London Theatre Events
These are the theatre events to look out for now and in the coming months. What’s hot, what’s not, and what you need to see now.
A new service is bringing theatre productions to your doorstep
Doorstep Productions have found an ingenious way of getting around the government’s dreaded three tier Covid Management System by bringing theatre productions right to the audience’s doorstep. Every p...
The National Theatre launches streaming platform
The National Theatre’s new streaming platform, NT at Home, could not have arrived at a better time. With the UK still very much in the grips of the pandemic, and with the nation’s cultural life at a s...
The Dumb Waiter
Harold Pinter’s hypnotic comedy masterpiece The Dumb Waiter is back at the Hampstead Theatre as part of the venue’s 60th anniversary programme. It is fitting, too, as the play first debuted at the the...
Dick Whittington at the National Theatre
As London begins to reopen following the 2nd national lockdown, a new pantomime based on the story of Dick Whittington is all set to open at the National Theatre on the 11th of December. (SAGE) Oh no ...
A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge would have loved 2020. With cinemas, theatres, restaurants, and the rest of the hospitality industry closed for most of the year, there have been precious few things left to do other ...
A movie version of Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley’s Romeo and Juliet is in the works
It’s the theatre blockbuster that never was. With bright young things Josh O’Connor (The Crown, The Durrells) and Jessie Buckley (War and Peace, Chernobyl) onboard, the National Theatre’s production o...
National Theatre to reopen
The National Theatre has announced plans to reopen in late October with a bold new work that explores the relationship between nationality and ethnicity. Although the venue has not yet set a date for ...
Hamlet with Sir Ian Mckellen
In the midst of an incredibly difficult period for London theatre, it is refreshing to have something positive to talk about for a change. That’s why we were so pleased to hear news of a new version o...
Lungs at the Old Vic
This new version of Lungs at The Old Vic will give Londoners a taste of what live theatre might look like in the pandemic age. The play, which follows a couple, M and W, as they debate whether to have...
Shakespeare’s Globe Virtual Tour
I love Shakespeare’s Globe. There, I’ve said it. The Globe is, for my money, the most magical theatre in the whole of the UK, and a particularly fitting tribute to England’s greatest ever playwright, ...
Support Shakespeare’s Globe
Shakespeare’s Globe is facing closure. The CEO of the theatre warned the government this week that the venue would be forced to close its doors for good without at least £5 million pounds of new fundi...
Les Misérables
One of the UK’s best loved musicals, Les Misérables, is now available to watch online. The show, which features Alfie Boe, Michael Ball and Matt Lucas, was recorded at the Gielgud Theatre in Lon...
Fleabag Live
Soho Theatre have announced that they will be making Phoebe-Waller Bridge’s comic tour de force Fleabag Live available to stream from their website. The initiative is the result of a partnership betwe...
The Shows Must Go On!
A new You Tube channel from Universal is set to broadcast a series of musicals during the Coronavirus Crisis. The Shows Must Go On! A new show will be uploaded to the channel each week with each show ...
Globe Player
If you had any lingering doubt of how popular Shakespeare is around the world, then a quick browse of the Globe Player would immediately set you straight. There’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream from the Yo...
National Theatre At Home
The National Theatre have opened up their vast archives to offer the nation a dose of feel good theatre during the Coronavirus Crisis. The National Theatre At Home initiative will see the institution ...
How To Watch London Theatre Productions Without Leaving Home
If you’re missing the theatre as much as we are, then you will be reassured to know that there are plenty of ways of getting your fix without leaving the comfort and safety of your own home. And whils...
Message In A Bottle Review
A jukebox musical tackling the refuge crisis hardly sounds like the most plausible of entities, but Katie Prince’s ZooNation company have pulled it off with aplomb. Prince’s treatment of the subject m...
