Listings
Selected listings for London shows
PLAYS
Almeida Theatre
Alma Mater
by Kendall Feaver, director Polly Findlay
Until 20 July 2024
New play from Australian playwright Kendall Feaver. Following an allegation of sexual assault, a university campus becomes rife with speculation, mistrust, and anger. Jo, the first ever female master of her college comes head-to-head with Nikki, a student impatient for justice. Starring Justine Mitchell and Phoebe Campbell.
The Years
Adapted from Annie Ernaux’s novel Les Années as De jaren and directed by Eline Arbo, in an English version by Stephanie Bain
27 July–31 August 2024
Five different actors bring one woman’s personal and political story to life, set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing post-war Europe. Internationaal Theater Amsterdam’s new Artistic Director Eline Arbo directs her inventive stage adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s masterpiece. Cast includes Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, and Gina McKee.
Ambassadors Theatre
Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
Music by Matthew Floyd Jones, lyrics by Matthew Floyd Jones and Jon Brittan, directors Jon Brittan and Fabian Aloise
Until 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.
Apollo Theatre
Fawlty Towers: The Play
by John Cleese and Connie Booth, adapted for the stage by John Cleese, director Caroline Jay Ranger
Booking to 4 January 2025
Stage adaptation of much-loved 1970s TV sitcom set in a chaotic Torquay hotel run by characters Basil and Sybil Fawlty, featuring an 18-strong cast.
John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers – The Play – | Apollo Theatre, London | Nimax Theatres
Donmar Warehouse
Skeleton Crew
by Dominique Morisseau, director Matthew Xia
Until 24 August 2024
In 2008 Detroit, one of the city’s last surviving car factories is threatened with closure. A tight-knit group of workers face crushing economic reality. Torn between loyalty to each other and the instinct to save their own skin, can they hang on to their dreams, to their ambitions, to hope? UK premiere of Morisseau’s Tony Award-winning play.
SKELETON CREW — BY DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU | Donmar Warehouse
Duchess Theatre
The Play that Goes Wrong
by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shield, director Mark Bell
Booking to 4 May 2025
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 Oliver 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
Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare, director Jamie Lloyd
Until 3 August 2024
A pulsating new take by Jamie Lloyd on Shakespeare’s youthful romantic tragedy starring Tom (Spider-Man) Holland.
Romeo & Juliet West End Play | Official Box Office (thedukeofyorks.com)
Shifters
by Benedict Lombe, director Lynette Linton
12 August–12 October 2024
West End transfer from the Bush Theatre of Lombe’s bittersweet rom-com when a couple come together again years after their teenage affair.
Garrick Theatre
Boys from the Blackstuff
by James Graham, director Kate Wasserberg
Until 3 August 2024
Adaptation of Alan Bleasdale’s seminal 1980s TV series set in the post-industrial Liverpool of Thatcher’s Britain. Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie, and Yosser are used to hard work and providing for their families. But there is no work and there is no money. What are they supposed to do? First staged at Liverpool’s Royal Court, then the National Theatre.
Boys from the Blackstuff | Garrick Theatre | Nimax Theatres
Gielgud Theatre
2:22: A Ghost Story
by Danny Robins, directors Matthew Dunster and Isabel Marr
Until 4 August 2024
After a UK and Ireland tour, Robins’ supernatural thriller returns to the West End with a new cast.
2:22 A Ghost Story at Gielgud Theatre (delfontmackintosh.co.uk)
Hampstead Theatre
Main Stage
Visit from an Unknown Woman
by Christopher Hampton, director Chelsea Walker
Until 27 July 2024
Adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s short story first seen in Vienna’s Josefstadt Theater. Vienna, 1934. Stefan is one of the world’s most successful authors with the lifestyle of a wealthy playboy. But his wellbeing is disturbed by the rise of the Nazi Party, and the sudden appearance of a woman who he clearly knows but who he cannot remember.
VISIT FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (hampsteadtheatre.com)
Kiln Theatre
Peanut Butter & Blueberries
by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, director Sameena Hussain
8–31 August 2024
Hafsah and Bilal are not looking for love. Studying in London, far from their hometowns of Bradford and Birmingham, they find common ground over a peanut butter and blueberry sandwich. Just as their connection is growing, the past and social realities become harder to ignore. In her debut play, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan explores how to love when the weight of the world is on your shoulders.
PEANUT BUTTER & BLUEBERRIES | Kiln Theatre
National Theatre
Dorfman
The Hot Wing King
by Katori Hall, director Roy Alexander Weise
11 July–14 September 2024
The New Wing Order team are vying to win top prize at the annual Hot Wing Festival in Memphis with their new fried chicken recipe. But after an unexpected family emergency, their plans get derailed as the men navigate the meaning of love, family, and staying true to yourself. UK premiere of Katori Hall’s Pulitzer Prize winning comedy.
The Hot Wing King | National Theatre
Lyttelton
The Grapes of Wrath
Based on John Steinbeck’s novel, adapted by Frank Galati, director Carrie Cracknell
17 July–14 September 2024
Forced to travel west after the Oklahoma Dust Bowl has destroyed their farm in search of a promised land, the Joad family embark on an epic journey across America in the hope of finding work and a new life in California. Their story is one of false hopes, wrong turns and broken dreams, but also a hymn to human kindness and a tribute to the endurance of the human spirit during the Great Depression. Starring Cherry Jones as Ma Joad.
The Grapes of Wrath | National Theatre
Olivier
Mnemonic
Written and directed by Simon McBurney
Until 10 August 2024
A body is found in the ice, and a woman is looking for her father while a man searches for his lost lover. This story is as much about origins as it is about memory, and remembering what is lost. Mnemonic asks: what is our place in the natural world? How have human relationships with the environment shaped patterns of migration? Who are we, and where do we come from? 25 years after its first staging Complicité’s production returns to the National Theatre.
Noël Coward Theatre
Slave Play
by Jeremy O. Harris, director Robert O’Hara
Until 21 September 2024
Jeremy O. Harris’s controversial, ground-breaking, and 12-time Tony Nominated play about race, identity, and sexuality in 21st-century America comes to London including some of the original Broadway cast.
Slave Play at Noël Coward Theatre in London’s West End (noelcowardtheatre.co.uk)
Old Vic
The Constituent
by Joe Penhall, director Matthew Warchus
Until 10 August 2024
A conscientious backbench opposition MP (Anna Maxwell Martin) is challenged by an ex-serviceman man whose life is in crisis (James Corden). Penhall’s new play deconstructs politics, panic alarms, and the conflict between public service and personal safety.
The Constituent | Old Vic Theatre
The Real Thing
by Tom Stoppard, director Max Webster
22 August–26 October 2024
Revival of Stoppard’s comedy of love and infidelity between an actress and a playwright, with layers of play and performance, reality and deceit. Starring James McArdle and Bel Powley.
The Real Thing | Old Vic Theatre
Palace Theatre
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts I & II
by Jack Thorne, director John Tiffany
Booking until 2 March 2025
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 16 February 2024
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
ECHO (Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen)
by Nassim Soleimanpour, director Omar Elerian
13–27 July 2024
In Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s new work, a new performer takes to the stage at every show without having a clue of what is going to be asked of them. Unrehearsed and unprepared, the script becomes their guide as they journey through the story of the playwright, connected live from his flat in Berlin? Or is he? Can we really know where or when we are?
Echo – Royal Court (royalcourttheatre.com)
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
The Bounds
by Stewart Pringle, director Jack McNamara
Until 13 July 2024
The year is 1553, and it’s the Allen Valley Whitsun Game between two rival villages, when men will die playing football. First seen at Live Theatre, Newcastle.
The Bounds – Royal Court (royalcourttheatre.com)
Shakespeare’s Globe
Globe Theatre
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare, director Sean Holmes
Until 24 August 2024
Shakespeare’s romantic comedy with a dark subplot, starring Amalia Vitale and Ekow Quartey as sparring singletons Beatrice and Benedick.
Much Ado About Nothing | Summer 2024 | What’s On | Shakespeare’s Globe (shakespearesglobe.com)
Richard III
by William Shakespeare, director Elle While
Until 3 August 2024
Artistic director Michelle Terry plays the pathological narcissist who won’t let anything or anybody get in the way of his gaining and retaining the English throne.
Richard III | Summer 2024 | What’s On | Shakespeare’s Globe (shakespearesglobe.com)
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare, director Jude Christian
Until 26 October 2024
Radical reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s battle of the sexes where misogyny rules the roost.
The Taming of the Shrew | Summer 2024 | What’s On | Shakespeare’s Globe (shakespearesglobe.com)
Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare, director Blanche McIntyre
4 August–15 September 2024
Shakespeare’s epic story of love, duty, and power unfolds in a bilingual production using Spoken English and British Sign Language.
Antony & Cleopatra | Summer 2024 | What’s On | Shakespeare’s Globe (shakespearesglobe.com)
@sohoplace
Death of England: The Plays
by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams, director Clint Dyer
15 July–28 September 2024
Following individual seasons at the National Theatre, these three state-of-the-nation plays about family, class, race, and identity are performed together for the first time.
Death of England: The Plays | Tickets | @sohoplace
St Martin’s Theatre
The Mousetrap
by Agatha Christie, director Ian Talbot
Booking to 1 March 2025
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
A View from the Bridge
by Arthur Miller, director Lindsay Posner
Until 3 August 2024
Revival of Arthur Miller’s 1950s classic drama about illicit sexual passion and family betrayal in New York’s close-knit Italian-American neighbourhood. Dominic West stars as Eddie Carbone.
A View From The Bridge | Official Theatre Website (trh.co.uk)
Farm Hall
by Katherine Moar, director Stephen Unwin
7–31 August 2024
It is summer 1945. With the war in Europe won, the Allies have detained six of Germany’s most gifted nuclear scientists – including three Nobel Prize winners – at Farm Hall, a stately home near Cambridge. Then news comes that the United States has not only succeeded where Germany failed in building an atom bomb, but has used one against Japan. Unbeknownst to the scientists, every inch of Farm Hall was bugged and their every reaction recorded. Based on true events, Moar’s play was first staged at Jermyn Street Theatre last year.
Farm Hall | Official Theatre Website (trh.co.uk)
Trafalgar Theatre
People, Places & Things
by Duncan Macmillan, director Jeremy Herrin
Until 10 August 2024
Denise Gough reprises her Olivier Award-winning role as Emma, a struggling actress whose life is spinning recklessly out of control as she enters rehab in an attempt to make a new start.
People, Places and Things – Trafalgar Theatre
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 22 December 2024
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)
Aldwych Theatre
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Book by Katori Hall, with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, director Phyllida Lloyd
Booking to 31 May 2025
Jukebox musical about the life and works of superstar singer Tina Turner.
Nederlander Theatres – TINA – The Tina Turner Musical
Apollo Victoria Theatre
Wicked
Songs by Stephen Schwartz, book by Winnie Holzman, director Joe Mantello
Booking to 1 June 2025
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.
Barbican
Kiss Me Kate
by Cole Porter, director Bartlett Sher
Until 14 September 2024
Revival of Broadway show-within-a-show based on The Taming of the Shrew, in which two ex-lovers who may or may not still have feelings for each other are forced to work together on a musical version of Shakespeare’s comedy. Starring Adrian Dunbar and Stephanie J. Block.
Bridge Theatre
Guys & Dolls
Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, director Nicholas Hytner
Until 4 January 2025
Revival of Frank Loesser’s Tony Award-winning 1950 musical based on short stories by Damon Runyon about hustlers in the underworld of 1920s New York City.
Guys & Dolls (bridgetheatre.co.uk)
Cambridge Theatre
Matilda
Songs by Tim Minchin, book by Dennis Kelly, director Matthew Warchus
Booking to 25 May 2025
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
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake across New York)
by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, director Tim Jackson
Booking to 31 August 2024
Brit Dougal flies to New York for his dad’s second wedding, where he is met at the airport by Robin, the sister of the bride. There is definitely no instant attraction, but with a wedding imminent anything could happen … A new hit British musical, transferred from Kiln Theatre.
Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) (criterion-theatre.co.uk)
Dominion Theatre
Sister Act
Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Glenn Slater, book by Cheri Steinkellner and Bill Steinkellner, director Bill Buckhurst
Until 31 August 2024
With its Motown-inspired score, Sister Act returns to the West End. Based on the 1992 comedy film about nuns on the run, Alexandra Burke plays disco diva-in-disguise Deloris van Cartier, and Ruth Jones joins the Sisterhood as Mother Superior.
Nederlander Theatres – Sister Act
Eventim Apollo
Shrek the Musical
Music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics and book by David Lindsay-Abaire, directors Nick Winston and Sam Holmes
19 July–31 August 2024
Revival of musical based on the 2001 DreamWorks Animation movie Shrek. It follows Shrek on a quest to rescue Princess Fiona from the clutches of Lord Farquaad.
Eventim Apollo | Shrek The Musical
Fortune Theatre
Operation Mincemeat
Book, lyrics, and music by SpitLip, director Robert Hastie
Booking to 25 January 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)
Gillian Lynne Theatre
Standing at the Sky’s Edge
Music and lyrics by Richard Hawley, book by Chris Bush, director Robert Hastie
Until 3 August 2024
A love letter to Sheffield and a history of modern Britain told through the stories of one iconic estate, Standing at the Sky’s Edge charts the hopes and dreams of three generations over the course of six tumultuous decades. This award-winning new British musical made its debut in Sheffield in 2019, before transferring to the National Theatre and now the West End.
Standing at the Sky’s Edge Musical Tickets | Gillian Lynne Theatre (lwtheatres.co.uk)
The Wizard of Oz
Music by Harold Arlen, Herbert Stothart, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by E. Y. Harburg and Tim Rice, book by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jeremy Sams, director Nikolai Foster
15 August–8 September 2024
Following a season at the London Palladium and a UK and Ireland tour, this production of the 2011 stage musical based on the 1939 MGM film and L. Frank Baum’s original novel (featuring additional songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice) once more hits the Yellow Brick Road in the West End.
The Wizard of Oz Tickets – Gillian Lynne Theatre, London – Official Box Office (lwtheatres.co.uk)
Harold Pinter Theatre
Your Lie in April
Music by Frank Wildhorn, lyrics by Tracy Miller and Carly Robyn Green, book by Riko Sakaguchi and Rinne B. Groff, director Nick Winston
Until 21 September 2024
After a concert launch at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Your Lie in April receives its fully staged European premiere. Adapted from one of the most popular romantic stories and greatest tearjerkers in manga history by Naoshi Arakawa, it tells the story of a young piano prodigy unable to play following his mother’s death but when he befriends a violinist she encourages him to perform again.
Your Lie In April | Official Box Office | Harold Pinter Theatre
His Majesty’s Theatre
The Phantom of the Opera
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, director Harold Prince
Booking to 29 March 2025
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)
London Palladium
Hello, Dolly!
Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, book by Michael Stewart, director Dominic Cooke
6 July–14 September 2024
The Broadway classic Hello, Dolly! revolves around the irrepressible matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi, who arranges love between couples in 19th-century New York. But when she decides to find a match for herself, chaos and hilarity ensue. Starring Imelda Staunton.
Hello, Dolly! The Musical Tickets | The London Palladium (lwtheatres.co.uk)
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 30 March 2025
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 Hammersmith
Fangirls
by Yve Blake, director Paige Rattray
13 July–24 August 2024
A teenage girl misfit is infatuated with a singer in the world’s biggest boy band, who will be performing in her hometown of Sydney, Australia. But how will she get Harry’s attention, and how far is she prepared to go in the name of love? After multiple sell-out runs across Australia, Fangirls arrives in the UK.
Lyric Theatre
Hadestown
Music, lyrics, and book by Anais Mitchell, developed with and directed by Rachel Chavkin
Booking until 9 February 2025
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)
Menier Chocolate Factory
The Baker’s Wife
Songs by Stephen Schwartz, book by Joseph Stein, director Gordon Greenberg
6 July–14 September 2024
Revival of cult musical based on the film La Femme du Boulanger by Marcel Pagnol and Jean Giono. The arrival of a new baker and his younger wife turns a provincial French village upside down.
Buy The Baker’s Wife tickets | Menier Chocolate Factory Official Box Office
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Fiddler on the Roof
Book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, director Jordan Fein
27 July–21 September 2024
Revival of classic Broadway musical. It’s 1905 in the tiny village of Anatevka where Tevye, a Jewish milkman, lives his life by their proud traditions. For his five daughters, that means a visit from the matchmaker … But as each daughter challenges his beliefs, against the backdrop of a changing world, can Tevye hold on to his roots, or must he bend to the will of his children and learn to embrace the unfamiliar?
Fiddler on the Roof | Open Air Theatre
Novello Theatre
Mamma Mia!
Book by Catherine Johnson, songs by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, director Phyllida Lloyd
Booking to 29 March 2025
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 16 November 2024
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 1 February 2025
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 29 March 2025
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 2 November 2024
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)
Sadler’s Wells
A Chorus Line
Book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, director Nikolai Foster
31 July–25 August 2024
Revival of revolutionary 1975 backstage musical using real-life testimonies. On an empty Broadway stage, 17 performers are put through their paces in the final, gruelling audition for a new Broadway musical. Only eight will make it on to the chorus line.
A Chorus Line – Sadler’s Wells Theatre (sadlerswells.com)
Savoy Theatre
Mean Girls
Book by Tina Fey, lyrics by Nell Benjamin, music by Jeff Richmond, director Casey Nicholaw
Booking to 16 February 2025
American high-school musical based on the 2004 Mark Waters film about the rivalries of teenage girls.
Mean Girls | Savoy Theatre | Official Box Office (thesavoytheatre.com)
Shaftesbury Theatre
Mrs. Doubtfire
Music and lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick, book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, director Jerry Zaks
Booking to 15 February 2025
Out-of-work actor Daniel will do anything for his kids. After losing custody in a messy divorce, he creates the alter ego of Scottish nanny Euphegenia Doubtfire in a desperate attempt to stay in their lives. As his new character takes on a life of its own, Mrs. Doubtfire teaches Daniel more than he bargained for about how to be a father. Based on the 1993 movie, this musical was premiered in the US in 2019.
Mrs. Doubtfire – 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 29 March 2025
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
Disney’s Frozen the Musical
Book by Jennifer Lee, songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, director Michael Grandage
Booking to 8 September 2024
Musical based on the highest-grossing animated film of all time (made by Disney), with a story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen about two princess sisters. Opens the refurbished Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
Disney’s Frozen Musical Tickets | Theatre Royal Drury Lane (lwtheatres.co.uk)
Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre
Starlight Express
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, director Luke Sheppard
Until 8 June 2025
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 4 May 2025
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 29 March 2025
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.
Hamilton at Victoria Palace Theatre
Wyndham’s Theatre
Next to Normal
Music by Tom Kitt, lyrics and book by Brian Yorkey, director Michael Longhurst
Until 21 September 2024
This Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning rock musical is an intimate exploration of family and loss. At its heart is a suburban wife and mother living with bipolar disorder and haunted by her past. Transferred from the Donmar Warehouse.
Next To Normal at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End (wyndhamstheatre.co.uk)
Young Vic
Passing Strange
Book and lyrics by Stew, music by Stew Stewart and Heidi Rodewald, director Liesl Tommy
Until 6 July 2024
The European premiere of the Tony Award-winning rock musical. A young, Black musician sets out on an electrifying musical odyssey to find himself and his place in the world, swapping his middle-class LA upbringing for punk rock and protest in 1980s Amsterdam and Berlin.