Best New London Shows

Comedy legend Cole Escola’s dark, off-beat, and utterly outrageous historical comedy comes to the UK. This gleefully anachronistic take on American history follows Mary Todd Lincoln, wife to Abraham Lincoln: a woman who's feisty, thorny, drunken, and utterly unforgettable. Don’t miss this short and snappy 80-minute play packed with gags and mayhem, in a wild story about a First Lady as you’ve never seen her before.

The beloved musical comedy featuring puppets and human actors is returning to the West End after two decades. The winner of multiple Tony Awards, with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and a book by Jeff Whitty, Avenue Q has been delighting audiences with its unique concept, catchy songs, and loveable characters since it first premiered in 2006, and now London audiences get to experience this quirky, charming story once again.

Ava Pickett's debut play returns after delighting audiences and critics at the Almeida Theatre in summer 2025. Bold, clever, funny, and dark, it retells the story of the execution of Anne Boleyn, through the eyes of three ordinary women in Essex, each with her own domestic troubles and difficult choices to make. With a searing commentary on misogyny and female solidarity, 1536 is an unmissable theatrical experience.

Cowboys, outlaws, pistols at dawn - High Noon is the quintessential American Western, and now you get to experience the thrill, drama, and intrigue onstage for the first time ever, in Eric Roth's sizzling new adaptation of the 1952 classic film. Starring Billy Crudup and Denise Gough, this epic story of justice, courage, and duty will land in the West End this winter for its world premiere.

Beloved children’s book character Paddington Bear gets his own musical, directed by Luke Sheppard with music by Tom Fletcher. This heart-warming story of a lost bear searching for a home in London has arrived at the Savoy Theatre and is already a hit with audiences of all ages!

Directed by Ivo van Hove, “Bryan Cranston is magnetic in this masterful staging” (The Independent) of Arthur Miller's 1946 play. Returning to London for the first time since the 2019 production at The Old Vic, the play follows a self-made businessman during World War II faces the fallout of his actions and the breakdown of his family.

Acclaimed British playwright and director Alan Ayckbourn’s jaw-dropping 1985 play returns to the stage after fifteen years in a breath-taking new revival. In Woman in Mind, melancholy housewife Susan dreams up the perfect, loving family to replace her existing one, but the hallucinations of her ideal family members begin encroaching further on reality in this darkly surreal story of domestic horror.

Cynthia Erivo returns to the West End stage in this one-of-a-kind adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula by Kip Williams: intoxicating, sexy, and utterly outrageous. Erivo plays all 23 roles in this dizzying, electrifying one-woman-show that combines film and cinema in a genre-defying blend, bringing a fresh take on the classic story of the ancient and terrifying vampire who leaves his castle in Transylvania to torment London.

For seven weeks only, Andrew Lloyd Webber's timeless, iconic musical about the life and times of a very special group of cats will be coming to Regent's Park Open Air Theatre before heading on a UK-wide tour. Don't miss the revival of this magical, memorable musical filled with colourful characters and unforgettable songs, returning to London after a decade.

Rebecca Lucy Taylor stars in this revival of David Hare's defiant, powerful play about rock 'n' roll and counterculture in the 1970s as a struggling band fights to preserve their fame and reputation. Taylor plays the washed-up and disillusioned rock star Maggie Frisby in a performance that will enchant and ensnare audiences in this poignant, stirring story about love for music and the perils of fame.