2:22 – A Ghost Story will embark on an extensive UK-wide tour, opening at Manchester Opera House on 4 August 2025
2:22 – A Ghost Story’s phenomenal success includes three years in the West End over seven seasons. There have been twelve replica productions worldwide and the show has been seen by over 1 million people in seventeen different countries.
In 2023/24 2:22 – A Ghost Story embarked on its first extensive, hugely successful UK tour. For 2025/26 the production is back on the road revisiting some cities due to popular demand, and also visiting new places where audiences can enjoy the thrill the show delivers for the very first time! Both legs will feature two brand new casts to be announced.
The production began its life last summer 2021 at the Noel Coward Theatre, starring Lily Allen, Julia Chan, Hadley Fraser and Jake Wood, and where it won the WhatsOnStage award for Best Play. It then transferred to the Gielgud Theatre for 10 weeks from 4 December 2021. The production there starring Stephanie Beatriz, James Buckley, Elliot Cowan and Giovanna Fletcher completed its run on 12 February 2022. For the first season at the Criterion (May – September 2022) the cast was Tom Felton, Mandip Gill, Sam Swainsbury and Beatriz Romilly. In late September that year Laura Whitmore, Matt Willis, Felix Scott and Tamsin Carroll took over. At The Lyric Theatre from January – April 2023 the cast included Cheryl, Scott Karim, Louise Ford and the return of Jake Wood. The production then moved next door to the Apollo where the cast included Sophia Bush, Ricky Champ, Clifford Samuel and Jamie Winstone. Frankie Bridge took over from Sophia Bush in July of that year. Then in May – August of this year the show returned to the Gielgud Theatre with Donna Air, James Buckley, Stacey Dooley and Joe McFadden.
For its first UK tour the 2023 cast featured Joe Absolom, Charlene Boyd, Nathaniel Curtis and Louisa Lytton and the second leg in 2024 saw Vera Chok, Jay McGuiness, George Rainsford and Fiona Wade took up the roles. In summer 2024 a run at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin Ireland tour featured the return of Laura Whitmore (this time playing Lauren) with Shona McGarty, Jay McGuiness, and Colin O’Donoghue.
2:22 is written by award-winning writer Danny Robins, creator of the hit BBC podcast and TV series Uncanny, and is directed by Matthew Dunster; it’s an adrenaline-filled night where secrets emerge and ghosts may or may not appear…
What do you believe? And do you dare discover the truth?
“THERE’S SOMETHING IN OUR HOUSE. I HEAR IT EVERY NIGHT, AT THE SAME TIME”
Jenny believes her new home is haunted, but her husband Sam isn’t having any of it. They argue with their first dinner guests, old friend Lauren and new partner Ben. Can the dead really walk again? Belief and scepticism clash, but something feels strange and frightening, and that something is getting closer, so they’re going to stay up… until 2:22… and then they’ll know.
2:22 – A Ghost Story features set design by Anna Fleischle, costume design by Cindy Lin, lighting design by Lucy Carter, sound by Ian Dickinson for Autograph Sound and illusions by Chris Fisher. 2:22 – A Ghost Story is produced by Tristan Baker and Charlie Parsons for Runaway Entertainment, Isobel David and Kater Gordon.
REVIEW ★★★ “2:22 A Ghost Story was enjoyable enough and did build suspense well but sadly the ending was very disappointing and anti-climatic”
2025
Manchester Opera House 7 – 16 August
Bristol Hippodrome 18-23 August
Glasgow Kings 25-30 August
Sunderland Empire 8 – 13 September
Milton Keynes Theatre 15 – 20 September
Malvern Theatre 22 – 27 September
Stoke Regent 29 September – 4 October
Theatre Royal Brighton 6 -11 October
Birmingham Alexandra Theatre 13 – 18 October
Cheltenham Everyman 20 – 25 October
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford 27 October – 1 November
Southampton Mayflower 10 – 15 November
Peterborough New Theatre 24 – 29 November
2026
Northampton Royal & Derngate 8 – 17 January
Norwich Theatre Royal 26 – 31 January
Richmond Theatre 2 – 7 February
Plymouth Theatre Royal 9 – 14 February
Cardiff New Theatre 16 – 21 February
Oxford New Theatre 23 – 28 February
Woking Theatre 16 – 21 March
York Grand 30 March – 4 April
Liverpool Empire 6 – 11 April
Newcastle Theatre Royal 13 – 18 April
Nottingham Theatre Royal 20 – 25 April
His Majesty’s Theatre Aberdeen 5 – 9 May
Edinburgh Playhouse 25-30th May
Aylesbury Theatre 8 – 13 June
Churchill Theatre Bromley 15 – 20 June
