Following critically acclaimed runs at the Bristol Old Vic, Royal & Derngate, Northampton, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Hong Kong Festival and on Tour in the UK Tom Morris’ production of Touching the Void will open in the West End at the Duke of York’s Theatre previewing from November 9th for a strictly limited season with an opening night of November … [Read more...]
London Plays: Best Plays in London - New Plays in London
Here is our guide to plays in London. From long-running West End plays such as The Mousetrap and The Woman in Black to new plays opening soon. Book London theatre tickets online for plays – click one of the images or the link below which shows all listings of plays currently on sale.
The Son tickets on sale for Duke of York’s Theatre, London
Direct from a sold-out season at Kiln Theatre the five star, hit play, The Son, transfers to the Duke of York’s theatre for ten weeks only from 24 August 2019. Written by the internationally acclaimed Florian Zeller, lauded by The Guardian as ‘the most exciting playwright of our time’, The Son is directed by the award-winning Michael Longhurst and forms the final … [Read more...]
Creditors by August Strindberg at Jermyn Street Theatre | Review
This is one of those plays that is very much of its time and yet has much contemporary relevance. Creditors has all of its action in one hotel room, where Adolf (James Sheldon) and Gustaf (David Sturzaker), another hotel guest staying in the same establishment, are in conversation - Adolf’s wife, Tekla (Dorothea Myer-Bennett) enters the room sometime later. Adolf and … [Read more...]
Out of Water by Zoe Cooper at The Orange Tree Theatre
I’m a bit of a sucker for fish: freshwater, ocean-going, tropical - you name it. So when finding that the neat, in-the-round performance space for Out Of Water was dominated in one corner by a real tropical aquarium tank complete with lights, submerged plastic plant-life and, the coup de grace, a large, live, grey, long-fish contentedly moseying around its watery … [Read more...]
Small Island adapted by Helen Edmundson at the Olivier Theatre | Review
After the recent Windrush Generation government scandal, this National Theatre production of Small Island couldn’t have come at a better time. Based on Andrea Levy’s 2004 novel and adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, it tells the stories of two families, one white and one black leading up to the arrival of immigrant workers from the Caribbean on the Empire … [Read more...]
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag at Wyndham’s Theatre
DryWrite, Soho Theatre and Annapurna Theatre have today announced that the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning FLEABAG is to play the West End for a strictly limited four week run this summer. Written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and directed by Vicky Jones, the one-woman show just finished playing to a sold-out house Off-Broadway in New York, and premiered its … [Read more...]
Final casting and creative team announced for Afterglow
Final casting and creative team are today announced for the eagerly anticipated UK premiere of Afterglow at Southwark Playhouse. Josh and Alex, a married couple in an open relationship, invite Darius to share their bed for one night. When a new intimate connection begins to form, all three men must come head to head with one another’s notions of love, intimacy, and … [Read more...]
GRIP. by Scott Howland at Tristan Bates Theatre | Review
There are multiple issues facing Trev (Scott Howland), and there’s some commonality with Louise (Emily Brown), the latter having ‘lost’ her mother because her parents are divorcing, and the former actually losing his mother - that is, she has passed away. There are a number of narrative points that are left unresolved by the end of the show, but unusually this doesn’t … [Read more...]
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin at The Rose Theatre Kingston | Review
Rosa Munro, the author of the ‘James Plays’ a few years ago, has now attempted the seemingly impossible by adapting Louis de Berniere’s sprawling, epic novel for the stage. The result is awe-inspiring at times, using music and great physicality from the actors in order to convey the sweep of the action. As she says ‘it is such a huge and complex novel and inevitably … [Read more...]