PLAYS

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and continues to dazzle at the Palace Theatre

Get ready to journey into the supernatural world of Stranger Things: The First Shadow in the West End

Don’t miss the theatrical event of 2025 as the record-breaking, award-winning My Neighbour Totoro transfers to London’s West End.

See these accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences.

This landmark production of Agatha Christie’s gripping story of justice, passion and betrayal is staged in the Grand Chamber at County Hall.

An uproariously dark comedy about a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Oh, Mary! transfers from Broadway to London’s West End, with Mason Alexander Park stepping into the role of Mary Todd Lincoln.

Starring Sadie Sink (Stranger Things) as Juliet and Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place, Hamnet) as Romeo in their West End debuts. Robert Icke (Oedipus) directs Shakespeare’s electrifying and timeless tragic tale of love and innocence.

Following an acclaimed, sold-out run at the National Theatre, Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Saltburn, Gone Girl) brings her ‘transfixing shape-shifting performance’ (Telegraph) to the West End in a ‘searing legal drama’ (Guardian) from the team behind global phenomenon Prima Facie.

Adrian Lester is: Cyrano De Bergerac. Fiercely funny and intensely romantic, Cyrano lives by his words and his sword. Haunted by doubts about his own his appearance, he watched from the shadows as Roxane falls for another man. Handsome but hopeless with words, Christian turns to the one person who can help.

International star of stage and screen, Ralph Fiennes stars as Sir Henry Irving, the greatest actor of the Victorian age, with Miranda Raison as Ellen Terry, the most loved and best paid actress of the day. This astonishing new play by David Hare will come to the West End in 2026, fresh from a sell-out season at the Theatre Royal Bath.

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. Jim Hacker (Griff Rhys Jones) is back and still utterly baffled by the real world. Hoping for a quiet retirement at Hacker College, Oxford, Jim instead finds himself facing the ultimate modern crisis: cancelled by the college committee.

Let the Right One In is an enchanting, brutal vampire myth and coming-of-age love story adapted from the best-selling Swedish novel and award-winning film by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

Based on Ken Kesey’s countercultural masterpiece, 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 and Giles Terera. A searing exploration of colonialism and the social structures built to silence dissent, this production invites audiences to experience the story in a powerful new light.

High Bonneville stars in William Nicholson’s beloved and moving true story of Narnia writer C.S. Lewis’s life-changing relationship with American poet Joy Davidman.

Before the New York Dolls. Before Debbie Harry. Before Kurt Cobain. There was Maggie Frisby. Once the roaring voice of 60s counterculture, now broke and disillusioned, a band’s youthful dreams of anarchic rebellion collapse into bitterness. A play with original music starring Rebecca Lucy Taylor (Self Esteem) as Maggie.

After delighting audiences across the country, the smash-hit, joyful play based on the best-selling novel is back with a celebration of friendship, kindness and compassion. Told from a child’s perspective, balancing heart and humour, The Boy at the Back of the Class highlights the power of good friends and courage in a world that doesn’t always make sense and reminds us that everyone needs a place to call home.

There’s good reason why Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is the world’s longest running play. Don’t just see it. Solve it.

Starring Tony Award-nominated Stephen Mangan returning to the London stage, alongside comedy icon Ardal O’Hanlon (Father Ted, My Hero), Sarah Hadland (Miranda, The Job Lot), and double Olivier Award-winner Janie Dee, The Truth runs in the West End for a strictly limited 14-week season.

Successful lawyer, Atticus Finch, encourages kindness and empathy in his children, but is pushed to the limits of these qualities himself when he resolves to uncover the truth in a town that seems determined to hide it. Acclaimed stage and screen actor Richard Coyle (The Player Kings, Macbeth, Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore) returns to this iconic production as Atticus Finch, reprising the role he played to great critical ac (…)