DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
Most Popular Drama Plays in London
Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre
Tue 1 Apr 2025 - Sat 10 Jan 2026
Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts
Richmond Theatre
Tue 16 - Sat 20 Sep 2025
The Seagull
Barbican Centre, London
Tuesday 1 - Saturday 5 April 2025
Cate Blanchett and Tom Burke make their return to the stage in Thomas Ostermeier's new production of Chekhov's The Seagull. Cate Blanchett stars as Arkadina, a celebrated actress whose larger-than-life presence dominates both the stage and ...Much Ado About Nothing
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London
Tuesday 1 - 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 ...Dear England
National Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 April - Saturday 24 May 2025
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A theatrical spectacle as uplifting as any England victory." (Telegraph). The Olivier Award-winning smash hit returns to the National Theatre. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern ...My Neighbour Totoro
Gillian Lynne Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 April 2025 - Sunday 29 March 2026
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...Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Phoenix Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 April - 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...Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 April 2025 - Saturday 10 January 2026
West End mega-hit TINA - The Tina Turner Musical announces its first ever UK & Ireland tour. From humble beginnings in Nutbush, Tennessee, to her triumphant transformation into a multi award-winning global superstar, Tina Turner didn't just...Alterations
National Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 - Saturday 5 April 2025
Lynette Linton (Blues for an Alabama Sky, Shifters) directs Michael Abbensetts' (Sweet Talk, Empire Road) era-defining drama, with additional material by Trish Cooke, in its largest ever staging. Celebrating this award-winning writer, the...Elektra
Duke Of York's Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 - 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
Tuesday 1 April - 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 ...Richard II
Bridge Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 April - 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...The Mousetrap
St Martin's Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 April 2025 - Saturday 21 March 2026
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 Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 April 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 Score
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Tuesday 1 - 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...The Years
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 - Saturday 19 April 2025
Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner give 'extraordinary performances' (The Observer) in Eline Arbo's inventive adaptation, following sold out runs at the Almeida Theatre and Internationaal Thea...Unicorn
Garrick Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 - 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....
Backstroke
Donmar Warehouse, London
Tuesday 1 - 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...Witness for the Prosecution
County Hall, London
Tuesday 1 April 2025 - Sunday 26 April 2026
Art imitates life with Witness for the Prosecution, the suspenseful courtroom drama by Agatha Christie now showing in the eye-popping Council Chamber of the Edwardian Baroque County Hall. Step foot inside the jaw-dropping interior of Cou...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...Farewell Mister Haffmann
Park Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 - Saturday 12 April 2025
One of France's most successful and long-running plays, and a winner of four Moliere Awards, Farewell Mister Haffmann makes its London premiere. Set in 1942 in Nazi-occupied Paris, Jewish jeweller Joseph Haffmann faces imminent danger as ...The Play's The Thing: A One Person Hamlet
Wilton's Music Hall, London
Tuesday 1 - Saturday 12 April 2025
'Mark Lockyer has absolute commitment and mastery of this timeless classic' Rufus Norris. Artistic Director, Royal National Theatre With all the characters played by one actor, stunningly simple staging, and all the language we love, we ...Three Sisters
Shakespeare's Globe, London
Tuesday 1 - 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...(This is not A) Happy Room
King's Head Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 - 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...Puppy
King's Head Theatre, London
Tuesday 1 - Sunday 27 April 2025
Two young women meet late one night in a car park, and immediately fall in love... while dogging. With all their friends watching, they explore the boundaries of their sexualities, and start their own feminist porn company. But all of a sud...Retrograde
Apollo Theatre, London
Wednesday 2 April - 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...Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre, London
Wednesday 2 April 2025 - Sunday 15 February 2026
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...Cymbeline
Shakespeare's Globe, London
Thursday 3 - 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...Plied and Prejudice
The Vaults, London
Thursday 3 - Sunday 27 April 2025
Direct from a sellout run in Australia, the company that brought you A Very Naughty Christmas is back in the motherland to ruin another cultural icon. Equal parts hilarious comedy theatre show, and Mr Darcy's booziest ball, Plied and Prejud...Shanghai Dolls
Kiln Theatre, London
Thursday 3 April - Saturday 10 May 2025
The true story of a cultural martyr and a cultural oppressor. When two penniless actresses meet in Shanghai at auditions for Ibsen?s A Doll?s House, they quickly become inseparable. But as political upheaval rips through China, their tumult...
Breathe
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Friday 4 - Sunday 6 April 2025
Part gig, part puppet theatre and part live film, Breathe explores the inner workings of trees, beautifully realised with a combination of stunning puppetry, breathtakingly detailed sets, and groundbreaking live camerawork. Underscored th...This Kind of Black (Requiem for Black Boys)
Brixton House, London
Tuesday 8 - Saturday 12 April 2025
This Kind of Black (Requiem for Black Boys) is the powerful stage show from poet and musician Reece Williams. It's about growing up in Manchester's Moss Side in the 1990s, a stone's throw from conflict and violence. It celebrates a communit...The Merchant of Venice 1936
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Tuesday 8 - Saturday 12 April 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...Heisenberg
Arcola Theatre, London
Wednesday 9 April - Saturday 10 May 2025
This radical reimagining of Simon Stephens' classic play, with Alex now cast as a woman, stars Olivier Award-winning Jenny Galloway as Alex and internationally acclaimed Faline England as Georgie. In bustling St Pancras train station, Georg...Further Stages - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Thursday 10 - Saturday 12 April 2025
Wimbledon based Theatre Company Further Stages present their production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, based on the 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title refers to an observation by the fictiona...Ghosts
Lyric Hammersmith, London
Thursday 10 April - Saturday 10 May 2025
?When you spend your life in thrall to a monster you find yourself trying to make monstrous things somehow bearable.? Helena is a woman on a mission. Since the death of her high-flying husband, she has dedicated herself to reclaiming his le...The Comedy About Spies
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Monday 14 April - Friday 5 September 2025
Brace yourself for hilarious mayhem and a not-so-secret mission with Mischief's newest action-packed adventure The Comedy About Spies. From the multi award-winning company behind The Play That Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery,...The Brightening Air
The Old Vic, London
Wednesday 16 April - Saturday 14 June 2025
A world premiere from Olivier Award-winning writer and director Conor McPherson (The Weir, Girl from the North Country), The Brightening Air is an entrancing tale of fate, family and unseen forces in 1980s Ireland. The family home is more t...How to Fight Loneliness
Park Theatre, London
Wednesday 16 April - Saturday 24 May 2025
In this timely, dark, and dazzling UK premiere, Tony Award-nominated Neil LaBute takes an unflinching look at how we navigate our lives when time is running out. 'No Hollywood end to this. No last minute rescue. This... right here... with y...My Master Builder
Wyndham's Theatre, London
Thursday 17 April - Saturday 12 July 2025
Directed by Michael Grandage, the Artistic Director of MGC, My Master Builder reunites McGregor and Grandage following their previous collaborations on Othello and Guys and Dolls - both for the Donmar, where Grandage was Artistic Direct...Death of a Salesman
Wycombe Swan Theatre, High Wycombe
Tuesday 22 - Saturday 26 April 2025
One of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman explodes onto the stage in this fresh new production led by acclaimed actor David Hayman (Sid and Nancy, Dad's Army). This timeless, powerful story tak...New Stagers - The Vagina Monologues
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Wednesday 23 - Saturday 26 April 2025
Based in Wandsworth SW18, New Stagers are one of South West London's longest-established amateur theatre groups. The Vagina Monologues, written by Eve Ensler, is a groundbreaking episodic play that explores women's experiences with their bo...Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's Globe, London
Friday 25 April - Saturday 2 August 2025
Wanted: Romeo and Juliet.A showdown awaits this summer as the Globe Theatre transforms into the dangerous world of the Wild West for an exciting new production of Shakespeare?s Romeo and Juliet. An ancient grudge between two sworn enemies e...Giant
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Saturday 26 April - Saturday 2 August 2025
Following a sell-out run at the Royal Court, John Lithgow reprises his role as Roald Dahl in the west end transfer of Mark Rosenblatt's critically acclaimed play. A world-famous children's author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake ...
Isosceles
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 29 April - Saturday 3 May 2025
Natalie Roles and Ashley Gunstock, actors from the television series The Bill, are teaming up again for Ayrshire-based Poetic Justice Productions presentation of Isosceles by Lorraine Forrest-Turner. This time as husband and wife in a rocky...Faygele
Marylebone Theatre, London
Wednesday 30 April - Saturday 31 May 2025
Fay-ge-le/feigala/noun. (Origin - Yiddish)(derogatory) Slang for faggotIlan Galkoff (Backstairs Billy), Ben Caplan (A Sherlock Carol), Clara Francis (Leopoldstad), Andrew Paul (The Bill) and Yiftach Mizrahi (Band of Spies) are to star i...The Gang of Three
King's Head Theatre, London
Wednesday 30 April - Sunday 1 June 2025
In 1976, Harold Wilson announces his shock resignation as Prime Minister and the Labour government has a sudden power vacuum. Feuding cabinet giants ? Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey and Tony Crosland ? meet to discuss who should succeed him. Ost...Murder, She Didn't Write
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Tuesday 6 May 2025
Don your deerstalker, grab your magnifying glass and get your 'finger of suspicion' at the ready because Edinburgh Fringe favourites, Degrees of Error, are bringing back their multiple sell-out show for your sleuthing pleasure. They'll crea...The Deep Blue Sea
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Wednesday 7 May - Saturday 21 June 2025
Tamsin 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 When you're stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue...The Crucible
