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London Shows Archive

Every Leaf A Hallelujah

Closed: 10 June 2023 - Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri's new fairytale, Every Leaf A Hallelujah invites children aged 4+ and their families into an enchanted world of extraordinary endangered trees. Read More

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

Closed: 23 March 2024 - Peacock Theatre

Following a record-breaking three-year West End residency, sold-out UK & Ireland Tour and Amazon studios award-winning film, the smash-hit and critically acclaimed musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie returns to London! Jamie New… Read More

Everyman

Closed: 30 August 2015 - National Theatre Olivier

Rufus Norris directs Olivier Award-winning actor Chiwetel Ejiofor in Carol Ann Duffy’s new version of 15th century primal myth Everyman. Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes… Read More

Everything Falls Apart

Closed: 8 November 2008 - Lyric Hammersmith Studio

Exposing hidden stories from the depths of New Europe's black economy, NIE's Everything Falls Apart follows the story of two boys smuggled into the UK hoping for a better life… Read More

Everything Has Changed

Closed: 3 November 2024 - Polka Theatre

A joyful, kaleidoscopic family show about change, why change happens – and how to deal with it. The world has ever so slightly shifted. Things are... different, skewed, off kilter… Read More

Everything I Own

Closed: 6 July 2024 - Brixton House

Errol lost his Dad last year. Listening to his old man’s Spotify playlist, he remembers his Dad’s passion over the 1981 Brixton uprising and his certainty that change coming. Errol… Read More

Everything Is Different

Closed: 2 June 2007 - Blue Elephant Theatre

In 1929, Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy published a volume of short stories entitled Everything is Different. Inspired by the tale Chains or Chain-Links - where the characters believed that any… Read More

Everything Is Illuminated

Closed: 3 December 2005 - Etcetera Theatre

With only a fading photograph for help, Jonathan searches the Ukraine for a woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis over fifty years ago. Along the way he is… Read More

Everything Is Illuminated

Closed: 14 October 2006 - Hampstead Theatre

With only a faded photo and the name of a village which doesn't appear to exist, a young Jewish New Yorker arrives in the Ukraine t search for the woman… Read More

Everything Must Go

Closed: 26 June 2010 - Barbican: The Pit Theatre

A father/daughter collaboration created for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Everything Must Go is a heartfelt exploration of an extraordinary life. In Everything Must Go, which was intended to be staged… Read More

Everything Must Go!

Closed: 5 July 2009 - Soho Theatre

Everything Must Go sees some of Soho theatre’s most exciting talents take on the economic crisis, creating provocative and playful bargain basement theatre. The line up of short pieces in… Read More

Evidence For The Existence Of Borrowers

Closed: 21 October 2004 - Battersea Arts Centre

For the past two years, Kazuko and her colleagues at the Borrowers International Network have been tirelessly working to promote cultural exchange between Borrowers and human beans.Throughout OctoberFest, BIN hosts… Read More

Evita

Closed: 14 October 2017 - Phoenix Theatre

Andrew Lloyd Webber's extraordinary musical story of an ordinary women's meteoric rise to power captivates West End audiences in the 65 year anniversary of the death of Eva Perón. Telling… Read More

Evita

Closed: 1 November 2014 - Dominion Theatre

Marti Pellow stars in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic musical Evita at the Dominion Theatre. Featuring some of the greatest songs in musical theatre including Don’t Cry For… Read More

Evita

Closed: 18 May 2013 - New Wimbledon Theatre

Featuring some of the most famous and inspiring stage music ever written, including the classic songs Don't Cry For Me Argentina, On This Night of a Thousand Stars, Oh What… Read More

Evita

Closed: 2 October 2010 - New Wimbledon Theatre

Evita is Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Laurence Olivier Award-winning musical about the first lady of Argentina. Beginning with the young ambitious Eva Peron, the production follows her rise… Read More

Evita

Closed: 26 May 2007 - Adelphi Theatre

Evita, one of the world's greatest musicals, returns to London's West End after 21 years. Directed by the award-winning Michael Grandage and featuring lyrics by Tim Rice and music by… Read More

Evita For President

Closed: 1 September 2007 - Tricycle Theatre

Although the General Election is still two years away, the African National Congress will vote in a new President of the Party at the end of 2007 and the question… Read More

Evita In Concert

Closed: 1 August 2023 - Drury Lane, Theatre Royal

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning Evita returns to the West End this summer in an all-star concert at the iconic Theatre Royal Drury Lane, accompanied by the 30-piece London Musical Theatre Orchestra (LMTO). Auli’i Cravalho,… Read More

Evolution: How To Survive A Swarm Of Bees

Closed: 22 January 2016 - Lyric Hammersmith Studio

Two couples, two dilemmas. One struggles to determine whether they should leave the room, her refusing, him desperate. The other knows a storm, and an accompanying legion of bees, is… Read More

Ex

Closed: 3 December 2011 - Soho Theatre

Ex is a new musical of twisted love lives and unfinished business. Two former lovers meet in a bar. They are an unlikely couple: Ruby is funny and gawkily attractive,… Read More

Exchange, The

Closed: 21 July 2007 - Hackney Empire Studio

This contemporary revival of a classic piece deals with the contradiction between money and spirituality. Read More

Exhibit B

Closed: 27 September 2014 - Shoreditch Town Hall

South African Brett Bailey creates a haunting 'human zoo' that challenges ideas about colonial atrocities, racial supremacy and immigration. Exhibit B replicates ethnographic displays that showed Africans as scientific curiosities… Read More

Exhibitionists

Closed: 10 February 2024 - King’s Head Theatre

A dazzling new comedy about love, sex, happiness and freedom set in the San Francisco art world. When ex-partners collide at an exhibition, sparks fly and their new boyfriends are… Read More

Exiles

Closed: 26 October 2006

Back in Dublin after nine years abroad, Richard and Bertha have to confront two other people who love them, and ask themselves questions about guilt and responsibility. Will infidelity hold… Read More

Exonerated, The

Closed: 11 June 2006

Those 16 years were taken away from Sunny Jacobs, convicted and sentenced to death for a crime she did not commit. But her story is not unique. The Exonerated shares… Read More

Experiment With An Air Pump, An

Closed: 11 February 2006 - Pleasance Theatre

A thought-provoking black comedy about science past and future. In 1799, a large house is alive with the sounds of scientific experimentation, romantic associations and amateur dramatics. Two centuries later,… Read More

Expiry Date

Closed: 23 January 2016 - Barbican: The Pit Theatre

Dominoes topple … an hourglass is overturned. Time is ever-present in Expiry Date at the Barbican Theatre, an ephemeral retrospective of one man’s life, his scattered memories conveyed through acrobatics, movement, music… Read More

Exploring The Voices Of Caribbean Women

Closed: 1 June 2021 - Almeida Theatre

Through performances and panel discussion, this event brings to life the voices of Black Caribbean women. From Windrush to now, spanning genres and forms, we explore why these writers are… Read More

Explosion

Closed: 27 April 2015 - Lyric Theatre

A powerful combination of traditional flamenco and a passionate love story comes to life in Explosion at the Lyric Theatre. The production begins by presenting traditional flamenco at its very… Read More

Exposure The Musical – Life Through A Lens

Closed: 27 August 2016 - The Other Palace

A young photographer is tasked with an unorthodox commission – to capture the seven deadly sins – in this electrifying and dazzling original new musical, receiving its world premiere at… Read More

Exposure: A Digital Opera

Closed: 7 May 2004 - Battersea Arts Centre

A reclusive Bill Gates wanders aimlessly through his empire at the dead of night: the lifts go up and down (as lifts do), wraths ride the escalator and Bill contemplates… Read More

Exposure: Dance

Closed: 25 February 2012 - Linbury Studio (Royal Opera House)

In two complementary performance series of opera and dance, Exposure throws new light on contemporary work, showing the latest projects from young creative artists in an informal setting at the… Read More

Exposure: Opera

Closed: 18 February 2012 - Linbury Studio (Royal Opera House)

In two complementary performance series of opera and dance, Exposure throws new light on contemporary work, showing the latest projects from young creative artists in an informal setting at the… Read More

Exquisite Pain

Closed: 14 April 2007 - Soho Theatre

A man and a woman tell stories of ordinary and not so ordinary heartbreak. The woman repeatedly recounts the story of the end of an affair, each time remembering it… Read More

External

Closed: 17 September 2011 - Soho Theatre

Jen wants to talk to you. Lucy wants more. They’ve got some stuff they found in a garage, a strict no-touch policy, and conflicting ideas about how to keep you… Read More

Extinct

Closed: 17 July 2021 - Theatre Royal Stratford East

April De Angelis takes on the climate emergency in a tapestry of testimonials from environmental activists Read More

Extra Time

Closed: 28 January 2006 - Landor Theatre

Two men in their mid-nineties meet in a high rise apartment somewhere in South America. It is Vogel’s home. He has spent most of his long life hiding there, trying… Read More

Eyes Catch Fire

Closed: 26 June 2004 - Finborough Theatre

On the day of her son's baptism, Mary Caldeira receives the one guest she least wants to see: herself. Forced to revisit the past by a memory of herself at… Read More

Eyes Down, Pens Ready

Closed: 14 February 2009 - Hackney Empire Studio

Eyes Down, Pens Ready is a hilarious observatory comedy based in a pub in a northern Lincolnshire town. From internet dating to free parties, Eyes Down, Pens Ready encapsulates what… Read More

F.A.N.Y (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry)

Closed: 2 April 2016 - Arts Theatre

Five Women. One War. One Purpose. Anonymous Is A Women Theatre Company present F.A.N.Y (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry), a startling new play telling the incredible true story of the women… Read More

F***ing Men

Closed: 31 August 2009 - Arts Theatre

F***ing Men, a free-wheeling comedy of sexual manners by American Joe DiPietro, is a portrait of 10 men searching for love, sex and intimacy in modern day America. Inspired by… Read More

F**king Men

Closed: 3 July 2009 - King’s Head Theatre

F**king Men is a portrait of 10 men searching for love, sex and intimacy in America. Set in today's US, F**king Men looks at a succession of couples and strangers… Read More

F*ck The Polar Bears

Closed: 24 October 2015 - Bush Theatre

The Bush Theatre hosts the world premiere of Tanya Ronder’s funny and surreal new family drama about the power of the individual in a world obscured by politics. F*ck The… Read More

F*cking Men

Closed: 15 January 2017 - The Vaults Theatre

Following multiple smash-hit, sell-out runs in London, the King’s Head production of F*cking Men transfers to The Vaults Theatre in Waterloo. Inspired by classic play La Ronde, Tony Award winning… Read More

Fables For A Boy

Closed: 24 April 2016 - Lost Theatre

The Lost Theatre hosts a twist on the typical musical with Fables For A Boy, the moving story of a boy who is transported with the audience from the harsh… Read More

Fabulation

Closed: 18 March 2006 - Tricycle Theatre

Undine Barnes Calles is a successful publicist. When her lover leaves her, taking her money with him, her stable life starts to fall apart around her. With little left, and… Read More

Fabulation

Closed: 14 October 2006 - Tricycle Theatre

Undine Barnes Calles is a successful publicist. When her lover leaves her, taking her money with him, her stable life starts to fall apart around her. With little left, and… Read More

Fabulist, The

Closed: 9 December 2006 - Old Red Lion Theatre

There's trouble at Tuffin's Department Store; the inept general manager, the frustrated beautician, the furious customer and the sassy trouble-shooter all have one thing in common... 'The Fabulist' Mr Bartlett.Playwright… Read More

Fabulous Beast and Liam Ó Maonlaí – Rian

Closed: 25 October 2011 - Sadler’s Wells

Michael Keegan-Dolan and musician Liam Ó Maonlaí come together to create a new production, Rian, that takes its title from Ó Maonlaí’s 2005 solo album and means 'mark’ or ‘trace’… Read More

Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre: The Flowerbed

Closed: 8 July 2006

Two households, in common malignity. The Montagues and Capulets are the neighbours from hell. Swords and poisons are replaced by garden shears and amphetamines. The streets of Verona become a… Read More

Fabulush!

Closed: 27 October 2006 - Albany Theatre

Four urban tales based in the Black British experience, followed by a live chat.Part of In Our Own Words, a three day festival showcasing London's finest black writers. Read More

Façade

Closed: 22 March 2013 - Jackson’s Lane Theatre

Prepare for a feast for the senses, as well as the appetite. Crashmat Collective present Façade; an intimate and theatrical three course meal, during which, stories unfold in thrilling and… Read More

Facade / The Bear

Closed: 18 October 2008 - Linbury Studio (Royal Opera House)

This is a great chance to discover the talents of the Jette Parker Young Artists in their popular annual Meet the Young Artists week. It is also an occasion to… Read More

Face

Closed: 29 January 2005 - artsdepot

In this warm and funny show, actress Veronica Needa invites her audiences to tea. Over refreshments she explores tales of home and history, voyages and dwarves, and dragons. Throughout everything… Read More

Face Of Jizo, The

Closed: 10 November 2007 - Arcola Theatre

Three years after the atomic blast destroyed the city a young librarian, Mitsue grapples with the guilt of having survived. One evening, she returns home from work to find that… Read More

Face Value (The Diary Of A Menopausal Diva)

Closed: 17 March 2007 - Hackney Empire Studio

Former TV diva Joanne Taylor is nearly 55, single, hot-flushing and on the verge of making some drastic life changes. Louise Jameson (Eastenders, Bergerac), plays the ex-TV star in this… Read More

Faceless

Closed: 12 May 2018 - Park Theatre

Inspired by a real court case in the USA, a Chicago teenager is arrested for terrorist collusions when she converts from Christianity to Islam, and is tried by a practising… Read More

Faces In The Crowd

Closed: 8 November 2008 - Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

When Dave moved south to London he left behind his family, wife Joanne and mounting financial woes in favour of a playground of riches, sex and shopping. 10 years on… Read More

Facing East

Closed: 22 June 2015 - Lyric Theatre

Based on Carol Lynn Pearson's stirring play, Facing East is a new and intimate musical by David Rigano and Mark-Eugene Garcia. The show follows an upstanding American Mormon couple who… Read More

Factory Girls, The

Closed: 18 February 2006 - Arcola Theatre

Five shirt factory workers discover the strength to stand up to their bosses in this revival of Frank McGuinness's debut work. McGuinness has since gone on to write plays including… Read More

Facts

Closed: 23 March 2013 - Finborough Theatre

A prominent American archaeologist working in the West Bank is found murdered by a single bullet to the heart. What was he unearthing that cost him his life? In this… Read More

Faeries

Closed: 2 January 2011 - Linbury Studio (Royal Opera House)

Will Tuckett's 2008 show Faeries is staged at the Linbury Studio this Christmas, offering a magical treat for all the family. Using puppetry, music and dance, Faeries tells the story… Read More

Faeries

Closed: 19 July 2008 - Clore Studio Upstairs (Royal Opera House)

Faeries is a show for families with younger children that will use a combination of puppetry, dance and old-fashioned storytelling to propel us into a world of mystery, magic, imps… Read More

Fair

Closed: 17 June 2006 - Trafalgar Studios 2

A fairground provides the background for this tale of racism in northern England. In such surroundings it is harder to tell left from right, good from bad and black from… Read More

Fair Play

Closed: 22 January 2022 - Bush Theatre

Charlotte Beaumont and NicK King perform Olivier award-nominated playwright Ella Road’s new play Fair Play. A gripping and timely exploration of the underside of women’s athletics, Fair Play will be directed by… Read More

Fairies’ Tale

Closed: 6 August 2008 - Chickenshed

When humans grow up, they stop believing in fairies. For your average fairy, on the other hand, humans are a mysterious race that exist only in legends and fables. But… Read More

Fairy Tales For Grown Ups: The Grateful And The Dead

Closed: 23 November 2011 - Soho Theatre

Dark, beautiful and startling by turn, The Grateful And The Dead is a story of dreams, initiations and the repayment of debts. It is a journey from innocence to experience,… Read More

Fairy Tales For Grownups

Closed: 23 November 2011 - Soho Theatre

World renowned for his playful performances, allow Ben Haggarty to lure you into the richly metaphorical world of a full-blooded fairytale for grown-ups. Dark, beautiful and startling by turn, this… Read More

Fairytale On Church Street

Closed: 30 December 2023 - Cockpit Theatre

A magical, musical adventure featuring everyone's favourite fairytale characters, set in the bustling multicultural market and vibrant community of Marylebone’s Church Street. There's trouble on Church Street. The local theatre is… Read More

Faith Healer

Closed: 20 August 2016 - Donmar Warehouse

Game of Thrones star Stephen Dillane leads the cast of Brian Friel’s great play Faith Healer, portraying a man with an unreliable, extraordinary and dangerously provocative gift. Frank Hardy travels… Read More

Faith, Hope And Charity

Closed: 16 July 2011 - Southwark Playhouse

Faith, Hope And Charity is the story of an independent woman struggling to keep her head above water in a time of economic depression.Elisabeth is a fighter, an ever-optimistic saleswoman… Read More

Faliraki – The Greek Tragedy

Closed: 11 September 2004 - Lyric Hammersmith Studio

Starting out at 'port' Stanstead, 'where big birds fly and foul the sky and crowds fight and fret for a window seat on Easyjet' and takes the audience to the… Read More

Fallen Angels

Closed: 25 March 2006 - Upstairs At The Gatehouse

Maurice Duclos has had flings with both Julia and Jane, two long term and very close friends. His return threatens two marriages, as both Julia and Jane start acting very strange when they begin… Read More

Fallen from Heaven (Caída del Cielo)

Closed: 14 October 2017 - Barbican Theatre

Enthralling audiences with her sublime artistry, technical prowess and searing energy, Rocío Molina returns to Dance Umbrella to strip flamenco down to its purest form: a passionate and exhilarating expression of… Read More

Falsettos

Closed: 23 November 2019 - The Other Palace

The double Tony Award winning Falsettos is a hilarious and poignant look at a modern family revolving around the life of a gay man Marvin, his wife, his lover, his soon to… Read More

Falstaff

Closed: 18 July 2015 - Royal Opera House

Robert Carsen’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterful comic opera Falstaff brings wit, humour and joie de vivre to the Royal Opera House stage. Verdi's final opera, Falstaff tells the story… Read More

Falstaff

Closed: 30 May 2012 - Royal Opera House

Falstaff, Verdi’s last masterpiece, returns to the Royal Opera House for the first time for a decade in a lavish new production under the direction of Robert Carsen. With its… Read More

Falstaff

Closed: 19 November 2004 - London Coliseum

At the centre of this most ebullient ensemble opera stands the inimitable Falstaff – the very essence of conviviality. Whilst you may well be familiar with Shakespeare’s tale of the… Read More

Falstaff

Closed: 15 October 2005 - Hackney Empire

English Touring Opera presents Verdi's comic masterpiece. Verdi's score, which is packed with wit and innovation, accompanies the antics of Shakespeare's merry knight as he lustfully tries to woo his… Read More

Fame

Closed: 1 September 2007 - Shaftesbury Theatre

The leg-warmers and leotards return to the West End in this musical about young, talented kids trying to make it at New York's School for the Performing Arts. The popular musical, which… Read More

Fame The Musical

Closed: 26 January 2020 - Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre

Following critical acclaim in the West End, the Fame The Musical comes to the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre for a limited season. Starring Keith Jack (BBC's Any Dream Will Do, Joseph And… Read More

Family Affair, A

Closed: 13 January 2007 - Arcola Theatre

Why pay your debts? When you can swindle everyone else instead!Wonderfully boisterous, scurrilously funny and bitingly irreverent, A Family Affair is a stinging play about greed, corruption and the desire… Read More

Family Matters

Closed: 22 February 2004 - Bridewell Theatre

Meet the Fitzroys: Mum, Dad and the two kids - a family with secrets that are about to explode. Mrs F is thinking about past romance and the father of… Read More

Family Plays: A Double Bill, The

Closed: 21 December 2007 - Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

A double-bill of family-set plays forms the last part of the Royal Court's International Playwrights season.Firstly, The Good Family by Sweden's Joakim Pirinen is a flat-packed comedy from the country… Read More

Family Weekend – Aracaladanza’s Clouds

Closed: 3 April 2010 - Sadler’s Wells

Spanish dance company Aracaladanza delighted audiences at the first Family Weekend in 2008. Now the company returns with a brand new show, co-commissioned by Sadler's Wells.Inspired by the work of… Read More

Family, The

Closed: 29 July 2007 - Hackney Empire

The tale of a crazy, dysfunctional family: Dad is an alcoholic who constantly threatens to leave; Mum is pregnant and always threatening to deliver; and the kids are just barmy.Poetic… Read More

Familyman

Closed: 31 May 2008 - Theatre Royal Stratford East

Caesar Ramsay works hard for his family. But the news his son Nelson reveals, sends Caesar’s seemingly ordinary life rapidly spinning out of his control!Fast, furious and funny, Familyman asks… Read More

Fanciulla Del West, La

Closed: 1 October 2005 - Royal Opera House

Piero Faggioni's staging of Puccini's La Fanciulla Del West, one of the Royal Opera's most celebrated productions, returns to Covent Garden after over a decade away. Along with original director… Read More

Fangirls

Closed: 24 August 2024 - Lyric Hammersmith

Get ready for an unmissable show that pulses with the soaring adrenaline of a first crush and feels like the best pop concert you’ve never been to… Meet Edna: she’s… Read More

Fanny & Alexander

Closed: 14 April 2018 - The Old Vic

Renowned filmmaker Ingmar Bergman's magical masterpiece Fanny & Alexander receives its world stage premiere at The Old Vic in a new translation by BAFTA Award-winning writer Stephen Beresford. Opening as part of… Read More

Fanny And Faggot

Closed: 17 February 2007 - Finborough Theatre

A startling, darkly comic drama based on documentary material from the real-life court case of of children Mary and Norma Bell, who were tried in 1968 for the murder of… Read More

Fanny And Faggot / Stacey

Closed: 27 October 2007 - Trafalgar Studios 2

Jack Thorne rips the underbelly from contemporary Britain in a double bill of work.Fanny And Faggot is a funny but stark justification of Mary Bell, while in Stacy we meet… Read More

Fanta Orange

Closed: 26 November 2011 - Finborough Theatre

The Finborough Theatre's winter season opens with the world premiere of Sally Woodcock's Fanta Orange. Regina is a Kenyan house servant. Roger is her white farmer boss. The two share… Read More

Fantasia

Closed: 14 September 2006 - Bloomsbury Theatre

The richness of Korea's dance tradition is explored in this show packed with spectacular choreography and flamboyant costumes.Find out more about the rich variety of West End shows on offer… Read More

Fantastic Mr Fox

Closed: 20 August 2017 - Lyric Hammersmith

Back by popular demand, this brand new musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox is family fun at its finest. A juicy tale of greed, pride and the power… Read More

Fantastic Mr Fox

Closed: 10 March 2011 - Hackney Empire

English Touring Opera present the European premiere of this operatic adaptation of the famous Roald Dahl story.Learn more about London operas within the West End. Read More

Fantastic Mr Fox

Closed: 7 November 2010 - Little Angel Theatre

Mr Fox has three very nasty enemies, Boggis, Bunce and Bean. These greedy farmers hate Mr Fox so much they will stop at nothing to get rid of him. They… Read More

Fantastic Mr Fox

Closed: 31 October 2010 - Little Angel Theatre

Mr Fox has three very nasty enemies, Boggis, Bunce and Bean. These greedy farmers hate Mr. Fox so much they will stop at nothing to get rid of him. They… Read More

Fantastic Mr Fox

Closed: 15 April 2006 - Polka Theatre

Mr Fox has three very nasty enemies, Boggis, Bunce and Bean. These greedy farmers hate Mr. Fox so much they will stop at nothing to get rid of him. They… Read More
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