The 'Like a Londoner' Edit

The 'Like a Londoner' Edit

Real Londoners know the city's best nights out aren't always found at the West End's typical haunts; they're at the Almeida on a Tuesday, at a sold-out fringe transfer that blew up before most people caught on, or at a cult hit Broadway transfer. Ditch the tourist map, you're one of the locals now.
Poster of 1536 In London

1536

Three women in a field on the outskirts of Essex. Gossip, power, and a queen about to lose her head. Ava Pickett's five-star debut is the kind of sharp, funny, quietly devastating theatre that Londoners have been talking about since it sold out at the Almeida. It's just about to arrive in the West End, get there before everyone else does.

Oh, Mary!

Mary Todd Lincoln has a dream, and it's not the White House. Cole Escola's gloriously unhinged 80-minute comedy is one of the most talked-about shows to cross the Atlantic in years: anarchic, outrageous, and unlike anything else in the West End right now. Bring a friend. Don't bring anyone easily offended.

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John Proctor Is the Villain

The Royal Court has launched more careers and started more conversations than almost any other theatre on earth, and this is exactly the kind of show it does best. Kimberly Belflower's electrifying play takes The Crucible apart and rebuilds it for the present. Provocative, witty, and bracingly relevant. This is what London theatre is really for.

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Teeth 'n' Smiles

Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem takes the stage in a 50th-anniversary revival of David Hare's raw, electric rock play about the collapse of the 1960s dream. It's the kind of casting that makes London theatre feel like the most exciting city in the world. Loud, messy, and completely alive.

Poster of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest In London

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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The Old Vic doesn't do things by halves. Clint Dyer's bold new production of Ken Kesey's iconic story brings a predominantly Black cast to a story about power, rebellion, and the cost of dissent, and it feels more urgent than ever. Aaron Pierre and Giles Terera lead. Michelle Gomez plays Nurse Ratched. Get in.