DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
DRAMA PLAYS IN LONDON
Most Popular Drama Plays in London
Only Fools and Horses The Musical
Eventim Apollo
Tue 17 Dec 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre
Sat 27 Jul 2024 - Sat 31 May 2025
The Merchant of Venice (1936)
Trafalgar Theatre
Sat 28 Dec 2024 - Sat 25 Jan 2025
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre
Sat 27 Jul 2024 - Sun 6 Apr 2025
Dear England
National Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 3 August 2024
It?s time to change the game. The smash-hit production of Dear England transfers to the West End this Autumn, following a sold-out run at the National Theatre. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern o...TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Aldwych Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July 2024 - Saturday 31 May 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....War Horse
National Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 14 September 2024
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 ...The Mousetrap
St. Martin's Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July 2024 - Saturday 1 March 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 ...2:22 A Ghost Story
Gielgud Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July - Sunday 4 August 2024
Winner of BEST NEW PLAY at the Whatsonstage Awards, this edge-of-your-seat, supernatural thriller stars Jay McGuiness (The Wanted, BIG! The Musical, Rip It Up), Fiona Wade (Emmerdale, Silent Witness), George Rainsford (Call the Midwife, Cas...John Cleese's Fawlty Towers - The Play
Apollo Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July 2024 - Saturday 4 January 2025
The classic comedy follows Basil Fawlty, a huffy hotelier whose increasingly ludicrous efforts to "raise the tone" of his dilapidated seaside hotel are met with complaints, complications, and chaos. Determined to cater for the guests he thi...Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Phoenix Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July 2024 - Sunday 16 February 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...The Ocean at the End of the Lane
National Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 3 August 2024
From the imagination of Neil Gaiman, best-selling author of Coraline, Good Omens and The Sandman, comes the National Theatre's major new stage adaptation of The Ocean at the End of the Lane. This thrilling adventure of fantasy, myth and fri...The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Saturday 27 July - Sunday 1 September 2024
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...Kathy and Stella Solve A Murder
Ambassadors Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 14 September 2024
BFFs Kathy and Stella host Hull's least successful true crime podcast. When their favourite author is killed, they are thrust into a thrilling whodunnit of their own! Can they crack the case (and become global podcast superstars) before the...Richard III
Shakespeare's Globe, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 3 August 2024
Set in a world where self-serving ambition is paraded and pursued, and murder is committed and confessed with impunity, no one is safe from the Duke of Gloucester's deadly quest for the throne. Following last year's critically acclaimed pro...The Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July 2024 - Sunday 4 May 2025
Be prepared to laugh yourself silly! Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, Mischief Theatre's The Play That Goes Wrong is remarkably still and as funny as ever, even after all these years! When a production of the fictitious...Jekyll & Hyde
National Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 3 August 2024
In a new and enthralling one-man stage adaptation of the classic tale of terror, acclaimed actor Jonathan Goodwin plays both Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde in this production from Don't Go Into The Cellar! Victorian theatre company. Journey...Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July 2024 - Sunday 6 April 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...A View From The Bridge
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 3 August 2024
BAFTA award winner Dominic West , star of The Affair ,The Wire and The Crown, stars as Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's timeless masterpiece of illicit and barely repressed sexual passion. Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman, has brou...Slave Play
Noel Coward Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 21 September 2024
At the MacGregor Plantation the Old South is alive and well. The heat in the air, the cotton fields and the power of the whip. Yet nothing is quite as it appears... or maybe it is. The iconic, controversial, ground-breaking and most Tony No...The Constituent
The Old Vic, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 10 August 2024
?I am not your punch bag! I am a Member of Parliament!? An MP with an instinct for compassion. An ex-serviceman with a life in free fall. And a parliamentary protection officer who?s having none of it. This volatile new play stars BAFTA Awa...Boys From The Blackstuff
Garrick Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 3 August 2024
Gizza job. Go on, gizzit, go ?head, giz it if you?ve got it, giz it, I can do it. Giz it then. Go ?head, gizza job. ?Powerful? ???? Guardian ?Ambitious and timely? ???? The Stage ?Giz a ticket? ????? Daily Mail ?Theatre at its very, very be...Death of England: Delroy
@sohoplace, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 28 September 2024
Unapologetically upwardly mobile and working as a bailiff, Delroy?s life spirals out of control on one surreal day as he races to get to the hospital where his girlfriend Carly is about to give birth. Starring Paapa Essiedu, Death of Englan...Death of England: Michael
@sohoplace, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 28 September 2024
Following acclaimed seasons at the National Theatre, Clint Dyer and Roy Williams? extraordinary series of three state of the nation plays, DEATH OF ENGLAND, will be performed together for the very first time for a strictly limited season @s...People Places and Things
Trafalgar Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 10 August 2024
Duncan Macmillan?s (Lungs, 1984) intoxicating hit play PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS, directed by Jeremy Herrin (Best of Enemies, This House) and designed by Tony Award?-winner Bunny Christie (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), m...ECHO (Every Cold Hearted Oxygen)
Royal Court Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July 2024
Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour (White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, NASSIM) and director Omar Elerian (NASSIM, Misty, two Palestinians go dogging) push the boundaries of Soleimanpour?s signature unrehearsed cold reads to the next level. A ne...Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's Globe, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 24 August 2024
There's trouble in paradiseWelcome to a luxurious paradise in the Globe Theatre this summer as love in its many forms is celebrated in Shakespeare's timeless comedy, Much Ado About Nothing. After years of war, an idyllic Italian town is fin...Skeleton Crew
Donmar Warehouse, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 24 August 2024
I?m not asking you to make up happy endings. All I?m asking is that you tell ?em they can?t write us off. You got to fight for us. In 2008 Detroit, one of the city?s last surviving car factories is threatened with closure. A tight-knit grou...Witness for the Prosecution
London County Hall, London
Saturday 27 July - Sunday 29 September 2024
YOU HAVE BEEN SUMMONED FOR JURY SERVICE... 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 sett...The Marilyn Conspiracy
Park Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July 2024
Directed by Guy MastersonOn Wednesday August 1st 1962, seven people gathered at Marilyn Monroe?s home to celebrate her new $2m two-picture deal with 20th Century Fox. At 04:30 the following Sunday 5 August, her apparent suicide was called i...ENG-ER-LAND
King's Head Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 10 August 2024
A funny, painful play about longing to belong. 1997 is a confusing time for 14 year old Lizzie. Her mum?s from India, her Dad says he?s Scottish, but she was born here, in England. Rugby to be specific. And all she really (really) wants is...Mario the Maker Magician
Underbelly Boulevard, London
Saturday 27 July - Sunday 4 August 2024
Fresh off a sold out Off-Broadway run in New York City and recently featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon! Robots and magic and slapstick? oh my! Contagiously upbeat and full of heart, the ever-endearing Mario leads you through a r...Rough Magic
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 24 August 2024
Following the Olivier Award-nominated, 'fantastically funny' ????? (Broadway World) Midsummer Mechanicals, Shakespeare's Globe and Splendid Productions present a brand-new family show, Rough Magic, in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse this summ...Visit from an Unknown Woman
Hampstead Theatre, London
Saturday 27 July 2024
Vienna, 1934. Stefan is one of the world?s most successful authors ? widely read, universally admired, and translated into every language. His is the life of a wealthy playboy, enjoying only the finest things in life - from luxurious world ...
Austentatious - An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Arts Theatre, London
Monday 29 July - Monday 16 December 2024
Austentatious is saddling the horses for a Grand Tour of the United Kingdom! Austentatious is an improvised comedy play starring a cast of the country's quickest comic performers. Every single show the cast conjures up a brand new 'lost' Ja...Amaze
Marylebone Theatre, London
Tuesday 30 July - Saturday 24 August 2024
Master magician Jamie Allan is making a triumphant return to the UK for the first time in 7 years with his record-breaking, critically-acclaimed show, Amaze - making its UK debut in London this summer. Amaze is a revolutionary experience in...Noughts & Crosses
The Underworld, London
Wednesday 31 July 2024
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...When It Happens to You
Park Theatre, London
Wednesday 31 July - Saturday 31 August 2024
?This was the 3am phone call no mother wants to receive?One shattered promise.A high stakes thriller. From New York Times best-selling author Tawni O?Dell comes the powerful true story of a mother desperately trying to hold her family toget...
Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare's Globe, London
Sunday 4 August - Sunday 15 September 2024
A love that changed the world. For the first time in ten years, Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's epic story of love, duty, and power unfolds in the Globe Theatre in a ground-breaking bilingual production using Spoken English and Briti...Farm Hall
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
Wednesday 7 - Saturday 31 August 2024
The best-selling show in the history of Jermyn Street Theatre, where it ran in Spring 2023, FARM HALL brings an extraordinary true story to life. It is Summer 1945: Hitler is dead, but war in the Pacific rages on. The Allies have detained s...Peanut Butter & Blueberries
Kiln Theatre, London
Thursday 8 - Saturday 31 August 2024
Hafsah and Bilal are not looking for love. She has her faith, her books, her dreams. Bilal?well he?s just trying to get through uni. Studying in London, far from their hometowns of Bradford and Birmingham, they find common ground over a pea...Shifters
Duke Of York's Theatre, London
Monday 12 August - Saturday 12 October 2024
Do you believe in destiny? Shifters, ?the perfect bittersweet rom-com? (Evening Standard) is transferring to the West End, following an incredible, sold-out run at Bush Theatre. This fierce new romance is ?smouldering and soulful? (Time Out...Northbound Boy
King's Head Theatre, London
Tuesday 13 August - Sunday 1 September 2024
A new queer comedy starring Neil Ashton (It?s A Sin), Sarah Moyle (Doctors) and a stage debut from Heartstoppers\' Cormac Hyde-Corrin. They say all roads lead to Rome, but the M64 leads to a ransacked family home and a mouse drowned in bist...The 39 Steps
Trafalgar Theatre, London
Friday 16 August - Saturday 28 September 2024
Alfred Hitchcock?s classic spy thriller, THE 39 STEPS, brilliantly and hilariously recreated for the stage as the smash hit Olivier and Tony Award Winning Comedy, returns to the West End following a dizzyingly entertaining UK tour, taking B...The Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare's Globe, London
Wednesday 21 August - Sunday 27 October 2024
Back by popular demand, get ready to experience 'the Globe at its most joyous' (WhatsOnStage) as our ???? production of The Comedy of Errors makes a triumphant return this summer. Be transported back to Elizabethan London as the Globe tran...Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves
Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves
St Pauls Church Covent Garden, London
Wednesday 21 August - Sunday 1 September 2024
Enter the whimsical world of Bertie Wooster, an affable young gentleman with a penchant for getting himself in the most outlandish predicaments. He faces misadventures, from ill-fated romances to comical escapades, all set against the backd...The Railway Children
St Pauls Church Covent Garden, London
Wednesday 21 August - Sunday 1 September 2024
Meet the Waterbury children: Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They are ordinary children living in an ordinary house, until one day, a mysterious event changes their lives forever. Forced to move to the countryside, they move near a bustling ra...Death of England: Closing Time
