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London Shows playing in December 2023

The festive season is in full flow right now, and London’s theatre district is lit up, glittering with lights and decorations. There’s music in the air and excitement everywhere, crowds and laughter and plenty of anticipation.

New Shows in December 2023

Christmas is the perfect time of year to take in a West End show, whether it’s a classic stage musical for the whole family, a thought-provoking play for grown-ups , or a kids’ panto experience your little ones will never forget. We have some wonderful London show experiences lined up for you. So what’s new in the West End for December? Sleeping Beauty at the Harold Pinter Theatre, The Unfriend at Wyndham's Theatre, and A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story at Alexandra Palace all open during December 2023. We’re here to help you plan ahead, find the best seats, buy great value tickets, and discover the very best London shows for Christmas.

Tina - The Tina Turner Musical

Aldwych Theatre

4.8/5 - based on 1943 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.8 1943 reviews Tickets from £20.00
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Opening back in March 2018, TINA is a musical about Turner’s transformation from humble beginnings in Nutbush, Tennessee to the global Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Book those tickets now so you too can enjoy such classics as Proud Mary live on stage.
  • Booking until: Saturday, 14 September 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours 45 minutes
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Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Lyric Theatre

4.8/5 - based on 51 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.8 51 reviews Tickets from £18.00
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Mischief, creators of the multi award-winning sell-out success The Play That Goes Wrong, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery and the BBC TV series The Goes Wrong Show, return to the West End with their riotous spin on a timeless classic, the smash hit comedy Peter Pan Goes Wrong.

  • Booking until: Sunday, 14 January 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours including 1 interval
  • Playing at: Lyric Theatre
  • Booking until: Sunday, 14 January 2024
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The Time Traveller's Wife

Apollo Theatre

4.4/5 - based on 12 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.4 12 reviews Tickets from £18.00
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Following a hugely popular world premiere at Chester Storyhouse, where audiences fell in love with the plot, the music and the magic of time travel, this glorious musical will be on stage at the Apollo Theatre in London’s West End. The original music comes from Joss Stone provides original music, the show hits the capital in October 2023 and runs through until 30th March 2024. Can you resist it? Probably not!
  • Booking until: Saturday, 30 March 2024
  • Running time: Approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes (including an interval)
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Edward Scissorhands

Sadlers Wells

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Matthew Bourne’s magical dance production of Edward Scissorhands has carved a place in the hearts of audiences world-wide since its premiere in 2005.

  • Opens: Tuesday, 5 December 2023
    Booking until: Saturday, 20 January 2024
  • Running time: 1h 55m (incl. interval)
  • Playing at: Sadlers Wells
  • Booking until: Saturday, 20 January 2024
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Pacific Overtures

Menier Chocolate Factory

Tickets from £47.00
Sondheim's ambitious work on modern Japan's opening to the world is now going to be presented as a co-production between Japan and the UK.
  • Booking until: To be announced
  • Running time: 1h 45m (no interval)
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Lyonesse

Harold Pinter Theatre

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Lyonesse – A dazzling new play by Penelope Skinner

In Arthurian legend, Lyonesse was a kingdom consisting of a long strand of land stretching from Land's End at the South West tip of Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly in the Celtic Sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean. As the story goes, the kingdom was swallowed up by the sea overnight. It’s also a brilliant new play of the same name by Penelope Skinner, starring the legendary Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James, directed by Ian Rickson, and on stage at the Harold Pinter Theatre from October 17th to December 23rd 2023.

  • Booking until: Saturday, 23 December 2023
  • Running time: 2h 50m (incl. interval)
  • Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James
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Sleeping Beauty

Harold Pinter Theatre

Tickets from £30.00

TuckShop are BACK for their THIRD West End season of their hilarious all-drag panto!

  • Opens: Wednesday, 27 December 2023
    Booking until: Sunday, 31 December 2023
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SIX

Vaudeville Theatre

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It's on at the Vaudeville theatre. It's a quirky musical that has delighted thousands on a recent tour, and now it's due to thrill even more of us! The music, lyrics and book are by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, and it's a dazzler of a show. Welcome to Six, the most unexpected, deliciously bold celebration of girl power ever... starring King Henry 8th's six wives. What an extraordinary, fascinating show!
  • Booking until: Sunday, 3 November 2024
  • Running time: 1hr 20mins
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The Homecoming

Young Vic

4.3/5 - based on 3 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.3 3 reviews Tickets from £45.00
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Olivier-nominated Matthew Dunster (2:22 A Ghost Story) directs a bold, spare refocusing of Harold Pinter’s powerful masterpiece.

  • Booking until: Saturday, 27 January 2024
  • Playing at: Young Vic
  • Booking until: Saturday, 27 January 2024
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Wicked

Apollo Victoria Theatre

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Based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, this multi-award winning show is packing the house to the rafters every night, dubbed Best Musical of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly.
  • Booking until: Sunday, 15 December 2024
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Noises Off

Theatre Royal Haymarket

4.6/5 - based on 47 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.6 47 reviews Tickets from £15.00
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Theatre Royal Bath Productions has been celebrating the 40th birthday of one of the nation’s best-loved comedy plays, Noises Off, the multi-award-winning farce by Michael Frayn. It’s a perfectly hilarious comedy dating back to 1982, inspired by the backstage goings-on the playwright observed at a real-life production. National Treasure Felicity Kendal stars and the play is directed by Lindsay Posner. Having opened in Bath to great acclaim then wowed audiences at theatres across the UK, now it’s due in the West End for a triumphant London season.

  • Booking until: Saturday, 16 December 2023
  • Running time: 2h 20m (incl. interval)
  • Starring: Felicity Kendal
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Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out

Theatre Royal Haymarket

Tickets from £10.00

Peppa Pig is back in her oinktastic brand new live show, Fun Day Out!

  • Booking until: Sunday, 31 December 2023
  • Running time: 1 hour 20 minutes (inc. Interval)
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Jersey Boys

Trafalgar Theatre

4.8/5 - based on 1874 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.8 1874 reviews Tickets from £25.00
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The beloved Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award-winning smash hit musical Jersey Boys is performing at the recently multi-million pound reinstated Trafalgar Theatre. Audiences can't get enough of this jukebox musical based on the story of the Four Seasons, jam-packed with all of the songs you need for a great night out at the theatre!

  • Booking until: Sunday, 28 January 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours 30 minutes
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Les Miserables

Sondheim Theatre

4.9/5 - based on 2281 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.9 2281 reviews Tickets from £20.00
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Les Miserables has been attracting audiences from across the world to the West End for over three decades now. The sheer drama and romance of this story aligned with the incredible sets have made this musical an ultimate must-see on your plans when you visit London. The French revolution provides a dramatic backdrop for this superb show, which has woven itself indelibly into our consciousness.

  • Booking until: Saturday, 28 September 2024
  • Running time: 2h 50m (incl. interval)
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The Snowman

Peacock Theatre

4.7/5 - based on 28 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.7 28 reviews Tickets from £20.00
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You know the song – everyone does. You've seen the animated film. You have read the book. Maybe you've experienced all three? Now it's time to treat the family to the theatre production, a wonderful bitter-sweet, feel-good show that has been delighting audiences of every age since 1986, and is still going strong.
  • Booking until: Saturday, 30 December 2023
  • Running time: 1hr 50m (incl. 1 interval)
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The Gruffalo's Child

Garrick Theatre

3.8/5 - based on 5 reviews - (Read reviews) 3.8 5 reviews Tickets from £12.00

Follow the Gruffalo’s Child on her adventurous mission in Tall Stories’ enchanting adaptation of the much-loved picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

  • Opens: Friday, 1 December 2023
    Booking until: Sunday, 7 January 2024
  • Running time: 55m (no interval)
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Hamnet

Garrick Theatre

4/5 - based on 27 reviews - (Read reviews) 4 27 reviews Tickets from £30.00
Hamnet - A hotly-anticipated new play. The Royal Shakespeare company's hotly anticipated new production of Hamnet is transferring direct to London's Garrick Theatre in autumn 2023 for a limited 14 week season from 30th September. Hamnet is supported by RSC Production Circle Members Peggy Czyzak-Dannenbaum, Susan Tomasky, Ronald J Ungvarsky and Marcia Whitaker, and is also a recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award.Hamnet theatre tickets lead you through the story of the woman who inspired the Bard, and it's beautiful.
  • Booking until: Saturday, 17 February 2024
  • Running time: 2hrs 30mins (incl. interval)
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The Book of Mormon

Prince of Wales Theatre

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It's rare for a show to cause such a stir. But when this production hit the Broadway stage in 2010 a flock of often-hard-to-please reviewers gave it an immediate and enthusiastic thumbs-up. It's rude, irreverent and definitely NOT for the easily offended. Introducing The Book of Mormon, which has made the long-rumoured transfer to London's West End at last!
  • Booking until: Saturday, 23 March 2024
  • Running time: 2h 30m (incl. interval)
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Sleeping Beauty Takes A Prick

Charing Cross Theatre

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Sleeping Beauty Takes A Prick! is the brand new, adults-only pantomime from the team behind Above The Stag Theatre’s legendary queer Christmas shows.

  • Booking until: Saturday, 13 January 2024
  • Running time: TBC
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Diana

Eventim Apollo

Tickets from £40.00
A new concert version of Broadway show Diana: The Musical is coming to the Eventim Apollo in London for one night only in December. Diana: The Musical is billed as a "dazzling and devastating" look at the life of Princess Diana, in an original musical by writers by David Bryan and Joe DiPetro (Memphis).
  • Opens: Monday, 4 December 2023
    Booking until: Monday, 4 December 2023
  • Running time: TBC
  • Starring: Kerry Ellis
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Magic Mike Live!

London Hippodrome

4.9/5 - based on 27 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.9 27 reviews Tickets from £39.00

Conceived and directed by Channing Tatum, MAGIC MIKE LIVE is an unforgettably fun night of sizzling, 360-degree entertainment based on the hit movies.

  • Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025
  • Running time: 1hr 30mins (no interval)
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Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Phoenix Theatre

Tickets from £24.00
Stranger Things: The First Shadow –SciFi horror on stage! Stranger Things is a US science fiction horror drama TV series. Produced by Monkey Massacre Productions and Levy's 21 Laps Entertainment, the first season came out on Netflix during the summer of 2016. Now it’s a global phenomenon, a story that has captured the imagination of millions of people of every age, and it’s being produced on stage in a prequel of a theatre treat packed mystery and supernatural forces.
  • Opens: Friday, 15 December 2023
    Booking until: Sunday, 25 August 2024
  • Running time: 3 hours 20 minutes (inc. interval)
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Piccadilly Theatre

4.9/5 - based on 728 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.9 728 reviews Tickets from £30.00
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The words Moulin Rouge have always meant sophistication, naughtiness and extravagance. The original Moulin Rouge cabaret venue was the home of the outrageous Can-Can dance, and the place had a famously wicked reputation. The 2001 jukebox musical movie inspired by the venue delighted millions. Now it's on stage, fresh from Broadway, and it's an extravaganza and a half. Head for the Piccadilly theatre and hang onto your hats!
  • Booking until: Saturday, 13 April 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours 45 minutes (incl. interval)
  • Starring: Jamie Muscato, Melissa James
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Mousetrap

St Martins Theatre

4.5/5 - based on 1051 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.5 1051 reviews Tickets from £20.00
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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.
  • Booking until: Saturday, 14 September 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes including a 20 minute interval
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The Smartest Giant In Town

St Martins Theatre

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This heart-warming tale about friendship and helping those in need is brought to life in a musical, puppet-filled adventure.

  • Opens: Saturday, 2 December 2023
    Booking until: Sunday, 7 January 2024
  • Running time: 55 minutes (no interval)
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The Motive and The Cue

Noel Coward Theatre

Tickets from £24.00

The Motive and The Cue – Fresh from the pen of Jack Thorne

The Motive and The Cue theatre tickets take you to an extraordinary new play by Jack Thorne, billed as a love letter to theatre. This co-production with Neal Street Productions sees Sam Mendes directing a ‘startling’ new piece about the making of Burton and Gielgud’s famous production of Hamlet. The big question is this: why would the world’s most famous movie star decide to act in a play everyone already knows? And what attracts audiences back to the same plays, time and time again?

  • Opens: Saturday, 9 December 2023
    Booking until: Saturday, 23 March 2024
  • Running time: 2h 40m (incl. interval)
  • Starring: Johnny Flynn, Mark Gatiss
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The Play That Goes Wrong

Duchess Theatre

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After a smash hit UK tour this hilarious play, which has won numerous accolades from reviewers who have laughed themselves silly over it, returns to the West End. If you haven't seen it yet and you love classic British comedies like the TV series Fawlty Towers, this one's for you. Funny just doesn't do it justice!
  • Booking until: Sunday, 3 November 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours (incl. interval)
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The Unfriend

Wyndham's Theatre

4.8/5 - based on 21 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.8 21 reviews Tickets from £25.00
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Following its acclaimed run at Chichester Festival Theatre and the Criterion Theatre, The Unfriend returns to the West End for a strictly limited run at the Wyndham's Theatre. It will run from 16 December 2023 until 9 March 2024.

  • Opens: Saturday, 16 December 2023
    Booking until: Saturday, 9 March 2024
  • Running time: 1h 55m (incl. interval)
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Backstairs Billy

Duke of York's Theatre

3.3/5 - based on 4 reviews - (Read reviews) 3.3 4 reviews Tickets from £24.00

Meet the marvellous William John Stephenson Tallon RVM, who was born in 1935 and died in 2007. Nicknamed Billy Tallon or Backstairs Billy, he was a steward to the Royals and a valued member of the Queen Mother's staff at Clarence House. Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans will star in this fantastic comedy, set in 1979 against a landscape of severe civil unrest. The play explores the unusual relationship between Billy and the Queen Mother, and it’s hilarious.

  • Booking until: Saturday, 27 January 2024
  • Running time: Approx 2h 15m (incl. interval)
  • Starring: Luke Evans, Penelope Wilton
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Hamilton

Victoria Palace

4.7/5 - based on 513 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.7 513 reviews Tickets from £24.00
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The award-winning and record-breaking Hamilton is delighting audiences at the Victoria Palace Theatre. This is a hugely popular musical based on America's founding father Alexander Hamilton's life with a book, music, and lyrics written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

  • Booking until: Saturday, 28 September 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours 45 minutes (inc. Interval)
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Back to The Future the Musical

Adelphi Theatre

4.8/5 - based on 592 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.8 592 reviews Tickets from £23.00
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BACK TO THE FUTURE THE MUSICAL - the "Whacking great hit of spectacle, entertainment and nostalgia" (The Mail on Sunday) is playing in the West End. The award-winning musical, based on the 1985 blockbuster film and pop culture phenomenon has been adapted for the staged by the movie's creators Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis.

  • Booking until: Sunday, 21 July 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes (incl. interval)
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The Nutcracker - English National Ballet tickets Opens 14 Dec 2023 Opens 14 December 2023 The Nutcracker - English National Ballet

The Nutcracker - English National Ballet

London Coliseum

4.5/5 - based on 70 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.5 70 reviews Tickets from £32.00
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The brilliant English National Ballet has delighted us with a dazzling version of Nutcracker every single year since 1950. This year is no different. The production promises to be just as magical as ever, starring more than 100 dancers and musicians who bring the story to life. Welcome to the classic fairytale, perfectly enhanced by the classical composer Tchaikovsky’s fantastic score.
  • Opens: Thursday, 14 December 2023
    Booking until: Sunday, 7 January 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours (incl. interval)
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The Mongol Khan

London Coliseum

4.8/5 - based on 12 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.8 12 reviews Tickets from £20.75
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The Mongol Khan is a lavish, large-scale production, with an ensemble of over 70 performers, that has played to packed houses in Mongolia for over a year. Based on historical events, the show explores the evolution of Mongolian culture through a gripping story, brought to life with a stunning original score, dance, puppetry, and elaborate sets and costumes inspired by traditional nomadic culture.
  • Booking until: Sunday, 3 December 2023
  • Running time: 3 hours (1 interval)
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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Gielgud Theatre

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The Guardian calls it “a glorious all-star memorial service”. It’s on at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End from 16th September 2023 to 6th January 2024, and it’s a real treat for lovers of the legendary Sondheim, who died in late 2021 while the show was being developed. Tickets are sure to be in high demand for this award-winner of a performance that sold out immediately in May 2022.
  • Booking until: Saturday, 6 January 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours and 30 minutes (incl. interval)
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Mamma Mia!

Novello Theatre

4.8/5 - based on 4347 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.8 4347 reviews Tickets from £14.75
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If you love one-time Eurovision winners Abba, you’ll adore Mamma Mia! Twenty two of the ‘70s supergroup’s biggest hits are brought into play to tell the funny, romantic tale of bride Sophie and her wayward mother Donna. Join 45 million fans and enjoy this superbly uplifting show, perfect for the whole family!
  • Booking until: Saturday, 28 September 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours 35 mins (incl. interval)
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The Enfield Haunting

Ambassadors Theatre

Tickets from £35.00

The wonderfully funny Catherine Tate takes to the stage with the equally brilliant David Threlfall in a new West End thriller, The Enfield Haunting. In May 2015 the British drama horror series version of the story was aired on TV, commissioned by Sky Living. This new play is based on Guy Lyon Playfair’s novel This House Is Haunted, detailing the bizarre events around the infamous Enfield Poltergeist which haunted a council house in the town during the 1970s. Now it’s on stage in theatreland, and it’s wonderfully scary.

  • Booking until: Saturday, 2 March 2024
  • Running time: 1 Hour 40 minutes (no interval)
  • Starring: Catherine Tate, David Threlfall
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Sunset Boulevard

Savoy Theatre

4.7/5 - based on 89 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.7 89 reviews Tickets from £24.00
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Sunset Boulevard – A glittering black comedy musical. Based on Billy Wilder’s popular movie, the musical Sunset Boulevard premièred at the Adelphi Theatre way back in 1993. It ran for nearly four years and delighted almost two million people. On Broadway it attracted the biggest ever advance, a startling $37.5 million. Now it's back in the West End and Nicole Scherzinger plays the lead role. Fantastic!
  • Booking until: Saturday, 6 January 2024
  • Running time: 2h 30m (incl. interval)
  • Starring: Nicole Scherzinger
  • Playing at: Savoy Theatre
  • Booking until: Saturday, 6 January 2024
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The Lion King

Lyceum Theatre

4.8/5 - based on 6274 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.8 6274 reviews Tickets from £45.00
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The multi-award winning musical, The Lion King, continues to wow audiences night after night with amazing puppets and stage sets, a heart-warming storyline, incredible choreography and a musical score that hits the mark every time.

  • Booking until: Sunday, 2 June 2024
  • Running time: 2h 30m (incl. interval)
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Austentatious

Arts Theatre

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The award-winning smash-hit comedy, as heard on BBC Radio 4, opens at the Arts Theatre. The all-star Austentatious cast improvise a hilarious new Jane Austen novel every night! Inspired entirely by a title from the audience and performed in period costume with live musical accompaniment - it’s a riotous, razor-sharp show where swooning is guaranteed.
  • Booking until: Monday, 29 July 2024
  • Running time: 105 minutes (incl. interval)
  • Playing at: Arts Theatre
  • Booking until: Monday, 29 July 2024
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Choir of Man

Arts Theatre

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The runaway international hit from the creative minds of Andrew Kay – Soweto Gospel Choir, Noise Boys, Gobsmacked and the award-winning North by Northwest – and Nic Doodson – The Magnets, Gobsmacked and Noise Boys – opens in London’s West End!
  • Booking until: Sunday, 2 June 2024
  • Running time: 90 minutes (no. Interval)
  • Playing at: Arts Theatre
  • Booking until: Sunday, 2 June 2024
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Father Christmas Needs a Wee!

Arts Theatre

Tickets from £22.00

Father Christmas is on his rounds... and he needs a WEE!

  • Opens: Saturday, 2 December 2023
    Booking until: Saturday, 23 December 2023
  • Running time: 1h 35m (incl. interval)
  • Playing at: Arts Theatre
  • Booking until: Saturday, 23 December 2023
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Phantom of the Opera

His Majesty's Theatre

4.8/5 - based on 3559 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.8 3559 reviews Tickets from £27.00
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The Phantom is a story that has captivated audiences from all over the world, a dark tale of love, obsession, revenge and tragedy set to a musical score that makes the heart soar. Based on a French thriller by writer Gaston Leroux, it’s a visual and aural feast of lavish costumes, eye-popping special effects, wonderful soaring music and superb acting.
  • Booking until: Saturday, 28 September 2024
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Mrs. Doubtfire the Musical

Shaftesbury Theatre

4.8/5 - based on 92 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.8 92 reviews Tickets from £27.00
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Were you brought up on a diet of Mrs Doubtfire? The magical 1993 American comedy-drama film directed by Chris Columbus delighted millions of people of every age, created for the movie screen by Randi Mayem Singer and Leslie Dixon. Now there's a stage musical version due in London for 2021. And by all accounts it is absolutely brilliant!
  • Booking until: Sunday, 29 September 2024
  • Running time: Approx. 2 hours 30 minutes
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Crazy For You

Gillian Lynne Theatre

4.9/5 - based on 170 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.9 170 reviews Tickets from £15.00
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Dance across to the Gillian Lynne Theatre for an unmissable revival of Crazy For You. Starring the Olivier-nominated Charlie Stemp, Drama Desk Award winner Tom Edden and star of Wicked, Carly Anderson. A huge hit with critics and audiences, don't miss this "Spine-tingling musical" (The Guardian).

  • Booking until: Friday, 12 January 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours 45 min (incl. interval)
  • Starring: Charlie Stemp
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Elf the Musical

Dominion Theatre

4.6/5 - based on 200 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.6 200 reviews Tickets from £27.50
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Elf is a musical based on the 2003 smash hit motion picture of the same name, with a score by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin. There's an hilarious book by Bob Martin and Thomas Meehan, also based on the film, and the musical ran and ran on Broadway as well as touring the USA to great popular acclaim. And now it's coming here again.
  • Booking until: Saturday, 6 January 2024
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Dear England

Prince Edward Theatre

4.9/5 - based on 20 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.9 20 reviews Tickets from £24.00
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The National Theatre is delighted to announce the transfer of its critically acclaimed, sold-out production of Dear England to the capital’s Prince Edward Theatre. The fun is on stage from 9th October 2023 for a strictly limited 14-week season. Dear England is all about the brilliant England football manager Gareth Southgate, exploring the pressures of top-level sport and the impact of a team of eleven players on the nation’s emotional landscape. The story is inspired by Southgate’s open letter to England fans, which he wrote during the 2021 pandemic.

  • Booking until: Saturday, 13 January 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours 50 min (Incl. interval)
  • Starring: Joseph Fiennes
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The Witches

Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)

Tickets from £76.00
Everything you know about witches is wrong. Forget the pointy hats and broomsticks: they’re the most dangerous creatures on earth.
  • Booking until: Saturday, 27 January 2024
  • Running time: 2hr 30mins (incl. interval)
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Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

Cambridge Theatre

4.7/5 - based on 3 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.7 3 reviews Tickets from £22.00
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Spontaneous musical comedy at its absolute finest returns to the West End.

  • Booking until: Monday, 1 July 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours including one interval
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Matilda The Musical

Cambridge Theatre

4.7/5 - based on 1097 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.7 1097 reviews Tickets from £24.00
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The terrible parents of Matilda Wormwood, who is five years old, are completely uninterested in their daughter. But she’s a gifted child who taught herself to read at age three and devours both adults’ and childrens’ books from her local library with devilish joy. Matilda the Musical tells the story of this very special little girl and her battles against the weird world of grown-ups.
  • Booking until: Sunday, 15 December 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes
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Frozen the Musical

Theatre Royal Drury Lane

4.9/5 - based on 1171 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.9 1171 reviews Tickets from £35.00
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Disney's animated movie Frozen has been brought to life in a spectacular musical at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Opening in September 2021, the stage show is just as popular as the film earning it many awards. The musical version of this movie is an unforgettable experience for all of the family to enjoy.

  • Booking until: Sunday, 2 June 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours and 15 minutes (incl. interval)
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Hansel and Gretel

Globe Theatre

Tickets from £6.00

Experience a beautifully epic new version of The Brothers Grimm’s fairytale by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage in the Globe Theatre. Nick Bagnall directs the perfect winter treat for everyone aged 5+.

  • Opens: Friday, 8 December 2023
    Booking until: Sunday, 7 January 2024
  • Running time: Approx. 1 hour and 45 minutes including an interval
  • Playing at: Globe Theatre
  • Booking until: Sunday, 7 January 2024
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A Very Very Bad Cinderella

The Other Palace - Studio

Tickets from £30.00
The Other Palace is delighted to present a brand-new twist on the classic fairy tale this Christmas, full of filthy festive fun. A Very Very Bad Cinderella is written by Neil Hurst (Tracks, Dating for Dogs, The Government Inspector) and Jodie Prenger (Coronation Street, I'd Do Anything) and runs from 1 December 2023 to 7 January 2024 at The Other Palace Studio.
  • Opens: Friday, 1 December 2023
    Booking until: Sunday, 7 January 2024
  • Running time: 1h 45m (incl. interval)
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Mates in Chelsea

Royal Court Theatre

1/5 - based on 1 review - (Read reviews) 1 1 review Tickets from £15.00

"But I do have a job. I'm a professional viscount."

Things aren't looking good for Theodore "Tug" Bungay.

  • Booking until: Saturday, 16 December 2023
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Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith)

Lyric Hammersmith

4.7/5 - based on 43 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.7 43 reviews Tickets from £18.00
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Cinderella is a bonafide boss-lady who runs her own business at Shepherd’s Bush Market. One day the most handsome Prince Henry, who dreams of a life less spare, wears a disguise to the Market and falls instantly in love with Cinderella. With the paparazzi in hot pursuit the Prince is forced to flee. And so begins the quest to unite the unlikeliest of likely romances, Cinderella and the hapless Prince. But will Cinderella’s step-sisters Muffy and Gusset and step-mother Lady Jelly Bottom get in the way of their happily ever after? Of course they will, it’s panto.
  • Booking until: Saturday, 6 January 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours (including interval)
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A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

Alexandra Palace

Tickets from £25.00
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story is a particularly gorgeous version of the novel by Charles Dickens, adapted by Mark Gatiss of Doctor Who, Sherlock, Game of Thrones, Dracula, and League of Gentlemen fame. It was a smash hit at the Alexandra Palace Theatre in 2021. Now it's back at the same venue for a strictly limited run starting on 24 November 2023 and ending on 7 January 2024. Spooky!
  • Opens: Friday, 15 December 2023
    Booking until: Sunday, 7 January 2024
  • Running time: 2h 5m (incl. interval)
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La Clique

Spiegeltent in Leicester Square

4.5/5 - based on 20 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.5 20 reviews Tickets from £27.00
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This festive season, you’re invited to once again step inside the spectacular Spiegeltent for a night of laughs, gasps and can’t believe your eyes moments, with the unmissable trailblazer, La Clique. The multi-award-winning cabaret extravaganze returns to London's Leicester Square this November for eight weeks only.
  • Booking until: Saturday, 6 January 2024
  • Running time: 1h 30m (including interval)
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Frank and Percy

The Other Palace

4.9/5 - based on 22 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.9 22 reviews Tickets from £46.00
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Ian McKellen and Roger Allam star in the new comedy hit, Ben Weatherill’s Frank and Percy. A funny and touching take on the unexpected relationship that blossoms between two men.

  • Booking until: Sunday, 17 December 2023
  • Running time: 2h 15m (incl. interval)
  • Starring: Ian McKellen, Roger Allam
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Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie

London County Hall

4.7/5 - based on 186 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.7 186 reviews Tickets from £18.00
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London County Hall is the perfect venue for this, a resurrection of one of Agatha Christie's best short stories and a courtroom drama that'll have you on the edge of your seat. Witness for the Prosecution is the name of the play, and it's as tense and dramatic as you'd expect from the pen of one of the most respected and original mistresses of crime drama.
  • Booking until: Sunday, 29 September 2024
  • Running time: 2hrs 20min (incl. interval)
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Guys and Dolls

The Bridge Theatre

4.7/5 - based on 58 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.7 58 reviews Tickets from £23.00
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Join us for Guys & Dolls as The Bridge transforms for one of the greatest musicals of all time. It has more hit songs, more laughs and more romance than any show ever written.
  • Booking until: Saturday, 31 August 2024
  • Running time: 2 hrs 50 mins (incl. interval)
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The Nutcracker, A Very Adult Pantomime!

The Turbine Theatre

Tickets from £36.00

Carly had a terrible year: her love rat ex has ghosted her, her father died ina collision with a Just Stop Oil protest and now her Mum is insistent on still throwing their annual festive party. A typical year in the 2020’s some may say, but thanks to a prezzie from her inappropriate, local drunk uncle - this Christmas will be anything but typical!

  • Booking until: Saturday, 23 December 2023
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Ghosts

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

4/5 - based on 1 review - (Read reviews) 4 1 review Tickets from £6.00
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In a Globe first, experience the work of Henrik Ibsen, one of the most influential dramatists of all time, in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Joe Hill-Gibbins (The Marriage of Figaro, ENO) directs a new version of this searing exploration of family secrets and forbidden desire.

  • Booking until: Sunday, 28 January 2024
  • Running time: TBC
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Cabaret

Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse

4.8/5 - based on 90 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.8 90 reviews Tickets from £71.00
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It’s the 1930s and Sally Bowles, a night club performer, plays in the notorious and seedy Kit Kat Club in stylish, vibrant Berlin. Follow her relationship with American writer Cliff Bradshaw and enjoy the thrilling sub-plot as the boarding house owner Fraulein Schneider and her Jewish lover Herr Schultz navigate the growing dangers of Weimar Germany.
  • Booking until: Saturday, 28 September 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours 45 minutes (incl. interval)
  • Starring: Mason Alexander Park, Maude Apatow
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Faulty Towers The Dining Experience

President Hotel

4.7/5 - based on 394 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.7 394 reviews Tickets from £59.00
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  • Booking until: Sunday, 28 April 2024
  • Running time: 2 Hours
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ABBA Voyage

Abba Arena

4.9/5 - based on 245 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.9 245 reviews Tickets from £65.00
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ABBA Voyage is the long-awaited concert from one of the biggest pop acts of all time. Featuring a setlist of hit songs, see ABBA’s avatars accompanied by a 10-piece live band, at the custom-built ABBA Arena in London.
  • Booking until: Monday, 25 November 2024
  • Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes (no interval)
  • Playing at: Abba Arena
  • Booking until: Monday, 25 November 2024
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The Little Big Things

Soho Place Theatre (@sohoplace)

5/5 - based on 7 reviews - (Read reviews) 5 7 reviews Tickets from £24.00
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Looking for something unusual to see on the West End stage? Try this extraordinary true story about an ordinary young man. When one tiny moment changes everything, Henry is split between a past he doesn’t recognise any more and an unimaginable future. Will he be able to navigate this strange new world, grab control of his life, and keep his family together? The Little Big Things is playing at @sohoplace Theatre from 2nd September to 25th November 2023, and it’s inspiring.
  • Booking until: Saturday, 2 March 2024
  • Running time: 2h 20m (incl. interval)
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Ulster American

Riverside Studios

Tickets from £77.00

An Oscar-winning American actor, an English director and a Northern Irish playwright are about to begin rehearsals for a new play — one that could transform each of their careers. But when it turns out that they’re not on the same page, the night threatens to spiral out of control.

  • Opens: Monday, 4 December 2023
    Booking until: Saturday, 27 January 2024
  • Running time: 90 minutes (no interval)
  • Starring: Andy Serkis, Louisa Harland, Woody Harrelson
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LIZZIE

Southwark Playhouse Elephant

Tickets from £33.00

LIZZIE is Rage! Sex! Betrayal! BLOODY MURDER!

  • Booking until: Saturday, 2 December 2023
  • Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes (incl interval)
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A Christmas Carol - Old Vic

Old Vic Theatre

5/5 - based on 8 reviews - (Read reviews) 5 8 reviews Tickets from £78.00
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Old Vic Artistic Director Matthew Warchus’ big-hearted, smash hit production of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic returns to The Old Vic, joyously adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne.

  • Booking until: Saturday, 6 January 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours (incl. interval)
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Harry Potter And The Cursed Child

Palace Theatre

4.6/5 - based on 27 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.6 27 reviews Tickets from £36.00
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – A fabulous fantasy, Hogwarts and all! - Like millions and millions of us, you love the adventures of the inimitable Harry Potter. J. K Rowling's marvellous books have been translated into almost eighty different languages and have sold more than 450 million copies right across our lovely blue planet. Mention Harry Potter in China, South America, Alaska... you name it, the people there will know exactly who you're talking about. Now Harry's due to set the stage on fire in London's glittering West End.
  • Booking until: Sunday, 29 September 2024
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My Neighbour Totoro

Barbican Theatre

5/5 - based on 11 reviews - (Read reviews) 5 11 reviews Tickets from £87.00
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The Royal Shakespeare Company and Executive Producer Joe Hisaishi are delighted to announce the return of My Neighbour Totoro to the Barbican. It’s all down to the Japanese creative powerhouse Studio Ghibli, whose beautiful fantasy comes to magical life on stage at London's Barbican this autumn in collaboration with Improbable and Nippon TV. No wonder My Neighbour Totoro theatre tickets are predicted to be hot property.
  • Booking until: Saturday, 23 March 2024
  • Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes (inc. interval)
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Derren Brown: Unbelievable

Criterion Theatre

4/5 - based on 2 reviews - (Read reviews) 4 2 reviews Tickets from £24.00
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Be among the first to see the West End Premiere of this theatrical experience from September 2023.

  • Booking until: Sunday, 7 January 2024
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Potted Panto

Wilton's Music Hall

4.4/5 - based on 14 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.4 14 reviews Tickets from £10.00
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Seven classic pantomimes in 70 hilarious minutes! The Olivier Award nominated festive celebration Potted Panto is back for four weeks only.

  • Booking until: Saturday, 30 December 2023
  • Running time: 70 minutes
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