PW Productions announce that The Woman in Black will return for a UK Tour, opening at Storyhouse, Chester on Wednesday, 24 September 2025. The production will then play at Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, followed by a three-week run at London’s Alexandra Palace. The tour will continue to Plymouth, Brighton, Richmond, Bath, and in 2026, Darlington, York, Glasgow, Birmingham, Chelmsford, Oxford, Poole, Liverpool, Nottingham, and Guildford, with further venues and casting to be announced.
For 33 years, The Woman in Black played a record-breaking run in the West End, with over 13,000 performances at the Fortune Theatre before its final performance on Saturday, 4 March 2023. It has also been seen by over 7 million people in the UK.
Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s best-selling novel tells the story of a lawyer obsessed with a curse he believes has been cast over his family by the spectre of a ‘Woman in Black’. He engages a young actor to help him tell his story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul. As they delve further into his darkest memories, the borders between make-believe and reality begin to blur, and the flesh begins to creep.
Following a Christmas production in 1987 at a pub in Scarborough, The Woman in Black was brought to Hammersmith’s Lyric Theatre in January 1989. Reviews were sufficiently encouraging to warrant a West End run. Its West End tour started at the Strand (now Novello) Theatre in March and moved to the Playhouse in April, finally lodging at the Fortune on 7 June 1989.
Throughout the production’s run in the West End and during its many tours, the producer has been determined to keep ticket prices within the range of students and young people, a policy that continues today.
The Woman in Black is directed by Robin Herford, with designs by Michael Holt and lighting by Kevin Sleep.
Listings and ticket information can be found here.
