DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
Most Popular Drama Plays in London
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre
Wed 12 Feb - Sun 29 Jun 2025
Dickens Theatre Company - A Christmas Carol
New Wimbledon Theatre
Mon 1 - Sat 6 Dec 2025
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre
Wed 12 Feb - Sat 25 Oct 2025
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 25 October 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....The Mousetrap
St. Martin's Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 27 September 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 ...Much Ado About Nothing
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 5 April 2025
Tom Hiddleston is Benedick and Hayley Atwell is Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Two of their generation's finest actors collaborate with director Jamie Lloyd again in this savagely funny and beautifully tender battle ...Boys from the Blackstuff
National Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 20 December 2025
Bill Kenwright Ltd presents Liverpool's Royal Court and National Theatre production of Alan Bleasdale's "Boys From The Blackstuff" by James Graham. Gizza job. Go on, gizzit. 80s Liverpool. Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser are used ...Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Phoenix Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - Sunday 7 September 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...War Horse
National Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 20 December 2025
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 ...Boys from the Blackstuff
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Wednesday 12 - Saturday 15 February 2025
Bill Kenwright Ltd presents Liverpool's Royal Court and National Theatre production of Alan Bleasdale's "Boys From The Blackstuff" by James Graham. Gizza job. Go on, gizzit. 80s Liverpool. Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser are used ...Fawlty Towers - The Play
Apollo Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - 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 ...Oedipus
The Old Vic, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 29 March 2025
Academy Award winner Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody, No Time To Die) and Olivier Award winner Indira Varma (Present Laughter, Game of Thrones) star in Ella Hickson's intimate and revelatory version of Sophocles' transcendent tragedy, Oedipus...Inside No.9 - Stage/Fright
Wyndham's Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 5 April 2025
Expect the unexpected as the acclaimed BBC TV series comes to life on stage, weaving its signature web of twisted tales and black humour. From the eerie to the absurd, Inside Number 9 - Stage/Fright combines comedy and horror with a drama...Richard II
Bridge Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 10 May 2025
Richard II is charismatic, eloquent and flamboyantly witty. And a disastrous King - dishonest, dangerous and politically incompetent. Echoing down the centuries is the perennial problem: how to deal with a ruler who has a rock solid right t...Unicorn
Garrick Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 26 April 2025
Nick: Have you two kissed already? Polly: NoKate: Yes Polly and Nick have it all. Happily married, two children, successful careers. And yet there's something missing... something rare and unforeseen... waiting to add a much-needed sparkle....Elektra
Duke Of York's Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 12 April 2025
Elektra, haunted by her father's assassination, is consumed by grief; a need for survival; and a thirst for vengeance. When her long lost brother Orestes at last returns, she urges him to a savage and terrifying conclusion but at what cost?...Kyoto
@sohoplace, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 3 May 2025
Featuring a "barnstorming performance" (Financial Times) of "demonic charm" (Metro) by Stephen Kunken (Billions and The Handmaid's Tale), Kyoto sees Olivier award-winning directors Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin (Stranger Things: The ...The Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February 2025 - Sunday 1 February 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 ...Second Best
Riverside Studios, London
Wednesday 12 - Saturday 22 February 2025
Sex Education's Asa Butterfield makes his stage debut in Second Best, a playful yet poignant new comedy about fate, near- misses and the winding paths life takes. It explores the ache of almost touching greatness and the humour and hope th...Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - Sunday 29 June 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...The Years
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 19 April 2025
The five-star sold out production of The Years transfers to the West End for 12 weeks only....Mrs President
Charing Cross Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - Sunday 16 March 2025
In Mrs President, Mary Lincoln is a woman at war?with her grief, her detractors, and herself. Vilified by an envious elite and accused of treason, she strives to rebuild her public image to win the hearts of the American people. She turns t...Witness for the Prosecution
London County Hall, London
Wednesday 12 February - Sunday 28 September 2025
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 setting. Leonard Vole is accused of murdering a...The Gift
Park Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 1 March 2025
When Colin receives an anonymous package, he is bemused and appalled by what he finds inside. He should just ignore it? But who would send him such a thing ? and why did they put it in a cake box?Colin immediately finds himself battling all...The Lonely Londoners
Kiln Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 - Saturday 15 February 2025
The critically acclaimed adaptation of Sam Selvon?s iconic novel.1950s London. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry ?Sir Galahad? Oliver is impatient to start his new life in London. Carrying just pyjamas and a toothbrush, he bursts through M...What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Marylebone Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 - Saturday 15 February 2025
Based on the Pulitzer-finalist short story by Nathan Englander, don\'t miss this brand new serious-comedy starring West Wing and Big Bang Theory actor Joshua Malina, and directed by Leopoldstadt\'s Patrick Marber.? WHAT A serious ne...As Long As We Are Breathing
Arcola Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 1 March 2025
The world premiere of a new work by Diane Samuels (author of award-winning Kindertransport). AS LONG AS WE ARE BREATHING is a multi-sensory, mixed media and timely evocation of the true-life story of Miriam Freedman. Directed by Ben Caplan,...The Double Act
Arcola Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 - Saturday 22 February 2025
In a crumbling coastal town, a fading comedian is forced to confront his estranged ex-partner ? a deranged recluse fixated on their distant heyday?in a tale of guilt, ambition and the ghosts of British show-business. Billy Bash, who gloried...Three Sisters
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
Wednesday 12 February - Saturday 19 April 2025
For the first time ever in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, experience the work of Anton Chekhov with Three Sisters, a masterful study of family legacy, misdirected love and the human condition. This is the world premiere of a new translation b...Three Sisters - Shakespeare's Globe
Cymbeline
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
Thursday 13 February - Sunday 20 April 2025
secret marriage changes the course of two ancient kingdoms. For the first time in ten years, see Cymbeline, Shakespeare?s late, tragic comedy of love and rebellion, in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Cymbeline is queen of ancient Bri...Cymberline - Shakespeare's Globe
Backstroke
Donmar Warehouse, London
Friday 14 February - Saturday 12 April 2025
Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig play mother and daughter in this kaleidoscopic and compassionate new play, written and directed by Anna Mackmin. Bo is busy - balancing the pressures of work and the needs of her struggling daughter. When he...The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Sunday 16 February 2025
Amazing tales, elegantly told. The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a multi award-winning, family friendly, improvised storytelling show. There will be pirates and princesses, unicorns and dragons, spacemen an...The Shark is Broken
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Monday 17 - Saturday 22 February 2025
Step aboard the Orca and into a "profound dive behind the scenes of the making of Jaws" (The Daily Telegraph). This Olivier Award-nominated new play is "hilariously brilliant and pure genius" raves the Sunday Express in its 5 Star review an...DocDoc - Southend-on-Sea
Palace Theatre - Southend-on-sea, Southend-on-Sea
Tuesday 18 - Saturday 22 February 2025
Laughter really is the best medicine with DocDoc, the outrageously hilarious international smash hit comedy that has had over 4 million people worldwide in stitches!Doctor Cooper, a renowned specialist in obsessive-compulsive disorders, is ...The Score
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Thursday 20 February - Saturday 26 April 2025
Legendary stage and screen actor Brian Cox (HBO's multi-award-winning Succession) stars as Johann Sebastian Bach in Oliver Cotton's new play, originally presented at the Theatre Royal Bath. Spring 1747, Potsdam, Prussia. Johann Sebastian Ba...Pride & Prejudice (sort of)
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Monday 24 February - Saturday 1 March 2025
Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen's most iconic love story. Men, money and microphones will be...The Last Laugh
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Tuesday 25 February - Saturday 22 March 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. ...Birdsong
Alexandra Palace, London
Thursday 27 February - Saturday 8 March 2025
Presented by Original Theatre and JAS Theatricals in association with Joshua Beaumont & Huw Allen, Tiny Giant Entertainment, Birdsong Productions and Wiltshire Creative. Sebastian Faulks? epic story of love and loss returns to the stage, ma...12
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 4 - Saturday 8 March 2025
1, 2, 3... Why is Marian so annoying? 4, 5, 6... Why is Lea doing so well? 7, 8, 9... Why does everyone need coffee all the time? 10, 11, 12... Follow Mel as she tries to survive her 20s, with OCD making sure she does everything 12 times - ...Farewell Mister Haffmann
Park Theatre, London
Wednesday 5 March - Saturday 12 April 2025
One of France?s most successful and long-running plays, and a winner of four Moli?re Awards, Farewell Mister Haffmann makes its London premiere. Set in 1942 in Nazi-occupied Paris, Jewish jeweller Joseph Haffmann faces imminent danger as Je...Dear Martin
Arcola Theatre, London
Wednesday 5 - Saturday 29 March 2025
Dave is the long-suffering husband. Martin is the psychopath who?s been exchanging erotic letters with Dave?s wife from a high-security hospital. When Dave finally gathers up the courage to confront him, Martin proposes a bargain: he will h...My Neighbour Totoro
Gillian Lynne Theatre, London
Saturday 8 March - Sunday 2 November 2025
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...My Neighbour Totoro
Barbican Centre, London
Saturday 8 March - Sunday 2 November 2025
Find your spirit with the return of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Executive Producer Joe Hisaishi's "awe-inspiring" (Time Out) and "dazzling" (Guardian) production of Studio Ghibli's My Neighbour Totoro, in collaboration with Improbable...Retrograde
Apollo Theatre, London
Saturday 8 March - 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...Dracula A Comedy of Terrors
Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Saturday 8 March - Saturday 3 May 2025
DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS gives Bram Stoker?s horror classic a comic makeover in this lightning-fast gender-bending reimagining that features a Gen Z pansexual Count Dracula in the midst of an existential crisis. With a cast of five swit...Dickens Theatre Company - Macbeth
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Monday 10 - Tuesday 11 March 2025
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...A Man for All Seasons
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 March 2025
The greatest, most powerful and dangerous figures who shaped English history are brought vividly to life in Robert Bolt's award-winning play. Martin Shaw stars as Sir Thomas More - scholar, ambassador, Lord Chancellor and friend to King Hen...A Tupperware Conundrum
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 March 2025
What do you do when you have a picture perfect life, a wonderful home, and marvellous family but discover something is a little out of place? Throw a Tupperware party of course! Heralded as the first form of social media and beloved by ho...Dickens Theatre Company - Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Wednesday 12 March 2025
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...Murder Trial Tonight III The Doorstep Case
Sadler's Wells, London
Saturday 15 - Sunday 16 March 2025
The show begins on screen, giving the audience the backdrop and opening to the true-crime story. Then, the action moves to the stage for a live murder trial, immersing the audience in a fast-paced courtroom experience. As members of the jur...Picture You Dead
