Birmingham Rep has announced another spectacular feast of inclusive and diverse drama, comedy, and performance as it announces new productions to join the jam-packed 2025/26 season line up.

By popular demand, fan favourite podcaster is hitting the stage! Hannah Lowther (Heathers, The SpongeBob SquarePants Musical, SIX), for one night only, will be bring her very stagey podcast How Very Hannah to The House stage on Saturday 18 October.

This isn’t just a podcast – it’s a show, with backstage stories, games, public challenges & brilliant chats with guests from the stage & screen bringing the inside scoop, stagey stories and a little bit of chaos to fellow theatre lovers in How Very Hannah.

For those more analytically inclined, sold-out stand-up comedian and New York Times #1-best-selling maths author, Matt Parker will be taking to The House stage right after Hannah on Sunday 19 October as part of his Get Triggy With It tour.

Matt Parker talks a lot of maths. But now it’s time he does the maths. It’s time he programmes his own Christmas tree lights and then 11,184,024 people watch his downfall (and counting). It’s time he shares his hand-crafted maths code online only for viewers to improve it by 40,832,277,770%. It’s time he shaped-up and crawled out from under the square named after him. Come watch Matt Parker do the maths. (Every audience member will get some free maths.)

Joining The Rep’s much anticipated Spring 2026 season with the likes of new Britpop comedy The Battle and the sold-out run of Prima Facie, will be comedian and podcaster, Cally Beaton’s (QI, Live at the Apollo) new show Namaste Motherf*ckers in The House for one-night only on Friday 13 February.

A quick-witted, unexpected and unapologetic insight into life in midlife. Combining Cally’s comedic and storytelling prowess with extracts from her provocative, stereotype-busting book and podcast of the same name.

Later in the season, for a limited seven performance run, Noughts and Crosses will be taking to The House stage from Tuesday 24 –Saturday 28 March. Adapted by multi-award-winning poet, performer and playwright, Sabrina Mahfouz from Malorie Blackman’s captivating drama of love, revolution of the same name, this gripping Romeo and Juliet story takes audiences on a journey through a segregated society that teeters on a volatile knife edge.

This autumn/winter season The Rep will be hosting two one-night only celebrations of the spectacular music, dance and women who have defined generations of Bollywood cinema.

The first on Friday 17 October will be Tujhe Dekha - Come Fall In Love...Again, commemorating the legendary 30-year journey of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) with an evening in The House that celebrates the enduring spirit of Bollywood and the romance of a generation!

Followed by a music & dance tribute to Bollywood’s legendary female voices in The Real Queens Of Bollywood on Monday 8 December in The Studio. From the powerful renditions of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle to the unforgettable voices of Anuradha Paudwal, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik, Shreya Ghoshal and Sunidhi Chauhan, this evening pays tribute to the queens behind the magic – the female playback singers who brought emotion, passion drama & romance to life on the silver screen.

In The Studio – The Rep’s second largest performance space, The Rep has added two brilliant productions to celebrate Black History Month beginning with reggae pioneer Sutara Gayle – AKA Lorna Gee’s high-octane musical and virtuoso performance, in The Legends of Them on Friday 3 & Saturday 4 October. In this breath-taking, roof-raising production, Sutara will be taking audiences through the chronicle of her singular, extraordinary life – and the legends that have guided her.

Later in the month on Saturday 18 October, COBO: Comedy Shutdown returns with their Black History Month Special. Gather your friends and family for an unforgettable evening of rip-roaring, back slapping belly laughs as The Rep’s Black History Month Special brings together some of the most talented comedians on the circuit. The lineup* includes Richard Blackwood (MTV, ITV, BBC, CH4), Nabil Abdulrashid (BBC Live At The Apollo, ITV Stand Up Sketch Show) Diesel (BBC New Comedy) and Shabz Kariem (BBC, ITV).

This October in The Door – The Rep’s most intimate performance space, the theatre will be hosting three productions to entertain, educate and excite.

The first being a one-night only re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood on Saturday 4 October, perfect for audiences aged 3-8 years old. This short 50-minute show will take audiences down the path into the snowy wild wood full of catchy songs on the wind and hilarious puppets between the trees.

Following this will be Time Critical on Tuesday 7 & Wednesday 8 October, where two competing actors, tyrannised by a chess clock, struggle to compress 34 years of global vs personal history (1991 – 2025) into an allocation of just one minute each per year in an inventive, playful and thought-provoking show perfect for history buffs aged 15 and over.

And finally, The Big Gay Poetry Night is headed to The Rep with a brand-new Halloween special on Thursday 30 October. Audiences can expect powerhouse poetry in this night of queer joy, performance, and glorious filth from Birmingham and beyond, plus singing, dancing, and more from award-winning hosts Bradley Taylor, M. L. Walsh and a guest headliner yet to be announced.

To buy tickets, visit: birmingham-rep.co.uk