WHAT'S ON UPSTAIRS AT THE GATEHOUSE
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30 Aug 2025
Cabaret - Musical Theatre
Production by:
New Company
“The truth is never pure and rarely simple.”
Oscar Wilde
In a world of fake news and artificial intelligence, Simon de Deney celebrates the raw honesty, emotional complexity, and sheer beauty of Sondheim’s music. And, for the first time, he reveals the truth behind his long absence from the musical stage...
By turns playful, poignant, and unexpected, Love Song is more than a cabaret—it’s a funny, moving story about ambition, imagination, and second chances written and performed by Simon de Deney.
31 Aug 2025
Live Music
Production by:
Jeremy Sassoon
A foot-stomping, barn-storming celebration of some of the most iconic and best-loved Jewish popular songwriters. Internationally renowned singer-pianist Jeremy Sassoon and his superb band will take you on a journey through the golden era of Gershwin and the Great American Songbook to the 21st century, honouring artists such as Carole King, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Randy Newman and Amy Winehouse. Full of surprising and hilarious anecdotes and some of the most unforgettable songs you've ever sung along and danced to, MOJO is illuminating, uplifting and joyous entertainment.
Jeremy, a former doctor and hospital psychiatrist changed career to become one of the UK’s most in demand singer p ianists. He headlined at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club during the London 2012 Olympics and is a regular headliner at Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho, 606 Jazz Club and Berlin’s A-Trane Jazz Club. He recently graced the main stage at Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2019 with his “Ray Charles Project”, alongside Jamie Cullum & Ms Lauryn Hill. In 2014, his recording of the Marc Cohn song “The Things We’ve Handed Down” was featured on BBC R4’s Desert Island Discs and hit number 1 on the iTunes vocal download chart. In 2024, Jeremy was awarded multiple worldwide contracts to perform MOJO on Viking Ocean Cruises.
Ever since the show’s 250-strong sell out launch in 2019, the show has been receiving standing ovations in Manchester, London, Liverpool and at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, where the show played a 4 week run, gaining sparkling 5 star reviews and a live performance on BBC Radio Scotland.
★★★★★ Pick Of The Fringe - “Five stars!”
★★★★★ AssemblyFest Edinburgh Fringe - “The perfect Fringe show”
★★★★★ North West End UK - “An eye-opening experience ”
★★★★★ Jewish Renaissance - “Sassoon has definitely got his MOJO workin'”
★★★★ Reviews Hub - “Quite magical”
Running Time: 120 minutes (including interval)
Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mrs Hitler
4 - 28 Sep 2025
Drama
Production by:
Chromolume Productions
Sigmund Freud and Adolf Hitler never met. But what if they had?
Would the world be a better place if the 20th century's greatest psychopath had been treated by the 20th century's greatest psychoanalyst?
It could have happened: At the fag-end of the 19th century, Mrs Hitler took the infant Adolf to her GP because the child was suffering from nightmares and bedwetting. The doctor was out of his depth. He suggested she take her son to a new clinic for children with 'nervous disorders' which had just been opened in Vienna by a Doctor Freud. Her abusive husband wouldn't hear of it. But what if Mrs Hitler had defied him and young Adolf did end up on Freud's iconic couch?
29 Sep 2025
Production by:
Just Like That Productions
Join us, once a season, for an evening of Magic at the Gatehouse presented by an exciting line-up of top magicians. Witness miracles manifest before your eyes in an intimate theatre that puts you at the heart of the magic.
Featuring...
Tom Brace
Florian Brooks
Lee Hathaway
Paul Regan
30 Sep 2025 until 19 Oct 2025
Drama - Comedy
Production by:
Francis Beckett
Francis Beckett’s new play Make England Great Again is set just after the Britons First Party wins its first ever general election victory, and its charismatic leader Max Moore enters 10 Downing Street.
It’s a comedy, but also a warning.
Francis Beckett’s last three plays have had successful runs at Upstairs at the Gatehouse. The New Statesman called A Modest Little Man “a moving and entertaining play about Clement Attlee.”
In The House Magazine, John McDonnell MP wrote of Vodka with Stalin: “As always with Francis’s work, you can’t fail to become emotionally close to the characters.”
23 Oct - 16 Nov 2025
New Musical
It’s autumn in Moominvalley. Leaves are falling, rain has settled in. Six strangers arrive, each searching for something. Snufkin is looking for a melody. Fillyjonk longs for order. And Toft wants, more than anything, to meet the Moomins.
But the house is empty. The valley is quiet. The Moomins have gone.
Based on Tove Jansson’s final Moomin story, Moominvalley in November is a gentle, profound, and life-affirming meditation on grief, belonging, and quiet resilience.
