London is a great city of culture with a wide variety of Musicals and Theatre Plays, some of which are new for 2018 and many that have been running for some time.
Below we list the most love one and we will regularly update this page with new musicals.
Recommended Ticket Sites
We would always recommend you buy your theatre tickets online as this will keep you a better you will find latter and in most cases be cheaper.
Our recommended sites are:
London Theatre Direct – One of the most reliable and popular ticket site for musicals.
there are dedicated pages by subject, type of show like:
- Musicals page
- Theatre Plays page
- Opera page
- Concerts page
- Dance and Ballet page
- Last Minutes / the same day tickets page
- and a combination between musical and dinner option here.
LOVETheatre – Especially good site for deals combining theatre/musicals and dinner
Encore tickets – One of the biggest and reliable tickets for musicals company.
Popular Theatre Plays and Musicals Still on the London Stage in 2018
London is a great city for theatre plays and musicals, with many running for several years, and some that appear to be running much longer with no end in sight. Below we list some of the better ones that we recommend (the bold one are the most recommended):
The Lion King – Disney most popular musical
The Book of Mormon – Very Funny, not for children below 15
Les Miserable – Classic musical that run more than 30th year
Kinky Boots *our most favourite – Smart funny and great cast
Phantom Of The Opera – classic musical
The Mousetrap – the longest run play in the world
Wicked – great for teenage
Matilda – Smart and witty
Mamma Mia – For who like ABBA songs – good feeling musical
The play that goes wrong – Stupid and funny play
New Musicals – Less the 3 years on the west end
Aladdin Disney’s pyrotechnical entertainment musical
Dreamgirls – Great big voices
42nd street – One of our favorites – big cast
Harry Potter and the cursed child – One of the best but there are no available tickets
Young Frankenstein Musical – Funny – Mel brooks style
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – the new Billy Elliot – The best new musical!
Hamilton – very popular
Motown – sounds and stories of 1960s America
School of Rock – Fun
Motown the Musical, Aladin, School Of Rock
Motown the Musical is on at the Shaftesbury Theatre.
The musical portrays the true life story of Berry Gordon, the founder of Motown, who helped propel the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, and so many other famous names.
The musical includes 50 of the greatest songs, including ‘Dancing In’, ‘My Girl’, ‘I heard It Through The Grapevine’, ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough’, ‘The Street’ and so many more.
Disney’s Next Big Hit – Aladdin
Aladdin Disney’s famous movie is remade into a thrilling and bright musical that is a must see.
Aladdin falls in love with the princess Jasmine but they cannot be married as he is not a prince. Luckily for Aladdin he has in his possession a magic lamp with a genie who will help him get the woman of his dreams.
The musical includes some of the famous songs from the movie as well as a few new songs written specifically for the musical by Alan Menken.
School Of Rock
School of Rock is Based on the film of the same title from 2003 and with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Glenn Slater.
The musical follows the story of Dewey Finn, a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school who dreams of becoming a rock star, and when he realises his students have musical talent he forms a rock group to win the battle of the bands.
Musicas that use to run in London and Not Currently Running
Cats (Not Currently Running)
Billy Elliot (Not Currently Running)
Bad Jews (Not Currently Running)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Not Currently Running)
Sunny Afternoon (Not Currently Rnning)
Miss Saigon (Not Currently Running)
War Horse (Not Currently Running)
wonder.land (Not Currently Running)
Bend It Like Beckham – The Musical (Not Currently Running)
Jersey Boys (Not Currently Running)
Guys and Dolls (Not Currently Running)
In The Heights (Not Currently Running)
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night (Not Currently Running)
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (Not Currently Running)
Stomp (Not Currently Running)
Annie – Great Happy musical
Funny Girl opens at the Savoy Theatre on 2016 following a very successful run at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
This is a remake of the famous and successful musical in the 60’s and later made into an Oscar winning movie both starring Barbara Streisand. It is the story of Fanny Brice, who rose from the Lower East Side of New York to become one of Broadway’s biggest stars. She enjoyed great acclaim onstage as a comedienne but offstage she faced a doomed relationship with the man she loved. Some of th songs you can expect to hear are “People”, “You Are Woman, I Am Man” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade”.
Sunset Boulevard opens for a limited run of one month between 1 April and 7 May at the London Coliseum run by the ENO and starring Glenn Close who played at the original musical on Broadway in 1994. The musical is based on Billy Wilder’s classic film of the same name from the 1950’s.
Off West End theatre
In addition to the many popular theatre plays and musicals in London’s West End, there will be a number of smaller productions off West End, including:
Bugsy Malone – Lyric Hammersmith
Hairspray – Churchill Theatre Bromley
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – New Wimbledon Theatre
Groundhog Day – The Musical
Groundhog Day is a new musical written by Tim Minchin (who also wrote the Mathilda musical) and will be on at the Old Vic in June this year. Tickets go on sale on 12 May 2016.
The musical is based on the movie of the same name starring Bill Murray, which sees a weather reporter stuck in the same day over and over again trying to make it perfect.
Jesus Christ Superstar, Running Wild, Pride and Prejudice in Regent’s Park
Jesus Christ Superstar the musical will be at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park between 15 July and 27 August 2016 in order to celebrate 45 years since it was first written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The Open Air Theatre will also be showing Running Wild, Henry V by William Shakespeare and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Mrs Henderson Presents – the Noel Coward Theatre
The musical is based on the movie by the same name starring Judi Dench, and is the true-life story of Mrs Henderson who ran the Windmill Theatre in London’s Soho before outbreak of World War II and refused to close it during the bombings. The story depicts the high’s and low’s of running a theatre.
The War Of The Worlds – the Dominion Theatre
The name is familiar to you from the original sci-fi movie of the same name from the 1950’s and the remake in the mid 2000’s and of course, the original H.G.Wells book of the same name in 1897. It is the story of a Martian invasion of earth.