DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
Most Popular Drama Plays in London
Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre
Tue 20 May 2025 - Sat 10 Jan 2026
Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts
Richmond Theatre
Tue 16 - Sat 20 Sep 2025
The Brightening Air
The Old Vic, London
Tuesday 20 May - 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...Dear England
National Theatre, London
Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 May 2025
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A theatrical spectacle as uplifting as any England victory." (Telegraph). The Olivier Award-winning smash hit returns to the National Theatre. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern ...My Neighbour Totoro
Gillian Lynne Theatre, London
Tuesday 20 May 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
Tuesday 20 May - 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
Tuesday 20 May 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
Tuesday 20 May - 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
Tuesday 20 May - 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...Giant
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Tuesday 20 May - 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
Tuesday 20 May - 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
Tuesday 20 May - 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...The Comedy About Spies
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Tuesday 20 May - 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
Tuesday 20 May - 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
Tuesday 20 May 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
Tuesday 20 May 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 ...Faygele
Marylebone Theatre, London
Tuesday 20 - Saturday 31 May 2025
A beautiful drama on faith and identity, love and duty, and accepting your true self. Head to the Marylebone Theatre for the world premiere of Shimmy Braun's Faygele. At 13, Ari Freed's world shatters in an instant when, during his Bar Mitz...
Witness for the Prosecution
County Hall, London
Tuesday 20 May 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...How to Fight Loneliness
Park Theatre, London
Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 May 2025
In this timely, dark, and dazzling UK premiere, Tony Award-nominated Neil LaBute takes an unflinching look at how we navigate our lives when time is running out. 'No Hollywood end to this. No last minute rescue. This... right here... with y...In Other Words
Arcola Theatre, London
Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 May 2025
Matthew Seager's five star, 4X Moliere Award winning play has now been seen by over 300,000 people in multiple languages across the globe. They call it 'the incident' now. What happened when they first met. He always said it was part of his...Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's Globe, London
Tuesday 20 May - Saturday 2 August 2025
Wanted: Romeo and Juliet.A showdown awaits this summer as the Globe Theatre transforms into the dangerous world of the Wild West for an exciting new production of Shakespeare?s Romeo and Juliet. An ancient grudge between two sworn enemies e...House of Games
Hampstead Theatre, London
Tuesday 20 May - Saturday 7 June 2025
Celebrated psychoanalyst and author Dr Margaret Ford has a new client. Billy needs help: he?s addicted to sex, drugs and, most dangerously, gambling big money at an illicit poker lounge, the House of Games. Dr Ford also happens to be in sea...The Gang of Three
King's Head Theatre, London
Tuesday 20 May - Sunday 1 June 2025
In 1976, Harold Wilson announces his shock resignation as Prime Minister and the Labour government has a sudden power vacuum. Feuding cabinet giants ? Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey and Tony Crosland ? meet to discuss who should succeed him. Ost...Millennium Girls
Brixton House - Theatre 2, London
Tuesday 20 - Saturday 31 May 2025
A Brixton House premiere. North London. The 90s. The sparkle of the new Millennium is building. For Jessica, everything is changing fast. And some things you don?t talk about. Ever. Spanning three decades, we join Jessica, Chanel and Latish...Retrograde
Apollo Theatre, London
Wednesday 21 May - 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...Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre, London
Wednesday 21 May 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......Earnest?
Wycombe Swan Theatre, High Wycombe
Thursday 22 - Friday 23 May 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.....Plied and Prejudice
The Vaults, London
Thursday 22 May - 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...Marriage Material
Lyric Hammersmith, London
Friday 23 May - 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...
Stereophonic
Duke Of York's Theatre, London
Saturday 24 May - 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...
An Inspector Calls
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 27 - Saturday 31 May 2025
Stephen Daldry's multi award-winning National Theatre production of JB Priestley's classic thriller returns. Hailed as the theatrical event of its generation, winning more awards than any other production in history, An Inspector Calls has ...Our Cosmic Dust
Park Theatre, London
Monday 2 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...Little Women
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Tuesday 3 - Saturday 7 June 2025
Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was an immediate critical and commercial success. The book was inspired by Alcott's experiences growing up and is one of the best loved novels of all time. Experience the enduring journey of the March sister...Southside Players - Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 3 - Saturday 7 June 2025
With over 35 years of experience, Southside Players is a non-professional theatre group, staging quality, innovative drama in South London. Recently seen in the West End, this hilarious verbatim play stages the actual court transcripts of...STARS: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey
Brixton House, London
Thursday 5 - 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...Murder Trial Tonight III
Golders Green Hippodrome, London
Saturday 7 June 2025
Tigerslane Studios, renowned for its captivating true-crime productions, is thrilled to announce the launch of the new season of Murder Trial Tonight. This unique theatrical experience brings true-crime stories to life. In the third season,...
Clouds & Concrete
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Tuesday 10 June 2025
Go For Broke Theatre Company present "Clouds and Concrete", an intimate and surreal drama by Luka Knight about a struggling writer, Clay, and his wife, Sammie, as their marriage unravels under the weight of unspoken grief, artistic frustrat...Romeo & Juliet
Wilton's Music Hall, London
Tuesday 10 - 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......Earnest?
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Thursday 12 - 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.....Not Just a Remembering
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Thursday 12 June 2025
From the epic to the everyday - this show from Mary Honeybone takes a life affirming look at how we are shaped by loss and love. A grief-stricken goddess, the creation of time and an unpaid debt from the 1970s. Three stories of sorrow, memo...The Jury Experience - An Immersive Courtroom Case
Shaw Theatre, London
Friday 13 June - Friday 8 August 2025
Step into the heart of a high-stakes trial with The Jury Experience in Manchester. 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 t...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 ...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...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
