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London Shows Archive

Terror 2006!

Closed: 25 November 2006 - Union Theatre

The Disappearance has been adapted from the James tale by Daragh Carville (winner of the 1997 Stewart Parker Award and the 1998 Meyer-Whitworth Prize), while Terror Season favourite William Stewart… Read More

Terror 2009

Closed: 25 October 2009 - Southwark Playhouse

Four new short plays exploring horror and Grand Guignol, spun together with magic, cabaret and other oddities for the Halloween season.The ExperimentWritten and performed by Mark Ravenhill, directed by Anthony… Read More

Terror 2010: Death And Resurrection

Closed: 31 October 2010 - Southwark Playhouse

Southwark Playhouse's annual Terror season returns with four short plays. This year's theme is Death And Resurrection, which takes Southwark Playhouse back to its wartime roots as a morgue, 70… Read More

Terror 2011

Closed: 5 November 2011 - Soho Theatre

The UK's only annual festival of horror theatre returns for its 8th year. Audiences should prepare to be terrified and thrilled by an evening of twisted tales, magic, cabaret and… Read More

Terror 2012

Closed: 3 November 2012 - Soho Theatre

Back for its ninth season, Terror is the only annual festival of horror theatre and Grand Guignol in the UK. This year, Sticking Place brings your fears to life in… Read More

Terry Alderton

Closed: 21 May 2010 - Bloomsbury Theatre

Perrier Award nominee and Royal Variety performer Terry Alderton, who holds the record for the most consecutive encores at the world famous Comedy Store, performers for one night only. Read More

Terry Alderton – Season 4?

Closed: 4 May 2013 - Bloomsbury Theatre

Following his critically acclaimed smash hit Edinburgh shows and national tours in 2010, 2011 and 2012 award-winning comedian Terry Alderton is back on tour! The star of Michael McIntyre's Roadshow,… Read More

Terry Jones’ Fairy Tales

Closed: 21 June 2009 - artsdepot

Turtinkle is a wise old knome with a big nose, a big heart and a big appetite for stories. He has travelled all over the world and through time and… Read More

Teseo

Closed: 12 October 2007 - Hackney Empire

With the formidable enchantress Medea as its centre, Teseo is a gripping drama of sorcery and desperate love, with dazzling arias and colourful scoring for strings, oboes, recorders, bassoons and horns.… Read More

Testament

Closed: 7 June 2014 - Barbican: The Pit Theatre

What happens when a German performance collective take to the stage with their fathers? Testament. The performers of She She Pop welcome their dads into the theatre in a piece… Read More

Testing The Echo

Closed: 3 May 2008 - Tricycle Theatre

David Edgar’s new play, Testing the Echo, is a fascinating tapestry about the twisting road to becoming British. Where did Father Christmas originate? How do you feel about men holding… Read More

Text Lab

Closed: 5 April 2009 - Unicorn Theatre

Text Lab is two weeks of script-in-hand readings of new plays currently under commission by the Unicorn. The Unicorn is committed to bringing new worlds, new voices and new ideas… Read More

Texterritory

Closed: 6 June 2007 - Soho Theatre

Sheron Wray's experimental piece blurs the boundaries of dance, theatre and science. Using improvisational components and new technology, she shapes stories using audience input. Read More

Thais In Concert

Closed: 29 June 2007 - Royal Opera House

Massanet's opera of an Egyptian courtesan who finds God through a monk who increasingly falls for her allure.Sung in French with Englsih surtitles.Learn more about London operas within the West… Read More

Thalidomide! A Musical

Closed: 10 November 2005

Set against the 60s thalidomide drug scandal this is a dark and deeply funny love story with show tunes, love songs and monster baby tangos. Catch Mat Fraser DJing at… Read More

Thalidomide! A Musical

Closed: 5 October 2004 - Battersea Arts Centre

Mat Fraser, actor, writer, presenter, poet and musician, scratches a love story spanning the original Thalidomide scandal of the 60s through to the drug’s current use against leprosy. Incorporating flash… Read More

Thankfully There Is Moonlight

Closed: 11 April 2007 - Greenwich Playhouse

Set in 1817 and based entirely on true events, this play is an allegory of the brutal political repression and crippling poverty that Portuguese writer Sttau Monteiro experienced in his… Read More

That Catherine Bennett Show

Closed: 28 October 2014 - Purcell Room

That Catherine Bennett Show was created by award-winning artist Bryony Kimmings and her nine-year-old niece in order to present an audacious alternative pop star.Sick of the pocket money-stealing, overly sexy… Read More

That Face

Closed: 19 May 2007 - Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Martha's. Henry is preparing for art college. He has access to alcohol. From Martha. Martha controls their lives.… Read More

That Face

Closed: 5 July 2008 - Duke of York’s Theatre

Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Martha's. Henry is preparing for art college. He has access to alcohol. From Martha. Martha controls their lives.… Read More

That Is All You Need To Know

Closed: 8 June 2013 - Greenwich Theatre

The ability humanity has to challenge itself, to solve the impossible and crack the most complex of problems has defined the evolution of humankind. In this stunning piece of visual… Read More

That Is Not Who I Am

Closed: 16 July 2022 - Royal Court Theatre

A slippery new thriller in which nothing is as it seems and nobody is who they are. When Ollie has his identity stolen on the internet, it’s bad enough. But… Read More

That Pair – Work In Progress

Closed: 13 July 2013 - Hen & Chickens Theatre

Following two storming Edinburgh shows, Kathryn Bond and Lorna Shaw present a new hour of sketches, songs, characters and idiocy. Come along to get a flavour of their behaviour. Read More

That Pesky Rat

Closed: 7 January 2007 - Soho Theatre

A contemporary puppet musical featuring a rat searching for an owner. Along the way he meets a few of his friends and sings plenty of songs for everyone to join… Read More

That’ll Be The Day

Closed: 23 March 2013 - New Wimbledon Theatre

Prepare yourself for a party as the legendary That'll Be The Day, the nations favourite rock ‘n' roll variety show, returns by popular demand with their brand new production for… Read More

That’s Entertainment

Closed: 20 August 2016 - New Wimbledon Theatre

An evening of feel-good, toe-tapping joy for all the family, That’s Entertainment celebrates the biggest hits of the 40s and 50s live on stage, featuring special guest stars. A splendid… Read More

That’s Entertainment

Closed: 15 September 2013 - Baron’s Court Theatre

Joe and Lee are the JoLee Boys, a double act who do a bit of comedy with some singing on the side. They've been together now since they were kids.… Read More

That’s Mine

Closed: 10 June 2006 - Polka Theatre

Two friends play together... One wants to be mischievous; one wants to be good. One wants to make a mess; the other wants to be tidy. Music, story and imaginative… Read More

The 13-Storey Treehouse

Closed: 4 August 2024 - New Wimbledon Theatre

Would you please welcome to the stage… Andy and Terry! Yes that’s right. Today's the day Andy and Terry are going to bring their stories to life in their first EVER play – except… Read More

The 14th Tale

Closed: 13 March 2010 - National Theatre Cottesloe

The 14th Tale is a free-flowing narrative that tells the hilarious exploits of a natural born mischief growing from the clay streets of Nigeria to rooftops in Dublin, and finally… Read More

The 14th Tale

Closed: 2 August 2008 - Battersea Arts Centre

How did this fresh water pipe come to be in a small, dusty village in the heart of Nigeria? A baffled and imaginative boy explains a fantastical theory to his… Read More

The 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala

Closed: 30 November 2008 - The Old Vic

The 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala is an annual fundraiser in aid of Old Vic New Voices, a department of the Old Vic dedicated to working with young people, developing… Read More

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Closed: 2 April 2011 - Donmar Warehouse

The Donmar Warehouse presents the UK premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Only those blessed with an extraordinary ability and love of language… Read More

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Closed: 24 March 2013 - Broadway Theatre

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The… Read More

The 291 Show

Closed: 18 July 2008 - Hackney Empire

Join hosts Dibbi and Delroy as a weekly collection of talented, unsigned singers compete for a place in the grand final.Looking to see some musical theatre? Find out more about… Read More

The 3 Little Pigs

Closed: 6 September 2015 - Palace Theatre

From Stiles And Drewe, the award-winning writers of the international smash hits Mary Poppins and Honk!, comes a The 3 Little Pigs, "great big little West End show" for audiences… Read More

The 39 Steps

Closed: 5 September 2015 - Criterion Theatre

This comedy stage adaptation of John Buchan’s 1915 novel The 39 Steps has been keeping audiences amused at the Criterion Theatre since 2006 and won Best Comedy at the Olivier… Read More

The 39 Steps

Closed: 28 September 2024 - Trafalgar Theatre

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… Read More

The 47th

Closed: 28 May 2022 - The Old Vic

‘It’s not a game for gentlemen we’re playing, Political and civilized. This is Historic’ It is 2024 and as America goes to the polls, democracy itself is on the brink.… Read More

The 4th Country

Closed: 5 February 2022 - Park Theatre

Northern Ireland. 2019. Unfortunately for Niamh and Conor, life in Derry-Londonderry isn’t all leprechauns, Riverdance and whiskey. And the resurfacing of their dark family history is quickly becoming the least… Read More

The 52 Show

Closed: 17 December 2008 - Leicester Square Theatre

52 cards in a deck, one sketch per card. 52 sketches in a show?With 52 playing cards each representing a different sketch, it is the audience's job to make sure… Read More

The 7 Fingers – Traces

Closed: 30 October 2010 - Peacock Theatre

Fresh, urban and seriously high energy, Traces is circus with a distinctly 21st century edge. The 7 Fingers tumble through hoops, scale Chinese poles, balance on each other's heads, play… Read More

The Absence Of War

Closed: 25 April 2015 - Rose Theatre

The Rose Theatre Kingston, Headlong and Sheffield Theatres present a vigorous new production of David Hare's funny, stinging political drama The Absence Of War in the build-up to the 2015… Read More

The Absence Of Women

Closed: 8 October 2011 - Tricycle Theatre

Gerry and Iggy, two labourers from Belfast, face the end of their lives in a London hostel, talking of the present and thinking of the past. They argue about who… Read More

The Accrington Pals

Closed: 14 April 2013 - Courtyard Theatre

The men of a Lancashire mill town leave their homes and loved ones to battle for King and Country in the trenches of the Somme. This story is inspired by… Read More

The Acid Test

Closed: 11 June 2011 - Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

The Acid Test is the brand new play from Anya Reiss, whose award-winning debut play Spur Of The Moment picked up a raft of awards. A comedy which asks if… Read More

The Act

Closed: 29 March 2014 - Trafalgar Studios 2

Matthew Baldwin and Thomas Hescott’s acclaimed cabaret-style production transfers to the Trafalgar Studios for a limited five week season following two successful runs at Ovalhouse. The Act is set in… Read More

The Actor’s Nightmare

Closed: 10 August 2019 - Park Theatre

Tony Award-winning playwright Christopher Durang explores the entertainment industry through biting satire and surreal comedy in The Actor's Nightmare, starring Camp Rock's Meaghan Martin. At once a celebration of show business… Read More

The Addams Family – Musical In Concert

Closed: 13 February 2024 - London Palladium

Following two hugely successful UK and Ireland tours, The Addams Family, a musical comedy will perform live in concert in the West End for the first time at The London Palladium. The show… Read More

The Adventures Of Jason And The Argonauts

Closed: 7 September 2009 - Scoop at More London, The

The Adventures Of Jason And The Argonauts tells the ancient legend of the quest for the Golden Fleece which has enchanted people of all ages and inspired 1950s Hollywood, modern… Read More

The Adventures Of Pinocchio

Closed: 30 August 2017 - Ambassadors Theatre

The Adventures Of Pinocchio is the traditional Italian story of a wooden puppet yearning to be a real boy, which springs to life in this inventive and awe-inspiring family musical,… Read More

The Al Pitcher Picture Show

Closed: 4 November 2009 - Bloomsbury Theatre

Every day we see things we have never seen before, things that strike us as odd or beautiful, and things that we have seen so many times we don't even… Read More

The Albatross 3rd & Main

Closed: 4 February 2017 - Park Theatre

Three guys. A mountain of debt. And a box of priceless roadkill. Gene Lacy is down on his luck. He's ducking creditors, huge gambling debts, and an ex-wife with very… Read More

The Alchemist

Closed: 1 October 2016 - Barbican Theatre

Polly Findlay directs the Royal Shakespeare Company’s revival of Ben Jonson’s savage satirical comedy The Alchemist, transferring to the Barbican Theatre for a limited season. Set in a plague-infested London,… Read More

The Alchemystorium

Closed: 7 March 2012 - Greenwich Theatre

The Alchemystorium Café dispenses coffee in a highly unusual fashion, but stranger still is the supernatural service that comes with it...Using silent physical comedy, striking visuals and puppetry Gomito present… Read More

The Aliens

Closed: 16 October 2010 - Bush Theatre

The Aliens follows KJ and Jasper, who are professional slackers and best friends. They spend their days outside the back of a small coffee shop in Vermont talking music and… Read More

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society

Closed: 14 January 2013 - Soho Theatre

Fresh from its destruction of a tent in Dalston, a speakeasy in Shepherd’s Bush and a barge on the Thames, fearless comedy night #ACMS marches on a fancy cellar in… Read More

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society

Closed: 1 July 2013 - Soho Theatre

Fresh from its destruction of a tent in Dalston, a speakeasy in Shepherd's Bush and a barge on the Thames, fearless comedy night The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society marches on… Read More

The Amazing Bubble Man

Closed: 19 April 2015 - Udderbelly

The Amazing Bubble Man is the international hit show with bubble art, magic, science and LOTS of fun. Louis Pearl is the world's leading Bubbleologist and has been delighting family… Read More

The Amen Corner

Closed: 14 August 2013 - National Theatre Olivier

As the gospel singing soars, Sister Margaret, uncompromising pastor of her Harlem church, has a congregation already in revolt against her hardline leadership. Their resentment escalates with the return of… Read More

The American Capitalism Project

Closed: 20 July 2009 - Almeida Theatre

The American Capitalism Project sees New York City-based theatre company The TEAM (Theater of the Emerging American Moment) using the lens of cowboys, the myths and history of the American… Read More

The American Clock

Closed: 21 April 2012 - Finborough Theatre

Inspired partly by Studs Terkel's oral history Hard Times, and partly by Arthur Miller's own recollections, The American Clock is a panoramic 'dramatic vaudeville' about the Great Depression of the… Read More

The American Clock

Closed: 30 March 2019 - The Old Vic

Arthur Miller's ground-breaking play The American Clock centres on a nation's unwavering faith in capitalism - even as disaster strikes. In New York City in 1929, The American Clock turns. Fortunes are… Read More

The American Plan

Closed: 10 August 2013 - The Other Palace

A tangle of ravaged dreams, broken souls, twisted motives and deceit, The American Plan takes place against a backdrop of the Catskill Mountains during a 1960s summer. Lili Adler, the… Read More

The American Wife

Closed: 1 October 2016 - Park Theatre

One woman’s world is blighted in doubt in the world premiere of Stephen Fife and Ralph Pezzullo’s terrorist drama The American Wife at the Park Theatre. When Karen Ruiz’s husband… Read More

The Angry Brigade

Closed: 13 June 2015 - Bush Theatre

Set against a Britain of spending cuts, high unemployment and economic instability, James Graham’s The Angry Brigade tells the story of a group of four British Anarchists who terrorised the… Read More

The Animals And Children Took To The Streets

Closed: 10 January 2013 - National Theatre Lyttelton

Live music, performance, storytelling, film and animation combine in tenement-set tale, The Animals And Children Took To The Streets.In the Bayou, a part of the city feared and loathed, lies… Read More

The Animals And Children Took To The Streets

Closed: 3 January 2012

Live music, performance, storytelling, film and animation combine in tenement-set tale, The Animals And Children Took To The Streets. In the Bayou, a part of the city feared and loathed,… Read More

The Animals And Children Took To The Streets

Closed: 16 March 2019 - Lyric Hammersmith

Like a graphic novel burst into life, The Animals And Children Took To The Streets seamlessly synchronises live music, performance and storytelling with breath-taking film and animation. The Animals And Children Took… Read More

The Anorak

Closed: 18 May 2013 - Lion & Unicorn Theatre

In 1989 Montreal's École Polytechnique was stormed by Marc Lépine, a young man with one target on his hit list: women. After taking the lives of fourteen females, he then… Read More

The Applause Project

Closed: 4 May 2013 - Blue Elephant Theatre

Is there a way to bring audiences and performers closer together? Part game, part performance, The Applause Project invites the audience to share the space, and get up close and… Read More

The Arabian Nights

Closed: 12 January 2013 - Tricycle Theatre

The Arabian Nights is a festive family show that takes audiences on an adventure through Persia, Arabia, India and Asia.In the land ruled by the brutal King Shahryar, every unmarried… Read More

The Archbishop’s Ceiling

Closed: 29 May 2004 - Southwark Playhouse

An Eastern European city in the early 1970’s. The former residence of the Archbishop. A leading dissident writer must decide whether to remain in the country after the only copy… Read More

The Argument

Closed: 2 April 2016 - Hampstead Downstairs

When words are traded in the heat of the moment, rifts are opened which rumble under the surface long after supposed resolution, a theme which William Boyd’s darkly comic new… Read More

The Armature Of The Absolute

Closed: 17 January 2009 - Barbican: The Pit Theatre

The Armature Of The Absolute celebrates the groundbreaking ideas and life of French writer Alfred Jarry, creator of one of literature’s most outrageous characters, the murderous King Ubu.The Armature Of… Read More

The Armstrong And Miller Show

Closed: 27 November 2010 - New Wimbledon Theatre

Following the resounding success of BBC One’s BAFTA Award-winning The Armstrong And Miller Show, Ben Miller (Moving Wallpaper) and Alexander Armstrong (Mutual Friends) come to the New Wimbledon theatre with… Read More

The Army Of Reason

Closed: 24 July 2008 - Theatre 503

When an artist speaks out, a zealot assassin is sent to kill him. His public death divides a nation and civil war follows, fostering betrayal and distrust between family and… Read More

The Arrival

Closed: 13 April 2013 - Jackson’s Lane Theatre

Dele plays a last game of football with his friends, says goodbye to his son and sets off on a voyage to a smog-filled metropolis across the sea. Carrying only… Read More

The Art Of Bellydance

Closed: 25 October 2009 - Bloomsbury Theatre

The Bellydance Superstars incorporate both traditional Oriental Bellydance as well as Tribal Fusion styles into their shows and were the first to do so.They have also successfully incorporated other forms… Read More

The Art Of Concealment

Closed: 20 May 2012 - Riverside Studios

Following a successful run at Jermyn Street theatre earlier this year, The Art Of Concealment returns to Riverside Studios with the story of one of England’s most popular dramatists.Once regarded… Read More

The Art Of Dying

Closed: 12 July 2014 - Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

Olivier Award nominated playwright Nick Payne performs his own funny and heart-breaking play about death, dying and the deceased. The writer first performed The Art Of Dying as part of… Read More

The Art Of Illusion

Closed: 28 January 2023 - Hampstead Theatre

A man and a woman meet in a Parisian café. He recounts the tale of Jean-Eugene Robert Houdin, clock-maker, inventor and magician. Together they search beneath the Boulevard des Italiens… Read More

The Ash Girl

Closed: 27 July 2008 - Bridewell Theatre

With her mother dead and her father away fighting his own demons, the Ash Girl lives huddled deep in the protection of the ashes in a big old house with… Read More

The Attraction

Closed: 4 April 2009 - Chickenshed

The Attraction is a powerful story of life, love and loss. Set in a thriving gypsy community filled with legend and song, we follow dedicated mother Maya, her young son… Read More

The Audience

Closed: 15 June 2013 - Gielgud Theatre

Helen Mirren takes to the stage as Elizabeth II in the world premiere of Peter Morgan’s new play The Audience.The Audience tells the story of one of the most secret… Read More

The Audience

Closed: 25 July 2015 - Apollo Theatre

Kristin Scott Thomas takes on the role of Her Majesty The Queen in a new version of Peter Morgan’s 2013 hit The Audience. Nominated for Best New Play at 2013’s… Read More

The Australian Ballet With Bangarra Dance Theatre

Closed: 12 October 2008 - Sadler’s Wells

The Australian Ballet joins forces with Bangarra Dance Theatre to present the UK premiere of two works at Sadler’s Wells.For over four decades, The Australian Ballet has been the defining… Read More

The Author

Closed: 24 October 2009 - Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

Tim Crouch, the author of plays including England, An Oak Tree and My Arm, has created a new play about the abuse carried out in the name of the spectator,… Read More

The Awkward Squad

Closed: 7 April 2012 - Arts Theatre

What chance does Lorna have of a quiet weekend when both daughters and her granddaughter descend on her with their own problems?She’s spent three decades working for everyone else through… Read More

The B*easts

Closed: 3 March 2018 - Bush Theatre

BAFTA-winning actress Monica Dolan has starred in W1A, Appropriate Adult, The Witness For The Prosecution and Strike: The Silkworm. She brings her first play, The B*easts, to London following a… Read More

The Baker’s Wife

Closed: 14 September 2024 - Menier Theatre (Menier Chocolate Factory)

The arrival of a new Baker and his younger wife turns a provincial French village upside down in this cult classic musical from the legendary Stephen Schwartz (composer of Godspell,… Read More

The Ballad Of Crazy Paola

Closed: 20 December 2008 - Arcola Theatre

Paola’s son is learning to drum but the new tutor Raymond is no stranger to her past. He is the brother of her ex-lover, the famous and enigmatic Serge.History is… Read More

The Ballad Of Hattie And James

Closed: 18 May 2024 - Kiln Theatre

An epic, life-spanning tale of friendship, music, and the moments that change you forever. Read More

The Ballad Of Maria Marten

Closed: 19 February 2022 - Wilton’s Music Hall

A thrilling retelling of the story of Maria Marten and the Red Barn. Summer, 1827. In a red barn Maria Marten awaits her lover. A year later her body is… Read More

The Ballad Of Robin Hood

Closed: 26 December 2015 - Southwark Playhouse

Robin Hood meets Game Of Thrones in this immersive family adventure from Tacit Theatre. Billed as a historical (ish) reimagining of the myth surrounding the legendary outlaw, The Ballad Of… Read More

The Ballet Boyz

Closed: 10 May 2008 - Sadler’s Wells

Since Michael Nunn and William Trevitt (the Ballet Boyz) formed their company in 2001, they have built up a formidable repertoire of 32 different works, created by the leading choreographers… Read More

The Band

Closed: 12 January 2019 - Haymarket, Theatre Royal

New Take That musical The Band plays a limited six-week season in the West End, starring Five To Five, the winners of BBC's Let It Shine. With a beautifully uplifting story… Read More

The Band’s Visit

Closed: 3 December 2022 - Donmar Warehouse

“Once, not long ago, a group of musicians came to Israel from Egypt. You probably didn’t hear about it. It wasn’t very important.” In a quiet desert town way off… Read More

The Barber Of Saville Row

Closed: 10 May 2008 - Greenwich Theatre

Rossini meets Rock’n’Roll in this 1950s Brylcreem and Teddy Boy makeover.Figaro, the famous Barber, finds himself in a mad world populated by strange nuns, a surprisingly amusing cop and a… Read More

The Barber Of Seville

Closed: 30 October 2017 - London Coliseum

Bribery, deception and disguise. Enjoy Figaro’s mischievous escapades as he assists Count Almaviva in prising the beautiful Rosina away from her lecherous guardian, Dr Bartolo. Rossini’s comic masterpiece fizzes with… Read More
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