Listings
Selected listings for London shows
PLAYS
Almeida Theatre
The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst, adapted by Jack Holden, director Michael Grandage
Until 29 November 2025
Nick Guest pursues beauty in all its forms – aesthetic, erotic, aspirational – but finds himself caught between the freedoms of desire and the rigid boundaries of class, sexuality, and public image in a rapidly changing society. A portrait of Thatcher’s Britain at its most decadent and divisive, based on the Booker Prize-winning novel.
The Line of Beauty | Almeida Theatre
Apollo Theatre
Punch
by James Graham, director Adam Penford
Until 29 November 2025
A teenager from Nottingham kills a man with one punch, but after serving prison time he meets the parents of his victim and transforms his life. Based on the book Right from Wrong by Jacob Dunne. First seen at Nottingham Playhouse, then the Young Vic.
Barbican Theatre
Wendy and Peter Pan
by J.M. Barrie, adapted by Ella Hickson, director Jonathan Mumby
Until 22 November 2025
An exhilarating new take on a beloved classic myth of love, loss, redemption – and pirates.
Fly away to Neverland as you’ve never experienced it before – Ella Hickson’s darkly witty retelling of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan.
Bridge Theatre
The Lady from the Sea
Written and directed by Simon Stone, after Henrik Ibsen
Until 8 November 2025
Fearful she may have settled too easily for a comfortable life married to a well-off doctor, Ellida searches for a way to break the predictable routine her existence has become. When a lover from her past appears at their remote country house, she has to choose between the life she has now built and the one she left behind long ago. A thrilling dissection of desire, loss, and rebirth for the contemporary age. Starring Alicia Vikander and Andrew Lincoln.
https://bridgetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-lady-from-the-sea/
Donmar Warehouse
The Maids
by Jean Genet, in a new translation written and directed by Kip Williams
Until 29 November 2025
With their mistress away, two maids act out their darkest fantasies as they obsessively role-play her murder, until performance and reality begin to blur. This bold new version of The Maids is a compelling, timely parable of modern identity and the destructive desire to both emulate and annihilate those we idolize.
Duchess Theatre
The Play that Goes Wrong
by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shield, director Mark Bell
Booking to 30 August 2026
The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society are putting on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong … does! The original Mischief Theatre show, which won the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, now the longest-running comedy in the West End.
The Play That Goes Wrong | Book Official Tickets | Duchess Theatre (nimaxtheatres.com)
Duke of York’s Theatre
Stereophonic
by David Adjmi, director Daniel Aukin
Until 22 November 2025
Drama set in a music studio in 1976. Here, an up-and-coming rock band recording a new album finds itself suddenly on the cusp of superstardom. The ensuing pressures could spark their break-up – or their breakthrough. Inspired by Fleetwood Mac’s recording of Rumours. Most nominated Broadway play ever with 13 nominations.
Gillian Lynne Theatre
My Neighbour Totoro
Adapted by Tom Morton-Smith, director Phelim McDermott
Booking to 29 March 2026
Adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s 1988 animated fantasy film about the rite of passage of two sisters in post-war rural Japan. Record-breaking, multiple Olivier Award-winning show first seen at the Barbican in 2022.
My Neighbour Totoro London Theatre Tickets | Gillian Lynne Theatre
Hampstead Theatre
The Assembled Parties
by Richard Greenberg, director Blanche McIntyre
Until 22 November 2025
Former movie star Julie Bascov insists on taking Christmas seriously – despite her family’s reminders that that they are in fact Jewish. Every year, they host a feast in their palatial apartment on Central Park West, but much changes in the two decades between 1980 and 2000 that the play spans. Starring Tracy-Ann Oberman.
THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES – Hampstead Theatre
Harold Pinter Theatre
The Weir
Written and directed by Conor McPherson
Until 6 December 2025
Revival of Conor McPherson’s haunting celebration of storytelling as tall tales are shared on a stormy night in an isolated rural Irish pub. Starring Brendan Gleeson.
The Weir | Official Box Office | Harold Pinter Theatre
National Theatre
Olivier
Bacchae
by Nima Taleghani, after Euripides, director Indhu Rubasingham
Until 1 November 2025
The women of the Bacchae will not be ignored. Fierce and unstoppable, they are a chorus of wild energy ready to shake Thebes to its core – and liberate its women. But their god Dionysos has his own reckoning. In a showdown with his cousin, King Pentheus, family loyalty, political power, and human desire are pushed to breaking point in this free new version of the ancient Greek tragedy.
Ballet Shoes
by Noel Streatfeild, adapted by Kendall Feaver, director Katy Rudd
17 November 2025–21 February 2026
Under the watchful eyes and guidance of their guardian, three adopted sisters are learning who they are and what they want to be as they fight to pursue their individual passions. Kendall Feaver’s adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s beloved novel returns to the National Theatre.
Ballet Shoes | National Theatre
Lyttelton
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare, director Robert Hastie
Until 22 November 2025
Hiran Abeysekera (Olivier Award winner for The Father and the Assassin) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.
Dorfman
The Land of the Living
by David Lan, director Stephen Daldry
Until 1 November 2025
Thomas, one of thousands of children stolen by the Nazis from Eastern Europe during WWII, is under the care of Ruth, a UN relief worker. Should she try to find his parents or leave him with those he’s grown up with? The choice she makes will shape his life. 45 years later, Thomas visits Ruth. As they untangle the past, the decisions Ruth made as a very young woman are called powerfully into question. David Lan’s new play stars Juliet Stevenson.
The Land of the Living | National Theatre
End
by David Eldridge, director Rachel O’Riordan
13 November 2025–17 January 2026
Following the critically acclaimed Beginning and Middle, End is the final play in David Eldridge’s trilogy exploring love and relationships, as Alfie (Clive Owen) and Julie (Saskia Reeves) come to the last chapter of their love story.
Noël Coward Theatre
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde, director Max Webster
Until 10 January 2026
A joyful and flamboyant reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s hilarious story of identity, impersonation, and romance. National Theatre transfer with new cast, starring Stephen Fry as Lady Bracknell.
The Importance of Being Earnest at Noël Coward Theatre
Old Vic
Mary Page Marlowe
by Tracy Letts, director Matthew Warchus
Until 1 November 2025
The UK premiere of a vivid time-jumping mosaic of one woman’s life, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts. Starring Susan Sarandon and Andrea Riseborough.
Mary Page Marlowe – Old Vic Theatre
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, adapted by Jack Thorne, director Matthew Warchus
12 November 2025–10 January 2026
Jack Thorne’s version of Dickens’s evergreen Christmas fable returns to the Old Vic for the ninth consecutive year, this time with Paul Hilton playing the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who has a change of heart.
A Christmas Carol – Old Vic Theatre
Orange Tree Theatre
Hedda
by Tanika Gupta, after Henrik Ibsen, director Hettie Macdonald
Until 22 November 2025
London, 1948. The war is over, India is newly independent, and former Hollywood star Hedda Gabler has retired into married life. But Hedda’s secret past is in danger of being revealed. Inspired by the story of Anglo-Indian screen legend Merle Oberon. Starring Pearl Chanda.
Palace Theatre
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts I & II
by Jack Thorne, director John Tiffany
Booking to 26 July 2026
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a brand new stage play inspired by the Harry Potter franchise written by Jack Thorne based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany. Set “nineteen years later” after the last novel, it is presented in two parts intended to be seen in order on the same day (matinee and evening), or on two consecutive evenings.
Harry Potter London (harrypottertheplay.com)
Phoenix Theatre
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
by Kate Trefy, the Duffer Brothers, and Jack Thorne, director Stephen Daldry
Booking to 5 April 2026
This new play is set within the mythology and world of Netflix’s hugely popular sci-fi horror series Stranger Things, a prequel that features the characters when young living in the fictional small town of Hawkins, Indiana in 1959.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow Tickets | Phoenix Theatre in London West End | ATG Tickets
Royal Court Theatre
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
The Unbelievers
by Nick Payne, director Marianne Elliott
Until 29 November 2025
A teenager disappears. Time fractures. His mother will never give up hope. A startling portrait of motherhood, faith, family – and the lengths we go to for those we refuse to forget. Starring Nicola Walker.
Shakespeare’s Globe
Globe Theatre
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare, director Robin Belfield
Until 25 October 2025
Shakespeare’s melancholic romantic comedy in which desire and disillusion walk hand in hand in Illyria.
Twelfth Night or What You Will | Summer 25
Troilus and Cressida
by William Shakespeare, director Owen Horsley
Until 26 October 2025
Rare revival of Shakespeare’s problem play set during the siege of Troy that explores the cult of celebrity and the egos that propel wars forward in a cynical, satirical study of appearance versus reality.
Troilus and Cressida | Summer 25 | What’s On
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Romeo a Juliet
by William Shakespeare, director Steffan Donnelly
5–8 November 2025
A ground-breaking bilingual English/Welsh Theatr Cymru production of Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy placing the violent feud between the Montagues and Capulets in Wales.
Romeo a Juliet | What’s On | Shakespeare’s Globe
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare, director Holly Race Roughan, co-director Naeem Hayat
15 November 2025–31 January 2026
Following on from their 2022 co-production of Henry V, the Globe once again collaborates with touring theatre company Headlong, this time on Shakespeare’s magical romantic comedy – the first time A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been staged in the indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | What’s On | Shakespeare’s Globe
@sohoplace
Every Brilliant Thing
by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, directors Jeremy Herrin and Duncan Macmillan
Until 8 November 2025
A child attempts to ease their mother’s depression by creating a list of all the best things in the world. Through adulthood, as the list grows, they learn the deep significance it has on their own life. Revival of a play that has been performed worldwide, starring Lenny Henry.
Every Brilliant Thing | @sohoplace
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
by John Le Carré, adapted by David Eldridge, director Jeremy Herrin
17 November 2025–21 January 2026
The first stage adaptation of John Le Carré’s classic Cold War spy thriller, transferred from Chichester Festival Theatre.
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold | @sohoplace
St Martin’s Theatre
The Mousetrap
by Agatha Christie, director Ian Talbot
Booking to 21 March 2026
Agatha Christie’s 1952 murder mystery is the world’s longest-running play. A group of people gathered together in a remote part of the countryside discover there is a murderer in their midst. The question is which one of them is the guilty party.
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Othello
by William Shakespeare, director Tom Morris
Until 17 January 2026
New production of Shakespeare’s tragedy of love, jealousy, manipulation, and toxic masculinity. Starring David Harewood, Toby Jones, and Caitlin FitzGerald.
Othello | Official Theatre Website
Trafalgar Theatre
Clarkston
by Samuel D. Hunter, director Jack Serio
Until 22 November 2025
On a journey West to rediscover himself, Jake unexpectedly meets Chris – a kindred soul hiding in a night shift at a Costco in a rural American town. As their bond deepens, so does their sense of adventure. Maybe they could finally give life new meaning by chasing something more – like the intrepid explorers Lewis and Clark before them.
Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre
The Hunger Games: On Stage
by Suzanne Collins, adapted by Conor McPherson, director Matthew Dunster
Until 15 February 2026
A new purpose-built, state-of-the-art venue hosts the original The Hunger Games story in the first-ever theatre adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ internationally acclaimed book and Lionsgate’s motion picture.
The Hunger Games: On Stage | London Premiere Autumn 2025
Wyndham’s Theatre
Born with Teeth
by Liz Duffy Adams, director Daniel Evans
Until 1 November 2025
A new play speculating that Christopher Marlowe may have collaborated with William Shakespeare on the Henry VI history plays. Starring Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel in an RSC production.
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller, director Ivo van Hove
13 November 2025–17 March 2026
Revival of Arthur Miller’s first hit play about the break-up of a family following revelations of wartime profiteering. Featuring Bryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Paapa Essiedu, Tom Glynn-Carney, and Hayley Squires.
All My Sons at Wyndham’s Theatre
Young Vic
Entertaining Mr Sloane
by Joe Orton, director Nadia Fall
Until 8 November 2025
Nadia Fall launches her first season as Young Vic Artistic Director with Joe Orton’s 1963 black comedy brimming with manipulation, seduction, and a devilish wit. Starring Tamzin Outhwaite and Jordan Stephens.
Entertaining Mr Sloane | Young Vic website
MUSICALS
Adelphi Theatre
Back to the Future the Musical
Music and lyrics by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard, book by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, director John Rando
Booking to 12 April 2026
New musical adapted from the iconic 1985 film. The story follows a teenager who via a time-travelling DeLorean finds himself back in 1955 where he meets his high school-aged parents, but his meddling with time threatens his own existence.
Back to the Future: The Musical | Adelphi Theatre (lwtheatres.co.uk)
Apollo Victoria Theatre
Wicked
Songs by Stephen Schwartz, book by Winnie Holzman, director Joe Mantello
Booking to 3 January 2027
Two friends become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch of the South. Based on Gregory Maguire’s novel that re-imagined the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Cambridge Theatre
Matilda
Songs by Tim Minchin, book by Dennis Kelly, director Matthew Warchus
Booking to 24 May 2026
Royal Shakespeare Company musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s novel about a precocious girl growing up in difficult circumstances.
Matilda The Musical | Official London Website
Criterion Theatre
Titanique
Book by Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli, and Tye Blue, director Tye Blue
Booking to 17 June 2026
Jukebox musical parodying the 1997 Hollywood blockbuster movie, in which Céline Dion hijacks the narrative.
Dominion Theatre
The Devil Wears Prada
Music by Elton John, lyrics by Shaina Taub, book by Kate Wetherhead, director Jerry Mitchell
Booking to 26 September 2026
New musical based on the popular film and book set in the offices of a fashion magazine, as a young aspiring journalist gets a job working for the formidable editor-in-chief.
The Devil Wears Prada ⋆ Nederlander Theatres
Fortune Theatre
Operation Mincemeat
Book, lyrics, and music by SpitLip, director Robert Hastie
Booking to 28 February 2025
Operation Mincemeat is a musical comedy based on the extraordinary but true story of the plan to fool the Nazis using a dead body and a dossier of fake plans in 1943, which helped the Allies to win the Second World War. After sold-out runs at New Diorama Theatre and Southwark Playhouse, plus an extended Riverside Studios last summer, the show transfers to the West End.
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical (thefortunetheatre.com)
Garrick Theatre
The Producers
Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, director Patrick Marber
Booking to 19 November 2026
Transfer of the Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of the 12 Tony Award winning musical based on Mel Brooks’s own 1967 satirical comedy film in which a bad-taste Broadway show becomes an unexpected hit.
Mel Brooks’ THE PRODUCERS – Garrick Theatre
Gielgud Theatre
Oliver!
by Lionel Bart, directors Matthew Bourne and Jean-Pierre van der Spuy
Booking to 4 October 2026
Produced and revised by Cameron Macintosh, Lionel Bart’s ever-popular musical based on Dickens’s novel about the titular orphan’s adventures in London returns to the West End in a production enlivened by Matthew Bourne’s choreography.
His Majesty’s Theatre
The Phantom of the Opera
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, director Harold Prince
Booking to 3 October 2026
Based on Gaston Leroux’s gothic novel, this haunting musical traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Opera Paris House.
The Phantom of the Opera London Tickets | His Majesty’s Theatre (lwtheatres.co.uk)
Kiln Theatre
Coven
Book by Rebecca Brewer, music and lyrics by Rebecca Brewer and Daisy Chute, director Miranda Cromwell
31 October–17 January 2026
New musical based on England’s most notorious witch trials in Pendle, Lancashire, in 1612.
Lyceum Theatre
The Lion King
Music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, with additional songs by Lebo M, Julie Taymor, Mark Mancina and Hans Zimmer, book by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi, director Julie Taymor
Booking to 29 March 2026
A re-imagining of Disney’s 1994 animated adventure film which brings the African jungle to life.
The Lion King | The Lion King Musical: London Home
Lyric Theatre
Hadestown
Music, lyrics, and book by Anais Mitchell, developed with and directed by Rachel Chavkin
Booking until 27 September 2026
Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical Hadestown finally makes its West End premiere. The show takes the audience on a journey to the underworld and back, intertwining two mythic love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone.
HADESTOWN – Lyric Theatre (thelyrictheatre.co.uk)
Novello Theatre
Mamma Mia!
Book by Catherine Johnson, songs by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, director Phyllida Lloyd
Booking to 26 September 2026
Sofia invites all three of her possible fathers to her wedding on the Greek island where she lives with her mother. Inspired by the songs of ABBA.
MAMMA MIA! at Novello Theatre (delfontmackintosh.co.uk)
Piccadilly Theatre
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Book by John Logan, director Alex Timbers
Booking to 23 May 2026
Moulin Rouge! The Musical is based on the Academy Award-winning Baz Luhrmann film set in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris at the turn of the twentieth century. It follows the show’s run on Broadway, which unveiled the jukebox musical’s eclectic pop score with songs by the likes of Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Elton John.
Playhouse Theatre
Cabaret
Songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb, book by Joe Masteroff, director Rebecca Frecknall
Booking to 23 May 2026
Celebrated musical based on Christopher Isherwood’s short stories set in early 1930s Berlin, where American writer Cliff Bradshaw meets English cabaret singer Sally Bowles, a performer at the Kit Kat Club. But the rise of Nazism threatens this hedonistic Weimar Republic haven. This immersive production won seven Olivier Awards.
Cabaret | Official Box Office | The Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse Theatre
Prince Edward Theatre
MJ
Book by Lynn Nottage, director and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon
Booking to 28 March 2026
Book by multi-Tony Award-winning musical about Michael Jackson centred around his 1992 Dangerous World tour, featuring many of his most famous songs. Broadway star Myles Frost plays the lead role.
MJ – Prince Edward Theatre (delfontmackintosh.co.uk)
Prince of Wales Theatre
The Book of Mormon
Book, music, and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone, directors Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker
Booking to 21 February 2026
Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical satire from the creators of South Park which follows two Mormon missionaries who are sent from the comfort of Salt Lake City to Uganda in Africa in order to spread the word of their church.
The Book of Mormon at Prince of Wales Theatre (delfontmackintosh.co.uk)
Savoy Theatre
Paddington: The Musical
Music and lyrics by Tom Fletcher, book by Jessica Swale, director Luke Sheppard
6 November 2025–24 May 2026
New musical based on characters from Michael Bond’s much-loved book series.
Paddington The Musical | Savoy Theatre | Official Box Office
Shaftesbury Theatre
Just for One Day
Book by John O’Farrell, director Luke Sheppard
Booking to 7 February 2026
Jukebox musical telling the story of Live Aid, the celebrated 1985 benefit concert raising money for famine in Ethiopia. Premiered at the Old Vic last year.
Just For One Day – Shaftesbury Theatre
Sondheim Theatre
Les Misérables
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg with original text by Alain Boublil and English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, directors Trevor Nunn and John Caird
Booking to 3 October 2026
Victor Hugo’s epic tale of passion and destruction in 19th-century France told in the West End’s longest-running musical.
Les Misérables at Sondheim Theatre
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Hercules
Book by Robert Horn and Kwame Kwei-Armah, music and lyrics by Alan Menken
Booking to 28 March 2026
Musical based on the 1997 Disney movie (very) loosely based on the titular son of Zeus in Greek mythology.
Disney’s Hercules Musical Tickets | Theatre Royal Drury Lane | LW Theatres
Theatre Royal Stratford East
The Harder They Come
Book by Suzan Lori-Parks, director Matthew Xia
To 1 November 2025
Based on the 1972 cult classic film that brought reggae to the world, The Harder They Come tells the story of Ivan, an aspiring singer who arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, determined to make it as a music superstar – but things don’t turn out as planned. Reggae soundtrack includes songs by the star of the film Jimmy Cliff. Revival by Stratford East.
Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre
Starlight Express
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, director Luke Sheppard
Booking to 19 April 2026
Revival of Lloyd Webber’s megahit musical about a steam engine racing against modern diesel and electric locomotives trains, with the cast performing on roller skates.
Starlight Express • London (starlightexpresslondon.com)
Vaudeville Theatre
Six
by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, directors Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage
Booking to 28 June 2026
From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, the six wives of Henry VIII take to the mic to tell their tales, remixing five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an 80-minute celebration of 21st-century girl power.
Victoria Palace Theatre
Hamilton
by Lin-Manuel Miranda, director Thomas Kail
Booking to 3 October 2026
Inspired by the book Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, this multi-award-winning Broadway show tells the story of the American founding father who rose from humble origins to become head of the Treasury after independence.