West End Favourites
What's hot in London's theatreland? There's so much to choose from: musicals, plays, opera, dance, comedy, classical concerts, children's favourites and more. To help you choose, we've put together a collection of the most popular West End shows. See below for the longest running shows that pull in packed houses every night, international audiences, superb reviews and an enduring appeal across the generations. We've also included a selection of the latest and newest smash hits that are currently creating a storm in the theatre world. If you want to find out about the best shows in London, here they are.
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The Book of Mormon
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It's rare for a show to cause such a stir. But when this production hit the Broadway stage in 2010 a flock of often-hard-to-please reviewers gave it an immediate and enthusiastic thumbs-up. It's rude, irreverent and definitely NOT for the easily offended. Introducing The Book of Mormon, which has made the long-rumoured transfer to London's West End at last!
Tickets from £22.50
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Thriller - Live
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If you love Michael Jackson’s music you’ll adore this smash hit West End show. It’s a veritable feast for the eyes, ears and emotions with breath-taking choreography in true Jackson style and a musical roll of honour including thirty five of his greatest dance, disco, soul, Motown and indie chart toppers.
Tickets from £32.00
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Kinky Boots
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A huge hit over there, now it's over here! Kinky Boots the Musical delighted audiences on Broadway in the spring of 2013. It pleased the critics and reviewers just as much. Now it's coming home, telling the brilliant true story of W J Brookes shoe factory in Northamptonshire and the revolutionary steps they took to survive when their business started to struggle.
Aladdin The Musical
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Aladdin – Let the magic commence! The Prince Edward theatre is your summer 2016 venue for a Disney classic that's been making waves on Broadway since it debuted there in 2014. Now it's the West End's turn, to the delight of thousands of British Disney fans who've been waiting for the long-rumoured transfer to go ahead. It's already set to become one of the world's favourite family musicals... and the anticipation is mounting.
Tickets from £29.50
The Lion King
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The Lion King, the multi-award winning musical, continues to wow audiences night after night with amazing puppets and stage sets, a heart-warming storyline, incredible choreography and a musical score that hits the mark every time.
Tickets from £35.70
Wicked
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Based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, this multi-award winning show is packing the house to the rafters every night, dubbed Best Musical of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly.
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Dreamgirls
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Dream Girls – The legendary musical re-awakens. Roll back time to 1981 and Dreamgirls had just opened on Broadway. Thirty years ago the part of Effie was played by Jennifer Holliday, who won an Oscar for her role as Effie in the 2006 film. Both movie and stage versions raised the roof with standing ovation after standing ovation. That's the power of soul music, that's the effect of this legendary musical, and now it's back in town.
Starring: Amber Riley, Ruth Brown, Karen Mav
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Motown The Musical
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Fresh from Broadway, this epic jukebox musical is set to make a splash at the West End's splendid Shaftesbury Theatre from February 2016. If you love sweet soul music, you'll adore it. It's packed with memorable Motown songs sung to perfection with amazing choreography to match, a proper trip down memory lane.
Starring: Cedric Neal, Lucy St. Louis, Charl Brown, Sifiso Mazibuko
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Bat Out of Hell
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Meat Loaf is one of the best-selling rock musicians of all time, offloading more than 80 million records through his glittering career... and counting. Now his remarkable work is being celebrated on the London stage thanks to a brilliant new musical playing at the Dominion Theatre from spring 2018. Bat Out of Hell is due in theatreland, and it's a little slice of theatrical heaven for anyone who loved big, noisy, bold rock.
Starring: Christina Bennington, Andrew Polec
Tickets from £18.00
Mamma Mia!
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If you love one-time Eurovision winners Abba, you’ll adore Mamma Mia! Twenty two of the ‘70s supergroup’s biggest hits are brought into play to tell the funny, romantic tale of bride Sophie and her wayward mother Donna. Join 45 million fans and enjoy this superbly uplifting show, perfect for the whole family!
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Phantom of the Opera
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The Phantom is a story that has captivated audiences from all over the world, a dark tale of love, obsession, revenge and tragedy set to a musical score that makes the heart soar. Based on a French thriller by writer Gaston Leroux, it’s a visual and aural feast of lavish costumes, eye-popping special effects, wonderful soaring music and superb acting.
Tickets from £29.80
Chicago
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An outstanding adaptation of a true-life story of murder and intrigue, Chicago the musical has been delighting audiences worldwide for decades. With music written by the same people who created the all-time classic tune New York, New York and the music for Cabaret, it’s the height of on-stage sophistication.
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr, Sarah Soetaert, Josefina Gabrielle, Ruthie Henshall
Tickets from £20.00
42nd Street
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It's back, the West End is absolutely thrilled and the media is buzzing. It's one of the best-loved stories in show business, revealing the rags to riches life of a young chorus line dancer Peggy who makes the Broadway big time. Whether or not you have stars in your eyes you'll adore the spectacle, the fun, the music, the laughter and the tears. Welcome back, 42nd Street!
Tickets from £17.90
Les Miserables
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It is three decades since the smash hit musical Les Miserables first hit the stage in Paris. Since then the sheer drama and romance of the tale, beautiful music and incredible stage sets have thrilled tens of millions of people. The French revolution provides a dramatic backdrop for this superb show, which has woven itself indelibly into our consciousness.
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Strictly Ballroom
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Strictly Ballroom, the award-winning 1992 film by acclaimed director Baz Luhrmann, comes to London’s Piccadilly Theatre in March 2018 for its London premiere as a glittering, sparkle, toe-tapping production. With songs taken from the film, as well as brand new material written by Luhrmann himself, this show promises to be a magical springtime addition to beat off those winter blues.
Tickets from £15.00
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The Woman in Black
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If you thoroughly enjoy being frightened, you’ll love this super-scary show, an exercise in pure gothic creepiness that’ll see you hanging onto the edge of your seat and jumping at the slightest sound. The fact that it has been released as a film, starring Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe, is testament to its uncanny appeal.
Matilda The Musical
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The terrible parents of Matilda Wormwood, who is five years old, are completely uninterested in their daughter. But she’s a gifted child who taught herself to read at age three and devours both adults’ and childrens’ books from her local library with devilish joy. Matilda the Musical tells the story of this very special little girl and her battles against the weird world of grown-ups.
Tickets from £23.80
The Comedy About A Bank Robbery
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If you've seen the marvellous Olivier-winning 'The Play That Goes Wrong', so good it just keeps on running, you're going to love this. Actually, you'll love it anyway, another hilarious romp from the excellent Mischief Theatre Company who also absolutely floored audiences with 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong'. Their unique brand of madcap humour has scored another hit, and as the critics say, it would be criminal to miss it.
Tickets from £11.90
Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
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At long last, Tina Turner will explode onto the West End’s Aldwych Theatre. Opening in March 2018, TINA is a musical about Turner’s transformation from humble beginnings in Nutbush, Tennessee to the global Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Book those tickets now so you too can enjoy such classics as Proud Mary live on stage.
Tickets from £23.20
The Play That Goes Wrong
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After a smash hit UK tour this hilarious play, which has won numerous accolades from reviewers who have laughed themselves silly over it, returns to the West End. If you haven't seen it yet and you love classic British comedies like the TV series Fawlty Towers, this one's for you. Funny just doesn't do it justice!
Tickets from £23.80
School of Rock the Musical
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School of Rock, The Musical – Fresh from Broadway. Jack Black gathered loads of critical acclaim for his lead role in the movie, a monster of a hit in 2003. It was quite simply hilarious, a feel-good film that out-grossed every screen comedy to earn vast amounts of money across the world. Now it's on stage in London, adapted masterfully for the stage and setting theatreland on fire for an extremely funny rock-fest you won't forget in a hurry.
Starring: David Fynn
Tickets from £17.90
Mousetrap
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Treat yourself to one of the West End’s most popular theatre shows, an Agatha Christie classic that’ll have you on the edge of your seat as the mystery unfolds. The setting: a country hotel, where the guests are snowed in with a murderer in their midst. Who did the dirty deed? The Mousetrap is an intricate, complex tale of dark deeds that’s loved by audiences from all over the world.
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Pressure
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Pressure is on at the magnificent Ambassadors theatre in early summer 2018, and it comes with immaculate credentials. The Telegraph calls it "Funny, tense and deeply affecting", the Evening Standard and Observer both handed it a five star review and the Daily Mail says it's 'thrilling'. When 350,000 lives at stake, it's crucial to get the weather forecast right – will they pull it off?
Starring: David Haig, Malcolm Sinclair, Laura Rogers
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
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Irish plays will double in number on the West End next – The Lieutenant of Inishmore will play at the Noel Coward Theatre, just down the road from record-breaking production The Ferryman. Both are set at opposite ends of the IRA’s most powerful period during the 1980s, both are written by award-winning playwrights. Why not go see them both then?
Starring: Aidan Turner
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The King and I
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If you know anything about musicals, you’ll have heard of Rodgers and Hammerstein. If you know anything about musical films, you’ll have head of Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner. What do these four have in common? Why, The King And I of course! After 18 years, it’s back at the London Palladium from June 2018, fresh from across the pond.
Starring: Kelli O’Hara, Ken Watanabe
Tickets from £35.10
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Young Frankenstein
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It's all very, very silly. Which, of course, sits at the heart of its popularity and ageless charm. It's Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein the musical, and it's making its way to London's West End for a side-splitting revival in autumn 2017. The black and white 1974 movie was killer fun. The 2017 stage version is set to be even madder, crazier and funnier. Brace yourselves...
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
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Everybody's Talking About Jamie is a brand new but already hugely popular 2017 musical with music by Dan Gillespie Sells and a book and lyrics by Tom MacRae. It was inspired by the remarkable BBC3 documentary, screened in 2011, called Jamie: Drag Queen at 16, and it's on at the glittering Apollo theatre.
Tickets from £23.80
Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie
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London County Hall is the perfect venue for this, a resurrection of one of Agatha Christie's best short stories and a courtroom drama that'll have you on the edge of your seat. Witness for the Prosecution is the name of the play, and it's as tense and dramatic as you'd expect from the pen of one of the most respected and original mistresses of crime drama.
Tickets from £11.90
Faulty Towers The Dining Experience
Families (81%) Couples (97%) Theatregoers (88%) i
You like your theatrical experiences a little bit different... or a lot different. How's this for something unusual and totally hilarious? If you've ever laughed yourself to tears over the classic TV comedy Fawlty Towers, this'll have you in stitches. Introducing a two hour feast of comedy interleaved with real food and drink, a dinner party you'll remember for the rest of your life. Welcome to Faulty Towers the Dining Experience.
Tickets from £67.50
The Glenn Miller Story
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It isn't often that a British music industry legend salutes a US musical icon. But this is one of those times. The music of Glenn Miller and his band provided the accompaniment to the Second World War. More than seventy years later Miller's music is as popular and powerful as ever, and it's being celebrated all over again thanks to a band led by Tommy Steele. You're going to love this glittering spectacular of a show.
Starring: Tommy Steele, Marti Webb
Tickets from £23.20
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
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Children’s theatre almost always works best when it’s interactive. And audience participation scores high in this delightful production of Michael Rosen’s best-selling kids’ book, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, whose drawings inspire the amazing stage sets. The perfect summer holiday treat for young children.
Tickets from £17.90
Killer Joe
The wonderful Orlando Bloom leads the cast in this production of Killer Joe at Trafalgar Studios, a stage version of the film and just as tense and entertaining as you'd expect. Bloom plays a policeman moonlighting as a hired killer in a play based on the award-winning 1993 play and 2011 movie by Tracy Letts. It's a black comedy masterpiece, not to be missed if you love your theatre sinister and dark.
Starring: Orlando Bloom
Tickets from £65.50
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The Great Gatsby
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There's something about the 1920s, the so-called Roaring Twenties, that inspires the imagination. If you were poor back then your life, especially in the USA where The Great Gatsby is set, was probably one of deprivation and difficulty.
David Walliams' Gangsta Granny
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From the award-winning producers of HORRIBLE HISTORIES comes David Walliams’ most popular book Gangsta Granny, which opens in the West End in July 2017. This smash-hit production, which was recently nominated for a UK Theatre Award for Best Show for Children and Young People, opens at the Garrick theatre on 26 July 2017, direct from an extensive UK tour.
Tickets from £17.90
The Tiger Who Came To Tea
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The Tiger Who Came to Tea returns to the West End stage, celebrating 50 years of Britain’s best-loved picture book!
Tickets from £11.90
The Nutcracker - English National Ballet
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The magical Christmas ballet for all the family, with exquisite dancing and Tchaikovsky’s glorious score played live.
Over 100 dancers and musicians bring Nutcracker to life.
Tickets from £16.70
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Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
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Olivier Award 2016 winners The Showstoppers are back in the West End transforming audience suggestions into all-singing, all-dancing shows with unpredictable and hilarious results.
Tickets from £24.00
Room On The Broom
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The West End theatre scene is ageless and timeless, and there’s something special for young theatre lovers too with Room On The Broom. It’s a funny, silly and highly entertaining show for children by the creators of The Gruffalo, the wonderful Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
Tickets from £17.90
The Magic Flute
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Following his success with The Encounter at the Barbican, Simon McBurney’s five-star production of The Magic Flute returns to ENO, concerning the search for truth and reason, love and enlightenment.
Tickets from £14.30
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The Book of Mormon
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