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PLAYS
The greatest stories aren’t just told – they’re performed live. Experience the best West End dramas with our selection of blockbuster plays.

Play of the month – stranger things: the first shadow
Before the world turned upside down…
Step into the extraordinary world of STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW, at the West End’s Phoenix Theatre.
Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment, this groundbreaking production is captivating audiences with its gripping storytelling and cutting-edge stagecraft.
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.
‘A one-woman tour de force’ (Daily Mail), three-time Oscar nominee and TONY, Emmy and Grammy winner CYNTHIA ERIVO is DRACULA.
Kristin Scott Thomas returns to the West End in a gripping new production of The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov’s poignant and piercing tragicomedy about a family on the brink of irreversible change.
Follow a group of giddy lovers chasing desire and connection through a moonlit forest as they collide with playful spirits in a fairy realm where anything is possible. Hearts open, spells go awry, and surprising transformations unfold in a shared night of mischief that fills the Globe with chaos and wonder.
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.
Four real estate agents cheat, fight and steal to come out on top — but can any of them win? One of the most influential and thrilling dramatic comedies of the late 20th century, David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Considered a modern classic, this production will be staged by Tony Award-winning director Patrick Marber and features an all-female cast.
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.
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.
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.
Part-concert, part-performance, Tao of Glass is a storytelling tapestry, soundtracked by mesmerising music and shot through with Improbable’s trademark theatricality.
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.
Mischief’s ‘breathlessly funny’ (Time Out) hit comedy The Comedy About Spies is back following a sold-out 2025 summer season, do not miss the award-winning Best New Play (WhatsOnStage Awards 2026) and ‘abandon yourself to the madness’ (The Times) this Summer at the Adelphi Theatre.
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 (…)