Latest Shows in London

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.

Hadestown, the brilliant acclaimed Broadway musical by the singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin, is in town for a long-awaited West End premiere in 2024 at the Lyric Theatre. Winner of 8 Tony Awards including 'Best Musical' along with the Grammy Award for 'Best Musical Theatre Album', Hadestown kicks off its West End premiere on 10 February 2024.

Matthew Bourne’s magical dance production of Edward Scissorhands has carved a place in the hearts of audiences world-wide since its premiere in 2005.

TuckShop are BACK for their THIRD West End season of their hilarious all-drag panto!

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.

Featuring the songs of Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Who, U2, Queen, The Police, Elton John, Paul McCartney, The Pretenders, The Cars, Status Quo, Paul Weller, Sade, The Boomtown Rats, Bryan Adams, Diana Ross, Ultravox and more, this is the story of Live Aid and the people united by it.

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?

Did 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 to 13th April 2024.

Peppa Pig is back in her oinktastic brand new live show, Fun Day Out!

Follow the Gruffalo’s Child on her adventurous mission in Tall Stories’ enchanting adaptation of the much-loved picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

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!"

Bronco Billy – A stage version of the 1980 movie

Bronco Billy is inspired by the excellent Warner Bros. motion picture written by Dennis Hackin and starring Clint Eastwood, on stage thanks to a special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures. It’s also an award-winner of a new Wild West show, a wonderfully lively comedy with the big West End favourite Emily Benjamin playing Antoinette. Bronco Billy The Musical is due at the West End’s Charing Cross Theatre from 23rd January to 7th April 2024, so don’t miss it.

Sleeping Beauty Takes A Prick! is the brand new, adults-only pantomime from the team behind Above The Stag Theatre’s legendary queer Christmas shows.

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

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?

Stanley Kubrick's astonishing story, Dr Strangelove, will arrive in the West End in 2024, a world premiere. Widely described as one of the greatest comedy films of all time, Kubrick's 1964 movie was nominated for four Academy Awards and seven BAFTAs. This brand new stage production is the first adaptation of the film-maker’s work, a collaboration by the BAFTA and Emmy Award winner Armando Iannucci and the Olivier winner Sean Foley. Prepare for a very dark, horribly funny satire about nuclear war.

2024 will see the return of the magnificent Strictly Come Dancing Live Arena Tour. Kicking off in Birmingham, a host of the celebs and professional dancers from the BBC One TV series will waltz around the country performing 33 shows in some of the UK’s biggest arenas in Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, Glasgow, Nottingham and London.

Cirque du Soleil Alegria – Sheer magic!

Alegria is an all-time Cirque du Soleil classic. To celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary, it has been beautifully re-imagined for a new generation. Through an unforgettable soundtrack, exciting acrobatics, surreal costumes, extraordinary sets and playful humour, Alegria delivers an emotionally immersive experience full of joy and hope. This really is an awesome show.

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.

The UK premiere of the 2008 American rock musical Next To Normal opened to critical acclaim and a sold-out run at the Donmar Warehouse in 2023. Now it's heading to the West End for a limited run from 18 June 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.

Jonathan Miller’s classic production of The Barber of Seville is a feast of frivolous fun.

A tale of honour, love and sacrifice, Jenůfa explores the stigma of pregnancy out of wedlock against the backdrop of a small community.

Giselle is a haunting story of innocence and betrayal – a timeless tale about the redemptive power of love.

As Judith unlocks room after room in the castle of her new husband, Duke Bluebeard, we follow her deeper and deeper into the recesses of his troubled imagination.

Spirited Away – A wondrous fantasy

Studio Ghibli is a famous Japanese animation studio based in Koganei, Tokyo, a highly respected presence in the international animation industry. Now their classic movie Spirited Away is coming to London's West End for 2024, adapted for the stage and in theatreland for a three month run. This is the European premiere, and the fun takes place at the London Coliseum from April.

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.

Experience a beautifully epic new version of The Brothers Grimm’s fairytale by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage in the Globe Theatre. Nick Bagnall directs the perfect winter treat for everyone aged 5+.

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.

Get ready for an unmissable show that pulses with the soaring adrenaline of a first crush and feels like the best pop concert you’ve never been to…

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.

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.

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.