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London theatre tickets for 8th August 2022

Plays and musicals open on the 8th August 2022

& Juliet is a creative and rare idea about what if Juliet did not commit suicide after Romeo was poisoned, and decided to rewrite her own destiny.
Booking:
 To 25th Mar 2023
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 Shaftesbury Theatre, Soho
& Juliet
Featuring a setlist of hit songs, see ABBA’s avatars accompanied by a 10-piece live band, at the custom-built ABBA Arena in London.
Booking:
 To 5th Jan 2025
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 ABBA Arena, Stratford
Abba Voyage
a new play by Francesca Martinez From 27 July
Booking:
 To 24th Sep 2022
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Location:
 National Theatre, Southwark
All of Us
A fresh new production of the timeless classic musical lets you escape into the wild world of this splendid, saucy show by Cole Porter and P. G. Wodehouse.
Booking:
 To 3rd Sep 2022
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Location:
 Barbican Theatre, Barbican
Anything Goes
The blockbuster film and pop culture phenomenon arrives in London's West End as a groundbreaking new musical adventure.
Booking:
 To 22nd Dec 2024
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Location:
 Adelphi Theatre, Strand
Back to the Future - The Musical
Bonjour! Disney proudly invites you to ‘Be Our Guest’ as the most enchanted musical of all time, Beauty and the Beast, returns to London for a strictly limited season.
Booking:
 To 17th Sep 2022
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Location:
 London Palladium, Soho North
Beauty and the Beast
To mark the 25th Anniversary of the play’s premiere, Olivier Award winning director, Clare Lizzimore, stages a radical new production of Patrick Marber’s cult-classic about longing, lust, sex, and desire.
Booking:
 To 13th Aug 2022
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Location:
 Lyric Hammersmith, Hammersmith
Closer
Come From Away tells the story of what happened when the residents of a small community struggle to accommodate nearly 7,000 passengers as they and the world are reeling in the days following 9/11.
Booking:
 To 7th Jan 2023
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Location:
 Phoenix Theatre, Soho
Come From Away
A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could have.
Booking:
 To 22nd Oct 2022
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 Noel Coward Theatre, Trafalgar Square
Dear Evan Hansen
The beloved film and classic show are full to the top of sing-a-long songs that will have you humming and toe-tapping for days to come- the perfect show to inspire some Summer Lovin’ this holiday.
Booking:
 To 20th Apr 2024
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Location:
 Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road
Grease
Hugely popular musical, Hamilton, tells the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton with music, lyrics and a book by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Booking:
 To 29th Mar 2025
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Location:
 Victoria Palace Theatre, Victoria
Hamilton
Horrible Histories returns to the West End’s Garrick Theatre with Terrible Tudors this summer.
Booking:
 To 1st Sep 2024
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Location:
 Garrick Theatre, Soho
Horrible Histories - Terrible Tudors
by Richard Bean and Oliver Chris based on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals From 2 July
Booking:
 To 3rd Sep 2022
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Location:
 National Theatre, Southwark
Jack Absolute Flies Again
Oh, what a night! It has been announced that Jersey Boys is returning to the West End stage with a limited run at the newly reopened Trafalgar Theatre.
Booking:
 To 28th Jan 2024
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 Trafalgar Theatre, Whitehall
Jersey Boys
Kinky Boots in Concert for one night only!
Booking:
 To 9th Aug 2022
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Location:
 Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Aldwych
Kinky Boots - The Musical in Concert
Based on one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction, this is a universally acclaimed, smash-hit adaptation of an epic journey of endurance and hope.
Booking:
 To 15th Jan 2023
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Location:
 Wyndham's Theatre, Soho
Life of Pi
Set on a Greek island paradise, a story of love, friendship and identity is cleverly told through the timeless songs of ABBA.
Booking:
 To 29th Mar 2025
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Location:
 Novello Theatre, Aldwych
Mamma Mia
Mary Poppins is Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's multi award-winning West End musical playing now in London's Prince Edward Theatre.
Booking:
 To 8th Jan 2023
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Location:
 Prince Edward Theatre, Soho
Mary Poppins
This thrilling new play comes to the Park Theatre for a limited premiere.
Booking:
 To 20th Aug 2022
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Location:
 Park Theatre, Finsbury Park
Monster
Enter a world of splendour and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur, and glory!
Booking:
 To 5th Oct 2024
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Location:
 Piccadilly Theatre, Soho
Moulin Rouge The Musical
by William Shakespeare From 7 July
Booking:
 To 10th Sep 2022
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Location:
 National Theatre, Southwark
Much Ado About Nothing
The critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater production of My Fair Lady is coming to the London Coliseum for a limited 16 week run.
Booking:
 To 27th Aug 2022
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Location:
 London Coliseum, Trafalgar Square
My Fair Lady
Only Fools And Horses is a musical comedy that takes you on a trip down memory lane.
Booking:
 To 5th Jan 2025
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Location:
 Theatre Royal Haymarket, St James
Only Fools And Horses
Julia Donaldson’s beloved children’s book comes to life on the stage of the Lyric Theatre.
Booking:
 To 4th Sep 2022
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 Lyric Theatre, Soho
Room On The Broom Live
“Perhaps it’s not so bad if this is it..?” LJ’s tired. She loves her bar, which is lucky because she practically lives there these days, but what if this is it? What if the wine bar is all t...
Booking:
 To 27th Aug 2022
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Location:
 Southwark Playhouse, Southwark
Tasting Notes
An eye-raising comedy musical tells the story of two Mormon missionaries seeking to convert a disinterest village more worried about real problems than godly salvation.
Booking:
 To 10th Aug 2024
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Location:
 Prince of Wales Theatre, Soho
The Book of Mormon
This captivating and sincere play comes to London’s Kiln Theatre for an extremely limited run.
Booking:
 To 13th Aug 2022
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Location:
 Kiln Theatre, Kilburn
The Darkest Part of the Night
New production of The Glass Menagerie to star Amy Adams at the West End's Duke of York's Theatre
Booking:
 To 1st Jun 2024
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 Duke of York's Theatre, Trafalgar Square
The Glass Menagerie
The world's longest-running play of any kind, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap at the St Martin's Theatre
Booking:
 To 1st Mar 2025
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 St Martin's Theatre, Soho
The Mousetrap
The long-running classic musical story continues its record-breaking run at Her Majesty's Theatre.
Booking:
 To 29th Mar 2025
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 Her Majesty's Theatre, St James
The Phantom Of The Opera
Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) makes her West End debut as Nina in Anya Reiss’ unique 21st century modernisation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, with direction by Jamie Lloyd. A young woman is...
Booking:
 To 10th Sep 2022
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Location:
 Harold Pinter Theatre, St James
The Seagull
In a co-production with Chichester Festival TheatreRaffish, urbane and frequently drunk, David Highland has kept a grip on his remote coastal parish through a combination of disordered charm and high-...
Booking:
 To 27th Aug 2022
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Location:
 Bridge Theatre, Southwark
The Southbury Child
Join the tea-guzzling tiger in this delightful family show; packed with oodles of magic, sing-a-long songs and clumsy chaos.
Booking:
 To 1st Sep 2024
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Location:
 Theatre Royal Haymarket, St James
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Dive into Eric Carle’s bright and colourful world as his beloved stories are transformed from page to stage using a menagerie of 75 lovable puppets and charming music. Featuring your favourite title...
Booking:
 To 9th Aug 2022
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Location:
 Greenwich Theatre, Greenwich
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
A jukebox musical based on the, often tumultuous, life and legendary music of International recording artist Tina Turner.
Booking:
 To 31st May 2025
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Location:
 Aldwych Theatre, Aldwych
TINA: The Tina Turner Musical
Known as one of literatures towering symbols of honesty and compassion lawyer Atticus Finch seeks the truth in a town that seems determined to hide it.
Booking:
 To 20th May 2023
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Location:
 Gielgud Theatre, Aldwych
To Kill a Mockingbird
A musical about Yeast, by the minds that brought you Urinetown. It is the year 3,000,458,000 BC. Living deep within the murk is the world’s very first life-form. Behold, The Yeasts! With food gr...
Booking:
 To 27th Aug 2022
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Location:
 Southwark Playhouse, Southwark
Yeast Nation: The Triumph of Life