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Whether you want to know about some of the coming year’s biggest gigs and festivals, or which books, films and TV shows are coming out, there should be something here for everyone. You can also discover 2025’s key fashion trends, plus which theatre is reimagining Wayne and Coleen Rooney as mythical heroes – and why a giant spider is returning to London.
Oasis: Ready to go Supersonic all over again
Yes, spectacular squabbling siblings Oasis are back after their 15-year huff, ready to go Supersonic all over again. The much-anticipated tour rocks into Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on 4 July, and is set to be the comeback of the year.
And a new generation of stars are stepping up to stadium headliner status. Dua Lipa and Lana Del Rey will sashay into Wembley and Anfield this summer; while K-Pop band Stray Kids have booked two nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Festival bills are getting a long overdue shake-up, too. Spain’s Primavera has pulled a blinder, booking three of pop’s biggest wavemakers – Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan.
There’s new music on the way from indie hero Sam Fender and brooding R&B icon The Weeknd, as well as a welcome return to pop from part-time actress Lady Gaga.
In London, a string of big names are in new versions of old classics. They include Jonathan Bailey as Shakespeare’s Richard II at the Bridge Theatre (10 February to 2 May), Cate Blanchett and Emma Corrin in The Seagull by Anton Chekhov at The Barbican (26 February to 5 April) and Ewan McGregor in My Master Builder.
Elsewhere, Lily Allen continues her reinvention as an actress, playing a woman trapped in a controlling marriage in Hedda, a new version of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, at Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio (25 July to 23 August).
Another epic spoof will see Wayne and Coleen Rooney reimagined as mythical heroes in a fantasy land, where their trials and tribulations are fodder for Helen Serafinowicz’s comedy The Legend of Rooney’s Ring at Liverpool’s Royal Court (18 July to 25 August).
A very different legend has inspired Nessie, a musical about a nature-loving 11-year-old girl whose meeting with the Loch Ness Monster leads to a quest to save the loch, at Edinburgh’s Capital Theatres (28 March to 5 April) and Pitlochry Festival Theatre (9 July to 16 August).
One of Indian cinema’s biggest ever hits, 1995 rom-com Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ), is adapted as colourful stage musical Come Fall In Love by the film’s writer-director Aditya Chopra at Manchester Opera House (29 May to 21 June).
Alan Partridge’s downtrodden assistant Lynn (and her facial expressions) are the inspiration for punk singer Leah in Laura Horton’s Lynn Faces, about the fallout from an abusive relationship. It is on tour in Norwich, Exeter, Plymouth and London (28 January to 1 March).
And Boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s 1977 visit to South Shields is the backdrop to Ishy Din’s Champion, a drama about a mixed-race family in the Tyneside town, at Newcastle’s Live Theatre (13 February to 8 March).
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