Where and when?
After exhilarating audiences across the globe with record-breaking, sell-out productions and a smash hit film, Simon Friend Entertainment is today delighted to announce the return of Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s supernatural sensation Ghost Stories in a full UK Tour. More spine-tingling and terrifying than ever, the Olivier Award-nominated show opens at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley on Friday 17 January 2025. See below for full tour dates.
Who’s in the cast?
Casting to be announced.
Creative team
Andy Nyman is a multi-award-winning actor, director and writer who has earned acclaim from both critics and audiences for his work in theatre, film, and television. This year Andy will be starring opposite Imelda Staunton at the London Palladium in Hello, Dolly! His most recent theatre work includes his Olivier nominated performance as Tevye in Trevor Nunn’s award-winning revival of Fiddler on the Roof, the West End and Broadway runs of Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen, the highly acclaimed revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Abigail’s Party in the West End, and in the original production of Ghost Stories which Andy starred in, co-wrote and co-directed with Jeremy Dyson. Andy’s extensive television credits include A Small Light, The Capture, Unforgotten, Wanderlust, Hanna, Campus and Dead Set as well as his highly acclaimed performance as Winston Churchill in Peaky Blinders. This year Andy will be appearing in Lockerbie.
Andy’s many film credits include Judy, Jungle Cruise, The Commuter, Death at a Funeral, Kick-Ass 2, Black Death, The Brother’s Bloom, Severance, and Shut Up & Shoot Me for which Andy won the ‘Best Actor’ award at the Cherbourg Film Festival in 2006. Later this year Andy can be seen playing Gov. Thropp in the highly anticipated blockbuster film WICKED.
2018 saw the release of the film version of Ghost Stories. Based on their own play, the film was written and directed by Andy & Jeremy Dyson. Andy stars alongside Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther & Paul Whitehouse. The film has been hailed as a ‘Modern Horror Classic’ and was voted number 16 in Empire magazines list ‘The Greatest 25 Horror films ever made’.
What’s the show about?
When Professor Goodman, arch-sceptic out to debunk the paranormal, embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings – as recounted by a night-watchman, a teenage boy, and a businessman awaiting his first child – Goodman finds himself at the outer limits of rationality, and fast running out of explanations.
Enter a world full of thrilling twists and epic turns, where the ultimate love letter to horror is imagined live on stage. A fully sensory and electrifying encounter, Ghost Stories is one of London’s best reviewed plays of all time and will keep you on the edge-of-your-seat. This is a theatrical experience like no other.
After exhilarating audiences across the world with record-breaking, sell-out productions and a smash hit film, Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s Ghost Stories is “Genuine scary fun” (Sunday Times), a worldwide phenomenon more spine-tingling and fantastically terrifying than ever.
Assisted performances
See individual venue websites
WARNING
Please be advised that Ghost Stories contains moments of extreme shock and tension. The show is unsuitable for anyone under the age of 15. We strongly advise those of a nervous disposition to think very seriously before attending.
2025 Tour
17 – 18 January 2025
Bromley, Churchill Theatre
21 – 25 January 2025
Richmond, Richmond Theatre
4 – 8 February 2025
Plymouth, Theatre Royal
11 – 15 February 2025
Sheffield, Lyceum Theatre
18 – 22 February 2025
Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes Theatre
25 February – 1 March 2025
Salford, The Lowry
4 – 8 March 2025
Cheltenham, Everyman Theatre
18 – 22 March 2025
Woking, New Victoria Theatre
25 – 29 March 2025
Edinburgh, Festival Theatre
1 – 5 April 2025
Aberdeen, His Majesty’s Theatre
8 – 12 April 2025
Glasgow, Theatre Royal
15 – 19 April 2025
Norwich, Theatre Royal
22 – 26 April 2025
Newcastle, Theatre Royal
29 April – 3 May 2025
Nottingham, Theatre Royal
13 – 17 May 2025
Southend, Cliffs Pavilion
20 – 24 May 2025
Birmingham, Alexandra Theatre
27 – 31 May 2025
Belfast, Grand Opera House
3 – 7 June 2025
Leicester, Curve Theatre
10 – 14 June 2025
Wycombe, Swan Theatre
24 – 28 June 2025
Southampton, Mayflower Theatre
8 – 12 July 2025
Brighton, Theatre Royal
15 – 19 July 2025
Shrewsbury, Theatre Severn
22 – 26 July 2025
Malvern, Malvern Theatres
29 July – 2 August 2025
Cardiff Wales Millennium Centre
