DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
Most Popular Drama Plays in London
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre
Fri 24 Jan - Sun 29 Jun 2025
Dickens Theatre Company - A Christmas Carol
New Wimbledon Theatre
Mon 1 - Sat 6 Dec 2025
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre, London
Thursday 23 January - Saturday 25 October 2025
This highly anticipated musical based on the life of Tina Turner made a huge splash in the UK during its West End premiere. The musical is based on the often tumultuous life and legendary music of international recording artist Tina Turner....The Mousetrap
St. Martin's Theatre, London
Thursday 23 January - Saturday 27 September 2025
Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is the world's longest-running play. This thrilling West End production is THE genre-defining murder mystery from the best-selling novelist of all time... case closed!As news spreads of a murder in London, a ...The Tempest
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London
Thursday 23 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
The Jamie Lloyd Company presents a joyous and captivating season of Shakespeare in London's iconic Theatre Royal Drury Lane. The legendary Sigourney Weaver makes her West End debut as Prospero in this enchanting story of revenge and forgive...Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Phoenix Theatre, London
Thursday 23 January - Sunday 7 September 2025
Get ready to journey into the supernatural world of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, coming to the Phoenix Theatre in London's West End in late 2023. Brought to life by a multi-award-winning creative team, Stranger Things: The First Shado...Fawlty Towers - The Play
Apollo Theatre, London
Thursday 23 January - Saturday 13 September 2025
Nearly 50 years since it first hit our TV screens, the "Greatest British sitcom of all time" (Radio Times) is now a brand-new stage play, adapted by comedy legend John Cleese and directed by Caroline Jay Ranger. Featuring your favourite ...Oedipus
The Old Vic, London
Thursday 23 January - Saturday 29 March 2025
Academy Award winner Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody, No Time To Die) and Olivier Award winner Indira Varma (Present Laughter, Game of Thrones) star in Ella Hickson's intimate and revelatory version of Sophocles' transcendent tragedy, Oedipus...Dr. Strangelove
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Thursday 23 - Saturday 25 January 2025
Steve Coogan stars in the first ever adaption of Stanley Kubrick's iconic Dr. Strangelove, as the world premiere stage production prepares for a strictly limited run at London's Noel Coward Theatre from 8 October 2024. This jet-black comedy...Inside No.9 - Stage/Fright
Wyndham's Theatre, London
Thursday 23 January - Saturday 5 April 2025
Expect the unexpected as the acclaimed BBC TV series comes to life on stage, weaving its signature web of twisted tales and black humour. From the eerie to the absurd, Inside Number 9 - Stage/Fright combines comedy and horror with a drama...Kyoto
@sohoplace, London
Thursday 23 January - Saturday 3 May 2025
Welcome to the Kyoto Conference Centre, 11 December 1997. The nations of the world are in deadlock and 11 hours have passed since the UN?s landmark climate conference should have ended. Time is running out and agreement feels a world away. ...The Merchant of Venice (1936)
Trafalgar Theatre, London
Thursday 23 - Saturday 25 January 2025
'THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW TO DO SHAKESPEARE' (Metro) Ambition, power and political unrest explode onto the stage in The Merchant of Venice 1936, direct from selling out the RSC and London's West End. Starring Tracy-Ann Oberman (EastEnders...The Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre, London
Thursday 23 January 2025 - Sunday 1 February 2026
The longest running comedy in the West End. Still disrupting the West End in its 10th disastrous year, the award-winning international smash-hit The Play That Goes Wrong continues to tickle audiences at the Duchess Theatre. You all know ...The Invention of Love
Hampstead Theatre, London
Thursday 23 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
Tom Stoppard returns to Hampstead after the triumphant revivals of Hapgood and Rock 'n' Roll. Winner of eight Evening Standard, three Olivier and five Tony Awards, Stoppard's plays include Leopoldstadt; Rosencrantz and Guildenst...Witness for the Prosecution
London County Hall, London
Thursday 23 January - Sunday 28 September 2025
Step inside the magnificent surroundings of London County Hall and experience the intensity and drama of Agatha Christie's gripping story of justice, passion and betrayal in a unique courtroom setting. Leonard Vole is accused of murdering a...The Gift
Park Theatre, London
Thursday 23 January - Saturday 1 March 2025
When Colin receives an anonymous package, he is bemused and appalled by what he finds inside. He should just ignore it? But who would send him such a thing ? and why did they put it in a cake box?Colin immediately finds himself battling all...The Lonely Londoners
Kiln Theatre, London
Thursday 23 January - Saturday 15 February 2025
The critically acclaimed adaptation of Sam Selvon?s iconic novel.1950s London. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry ?Sir Galahad? Oliver is impatient to start his new life in London. Carrying just pyjamas and a toothbrush, he bursts through M...What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Marylebone Theatre, London
Thursday 23 January - Saturday 15 February 2025
Based on the Pulitzer-finalist short story by Nathan Englander, don\'t miss this brand new serious-comedy starring West Wing and Big Bang Theory actor Joshua Malina, and directed by Leopoldstadt\'s Patrick Marber.? WHAT A serious ne...Cymbeline
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
Thursday 23 January - Sunday 20 April 2025
secret marriage changes the course of two ancient kingdoms. For the first time in ten years, see Cymbeline, Shakespeare?s late, tragic comedy of love and rebellion, in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Cymbeline is queen of ancient Bri...Cymberline - Shakespeare's Globe
Firebird
King's Head Theatre, London
Thursday 23 January - Sunday 9 February 2025
Drawing on a true-life Cold War story, FIREBIRD follows a handsome, soulful young soldier who embarks on a clandestine affair with a charismatic fighter pilot on an Air Force Base in Soviet-occupied Estonia at the height of 1970s Communist ...Tarantula
Arcola Theatre, London
Thursday 23 - Saturday 25 January 2025
It?s a sunny, spring day in East London. On a street corner, two teenagers kiss. One of them is Toni. This is her first kiss. It makes her very happy. But someone is watching. Someone who doesn?t care about her happiness at all. And they?re...The Double Act
Arcola Theatre, London
Thursday 23 January - Saturday 22 February 2025
In a crumbling coastal town, a fading comedian is forced to confront his estranged ex-partner ? a deranged recluse fixated on their distant heyday?in a tale of guilt, ambition and the ghosts of British show-business. Billy Bash, who gloried...
Elektra
Duke Of York's Theatre, London
Friday 24 January - Saturday 12 April 2025
Elektra, haunted by her father's assassination, is consumed by grief; a need for survival; and a thirst for vengeance. When her long lost brother Orestes at last returns, she urges him to a savage and terrifying conclusion but at what cost?...Second Best
Riverside Studios, London
Friday 24 January - Saturday 22 February 2025
Sex Education's Asa Butterfield makes his stage debut in Second Best, a playful yet poignant new comedy about fate, near- misses and the winding paths life takes. It explores the ache of almost touching greatness and the humour and hope th...Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre, London
Friday 24 January - Sunday 29 June 2025
There's magic in every moment at Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the most awarded play in history and "one of the most defining pop culture events of the decade" (Forbes). And now, the 8th Harry Potter story is bringing the magic back to...The Years
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Friday 24 January - Saturday 19 April 2025
The five-star sold out production of The Years transfers to the West End for 12 weeks only....Dimanche
Peacock Theatre, London
Wednesday 29 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
Comic physical theatre and masterful puppetry deliver a witty and wonderful reflection on the climate change crisis. Sometime in the near future? Humanity has failed to adapt to the new ecological reality. Amidst this climatic chaos, some p...As Long As We Are Breathing
Arcola Theatre, London
Wednesday 29 January - Saturday 1 March 2025
The world premiere of a new work by Diane Samuels (author of award-winning Kindertransport). AS LONG AS WE ARE BREATHING is a multi-sensory, mixed media and timely evocation of the true-life story of Miriam Freedman. Directed by Ben Caplan,...Mrs President
Charing Cross Theatre, London
Friday 31 January - Sunday 16 March 2025
In Mrs President, Mary Lincoln is a woman at war?with her grief, her detractors, and herself. Vilified by an envious elite and accused of treason, she strives to rebuild her public image to win the hearts of the American people. She turns t...Three Sisters
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
Friday 31 January - Saturday 19 April 2025
For the first time ever in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, experience the work of Anton Chekhov with Three Sisters, a masterful study of family legacy, misdirected love and the human condition. This is the world premiere of a new translation b...Three Sisters - Shakespeare's Globe
Unicorn
Garrick Theatre, London
Tuesday 4 February - Saturday 26 April 2025
Nick: Have you two kissed already? Polly: NoKate: Yes Polly and Nick have it all. Happily married, two children, successful careers. And yet there's something missing... something rare and unforeseen... waiting to add a much-needed sparkle....Cellar Door Theatre Company - Red by John Logan
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Thursday 6 - Saturday 8 February 2025
1950s New York, a dimly-lit sanctum of an artist's studio. Master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art, a series of murals for New York's Four Seasons restaurant. But when hi...The Whirligig of Time
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Thursday 6 - Friday 7 February 2025
From the team that brought you the five-star Shakespeare's Fool, Tortive return with another spectacular one-man hit show. To hell with anger management! Malvolio was done notorious wrong; so much so that he swore to be revenged on the 'who...Havisham
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Saturday 8 February 2025
Who was the woman behind Charles Dickens' most monstrous female creation? What was it that condemned the hopeful young Miss Havisham to her cruel and fractured fate? Experience her heartbreak as we delve into her childhood trauma and follow...Much Ado About Nothing
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London
Monday 10 February - Saturday 5 April 2025
Tom Hiddleston is Benedick and Hayley Atwell is Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Two of their generation's finest actors collaborate with director Jamie Lloyd again in this savagely funny and beautifully tender battle ...Richard II
Bridge Theatre, London
Monday 10 February - Saturday 10 May 2025
Richard II is charismatic, eloquent and flamboyantly witty. And a disastrous King - dishonest, dangerous and politically incompetent. Echoing down the centuries is the perennial problem: how to deal with a ruler who has a rock solid right t...Boys from the Blackstuff
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 February 2025
Bill Kenwright Ltd presents Liverpool's Royal Court and National Theatre production of Alan Bleasdale's "Boys From The Blackstuff" by James Graham. Gizza job. Go on, gizzit. 80s Liverpool. Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser are used ...Backstroke
Donmar Warehouse, London
Friday 14 February - Saturday 12 April 2025
Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig play mother and daughter in this kaleidoscopic and compassionate new play, written and directed by Anna Mackmin. Bo is busy - balancing the pressures of work and the needs of her struggling daughter. When he...The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Sunday 16 February 2025
Amazing tales, elegantly told. The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a multi award-winning, family friendly, improvised storytelling show. There will be pirates and princesses, unicorns and dragons, spacemen an...The Shark is Broken
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Monday 17 - Saturday 22 February 2025
Step aboard the Orca and into a "profound dive behind the scenes of the making of Jaws" (The Daily Telegraph). This Olivier Award-nominated new play is "hilariously brilliant and pure genius" raves the Sunday Express in its 5 Star review an...The Score
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Thursday 20 February - Saturday 26 April 2025
Legendary stage and screen actor Brian Cox (HBO's multi-award-winning Succession) stars as Johann Sebastian Bach in Oliver Cotton's new play, originally presented at the Theatre Royal Bath. Spring 1747, Potsdam, Prussia. Johann Sebastian Ba...Pride & Prejudice (sort of)
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Monday 24 February - Saturday 1 March 2025
Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen's most iconic love story. Men, money and microphones will be...The Last Laugh
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Tuesday 25 February - Saturday 22 March 2025
Direct from a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Last Laugh is a brand-new laugh-a-minute play which re-imagines the lives of three of Britain\'s all-time greatest comedy heroes ? Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse. ...Birdsong
Alexandra Palace, London
Thursday 27 February - Saturday 8 March 2025
Presented by Original Theatre and JAS Theatricals in association with Joshua Beaumont & Huw Allen, Tiny Giant Entertainment, Birdsong Productions and Wiltshire Creative. Sebastian Faulks? epic story of love and loss returns to the stage, ma...12
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 4 - Saturday 8 March 2025
1, 2, 3... Why is Marian so annoying? 4, 5, 6... Why is Lea doing so well? 7, 8, 9... Why does everyone need coffee all the time? 10, 11, 12... Follow Mel as she tries to survive her 20s, with OCD making sure she does everything 12 times - ...Farewell Mister Haffmann
Park Theatre, London
Wednesday 5 March - Saturday 12 April 2025
One of France?s most successful and long-running plays, and a winner of four Moli?re Awards, Farewell Mister Haffmann makes its London premiere. Set in 1942 in Nazi-occupied Paris, Jewish jeweller Joseph Haffmann faces imminent danger as Je...Dear Martin
Arcola Theatre, London
Wednesday 5 - Saturday 29 March 2025
Dave is the long-suffering husband. Martin is the psychopath who?s been exchanging erotic letters with Dave?s wife from a high-security hospital. When Dave finally gathers up the courage to confront him, Martin proposes a bargain: he will h...My Neighbour Totoro
Gillian Lynne Theatre, London
Saturday 8 March - Sunday 2 November 2025
Discover your spirit with the epic return of the Royal Shakespeare Company's My Neighbour Totoro, the acclaimed staging of the celebrated 1988 animated feature film by Hayao Miyazaki. My Neighbour Totoro is a captivating coming-of-age ta...My Neighbour Totoro
Barbican Centre, London
Saturday 8 March - Sunday 2 November 2025
Find your spirit with the return of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Executive Producer Joe Hisaishi's "awe-inspiring" (Time Out) and "dazzling" (Guardian) production of Studio Ghibli's My Neighbour Totoro, in collaboration with Improbable...Retrograde
