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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.
Dear England
Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
4.9 76 reviews 4.9 76 reviews Tickets from £119.00The Olivier-Award winning 'Best New Play', Dear England returns to the London stage for a limited run at the National Theatre in March 2025. Influenced by the 2024 Euros tournament, this play will continue to evolve around the journey of the England's football team under manager Gareth Southgate.
- Booking until: Saturday, 24 May 2025
- Running time: 2hr 50min. Incl. 1 Interval.
- Playing at: Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
- Booking until: Saturday, 24 May 2025
Retrograde
Apollo Theatre
4.5 10 reviews 4.5 10 reviews Tickets from £15.00If you're looking to experience some 'must-see theatre' (The Telegraph) look no further than the much-anticipated transfer of Retrograde. Ryan Calais Cameron delivers a gripping play that explores race, power, and identity in Hollywood during the 1950s. It transfers to the West End following a critically acclaimed run at Kiln Theatre.
- Booking until: Sunday, 15 June 2025
- Running time: 1hr 30min. No interval.
- Starring: Ivanno Jeremiah, Oliver Johnstone, Stanley Townsend
- Playing at: Apollo Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday, 15 June 2025
Mean Girls
Savoy Theatre
4.5 54 reviews 4.5 54 reviews Tickets from £25.00Tina Fey's iconic 2004 film was hugely popular with Broadway audiences and now its here in London! Mean Girls is a fun, high-energy experience that hilarious explores high school drama, friendship and self-identity.
- Booking until: Sunday, 8 June 2025
- Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Savoy Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday, 8 June 2025
The Deep Blue Sea
Theatre Royal Haymarket
3.5 2 reviews 3.5 2 reviews Tickets from £15.00Tamsin Greig stars in Terence Rattigan’s 1950’s study of obsession and the destructive power of love in a new production originally presented at the Theatre Royal Bath.
- Booking until: Saturday, 21 June 2025
- Running time: 2hr 30mins. Inc. 1 Interval.
- Starring: Tamsin Greig
- Playing at: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Booking until: Saturday, 21 June 2025
The Brightening Air
Old Vic Theatre
4.2 6 reviews 4.2 6 reviews Tickets from £22.00From Olivier Award-winning writer Conor McPherson (The Weir, Girl From the North Country), The Brightening Air follows a family in County Sligo as their sense of home is disrupted by the arrival of relatives each with their own agenda.
- Booking until: Saturday, 14 June 2025
- Playing at: Old Vic Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 14 June 2025
Here We Are
Lyttelton - National Theatre
1.5 2 reviews 1.5 2 reviews Tickets from £79.00It captivated audiences in New York and now Stephen Sondheim's final musical Here We Are heads to London's National Theatre in Spring 2025. Based on two Luis Buñuel films, this richly layered story explores love, connection, and the complexities of modern life.
- Booking until: Saturday, 28 June 2025
- Playing at: Lyttelton - National Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 28 June 2025
Bat Out of Hell
Peacock Theatre
4.7 611 reviews 4.7 611 reviews Tickets from £25.00Bat Out of Hell: The Musical roars back onto the London stage for a limited season in 2025, delivering a thrilling mix of rock anthems and an epic love story. Featuring the iconic hits of Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf, this high-octane production is a feast for the senses, packed with spectacular staging and heart-pounding energy.
- Booking until: Saturday, 7 June 2025
- Running time: 2hr 40min. Incl. 1 Interval.
- Playing at: Peacock Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 7 June 2025
Shucked
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
Tickets from £18.00Described as 'hilarious, heartfelt, and totally original', Shucked transfers to London where it will perform at the beautiful Regent's Park Open Air Theatre from May 2025. Shucked is a Tony Award-winning musical comedy about an unlikely hero, an unscrupulous con artist, and a battle for the heart and soil of a small town, is not to be missed.
- Booking until: Saturday, 14 June 2025
- Playing at: Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 14 June 2025
Marriage Material
Lyric Hammersmith
Tickets from £12.00Sathnam Sanghera's critically acclaimed Marriage Material is set to take the stage in 2025. This powerful new play traces the journey of a Sikh family and their Wolverhampton corner shop from the 1960s to the present day, exploring themes of inequality, duty, and ambition.
- Booking until: Saturday, 21 June 2025
- Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Lyric Hammersmith
- Booking until: Saturday, 21 June 2025
Faust
Royal Opera House
Tickets from £48.00One of the most popular operas from the 1860s to World War II, Faust will be presented by David McVicar in spectacular style. Described as "seductive as it is damning", it plays for a limited season in the grandeur surroundings of the Royal Opera House.
- Booking until: Tuesday, 10 June 2025
- Running time: 3hr 25min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Ballet to Broadway: Wheeldon Works
Royal Opera House
Tickets from £28.00Experience the breathtaking choreographic style of Christopher Wheeldon in Ballet to Broadway: Wheeldon Works at the Royal Opera House. Four distinctive ballets from Fool's Paradise, The Two of Us, Us and An American in Paris will make this an awe-inspiring production to watch.
- Booking until: Tuesday, 27 May 2025
- Running time: 2hr 25min. Incl. 2 intervals.
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Onegin
Royal Opera House
5 1 review 5 1 review Tickets from £41.00John Cranko's lavish ballet adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's verse novel Eugene Onegin is set to Tchaikovsky's soaring music. Explore unrequited love, rash decisions, and bitter regrets at the Royal Opera House for a limited time.
- Opens: Thursday, 29 May 2025
Booking until: Thursday, 12 June 2025 - Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl. 2 Intervals.
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Thursday, 12 June 2025
Stiletto
Charing Cross Theatre
5 2 reviews 5 2 reviews Tickets from £25.00Created by Matthew Wilder and Tim Luscombe, Stiletto is a brand new musical debuting in London in spring 2025. Set during the winter of 1730-31, it follows an inspiring opera singer who falls in love with the daughter of an African slave. As the bond between the pair becomes deeper, his past and the corrupt world around him threaten to tear them apart.
- Booking until: Saturday, 14 June 2025
- Running time: 2hr 15min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Charing Cross Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 14 June 2025
London Road
Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
Tickets from £42.00A new revival of Alecky Blythe's London Road is heading to the National Theatre this summer. The musical, which first premiered there in 2011, delivers a shocking, visceral portrait of one community’s terrible tragedy.
- Opens: Thursday, 5 June 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 21 June 2025
- Playing at: Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
- Booking until: Saturday, 21 June 2025
Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell
Sadlers Wells
Tickets from £25.00After a critically acclaimed run four years ago, The Midnight Bell returns to the London stage, telling poignant stories of ordinary people at a tavern in the heart of 1930s Soho. ChoreographerMatthew Bourne brings the works of novelist Patrick Hamilton to life by integrating dance and storytelling, featuring fourteen of New Adventures’ finest performers.
- Opens: Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 21 June 2025 - Running time: 1hr 50min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Sadlers Wells
- Booking until: Saturday, 21 June 2025
How To Fight Loneliness
Park Theatre
Tickets from £15.00From Tony Award-nominated writer Neil LaBute presents How To Fight Loneliness, a play which presents a gripping exploration of how we confront life's toughest moments when time is running out. It premieres at the Park Theatre in Spring 2025.
- Booking until: Saturday, 24 May 2025
- Running time: 2hr 20min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Park Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 24 May 2025
An Oak Tree
Young Vic
Tickets from £46.00In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Olivier Award-winning producers of Fleabag and Baby Reindeer present Tim Crouch’s groundbreaking An Oak Tree, one of the most influential new plays of our time. It heads to London's Young Vic for a limited run this May.
- Booking until: Saturday, 24 May 2025
- Running time: 1hr 15min. No interval.
- Playing at: Young Vic
- Booking until: Saturday, 24 May 2025
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Dream Ballets: A Triple Bill
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
Tickets from £18.00The magical triple bill, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Dream Ballets, is on stage at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre for summer 2025. Expect a heavenly experience created with love by some of the world's finest award-winning musical theatre dance makers.
- Opens: Thursday, 19 June 2025
Booking until: Sunday, 22 June 2025
- Playing at: Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Royal Opera House
Tickets from £112.00Christopher Wheeldon's unique theatrical interpretations of Lewis Carroll's beloved story heads to the Royal Opera House for the first time since 2011. Supported by ballet scores of the 19th century, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland features an explosion of colour, stage magic and captivating choreography. A perfect dose of entertainment for the whole family awaits you!
- Opens: Friday, 13 June 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 28 June 2025 - Running time: 2hr 50min. Incl. 2 intervals.
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Saturday, 28 June 2025
Carmen
Royal Opera House
3.8 4 reviews 3.8 4 reviews Tickets from £64.00French composer Georges Bizet's beloved opera Carmen is set to play at the Royal Opera House. With its fascinating blend of passion, sensuality and violence - this is a great production for devoted opera fanatics and people who want to be introduced to a timeless piece.
- Booking until: Thursday, 3 July 2025
- Running time: 3hr. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Thursday, 3 July 2025
The Mad Ones
The Other Palace - Studio
Tickets from £18.00After a massively successful run in Birmingham, The Mad Ones heads to the capital in May 2025. The production which provided an instant viral hit on YouTube will take audiences on a heartwarming, lively ride through love, loss, and finding your own destiny.
- Booking until: Sunday, 1 June 2025
- Playing at: The Other Palace - Studio
- Booking until: Sunday, 1 June 2025
The Westway Sessions at the Vaudeville
Vaudeville Theatre
Tickets from £36.00Six leading stars of the West End and Broadway will perform five exclusive Westway Concerts at the Vaudeville Theatre: Cassidy Janson, Liza Pulman & Joe Stilgoe (Couple of Swells), Aimie Atkinson, Lee Mead and Kerry Ellis.
- Booking until: Monday, 23 June 2025
- Running time: 1hr 50min. Incl 1 Interval.
- Playing at: Vaudeville Theatre
- Booking until: Monday, 23 June 2025
Elephant
Menier Chocolate Factory
Tickets from £30.00Elephant is award-winner Anoushka Lucas’s debut show: a searing exploration of identity and selfhood which had its first run at the Bush Theatre. Now it is getting a brand new revival at the Menier Chocolate Factory, directed by Jess Edwards (Passengers), with a limited run from May 22nd to 28th June.
- Booking until: Saturday, 28 June 2025
- Running time: 1hr 25min.
- Playing at: Menier Chocolate Factory
- Booking until: Saturday, 28 June 2025
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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