Musicals and theatre in London
Theatre reviews, news and more – the best shows in London and the West End.
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The Young Vic’s new season includes the world premiere of the ‘Thelma & Louise’ musical, plus Ben Whishaw in ‘Eurotrash’
The Young Vic’s second season proper under new boss Nadia Fall is a pretty damn exciting one
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The 10 best new London theatre openings in April 2026
Classy revivals dominate April on the London stage, from A Doll’s House to Avenue Q
Comedy
The top London comedy shows to see in April
From SNL UK star Ayoade Bamgboye to Sue Perkins, it’s a fine month of London chuckles
Dance
The best dance and ballet shows in April 2026
This month on stage, London’s dance world is serving up red-hot scandal, Olivier award-winning hip-hop and reprised modern dance bangers
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The Price
This 1968 play by the great dramatist of the fractured American Dream isn’t one of Arthur Miller’s best. But The Price is compelling in its...
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Please Please Me
Who would the Fab Four be without their fifth member? Would Beatlemania have existed at all? Would their US success have even been possible? And those albums...
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I Saw Satan at the 7-Eleven
If you know Christopher Brett Bailey you will surely know him for 2014’s This Is How We Die, a hallucinatory, hilarious beat poetry-style road trip...
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An all-female ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ is heading to London’s Old Vic – and the cast has just been announced
Director Patrick Marber will gender flip the David Mamet classic after directing it on Broadway last year
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Michael Sheen will return to London’s West End to star in ‘Amadeus’
He becomes the first major actor to ever play both lead roles in Peter Shaffer’s iconic play
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Two massively acclaimed sold-out London plays are transferring to the West End
You’ve got a second chance to catch two of the year’s biggest stage hits – ‘Arcadia’ and ‘John Proctor is the Villain’
The best London theatres
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Old Vic
One of London's most storied theatres, the Old Vic – which opened its doors in 1818 – was the first home of the National Theatre, under the...
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National Theatre
Arguably the greatest theatre in the world, the Royal National Theatre is also one of London's most recognisable landmarks and perhaps this country's foremost...
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Royal Court Theatre
London's premiere new writing theatre, the Royal Court made its name in the 1950s when it was synonymous with kitchen sink dramas and the Angry Young Men, and...
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Shakespeare's Globe
Built in 1599 and destroyed by fire in 1613, the original Globe Theatre was at the heart of London’s seedy South London entertainment district in William...
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Lyric Hammersmith
A beacon of culture in Hammersmith, the Lyric's distinctive look is largely down to a fusion of the building's 1970s structure, the theatre's Victorian...