The show must go on: theatre to look forward to this year

With the vaccine rollout underway, the theatre world is betting on a triumphant return in the spring – and this time for good.

If, like me, you can’t wait to get back to the West End, here are eight shows to book ahead for (whilst keeping your fingers firmly crossed for the vaccine rollout).

Good

Harold Pinter Theatre, 21 April – 17 July

David Tennant returns to theatreland to take on the leading role in CP Taylor’s seminal play about a liberal-minded professor and dutiful husband who finds himself seduced by the rise of National Socialism in 1930s Germany. Once described as English theatre’s ‘definitive’ Holocaust play, Good is the first output from Fictionhouse: a new company founded by the Royal Court’s former AD, Dominic Cooke. Call the Midwife’s Fenella Woolgar – always a delight on stage – stars as the loyal wife.

Frozen

Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 2 April onwards

Originally scheduled to be the big Disney musical of 2020, the cancellation of Frozen must have been devastating news to thousands of would-be Elsas who had already marked their calendars in anticipation (though some parents may have been secretly relieved).