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New Shows in London
London is the live entertainment capital of the world, Broadway's sister and a place where magic happens every night of the week. Check out these exciting new London shows doing the rounds, delighting audiences with popular comedy, thought-provoking plays, historical dramas, contemporary musicals and more. We've arranged them in order of popularity to make choosing easier.
Room On The Broom
Lyric Theatre
4.3 30 reviews 4.3 30 reviews Tickets from £12.00- Opens: Friday, 22 November 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025 - Running time: 1hr.
- Playing at: Lyric Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025
La Voix
Lyric Theatre
Tickets from £24.00- Opens: Monday, 20 January 2025
Booking until: Monday, 20 January 2025 - Running time: 2hr 20mins. Incl. 1 Interval.
- Playing at: Lyric Theatre
- Booking until: Monday, 20 January 2025
Maddie Moate’s Very Curious Christmas
Apollo Theatre
Tickets from £18.00Join beloved children’s TV presenter Maddie Moate as she makes her West End debut with this brand-new live show! Following the success of her hit book ‘A Very Curious Christmas’, Maddie is super excited to bring her festive facts and magical experiments to you, at the Apollo Theatre.
- Opens: Friday, 6 December 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 4 January 2025 - Running time: 1hr.
- Playing at: Apollo Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 4 January 2025
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Sadlers Wells
4.6 73 reviews 4.6 73 reviews Tickets from £71.00- Opens: Wednesday, 20 August 2025
Booking until: Sunday, 7 September 2025 - Running time: 2 hours and 30 minutes including a 20 minute interval.
- Playing at: Sadlers Wells
- Booking until: Sunday, 7 September 2025
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
Sadlers Wells
4.6 13 reviews 4.6 13 reviews Tickets from £18.00When it premiered at Sadler’s Wells in 1995, Matthew Bourne’s triumphant modern re-interpretation of Swan Lake turned tradition upside down, and took the dance world by storm. Now firmly established as a modern day classic, this iconic production is perhaps best-known for replacing the traditional female corps de ballet with a menacing male ensemble. Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist, Matthew Bourne blends dance, humour and spectacle with extravagant, award-winning designs by Lez Brotherston, to create a provocative and powerful Swan Lake for our times.
- Opens: Friday, 20 December 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 26 January 2025 - Running time: 2hr 20min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Sadlers Wells
- Booking until: Sunday, 26 January 2025
Quadrophenia, a Mod Ballet
Sadlers Wells
In 1973, guitar smashing rock genius Pete Townshend wrote Quadrophenia.
Recorded by The Who – it quickly became an iconic and multi-million selling album. Quadrophenia defined a generation and in 1979 inspired the cult classic feature film of the same name.
- Opens: Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Booking until: Wednesday, 13 August 2025
- Playing at: Sadlers Wells
- Booking until: Wednesday, 13 August 2025
The Cabinet Minister
Menier Chocolate Factory
5 1 review 5 1 review Tickets from £25.00Sir Julian Twombley is in trouble: his wife and son have run up massive debts and his political reputation is in the balance. The House of Commons is far from a safe space for him and the newspapers are sniffing blood. Can he save face and hang on to his sanity?
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
- Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl. interval.
- Playing at: Menier Chocolate Factory
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
The Producers
Menier Chocolate Factory
Tickets from £47.00A major new revival of Mel Brooks’ musical adaptation of THE PRODUCERS will be staged at the Menier this Christmas by Tony Award-winning director Patrick Marber.
- Opens: Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 1 March 2025
- Playing at: Menier Chocolate Factory
- Booking until: Saturday, 1 March 2025
Macbeth
Harold Pinter Theatre
Tickets from £300.00Following its sold run at the Donmar Warehouse, Macbeth transfers to the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre. David Tennant and Cush Jumbo return to their landmark performances in Shakespeare's most extraordinary psychological drama.
- Booking until: Saturday, 14 December 2024
- Running time: 1hr 50min. No interval.
- Playing at: Harold Pinter Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 14 December 2024
Slava's Snowshow
Harold Pinter Theatre
4.1 10 reviews 4.1 10 reviews Tickets from £29.00The awe-inspiring, Olivier and Tony Award-winning family extravaganza, Slava's SnowShow heads into the West End following a seven-year hiatus across the festive season. Vyacheslav Ivanovich ‘Slava’ Polunin’s clowning masterpiece delivers an unforgettable spectacle.
- Opens: Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 12 January 2025
- Playing at: Harold Pinter Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday, 12 January 2025
Oedipus (Old Vic)
Old Vic Theatre
Tickets from £38.00- 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
A Christmas Carol - Old Vic
Old Vic Theatre
5 9 reviews 5 9 reviews Tickets from £19.00Old 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.
- Opens: Saturday, 9 November 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 4 January 2025 - Running time: 2 hours (incl. interval)
- Playing at: Old Vic Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 4 January 2025
The Brightening Air
Old Vic Theatre
Tickets from £26.00Brother and sister Stephen and Billie, home is all they have. Mucking along in their decaying farmhouse, they’re doing just fine.
That is, until the arrival of an ex-clergyman uncle with an unscrupulous plan, a sister-in-law seeking a miracle, and a prodigal brother hell-bent on trouble.
- Opens: Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 14 June 2025
- Playing at: Old Vic Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 14 June 2025
The Little Foxes
Young Vic
Tickets from £34.00'There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it.'
- Opens: Thursday, 5 December 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 8 February 2025
- Playing at: Young Vic
- Booking until: Saturday, 8 February 2025
Punch
Young Vic
Tickets from £38.00Experience Punch, the latest masterpiece from Olivier Award-winning playwright James Graham (Best of Enemies, Dear England, This House), which brings Jacob Dunne’s powerful true-life account to the stage. This ★★★★★ production, following a sold-out run in Nottingham, is igniting discussions everywhere, from theatres and courthouses to the House of Commons.
- Opens: Saturday, 1 March 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 12 April 2025 - Running time: 2hr 25min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Young Vic
- Booking until: Saturday, 12 April 2025
Waiting For Godot
Theatre Royal Haymarket
4.4 7 reviews 4.4 7 reviews Tickets from £19.00Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw star in one of the greatest plays of the 20th century – Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, directed by James Macdonald is heading to London. Waiting for Godot centres on Vladimir and Estragon who wait for the mysterious Godot. The play delves into themes of existentialism, absurdity, and the human condition, highlighting the uncertainty and repetitiveness of life.
- Booking until: Saturday, 21 December 2024
- Running time: 2hr 45min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Starring: Ben Whishaw
- Playing at: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Booking until: Saturday, 21 December 2024
The Deep Blue Sea
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Tickets from £27.00Tamsin 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.
- Opens: Wednesday, 7 May 2025
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
Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out
Theatre Royal Haymarket
5 1 review 5 1 review Tickets from £12.00Peppa Pig is back in her oinktastic brand new live show, Fun Day Out!
- Opens: Thursday, 28 November 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025 - Running time: 1hr 20min. Incl. 1 Interval.
- Playing at: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025
The Score
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Tickets from £27.00Spring 1747, Potsdam, Prussia. Johann Sebastian Bach reluctantly visits the court of Frederick II, Europe’s most ambitious and dangerous leader. The two men could hardly be more different. Bach is deeply religious, Frederick is an atheist. Bach loathes war, Frederick revels in it. Bach studies scripture, Frederick reads military history. Frederick remains in awe of Bach’s genius however and has mischievously prepared a musical conundrum that he hopes will baffle the composer and amuse his court. The explosive events of the following days could not have been predicted by either man.
- Opens: Thursday, 20 February 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 26 April 2025 - Running time: 2hr 40min. Incl. 1 Interval.
- Playing at: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Booking until: Saturday, 26 April 2025
Bill Bailey - Thoughtifier
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Tickets from £27.00Bill takes us on a jaunt through the error-strewn, distracted, crumb-festooned, sometimes magnificent history of human thought and how it might help us survive in this brave new world.
- Opens: Saturday, 28 December 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 19 January 2025 - Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl 1 interval.
- Playing at: Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Booking until: Sunday, 19 January 2025
The Merchant of Venice
Trafalgar Theatre
4.3 4 reviews 4.3 4 reviews Tickets from £24.00- Opens: Saturday, 28 December 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 25 January 2025 - Running time: 2hr. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Trafalgar Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 25 January 2025
The Duchess
Trafalgar Theatre
3.8 6 reviews 3.8 6 reviews Tickets from £20.00Returning to the stage for the first time in over a decade, Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) takes on the role of a lifetime in Zinnie Harris' acclaimed contemporary adaptation of The Duchess of Malfi, playing at the Trafalgar Theatre for 11 weeks only.
- Booking until: Saturday, 21 December 2024
- Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Starring: Jodie Whittaker
- Playing at: Trafalgar Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 21 December 2024
Clueless
Trafalgar Theatre
Tickets from £29.00Clueless The Musical is heading to the West End in 2025. Adapted from the iconic Paramount Pictures film, this musical puts a modern twist on Jane Austen's Emma. Audiences can expect a hilarious, nostalgic and high-energy trip back to the 90s.
- Opens: Saturday, 15 February 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 14 June 2025
- Playing at: Trafalgar Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 14 June 2025
Charlie Cook's Favourite Book
Trafalgar Theatre
Tickets from £18.00Charlie loves reading. Especially books about pirates. But his sister hates it – it’s boring! Can Charlie convince her that reading is fun? Perhaps if she reads a book about a pirate, who is reading a book about Goldilocks, who is reading a book about a knight…
- Opens: Thursday, 5 December 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025 - Running time: 1hr. No interval.
- Playing at: Trafalgar Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025
The Snowman
Peacock Theatre
4.7 35 reviews 4.7 35 reviews Tickets from £22.00- Opens: Saturday, 23 November 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 4 January 2025 - Running time: 1hr 50min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Peacock Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 4 January 2025
The Importance Of Being Earnest
Lyttelton - National Theatre
4.5 72 reviews 4.5 72 reviews Tickets from £65.99- Opens: Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 25 January 2025
- Playing at: Lyttelton - National Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 25 January 2025
Alterations
Lyttelton - National Theatre
‘Is that what you want? To be an underdog all your life?’
Walker Holt has big dreams for his tailor’s shop, and an even bigger order to complete. Over the course of 24 hours he must work tirelessly to satisfy his new client’s impossible tailoring needs.
- Opens: Thursday, 20 February 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 5 April 2025
- Playing at: Lyttelton - National Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 5 April 2025
Inter Alia
Lyttelton - National Theatre
From the team behind Prima Facie, Rosamund Pike (Saltburn) leads the cast as an eminent High Court Judge forced to reckon her professional life and role as wife, mother, friend and feminist in Suzie Miller’s new play, directed by Justin Martin.
- Opens: To be announced
Booking until: To be announced - Starring: Rosamund Pike
- Playing at: Lyttelton - National Theatre
- Booking until: To be announced
Here We Are
Lyttelton - National Theatre
It’s a perfect day for brunch.
Leo and Marianne Brink have found the ideal spot to take their friends. With great reviews, impeccable service and an extensive menu it seems like nothing could go wrong. But after a series of strange events interrupt their meal, they soon realise they’ve bitten off more than they can chew.
- Opens: Wednesday, 23 April 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 28 June 2025
- Playing at: Lyttelton - National Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 28 June 2025
Stiletto
Charing Cross Theatre
Tickets from £25.00In Italy during the 18th century, an average of 5,000 boys were castrated annually. Almost exclusively, they came from poor families. Their treble voices intact, castration promised those who survived a chance to earn fame and fortune by singing female roles in the opera. A few made it, but most didn't and were swept aside.
- Opens: Monday, 24 March 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 14 June 2025
- Playing at: Charing Cross Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 14 June 2025
Only Fools and Horses the Musical
Eventim Apollo
4.7 370 reviews 4.7 370 reviews Tickets from £42.00- Opens: Tuesday, 17 December 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025 - Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Starring: Paul Whitehouse, Vinnie Jones
- Playing at: Eventim Apollo
- Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025
Peter Pan
Phoenix Theatre
4.5 2 reviews 4.5 2 reviews Tickets from £30.00All children grow up. Except one.
This summer, get set for an awfully big adventure as the National Theatre’s “unforgettable and delightful” (Guardian) re-telling of JM Barrie’s classic tale takes flight at Troubadour White City Theatre, a brand new theatre only minutes away from Westfield London.
- Opens: Monday, 2 December 2024
Booking until: Monday, 6 January 2025
- Playing at: Phoenix Theatre
- Booking until: Monday, 6 January 2025
The Smartest Giant In Town
St Martins Theatre
4.3 3 reviews 4.3 3 reviews Tickets from £12.00This heart-warming tale about friendship and helping those in need is brought to life in a musical, puppet-filled adventure.
- Opens: Friday, 29 November 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025 - Running time: 55min.
- Playing at: St Martins Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025
Dr. Strangelove
Noel Coward Theatre
5 3 reviews 5 3 reviews Tickets from £30.00Stanley 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.
- Booking until: Saturday, 25 January 2025
- Running time: 2hr 15min. Incl. 1 Interval.
- Starring: Steve Coogan
- Playing at: Noel Coward Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 25 January 2025
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Barbican Theatre
4.7 3 reviews 4.7 3 reviews Tickets from £30.00A Midsummer Night's Dream offers audiences an enchanting blend of romance, comedy, and magical elements and it heads to London this summer. Starring Matthew Baynton, this 'ravishing fusion of flamboyancy and fun’ (Guardian) performs at the Barbican Theatre for a limited time this Winter.
- Opens: Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 18 January 2025 - Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl. 20min interval.
- Starring: Mathew Baynton
- Playing at: Barbican Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 18 January 2025
The Seagull
Barbican Theatre
4.9 7 reviews 4.9 7 reviewsThe Seagull marks a return to the Barbican stage for Cate Blanchett following her performance in Botho Strauss’ Big and Small (Gross und Klein), in 2012, adapted by Martin Crimp and directed by Benedict Andrews for Sydney Theatre Company (STC), where Blanchett was co-Artistic Director alongside Andrew Upton. Early in their tenure at STC they welcomed Thomas Ostermeier to the company with his acclaimed production of Hamlet as part of Sydney Festival.
- Opens: Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 5 April 2025 - Starring: Cate Blanchett, Tom Burke
- Playing at: Barbican Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 5 April 2025
The Buddha of Suburbia
Barbican Theatre
Tickets from £30.00The RSC's and Wise Children's 'intoxicating five-star' (The Times) production of the award-winning 1990 novel transfers to London's Barbican Theatre. Expect a vibrant and incisive coming-of-age story from The Buddha of Suburbia for four weeks this Autumn.
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
- Running time: 2hr 50min. Incl. interval.
- Playing at: Barbican Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
The Nutcracker - Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall
4.8 4 reviews 4.8 4 reviews Tickets from £31.00- Opens: Sunday, 29 December 2024
Booking until: Tuesday, 31 December 2024 - Running time: 3hr 30min (approx). Incl. 2 intervals.
- Playing at: Royal Albert Hall
- Booking until: Tuesday, 31 December 2024
Cirque du Soleil - Corteo
Royal Albert Hall
Tickets from £74.00The clown Mauro has passed, but his spirit is still with us. Instead of mourning, the funeral cortege celebrates the here and hereafter with laughter and exuberance. Rich, extravagant memories frolic with the senses. The sound of laughter peals around the stage, visions of joyous tumblers and players fascinate the eyes. Regret and melancholy retreat in the face of a cavalcade of lively recollections of a life gloriously lived. A festive parade that entertains; the perfect accolade for an artist whose life was dedicated to revelry and making merry.
- Opens: Thursday, 9 January 2025
Booking until: Sunday, 2 March 2025 - Running time: 2hr 5min. Incl 1 interval.
- Playing at: Royal Albert Hall
- Booking until: Sunday, 2 March 2025
Oedipus (Wyndham's Theatre)
Wyndham's Theatre
5 3 reviews 5 3 reviews Tickets from £30.00- Booking until: Saturday, 4 January 2025
- Starring: Lesley Manville, Mark Strong
- Playing at: Wyndham's Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 4 January 2025
Inside No.9
Wyndham's Theatre
- Opens: Saturday, 18 January 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 5 April 2025 - Starring: Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton
- Playing at: Wyndham's Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 5 April 2025
Elektra
Duke of York's Theatre
Klytämnestra has murdered her husband, King Agamemnon. Her daughter Elektra determines to avenge her father’s death.
- Opens: Monday, 13 January 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 15 March 2025 - Running time: 1 hour 50 minutes
- Starring: Brie Larson
- Playing at: Duke of York's Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 15 March 2025
Barcelona
Duke of York's Theatre
Tickets from £31.00Late night in Barcelona. An American tourist goes home with a handsome Spaniard. What begins as a carefree, one-night stand becomes an invitation to danger, as the personal and political catastrophically intertwine.
- Booking until: Saturday, 11 January 2025
- Starring: Lily Collins
- Playing at: Duke of York's Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 11 January 2025
The Simon & Garfunkel Story
London Palladium
4.6 16 reviews 4.6 16 reviews Tickets from £33.00- Opens: Monday, 10 February 2025
Booking until: Monday, 10 February 2025
- Playing at: London Palladium
- Booking until: Monday, 10 February 2025
Robin Hood
London Palladium
The annual Christmas London Palladium Pantomime is back and this time audiences can expect an unforgettable experience with Robin Hood! A stellar cast is expected including Julian Clary, Jane McDonald, Marisha Wallace, Charlie Stemp and Rob Madge. Add this show to your festive plans!
- Opens: Saturday, 7 December 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 12 January 2025 - Starring: Charlie Stemp, Julian Clary, Nigel Havers, Paul Zerdin, Jane McDonald, Marisha Wallace, Rob Madge, Tosh Wanogho-Maud
- Playing at: London Palladium
- Booking until: Sunday, 12 January 2025
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in Concert
London Palladium
Tickets from £41.00Get ready to be utterly charmed by the West End’s favourite dynamic duo, Ramin Karimloo and Hadley Fraser, as they swindle this uproarious tale of tricks and comic brilliance to dizzying new heights.
- Opens: Sunday, 24 November 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 24 November 2024
- Playing at: London Palladium
- Booking until: Sunday, 24 November 2024
Rigoletto
London Coliseum
5 3 reviews 5 3 reviews Tickets from £12.00Power gets the last laugh in Rigoletto, Verdi’s devastating masterpiece of decadence, corruption, and social decay, featuring some of opera’s nastiest villains and most recognisable tunes.
- Opens: Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Booking until: Thursday, 21 November 2024 - Running time: 2hrs 45min. Incl 2 intervals.
- Playing at: London Coliseum
- Booking until: Thursday, 21 November 2024
The Nutcracker - English National Ballet
London Coliseum
4.5 81 reviews 4.5 81 reviews Tickets from £21.00- Opens: Thursday, 12 December 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 12 January 2025 - Running time: 2hr. Incl. 20min interval.
- Playing at: London Coliseum
- Booking until: Sunday, 12 January 2025
The Marriage Of Figaro
London Coliseum
5 2 reviews 5 2 reviews Tickets from £12.00The first revival of Joe Hill-Gibbins’ production of Mozart’s comic opera, The Marriage of Figaro, returns to the ENO following its acclaimed 2020 premiere, expertly conducted by Ainārs Rubiķis. Expect a bold, memorable, and highly entertaining show that perfectly complements Mozart's stunning overtures and arias.
- Opens: Wednesday, 5 February 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 22 February 2025 - Running time: 3hr 20min. Incl 1 interval.
- Playing at: London Coliseum
- Booking until: Saturday, 22 February 2025
Mary Skeaping's Giselle
London Coliseum
Tickets from £21.00Giselle is a haunting story of innocence and betrayal – a timeless tale about the redemptive power of love. Following five-star reviews in 2024, Mary Skeaping’s enthralling production returns to the London Coliseum for one week only.
- Opens: Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 18 January 2025 - Running time: 2hr 15min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: London Coliseum
- Booking until: Saturday, 18 January 2025
The Elixir of Love
London Coliseum
Tickets from £12.00Fancy a heart-warming operatic comedy? Meet The Elixir of Love, full of gorgeous music by Gaetano Donizetti, billed as ‘delightful music that guarantees nonstop smiles’. World War Two is the setting in a creative new staging of this popular romance first performed in Milan during 1832.
- Opens: Friday, 15 November 2024
Booking until: Thursday, 5 December 2024 - Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: London Coliseum
- Booking until: Thursday, 5 December 2024
The Pirates of Penzance
London Coliseum
Tickets from £12.00Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance heads back to theatreland thanks to the English National Opera. The show's lively characters and memorable songs offer an enchanting and entertaining theatrical experience that's perfect for all ages.
- Opens: Monday, 2 December 2024
Booking until: Friday, 21 February 2025 - Running time: 2hr 15min. Incl 1 interval.
- Playing at: London Coliseum
- Booking until: Friday, 21 February 2025
Mary, Queen of Scots
London Coliseum
Tickets from £12.00Making its ENO premiere, this critically acclaimed modern opera set 500 years ago tells the story that still resonates today. With hostile forces on every side, Mary I of Scotland attempts to secure a happy future for herself and her country.
Caught between her drunken husband, her scheming half-brother, and her untrustworthy lover, Mary I of Scotland must find a way to protect her country and her Catholic faith.
- Opens: Saturday, 15 February 2025
Booking until: Tuesday, 18 February 2025 - Running time: 2hr 35min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: London Coliseum
- Booking until: Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Oliver!
Gielgud Theatre
Tickets from £36.00The fabulous score from this Olivier, Tony and Oscar-winning masterpiece includes Food Glorious Food, Consider Yourself, You’ve Got to Pick-a-Pocket or Two, I’d Do Anything, Oom Pah Pah and As Long As He Needs Me.
- Opens: Saturday, 14 December 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 28 September 2025 - Starring: Simon Lipkin
- Playing at: Gielgud Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday, 28 September 2025
Juno and the Paycock
Gielgud Theatre
4.8 4 reviews 4.8 4 reviews Tickets from £24.00Juno and the Paycock sees Sonia Friedman, Matthew Warchus and Mark Rylance reunite following their acclaimed productions of Boeing-Boeing and La Bête.
- Booking until: Saturday, 23 November 2024
- Running time: 2hr 45min. Incl. interval.
- Playing at: Gielgud Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 23 November 2024
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Ambassadors Theatre
5 2 reviews 5 2 reviews Tickets from £42.00Back in 2008 the movie proved a smash hit. The new stage production sold out night after night at the Southwark Playhouse theatre. Now it’s in the West End, brought to life once more by a group of talented actor-musicians.
- Booking until: Saturday, 15 February 2025
- Playing at: Ambassadors Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 15 February 2025
Onegin
Royal Opera House
Tickets from £41.00When young and sensitive Tatyana declares her love for the dashing Eugene Onegin, he coldly rejects her. He idly begins to flirt with her sister, Olga – with tragic consequences.
- Opens: Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Booking until: Tuesday, 25 February 2025 - Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl. 2 Intervals.
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Aida
Royal Opera House
Tickets from £64.00- Opens: Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Booking until: Wednesday, 12 February 2025 - Running time: 3hr 15min. Incl. 1 Interval.
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Jenufa
Royal Opera House
2 1 review 2 1 review Tickets from £40.00A tale of honour, love and sacrifice, Jenůfa explores the stigma of pregnancy out of wedlock against the backdrop of a small community.
- Opens: Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 1 February 2025 - Running time: 2hr 55min. Incl. 1 Interval.
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Saturday, 1 February 2025
Il Trovatore
Royal Opera House
Tickets from £64.00Adele Thomas will direct this co-production with Opernhaus Zurich to capture the thrilling story of love, revenge, and fate at the iconic Royal Opera House. Hailed by the Opera Gazet as "one of the most fascinating works of Italian Gothic romanticism, Il Trovatore will run for a limited season from February 2025.
- Opens: Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 22 March 2025 - Running time: 2hr 55min. Incl. 1 Interval.
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Saturday, 22 March 2025
Hansel and Gretel - Royal Opera House
Royal Opera House
Tickets from £40.00The magic of the Grimm tales comes to life in this mischievous production. A fairy tale adventure for all.
- Opens: Sunday, 22 December 2024
Booking until: Tuesday, 7 January 2025 - Running time: 2hr 15mins. Incl. 1 Interval
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Tuesday, 7 January 2025
Cinderella
Royal Opera House
Tickets from £41.00Stuck at home and put to work by her spoiled Step-Sisters, Cinderella’s life is dreary and dull. Everything changes when she helps a mysterious woman out...
- Opens: Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Booking until: Thursday, 16 January 2025 - Running time: 2hr 45min. Incl. 2 intervals.
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Thursday, 16 January 2025
MADDADDAM
Royal Opera House
Tickets from £100.00WHERE DOES OUR HUMANITY LIE? In an imagined future not far from our own, a bio-engineered apocalypse has changed the Earth as we know it. An incongruous group of survivors must navigate a dangerous present – and make sense of the past.
- Opens: Thursday, 14 November 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 30 November 2024
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Saturday, 30 November 2024
La bohème (Royal Opera House)
Royal Opera House
Tickets from £64.00Puccini's opera of passion, friendship and heartbreak is brought to life in Richard Jones' vivid and evocative production.
- Opens: Monday, 16 December 2024
Booking until: Friday, 17 January 2025 - Running time: 2hr 35min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Friday, 17 January 2025
Encounters: Four Contemporary Ballets
Royal Opera House
Tickets from £16.00Four 21st-century choreographers. Four bold explorations of movement.
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
Light of Passage
Royal Opera House
Tickets from £26.00A ballet that cuts to the heart of the human condition. Crystal Pite’s poignant work grapples with themes of safe passage, displacement, community and mortality.
- Opens: Thursday, 20 February 2025
Booking until: Wednesday, 12 March 2025 - Running time: 1hr 30min. Incl. 1 Interval.
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Wednesday, 12 March 2025
Festen
Royal Opera House
Tickets from £40.00Thomas Vinterberg’s cult film is transformed into a bold new opera in this world premiere by Mark-Anthony Turnage.
- Opens: Tuesday, 11 February 2025
Booking until: Thursday, 27 February 2025 - Running time: 1hr 30mins.
- Playing at: Royal Opera House
- Booking until: Thursday, 27 February 2025
Just For One Day
Shaftesbury Theatre
4.7 52 reviews 4.7 52 reviews Tickets from £30.00Featuring 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.
- Opens: Thursday, 15 May 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 10 January 2026 - Running time: 2hr 35min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Shaftesbury Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 10 January 2026
The Lehman Trilogy
Gillian Lynne Theatre
4.7 44 reviews 4.7 44 reviews Tickets from £24.00- Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025
- Running time: 3hr 20min. Incl. 2 intervals.
- Playing at: Gillian Lynne Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025
My Neighbour Totoro
Gillian Lynne Theatre
4.9 21 reviews 4.9 21 reviews Tickets from £30.00- Opens: Saturday, 1 March 2025
Booking until: Sunday, 2 November 2025 - Running time: 2hr 40min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Gillian Lynne Theatre
- Booking until: Sunday, 2 November 2025
Titanique
Criterion Theatre
Tickets from £18.00- Opens: Monday, 9 December 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 31 May 2025 - Running time: 1hr 40min. No Interval
- Playing at: Criterion Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 31 May 2025
Amaze
Criterion Theatre
Tickets from £15.00After a highly successful limited run at Marylebone Theatre this summer, master magician Jamie Allan is bringing his record-breaking, critically-acclaimed show, Amaze, to the West End! You can experience the magic at Criterion Theatre from 18 October.
- Booking until: Saturday, 23 November 2024
- Running time: 1hr 30min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Criterion Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 23 November 2024
The Devil Wears Prada
Dominion Theatre
Tickets from £30.00- Opens: Monday, 11 November 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 18 October 2025
- Playing at: Dominion Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 18 October 2025
Dear England
Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
4.9 37 reviews 4.9 37 reviewsThe 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.
- Opens: Monday, 10 March 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 24 May 2025 - Running time: 2 hours 50 min (Incl. interval)
- Playing at: Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
- Booking until: Saturday, 24 May 2025
Nye
Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
- Opens: Thursday, 3 July 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 16 August 2025
- Playing at: Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 August 2025
Ballet Shoes
Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
In a crumbling house full of dinosaur bones and fossils, three adopted sisters – Pauline, Petrova and Posy – are learning who they are and what they want to be.
- Opens: Saturday, 23 November 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 1 February 2025
- Playing at: Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
- Booking until: Saturday, 1 February 2025
London Road
Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
Autumn, 2006. The everyday life of the Suffolk town of Ipswich is shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
The occupant of No. 79 London Road is arrested, charged and finally convicted of the murders. Caught in the headlines and the invasion of their quiet road, the community grapples with what it means to be at the epicentre of the tragedy.
- Opens: Thursday, 5 June 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 21 June 2025
- Playing at: Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
- Booking until: Saturday, 21 June 2025
The Land of the Living
Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
Directed by Stephen Daldry (An Inspector Calls), this remarkable new play by former Young Vic Artistic Director David Lan tells the story of displaced children following WWII. Cast includes Juliet Stevenson (The Doctor).
- Opens: To be announced
Booking until: To be announced - Starring: Juliet Stevenson
- Playing at: Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
- Booking until: To be announced
Now That's What I Call A Musical
New Wimbledon Theatre
- Opens: Tuesday, 8 April 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 12 April 2025
- Playing at: New Wimbledon Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 12 April 2025
Calamity Jane
New Wimbledon Theatre
Blending romance, comedy and action - Calamity Jane is back on stage in a new production led by West End favourite Carrie Hope Fletcher. Back in town for the first time in a decade, the musical will be staged in London following a UK tour.
- Opens: Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 17 May 2025 - Starring: Carrie Hope Fletcher
- Playing at: New Wimbledon Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 17 May 2025
Much Ado About Nothing
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Tickets from £20.00Tom Hiddleston is Benedick and Hayley Atwell is Beatrice. Two of their generation’s finest actors collaborate with director Jamie Lloyd again in this savagely funny and beautifully tender battle of wits.
- Opens: Monday, 10 February 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 5 April 2025 - Starring: Hayley Atwell, Tom Hiddleston
- Playing at: Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- Booking until: Saturday, 5 April 2025
The Tempest
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
The legendary Sigourney Weaver makes her West End debut as Prospero in this enchanting story of revenge and forgiveness.
- Opens: Saturday, 7 December 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 1 February 2025 - Starring: Sigourney Weaver
- Playing at: Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- Booking until: Saturday, 1 February 2025
Disney's Hercules Musical
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
With music and lyrics by Alan Menken and David Zippel, and a brand-new book by Robert Horn and Kwame Kwei-Armah and co-choreography by Tanisha Scott, Hercules is inspired by the 1997 Academy Award®-nominated animated film of the same name from Walt Disney Studios.
- Opens: To be announced
Booking until: To be announced
- Playing at: Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- Booking until: To be announced
Mozart: Her Story
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Tickets from £39.00A multi-genre musical with a dominant rock | classical fusion.
Based on the life of one of the greatest composers of all time, Mozart: Her Story – The New Musical, shines a unique light on a classic story told through the eyes of Nan, Wolfgang’s rebellious sister, who attempts to break through the misogynistic confines of the era with her courage and prodigious genius.
- Opens: Saturday, 16 November 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 17 November 2024
- Playing at: Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- Booking until: Sunday, 17 November 2024
Hansel and Gretel | Globe
Globe Theatre
5 1 review 5 1 review Tickets from £6.00Experience 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+.
- Opens: Friday, 29 November 2024
Booking until: Tuesday, 7 January 2025
- Playing at: Globe Theatre
- Booking until: Tuesday, 7 January 2025
Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812
Donmar Warehouse
Arriving in the glittering opulent world of Moscow High Society, the impulsive and romantic Natasha Rostova awaits the return of her fiancé from the front lines. But when she falls under the spell of an intoxicating aristocrat, it is up to the unlikely hero, Pierre, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation.
- Opens: Saturday, 7 December 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 8 February 2025
- Playing at: Donmar Warehouse
- Booking until: Saturday, 8 February 2025
The Fear of 13
Donmar Warehouse
Nick’s got a story to tell you. About how a routine traffic stop turned into a conviction for murder. About how he spent the next 22 years on Death Row. About how he finally petitioned the court to ask not for an appeal, but for his execution date. And about what happened next…
- Booking until: Saturday, 30 November 2024
- Starring: Adrien Brody
- Playing at: Donmar Warehouse
- Booking until: Saturday, 30 November 2024
Homo Alone
The Other Palace - Studio
Tickets from £31.00KEVIN!!!!! Stood at Mykonos airport baggage carousel Kevin McCallister’s Dads realise they have left their beloved son at home.
- Opens: Friday, 29 November 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025 - Running time: 2hr. Incl. 1 interval
- Playing at: The Other Palace - Studio
- Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025
Cyrano
Park Theatre
Tickets from £18.00Virginia Gay’s joyous, gender-flipped retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac, packed with music, wit and aching romance, is a love letter to hope; to language and desire; to the irrepressible magic of theatre. A big-hearted, irreverent rom-com, perfect for a feel-good Christmas treat.
- Opens: Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 11 January 2025 - Running time: 1hr 30min.
- Playing at: Park Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 11 January 2025
BRACE BRACE
Royal Court Theatre
Tickets from £30.00- Booking until: Saturday, 9 November 2024
- Playing at: Royal Court Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 9 November 2024
Giant
Royal Court Theatre
5 2 reviews 5 2 reviews Tickets from £27.00A world-famous children’s author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake of scandal. And one chance to make amends…
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
- Playing at: Royal Court Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 16 November 2024
Expendable
Royal Court Theatre
Tickets from £24.00“People kept saying there’s no smoke without fire, but it’s not our fire is it khala? it’s like we’re just choking on all the fumes…”
- Opens: Thursday, 21 November 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 21 December 2024
- Playing at: Royal Court Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 21 December 2024
Aladdin Pantomime
Lyric Hammersmith
3 1 review 3 1 review Tickets from £12.00- Opens: Friday, 22 November 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025 - Running time: 2hrs. Incl. 1 Interval
- Playing at: Lyric Hammersmith
- Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025
Play On!
Lyric Hammersmith
Tickets from £18.00Talawa Theatre Company's vibrant adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night set in the 1980s in Notting Hill during the rise of reggae sound systems. Play On explores love, identity, and mistaken identity through the lens of Caribbean culture.
- Opens: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 22 February 2025 - Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Lyric Hammersmith
- Booking until: Saturday, 22 February 2025
Dracula
Lyric Hammersmith
Tickets from £18.00Mina Harker has a story to tell. Armed only with her husband’s journal, a pile of old letters and her wits, she begins to piece together the story of the mysterious Count Dracula and his journey to England.
- Opens: Friday, 12 September 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 11 October 2025 - Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl 1 interval.
- Playing at: Lyric Hammersmith
- Booking until: Saturday, 11 October 2025
Ghosts
Lyric Hammersmith
Tickets from £12.00Helena is a woman on a mission. Since the death of her high-flying husband, she has dedicated herself to reclaiming his legacy. And her hard work is about to pay off, with a new children’s hospital bearing his name on the brink of opening.
- Opens: Friday, 11 April 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 10 May 2025 - Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Lyric Hammersmith
- Booking until: Saturday, 10 May 2025
Marriage Material
Lyric Hammersmith
Tickets from £12.00“In our shops we will be Kings of England. And we will make this place our place.”
The Bains’ corner shop in Wolverhampton has been at the centre of the family for three generations.
- Opens: Friday, 23 May 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 21 June 2025 - Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Lyric Hammersmith
- Booking until: Saturday, 21 June 2025
Sing Street
Lyric Hammersmith
Tickets from £18.00“You might be school kids and livin’ in dead-end Dublin – but you’re doin’ it! You’re making music!”
It’s Dublin, 1982, and sixteen year old Conor can’t catch a break. His parents are fighting, his brother won’t leave the house and he’s not fitting in at his new Catholic school.
- Opens: Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 23 August 2025 - Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl 1 interval.
- Playing at: Lyric Hammersmith
- Booking until: Saturday, 23 August 2025
La Clique
Spiegeltent in Leicester Square
4.5 23 reviews 4.5 23 reviews Tickets from £25.00- Opens: Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025 - Running time: 1h 30m. Incl 1 interval (5pm, 7pm and 7:30pm shows). 1h 10m no interval (9:30pm shows).
- Playing at: Spiegeltent in Leicester Square
- Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
The Other Palace
Tickets from £31.00When New York City teenager Percy Jackson discovers that he is the half-blood son of the Greek god, Poseidon, his life takes a dramatic turn as he is plunged into a world much bigger than he could possibly have imagined.
- Opens: Saturday, 23 November 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 2 February 2025 - Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: The Other Palace
- Booking until: Sunday, 2 February 2025
Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist
The Other Palace
4 2 reviews 4 2 reviews Tickets from £15.00Is it a musical? Is it a gig? Is it a ballet? This show is all three, complete with a multi-genre pop score from the brilliant Tasha Taylor Johnson and Jack McManus, redefining musical theatre. Gossip, scandal and deadly royal peril await you. Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist takes on one of history’s best-known, least popular queens, back in London for a limited run.
- Booking until: Sunday, 10 November 2024
- Running time: 1hr 30min.
- Playing at: The Other Palace
- Booking until: Sunday, 10 November 2024
Richard II
The Bridge Theatre
Tickets from £23.00Richard II is charismatic, eloquent and loved by his friends. And a disastrous King – dishonest, capricious and politically incompetent.
Echoing down the centuries is the perennial problem: how to deal with a ruler who has a rock solid right to rule but is set on wrecking the country he leads.
- Opens: Monday, 10 February 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 10 May 2025 - Running time: 2hr 30min. Incl 1 interval.
- Starring: Jonathan Bailey
- Playing at: The Bridge Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 10 May 2025
The Creakers
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tickets from £24.00A brilliant new musical adaptation of Tom Fletcher's beloved children's book is coming to London after its world premiere in Plymouth. Immerse yourself in a captivating adventure that uniquely celebrates friendship and family love.
- Opens: Wednesday, 18 December 2024
Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025 - Running time: 2hr 20min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Queen Elizabeth Hall
- Booking until: Sunday, 5 January 2025
Cymbeline | Globe
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Tickets from £6.00- Opens: Friday, 10 January 2025
Booking until: Sunday, 20 April 2025
- Playing at: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
- Booking until: Sunday, 20 April 2025
All's Well That Ends Well | Globe
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Tickets from £6.00Inside the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, uncover a twisted tale of obsession, game-playing and deception in Shakespeare’s ruthless thriller, All’s Well That Ends Well.
- Opens: Wednesday, 1 January 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 4 January 2025
- Playing at: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
- Booking until: Saturday, 4 January 2025
Three Sisters | Globe
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Tickets from £6.00A life is a long time to wait.
For the first time at the Globe, experience the work of playwright Anton Chekhov with this twentieth century classic. Their world is going up in flames, one minute at a time. But can three sisters create the change they’re longing for? Caroline Steinbeis returns to the Playhouse to direct the world premiere of a new translation by playwright Rory Mullarkey.
- Opens: Friday, 31 January 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 19 April 2025
- Playing at: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
- Booking until: Saturday, 19 April 2025
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Marylebone Theatre
Tickets from £25.00Based on the Pulitzer-finalist short story by Nathan Englander and Big Bang Theory actor Joshua Malina, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank delves into the complex themes of identity, faith, and cultural differences through the lens of contemporary Jewish life.
- Booking until: Saturday, 23 November 2024
- Playing at: Marylebone Theatre
- Booking until: Saturday, 23 November 2024
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
Soho Place Theatre (@sohoplace)
Tickets from £48.00Experimental drama at its best. See what happens with no rehearsal, no director, a different actor each night and a script waiting in a sealed envelope on the stage.
- Booking until: Saturday, 9 November 2024
- Running time: 1hr 5min.
- Playing at: Soho Place Theatre (@sohoplace)
- Booking until: Saturday, 9 November 2024
Kyoto
Soho Place Theatre (@sohoplace)
Tickets from £30.00Award-winning directors Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin (Stranger Things: The First Shadow) reunite with writers Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson following their acclaimed collaboration on The Jungle. With a stellar ensemble cast including Stephen Kunken (Billions and The Handmaid’s Tale), this pulse-pounding political drama had its unmissable world premiere in the Swan Theatre this summer.
- Opens: Saturday, 4 January 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 3 May 2025 - Running time: 2hr 45min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Soho Place Theatre (@sohoplace)
- Booking until: Saturday, 3 May 2025
A Christmas Carol-ish
Soho Place Theatre (@sohoplace)
Tickets from £24.00Join double Emmy-award nominee Nick Mohammed in the guise of his critically acclaimed alter-ego Mr. Swallow alongside a star-studded cast for an all-singing, all-dancing comedy retelling of Dickens’ festive classic.
- Opens: Saturday, 7 December 2024
Booking until: Tuesday, 31 December 2024 - Running time: 2hr. Incl 1 interval.
- Playing at: Soho Place Theatre (@sohoplace)
- Booking until: Tuesday, 31 December 2024
Here You Come Again
Riverside Studios
Tickets from £25.00- Opens: Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 18 January 2025 - Running time: 2hr 20min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Riverside Studios
- Booking until: Saturday, 18 January 2025
Second Best
Riverside Studios
Tickets from £40.00At ten years old, Martin Hill was on the brink of stardom, down to the final two contenders for the role of Harry Potter but narrowly missing out. Now an adult, Martin is about to embark on the ultimate adventure – fatherhood. As he navigates this whirlwind of emotions, he is pulled back to that pivotal moment in his past as he struggled to move beyond imagining what his life might have been.
- Opens: Friday, 24 January 2025
Booking until: Saturday, 22 February 2025
- Playing at: Riverside Studios
- Booking until: Saturday, 22 February 2025
The Unseen
Riverside Studios
Tickets from £18.00The Unseen is an intense and thought-provoking play that delves into the human spirit's resilience under oppressive regimes. Written by Craig Wright, directed by Iya Patarkatsishvili, with set and costume design by Simon Kenny and score by Danny Short, itis set to make its London debut at Riverside Studios on 15 November 2024. It will be accompanied by a series of high-profile post-performance discussions and the UK premiere of international exhibition Faces of Russian Resistance.
- Opens: Friday, 15 November 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 14 December 2024 - Running time: 1hr 20min. No interval.
- Playing at: Riverside Studios
- Booking until: Saturday, 14 December 2024
Fly More Than You Fall
Southwark Playhouse Elephant
Tickets from £22.00When Malia’s mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer, her life is thrown into turmoil. As she navigates the emotional rollercoaster of her mother’s illness, Malia finds solace and strength in her writing.
- Booking until: Saturday, 23 November 2024
- Running time: 2hr 10min.
- Playing at: Southwark Playhouse Elephant
- Booking until: Saturday, 23 November 2024
A Very Naughty Christmas
Southwark Playhouse Elephant
Tickets from £19.00A Very Naughty Christmas is a comedy concert packed with stand-up, skits, parodied songs, dancing, singing, burlesque and a whole bunch of silliness. Having achieved cult status in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, this hit show is ready to storm the London stage.
- Opens: Thursday, 28 November 2024
Booking until: Saturday, 11 January 2025 - Running time: 1hr 25min. No interval.
- Playing at: Southwark Playhouse Elephant
- Booking until: Saturday, 11 January 2025
Taskmaster: The Live Experience
Dock X
Taskmaster: The Live Experience is a brand new interactive adventure, where you can compete to be crowned Taskmaster champion.
- Booking until: Saturday, 25 January 2025
- Playing at: Dock X
- Booking until: Saturday, 25 January 2025
Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular
Empress Museum
Tickets from £48.00Come Alive! is the brand new Circus Spectacular heading to London this autumn. Featuring all the hit songs from the blockbuster movie.
- Booking until: Monday, 31 March 2025
- Running time: 1hr 40min. Incl. 1 interval.
- Playing at: Empress Museum
- Booking until: Monday, 31 March 2025
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