London Plays
You've arrived at the home of all the best London plays. People travel from near and far to enjoy West End plays, whether it’s a hilarious comedy, a heart-breaking tragedy, an uplifting true-life tale, a biographical tale or a gripping drama, there’s a wide variety of genres to enjoy. Everything from masterful puppetry, ghost stories and biographical plays to thrilling stage adaptations of popular films and books. Whatever your tastes, you’ll discover excellent seat and ticket availability for all the best West End plays here on site, with plenty of top price, standard and cheap tickets to suit every budget.
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39 Steps
Hang onto your hats! The 39 Steps is a hilarious, non-stop, fast-paced comedy based on John Buchan’s popular 1915 book and the 1935 Hitchcock film classic. You’ll watch in awe as just four actors play at least 139 parts between them in 100 action packed minutes. It’s the West End’s longest running comedy, loved by theatre goers the world over.
Starring: Andrew Alexander, Stephen Critchlow, Catherine Bailey, Ian Hughes
Was £25.00 Now £12.00
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Enjoy William Shakespeare's classic tale of young love in this superb stage show packed with romance, fantasy and unlikely unions, with beautiful original music and a truly unique setting. It’s magical, funny and seductive, a delightful introduction to the Bard at his accessible best.
Starring: Sheridan Smith, David Walliams
Tickets from £13.00
Barking In Essex
Love a laugh? Game for a giggle? You’ll find Clive Exton’s Barking in Essex hilariously and diabolically funny, a brand new stage play from the respected writer of 10 Rillington Place and Jeeves and Wooster, directed to perfection by the wonderful Harry Burton who directed the smash hits The Dumb Waiter and The Leisure Society.
Tickets from £29.00
Beautiful Thing
Celebrating its twentieth anniversary year, and returning to the West End for limited 6 week season, the award winning Beautiful Thing comes to the Arts Theatre in Spring 2013. This uplifting and heart-warming new production is directed by Nikolai Foster, designed by Colin Richmond and stars Suranne Jones.
Tickets from £45.00
Blind Date
Direct from critically acclaimed seasons in New York and Toronto, the award-winning ‘Blind Date’ makes its West End debut in London’s Charing Cross Theatre for a limited 7 week season from 28 May.
Tickets from £17.00
Children of the Sun
Maxim Gorky’s darkly comic play is set in Russia as the country rolls towards revolution. It depicts the new middle-class, foolish yet likable, as they flounder about, philosophising and flirting, blind to their impending annihilation.
Tickets from £31.00
Derren Brown: Infamous
If you missed Mind Control, Trick of the Mind, Trick or Treat, Russian Roulette, Hero at 30,000 Feet and Derren Brown: The Experiments, this one’s for you. The remarkable Derren Brown has teamed up with his long-time creative partner in crime the actor, magician and director Andy Nyman to produce a stage show that has wowed audiences far and wide, leaving them open-mouthed and amazed… yet again!
Tickets from £21.00
Dinosaur Zoo
A unique show that allows heaps of interaction for kids and adults while they travel with the Erth performers on a journey through prehistoric Australia.
Tickets from £19.00
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Fences
This 1983 play by the famous US playwright August Wilson is one of a series of six exploring the social history and working class life of mid-20th century America. The marvellous and seriously talented Lenny Henry takes the starring role at the Duchess theatre and is set to play a part in helping to create a serious smash hit from June 2013.
Starring: Lenny Henry
Tickets from £26.00
Hamlet
Following his sensational Tchaikovsky season at the London Coliseum, thrilling audiences but dividing critics, Olivier award-winning choreographer and director Peter Schaufuss comes to the Bloomsbury Theatre for the first time with his Hamlet inspired dance drama.
Tickets from £20.00
Happy New
'People don't really accept chickens, which is wrong, 'cos we invented the pecking order.' Following a sensational sell-out run at the Old Red Lion Theatre in 2012, extended to an unprecedented eight weeks, Happy New proudly transfers to Trafalgar Studio 2.
Tickets from £19.00
Henry V
Pageantry, war, strife and suffering, nobility and honour… Henry V is a treat of a Shakespeare play brought to you by respected director Michael Grandage and starring Hollywood superstar Jude Law. Part of the Noel Coward theatre’s long awaited Michael Grandage season, it’s set to sell out fast so book your seats early!
Starring: Jude Law
Tickets from £35.00
Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain Part 1
Have you ever wondered why the Romans never won MasterChef? Would you lose your heart or head to horrible Henry? Will Parliament escape gunpowder Guy? Come to loathsome London, where you can enrol in a Georgian Crime School, dare to dance the Tyburn jig and find out what a baby farmer did, in this brilliantly blecchy, very funny history lesson from the Birmingham Stage Company. Your kids will laugh their socks off - and learn a thing or two at the same time - when the curtain goes up on this history of Britain with the nasty bits left in.
Tickets from £19.00
Jim Jefferies: Legit
Caustic? Charming? Controversial? Call him what you will, but stand-up phenomenon Jim Jefferies is acknowledged as the fastest rising, most hilarious cutting edge comic ever to claw his way to the top of the comedy world.
Tickets from £33.00
Liola
This high-spirited drama by Pirandello defies expectations. It is not the intellectual whirlwind of his Six Characters in Search of an Author but takes us instead to the heart of a rural community where property and kinship provoke fierce passions. Liolà, a young man untroubled by tradi-tion, takes the part of nature all the way.
Tickets from £23.00
London Wall
The Two’s Company production of LONDON WALL by John Van Druten transfers to the St. James Theatre, for a limited run. In a solicitor’s office, Brewer, the office manager, sees pretty new typist Pat as fair game, even though she is a green 19 and going steady with a reliable boyfriend. Some of the more experienced secretaries try to warn her. Others leave her to her fate. Meanwhile, cynical Miss Janus is jilted by her lover and at the desperate age of 35 her romantic life seems to be over.
Tickets from £45.00
Mousetrap
Treat yourself to one of the West End’s most popular theatre shows, an Agatha Christie classic that’ll have you on the edge of your seat as the mystery unfolds. The setting: a country hotel, where the guests are snowed in with a murderer in their midst. Who did the dirty deed? The Mousetrap is an intricate, complex tale of dark deeds that’s loved by audiences from all over the world.
Tickets from £21.00
Much Ado About Nothing
Enjoy a flight of the finest Shakespearian fancy as Hero and Claudio, Benedick and Beatrice take the stage courtesy of the splendidly talented Mark Rylance, directing James Earl Jones and the legendary Vanessa Redgrave in one of the bard’s best-loved plays. It’s Much Ado About Nothing and this, the latest version, takes the stage from September 2013.
Starring: Mark Rylance
Tickets from £29.00
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One Man, Two Guvnors
If you love word play, slapstick humour, farce and top quality banter, you can’t go far wrong with this delightfully silly contemporary rendition of the popular classic Italian stage comedy, The Servant of Two Masters. One Man, Two Guvnors is jam packed with giggles, a wonderfully funny night out with fabulous live music thrown in for good measure.
Was £16.00 Now £13.00
Othello
Othello, newly married to Desdemona who is half his age, is appointed leader of a military operation to defend Cyprus from the Turks. Iago, his ensign, passed over for promotion in favour of young Cassio, persuades Othello that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair.
Tickets from £48.00
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Passion Play
The respected stage, movie and TV actress Zoe Wanamaker hits the West End with a revival of Peter Nichols' wonderful black comedy, Passion Play. An exploration of love and infidelity conducted at the point where humour, eroticism and duplicity meet, this is award winning stuff, not to be missed by discerning adults who enjoy their humour rich, sharp and dark.
Starring: Zoe Wanamaker
Tickets from £19.00
Private Lives
Elyot and Amanda are glamorous, rich, reckless . . . and divorced. Five years later, their love for one another is unexpectedly rekindled when they take adjoining suites of a Riviera hotel while honeymooning with their new spouses. This chance encounter instantly reignites their passion, and they fling themselves headlong into a whirlwind of love and lust once more, without a thought for partners present or turbulences past.
Tickets from £29.00
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Relatively Speaking
Greg loves Ginny. Ginny loves Greg. Philip, Ginny’s ex-lover, doesn’t realise he’s an ex yet. And his wife Sheila is away with the fairies, dotty and dippy in that marvellously British way that invariably delivers so many laughs to the West End stage. This is Alan Ayckbourn at his very best, the 1965 play that first shot him to fame way back in 1967. Wonderful stuff!
Was £20.00 Now £13.00
Russell Howard: Wonderbox - London
Russell Howard, one of our funniest and most successful comedians, returns to his first tour for three years. Wonderbox follows his sell-out, thrice-extended, 2011 UK tour. In this new show, the star and creator of the award-winning hit TV show, Russell Howard's Good News, promises us more of his trademark brand of upbeat and razor-sharp comedy.
Tickets from £37.00
Russell Howard: Wonderbox - O2 Arena
Russell Howard, one of our funniest and most successful comedians, returns to his first tour for three years. Wonderbox follows his sell-out, thrice-extended, 2011 UK tour. In this new show, the star and creator of the award-winning hit TV show, Russell Howard's Good News, promises us more of his trademark brand of upbeat and razor-sharp comedy.
Tickets from £38.00
Russell Howard:Wonderbox - Wembley
Russell Howard, one of our funniest and most successful comedians, returns to his first tour for three years. Wonderbox follows his sell-out, thrice-extended, 2011 UK tour. In this new show, the star and creator of the award-winning hit TV show, Russell Howard's Good News, promises us more of his trademark brand of upbeat and razor-sharp comedy.
Tickets from £37.00
Rutherford & Son
Set in 1912 and relocated to industrial Yorkshire , Rutherford & Son tells the story of iron-fisted John Rutherford as he battles the scheming rebellion of his eldest son and his daughter’s scandalous love-affair, while fighting to prevent the legacy of the family glassworks from shattering. Tackling timeless issues of family dynamics both at home and in business, this remarkable drama is as relevant today as when it was first performed.
Tickets from £48.00
Strange Interlude
Shattered when the love of her life is killed in the war and haunted by their unconsummated passion, Nina escapes her jealous Ivy League father and embarks on a series of tawdry sexual escapades until, cajoled by her appalled, long-suffering suitor Charles, she marries the amiable young Sam. But while pregnant, Nina learns a horrifying secret that precipitates a desperate, life-changing decision and propels her fatally into the arms of another.
Tickets from £48.00
Sweet Bird of Youth
Marianne Elliott directs Kim Cattrall as a fading Hollywood legend ravaged by the bitterness of failure and despair, in Tennessee Williams’s powerful and poetic, Sweet Bird of Youth. Fleeing the disastrous premiere of her comeback film, Alexandra Del Lago (Cattrall) travels incognito as The Princess Kosmonopolis seeking refuge in drink, drugs and the arms of Chance Wayne, an idealistic young dreamer turned gigiolo and hellbent on achieving his own movie stardom. A trip to Chance’s hometown in a bid to win back his childhood sweetheart sees their relationship of convenience unravel in Williams’s vivid and haunting portrait of the destruction of dreams.
Tickets from £29.00
The Amen Corner
As the gospel singing soars, Sister Margaret, uncompromising pastor of her Harlem church, has a congregation already in revolt against her hardline leadership. Their resentment escalates with the return of her absentee husband, a trombone-playing sinner, and the wayward conduct of her formerly paragon, musical son. Charges of hypocrisy hang in the air and Margaret’s devout world looks perilously close to falling apart.
Tickets from £31.00
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The Card Shark Show
One of the UK’s foremost Magicians and close up magic star Steve Truglia amazes London’s West End Audiences with classic card tricks, cheats and scams in this unique and interactive multimedia show, with film, images music and live camera action, to bring close up magic to every audience member.
Was £35.00 Now £19.00
The Cripple of Inishmaan
A genuine comic masterpiece, originally written by Martin McDonagh to great critical acclaim, this unusual play follows the tale of crippled Billy, who wants a part in a Hollywood movie being filmed near his remote island home more than anything. With Michael Grandage directing, it’s a heart-warmingly funny modern classic.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe
Tickets from £35.00
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Based on the wonderful novel by Mark Haddon and adapted by Simon Stephens, this production is so good it has transferred to the West End, an accolade only achieved by the very best on-stage entertainment. And Adrian Sutton's soundtrack adds a very special extra dimension to this offbeat tale of a very unusual boy, a garden fork and a dead dog.
Tickets from £16.00
The Full Monty
If you loved the 1997 movie of the same name you’ll be champing at the bit to grab tickets for this, the incredibly hot stage version of The Full Monty, playing at London’s West End in 2014. Long-awaited and adored by audiences across Britain, it’s the uplifting story of six unemployed Sheffield blokes and their attempts to lift themselves out of unemployment. A classic!
Tickets from £32.00
The Hothouse
Harold Pinter’s macabre tragicomedy returns to London’s West End in this new production directed by Jamie Lloyd (Donmar’s Passion, Broadway’s Cyrano de Bergerac, National Theatre's She Stoops to Conquer, Royal Court’s The Pride). It follows the critically acclaimed and sold out Macbeth, starring James McAvoy, in a thrilling season of work for Trafalgar Transformed. Starring Simon Russell Beale (Privates on Parade, National Theatre's Timon of Athens and Collaborators) and John Simm (Elling, Sheffield Theatres' Hamlet and Betrayal).
Tickets from £63.00
The Ladykillers
The Ladykillers. A dangerous yet inept criminal gang is planning a bank job. They rent rooms from a sweet little old lady for the duration, pretending to be a group of amateur classical musicians in the belief they’ve created the perfect cover. But when things go wrong and Mrs Wilberforce’s life is threatened, the plot thickens to hilarious effect. Brilliant!
Was £20.00 Now £20.00
The Play That Goes Wrong
After benefiting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s murder mystery in the West End. Hilarious disaster ensues and the cast start to crack under the pressure, but can they get the production back on track before the final curtain falls?
Tickets from £19.00
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui By Bertolt Brecht. In a translation by George Tabori revised by Alistair Beaton. Following a 2012 critically acclaimed sell-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui will transfer to the Duchess Theatre in September with Henry Goodman once more in the title role.
Tickets from £16.00
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The Winslow Boy
Lindsay Posner directs Terence Rattigan’s compelling play, The Winslow Boy, based on a true story of a father’s fight to clear his son’s name when he is expelled after being convicted of theft.
Was £50.00 Now £35.00
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The Woman in Black
If you thoroughly enjoy being frightened, you’ll love this super-scary show, an exercise in pure gothic creepiness that’ll see you hanging onto the edge of your seat and jumping at the slightest sound. The fact that it has been released as a film, starring Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe, is testament to its uncanny appeal.
Tickets from £19.50
To Kill A Mockingbird
Following his productions of The Crucible and Lord of the Flies, Artistic Director Timothy Sheader rediscovers this enduring classic in the open air.
Tickets from £47.50
Travels With My Aunt
The Menier Chocolate Factory is excited to announce this revival of Giles Havergal's Olivier-winning adaptation of Graham Greene's classic comic novel Travels With My Aunt.
Tickets from £20.99
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Untold Stories
What would you do if you were diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a year to live? In Alan Bennett’s case it was clear: to write down his most personal and intimate childhood experiences and get them published before it was too late. Luckily for an admiring nation his disease went into remission and the results are delighting West End audiences from far and wide.
Tickets from £16.00
War Horse
War Horse is a triumph in superbly skilled puppetry as well as one of the most moving tales told on the West End stage for years. Children and adults alike revel in this heart-wrenching, war-torn tale of a young man’s love for his horse, their separation and joyful reunion.
Tickets from £55.00
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Children’s theatre almost always works best when it’s interactive. And audience participation scores high in this delightful production of Michael Rosen’s best-selling kids’ book, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, whose drawings inspire the amazing stage sets. The perfect summer holiday treat for young children.
Tickets from £18.00
Wozzeck
Wozzeck tells the story of a simple soldier, troubled by visions, who murders his unfaithful partner and dies, leaving behind an orphaned child.
Tickets from £24.00
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