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London theatre tickets for 30th June 2023

Plays and musicals open on the 30th June 2023

42nd STREET is a larger-than-life, massively entertaining celebration of musicals and the irrepressible spirit of Broadway that’s guaranteed to lift anyone’s spirits. 
Booking:
 To 2nd Jul 2023
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 Sadler's Wells, Clerkenwell
42nd Street
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
Meet Usher, a black queer writer, writing a musical about a black queer writer!
Booking:
 To 9th Sep 2023
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 Barbican Theatre, Barbican
A Strange Loop
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
When a young anarchist dies in police custody, the Maniac rains hell on the police force!
Booking:
 To 9th Sep 2023
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Location:
 Lyric Hammersmith, Hammersmith
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
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
Scott Folan is a 23 year old Actor and Singer-songwriter. Coming off the recent announcement that he will feature in the next ‘Hunger Games’ movie, he’s excited to share the other piece of ar...
Booking:
 To 9th Sep 2023
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Location:
 Union Theatre, Southwark
‘Other Days’ – Scott Folan Album Launch
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
Based on the Handmade film 'A Private Function' and the original story by Alan Bennett and Malcom Mowbray. Adapted from the screenplay by Alan Bennett Originally produced by Cameron Mackintosh ...
Booking:
 To 9th Sep 2023
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Location:
 Union Theatre, Southwark
Betty Blue Eyes
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, Southwark
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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 @sohoplace, Soho
Brokeback Mountain
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Booking:
 To 9th Sep 2023
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Location:
 Union Theatre, Southwark
CASTS UNITE
George and Ira Gershwin's musical comedy, Crazy For You, celebrated its 30th-anniversary revival at Chichester Festival Theatre, and is now returning for a West End transfer!
Booking:
 To 20th Jan 2024
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Location:
 Gillian Lynne Theatre, Aldwych
Crazy For You
Divas London is a brand new LIVE all singing all dancing party show celebrating the world’s greatest Divas.
Booking:
 To 2nd Jul 2023
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Location:
 The Prince Of Wales, Aldwych
Divas London
On Its head Productions Artistic and Creative Director Nathan Luke Coulson Artistic and Creative Director Alice catherine Field ...
Booking:
 To 9th Sep 2023
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Location:
 Union Theatre, Southwark
Front of House Front and Centre
Prepare to fall in love with Disney’s Frozen all over again, as the brand-new theatrical experience is now open at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
Booking:
 To 8th Sep 2024
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Location:
 Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Aldwych
Frozen The Musical
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
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
Following a sold-out run in New York, where it received rave reviews, Eddie Izzard's Great Expectations will play at London’s Garrick Theatre for six weeks only.
Booking:
 To 1st Jul 2023
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Location:
 Garrick Theatre, Soho
Great Expectations
No Performances on 13th or 14th June Runs 25 May - 8 July 2023 Tuesday - Saturday 7.30pm and Sunday 2.00pm No Performances on 13th or 14th June Runs 25 May - 8 July 2023 Tuesday...
Booking:
 To 9th Sep 2023
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Location:
 Union Theatre, Southwark
Grindr: The Opera
Based on the 1990's smash-hit movie, Groundhog Day The Musical returns to the Old Vic!
Booking:
 To 19th Aug 2023
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Location:
 The Old Vic, Southwark
Groundhog Day The Musical
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
Heathers The Musical is returning to London to The Other Palace for a strictly limited 12-week season!
Booking:
 To 3rd Sep 2023
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Location:
 Other Palace Studio, Victoria
Heathers The Musical
Love them or hate them, the Spitting Image puppets are truly the spitting image of their real-life counterparts! With a plot that's even more improbable than the last year of British politics, this show is sure to have you on the edge of your seat.
Booking:
 To 26th Aug 2023
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Location:
 Phoenix Theatre, Soho
Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image the Musical
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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Location:
 Trafalgar Theatre, Whitehall
Jersey Boys
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
This first-class experience features some of the world’s sexiest, most talented guys performing heart-racing dance routines in front of, above and all around you.
Booking:
 To 29th Jun 2025
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Location:
 The Theatre at Hippodrome Casino (over 18s only), Soho
Magic Mike Live
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
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
Theatre, music hall and drag king swagger collide as Modest brings you a Victorian art scene superstar.
Booking:
 To 15th Jul 2023
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Location:
 Kiln Theatre, Kilburn
Modest
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
Josh loves Eurovision.  He knows every insane figure and fact.  Ukraine entering a guy in a hamster wheel.  Norway winning with an Olympic skater.  The Russian grannies.  The Brotherhood of Ma...
Booking:
 To 9th Sep 2023
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Location:
 Union Theatre, Southwark
Nul Points !
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 political drama Patriots comes to the Noel Coward Theatre, exploring Berezovsky's life.
Booking:
 To 19th Aug 2023
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Location:
 Noel Coward Theatre, Trafalgar Square
Patriots
Enjoy an evening in the bar with good food and a great atmosphere. Host & Singer Lee Greenaway Singer & Pianist Matt Faull ...
Booking:
 To 9th Sep 2023
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Location:
 Union Theatre, Southwark
Piano & Pizza
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
Promising humour, heart and a forest full of secrets, expect the arrows to fly in a bold new direction as trickery and truth collide with fiery results.
Booking:
 To 22nd Jul 2023
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Location:
 Open Air Theatre, Camden
Robin Hood The Legend. Re-Written
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Booking:
 To 1st Jul 2023
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Location:
 Wilton's Music Hall, Whitechapel
Sasha Regan’s All-male 
The Mikado
Bursting with hilarity and joy, this award-winning comedy explores the universal similarities (and glaring differences) facing teenage girls around the world.
Booking:
 To 22nd Jul 2023
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Location:
 Lyric Hammersmith, Hammersmith
School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play
Scouts around the world have gathered for The Scout Games. When an intruder threatens to sabotage the whole competition it's up to Joe and Ayesha to use all their scouting skills and more to save the day.
Booking:
 To 2nd Jul 2023
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Location:
 Other Palace Studio, Victoria
Scouts! The Musical
Armed with a backpack full of Pop-tarts and a hunger to tackle climate change, Priya and Lou, embark on a covert expedition into the wild. But when the wilderness closes in around them, can they overc...
Booking:
 To 30th Jun 2023
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Location:
 Southwark Playhouse, Southwark
SHEWOLVES
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
★★★★ 'Will Young acts with melodic grace' The Guardian ★★★★ 'A beautifully composed production' Whatsonstage.com ★★★★ 'Will Young's performance was sublime' Manchester T...
Booking:
 To 22nd Jul 2023
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Location:
 Hampstead Theatre, Hampstead
Song From Far Away
For God's sake, let us sit upon the green and tell sad stories of the fall of batsmen…
Booking:
 To 22nd Jul 2023
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Location:
 Hampstead Theatre, Hampstead
Stumped
Tambo & Bones are trapped in a minstrel show. It's mad hard to feel like a real person when you're trapped in a minstrel show. Their escape plan: get out, get bank, get even.
Booking:
 To 15th Jul 2023
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Location:
 Theatre Royal Stratford East, Stratford
Tambo & Bones
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
Shakespeare’s ever popular fairy-tale farce of everyday miracles, mistaken identity and double vision, directed by comedy master Phillip Breen.
Booking:
 To 27th Oct 2024
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Location:
 Barbican Theatre, Barbican
The Comedy of Errors
In this fable of power and dread, there's a witch hunt beginning - and no one is safe.
Booking:
 To 2nd Sep 2023
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Location:
 Gielgud Theatre, Barbican
The Crucible
We will be transporting you to gritty New York City, as two young idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs.
Booking:
 To 1st Jul 2023
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Location:
 Beatrix Potter Globe, Earls Court
The Earl's Courtiers present West Side Story
Tindall Joe Aylward Bill Mark Foy Ted Ari Oskarsson Game William Pyke Joe Sam Rhodes Producer Mark Foy Sound Design Jordan Pezzimenti Director Steve Salt ...
Booking:
 To 13th Nov 2023
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Location:
 Union Theatre, Southwark
The Hunt
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
The Pillowman is a dark, twisty, and utterly unforgettable masterpiece from one of Ireland’s most renowned playwrights, Martin McDonagh.
Booking:
 To 2nd Sep 2023
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Location:
 Duke of York's Theatre, Trafalgar Square
The Pillowman
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
Love takes on a whole new shape in this intense, provocative and gripping production.
Booking:
 To 1st Jul 2023
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Location:
 Park Theatre, Finsbury Park
The Shape of Things
The Third Man by Graham Greene, which has previously been made into a film and published as a novella has now been reimagined into a musical at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
Booking:
 To 9th Sep 2023
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Location:
 Menier Chocolate Factory, Southwark
The Third Man
Join Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow, Tinman, and Lion as they journey down the Yellow Brick Road
Booking:
 To 3rd Sep 2023
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Location:
 London Palladium, Soho North
The Wizard of Oz
Starring Alice Fearn, and directed by Julie Atherton, Then, Now & Next is a heartwarming, original musical from writers Christopher J Orton and Jon Robyns. Struggling with a difficult past, Alex Sh...
Booking:
 To 30th Jun 2023
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Location:
 Southwark Playhouse, Southwark
Then, Now & Next
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
Thrilling, heart-breaking, and at times darkly humorous, Philip Ridley’s powerful play examines the things we broadcast about ourselves and the things we strive to hide. Hate crime, prejudice and th...
Booking:
 To 15th Jul 2023
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Location:
 Greenwich Theatre, Greenwich
Vincent River
21 years since it all began… the world’s favourite rock theatrical returns home!
Booking:
 To 27th Aug 2023
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Location:
 London Coliseum, Trafalgar Square
We Will Rock You
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