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Indecent Proposal

Indecent Proposal

Open Date: 29 May 20 to 27 Jun 20

Indecent Proposal “Everyone has their price, Jonny. I think a million dollars is yours.” Atlantic City. 1988. Jonny and Rebecca are very much in love and very much in debt. He’s a struggling singer-songwriter who spends most of his time playing backup for Annie at the Oasis Casino Hotel Resort, and she works part-time at the casino and for a loca...

Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat

Open Date: 14 May 20 to 23 May 20

Operation Mincemeat The year is 1943 and we’re losing the war. Luckily, we’re about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse. Operation Mincemeat is Singin’ in the Rain meets Strangers on a Train, Noel Fielding meets Noel Coward. Join us in discovering the fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable true story of the twisted secret mission that wo...

The Last Five Years

The Last Five Years

Open Date: 28 Feb 20 to 28 Mar 20

The Last Five Years Jason Robert Brown's Drama Desk Award winning musical, The Last Five Years, is an emotionally powerful and intimate show about two New Yorkers who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The musical’s unconventional structure unfolds as Cathy tells her story in reverse, from the end of their turbulent relationsh...

Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat

Open Date: 4 Jan 20 to 11 Jan 20

Operation Mincemeat The year is 1943 and we’re losing the war. Luckily, we’re about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse. Operation Mincemeat is Singin’ in the Rain meets Strangers on a Train, Noel Fielding meets Noel Coward. Join us in discovering the fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable true story of the twisted secret mission that wo...

Islander

Islander

Open Date: 2 Oct 19 to 26 Oct 19

Islander Eilidh stares out to sea and dreams of a new life beyond her lonely island. Myth and reality collide when the tide washes a mysterious stranger onto her beach, changing her life forever. Epic storytelling intimately staged with a contemporary Scottish folk-inspired score. Kirsty Findlay and Bethany Tennick perform a whole host of characte...

Preludes

Preludes

Open Date: 6 Sep 19 to 12 Oct 19

Preludes Sergei Rachmaninoff has it all; world-wide fame from a single composition by the age of 19, commissioned to write his first symphony at 20 and engaged to the love of his life, Natalya. But at 21 he is crippled with a depressive paranoia and anxiety. His world has imploded, his work has stopped, he cannot even lift a pencil to compose a si...

Fiver

Fiver

Open Date: 3 Jul 19 to 20 Jul 19

Fiver Have you ever looked at a five pound note and wondered ‘Haven’t I seen you somewhere before…?’ Fiver, a new musical by Alex James Ellison and Tom Lees, follows the story of a humble five pound note as it passes through the hands and pockets of people in London. Often unnoticed and obviously unaware, the fiver is present for significant mome...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Open Date: 15 May 19 to 8 Jun 19

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Discover a sleepy fishing harbour at the end of the First World War – home to a most curious story of one man, and the timeless tale of a love that defies all odds. Born in the most unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button is an old man, not at the end of his life, but at the beginning. Trapped in a body where he...

Ain’t Misbehavin’

Ain’t Misbehavin’

Open Date: 19 Apr 19 to 1 Jun 19

Ain’t Misbehavin’ Celebrating the legendary jazz musician Fats Waller and his energetic, exuberant and effervescent music, Ain’t Misbehavin’ steps back into the 1920’s and the raunchy nightclubs of Manhattan. Join an extraordinary group of performers on a journey through a defining period of American musical history, the Harlem Renaissance – wher...

Billy Bishop Goes to War

Billy Bishop Goes to War

Open Date: 13 Mar 19 to 6 Apr 19

Billy Bishop Goes to War by John Gray with Eric Peterson Canada 1914. Billy Bishop signs up to fight in Europe and is soon in a military training camp. But one day, he spots a single-seater plane circling overhead. Overcoming intense prejudice and astonishing danger, Billy becomes the most successful fighter pilot of his generation. A Proud Haddo...

Aspects of Love

Aspects of Love

Open Date: 7 Jan 19 to 9 Feb 19

Aspects of Love From the cobbled streets of Paris to the mountains of the Pyrenees, Aspects of Love is a sweeping, epic and heart-breaking love story spanning seventeen years. Passion, desire, family ties and friendship bind six people and three generations together as they come to appreciate how love changes everything. Alex falls in love with t...

Seussical The Musical

Seussical The Musical

Open Date: 22 Nov 18 to 29 Dec 18

Seussical The Musical The fantastical world of Dr. Seuss bursts onto the stage in this larger-than-life musical extravaganza brimming with fun and excitement for “thinkers” of all ages. Join the mischievous Cat in the Hat, Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, and a host of other much-loved characters on a magical, madcap adventure from the Jungl...

Wasted

Wasted

Open Date: 6 Sep 18 to 6 Oct 18

Wasted ‘I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.’ Charlotte Brontë Through the lens of a rock documentary, Wasted gives an access-all-areas account of the struggles, heartbreaks and triumphs of the three Brontë sisters Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and their brother Branwell. Brought up in a remote, poverty-stricken town i...

Unexpected Joy

Unexpected Joy

Open Date: 5 Sep 18 to 29 Sep 18

UNEXPECTED JOY is the story of three generations of female singers, long-held family tensions and a week together where change is in the air – Joy, a baby boomer pop star, is visited by her daughter, Rachel and granddaughter Tamara. Rachel is married to a prominent televangelist, so Joy is reluctant to divulge that she’s planning to marry Lou, anot...

Bring It On

Bring It On

Open Date: 2 Aug 18 to 1 Sep 18

Bring It On Bitingly relevant, sprinkled with sass and inspired by the hit film, Bring It On The Musical takes audiences on a high-flying journey that is filled with the complexities of friendship, jealousy, betrayal and forgiveness. Uniting some of the freshest and funniest creative minds on Broadway, Bring It On features an original story by To...

The Rink

The Rink

Open Date: 25 May 18 to 23 Jun 18

The Rink The award-winning musical The Rink skates into Southwark Playhouse for a strictly limited season from May 2018, for its first London revival in almost 30 years. With an irresistible score by the legendary Tony and Olivier Award-Winning John Kander and Fred Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret) and exhilarating book by Tony Award-winning Terence McNally...

Pippin

Pippin

Open Date: 23 Feb 18 to 24 Mar 18

Pippin A soul-searching exploration of one man’s journey to find himself, his place and purpose in life, Pippin is a musical about an ordinary man on an extraordinary journey. Featuring a stunning score including classics Magic to Do and Corner of the Sky, Pippin was originally directed by the great Bob Fosse and recently completed a hugely succes...

Bananaman

Bananaman

Open Date: 15 Dec 17 to 20 Jan 18

Bananaman A hero who has ‘the muscles of 20 men and the brain of 20 mussels’. Bananaman is a unique member of the superhero ranks. Our handsome hero may have a jaw line you can see from space, but he’s not the sharpest tool in the box. In fact, he doesn’t even know where the box is. With supervillains Doctor Gloom and General Blight attempting wor...

Superhero

Superhero

Open Date: 28 Jun 17 to 22 Jul 17

SUPERHERO 'Good afternoon, your honour. I'm Colin Bradley. I'm here today to ask you, your honour, not to let Christine Davis, my ex-wife, move out of the country with Emily Bradley, my daughter.' Colin and Christine split up five years ago. Now Christine is taking their daughter to Los Angeles with her new job, and there’s nothing Colin can do a...

Working

Working

Open Date: 2 Jun 17 to 8 Jul 17

Working WORKING is the extraordinary genre-defining musical from Grammy and Academy Award-winner Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell) based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with the American workforce: Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do. This highly original and universal portrait ...

Promises Promises

Promises Promises

Open Date: 13 Jan 17 to 18 Feb 17

PROMISES, PROMISES Burt Bacharach’s incredible music and Hal David’s brilliant lyrics come together with a book by legendary playwright Neil Simon inPromises, Promises – the hit Broadway musical based on the Billy Wilder film The Apartment. Chuck Baxter is junior executive at a New York insurance company, where his mid-town residence makes him po...

Licensed to Ill

Licensed to Ill

Open Date: 30 Nov 16 to 24 Dec 16

Licensed To Ill is a brash, big-hearted new show about hip-hop’s most notorious pranksters. Join Mike D, MCA and Ad-Rock as they go from teenage punks in 80s New York, via their discovery by legendary producer Rick Rubin, to international rapping legends and bona fide members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This loud, crazy hip-hop history tour ...

Allegro

Allegro

Open Date: 5 Aug 16 to 10 Sep 16

In 1905 in a small Midwestern town, the wife of a local doctor gives birth to a baby boy, Joseph Taylor Jr. Allegro chronicles nearly four decades in the life of this average Joe – through his childhood, from college dorm to marriage altar, and on to his own medical career; from the tranquility of his hometown to the hectic din of big city life and...

Judy!

Judy!

Open Date: 6 Jul 16 to 30 Jul 16

Judy! Following a critically acclaimed debut season at Southwark Playhouse under its original title, Through The Mill, Ray Rackham’s biographical musical about the life of iconic movie star and chanteuse, Judy Garland, arrives in London’s West End this Summer. Since her first tentative steps on the stage as a young girl, Judy Garland has become a...

The Toxic Avenger

The Toxic Avenger

Open Date: 22 Apr 16 to 21 May 16

THE TOXIC AVENGER The citizens of Tromaville are crying out for a hero - enter Melvin Ferd the Third, an aspiring earth scientist determined to clean up the toxic waste problem. But when a corrupt Mayor and her government goons try to stop this heroic feat, Melvin is tossed into a vat of toxic waste and transformed into The Toxic Avenger, New Jers...

Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens

Open Date: 2 Jan 16 to 6 Feb 16

Based on the iconic film, Grey Gardens tells the spectacular real life rise and fall of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s aunt and cousin, Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale. Starting in 1941 at an engagement party at Grey Gardens, the Bouvier’s mansion in East Hampton, Long Island, the musical tracks the progression of the two women’s lives from American ar...

The Life

The Life

Open Date: 29 Apr 17 to 29 Apr 17

THE LIFE Arriving in the UK for the first time, hit musical THE LIFE makes its long awaited London debut, directed by the show’s original Broadway director Michael Blakemore.  Described by the New York Times as “Broadway’s best kept secret”, THE LIFE features a rarely heard score by celebrated composer Cy Coleman (City of Angels, Sweet Charity, B...

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