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre take a minute to answer the question below, follow our Instagram account here and send your answer to competitions@theupcoming.co.uk together with your full name, address, mobile number and Instagram handle by Sunday 17^th August 2025 at 11.59pm. We will cross check your name in the list of Instagram followers.

What city is Sing Street set in? Click here to send the answer by email

a) London
b) Dublin
c) New York

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This strictly limited run must end 23^rd August. Tickets from £15, book now to avoid missing out! 

Terms & conditions:

• Closing date is Sunday 17^th August 2025 at 11.59pm.
• This promotion is open to UK residents only.
• The prize is 1 x pair of tickets for Sing Street at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.
• One winner will be chosen and contacted on Monday 18^th August 2025 at 10.00am.
• Winning attendees must be aged 14 or over.
• The editor’s decision is final and binding on the entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.
• Valid for all performances until 23^rd August 2025, subject to availability.
• Exclusions may apply. Any additional expenses incurred are the responsibility of the winner.
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“There is something bad here, growing. Day and night I watch it. Growing.” The Upcoming has a pair of tickets for Elektra at Duke of York’s Theatre to give away to a lucky winner.

Elektra, haunted by her father’s assassination, is consumed by grief; a need for survival; and a thirst for vengeance. When her long lost brother Orestes at last returns, she urges him to a savage and terrifying conclusion but at what cost?

Starring Brie Larson (Room, Lessons in Chemistry, Captain Marvel), Daniel Fish (Oklahoma) directs the first major revival in over a decade of Sophokles’ electrifying and timeless play, Elektra in a stunning translation by award winning poet Anne Carson.

Also starring Stockard Channing (The West Wing, The Good Wife, Grease), Marième Diouf (Romeo and Juliet, The Globe), Greg Hicks (Grapes of Wrath, The National Theatre, Coriolanus, The Old Vic) and Patrick Vaill (Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Evening Standard Award winner for his role in Oklahoma!)

For a chance to win a pair of tickets for Elektra at Duke of York’s Theatre take a minute to answer the question below, follow our Instagram account here and send your answer to competitions@theupcoming.co.uk together with your full name, address, mobile number and Instagram handle by Sunday 30^th March 2025 at 23.59pm. We will cross check your name in the list of Instagram followers.

Who is the Aacdemy Award-winning actress starring in Elektra? Click here to send the answer by email

a) Emma Stone
b) Brie Larson
c) Renée Zellweger

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Don’t miss Brie Larson’s “Fearless West End debut” (The Guardian) . Book your tickets now – from just £25.

Terms & conditions:

• Closing date is Sunday 30^th March 2025 at 23.59pm.
• This promotion is open to UK residents only.
• The prize is 1 x pair of tickets for Elektra at Duke of York’s Theatre West End. Valid for all performances until 10^th April 2025, subject to availability. Exclusions may apply. Any additional expenses incurred are the responsibility of the winner. Travel not included.
• One winner will be chosen and contacted on Monday 31^st March 2025 at 11.00am.
• Winning attendees must be aged 14 or over.
• The editor’s decision is final and binding on the entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.
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The Upcoming has a pair of tickets to the Sidney Poitier drama RETROGRADE to give away to one lucky winner.

Following its sold out run at the Kiln Theatre, Ryan Calais Cameron‘s ”electrifying” (Evening Standard) Retrograde comes to the Apollo Theatre for a strictly limited run, backed by double Oscar and BAFTA nominee Colman Domingo as producer. 

Ten years before he becomes the first Black man to win the Oscar for Best Actor, this gripping drama captures the moment a young Sidney Poitier prepares to sign a career-defining Hollywood contract that could make him a star. But there’s a catch. Will he put his career before his principles? In a time of betrayals, will he name names? Will he sign his life away?

Inspired by real events, this “exceptional” (The Guardian) play directed by the Kiln Theatre’s Artistic Director Amit Sharma, features Ivanno Jeremiah (Constellations) reprising his “tremendous” (Time Out) performance as Sidney Poitier, opposite Stanley Townsend (Netflix’s Kaos) and Oliver Johnstone (Antigone).

Retrograde follows Ryan’s smash hit “modern masterpiece” (The Sunday Times) For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy – so good it sold out twice – cementing his place as “one of theatre’s most thrilling voices” (Independent). 

For a chance to win Win tickets to see Sidney Poitier drama RETROGRADE take a minute to answer the question below, follow our Instagram account here and send your answer to competitions@theupcoming.co.uk together with your full name, address, mobile number and Instagram handle by Sunday 9^th March 2025 at 11.59pm. We will cross check your name in the list of Instagram followers.

Who is the Oscar-nominated producer of RETROGRADE? Click here to send the answer by email

a) Idris Elba
b) John Boyega
c) Colman Domingo

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Retrograde is now playing at the Apollo Theatre until 14^th June 2025. Tickets from £20. Book Now.

Terms & conditions:

• Closing date is Sunday 9^th March 2025 at 11.59pm.
• This promotion is open to UK residents only. Travel not included.
• The prize is 1 x pair of tickets to see Sidney Poitier drama RETROGRADE at the Apollo Theatre, valid for all performances until 31^st May 2025, subject to availability. Exclusions may apply.
  
• One winner will be chosen and contacted on Monday 10^th March 2025 at 10.00am.
• Winning attendees must be aged 14 or over.
• The editor’s decision is final and binding on the entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.
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Based on the Paramount Pictures classic film, Clueless is a new musical comedy. This modern spin on Jane Austen’s Emma gets another timeless makeover from the original film’s writer-director alongside a majorly acclaimed creative team.

Featuring a book by the iconic voice of a generation Amy Heckerling (writer-director of Clueless, director of Fast Times at Ridgemont High), an original score by the multi-platinum singer-songwriter KT Tunstall (writer and performer of such celebrated hits as “Suddenly I See” and “Black Horse and The Cherry Tree”), and lyrics by Grammy Award® winner and three-time Tony Award® nominee Glenn Slater (Sister Act The Musical, Tangled), CLUELESS is directed by the acclaimed Rachel Kavanaugh (Chichester Festival Theatre, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) with choreography by Olivier Award® winner Kelly Devine (Come From Away).

Cher Horowitz is the most popular student at Beverly Hills High, renowned for her unique talent at finding love for others. She’s about to embark on her biggest project yet – making over her awkward new friend, Tai, and setting her up with the most handsome boy in school. But what happens to Cher when, for the first time, everything is not perfect? This fresh musical comedy is fun, fashionable, and, like, so way cool.

For a chance to win a pair of tickets for Clueless, The Musical at Trafalgar Theatre take a minute to answer the question below, follow our Instagram account here and send your answer to competitions@theupcoming.co.uk together with your full name, address, mobile number and Instagram handle by Wednesday 12^th February 2025 at 11.59pm. We will cross check your name in the list of Instagram followers.

Who is the author of Emma, the novel that inspired Clueless, The Musical? Click here to send the answer by email

a) Jane Austen
b) Charlotte Brontë
c) Mary Shelley

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Coming to Trafalgar Theatre from 15^th February 2025, book now at CluelessOnStage.com

Terms & conditions:

• Closing date is Wednesday 12^th February 2025 at 11.59pm.
• This promotion is open to UK residents only.
• The prize is 1 x pair of tickets for Clueless, The Musical at Trafalgar Theatre.
• One winner will be chosen and contacted on Thursday 13^th February 2025 at 10.00am.
• Winning attendees must be aged 14 or over.
• Valid for Monday to Friday performances until 31^st March 2025, excluding 13^th March 2025. Subject to availability. No cash alternative. Travel not included.
• The editor’s decision is final and binding on the entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.
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This winter, the Royal Shakespeare Company return to the stage with an extraordinary production of The Buddha of Suburbia.

Director Emma Rice brings her unique and joyful style to Hanif Kureishi’s award-winning 1990 novel, exploring family, friends, sex, theatre and, ultimately, belonging, in a critically acclaimed production of The Buddha of Suburbia.

South London in the late seventies. High unemployment, high inflation, food shortages and strikes. But despite the winter of discontent, 17-year-old Karim’s life is about to explode into glorious technicolour as he navigates a path to enlightenment. Or at the very least, Beckenham.

For a chance to win a pair of tickets for The Buddha of Suburbia at the Barbican take a minute to answer the question below, follow our Instagram account here and send your answer to competitions@theupcoming.co.uk together with your full name, address, mobile number and Instagram handle by Sunday 6^th October 2024 at 11.59pm. We will cross check your name in the list of Instagram followers.

When was the The Buddha of Suburbia (novel) released? Click here to send the answer by email

a) 1960
b) 1990
c) 2010

The RSC and Wise Children’s “glorious and intoxicating five-star” (The Times) production of The Buddha of Suburbia, transfers for a limited four-week season from 22^nd October to 16^th November 2024. Book now.

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Terms & conditions:

• Closing date is Sunday 6^th October 2024 at 11.59pm.
• This promotion is open to UK residents only.
• The prize is 1 x pair of tickets for The Buddha of Suburbia at the Barbican.
• One winner will be chosen and contacted on Tuesday 8^th October 2024 at 10.00am.
• Winning attendees must be aged 14 or over.
• The editor’s decision is final and binding on the entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.
• Valid for Monday to Thursday performances until 14^th November 2024, subject to availability. Please note: Age guidance 13+. This production contains scenes of an adult nature, including depictions of nudity and sexual acts, and swearing throughout.
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“Theatre at its most thoughtful, provocative and powerful” The Upcoming

These three interconnected plays are, by turns, exhilarating, profoundly moving, funny but furious, and deeply theatrical. Watch one as a standalone experience or discover the connections between two or three of the plays as Michael, Delroy, Denise and Carly navigate the joys and challenges of what it means to be British in 2024.

“Furious, funny, urgent and timely” Evening Standard

Death of England: Michael

Thomas Coombes  (Baby Reindeer), stars in this scorching and fearless play which asks explosive and enduring questions about identity, race and class in Britain.

Death of England: Delroy

Starring Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You, Gangs of London), this is the searing story of a Black working class man searching for truth and confronting his relationship with Britain.

Death of England: Closing Time

Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Dune) and Erin Doherty (The Crown) play Denise and Carly in this thought-provoking drama that explores family dynamics, race, colonialism and cancel culture.

 “The most exhilarating and hair-raising drama. This is truly a play for today” The Guardian

From acclaimed filmmaker and visual artist Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy), the highly anticipated Back to Black charts Amy Winehouse’s vibrant years living in London and her intense journey to fame.

Taylor-Johnson directs break-out star Marisa Abela (Industry) as the music icon, with BAFTA-winning actor Jack O’Connell as Blake Fielder-Civil, Eddie Marsan as Mitch Winehouse, Juliet Cowan as Janis Winehouse and Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated Lesley Manville as Amy’s grandmother, Cynthia. 

Featuring many of Winehouse’s hit songs recorded and performed in the film by Marisa Abela, Back to Black is made with the full support of Universal Music Group and SONY Music Publishing

For a chance to win a 4K UHD copy of Back to Black take a minute to answer the question below, follow our Instagram account here and send your answer to competitions@theupcoming.co.uk together with your full name, address, mobile number and Instagram handle by Sunday 28^th July 2024 at 11.59pm. We will cross check your name in the list of Instagram followers.

What’s the title of Amy Winehouse’s international breakthrough song? Click here to send the answer by email

a) Rehab
b) Recap
c) Restart

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Back to Black is available to buy and rent from digital platforms now and comes to 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on 1^st July 2024. A HMV exclusive “First Edition” and a limited edition SteelBook will also be available on 4K Ultra HD from 1^st July.

Watch the trailer for Back to Black here:

Terms & conditions:

• Closing date is Sunday 28^th July 2024 at 11.59pm.
• This promotion is open to UK residents only.
• The prize is 1 x 4K UHD copy of Back to Black.
• One winner will be chosen and contacted on Monday 29^th July 2024 at 12.00pm.
• The editor’s decision is final and binding on the entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.
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Dune: Part Two continues the epic saga of Paul Atreides as he joins forces with the Fremen to avenge the betrayal of his family and to end the tyrannical reign of the Harkonnen. In this thrilling conclusion, Paul faces immense trials that challenge his beliefs and resolve, leading to a climactic battle that could shift the balance of power in the universe. Witness the stunning landscapes of Arrakis and experience the intense, strategic confrontations that define this monumental sci-fi masterpiece.

For a chance to win a Blu-ray or a 4K UHD copy of Dune: Part Two take a minute to answer the question below, follow our Instagram account here and send your answer to competitions@theupcoming.co.uk together with your full name, address, mobile number and Instagram handle by Sunday 16^th June 2024 at 11.59pm. We will cross check your name in the list of Instagram followers.

Who stars as Paul Atreides in Dune: Part Two? Click here to send the answer by email

a) Kyle MacLachlan
b) Timothée Chalamet
c) Alec Newman

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Terms & conditions:

• Closing date is Sunday 16^th June 2024 at 11.59pm.
• This promotion is open to UK residents only.
• The prize includes one 4K UHD copy of Dune: Part Two for the first winner, and a Blu-ray copy for the subsequent five winners.
• Six winners will be chosen and contacted on Monday 17^th June 2024 at 2.00pm.
• The editor’s decision is final and binding on the entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.
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