London Plays

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.

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.

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.

Olivier-nominated Matthew Dunster (2:22 A Ghost Story) directs a bold, spare refocusing of Harold Pinter’s powerful masterpiece.

Do you want this hanging over your kitchen table to remind you of your Daddy?

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.

Following 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!"

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

Sh!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?
 

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?

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.

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.

Starring Jennifer Saunders as Captain Hook and Julian Clary as seaman Smee, the cast includes all your Palladium panto favourites, including Paul Zerdin, Nigel Havers, Gary Wilmot and the return of Rob Madge.

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.

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

The 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.

Be among the first to see the West End Premiere of this theatrical experience from September 2023.

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.

Following its critically acclaimed run at Soho Theatre premiere in 2007, Philip Ridley’s four-hander is a gripping narrative of memory, manipulation, and power - now regarded as a modern classic - returns for the first time in 16 years with a new production by longtime collaborators, Lidless Theatre.

The 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.

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

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

“This is the first time I’m talking about this in all of these years so I – I’m in – I I’m in this world but I’m not.”

Broadway smash-hit and winner of two Tony Awards, Dana H. will have its UK premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in January 2024.

In 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.

Set 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.

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.

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!

Award-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.

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.

Shakespeare’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.

Seven classic pantomimes in 70 hilarious minutes! The Olivier Award nominated festive celebration Potted Panto is back for four weeks only.

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.