DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
Most Popular Drama Plays in London
Murder Trial Tonight IV - Death Of A Landlord
Churchill Theatre
Fri 29 May - 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 Spy Who Came in from The Cold
Richmond Theatre
Tue 19 - Sat 23 May 2026
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre
Fri 1 May - Sun 20 Sep 2026
The Hunger Games On Stage
Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre, London
Friday 1 May - Sunday 25 October 2026
The premiere of the first-ever theatre adaptation of Suzanne Collins' internationally acclaimed book and Lionsgate's motion-picture, The Hunger Games: On Stage comes to London in 2025. The theatrical event of the year will be performe...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Old Vic, London
Friday 1 - Saturday 23 May 2026
Based on Ken Kesey's countercultural masterpiece and adapted by Dale Wasserman, Clint Dyer directs a bold new staging of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest that reignites the spirit of the original novel, starring Aaron Pierre, Giles T...Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre, London
Friday 1 May - Sunday 20 September 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...My Neighbour Totoro
Gillian Lynne Theatre, London
Friday 1 May - 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...Shadowlands
Aldwych Theatre, London
Friday 1 - Saturday 9 May 2026
Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington, Twenty Twelve) stars as C.S. Lewis alongside acclaimed actor Maggie Siff (Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy, Billions) as the spirited American poet Joy Davidman whose unexpected love transforms the o...Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Phoenix Theatre, London
Friday 1 May - Sunday 6 September 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...Dracula
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Friday 1 - Saturday 30 May 2026
'A one-woman tour de force' (Daily Mail), three-time Oscar nominee and TONY, Emmy and Grammy winner Cynthia Erivo is DRACULA. Hailed as 'an outstanding performance' (Financial Times), the acclaimed star of Wicked, Harriet, Genius: Aretha...Grace Pervades
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Friday 1 May - Saturday 11 July 2026
Legendary star of stage and screen, Ralph Fiennes, stars opposite Miranda Raison (Spooks) in David Hare's 'fascinating, absorbing and very funny' (FT) play, transferring from a sell-out season at Theatre Royal Bath. Ralph Fiennes gives a ...I'm Sorry Prime Minister
Apollo Theatre, London
Friday 1 - Saturday 9 May 2026
The final chapter of Yes, Minister. 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 catas...Inter Alia
Wyndham's Theatre, London
Friday 1 May - Saturday 20 June 2026
Rosamund Pike delivers a 'remarkable' (The Times) and 'triumphant turn at the height of her powers' (The Standard) in the celebrated role for which she won Best Actress at the Olivier Awards 2026. Following its smash hit debut at the Natio...Oh Mary!
Trafalgar Theatre, London
Friday 1 May - Saturday 18 July 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. Unrequited yearning, alcoholism, and suppressed desires abound in this 80-minute one-act p...Romeo & Juliet
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Friday 1 May - Saturday 20 June 2026
In Verona, in the height of summer, two young people meet at a party. The rest is tragedy. Starring Sadie Sink (Stranger Things) as Juliet and Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place, Hamnet) as Romeo in their West End debuts, Robert Icke (Oedipu...Teeth 'n' Smiles
Duke Of York's Theatre, London
Friday 1 May - Saturday 6 June 2026
The 50th anniversary revival of David Hare's rebel play starring Rebecca Lucy Taylor (Self Esteem). Before the New York Dolls. Before Debbie Harry. Before Kurt Cobain. There was Maggie Frisby. Once the roaring voice of 60s counterculture, n...The Mousetrap
St Martin's Theatre, London
Friday 1 May 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...The Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre, London
Friday 1 May 2026 - Sunday 3 October 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 ...Heartsink
Riverside Studios, London
Friday 1 - Sunday 10 May 2026
Don't miss this rare opportunity to see Kathy Kiera Clarke (Derry Girls), Aden Gillett (Noises Off, National Theatre), Vikash Bhai (Twice BAFTA nominated, Limbo), and Megan Marszal (Helloween) in this bitingly witty medical comedy ...Mass
Donmar Warehouse, London
Friday 1 May - Saturday 6 June 2026
Carrie Cracknell directs Adeel Akhtar, Amari Bacchus, Monica Dolan, Paul Hilton, Lyndsey Marshal, Rochelle Rose and Susie Trayling in Mass, a cathartic and profoundly moving drama by Fran Kranz. In a quiet room of an Episcopal church...Witness for the Prosecution
London County Hall, London
Friday 1 May 2026 - Sunday 25 April 2027
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 Jury Experience - Death on the Port Side
Shaw Theatre, London
Friday 1 May - Friday 12 June 2026
You've been called for jury duty. Step into a thrilling courtroom drama where the audience is the jury. Listen to testimonies, analyze evidence, and ultimately decide... guilty or not guilty? On a summer night, the son of a powerful politic...Dear Jack, Dear Louise
Arcola Theatre, London
Friday 1 - Saturday 2 May 2026
Making its UK premiere, from two-time Olivier Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig (Crazy For You; Lend Me a Tenor), Dear Jack, Dear Louise is a warm and witty portrait of two people kept apart by war, finding love against the odds. When ...A Mirrored Monet
Charing Cross Theatre, London
Friday 1 - Saturday 9 May 2026
This dramatic new musical by composer/lyricist/dramatist Carmel Owen stars Jeff Shankley (Starlight Express, Cats) as Monet and Dean John-Wilson (Your Lie in April: The Musical, The King and I) as Young Monet. Inspired by letters and diar...My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar
Brixton House, London
Friday 1 - Sunday 3 May 2026
Latinx women from South London take centre stage and dare you to call them invisible. Winner of the OFFIES Special Recognition Award for Representation. Finalist for Best Production (Plays) at the OFFIES Awards 2024. Co-created by Valentina...The Holy Rosenbergs
Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Friday 1 - Saturday 2 May 2026
Ryan Craig's THE HOLY ROSENBERGS originally premiered at the National Theatre in 2011, and is now even more timely and incredibly pertinent. The Rosenbergs of Edgware are a family in crisis. David is desperately trying to save a failing c...The Price
Marylebone Theatre, London
Friday 1 May - Sunday 7 June 2026
Arthur Miller's searing family drama The Price comes to the Marylebone Theatre in a powerful new production starring two-time Olivier Award-winning Henry Goodman (Yes, Prime Minister, Fiddler On The Roof, The Resistible Rise of Arturo U...Iphigenia
Arcola Theatre, London
Friday 1 - Saturday 2 May 2026
This stark, contemporary reimagining of Euripides' classic Greek text, in an English version by Stephen Sharkey, adapted and directed by Serdar Bilis, confronts the timeless question: what do we owe our country - and what do we owe our c...Category Is: Macbeth
Emerald Theatre, London
Friday 1 - Thursday 28 May 2026
In the shadows of Soho?s backrooms and battered gay bars, ambition stalks the dancefloor. CATEGORY IS: MACBETH reimagines one of Shakespeare?s bloodiest tragedies in a city where being gay is an act of rebellion and drag is a form of surviv...The Jury Experience - Diamonds, Lies and a Dead Man
Greenwood Theatre, London
Saturday 2 May 2026
You've been called for jury duty. Step into a thrilling courtroom drama where the audience is the jury. Listen to testimonies, analyze evidence, and ultimately decide... guilty or not guilty? Scandal brews as a disgraced ex-driver stands tr...In the Print
King's Head Theatre, London
Saturday 2 - Sunday 3 May 2026
A gripping true story of power, print and protest, that changed Fleet Street forever. From Robert Khan & Tom Salinsky, the writers of ★★★★★ box office smash The Gang of Three comes this politically charged thriller about "The...Barbara
The Victoria Dalston, London
Saturday 2 May 2026
An immersive theatrical experience that sensitively explores the subject of dementia through the lens of how we care for those we love and how we care for ourselves. Barbara and Bernard will transport you, their guests, to a bygone era ...1536
The Ambassadors Theatre, London
Saturday 2 May - Saturday 1 August 2026
Smart. Scrappy. Savage. 1536 ? the ?electrifying? (The Standard) historical drama with a modern edge....Let The Right One In
Underbelly Boulevard, London
Tuesday 5 - Saturday 23 May 2026
Trafalgar Theatre Productions presents the Royal Exchange Theatre Production of the international sensation Let The Right One In, which returns to the stage in a new UK & Ireland tour, following a smash-hit sold-out run at the Royal Excha...Let The Right One In
Underbelly Boulevard, London
Tuesday 5 - Saturday 23 May 2026
Trafalgar Theatre Productions presents the Royal Exchange Theatre Production of the international sensation Let The Right One In, which returns to the stage in a new UK & Ireland tour, following a smash-hit sold-out run at the Royal Excha...Mother Courage and Her Children
Shakespeare's Globe, London
Thursday 7 May - Saturday 27 June 2026
Shakespeare?s Globe welcomes revolutionary playwright Brecht to the stage for the very first time with a new production of his anti-war masterpiece, Mother Courage and Her Children. War rages. Resources are scarce. Hope is a luxury. Mother ...An Ideal Husband
Lyric Hammersmith, London
Thursday 7 May - Saturday 6 June 2026
?I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics.?Sir Robert Chiltern is riding high on all the very best that modern life has to offer a man of his impeccable taste and immaculate reputation. T...Equus
Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Friday 8 May - Saturday 4 July 2026
What prompts a 17-year-old boy to blind six horses? This is the challenge presented to psychiatrist Martin Dysart as he delves into the psyche of his young patient Alan Strang to search for the answers and at the same time questioning wheth...Whodunnit Unrehearsed 4
Park Theatre, London
Monday 11 May - Saturday 27 June 2026
The fastest draw in the West? doesn?t know their linesYeehah! We?re rollin? into the Wild West for the return of Park Theatre?s hit fundraiser Whodunnit [Unrehearsed]; back in 2026 with more murder, mayhem, and, this time, a touch of musica...Churchill's Urinal
King's Head Theatre, London
Wednesday 13 May - Saturday 6 June 2026
Freshly installed in 11 Downing Street, a fearless female Chancellor of the Exchequer is determined to get rid of the ancient urinal in her grace-and-favour en-suite. Intrigue overflows into outrage when it transpires that the porcelain was...Murder, She Didn't Write
Duchess Theatre, London
Monday 18 May 2026
Don your deerstalker, grab your magnifying glass and get your 'finger of suspicion' at the ready because Edinburgh Fringe favourites, Degrees of Error, are bringing back their multiple sell-out show for your sleuthing pleasure. They'll crea...The Spy Who Came in from The Cold
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Tuesday 19 - Saturday 23 May 2026
For the first time ever, a novel by John le Carre - the undisputed master of the modern spy genre whose works include Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Night Manager - is brought to life in a thrilling stage adaptation. Starring ...I'm Sorry Prime Minister
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Tuesday 26 - Saturday 30 May 2026
The final chapter of Yes, Minister. 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 catas...Murder Trial Tonight IV - Death Of A Landlord
Beck Theatre, Hayes
Friday 29 May 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 Jury Experience - Diamonds, Lies and a Dead Man
Shaw Theatre, London
Sunday 31 May - Friday 17 July 2026
You've been called for jury duty. Step into a thrilling courtroom drama where the audience is the jury. Listen to testimonies, analyze evidence, and ultimately decide... guilty or not guilty? Scandal brews as a disgraced ex-driver stands tr...Being Mr Wickham
Garrick Theatre, London
Sunday 31 May 2026
Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends -whether he may be equally capable ofretaining them is less certain. Mr Wickham is ready to set the record straight. Join Pride and Prejudice?s most roguish gen...The Shawshank Redemption
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 6 June 2026
Despite protests of his innocence, Andy Dufresne is handed a double life sentence for the brutal murders of his wife and her lover. Incarcerated in the notorious Shawshank facility, he quickly learns that no one can survive alone. Andy stri...Driftwood
Kiln Theatre, London
Wednesday 3 June - Saturday 4 July 2026
An inspiring story about hope, love and belonging from the company that produced hit shows Peak Stuff and How Not To Drown. Two brothers on a beach need to figure out what to do with their dad - but the sea has other ideas. Mark and Tiny wa...Glengarry Glen Ross
The Old Vic, London
Thursday 4 June - Saturday 18 July 2026
?But what should I tell them???The truth, George. Always tell the truth. It?s the easiest thing to remember.? A fly-by-night office in Chicago. A brutal sales competition: Top dog wins a Cadillac. Second wins a set of steak knives. Third an...
Murder Trial Tonight IV - Death Of A Landlord
Churchill Theatre, Bromley
Friday 5 - Saturday 6 June 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...Allegra
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Monday 8 - Saturday 13 June 2026
Maureen Lipman stars as Allegra, in this moving comedy with lively musical sequences and plenty of laughter. It is also a tender and emotional story about family, love and the way even the most beautiful minds can begin to disappear. Allegr...The Truth
