THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA opens West End bookings through September 2027
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA has opened a further block of West End performances at London’s Dominion Theatre, taking its current booking period through Saturday 25 September 2027. The newly released dates run from Monday 8 February to Saturday 25 September 2027. Before the 27 August 2026 announcement, tickets were available through Saturday 6 February 2027, so the incremental addition is about seven and a half months, not more than a year. It is the furthest confirmed sales date yet for the production.
The extension arrives as the company approaches cast transitions involving Miranda Priestly and Nigel. The production’s official website lists Vanessa Williams’ final performance as Miranda on 19 September 2026, well before the new 2027 block. Her successor had not been announced by 28 August. Theatre Weekly’s account of the latest announcement states that Matt Henry will remain as Nigel until February 2027, superseding a previously published 17 October 2026 departure. His exact final date has not been set out, and the company for the later 2027 performances remains unconfirmed. Because the added block begins on 8 February, the available information does not establish whether Henry will appear in any of those performances.
The producers report that more than 1.2 million tickets have been sold for the West End engagement and describe THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA as the fastest-selling production in Dominion Theatre history. The record claim is specific to the Dominion rather than the West End as a whole. These commercial figures are production-supplied and were not independently audited in the material reviewed for this report. The musical is also scheduled to reach its 800th performance on 23 September 2026, four days after Williams’ departure.
The latest release follows several earlier expansions of the sales period. AussieTheatre reported on 10 December 2024 that bookings had been extended through 18 October 2025, a horizon that has now been overtaken by almost two years. Playbill later reported a March 2026 extension through 6 February 2027. That February date became the immediate starting point for measuring the new release. Taken together, the announcements trace a step-by-step expansion rather than a single extension from 2025 to late 2027.
The production has also travelled through several stages of development. Playbill’s chronology notes earlier work in Chicago. The UK production then played Theatre Royal Plymouth from 6 July to 17 August 2024 before transferring to the Dominion in autumn 2024. London performances began in October; references in later announcement material to December relate to the official opening or gala period rather than the beginning of the Dominion run. The September 2027 endpoint places the booking horizon almost three years after those first London performances.
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA is based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel and the Twentieth Century Studios film adaptation released in 2006. The current stage production has music by Elton John, lyrics by Shaina Taub and Mark Sonnenblick, and a book by Kate Wetherhead. Jerry Mitchell directs and choreographs the West End staging.
The principal design team comprises Tim Hatley for sets, Gregg Barnes for costumes, Bruno Poet for lighting and Gareth Owen for sound, with Jill Green CDG handling casting. Producers Kevin McCollum, David Furnish and Jamie Wilson lead the production, which is presented in co-production with Theatre Royal Plymouth and by arrangement with Buena Vista Theatrical. Theatre Royal Plymouth is therefore credited both as the pre-West End venue and as a co-producer of the London staging.
Costume is one of the areas emphasised in the latest production material. The producers value the fashion used on stage at more than £1.5 million, including pieces associated with Dior, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and Balmain. They also report that the wardrobe contains more than 80 pairs of shoes supplied by Terry de Havilland. The valuation and inventory are supplied by the production rather than an independent assessor.
The Dominion advertises a regular schedule of Monday to Saturday evening performances at 7:30pm, with matinees at 2:30pm on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Both the musical’s official ticket page and Nederlander Theatres’ venue page list availability through 25 September 2027. That date is the present booking endpoint, not a confirmed closing notice. The verified announcement does not establish whether the production will end then or release another block of performances.
For Australian theatre travellers considering a London visit, the longer booking window offers more scope to plan around the Dominion engagement than the previously available February endpoint. It does not provide cast certainty, because the next Miranda Priestly and the company for the later dates have not been announced. The extension concerns London only and contains no Australian performance dates, tour or transfer plan.
The immediate calendar now moves to Williams’ departure and the scheduled 800th performance later that month. Beyond those milestones, the next Miranda Priestly announcement and Henry’s precise February 2027 finish remain the key pieces of pending casting information.
