Most Popular Drama Plays in London
Mon 30 Dec 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Mon 30 Dec 2024 - Sat 25 Oct 2025
Tue 31 Dec 2024 - Sun 29 Jun 2025
Mon 30 Dec 2024 - Sat 4 Jan 2025
Mon 30 Dec 2024 - Sat 25 Jan 2025
Mon 30 Dec 2024 - Sat 27 Sep 2025
Tue 25 Feb - Sat 22 Mar 2025
Mon 30 Dec 2024 - Sun 1 Feb 2026
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Monday 30 December 2024 - 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
Monday 30 December 2024 - 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 ...
Royal Shakespeare Company - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Monday 30 December 2024 - Saturday 18 January 2025
With Mathew Baynton (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) as Bottom, this hilarious production of Shakespeare's captivating comedy from the Royal Shakespeare Company will transport you from deepest midwinter to the most magical of midsummer nights. ...
Fawlty Towers - The Play
Monday 30 December 2024 - Saturday 1 March 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 ...
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Monday 30 December 2024 - 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...
Only Fools and Horses The Musical
Monday 30 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Stick a pony in your pocket - The Trotters are back and coming to a town near you! The smash hit show Only Fools and Horses The Musical - direct from a record-breaking four-year sold-out run-in London's West End - featuring Del Boy, Rodney,...
Dr. Strangelove
Monday 30 December 2024 - 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...
The Merchant of Venice (1936)
Monday 30 December 2024 - 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
Monday 30 December 2024 - Sunday 1 February 2026
Be prepared to laugh yourself silly! Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, Mischief Theatre's The Play That Goes Wrong is remarkably still and as funny as ever, even after all these years! When a production of the fictitious...
The Tempest
Monday 30 December 2024 - Saturday 1 February 2025
7 December 2024 ? 1 February 2025?We are such stuff as dreams are made on.?The legendary Sigourney Weaver makes her West End debut as Prospero in this enchanting story of revenge and forgiveness....
A Christmas Carol
Monday 30 December 2024 - Saturday 4 January 2025
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 (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, His Dark Materials) and starring Emmy Award-wi...
Maddie Moate's Very Curious Christmas
Monday 30 December 2024 - Saturday 4 January 2025
Join beloved children?s TV presenter Maddie Moate as she makes herWest End debut with this brand-new live show! Following the success ofher hit book ?A Very Curious Christmas?, Maddie is super excited to bringher festive facts and magical e...
Oedipus
Monday 30 December 2024 - Saturday 4 January 2025
Behind every great man is a great women. Election night. The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change. Starring the internationally renowned, multi award-winning Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Sophocles? epic trage...
The Lehman Trilogy
Monday 30 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
On a cold September morning in 1844, a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers, and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish ? L...
Barcelona
Monday 30 December 2024 - Saturday 11 January 2025
Lily Collins (Emily in Paris) & ?lvaro Morte (Money Heist) make their West End debuts in Bess Wohl?s explosive two-hander, BARCELONA. Directed by Lynette Linton. Duration - 1 hour 30 minutes ...
Slava's SnowShow
Monday 30 December 2024 - Sunday 12 January 2025
Witness a show that revives the art of clowning, drawing in those who?ve turned away from the circus tents of old. Slava?s Snowshow is a cavalcade of chaos and charm that invites you to leave the everyday behind and indulge in pure, unadult...
Aladdin
Monday 30 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Your wishes have been granted, for Aladdin is the Lyric?s 2024 panto! Soar above the streets of Hammersmith with our panto heroes Aladdin and Jasmine for an adventure you won?t forget. Following the success of Jack and the Beanstalk in 2022...
Dick Whittington and his Cat
Monday 30 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Come and celebrate the 25th legendary Hackney Empire pantomime with Dick Whittington and his Cat!Join Dick on his search for fortune, fame and new beginnings! Along the way, he?ll experience the adventure of a lifetime, battling rats, falli...
Jack and the Beanstalk - What a Whopper
Monday 30 December 2024 - Saturday 11 January 2025
Laugh your stockings off to this profoundly silly and staggeringly naughty new adults-only pantomime, from the team behind Sleeping Beauty Takes A Prick Jack Trott is very poor, very gay and very horny, living with his mum on a dilapidated ...
Robin Hood & the Christmas Heist
Monday 30 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
As winter\'s first snow falls, there?s little Christmas cheer in Sherwood. Cupboards are bare, the nights are cold, and the cruel Sheriff of Nottingham squeezes his citizens for every penny they?re worth. But deep in the forest, in the hear...
Witness for the Prosecution
Monday 30 December 2024 - 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...
Cyrano
Monday 30 December 2024 - Saturday 11 January 2025
A gender-flipped retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac. Cyrano is the most interesting person in any room ? a wordsmith, a charmer. She works twice as hard and runs twice as fast as the pretty boys, because she?s deeply ashamed of something about...
All's Well That Ends Well
Monday 30 December 2024 - Saturday 4 January 2025
Inside 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. When Helen cures the dying King, he grants her one wish: to choose any man sh...
Asi Wind - Incredibly Human
Monday 30 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Making its UK debut in London?s West End this Autumn, Asi Wind?s new show, INCREDIBLY HUMAN, is shrouded in mystery. Yet, those familiar with his performances know to expect jaw-dropping feats of magic and mind-reading, promising an utterly...
Potted Panto
Monday 30 December 2024 - Saturday 4 January 2025
The West End?s longest running pantomime is coming to the East End this Christmas! Wilton?s Music Hall welcomes Olivier Award nominated festive celebration Potted Panto, bringing you seven classic pantomimes in 80 hilarious minutes. In a ma...
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Tuesday 31 December 2024 - 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...
Tarantula
Wednesday 8 - 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...
Kyoto
Thursday 9 January - Saturday 3 May 2025
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Kyoto
Thursday 9 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. ...
Firebird
Thursday 9 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 ...
The Lonely Londoners
Friday 10 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...
Cymbeline
Friday 10 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...
Atlas
Monday 20 January 2025
Atlas was punished by the Gods to hold the weight of the cosmos for a long time - perhaps an eternity. He's not sure if he is a man or a mountain or a giant. His back hurts. He wonders what would happen if he just let go. Oddly Moving's new...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Monday 20 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...
Oedipus
Tuesday 21 January - Saturday 29 March 2025
'Vengeance will be taken on the killer, then the land will be clean. The contamination will be washed away. The rains will come and the people will be healed.'It's a cold case but, according to the Oracle, if the murderer of old King Laius ...
The Gift
Wednesday 22 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 Double Act
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
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?...
The Years
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....
Second Best
Friday 24 January - Saturday 22 February 2025
At ten years old, Martin Hill was on the brink of stardom, down to thefinal two contenders for the role of Harry Potter but narrowly missingout. Now an adult, Martin is about to embark on the ultimate adventure? fatherhood. As he navigates ...
Oedipus - Old Vic Theatre
Monday 27 January - Saturday 29 March 2025
?Vengeance will be taken on the killer, then the land will be clean. The contamination will be washed away. The rains will come and the people will be healed.? It?s a cold case but, according to the Oracle, if the murderer of old King Laius...
Dimanche
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
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
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
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...
Unicorn
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?Un...