DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
Most Popular Drama Plays in London
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre
Wed 26 Feb - Sun 31 Aug 2025
Dickens Theatre Company - A Christmas Carol
New Wimbledon Theatre
Mon 1 - Sat 6 Dec 2025
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre
Mon 24 Feb - Sat 25 Oct 2025
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre, London
Monday 24 February - 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
Monday 24 February - 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 ...Much Ado About Nothing
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London
Monday 24 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 ...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...Oedipus
The Old Vic, London
Monday 24 February - 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...Inside No.9 - Stage/Fright
Wyndham's Theatre, London
Monday 24 February - 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...The Score
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Monday 24 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...Richard II
Bridge Theatre, London
Monday 24 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...Unicorn
Garrick Theatre, London
Monday 24 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....Elektra
Duke Of York's Theatre, London
Monday 24 February - 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?...Kyoto
@sohoplace, London
Monday 24 February - Saturday 3 May 2025
Featuring a "barnstorming performance" (Financial Times) of "demonic charm" (Metro) by Stephen Kunken (Billions and The Handmaid's Tale), Kyoto sees Olivier award-winning directors Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin (Stranger Things: The ...Backstroke
Donmar Warehouse, London
Monday 24 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 Years
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Monday 24 February - Saturday 19 April 2025
The five-star sold out production of The Years transfers to the West End for 12 weeks only....The Gift
Park Theatre, London
Monday 24 February - 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...As Long As We Are Breathing
Arcola Theatre, London
Monday 24 February - 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,...Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Phoenix Theatre, London
Tuesday 25 February - 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
Tuesday 25 February - 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 ...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. ...The Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre, London
Tuesday 25 February 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 ...Mrs President
Charing Cross Theatre, London
Tuesday 25 February - 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...Witness for the Prosecution
London County Hall, London
Tuesday 25 February - 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...
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre, London
Wednesday 26 February - Sunday 31 August 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...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...Three Sisters
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
Monday 3 March - 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...The House Party
Rose Theatre Kingston, Kingston upon Thames
Tuesday 4 - Saturday 22 March 2025
A wild party. A friendship. And one night that changes everything. It's Julie's 18th birthday, and she's throwing a party in her father's extravagant townhouse. Her boyfriend has just dumped her and her long-suffering best friend Christine ...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...Cymbeline
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
Thursday 6 March - 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...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...Retrograde
Apollo Theatre, London
Saturday 8 March - Sunday 15 June 2025
Described by The Telegraph as "The finest new play about a pivotal moment in civil rights history" in their ★★★★★ review, following its sold out run at the Kiln Theatre, Ryan Calais Cameron's "electrifying" (Evening Standard...Dracula A Comedy of Terrors
Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Saturday 8 March - Saturday 3 May 2025
DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS gives Bram Stoker?s horror classic a comic makeover in this lightning-fast gender-bending reimagining that features a Gen Z pansexual Count Dracula in the midst of an existential crisis. With a cast of five swit...Dickens Theatre Company - Macbeth
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Monday 10 - Tuesday 11 March 2025
Dickens Theatre Company present the Bard's bloodiest tragedy as part of their Revision on Tour programme, which comprises unique stage adaptations of compulsory GCSE texts touring theatres nationwide. This unique adaptation of the 'Scottish...A Man for All Seasons
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 March 2025
The greatest, most powerful and dangerous figures who shaped English history are brought vividly to life in Robert Bolt's award-winning play. Martin Shaw stars as Sir Thomas More - scholar, ambassador, Lord Chancellor and friend to King Hen...A Tupperware Conundrum
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 March 2025
What do you do when you have a picture perfect life, a wonderful home, and marvellous family but discover something is a little out of place? Throw a Tupperware party of course! Heralded as the first form of social media and beloved by ho...Dickens Theatre Company - Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 March 2025
Dickens Theatre Company present an exciting new stage adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Victorian gothic masterpiece as part of their Revision on Tour programme, which comprises unique stage adaptations of compulsory GCSE texts tou...Black is the Color of My Voice
Wilton's Music Hall, London
Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 March 2025
Inspired by the life of Nina Simone, Black Is The Color Of My Voice follows a successful jazz singer and civil rights activist seeking redemption after the untimely death of her father. She reflects on the journey that took her from a yo...Murder Trial Tonight III The Doorstep Case
Sadler's Wells, London
Saturday 15 - Sunday 16 March 2025
The show begins on screen, giving the audience the backdrop and opening to the true-crime story. Then, the action moves to the stage for a live murder trial, immersing the audience in a fast-paced courtroom experience. As members of the jur...Picture You Dead
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Tuesday 18 - Saturday 22 March 2025
Hot on the heels of the latest instalment of the acclaimed ITV Series Grace, Superintendent Roy Grace is back in a brand-new Peter James stage adaptation of the bestselling Picture You Dead. Starring 2024's multiple award-winning actor Pete...KAREN
The Other Palace, London
Tuesday 18 - Sunday 23 March 2025
KAREN invites you into the uproarious world of our Protagonist. Seamlessly breaking the fourth wall, she?ll whisk you through a chaos-filled narrative that has been described as ?the female Peep Show?. We open on Protagonist?s 30th birthday......Earnest?
Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea
Saturday 22 - Sunday 23 March 2025
The Edinburgh Fringe smash-hit ... Earnest? arrives following rave reviews ahead of an eagerly awaited West End run. When a traditional production of Oscar Wilde's classic play gets underway, everything seems to be going perfectly to plan.....Buffy Revamped
Lyric Theatre, London
Monday 24 March 2025
Fresh from a smash-hit run at Edinburgh Fringe, this fast-paced new production from comedian Brendan Murphy - whose last show, Friend: The One with Gunther, recently won the award for Best Play in the World Wide Comedy Awards - brings y...Impromptu Shakespeare
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 25 - Wednesday 26 March 2025
Bursting with love, poetry, comedy, tragedy, mistaken identity and everything in-between, Impromptu Shakespeare brings you an entirely new and unique Shakespeare play inspired by audience suggestions, to delight Shakespeare nerds and newb...(This is not A) Happy Room
King's Head Theatre, London
Wednesday 26 March - Sunday 27 April 2025
You can?t choose your family, but if you could, you wouldn?t choose this one. Meet the Hendersons, a happily dysfunctional family, reuniting for their dad?s third (or fourth?) wedding. But nobody expects the death of his bachelorhood to bec...Kate Mosse - Labyrinth Live: Unlocking the Secrets of the Labyrinth
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Thursday 27 March 2025
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of her global No 1 bestseller, Kate Mosse is set to thrill audiences anew with her unforgettable one-woman show, Labyrinth Live: Unlocking the Secrets of the Labyrinth. With theatre at its most dazzling, im...Cellar Door Theatre Company - How to (Date a Feminist)
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Thursday 27 - Saturday 29 March 2025
A hilarious new play featuring two proposals, two weddings, an elopement and a cast of unforgettable characters. Kate likes her men tall, dark and smouldering. She has a fatal attraction to bad men. Then she meets Steve - Steve is a feminis...Fluff
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 - Thursday 3 April 2025
Fluff by Tayla Kenyon & James Piercy was the winner of the Best Theatre Production at the Buxton Fringe 2024, alongside awards for Best Performance and Best New Piece at the Birmingham Fringe 2023. It's time for Fluff to do the ultimate puz...Puppy
