The Times

Hot tickets! The 28 best shows to book now for autumn
September 2025

The Times critics choose the best upcoming events in theatre, dance, comedy, visual art, pop and classical music. Heggie’s searing 2000 opera, with a libretto by Terrence McNally, chronicles how a nun befriends a murderer as he awaits execution on death row. This is a new staging from Annilese Miskimmon for English National Opera.