DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
Most Popular Drama Plays in London
Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre
Sat 14 Jun 2025 - Sat 10 Jan 2026
Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts
Richmond Theatre
Tue 16 - Sat 20 Sep 2025
The Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre
Sat 14 Jun 2025 - Sun 30 Aug 2026
The Brightening Air
The Old Vic, London
Saturday 14 June 2025
A world premiere from Olivier Award-winning writer and director Conor McPherson (The Weir, Girl from the North Country), The Brightening Air is an entrancing tale of fate, family and unseen forces in 1980s Ireland. The family home is more t...My Neighbour Totoro
Gillian Lynne Theatre, London
Saturday 14 June 2025 - Sunday 29 March 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
Saturday 14 June - Sunday 9 November 2025
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...Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre, London
Saturday 14 June 2025 - Saturday 10 January 2026
West End mega-hit TINA - The Tina Turner Musical announces its first ever UK & Ireland tour. From humble beginnings in Nutbush, Tennessee, to her triumphant transformation into a multi award-winning global superstar, Tina Turner didn't just...The Deep Blue Sea
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Saturday 14 - 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...The Crucible
Shakespeare's Globe, London
Saturday 14 June - Saturday 12 July 2025
rthur Miller's gripping thriller The Crucible takes centre stage at the Globe Theatre, for the first time ever, this summer for a limited nine-week run. Salem, Massachusetts is a town consumed by paranoia, superstition and a merciless sense......Earnest?
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Saturday 14 June 2025
The Edinburgh Fringe smash-hit ... Earnest? arrives following rave reviews ahead of an eagerly awaited West End run. When a traditional production of Oscar Wilde's classic play gets underway, everything seems to be going perfectly to plan.....Giant
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Saturday 14 June - Saturday 2 August 2025
Following a sell-out run at the Royal Court, John Lithgow reprises his role as Roald Dahl in the west end transfer of Mark Rosenblatt's critically acclaimed play. A world-famous children's author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake ...Mrs. Warren's Profession
Garrick Theatre, London
Saturday 14 June - Saturday 16 August 2025
Four-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton reunites with acclaimed director Dominic Cooke (Hello, Dolly!) to bring George Bernard Shaw's incendiary moral classic crashing into the 21st Century. Joined by real-life daughter, Bessie Carte...My Master Builder
Wyndham's Theatre, London
Saturday 14 June - 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...Retrograde
Apollo Theatre, London
Saturday 14 - Sunday 15 June 2025
Described by The Telegraph as "The finest new play about a pivotal moment in civil rights history" in their ★★★★★ review, following its sold out run at the Kiln Theatre, Ryan Calais Cameron's "electrifying" (Evening Standard...Stereophonic
Duke Of York's Theatre, London
Saturday 14 June - Saturday 11 October 2025
Written by David Adjmi, directed by Daniel Aukin, and featuring original music by Arcade Fire's Will Butler, Stereophonic invites the audience to immerse themselves - with fly-on-the-wall intimacy - in the powder keg process of a band on th...The Comedy About Spies
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Saturday 14 June - Friday 5 September 2025
Brace yourself for hilarious mayhem and a not-so-secret mission with Mischief's newest action-packed adventure The Comedy About Spies. From the multi award-winning company behind The Play That Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery,...The Fifth Step
@sohoplace, London
Saturday 14 June - Saturday 26 July 2025
Following an acclaimed sold-out Edinburgh season, Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) reprises his role as Luka in the provocative, entertaining and subversively funny new play from David Ireland. He is joined in the We...The Mousetrap
St Martin's Theatre, London
Saturday 14 June 2025 - Saturday 21 March 2026
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 ...
The Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre, London
Saturday 14 June 2025 - Sunday 30 August 2026
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
County Hall, London
Saturday 14 June 2025 - Sunday 26 April 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...Plied and Prejudice
The Vaults, London
Saturday 14 June 2025
Direct from a sellout run in Australia, the company that brought you A Very Naughty Christmas is back in the motherland to ruin another cultural icon. Equal parts hilarious comedy theatre show, and Mr Darcy's booziest ball, Plied and Prejud...Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre, London
Saturday 14 June 2025 - Sunday 15 February 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...Marriage Material
Lyric Hammersmith, London
Saturday 14 - 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...Our Cosmic Dust
Park Theatre, London
Saturday 14 June - Saturday 5 July 2025
Written and Directed by Michinari Ozawa, Translated and Adapted by Susan Momoko HingleyMeet Shotaro, a curious school boy who sets out on an adventure to find his late father among the stars. Behind him follows his mother, sick with worry a...The Reckoning
Arcola Theatre, London
Saturday 14 - Saturday 28 June 2025
A journalist meets a man in a ruined village outside Kyiv. The Man from Stoyanka is a security guard, just an ordinary man. But when everyone else flees, he stays. As his home turns into a no man?s land, he chooses to take extraordinary act...Romeo & Juliet
Wilton's Music Hall, London
Saturday 14 - Saturday 21 June 2025
Flabbergast Theatre return to Wilton?s with their award-winning approach to the classics. Romeo and Juliet is brought to life with a fresh and innovative outlook, embracing physicality whilst celebrating the verse and bringing musicality an...
STARS: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey
Brixton House, London
Saturday 14 - Saturday 28 June 2025
Winner of ?Best New Play? at the Offies 2024, STARS is the hilarious and moving new play celebrating Black Queer empowerment and arousal. Meet Mrs: an old lady who goes into outer space? in search of her own orgasm. Performed by one woman a...Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's Globe, London
Sunday 15 June - Saturday 2 August 2025
A showdown simmers this summer as the Globe Theatre transforms into the dangerous world of the Wild West in an 'irresistible' ★★★★ (The Guardian) and 'heartbreaking' ★★★★ (WhatsOnStage) new production of Shakespeare's Romeo ...Dad's Army Radio Show
Duchess Theatre, London
Monday 16 June 2025
The nation's favourite sitcom returns! The boys are delighted to bring us three new episodes. Two actors, two microphones, over twenty-five characters - and lots of sound effects! Dad's Army Radio Show bring's Perry and Croft's classic BBC ...Asmahan - A New Musical Play
Peacock Theatre, London
Monday 16 - Tuesday 17 June 2025
A captivating musical play bringing Egyptian Syrian singer Asmahan's story to life with live music, stunning visuals, and the timeless beauty of her songs. Acclaimed singer and actress Lena Chamamyan will be playing and performing the diva ...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...
Showmanism
Hampstead Theatre, London
Wednesday 18 June - Saturday 12 July 2025
Following the triumph of Re-Member Me in 2023, Dickie Beau returns to Hampstead Theatre with his critically acclaimed Showmanism for a strictly limited run.\'Beau is one of our great living artists ? A work of genius? WhatsOnStageHaving pre...
One Way Out
Brixton House - Theatre 2, London
Wednesday 18 June - Saturday 5 July 2025
Is your fate already decided or is there one way out?Best friends Devonte, Paul, Tunde, and Salim are about to finish college. As life pulls them in different directions, an earth-shattering event forces these friends to confront the harsh ...This Bitter Earth
Soho Theatre, London
Wednesday 18 June - Saturday 26 July 2025
Love. Unconditionally.A deep love is challenged by divisive political realities. Jesse, an introspective Black playwright, finds his choices challenged when his boyfriend, Neil, a white Black Lives Matter activist, calls him out for his pol...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...The Silence of Snow: The Life of Patrick Hamilton
Lilian Baylis Studio, London
Friday 20 June 2025
Mark Farrelly (Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope, Howerd's End, Jarman) presents his riveting, kinetic solo show portraying one of the great English writers of the inter-war years. Patrick Hamilton was a dazzling success in his twenties, producin...Fawlty Towers - The Play
Apollo Theatre, London
Tuesday 24 June - Saturday 13 September 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 ...Till The Stars Come Down
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Tuesday 1 July - Saturday 27 September 2025
The National Theatre's smash-hit, sold-out production transfers to the West End this summer for a strictly limited 13-week run. It's Sylvia and Marek's wedding and you're all invited. Over the course of a hot summer's day, a family gather...The Merry Wives of Windsor
Shakespeare's Globe, London
Friday 4 July - Saturday 20 September 2025
Discover what lies beneath the Elizabethan social order as Shakespeare?s raucous comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor reveals its wild, mythic and daring underbelly in the Globe Theatre this summer. Boisterous, disreputable knight Sir John Fal...A Midsummer Night's Dream - St Paul's Church
St Pauls Church Covent Garden, London
Friday 4 July 2025
Quantum Theatre presents a brand new production of Shakespeare?s most enduringly popular play of love and intrigue, magic and celebration set on that most dangerous of nights when fairies are abroad and nothing is as it seems?With a quarrel...Alice Through the Looking Glass
St Pauls Church Covent Garden, London
Friday 4 July 2025
Quantum Theatre presents a brand new adaptation of Lewis Carroll?s timeless classic, Through the Looking Glass (and What Alice Found There) for this Summer?s outdoor season. With live music and the full array of Carroll?s fantastical charac...Jemima Puddle-Duck
St Pauls Church Covent Garden, London
Friday 4 July 2025
Quantum Theatre is back with a brand new adaptation of the much-loved Beatrix Potter Tale, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. Prevented from hatching her eggs at the farm, foolish Jemima goes in search of a nesting place in the forest and soon...Lil.Miss.Lady
Brixton House, London
Wednesday 9 - Sunday 20 July 2025
Part rave, part drama - LIL. MISS. LADY (Lady Lykez) from HighRise Entertainment explores the history of Grime through the eyes of a vigorous female MC. From the early stages of Jungle, ravers will take an immersive journey through the soun...
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 present British-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh's 2003 play The Pillowman. In a totalitarian state a Writer is questioned by ...That Bastard Puccini
Park Theatre, London
Thursday 10 July - Saturday 9 August 2025
?A challenge, in Italy?s largest newspaper. He?s put both of our reputations on the line!?It?s 1893. Puccini is close to being hailed as Italy?s newest opera king, but needs to write something to cement his reputation. He?s found the perfec...Alice in Wonderland
Marylebone Theatre, London
Saturday 12 July - Sunday 31 August 2025
Tumble down the rabbit hole into the fantastical world of Wonderland, where up is down, and nonsense reigns supreme!Join Alice on her unforgettable adventure as she shrinks and grows, meeting peculiar characters at every turn. Who will she ...The Tiger Who Came To Tea
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Monday 14 July - Sunday 7 September 2025
Based on Britain's best-loved picture book by Judith Kerr, the Olivier Award nominated smash hit show The Tiger Who Came to Tea returns to the West End. The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it p...Noughts & Crosses
Regent's Park Theatre, London
Wednesday 16 July 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...The Secret Garden
