Following a glorious summer in Chichester, Top Hat is sweeping the nation with a UK tour. This Christmas, you can catch it on London's South Bank. Find all the venues and dates below, click here to book tickets for the tour.

Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury | Tue 21 - Sat 25 Oct 2025 

Empire Theatre, Liverpool | Tue 28 - Sat 1 Nov 2025

Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff | Tue 11 - Sat 15 Nov 2025

Sunderland Empire, Sunderland | Tue 18 - Sat 22 Nov 2025 

Opera House, Manchester | Tue 25 - Sat 29 Nov 2025

Southbank Centre, London | 12 Dec 2025 - 17 Jan 2026

Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield | Tue 20 - Sat 24 Jan 2026

Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin | Tue 27 - Sat 31 Jan 2026

Kings Theatre, Glasgow | Tue 3 - Sat 7 Feb 2026

Congress Theatre, Eastbourne | Tue 17 - Sat 21 Feb 2026

Effervescent, elegant and exhilarating, Top Hat is a heady romantic cocktail laced with sparklingly witty dialogue, stunning choreography, lavish sets and gorgeous costumes. Irving Berlin’s irresistible score includes some of Hollywood’s greatest songs, the immortal Cheek to Cheek, Let’s Face the Music and Dance, Top Hat White Tie and Tails and Puttin’ on the Ritz.

Based on the classic 1935 film which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the stage adaptation’s West End premiere won the 2013 Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the Evening Standard Award for Best Night Out. Acclaimed American director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall, whose Tony and Olivier Award-winning production of Anything Goes recently wowed audiences and critics in London and on television, comes to Chichester to stage this brand-new production.

When Broadway star Jerry Travers arrives in London to open a new show, he crosses paths with model Dale Tremont, whose beauty sleep is rudely interrupted by Jerry tap dancing in the hotel suite above hers. Instantly smitten, Jerry vows to abandon his bachelor life to win her – but the path of true love never does run smooth. Especially since Dale has mistaken Jerry for his hapless producer Horace, who’s trying to avoid the wrath of his formidable wife Madge, and Dale’s own fiery Italian admirer is planning a trip to Venice for her to showcase his couture gowns…

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