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Last Chance to See in London
This is your chance to be captivated, inspired, impressed, terrified, amused and thoroughly entertained by these West End shows about to close. These theatrical masterpieces are what memories are made of, shows that proved so good, hard to resist and well-loved they made West End history. Explore our Last Chance list, displayed by popularity, and embrace the magic while you can.
One Small Step
Charing Cross Theatre
Tickets from £15.00Takashi and Narumi are a married couple, working for a major contractor on a project to migrate humans to the Moon where a city is being established where humanity’s ideal new life can begin. But they suddenly encounter an unexpected setback to their plans…
- Booking until: Wednesday, 9 October 2024
- Playing at: Charing Cross Theatre
- Booking until: Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Abigail's Party
Theatre Royal Stratford East
4.7 3 reviews 4.7 3 reviews Tickets from £27.00- Booking until: Saturday, 12 October 2024
- Running time: 2hr. Incl Interval.
- Starring: Jill Halfpenny, Natalie Casey, Joe Absolom, Susannah Harker
- Playing at: Theatre Royal Stratford East
- Booking until: Saturday, 12 October 2024
Shifters
Duke of York's Theatre
4.7 3 reviews 4.7 3 reviews Tickets from £138.00This epic and universal love story is about the enduring power of memory and young love. Meet Dre and Des, they are young, gifted, Black. He stayed. She left. Years later they come crashing back into each other’s lives, carrying new secrets and old scars. Caught in the space between memory and reality, they struggle to navigate the shifting borders that threaten to rewrite their past and reshape their future.
- Booking until: Saturday, 12 October 2024
- Running time: 1hr 40min. No Interval.
- Starring: Heather Agyepong, Tosin Cole
- Playing at: Duke of York's Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 12 October 2024
I Wish You Well: The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski-Trial Musical
Criterion Theatre
Tickets from £15.00I Wish You Well: The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski-Trial Musical is a four-hander that tells the (mostly) true story of the campest celebrity trial in history: Gwyneth vs Terry. Packed full of iconic moments, the questions about Taylor Swift, and the now famous whisper of 'I Wish You Well' – this is a fast-paced parody that sounds as good as Gwyneth's candles smell.
- Booking until: Saturday, 12 October 2024
- Running time: 1hr. No interval.
- Playing at: Criterion Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 12 October 2024
La bohème
London Coliseum
3.5 2 reviews 3.5 2 reviews Tickets from £12.00Returning to the stage by popular demand, ENO's La bohème offers audiences a masterful blend of poignant romance and evocative music from Puccini. The popular opera returns to the stage for a limited time.
- Booking until: Saturday, 19 October 2024
- Running time: 2hrs 05mins. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: London Coliseum
- Booking until: Saturday, 19 October 2024
Buyer & Cellar
King's Head Theatre
Tickets from £13.00- Booking until: Saturday, 19 October 2024
- Starring: Rob Madge
- Playing at: King's Head Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 19 October 2024
Manuel Liñán ¡VIVA!
Peacock Theatre
Tickets from £22.00Award-winning flamenco choreographer and dancer, Manuel Liñán dreamed of wearing the costumes of his female idols as a child. Now alongside his company, Manuel treats us to the rhythms of alegrías, tárantos and bulerías, dances full of exciting, rhythmic footwork, curving arms, and slaps to the thighs – all in full feminine glory.
- Opens: Thursday, 17 October 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 19 October 2024 - Running time: 1hr 40min.
- Playing at: Peacock Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 19 October 2024
Tink
The Other Palace
Tickets from £15.00Did you know fairies are born big? Tink was a BIG, brilliant young fairy. Until one day, in a tragic cliché, Tink began to shrink.
- Opens: Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 20 October 2024
- Playing at: The Other Palace
- Booking until: Sunday, 20 October 2024
La Fille Mal Gardee
Sadlers Wells
5 1 review 5 1 review Tickets from £18.00In Frederick Ashton’s joyous country tale, Lise and her mother clash in a foot-stomping, cabbage-throwing, battle of wills.
- Opens: Friday, 25 October 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 26 October 2024 - Running time: 2hr 20min. Incl. 2 Intervals.
- Playing at: Sadlers Wells
- Booking until: Saturday, 26 October 2024
The Real Thing
Old Vic Theatre
4.3 7 reviews 4.3 7 reviews Tickets from £17.00James McArdle (Mare of Easttown) and Bel Powley (The Morning Show) star in a new production of Tom Stoppard's 1982 play The Real Thing.
- Booking until: Saturday, 26 October 2024
- Running time: 2hr 20min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Starring: James McArdle, Bel Powley
- Playing at: Old Vic Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 26 October 2024
Kim’s Convenience
Riverside Studios
Tickets from £28.00The hilarious and heartwarming award-winning comedy-drama about a family-run Korean store that inspired the Netflix hit, is a feel-good ode to generations of immigrants who have made Canada the country that it is today.
- Booking until: Saturday, 26 October 2024
- Running time: 1hr 15min.
- Playing at: Riverside Studios
- Booking until: Saturday, 26 October 2024
The Taming of the Shrew | Globe
Globe Theatre
4.5 2 reviews 4.5 2 reviews Tickets from £7.00Step inside an absurd carnival this summer as Shakespeare’s vicious comedy The Taming of the Shrew arrives in the Globe Theatre.
- Booking until: Saturday, 26 October 2024
- Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl interval.
- Playing at: Globe Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 26 October 2024
Princess Essex | Globe
Globe Theatre
Tickets from £7.00Discover the world of Edwardian seaside beauty pageants at the Globe this summer, as Princess Essex, a new play by Anne Odeke, bursts into our iconic open-air theatre.
- Booking until: Saturday, 26 October 2024
- Running time: 2hr 40min. Incl. interval.
- Playing at: Globe Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 26 October 2024
Tattooer
Charing Cross Theatre
Tickets from £15.00Seikichi is a young tattoo artist and former Ukiyo-e artist of high repute. His longtime wish is to “carve his soul into the skin of a beautiful woman” but he has been unable to find a willing partner. The story begins when Seikichi finally meets his ideal canvas...
- Opens: Friday, 18 October 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 26 October 2024
- Playing at: Charing Cross Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 26 October 2024
The Comedy of Errors | Globe
Globe Theatre
Tickets from £8.00Back by popular demand, get ready to experience ‘the Globe at its most joyous’ (WhatsOnStage) as our ★★★★ production of The Comedy of Errors makes a triumphant return this summer.
- Booking until: Sunday, 27 October 2024
- Running time: 1hr 45min. No interval.
- Playing at: Globe Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday, 27 October 2024
The Turn of the Screw
London Coliseum
Tickets from £12.00One of the most unnerving of all operas, The Turn of the Screw heads to the London Coliseum this Autumn. With its blend of hauntingly beautiful music and psychological intrigue, this production offers audiences a unique and compelling interpretation of Henry James' classic ghost story.
- Opens: Friday, 11 October 2024
Booking until: Thursday, 31 October 2024 - Running time: 2hr 10min. Incl 1 interval.
- Playing at: London Coliseum
- Booking until: Thursday, 31 October 2024
Raisin in the Sun
Lyric Hammersmith
Tickets from £18.00Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking play offers a compelling exploration of African American life and aspirations in the face of systemic oppression. Heading to the Lyric Hammersmith, A Raisin in the Sun is a timeless piece of theatre that will offer an opportunity to reflect on social justice and the enduring struggle for equality.
- Opens: Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 2 November 2024 - Running time: 2hr 45min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Lyric Hammersmith
- Booking until: Saturday, 2 November 2024
Stories – The Tap Dance Sensation
Peacock Theatre
Tickets from £30.00Urban jazz, tap and percussion combine to tell the story of a frustrated actor and a bitter director.
- Opens: Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 2 November 2024 - Running time: 1hr 15min. No interval.
- Playing at: Peacock Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 2 November 2024
BRACE BRACE
Royal Court Theatre
Tickets from £30.00- Booking until: Saturday, 9 November 2024
- Playing at: Royal Court Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 9 November 2024
A Face in the Crowd
Young Vic
Tickets from £15.00You gotta keep him here, Miss Jeffries. He’s the goose who laid the golden egg.
- Booking until: Saturday, 9 November 2024
- Running time: 2hr 35min. Incl. interval.
- Playing at: Young Vic
- Booking until: Saturday, 9 November 2024
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
Soho Place Theatre (@sohoplace)
Tickets from £24.00Experimental drama at its best. See what happens with no rehearsal, no director, a different actor each night and a script waiting in a sealed envelope on the stage.
- Booking until: Saturday, 9 November 2024
- Running time: 1hr 5min.
- Playing at: Soho Place Theatre (@sohoplace)
- Booking until: Saturday, 9 November 2024
Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist
The Other Palace
4 2 reviews 4 2 reviews Tickets from £15.00Is it a musical? Is it a gig? Is it a ballet? This show is all three, complete with a multi-genre pop score from the brilliant Tasha Taylor Johnson and Jack McManus, redefining musical theatre. Gossip, scandal and deadly royal peril await you. Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist takes on one of history’s best-known, least popular queens, back in London for a limited run.
- Booking until: Sunday, 10 November 2024
- Running time: 1hr 30min.
- Playing at: The Other Palace
- Booking until: Sunday, 10 November 2024
Giant
Royal Court Theatre
Tickets from £27.00A world-famous children’s author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake of scandal. And one chance to make amends…
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
- Playing at: Royal Court Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
The Buddha of Suburbia
Barbican Theatre
Tickets from £30.00The RSC's and Wise Children's 'intoxicating five-star' (The Times) production of the award-winning 1990 novel transfers to London's Barbican Theatre. Expect a vibrant and incisive coming-of-age story from The Buddha of Suburbia for four weeks this Autumn.
- Opens: Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024 - Running time: 2hr 50min. Incl. interval.
- Playing at: Barbican Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
The Cabinet Minister
Menier Chocolate Factory
5 1 review 5 1 review Tickets from £42.00Sir Julian Twombley is in trouble: his wife and son have run up massive debts and his political reputation is in the balance. The House of Commons is far from a safe space for him and the newspapers are sniffing blood. Can he save face and hang on to his sanity?
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
- Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl. interval.
- Playing at: Menier Chocolate Factory
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
Encounters: Four Contemporary Ballets
Royal Opera House
Tickets from £16.00Four 21st-century choreographers. Four bold explorations of movement.
- Opens: Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
West End shows to see before they close
Maybe you missed out on a new musical you were dying to see, and now it's your last chance. Perhaps you saw a play once before and it was so inspiring you really want to experience it again. You might have only just realised the season's coming to an end for the production you've been keen to see. Either way we have a collection of unforgettable entertainment to see before it's too late. Grab tickets before the curtain falls for the last time, then relax.
So what's it like attending one of the final few performances of a popular West End show? It's really exciting, there's a great buzz, and the audiences are dotted with super-fans there to say goodbye to a production that has meant a lot to them. There's a fast turnaround to enjoy as shows close every week, replaced by new productions set to become just as well-loved.
For every West End closing, there's a new opening. Don't miss out on these last-chance treats, some of the most exciting shows in town. Check out the scheduled end dates then choose your favourite production. Do it right now to void disappointment and fall in love with London Theatre all over again.
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