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London theatre tickets for 23rd May 2023

Plays and musicals open on the 23rd May 2023

Based on Hanya Yanagihara’s million-copy bestselling novel A Little Life, A Little Life the stage adaptation has been coined as the theatrical event of 2023 and is an exploration of trauma, survival and love.
Booking:
 To 18th Jun 2023
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Location:
 Harold Pinter Theatre, St James
A Little Life
Join the revellers as mother nature envelops the Globe Theatre for Shakespeare’s deliciously disruptive and intoxicating comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Booking:
 To 20th Apr 2024
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Location:
 Shakespeare's Globe, Southwark
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ain't Too Proud the musical recounts the epic legacy of R&B icon group The Temptations.
Booking:
 To 7th Jan 2024
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Location:
 Prince Edward Theatre, Soho
Ain't Too Proud
Michael Ball stars in Andrew Lloyd Webber's tangled love story Aspects of Love.
Booking:
 To 11th Nov 2023
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Location:
 Lyric Theatre, Soho
Aspects of Love
August in England, a play inspired by the Windrush scandal, playing at the Bush Theatre.
Booking:
 To 10th Jun 2023
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Location:
 Bush Theatre, Shepherds Bush
August In England
People always need to eat. If you can cook, really cook, if you know flavour and taste and texture, people will pay you to do it. People always need to eat. Always.
Booking:
 To 10th Jun 2023
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Location:
 Hampstead Theatre, Hampstead
Biscuits For Breakfast
Dickens’ tropes are exaggerated to a hilarious and absurd level in Bleak Expectations!
Booking:
 To 3rd Sep 2023
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Location:
 Criterion Theatre, Hampstead
Bleak Expectations
In the wild and rugged landscape of 1960s Wyoming, two cowboys find themselves drawn to each other in ways they never expected.
Booking:
 To 12th Aug 2023
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Location:
 @sohoplace, Soho
Brokeback Mountain
by Brian Friel From 6 April Running Time: tbc
Booking:
 To 27th May 2023
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Location:
 National Theatre, Southwark
Dancing at Lughnasa
A co-production with Clean Break a new play by Deborah Bruce From 15 April Running Time: tbc
Booking:
 To 3rd Jun 2023
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Location:
 National Theatre, Southwark
Dixon and Daughters
A thrilling, high-energy 80s-inspired British musical with a superhero-sized heart and an uplifting score.
Booking:
 To 28th May 2023
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Location:
 The Turbine Theatre, Battersea
Eugenius!
A modern retelling of Schnitzler’s infamous classic La Ronde, F**king Men is a fascinating, funny and provocative story of sex, love and connection.
Booking:
 To 18th Jun 2023
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Location:
 Waterloo East Theatre, Southwark
F**king Men
Witness the legacy of Gino Bartali come to life in this epic show of resistance and rescue.
Booking:
 To 29th Jul 2023
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Location:
 Charing Cross Theatre, Trafalgar Square
Glory Ride
Join us for Guys & Dolls as The Bridge transforms for one of the greatest musicals of all time. It has more hit songs, more laughs and more romance than any show ever written.The seating is wrapped ...
Booking:
 To 29th Jun 2024
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Location:
 Bridge Theatre, Southwark
Guys & Dolls
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 6th Jul 2024
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Location:
 Theatre Royal Haymarket, St James
Heathers The Musical
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a comic gem that took Broadway by storm in 1961, winning both the Tony Award for Best Musical and a Pulitzer Prize. It was revived twice on Broadway...
Booking:
 To 31st May 2023
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Location:
 Southwark Playhouse, Southwark
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
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
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
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
She's coming to the West End, dearie. Mrs. Doubtfire transfers for a limited run in 2023
Booking:
 To 16th Feb 2025
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Location:
 Shaftesbury Theatre, Soho
Mrs. Doubtfire
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!
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
Experience the epic new world from Punchdrunk, ‘the world-conquering theatre rebels’, as the greatest of Greek tragedies is transported to a sprawling dystopian labyrinth.
Booking:
 To 24th Sep 2023
Location:
 One Cartridge Place, Woolwich
Punchdrunk: The Burnt City
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, Sidney Poitier is offered his dreams...but at what cost?
Booking:
 To 27th May 2023
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Location:
 Kiln Theatre, Kilburn
Retrograde
Following the immensely successful online run, the award-winning revival of Rose comes to the Park Theatre for an extremely limited one month run.
Booking:
 To 18th Jun 2023
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Location:
 Park Theatre, Finsbury Park
Rose
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 4th May 2025
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Location:
 Vaudeville Theatre, Strand
Six
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Booking:
 To 23rd May 2023
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Location:
 Wilton's Music Hall, Whitechapel
Swinging At Wilton’s
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
“Once in a while a new show comes along that quietly, unexpectedly, knocks you sideways” WhatsOnStage Discover a sleepy fishing harbour on the north coast of Cornwall, home to a most curious sto...
Booking:
 To 31st May 2023
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Location:
 Southwark Playhouse, Southwark
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“We’ve proved ourselves before now, haven’t we? We’ve always done our job. What’s he doing all this for? What’s the idea? What’s he playing these games for?” Hitmen Ben and Gus have ...
Booking:
 To 3rd Jun 2023
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Location:
 Greenwich Theatre, Greenwich
The Dumb Waiter & A Slight Ache
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
A co-production with Neal Street Productions a new play by Jack Thorne From 20 April Running Time: tbc
Booking:
 To 10th Jun 2023
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Location:
 National Theatre, Southwark
The Motive and the Cue
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
Richard O'Brien's classic and the world's favourite Rock 'n' Roll Musical
Booking:
 To 10th Jun 2023
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Location:
 Peacock Theatre, Holborn
The Rocky Horror Show
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
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
Agatha Christie's bone-chilling drama presented in a courtroom setting.
Booking:
 To 30th Mar 2025
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Location:
 London County Hall, Southwark
Witness for the Prosecution
Inspector Sands offer a fresh take on the infamous love story of doomed heroes Catherine and Heathcliff, with its devastating impact across several generations.
Booking:
 To 27th May 2023
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Location:
 Rose Theatre Kingston, Kingston Upon Thames
Wuthering Heights