DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
Most Popular Drama Plays in London
Only Fools and Horses The Musical
Eventim Apollo
Tue 17 Dec 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre
Thu 21 Nov 2024 - Sat 25 Oct 2025
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre
Fri 22 Nov 2024 - Sun 29 Jun 2025
The Merchant of Venice (1936)
Trafalgar Theatre
Sat 28 Dec 2024 - Sat 25 Jan 2025
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre, London
Thursday 21 November 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
St. Martin's Theatre, London
Thursday 21 November 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 ...Fawlty Towers - The Play
Apollo Theatre, London
Thursday 21 November 2024 - Saturday 1 March 2025
The classic comedy follows Basil Fawlty, a huffy hotelier whose increasingly ludicrous efforts to "raise the tone" of his dilapidated seaside hotel are met with complaints, complications, and chaos. Determined to cater for the guests he thi...Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Phoenix Theatre, London
Thursday 21 November 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...The Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre, London
Thursday 21 November 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...A Christmas Carol
The Old Vic, London
Thursday 21 November 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...Dr. Strangelove
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Thursday 21 November 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 No?l Coward Theatre from 8 October 2024. This jet-black comedy...Juno and the Paycock
Gielgud Theatre, London
Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 November 2024
Tony award-nominee J. Smith-Cameron (Succession?s Gerri Kellman) stars as Juno Boyle opposite Mark Rylance as ?Captain? Jack Boyle in a highly anticipated new production of JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, Se?n O?Casey\'s timeless masterpiece, directe...Oedipus
Wyndham's Theatre, London
Thursday 21 November 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
Gillian Lynne Theatre, London
Thursday 21 November 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...Waiting for Godot
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Thursday 21 November - Saturday 21 December 2024
Lucian 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. Didi and Gogo wait by a tree for a man named Godot. They don?t know who he ...Barcelona
Duke Of York's Theatre, London
Thursday 21 November 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 ...Macbeth
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Thursday 21 November - Saturday 14 December 2024
David Tennant and Cush Jumbo return to their landmark performances in Shakespeare?s most extraordinary psychological drama....Machinal
The Duchess
Trafalgar Theatre, London
Thursday 21 November - Friday 20 December 2024
Returning 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 Thea...The Unseen
Riverside Studios, London
Thursday 21 November - Saturday 14 December 2024
This harrowing new production of The Unseen by Craig Wright (Six Feet Under, Lost, Dirty Sexy Money) will premiere at Riverside Studios for a strictly limited season in 2024. In a brutal totalitarian regime, two strangers are imprisoned for...The Forsyte Saga Part 1: Irene
Park Theatre, London
Thursday 21 November - Saturday 7 December 2024
?If you don?t get the person you truly love, your life is ruined and there?s no going back.? Penniless Irene has married into the wealthy Forsyte family out of necessity. Her husband Soames adores her, but Irene does not love him. When she...The Forsyte Saga Part 2: Fleur
Park Theatre, London
Thursday 21 November - Saturday 7 December 2024
?Those who don?t understand their own history are doomed to repeat it.?Years have passed since the family scandal and Soames and Irene are divorced with children of their own. Soames? daughter Fleur, headstrong like her father, is determine...The Purists
Kiln Theatre, London
Thursday 21 November - Saturday 21 December 2024
On their stoop in Queens, New York, Lamont, a legendary emcee and Mr Bugz, a hall-of-fame DJ, have been winding up Gerry, a musical lover, for as long as they can remember. But when two young women, Nancy and Val, put their rap battling sk...What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Marylebone Theatre, London
Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 November 2024
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...All's Well That Ends Well
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
Thursday 21 November 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...All's Well That Ends Well - Shakespeare's Globe
Distant Memories of the Near Future
Arcola Theatre, London
Thursday 21 - Saturday 30 November 2024
An isolated tech mogul tries to turn love into an algorithm. A jaded consumer confronts their loneliness. An astronaut is trapped in the cosmos. Distant Memories of the Near Future is a piece of multimedia storytelling-theatre featuring pro...Expendable
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs At The Royal Court, London
Thursday 21 November - Saturday 21 December 2024
?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?? Between the 1990s and 2010s hundreds of young girls were sexually exploited in northern towns by gangs ...How To Survive Your Mother
King's Head Theatre, London
Thursday 21 - Sunday 24 November 2024
The true story of a Technicolor Woman in a black and white worldBy Jonathan Maitland (Dead Sheep, An Audience with Jimmy Savile, The Interview)How do you navigate a crazy, glamorous, narcissistic, scandal-loving mother whose idea of fun is ...Queen Bette
King's Head Theatre, London
Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 November 2024
\"The Queen has no hour for love. Time presses, and events crowd upon her. And for a shell, an empty, glistening husk, she must give up all that a woman holds most dear.\"Bette Davis was a true movie legend. This acclaimed one-woman show re...Reykjavik
Hampstead Theatre, London
Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 November 2024
?For Those in Peril on the Sea? makes dying at sea sound like something noble, patriotic. Whereas their husband, son or father has died for one half of a fish and chip supper? February 1975. In freezing weather off the coast of Iceland, the...
Women Who Blow On Knots
Arcola Theatre, London
Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 November 2024
Women Who Blow On Knotsby Ece Temelkuranin a new adaptation by Leyla NazliDirected by Lerzan PamirArcola co-founder Leyla Nazli adapts Ece Temelkuran's bestselling novel: an epic tale of empowerment and adventure. Three women meet by ...Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre, London
Friday 22 November 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...Asi Wind - Incredibly Human
Underbelly Boulevard, London
Friday 22 November 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...
Threshold
The Dome, London
Saturday 30 November 2024
This bold new play, created with and for the 2024 Young Company, brings together intersecting stories by three Young Company Writers Graduates: Rosa Gatley, Sharvi Rana and Jake Talbot. Mentored by playwright Becky Prestwich, this striking ...Threshold
The Dome London, London
Saturday 30 November 2024
This bold new play, created with and for the 2024 Young Company, brings together intersecting stories by three Young Company Writers Graduates: Rosa Gatley, Sharvi Rana and Jake Talbot. Mentored by playwright Becky Prestwich, this striking ...Robin Hood & the Christmas Heist
Rose Theatre Kingston, Kingston upon Thames
Saturday 30 November 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...Austentatious - An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Arts Theatre, London
Sunday 1 - Monday 16 December 2024
Austentatious is saddling the horses for a Grand Tour of the United Kingdom! Austentatious is an improvised comedy play starring a cast of the country's quickest comic performers. Every single show the cast conjures up a brand new 'lost' Ja...Peter Pan - The Drag Panto
Phoenix Theatre, London
Monday 2 December 2024 - Monday 6 January 2025
TuckShop are back on the West End for their 4th All Drag Panto? Peter Pan!Forget everything you thought you knew about Neverland with this childishly unabashed two-fingered, all-drag, salute to the classic tale of the boy that wouldn?t grow...A Midsummer Night's Dream - Royal Shakespeare Company
Maddie Moate's Very Curious Christmas
Apollo Theatre, London
Friday 6 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...TENDER
Lafayette, London
Monday 9 December 2024
This new play from Phosphoros Theatre encapsulates the radical joy that sees the company resist dominant and reductive media headlines. Drawing on the personal narratives of its company of refugee actors, Tender moves between the UK and h...Cyrano
Park Theatre, London
Wednesday 11 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...Only Fools and Horses The Musical
Eventim Apollo, London
Tuesday 17 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,...Slava's SnowShow
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Wednesday 18 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...Tom Fletcher's The Creakers
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Wednesday 18 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Ever wondered what you would do if you woke up and all the adults had disappeared? Lucy and the other kids of Whiffington hadn?t ? until one morning that?s exactly what happens!With a town full of children running wild, our reluctant hero a...The Merchant of Venice (1936)
Trafalgar Theatre, London
Saturday 28 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...Kyoto
@sohoplace, London
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
King's Head Theatre, London
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
Kiln Theatre, London
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
