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London theatre tickets for 21st February 2023

Plays and musicals open on the 21st February 2023

& 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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Location:
 Shaftesbury Theatre, Soho
& Juliet
2:22 is written by award-winning writer Danny Robins, creator of the hit BBC podcast The Battersea Poltergeist, and is directed by Matthew Dunster.
Booking:
 To 23rd Apr 2023
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Location:
 Lyric Theatre, Soho
2:22 A Ghost Story
The critically acclaimed production Age Is A Feeling is a moving and breathtaking look into the cynicism and regret of life.
Booking:
 To 11th Mar 2023
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Location:
 Soho Theatre, Soho
Age Is A Feeling
There’s nobody on a megaphone. We just wait and they come. And we talk to them. And we find out what’s hurting them. And we just talk and we pray and that’s pretty much it.
Booking:
 To 18th Mar 2023
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Location:
 Hampstead Theatre, Hampstead
Akedah
Alex Edelman's Just For Us - a wise and witty monologue that explores all from his career.
Booking:
 To 26th Feb 2023
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Location:
 Menier Chocolate Factory, Southwark
Alex Edelman: Just for us
Legendary TV and film star George Takei brings his critically lauded and award winning broadway musical Allegiance to London’s Charing Cross Theatre.
Booking:
 To 8th Apr 2023
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Location:
 Charing Cross Theatre, Trafalgar Square
Allegiance
Jim Steinman’s Bat Out of Hell is revving its engines and peeling into London’s Peacock Theatre for a pit stop on its UK tour.
Booking:
 To 1st Apr 2023
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Location:
 Peacock Theatre, Holborn
Bat Out of Hell
This new show for 2023 features performers from across the globe making their UK debuts, alongside a host of Cirque Berserk! favourites.
Booking:
 To 10th Mar 2023
Location:
 Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
Cirque Berserk!
See the hit film come to life before your eyes with this fantastic, emotional and triumphant live stage show.
Booking:
 To 29th Apr 2023
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Location:
 Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road
Dirty Dancing
Over the last decade, one of the most divisive political figures emerged in UK politics, his name is Dominic Cumming’s, and he is now the subject of the political comedy DOM - The Play.
Booking:
 To 5th Mar 2023
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Location:
 Other Palace Studio, Victoria
DOM – The Play
Art and Eros are always superimposed, don’t you find? You cannot separate the two: the model naked in supplication before the artist; the artist exposing himself in trust. The beast of creation is always erect.
Booking:
 To 18th Mar 2023
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Location:
 Hampstead Theatre, Hampstead
Double Feature
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
Following two smash hit London seasons, Heathers the Musical is back - for just 12 weeks.
Booking:
 To 3rd Sep 2023
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Location:
 Theatre Royal Haymarket, St James
Heathers The Musical
How do you express the most deepest and vulnerable parts of yourself when you are restricted to speaking 140 words a day?
Booking:
 To 18th Mar 2023
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Location:
 Harold Pinter Theatre, St James
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons
Les Misérables -- reimagined for the Sondheim Theatre -- is the classic revolutionary musical.
Booking:
 To 29th Mar 2025
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Location:
 Sondheim Theatre, Soho
Les Misérables
Ruby Thomas’ epic and playful modern love story takes eighteenth century court records as its starting point.
Booking:
 To 4th Mar 2023
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Location:
 Hampstead Theatre, Hampstead
Linck & Mülhahn
There are things you do not know. Things that would alter your view of me entirely. Things that, were I a worthy man, should prevent me from making any claim on such a rare, intelligent woman as you.
Booking:
 To 4th Mar 2023
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Location:
 Hampstead Theatre, Hampstead
Linck & MÜlhahn
Matilda the Musical is inspired by the twisted genius of Roald Dahl, with original songs from comedian Tim Minchin and book by Dennis Kelly.
Booking:
 To 25th May 2025
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Location:
 Cambridge Theatre, Soho
Matilda The Musical
Adapted from the ancient Greek tragedy by the tragedian Euripides, the production Medea comes to @sohoplace theatre for a strictly limited run.
Booking:
 To 22nd Apr 2023
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Location:
 @sohoplace, Soho
Medea
Enter a world of splendour and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur, and glory!
Booking:
 To 28th Sep 2024
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Location:
 Piccadilly Theatre, Soho
Moulin Rouge The Musical
Following an award-winning run at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Rob Madge brings My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) to the Garrick Theatre.
Booking:
 To 1st Apr 2023
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Location:
 Garrick Theatre, Soho
My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?)
Theatre Royal Bath Productions present Felicity Kendal, Jonathan Coy, Matthew Kelly and Tracy-Ann Oberman in the fortieth anniversary production of one of the greatest British comedies ever written.
Booking:
 To 16th Dec 2023
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Location:
 Phoenix Theatre, Soho
Noises Off
The smash-hit production is set to make a limited transfer to the West End.
Booking:
 To 2nd Sep 2023
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Location:
 Wyndham's Theatre, Soho
Oklahoma!
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
Michael Grandage directs Emma Corrin in Neil Bartlett’s joyous new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s modern masterpiece - Orlando.
Booking:
 To 25th Feb 2023
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Location:
 Garrick Theatre, Soho
Orlando
So, here’s the plan: hit the beach, lunch alfresco, back by the afternoon, cocktails by the pool, dinner in the restaurant – which is excellent by the way – drugs, girls, half an hour’s kip, flight home!
Booking:
 To 25th Mar 2023
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Location:
 Hampstead Theatre, Hampstead
Out Of Season
a new play by Simon Stone after Euripides, Seneca and Racine From 1 February to 8 April 2023 Running Time: tbc
Booking:
 To 8th Apr 2023
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Location:
 National Theatre, Southwark
Phaedra
The hit Broadway musical adaption of the beloved romance Pretty Woman is back in the West End
Booking:
 To 18th Jun 2023
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Location:
 Savoy Theatre, Strand
Pretty Woman: The Musical
A co-production with Sherman Theatre a new play by Gary Owen From 14 February to 1 April 2023 Running Time: tbc
Booking:
 To 1st Apr 2023
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Location:
 National Theatre, Southwark
Romeo and Julie
A former rock star inherits a derelict factory in Sheffield and wants to turn it into a thriving music venue. No, wait: her niece has inherited it, and has plans for luxury apartments. Hang on – it...
Booking:
 To 21st Feb 2023
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Location:
 Greenwich Theatre, Greenwich
Scissors
The iconic Sheridan Smith stars as the loveable Liverpudlian lass in Shirley Valentine!
Booking:
 To 3rd Jun 2023
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Location:
 Duke of York's Theatre, Trafalgar Square
Shirley Valentine
From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the six wives of Henry VIII finally take the mic to tell their tales.
Booking:
 To 3rd Nov 2024
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Location:
 Vaudeville Theatre, Strand
Six
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Booking:
 To 25th Feb 2023
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Location:
 Southwark Playhouse, Southwark
Smoke
A National Theatre and Sheffield Theatres production in association with Various Productions Music and lyrics by Richard Hawley Book by Chris Bush From 9 February to 25 March 2023 Running Time: tbc
Booking:
 To 25th Mar 2023
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Location:
 National Theatre, Southwark
Standing at the Sky's Edge
Starring Beverley Knight, the epic musical celebrates feminist icon Sylvia Pankhurst.
Booking:
 To 8th Apr 2023
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Location:
 The Old Vic, Southwark
Sylvia
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
Welcome to THE CHOIR OF MAN- the best night in your local you’ve ever had. It’s a party, it’s a concert, it’s a lock in like no other.
Booking:
 To 29th Sep 2024
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Location:
 Arts Theatre, Soho
The Choir of Man
Produced by Riksteatern and Matthew Linley Creative Projects Content Warnings:Language: Strong language (swearing), References to: sex, violence, extreme right wing / nationalist views and ideol...
Booking:
 To 25th Feb 2023
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Location:
 Wilton's Music Hall, Whitechapel
The City And The Town
Hailed as 'genuinely epic and magnificent' by the New York Times, The Lehman Trilogy is the story of a family that changed the world.
Booking:
 To 20th May 2023
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Location:
 Gillian Lynne Theatre, Aldwych
The Lehman Trilogy
Ingenious puppetry, stunning effects and the enchanting music by Elton John, Tim Rice and Lebo M will transport you to the heart of the African Pridelands.
Booking:
 To 19th Oct 2024
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Location:
 Lyceum Theatre, Covent Garden
The Lion King
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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Location:
 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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Location:
 Her Majesty's Theatre, St James
The Phantom Of The Opera
When a production of the fictitious whodunnit mystery play, The Murder at Haversham Manor, is put on by the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, disaster awaits them at every turn. Behold as everything that could possibly go wrong does.
Booking:
 To 4th May 2025
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Location:
 Duchess Theatre, Aldwych
The Play That Goes Wrong
The Rhinegold comes to the London Coliseum as part of the ENO’s multi-year collaboration to bring all 4 epics of Wagner’s Ring Cycle to the stage.
Booking:
 To 10th Mar 2023
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Location:
 London Coliseum, Trafalgar Square
The Rhinegold
Steven Moffats' dark and murderous comedy The Unfriend comes to the Criterion Theatre.
Booking:
 To 9th Mar 2024
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Location:
 Criterion Theatre, Trafalgar Square
The Unfriend
“And what news of London Town, Paddy? This Walworth Road off the Elephant and Castle paint me a picture of this boulevard and its surrounding environs.” Holed up in a flat on the Walworth Road, ...
Booking:
 To 28th Feb 2023
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Location:
 Southwark Playhouse, Southwark
The Walworth Farce
Shakespeare’s romance The Winter’s Tale transforms the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and the Globe Theatre in a production that takes place across both stages.
Booking:
 To 16th Apr 2023
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Location:
 Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Southwark
The Winter's Tale
Can you survive the tale of The Woman in Black? Now starring Stuart Fox and Matthew Spencer
Booking:
 To 29th Apr 2023
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Location:
 Fortune Theatre, Aldwych
The Woman in Black
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
Wicked the Musical, is the smash-hit musical that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz.
Booking:
 To 1st Jun 2025
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Location:
 Apollo Victoria Theatre, Pimlico South
Wicked
Pushed to the edge by their maniacal boss, five downtrodden office workers decide to risk it all on a five-hundred-million-dollar lottery ticket in the hope of a better life.
Booking:
 To 11th Mar 2023
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Location:
 Southwark Playhouse, Southwark
Windfall
Clive Anderson hilariously helps negotiate a truce in Winner's Curse at Park Theatre!
Booking:
 To 11th Mar 2023
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Location:
 Park Theatre, Finsbury Park
Winner’s Curse
Agatha Christie's bone-chilling drama presented in a courtroom setting.
Booking:
 To 30th Mar 2025
Genre:
Location:
 London County Hall, Southwark
Witness for the Prosecution