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. And if plays are not your cup of tea, head over to our London Musicals page!
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Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle
Apollo Theatre
4/5 - based on 2 reviews - (Read reviews) 4 2 reviews Tickets from £21.00Join the Mind Mangler as he attempts a spectacular return with his West End debut two man solo show. Witness hilarious feats of mentalism spiral into chaos as he attempts to read your mind, mind, mind…
- Booking until: Sunday,28 April 2024
- Running time: 2h (incl. interval)
- Playing at: Apollo Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday,28 April 2024
Fawlty Towers
Apollo Theatre
Tickets from £20.00- Opens: Saturday, 4 May 2024
Booking until: Saturday,28 September 2024
- Playing at: Apollo Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday,28 September 2024
The Hills of California
Harold Pinter Theatre
4.3/5 - based on 6 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.3 6 reviews Tickets from £18.00- Booking until: Saturday,15 June 2024
- Running time: 3 hours (incl. interval)
- Playing at: Harold Pinter Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday,15 June 2024
Oedipus (Old Vic)
Old Vic Theatre
- Opens: Tuesday,21 January 2025
Booking until: Saturday,29 March 2025 - Starring: Indira Varma, Rami Malek
- Playing at: Old Vic Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday,29 March 2025
Machinal
Old Vic Theatre
Tickets from £15.00From the outside, Helen Jones and her husband had a ‘happy marriage’. Until she murdered him.
- Opens: Wednesday,17 April 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 1 June 2024 - Running time: 1 hour 50 minutes (no interval)
- Playing at: Old Vic Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 1 June 2024
Nachtland
Young Vic
5/5 - based on 1 review - (Read reviews) 5 1 review Tickets from £25.00Do you want this hanging over your kitchen table to remind you of your Daddy?
- Booking until: Saturday,20 April 2024
- Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes (no interval)
- Playing at: Young Vic
- Booking until: Saturday,20 April 2024
The Tiger Who Came To Tea
Theatre Royal Haymarket
4.6/5 - based on 34 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.6 34 reviews Tickets from £12.00Based on Britain’s best-loved picture book by Judith Kerr, the Olivier Award nominated smash hit show The Tiger Who Came to Tea returns to the West End for Summer 2024.
- Opens: Monday, 8 July 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 1 September 2024 - Running time: 55m (no interval)
- Playing at: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Booking until: Sunday, 1 September 2024
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Tickets from £68.00Did you adore the TV series Succession? If so this one’s for you, an equally incredible classic horror story starring Succession’s ‘Shiv’, Sarah Snook. The award-winning Aussie actor comes back to the West End to star in an awesome new adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the drama takes place at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 23rd January.
- Booking until: Saturday,11 May 2024
- Running time: 2 hrs (no interval)
- Starring: Sarah Snook
- Playing at: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Booking until: Saturday,11 May 2024
A View from The Bridge
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Tickets from £27.00- Opens: Thursday,23 May 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 3 August 2024 - Running time: TBC
- Starring: Callum Scott Howells, Kate Fleetwood, Dominic West
- Playing at: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Booking until: Saturday, 3 August 2024
Waiting For Godot
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Tickets from £19.55- Opens: Friday,13 September 2024
Booking until: Saturday,14 December 2024 - Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes
- Playing at: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Booking until: Saturday,14 December 2024
People, Places and Things
Trafalgar Theatre
4.6/5 - based on 18 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.6 18 reviews Tickets from £24.00- Opens: Friday, 3 May 2024
Booking until: Saturday,10 August 2024 - Running time: 2hr 20min (incl. interval)
- Starring: Denise Gough
- Playing at: Trafalgar Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday,10 August 2024
A Mirror
Trafalgar Theatre
4.6/5 - based on 16 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.6 16 reviews Tickets from £25.00- Booking until: Wednesday,15 May 2024
- Running time: 2 hours (no interval)
- Starring: Jonny Lee Miller
- Playing at: Trafalgar Theatre
- Booking until: Wednesday,15 May 2024
For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy
Garrick Theatre
5/5 - based on 5 reviews - (Read reviews) 5 5 reviews Tickets from £24.00Following three previous sold-out runs, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Heavy is heading back into the West End for a limited run from 29 February 2024. Don't miss out on what The Spectator described as "A vital piece of theatre!"
- Opens: Monday,25 March 2024
Booking until: Tuesday, 7 May 2024 - Running time: 2 hours and 35 minutes, including interval.
- Playing at: Garrick Theatre
- Booking until: Tuesday, 7 May 2024
Instructions For A Teenage Armageddon
Garrick Theatre
5/5 - based on 1 review - (Read reviews) 5 1 review Tickets from £15.00- Booking until: Sunday,28 April 2024
- Running time: 1h 20m
- Starring: Charithra Chandran
- Playing at: Garrick Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday,28 April 2024
Harry Potter And The Cursed Child
Palace Theatre
4.6/5 - based on 36 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.6 36 reviews Tickets from £36.00- Booking until: Sunday, 2 March 2025
- Playing at: Palace Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday, 2 March 2025
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Phoenix Theatre
4.9/5 - based on 19 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.9 19 reviews Tickets from £24.00- Booking until: Sunday,15 December 2024
- Running time: 3 hours (inc. interval)
- Playing at: Phoenix Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday,15 December 2024
Mousetrap
St Martins Theatre
4.5/5 - based on 1079 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.5 1079 reviews Tickets from £25.00- Booking until: Saturday, 1 March 2025
- Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes including a 20 minute interval
- Playing at: St Martins Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 1 March 2025
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare: Macbeth
Leicester Square Theatre
Tickets from £27.40Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® is back for the 5th year at Leicester Square Theatre and it’s going to be a bloodbath, with their all-new production of Macbeth. Upon hearing the weird sisters’ prediction, Macbeth and his wily wife take matters into their own hands and burn down everything in their wake. Well, almost. Fair is foul and foul is fair in this tale of prophecy gone slightly off the rails. Perhaps an inebriated actor will help the process along?
- Booking until: Thursday,28 March 2024
- Playing at: Leicester Square Theatre
- Booking until: Thursday,28 March 2024
The Motive and The Cue
Noel Coward Theatre
4.9/5 - based on 13 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.9 13 reviews Tickets from £107.00The 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?
- Booking until: Saturday,23 March 2024
- Running time: 2h 40m (incl. interval)
- Starring: Johnny Flynn, Mark Gatiss
- Playing at: Noel Coward Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday,23 March 2024
Player Kings
Noel Coward Theatre
Tickets from £32.75- Opens: Monday, 1 April 2024
Booking until: Saturday,22 June 2024 - Starring: Ian McKellen
- Playing at: Noel Coward Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday,22 June 2024
Slave Play
Noel Coward Theatre
Tickets from £38.75- Opens: Saturday,29 June 2024
Booking until: Sunday,22 September 2024 - Starring: Kit Harington
- Playing at: Noel Coward Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday,22 September 2024
The Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre
4.7/5 - based on 1888 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.7 1888 reviews Tickets from £24.00- Booking until: Sunday, 4 May 2025
- Running time: 2 hours (incl. interval)
- Playing at: Duchess Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday, 4 May 2025
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Wyndham's Theatre
4.5/5 - based on 16 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.5 16 reviews Tickets from £26.00- Booking until: Saturday, 8 June 2024
- Starring: Brian Cox
- Playing at: Wyndham's Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 8 June 2024
Oedipus (Wyndham's Theatre)
Wyndham's Theatre
- Opens: Friday, 4 October 2024
Booking until: Friday,15 November 2024 - Starring: Lesley Manville, Mark Strong
- Playing at: Wyndham's Theatre
- Booking until: Friday,15 November 2024
Romeo & Juliet
Duke of York's Theatre
4/5 - based on 3 reviews - (Read reviews) 4 3 reviews- Opens: Saturday,11 May 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 3 August 2024 - Starring: Tom Holland
- Playing at: Duke of York's Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 3 August 2024
An Enemy of the People
Duke of York's Theatre
4.1/5 - based on 10 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.1 10 reviews Tickets from £59.00- Booking until: Saturday,13 April 2024
- Running time: 2 hours 15 mins including interval
- Starring: Matt Smith
- Playing at: Duke of York's Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday,13 April 2024
Twelfth Night
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
5/5 - based on 29 reviews - (Read reviews) 5 29 reviews Tickets from £18.00- Opens: Friday, 3 May 2024
Booking until: Monday, 8 July 2024
- Playing at: Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
- Booking until: Monday, 8 July 2024
Harry Clarke
Ambassadors Theatre
5/5 - based on 1 review - (Read reviews) 5 1 review Tickets from £42.00- Booking until: Saturday,11 May 2024
- Running time: 1h 20m (no interval)
- Starring: Billy Crudup
- Playing at: Ambassadors Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday,11 May 2024
Austentatious
Arts Theatre
5/5 - based on 3 reviews - (Read reviews) 5 3 reviews Tickets from £20.00- Booking until: Monday,29 July 2024
- Running time: 1h 45m (incl. interval)
- Playing at: Arts Theatre
- Booking until: Monday,29 July 2024
Choir of Man
Arts Theatre
5/5 - based on 157 reviews - (Read reviews) 5 157 reviews Tickets from £15.00- Booking until: Sunday,29 September 2024
- Running time: 90 minutes (no. Interval)
- Playing at: Arts Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday,29 September 2024
Standing at the Sky’s Edge
Gillian Lynne Theatre
5/5 - based on 5 reviews - (Read reviews) 5 5 reviews Tickets from £24.00The multi-award winning new musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge has won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. It won the UK Theatre Award for Best Musical Production, and also the South Bank Sky Arts Award. Now it transfers to the West End’s Gillian Lynne Theatre after dazzling sold-out runs at the National Theatre and Sheffield Theatres. Widely considered the most exciting new British musical in years, it’s a must for lovers of top quality home-grown musical theatre.
- Booking until: Saturday, 3 August 2024
- Running time: 2 hours 50 minutes (incl. interval)
- Playing at: Gillian Lynne Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 3 August 2024
The Merchant of Venice
Criterion Theatre
4.3/5 - based on 4 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.3 4 reviews Tickets from £21.00- Booking until: Saturday,23 March 2024
- Running time: 2 hours (incl. interval)
- Playing at: Criterion Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday,23 March 2024
Nye
Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
- Booking until: Saturday,11 May 2024
- Playing at: Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
- Booking until: Saturday,11 May 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.
- Opens: Wednesday,21 August 2024
Booking until: Sunday,27 October 2024 - Running time: 1hr 45mins (no interval)
- Playing at: Globe Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday,27 October 2024
Richard III | Globe
Globe Theatre
Tickets from £8.00Meet Richard: the man, the myth, the monster. A new production of Shakespeare’s Richard III unfolds in the Globe Theatre this summer, with Artistic Director Michelle Terry in the title role.
- Opens: Thursday, 9 May 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 3 August 2024
- Playing at: Globe Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 3 August 2024
Antony and Cleopatra | Globe
Globe Theatre
Tickets from £8.00For the first time in ten years, Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s epic story of love, duty, and power unfolds in the Globe Theatre in a ground-breaking bilingual production using Spoken English and British Sign Language.
- Opens: Sunday, 4 August 2024
Booking until: Sunday,15 September 2024
- Playing at: Globe Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday,15 September 2024
The Taming of the Shrew | Globe
Globe Theatre
Tickets from £8.00Step inside an absurd carnival this summer as Shakespeare’s vicious comedy The Taming of the Shrew arrives in the Globe Theatre.
- Opens: Thursday, 6 June 2024
Booking until: Saturday,26 October 2024
- Playing at: Globe Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday,26 October 2024
Much Ado About Nothing | Globe
Globe Theatre
Tickets from £8.00Welcome to a luxurious paradise in the Globe Theatre this summer as love in its many forms is celebrated in Shakespeare’s timeless comedy, Much Ado About Nothing.
- Opens: Thursday,25 April 2024
Booking until: Saturday,24 August 2024
- Playing at: Globe Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday,24 August 2024
Princess Essex | Globe
Globe Theatre
Tickets from £8.00Discover 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.
- Opens: Friday,13 September 2024
Booking until: Saturday,26 October 2024
- Playing at: Globe Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday,26 October 2024
The Marilyn Conspiracy
Park Theatre
Tickets from £18.00On Wednesday August 1st 1962, seven people gathered at Marilyn Monroe’s home to celebrate her new $2m two-picture deal with 20th Century Fox.
- Opens: Wednesday,19 June 2024
Booking until: Saturday,27 July 2024
- Playing at: Park Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday,27 July 2024
A Song of Songs
Park Theatre
Tickets from £18.00From an unprecedented collaboration of international artists comes A Song of Songs, a critically acclaimed musical play, and winner of The San Francisco Critics Award for the best new production.
- Opens: Thursday, 9 May 2024
Booking until: Saturday,15 June 2024 - Running time: 2 hours (incl interval)
- Playing at: Park Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday,15 June 2024
Minority Report
Lyric Hammersmith
Tickets from £15.00In 2050, neuroscientist Dame Julia Anderton is about to launch the next phase of her pioneering Pre-Crime programme, detaining people for crimes before they are committed. But when Julia is accused of pre-murder, she’s in a race against time to save herself from her own system.
- Opens: Saturday,20 April 2024
Booking until: Saturday,18 May 2024 - Running time: 1h 30m (no interval)
- Playing at: Lyric Hammersmith
- Booking until: Saturday,18 May 2024
Wedding Band
Lyric Hammersmith
Tickets from £18.00Set in the deep south of USA in 1918 when interracial marriage was illegal, Julia, a black seamstress, and Herman, a white baker, are defying all odds with their secret love.
- Opens: Saturday, 1 June 2024
Booking until: Saturday,29 June 2024 - Running time: 2h 30m (incl. interval)
- Playing at: Lyric Hammersmith
- Booking until: Saturday,29 June 2024
Faith Healer
Lyric Hammersmith
Tickets from £15.00Trawling through the remote and lonely villages of Ireland, Wales and Scotland is The Fantastic Frank Hardy, who for one night only promises miracle cures for the sick and the suffering. He might just be more showman than shaman but… the promise of the impossible is irresistible.
- Opens: Thursday,21 March 2024
Booking until: Saturday,13 April 2024 - Running time: 2 hours (incl. interval)
- Playing at: Lyric Hammersmith
- Booking until: Saturday,13 April 2024
Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie
London County Hall
4.7/5 - based on 195 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.7 195 reviews Tickets from £15.00- Booking until: Sunday,30 March 2025
- Running time: 2hrs 20min (incl. interval)
- Playing at: London County Hall
- Booking until: Sunday,30 March 2025
The Duchess Of Malfi
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
5/5 - based on 1 review - (Read reviews) 5 1 review Tickets from £43.00Award-winning Director Rachel Bagshaw (Midnight Movie, Royal Court) makes her Globe directorial debut with John Webster’s seminal revenge tragedy, ten years after it opened the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2014.
- Booking until: Sunday,14 April 2024
- Running time: 2 hours and 40 minutes (incl. interval)
- Starring: Eve Best
- Playing at: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
- Booking until: Sunday,14 April 2024
Othello
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
4/5 - based on 2 reviews - (Read reviews) 4 2 reviews Tickets from £43.00Shakespeare’s confronting look at the destructive impact of racism is laid bare by candlelight in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Ola Ince (Romeo & Juliet, Globe, 2021) directs.
- Booking until: Saturday,13 April 2024
- Running time: 3hr (incl. interval)
- Playing at: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
- Booking until: Saturday,13 April 2024
Rough Magic | Globe
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Tickets from £18.00Following the Olivier Award-nominated, ‘fantastically funny’ ★★★★★ (Broadway World) Midsummer Mechanicals, Shakespeare’s Globe and Splendid Productions present a brand-new family show, Rough Magic, in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse this summer.
- Opens: Saturday,20 July 2024
Booking until: Saturday,24 August 2024
- Playing at: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
- Booking until: Saturday,24 August 2024
Faulty Towers The Dining Experience
President Hotel
4.7/5 - based on 409 reviews - (Read reviews) 4.7 409 reviews Tickets from £74.00- Booking until: Sunday,22 December 2024
- Running time: 2 Hours
- Playing at: President Hotel
- Booking until: Sunday,22 December 2024
Red Pitch
Soho Place Theatre (@sohoplace)
Tickets from £25.00- Booking until: Saturday, 4 May 2024
- Running time: 1 hour 30 mins (no interval)
- Playing at: Soho Place Theatre (@sohoplace)
- Booking until: Saturday, 4 May 2024
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Wilton's Music Hall
5/5 - based on 2 reviews - (Read reviews) 5 2 reviews Tickets from £11.00- Opens: Tuesday, 9 April 2024
Booking until: Saturday,20 April 2024 - Running time: 2h 10m (incl. interval)
- Playing at: Wilton's Music Hall
- Booking until: Saturday,20 April 2024
Blue
Seven Dials Playhouse
Tickets from £15.00- Booking until: Saturday,30 March 2024
- Running time: 60 minutes, no interval
- Playing at: Seven Dials Playhouse
- Booking until: Saturday,30 March 2024
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