Most Popular Drama Plays in London
Sat 4 May - Sat 22 Jun 2024
Sat 4 May - Sat 14 Sep 2024
Tue 17 Dec 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Sat 4 May 2024 - Sat 1 Mar 2025
Mon 27 Jan - Sat 1 Feb 2025
Sat 4 May 2024 - Sat 31 May 2025
Mon 8 Jul - Sun 1 Sep 2024
Sat 4 May 2024 - Sun 4 May 2025
Sat 4 May 2024 - Sun 2 Mar 2025
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Saturday 4 May 2024 - Saturday 31 May 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....
War Horse
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 14 September 2024
The Global Phenomenon Returns. The National Theatre's acclaimed production returns in an all-new UK tour. War Horse is an unforgettable theatrical experience which takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon ...
The Mousetrap
Saturday 4 May 2024 - Saturday 1 March 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 ...
Player Kings
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 22 June 2024
Ian McKellen - 'one of the world's greatest actors' (Times) - plays Falstaff in a new version of Shakespeare's Henry IV, adapted by the award-winning writer and director Robert Icke. Joining the previously announced Ian McKellen as Sir John...
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Saturday 4 May - Sunday 15 December 2024
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 Ocean at the End of the Lane
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 3 August 2024
From the imagination of Neil Gaiman, best-selling author of Coraline, Good Omens and The Sandman, comes the National Theatre's major new stage adaptation of The Ocean at the End of the Lane. This thrilling adventure of fantasy, myth and fri...
The Government Inspector
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 15 June 2024
Splendid Productions proudly present a new creative adaptation of 'The Government Inspector', an 1836 comedy written by Ukrainian playwright Nickolai Gogol. Failure. Inadequacy. Mismanagement. Sloppiness. Carelessness. Deceitfulness. Neglig...
The Play That Goes Wrong
Saturday 4 May 2024 - Sunday 4 May 2025
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...
Jekyll & Hyde
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 3 August 2024
In a new and enthralling one-man stage adaptation of the classic tale of terror, acclaimed actor Jonathan Goodwin plays both Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde in this production from Don't Go Into The Cellar! Victorian theatre company. Journey...
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Saturday 4 May 2024 - Sunday 2 March 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...
John Cleese's Fawlty Towers - The Play
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 28 September 2024
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. Starring Adam Jackson-Smith ...
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 8 June 2024
Often regarded as the greatest American play of the 20th Century, this landmark new production will be helmed by award-winning director Jeremy Herrin.O?Neill?s Pulitzer Prize-winning play depicts a summer day in the life of the Tyrones, clo...
Machinal
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 1 June 2024
How can that be? A great sin - a mortal sin - for which I must die and go to hell - but it made me free! One moment I was free!' From the outside, Helen Jones and her husband had a 'happy marriage'. Until she murdered him. Based on the ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Saturday 4 - Saturday 11 May 2024
?I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.?Emmy and Golden Globe-winner SARAH SNOOK returns to London in THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. Star of Succession, The Dressmaker, Pieces of a Woman and The Master Builder (The Ol...
For Black Boys...
Saturday 4 May 2024
For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy returns to London's West End in 2024 following three previously sold-out runs.I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and now I love me' Father fi...
The Hills of California
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 15 June 2024
Following their multi-award-winning triumph The Ferryman, Jez Butterworth, writer of Jerusalem, resumes his partnership with Sam Mendes, director of The Lehman Trilogy, to bring you The Hills of California....
Minority Report
Saturday 4 - Saturday 18 May 2024
In 2050, neuroscientist Dame Julia Anderton is about to launch the next phase of her pioneering Pre-Crime programme, detaining people for crimes before they are committed. But when Julia is accused of pre-murder, she?s in a race against tim...
People Places and Things
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 10 August 2024
Duncan Macmillan?s (Lungs, 1984) intoxicating hit play PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS, directed by Jeremy Herrin (Best of Enemies, This House) and designed by Tony Award?-winner Bunny Christie (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), m...
Red Pitch
Saturday 4 May 2024
Red Pitch, celebrated by critics as a "remarkable, next-level coming-of-age story" by acclaimed writer Tyrell Williams, transfers to London's newest West End theatre, @sohoplace, following 2 sold-out, award-winning runs at the Bush Theatre...
Much Ado About Nothing
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 24 August 2024
There's trouble in paradiseWelcome to a luxurious paradise in the Globe Theatre this summer as love in its many forms is celebrated in Shakespeare's timeless comedy, Much Ado About Nothing. After years of war, an idyllic Italian town is fin...
The Cord
Saturday 4 - Saturday 25 May 2024
"Sometimes when I look at him, I feel like he's me. But if the baby is me, then who am I? You?" The arrival of this baby has changed everything. Amir hovers as his mother holds her grandchild for the first time, mesmerised. The bag of handm...
The Glass Menagerie - Rose Theatre
Saturday 4 May 2024
Atri Banerjee?s acclaimed production of Tennessee Williams\' semi-autobiographical masterpiece, first seen at the Royal Exchange Theatre, returns starring Geraldine Somerville (Gosford Park) as Amanda. Tom escapes a suffocating home life th...
Witness for the Prosecution
Saturday 4 May - Sunday 29 September 2024
YOU HAVE BEEN SUMMONED FOR JURY SERVICE... 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 sett...
POWER OF SAIL
Saturday 4 - Sunday 12 May 2024
All hell breaks loose when Harvard professor Charles Nichols invites a contentious white nationalist to his yearly symposium. His colleagues are very concerned about how this will affect both his and the University?s reputation; his student...
The Ballad of Hattie and James
Saturday 4 - Saturday 18 May 2024
An epic, life-spanning tale of friendship, music, and the moments that change you forever. At St Pancras International, a woman sits at the piano and begins to play. The music captivates commuters, tourists and, following a viral clip, peo...
Whodunnit Unrehearsed 3
Saturday 4 May 2024
Following the sell-out success of our previous fundraising runs of the murder mystery spoof, Whodunnit, this next instalment takes us all completely off the rails! Diamonds are a girl?s best friend ? or are they? As the temperature plummet...
Harry Clarke
Saturday 4 - Saturday 11 May 2024
Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor Billy Crudup (The Morning Show, Coast of Utopia, No Man?s Land, Almost Famous) delivers an acting ?masterclass? (New York Theatre Guide) in David Cale?s wickedly funny thriller HARRY CLARKE, transferring to...
Austentatious - An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Monday 6 May - Monday 29 July 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...
Richard III
Thursday 9 May - Saturday 3 August 2024
'Alack, I love myself'Meet Richard: the man, the myth, the monster. A new production of Shakespeare's Richard III unfolds in the Globe Theatre this summer, with Artistic Director Michelle Terry in the title role. Richard can taste the thron...
Confetti
Sunday 12 May 2024
A queer rom-com from Will Jackson ("Rising Comic Star"-Attitude). Confetti follows wedding planner Felix, as he embarks on a romance of his own - and you're invited! Felix is uptight and unlucky in love. He's the mate of honour at his best ...
Jerry's Girls
Saturday 18 May - Saturday 29 June 2024
Jerry\'s Girls celebrates the life and legacy of legendary award-winning Broadway composer Jerry Herman. Starring Cassidy Janson (Olivier Award winner for & Juliet), Jessica Martin (Mack & Mabel) and Julie Yammasee (Bonnie & Clyde), with s...
A View From The Bridge
Wednesday 22 May - Saturday 3 August 2024
BAFTA award winner Dominic West , star of The Affair ,The Wire and The Crown, stars as Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's timeless masterpiece of illicit and barely repressed sexual passion. Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman, has brou...
The Glass Menagerie
Wednesday 22 May - Saturday 1 June 2024
Amy Adams, six-time Academy Award nominee, makes her West End debut in a bold re-imagining of Tennessee Williams? masterpiece from acclaimed director, Jeremy Herrin (Wolf Hall Trilogy, People Places and Things, Best of Enemies). ?MEMORY IS ...
Kathy And Stella Solve A Murder
Saturday 25 May - Saturday 14 September 2024
BFFs Kathy and Stella host Hull's least successful true crime podcast. When their favourite author is killed, they are thrust into a thrilling whodunnit of their own! Can they crack the case (and become global podcast superstars) before the...
Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White
Saturday 1 - Saturday 29 June 2024
Set in the deep south of the USA in 1918 when interracial marriage was illegal, Julia, a black seamstress, and Herman, a white baker, are defying all odds with their secret love. They face vicious judgement not just by society but also thei...
English
Wednesday 5 - Saturday 29 June 2024
The Royal Shakespeare Company in association with Kiln Theatre presentENGLISHBY SANAZ TOOSSI?In this room, we are native speakers. We think in English. We laugh in English. Our inhales, our exhales ? we fill our lungs in English.?A classroo...
The Taming of the Shrew
Thursday 6 June - Saturday 26 October 2024
Step inside an absurd carnival this summer as Shakespeare's vicious comedy The Taming of the Shrew arrives in the Globe Theatre. Lucentio is determined to win the beautiful Bianca's hand in marriage. When her father declares that it will...
JULIE: The Musical
Wednesday 12 - Sunday 30 June 2024
A brand new, original musical telling the life and adventures of historical LGBTQ+ icon Julie D'Aubigny, the worshipped opera singer, renowned swordswoman and flaming bisexual. Julie D'Aubigny is down in history as one of the most chaotic...
Boys From The Blackstuff
Thursday 13 June - Saturday 3 August 2024
Gizza job. Go on, gizzit, go ?head, giz it if you?ve got it, giz it, I can do it. Giz it then. Go ?head, gizza job. ?Powerful? ???? Guardian ?Ambitious and timely? ???? The Stage ?Giz a ticket? ????? Daily Mail ?Theatre at its very, very be...
L'amore Del Cuore (Heart's Desire)
Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 June 2024
One of Caryl Churchill?s most revolutionary plays, L?amore Del Cuore (Heart?s Desire) dissects language and how we communicate, in a hilarious and touching exploration of family and relationships.?It is both one of the funniest short plays ...
The Constituent
Wednesday 19 June - Saturday 10 August 2024
?I am not your punch bag! I am a Member of Parliament!? An MP with an instinct for compassion. An ex-serviceman with a life in free fall. And a parliamentary protection officer who?s having none of it. This volatile new play stars BAFTA Awa...
The Marilyn Conspiracy
Wednesday 19 June - Saturday 27 July 2024
Directed by Guy MastersonOn Wednesday August 1st 1962, seven people gathered at Marilyn Monroe?s home to celebrate her new $2m two-picture deal with 20th Century Fox. At 04:30 the following Sunday 5 August, her apparent suicide was called i...
Much Ado About Nothing - St Paul's Church
Friday 21 June - Friday 26 July 2024
We invite you to the shores of Sicily for the intrigue, drama, wit and wisdom of \"Much Ado About Nothing\". It\'s the 1960s, and change is in the air on a sun-drenched island steeped in tradition. The old order is about to be shaken up by ...