DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
Most Popular Drama Plays in London
Murder Trial Tonight IV Death Of A Landlord
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Fri 6 Feb - Sat 6 Jun 2026
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
New Wimbledon Theatre
Tue 10 Nov 2026 - Sat 20 Feb 2027
The Jury Experience - An Immersive Courtroom Case
Shaw Theatre
Sat 21 Feb - Fri 12 Jun 2026
The Mousetrap
St Martin's Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 January 2026 - Saturday 2 January 2027
Producer, Brian Fenty, is delighted to announce that Agatha Christie's iconic thriller and the world's longest running play, The Mousetrap will embark on a major UK tour from September 2026 running through to 2027. The tour forms part of wi...Ballet Shoes
National Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 January - Saturday 21 February 2026
The bestselling book revitalised for the stage In a crumbling house full of dinosaur bones and fossils, three adopted sisters - Pauline, Petrova and Posy - are learning who they are and what they want to be. Under the watchful eyes and guid...My Neighbour Totoro
Gillian Lynne Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 January - Sunday 30 August 2026
Discover your spirit with the epic return of the Royal Shakespeare Company's My Neighbour Totoro, the acclaimed staging of the celebrated 1988 animated feature film by Hayao Miyazaki. My Neighbour Totoro is a captivating coming-of-age ta...Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Phoenix Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 January - Sunday 31 May 2026
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...All My Sons
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Wyndham's Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 January - Saturday 7 March 2026
This November it returns to the West End in a new production from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge, A Little Life), who reunites with Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Network) alongside Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truth...The Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 January 2026 - Sunday 31 January 2027
The longest running comedy in the West End. Still disrupting the West End in its 10th disastrous year, the award-winning international smash-hit The Play That Goes Wrong continues to tickle audiences at the Duchess Theatre. You all know ...Witness for the Prosecution
London County Hall, London
Wednesday 28 January - Sunday 4 October 2026
Art imitates life with Witness for the Prosecution, the suspenseful courtroom drama by Agatha Christie now showing in the eye-popping Council Chamber of the Edwardian Baroque County Hall. Step foot inside the jaw-dropping interior of Cou...The Rat Trap
Park Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 January - Saturday 14 March 2026
When two brilliant egoists marry there is bound to be trouble. In fashionable 1920s Belgravia, Sheila, a talented novelist, and Keld, an aspiring playwright, embark on married life. Both are fiercely ambitious, but when Keld's career takes ...Arcadia
The Old Vic, London
Wednesday 28 January - Saturday 21 March 2026
Sex, the attraction that Newton left out.??? Brilliant minds, burning hearts and the unstoppable pull between chaos and order. In a country house, two centuries apart, genius unfolds. A teenage prodigy discovers the mathematics of the unive...Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 January - Sunday 26 July 2026
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...High Noon
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 January - Saturday 7 March 2026
The countdown is on. From Oscar Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Dune) and Olivier Award-winning Director Thea Sharrock (Equus ? West End/Broadway, After the Dance) comes the world premiere of the play, High Noon....Oh Mary
Trafalgar Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 January - Saturday 25 April 2026
Oh, Mary! is an uproariously dark comedy about a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln?s assassination....Woman in Mind
Duke Of York's Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 January - Saturday 28 February 2026
Directed by Michael Longhurst (Constellations, Caroline or Change, and former Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse) this spellbinding revival explores one woman?s fractured reality with heart and humour. When Susan sustains a bump to t...KENREX
The Other Palace, London
Wednesday 28 January - Sunday 1 February 2026
July 10th, 1981, Missouri. Smalltown bully, Ken Rex McElroy rules Skidmore with an iron fist. His ten year reign of terror has involved theft, intimidation, assault, abduction and attempted murder but, thanks to his slippery defence attorne...Paranormal Activity
The Ambassadors Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 January - Saturday 25 April 2026
Inspired by the iconic, terrifying film series, Paranormal Activity is a new story live on stage....
A Grain Of Sand
Arcola Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 - Saturday 31 January 2026
Renad, a young Gazan girl, embarks on a dangerous journey. Carrying only the echoes of her grandmother?s tales and the spark of her own imagination, she searches for her family and the ?Anqaa? ? the mythical Palestinian Phoenix.A Grain of S...Fallen Angels
Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Wednesday 28 January - Saturday 21 February 2026
First performed exactly 100 years ago, No?l Coward?s outrageous comedy FALLEN ANGELS remains one of his funniest creations. Best friends Jane and Julia, now settled in happy marriages, receive an unexpected visit from a glamorous ex-boyfrie...Mrs President
Charing Cross Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 January - Sunday 8 March 2026
Mary Lincoln is a woman under siege ? with her grief, her detractors, and herself. In the shadow of her late husband, President Abraham Lincoln, she battles a world eager to define her and a conscience that will not rest. Accused of treason...Safe Haven
Arcola Theatre, London
Wednesday 28 January - Saturday 7 February 2026
Spring, 1991. In the aftermath of the First Gulf War, as Saddam Hussein?s forces brutally crush the Kurdish uprising in northern Iraq, two million Kurds escape into the freezing mountains. The world watches on in horror as images of death a...Frantic Assembly - Lost Atoms
Lyric Hammersmith, London
Thursday 29 January - Saturday 28 February 2026
Following sell out tours of Othello and Metamorphosis contemporary theatre company Frantic Assembly returns with a brand-new play for its 30th Anniversary year, written by Anna Jordan (Succession, Killing Eve, The Unreturning, Yen). ...A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare's Globe, London
Thursday 29 - Saturday 31 January 2026
Step into candlelit winter woods and discover the shadowy underbelly of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream To escape a society ruled by tyrannical law, four young lovers flee to the forest beyond the city walls. Unbeknownst to them, th...I'm Sorry Prime Minister
Apollo Theatre, London
Thursday 29 January - Saturday 9 May 2026
From the BAFTA Award-winning co-creator of Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, Jonathan Lynn, comes the long-awaited final chapter of British political satire ? and it is as cunning, cutting, and catastrophically funny as ever. Jim Hacke...2:22 A Ghost Story
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Monday 2 - Saturday 7 February 2026
Winner of BEST NEW PLAY at the WhatsOnStage Awards, Kevin Clifton (Strictly Come Dancing, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Chicago) and Stacey Dooley (TV presenter and Strictly winner) star as fictional couple Sam and Jenny in this edge-of-...Monstering The Rocketman
Arcola Theatre, London
Tuesday 3 - Saturday 21 February 2026
EXCLUSIVE! It?s ELTON JOHN vs. THE SUN! World?s Biggest Star battles World?s Toughest Tabloid in epic eighties clash!When The Sun falsely accuses Elton John, 39, of ?sordid rent boy sex sessions?, the Rocketman blasts it with a whopping mul...Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley
Wilton's Music Hall, London
Tuesday 3 - Saturday 7 February 2026
The Historic 1965 Cambridge Union Debate, Reimagined Following critically acclaimed runs in New York City, London, Chicago and Los Angeles, the american vicarious? radically staged production of the historic debate between James Baldwin and...Shadowlands
Aldwych Theatre, London
Thursday 5 February - Saturday 9 May 2026
BAFTA, Primetime Emmy, and Golden Globe Award-nominated actor Hugh Bonneville stars as C.S. Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia) whose orderly academic life as an Oxford Don is upended by the arrival of the spirited American poet, Joy...Murder Trial Tonight IV Death Of A Landlord
Wycombe Swan Theatre, High Wycombe
Friday 6 - Saturday 7 February 2026
Murder Trial Tonight is back for it's fourth season with a brand new show "Death of a Landlord". Victor Sloane, a powerful landlord, is discovered dead in his office - his young child the only witness. Tenant, Tre Bennet, struggling with me...The Constant Wife
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Monday 9 - Saturday 14 February 2026
David Pugh and Cunard present The Royal Shakespeare Company productionPrior to London's West End THE CONSTANT WIFE By Laura WadeBased on the comedy by W Somerset Maugham 1927. Constance is a very unhappy woman. "Nonsense" says her moth...The Playboy of the Western World
National Theatre, London
Tuesday 10 - Saturday 28 February 2026
At the edge of the earth, you could be anyone Pegeen Flaherty's life is turned upside down when, on a normal day, a young man walks into her pub claiming that he's killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer Christy Mahon become...
Seagulls
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Kiln Theatre, London
Thursday 12 February - Saturday 21 March 2026
The classic, rechargedKonstantin is desperate to prove his talent as a writer. Irina, once a star, is desperate to keep her own flailing acting career afloat. At a performance of his new play, Konstantin?s reunion with his mother reopens ol...Blink
King's Head Theatre, London
Wednesday 18 February - Sunday 22 March 2026
This is a story about seeing and being seen. About watching and being watched. And about love. Sophie has just lost a parent. So has Jonah. Sophie has just inherited quite a lot of money. So has Jonah. After a series of uncanny coincidences...The Jury Experience - An Immersive Courtroom Case
Shaw Theatre, London
Saturday 21 February - Friday 12 June 2026
Step into the heart of a high-stakes trial with The Jury Experience. In this live theatre show, YOU are the jury-the power to deliver justice is entirely in your hands. You'll examine every piece of the puzzle, from witness testimonies to ...Black is the Color of my Voice
Duchess Theatre, London
Monday 23 February - Monday 2 March 2026
Inspired by the life of Nina Simone, and featuring many of her most iconic songs performed live. Apphia Campbell's acclaimed play follows a successful singer and civil rights activist as she seeks redemption after the untimely death o...Dear England
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 24 - Saturday 28 February 2026
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A theatrical spectacle as uplifting as any England victory." (Telegraph). The National Theatre's Olivier-Award winning smash hit head out on a national tour, following a record-breaking run in the West End. The country tha...The Holy Rosenbergs
Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Friday 27 February - Saturday 2 May 2026
The Rosenbergs of Edgware are a family in crisis. David is desperately trying to save a failing catering business; Lesley is trying to save a failing husband, and their daughter Ruth is facing public vilification for investigating war crime...Dickens Theatre Company - Macbeth
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Monday 2 - Tuesday 3 March 2026
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...Double Indemnity
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Tuesday 3 - Saturday 7 March 2026
Hollywood icon Mischa Barton (The O.C.) makes her UK stage debut in Double Indemnity, the gripping adaptation of one of the greatest crime novels of the 20th Century - the story that inspired Billy Wilder's film noir classic. Los Angeles, 1...Dickens Theatre Company - Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Wednesday 4 March 2026
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...
Impromptu Shakespeare
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Friday 6 March - Saturday 21 November 2026
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...Yentl
Marylebone Theatre, London
Friday 6 March - Sunday 12 April 2026
\"Prepare to be astonished by the beauty and greatness of Yentl\" - The Age?Following a 5-star, sold-out triumph at the Sydney Opera House, Kadimah Yiddish Theatre?s acclaimed production of Yentl transfers to London?s Marylebone Theatre f...
Garth Marenghi
Palace Theatre, Southend-on-Sea
Saturday 7 March 2026
From the fevered imaginata of Horror Fiction's Grand Frightener Garth Marenghi - Channel 4's spoof pulp horror author created by English comedians Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade - author of Sunday Times Bestselling Garth Marenghi's T...The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Tuesday 10 - Saturday 14 March 2026
Winner of the Aspen Words Award, Runner up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and one of The Times top three bestselling books of 2020, Christy Leftieri's best-selling novel has its world premiere in a brand new adaptation by Nesrin Alref...Murder Trial Tonight IV Death Of A Landlord
Orchard Theatre, Dartford
Friday 13 March 2026
Murder Trial Tonight is back for it's fourth season with a brand new show "Death of a Landlord". Victor Sloane, a powerful landlord, is discovered dead in his office - his young child the only witness. Tenant, Tre Bennet, struggling with me...Teeth 'n' Smiles
Duke Of York's Theatre, London
Friday 13 March - Saturday 6 June 2026
TEETH 'N' SMILES. The 50th anniversary revival of David Hare's rebel play starring Rebecca Lucy Taylor....Murder Trial Tonight IV Death Of A Landlord
