The Olivier Award-nominated show, Ghost Stories, is set to embark on its first full UK tour, including Milton Keynes and High Wycombe.

The supernatural stage show, which has been described as 'spine-tingling and terrifying,' will open at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley on January 17, 2025.

Written by Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson, Ghost Stories has been a hit since it premiered 14 years ago, even spawning a film adaptation starring Martin Freeman and Paul Whitehouse.

Despite its success, the secrets that make the show so unique have remained closely guarded.

Co-creator Andy Nyman said: "Secrets are precious. If you give people a secret that they really enjoy and you ask them nicely to keep it, they do."

Mr Nyman said the show is: "90-minute scary, thrill-ride experience about a professor of parapsychology who investigates three inexplicable hauntings."

Mr Nyman and Mr Dyson, who have a shared love of horror, have been refining the show for nearly 15 years, making it 20 per cent scarier for the upcoming tour.

Mr Nyman said: "We cannot wait to take it around the country and let people see it and experience it in their hometowns."

The show was last seen in the UK in 2019, with a celebrated run at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, before transferring to the Ambassador’s Theatre for its latest West End run.

It embarked on a partial UK tour in early 2020, but this was cut short by the pandemic.

The show will visit a number of theatres across the UK, including:

  • Richmond Theatre in Richmond
  •  Theatre Royal in Bath
  •  Theatre Royal in Plymouth
  • Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield
  •  Milton Keynes Theatre
  •  The Lowry in Salford
  •  Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham
  •  New Victoria Theatre in Woking
  •  Festival Theatre in Edinburgh
  •  His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen
  •  Theatre Royal in Glasgow
  •  Theatre Royal in Norwich
  • Theatre Royal in Newcastle
  •  Theatre Royal in Nottingham
  • Cliffs Pavilion in Southend
  •  Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham
  •  Grand Opera House in Belfast
  •  Curve Theatre in Leicester
  •  Swan Theatre in Wycombe
  •  Mayflower Theatre in Southampton
  •  Theatre Royal in Brighton
  •  Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury
  •  Malvern Theatres in Malvern
  •  Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff

Mr Dyson and Mr Nyman said: "We are beyond excited that Ghost Stories will be scaring the hell out of audiences around the country in its first ever full national tour.

"It’s fifteen years since we first brought screams, laughs, jumps and killer twists to the theatre and we can’t wait to do it again. Are you brave enough to book?"

Please be advised that Ghost Stories contains moments of extreme shock and tension and is unsuitable for anyone under the age of 15.