Buffy the Vampire Slayer is back… sort of.
While a revival of the hit 90s Sarah Michelle Gellar series — Buffy: New Sunnydale — was ultimately, er, Spiked, a stage show called Buffy Revamped scooped various awards at Edinburgh in 2022 — and fans have had a taste for it ever since.
This October (nice Halloweeny timing), the show’s on a UK tour, landing at the West End’s Lyric Theatre on Monday 12 October, with tickets starting at £25.
For anyone not familiar with Buffy Revamped, it’s a lightning-faced performance zipping through all 144 episodes of the original Buffy — that’s over two episodes per minute! And there’s a major twist: no Buffy. The whole thing is performed by comedian Brendan Murphy, as the capricious bleach-blond antihero, Spike.
If Murphy’s name rings a bell, he was also behind FRIEND (The One with Gunther), in which he played the lugubrious Central Perk barista. Which yellow-haired 90s TV icon will he play next? He hasn’t done Bart Simpson yet…
Buffy Revamped, Lyric Theatre, Monday 12 October 2026. Tickets on sale now.
