DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
Most Popular Drama Plays in London
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre
Fri 5 Dec 2025 - Sat 10 Jan 2026
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 Importance of Being Earnest
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - Saturday 10 January 2026
The National Theatre's sold-out production of The Importance of Being Earnest transfers to the Noel Coward Theatre this Autumn, in a co-production with Sonia Friedman Productions. Olly Alexander (It's A Sin) plays Algernon Moncrief...The Mousetrap
St Martin's Theatre, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - 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...A Christmas Carol - A Ghost Story
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Alexandra Palace, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
Marley was dead: to begin with. Following a phenomenally successful run in 2021, Mark Gatiss retelling of Dickens winter ghost story returns to the hauntingly atmospheric Alexandra Palace Theatre. Filled with Dickensian, spine-tingling spec...Ballet Shoes
National Theatre, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - 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...A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare's Globe, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - Saturday 31 January 2026
By the glow of candlelight, in the depths of winter, discover the magic of Shakespeare?s A Midsummer Night?s Dream for the very first time in the indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. To escape a society ruled by tyrannical law, four young lovers...End
National Theatre, London
Friday 5 - Saturday 20 December 2025
Every love story has a final chapter Alfie and Julie's love story has been one of music, laughter, and heartache. On one early morning in June, they must write their ending. Clive Owen (Closer) is Alfie and Saskia Reeves (Slow Horses) is Ju...My Neighbour Totoro
Gillian Lynne Theatre, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - 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
Friday 5 December 2025 - 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...The Playboy of the Western World
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National Theatre, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - 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...TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre, London
Friday 5 December 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...All My Sons
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Wyndham's Theatre, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - 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...Othello
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Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - Saturday 17 January 2026
Shakespeare's OTHELLO rages to life like never before in an explosive new production starring David Harewood (Homeland, Best of Enemies), Toby Jones (Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Detectorists) and Caitlin FitzGerald (Succession, Masters of ...The Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - 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
Friday 5 December 2025 - 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...Dickens Theatre Company - A Christmas Carol
New Wimbledon Theatre, London
Friday 5 - Saturday 6 December 2025
Dickens Theatre Company present their joyously authentic staging of this Victorian classic. Two of Dickens' closest theatrical companions find themselves trapped in the footlights glare. With the rest of the cast stuck on a train, actress F...
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - 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...Jack and the Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith)
Lyric Hammersmith, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
Our excitement is growing, for Jack and the Beanstalk is the Lyric?s 2025 panto!Join our hero Jack and his trusty cow on an adventure of gigantic proportions, a festive treat for the whole family from the heart of West London. Following 202...Oh Mary
Trafalgar Theatre, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - 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....The Weir
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Friday 5 - Saturday 6 December 2025
Conor McPherson (Girl from the North Country, The Brightening Air, The Hunger Games) directs his spellbinding masterpiece THE WEIR for the first time....KENREX
The Other Palace, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - 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
Friday 5 December 2025 - Saturday 28 March 2026
Inspired by the iconic, terrifying film series, Paranormal Activity is a new story live on stage....Daniel's Husband
Marylebone Theatre, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - Saturday 10 January 2026
Daniel and Mitchell live a meticulously curated life; they have successful careers, a beautifully appointed home, devoted friends, and a profound love for one another. But an unexpected crisis jeopardises their boundlessly bright future, s...Fallen Angels
Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Friday 5 December 2025 - 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...Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt. 2B
Arcola Theatre, London
Friday 5 - Saturday 20 December 2025
From one of America?s most-produced playwrights comes a whip-smart, darkly comic collision of classic mystery and modern mayhem. Kate Hamill reimagines Holmes and Watson as a fiercely funny, gloriously dysfunctional duo navigating post-pand...Petty Men
Arcola Theatre, London
Friday 5 - Saturday 20 December 2025
Petty. Adjective. Of little importance. Petty Men is a radical reworking of Shakespeare?s Julius Caesar. Set in a dressing room, two understudies attempt to out-perform the show relay. But as worlds collide and reality warps, can they hold ...
A Christmas Carol
The Old Vic, London
Saturday 6 December 2025 - Saturday 10 January 2026
Matthew Warchus? big-hearted, smash hit production of Charles Dickens? immortal classic returns to The Old Vic, joyously adapted for the stage by? Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, His Dark Materials) and starring Paul Hilton ...A Christmas Carol - A Version by Jack Thorne
The Old Vic, London
Saturday 6 December 2025 - Saturday 10 January 2026
Matthew Warchus' big-hearted, smash hit production of Charles Dickens' immortal classic returns to The Old Vic, joyously adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, His Dark Materials). A Christmas Carol f...Pinocchio
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Shakespeare's Globe, London
Saturday 6 December 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
Journey to a world of endless possibilities this festive season as Pinocchio comes to life in the iconic Globe Theatre for the premiere of a magical, unmissable new musical for the whole family by Charlie Josephine and Jim Fortune. Dreaming...Austentatious - An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Vaudeville Theatre, London
Monday 8 - Monday 15 December 2025
The award-winning smash-hit comedy, as seen in the West End every week since 2022, and heard on BBC Radio 4, comes to you on a strictly limited tour. For one delightful evening only, the all-star Austentatious cast will improvise a hilariou...
Royal Shakespeare Company - Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night
Barbican Centre, London
Monday 8 December 2025 - Saturday 17 January 2026
Welcome in the festive season with this spellbinding adaptation of Shakespeare\'s masterpiece, following a five star, sold-out run in Stratford-upon-Avon. Director Prasanna Puwanarajah revives his ?inspired and spellbinding? (The Stage) pro...Woman in Mind
Duke Of York's Theatre, London
Tuesday 9 December 2025 - 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...Maddie Moate's Very Curious Christmas
Garrick Theatre, London
Friday 12 December 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
Join beloved children?s TV presenter Maddie Moate as she makes herWest End debut with this brand-new live show! Following the success ofher hit book ?A Very Curious Christmas?, Maddie is super excited to bringher festive facts and magical e...High Noon
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - 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....Bluey's Big Play
Southbank Centre, London
Thursday 18 December 2025 - Sunday 11 January 2026
When Dad feels like a little bit of Sunday afternoon time out, Bluey and Bingo have other plans! Join them as they pull out all of the games and cleverness at their disposal to get Dad off that bean bag. Bluey's Big Play is a brand-new thea...Operation Ouch: Quest for the Jurassic Fart
Southbank Centre, London
Monday 22 December 2025 - Friday 2 January 2026
Following four sell-out Australian tours and two smash-hit seasons in London?s West End, Dr Chris and Dr Xand are back in the UK with a roarsome show packed with all-new crazy experiments. Travel back to the age of the dinosaurs as the doct...Black is the Color of my Voice
Duchess Theatre, London
Monday 12 - Monday 19 January 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...Gerry and Sewell
Aldwych Theatre, London
Tuesday 13 - Saturday 24 January 2026
Two lads. No money. One mission: get season tickets for the Premier League. How hard can it be? Based on Jonathan Tulloch?s novel The Season Ticket, which became the cult film Purely Belter, Olivier Award-winner Jamie Eastlake?s new adaptat...Safe Haven
Arcola Theatre, London
Wednesday 14 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...A Grain Of Sand
Arcola Theatre, London
Wednesday 21 - 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...Prima Facie
Richmond Theatre, Richmond
Friday 23 - Saturday 24 January 2026
Jodie Comer's (Killing Eve) Olivier, Evening Standard, Whatsonstage and Tony award-winning performance in Suzie Miller's gripping one-woman Olivier award-winning play returns to theatres in a unique and limited national tour. Tessa is a you...Mrs President
Charing Cross Theatre, London
Friday 23 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...Arcadia
The Old Vic, London
Saturday 24 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...
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 ...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). ...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-...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
