Cool for the summer

Your summer just got a West End upgrade. Sam Ryder makes his stage debut as Jesus in this record-breaking rock opera, pyrotechnics, an iconic score, and electricity you can feel from the stalls, all while enjoying a cool dark theatre. If you're planning ahead, book for Theatre Royal Drury Lane later in the year.

Step out of the heat and into the most effortlessly cool evening in the West End. Sinatra The Musical at the Aldwych is everything summer should be: great music, ice-cold air and a voice that gives you chills for entirely different reasons.

Darling, sweating is so passé. High society demands high standards — air conditioning being one of them. High Society at the Barbican delivers both until 11 July, with the kind of effortless, old-money cool that makes everything else feel underdressed.

Dead cool. Literally. Say his name three times... but maybe wait until you're inside the Prince Edward Theatre, where the air con is very much alive and the spirits are very much undead. They say the afterlife is freezing, so the Prince Edward's air con makes this one practically 4D.

Quite possibly the closest thing to a Greek island holiday you'll find without needing your passport. Step outside the Novello and you'd almost mistake it for Santorini. Step inside and Mamma Mia! does the rest: ABBA blasting, air con blasting harder and 25 years of pure, unadulterated joy on stage. Suncream and piña colada optional but encouraged... Kalimera indeed 😎

The cure for the heat? More heat. Moulin Rouge! The Musical at the Piccadilly Theatre is red velvet, rhinestones and a love story so electric it makes the air con feel like a necessity rather than a luxury. Come in. Cool down. Catch fire.

Cooler than the iceberg and considerably more fun, Titanique at the Criterion stars etiquette coach William Hanson (Help, I Sexted My Boss) in six weeks of gloriously unhinged, Celine Dion-soaked camp. My heart will go on. Yours will simply combust.