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
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 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...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...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...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
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...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...Heisenberg
Arcola Theatre, London
Wednesday 9 April - Saturday 10 May 2025
In bustling St Pancras train station, Georgie, a free spirit, impulsively plants a kiss on the neck of Alex, a reserved 70-year-old woman sitting on a bench. When Georgie unexpectedly reappears at Alex?s shop, the older woman is drawn into ...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...Punch
Young Vic, London
Saturday 12 April 2025
Experience Punch, the latest masterpiece from Olivier Award-winning playwright James Graham (Best of Enemies, Dear England, This House), which brings Jacob Dunne's powerful true-life account to the stage. This ★★★★★ production, fo...The Comedy About Spies
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Monday 14 April - Sunday 3 August 2025
Brace yourself for hilarious mayhem and a not-so-secret mission with Mischief?s newest action-packed adventure THE COMEDY ABOUT SPIES, taking over London?s No?l Coward Theatre from April 2025. From the multi award-winning company behind The...The Brightening Air
The Old Vic, London
Wednesday 16 April - Saturday 14 June 2025
How much of living is really just forgetting? The family home is more than merely a building. It can be a destination of pilgrimage, an inherited investment, a repository of memory or even magic. And, for brother and sister Stephen and...How to Fight Loneliness
Park Theatre, London
Wednesday 16 April - Saturday 24 May 2025
?No Hollywood end to this. No last minute rescue. This? right here? with you? is the best chance I?ve got??Jodie and Brad seem like they have it all. The house in the suburbs, the nice car, the fully stocked bar. But when the couple are fac...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...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...Isosceles
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 29 April - Saturday 3 May 2025
Isosceles by Lorraine Forrest Turner ...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...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...Carlton Theatre Group - Richard III
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 13 - Saturday 17 May 2025
Richard III by William Shakespeare performed by Wimbledon's longest running amateur dramatics group, which was formed in 1927 as Carlton Dramatic Society by a group of theatre enthusiasts based at St Barnabas Church in Wimbledon. The King i...In Other Words
Arcola Theatre, London
Monday 19 - Saturday 24 May 2025
They call it ?the incident? now. What happened when they first met. He always said it was part of his ?romantic plan?, but they both know that?s rubbish. Connected by the music of Frank Sinatra, this intimate, humorous and deeply moving dra...Marriage Material
Lyric Hammersmith, London
Friday 23 May - Saturday 21 June 2025
?In our shops we will be Kings of England. And we will make this place our place.?The Bains? corner shop in Wolverhampton has been at the centre of the family for three generations. In 1969, Mrs Bains is balancing running the business, cari...An Inspector Calls
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 27 - Saturday 31 May 2025
Stephen Daldry's multi award-winning National Theatre production of JB Priestley's classic thriller returns. Hailed as the theatrical event of its generation, winning more awards than any other production in history, An Inspector Calls has ...Southside Players - Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 3 - Saturday 7 June 2025
With over 35 years of experience, Southside Players is a non-professional theatre group, staging quality, innovative drama in South London. Recently seen in the West End, this hilarious verbatim play stages the actual court transcripts of...Murder Trial Tonight III
Golders Green Hippodrome, London
Saturday 7 June 2025
Tigerslane Studios, renowned for its captivating true-crime productions, is thrilled to announce the launch of the new season of Murder Trial Tonight. This unique theatrical experience brings true-crime stories to life. In the third season,...The Last Laugh
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Tuesday 17 - Saturday 21 June 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. F...Noughts & Crosses
The Underworld, London
Thursday 19 June 2025
This gripping Romeo and Juliet story by acclaimed writer Malorie Blackman and adapted by Sabrina Mahfouz from Pilot Theatre is a captivating drama of love, revolution and what it means to grow up in a divided world. Winner of Excellence i...Intimate Apparel
Donmar Warehouse, London
Friday 20 June - Saturday 9 August 2025
New York, 1905. Emmy Award winner Samira Wiley plays Esther, who sews exquisite lingerie for women from all walks of life. Successful and fiercely independent, she dreams of opening her own beauty salon, but can't shake the longing to fal...New Stagers - The Pillowman
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Wednesday 9 - Saturday 12 July 2025
Based in Wandsworth SW18, New Stagers are one of South West London's longest-established amateur theatre groups. ...Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain - The Best Bits
Apollo Theatre, London
Thursday 31 July - Sunday 31 August 2025
We all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead!So it?s time to prepare yourselves for HORRIBLE HISTORIES live on stage with the best of Barmy Britain!Can you beat battling Boudicca? Will King John be a martyr for t...Carlton Theatre Group - Cold Comfort Farm
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 12 - Saturday 16 August 2025
Carlton Theatre Group, Wimbledon's longest running amateur dramatics group - formed in 1927 as Carlton Dramatic Society by a group of theatre enthusiasts based at St Barnabas Church in Wimbledon - presents: Cold Comfort Farm by Paul Doust. ...Dracula
Lyric Hammersmith, London
Friday 12 September - Saturday 11 October 2025
Mina Harker has a story to tell. Armed only with her husband?s journal, a pile of old letters and her wits, she begins to piece together the story of the mysterious Count Dracula and his journey to England. But is Mina?s story merely memory...Southside Players - Emma
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 30 September - Saturday 4 October 2025
With over 35 years of experience, Southside Players is a non-professional theatre group, staging quality, innovative drama in South London. Here they present, Emma, based on the novel by Jane Austen. Emma - updated! Adaptor of Little Wome...Fawlty Towers - The Play
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 21 - Saturday 25 October 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 ...Dickens Theatre Company - A Christmas Carol
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Monday 1 - Saturday 6 December 2025
Dickens Theatre Company present their joyously authentic staging of this Victorian classic. Two of Dickens' closest theatrical companions find themselves trapped in the footlights glare. With the rest of the cast stuck on a train, actress F...2:22 A Ghost Story
