Your independent guide to the best shows in Newcastle Upon Tyne
One of the most impressive musicals I have ever seen
Biographical musicals are all the rage both on Broadway and in the West End. One of the best is this phenomenal extravaganza based on the life of iconic songstress Tina Turner. With Mamma Mia and The Iron...
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Fabulous, fresh and enormously fun homegrown musical
When this exuberant new musical from The Feeling's Dan Gillespie Sells and writer Tom MacRae premiered at the Sheffield Crucible earlier in 2017, it became an instant success with both audiences and critics....
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An astonishing, gripping evening
Ending his tenure as the Almedia's Associate Director, Robert Icke has once again created gold through his own brand of theatrical alchemy in this blazing play starring Juliet Stevenson, transferring into...
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A superb, unmissable musical
After much speculation and rumour, DEAR EVAN HANSEN, Broadway's latest smash hit musical, is now playing in London's West End. Telling the story of troubled teen Evan, the six-time Tony-winning musical...
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Fantastic new musical
If you've been waiting for a musical that features the hits of Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys and The Weeknd, then your day is finally here! & Juliet, a brand new musical which features songs by extraordinaire...
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it takes all of ten seconds to be in its generous embrace...It calls for quicksilver, charismatic acting and singing. It gets it from this versatile cast. It's an evening that, frankly, gets everything right.
Also playing on Broadway and in Toronto, this touching musical celebrating the strength of human compassion is now inspiring audiences in the West End. Created by Canadian husband and wife team Irene Snakoff...
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The iconic musical phenomenon is back!
Over 70 million people have enjoyed this spectacular adaptation of Victor Hugo's masterpiece since it premiered on the West End in 1985. Now let Les Miserables sweep you too through its epic tale of passion...
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Sheer enjoyablility... a 5-STAR experience!
Soon-to-be-married Sophie is desperate to find her father to walk her down the aisle; unfortunately, her mother Donna has no idea who it is! After discovering three possible candidates in her mother's...
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Easily the standout musical of the decade!
Matilda, Roald Dahl's much-loved classic of an extraordinary child with magical powers, is given the musical treatment by the combined talents of Tim Minchin and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Winner of...
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The most cryingly good night out to have come along for years!
'The greatest time of a Mormon kid's life is his mission,' sings Elder Kevin Price, but things are not as the handsome and pious Elder Price predicted when he's sent to...UGANDA! From Trey Parker and Matt...
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This is quite the most uplifting piece of new British musical theatre I have ever had the privilege to watch
The Queens are back for 2019 with five Olivier award nominations! Henry the VIII's hunt for an heir and his love of beheadings has made him one of the most famous monarchs in Britain's history, with the...
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Immaculately staged... roused even a staid matinee audience to hysterics
Now eyeing nearly half a decade in the West End, Mischief Theater's bonkers theatrical farce is one of the capital's most consistent audience favourites. The original production from the company, discover...
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This show is the real deal
Broadway's sweetest treat has arrived, bringing its delicious confection of peppy songs, romance, and dramedy to the Adelphi Theatre! Adapted by Jessie Nelson from the beloved 2007 indie film by Adrienne...
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After more than 32 years in the West End, The Phantom of the Opera continues to sound marvellous.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's romantic musical is based on Gaston Leroux's gothic novel of life beneath the stage of the Paris Opera House. A mysterious masked Phantom becomes obsessed with Christine Daae, the...
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Wicked will entrance every generation in wonder, wit and suspense
The subversive and downright twisty hit musical follows two unlikely friends and how they become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch of the South. Based on Gregory Maguire's best-selling...
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A wonderful, wonderful musical. It will touch a deep chord in anybody
This vastly successful re-imagining of Disney's 1994 continues to conquer after nearly two decades at the Lyceum theatre. Conjuring up the African savannah in all its grand, majestic beauty, using elaborate...
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The most enjoyable few hours money can buy
After schooling Broadway with his newest hit Andrew Lloyd Webber returns to the West End with School of Rock. Adapted from the Jack Black movie of the same name, School of Rock is set to feature his bumbling...
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It's not what could go wrong; more a question of what could go right!
Not content with dominating the West End with their mega-hit madcap romp The Play That Goes Wrong, Mischief Theatre bring us a criminally fun show, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, dispelling any myths...
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The longest running show in the West End
In 1952, Agatha Christie's sprawling and intricate new whodunnit, The Mousetrap (based on her radio play, Three Blind Mice), opened in the West End on a very strict condition; no one was to ever give away...
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One of the most brilliantly effective spine-chillers you will ever encounter
Celebrating 30 years of frightening audiences in the West End, the spine-chilling adaptation of Susan Hill's gothic novella The Woman in Black, is set as a play within a play. Elderly Arthur Kipps retells...
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Start backcoming your 'do, Hairspray is on the way!
Good morning Baltimore! It's time to tease your barnets as the beloved hit Hairspray returns to the West End in 2020! Starring good old Michael Ball as Edna Turnblad (reprising his Olivier Award-winning...
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The iconic Rom-Com gets a 21st Century musical adaptation!
Pretty Woman is walking down the street to London's West End in 2020! With music by 90s icon Bryan Adam's and a book by Garry Marshall and J.F Lawton the brand new musical adaptation has wowed audiences...
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This is theatrical storytelling so assured and involving it's hard to imagine anyone not being mesmerized.
Storming onto Broadway in late 2018 Aaron Sorkin's acclaimed adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird heads to London in May! Adapted from the classic Harper Lee novel the production wowed Broadway's critics,...
ingenious, stupendous revival
Five years since its revolutionary and Olivier award-winning run at the Donmar Warehouse Josie Rourke's scintillating revival of City of Angels will head to the West End in March. Originally written by...
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triumphant tiger burns bright in a stunning show
Yann Martel's stunning Man Booker Prize-winning bestseller becomes a theatrical marvel in this highly acclaimed new adaptation of Lolita Chakrabarti that transfers into the West End from Sheffield's Crucible...
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It's time to raise your voice as Sister Act returns to London!
The gloriously joyous Sister Act returns to take us to heaven once again as it comes back to London in 2020. Hollywood legend Whoopi Goldberg will reprise her Golden Globe-nominated turn as sassy songstress...
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Marvelous... Mr. Gyllenhaal translates the intensity that has characterized his most memorable screen appearances into a searing theatrical presence, in which his eyes are his center of gravity.
Hold onto your hats, Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford are heading to the Savoy Theatre with the acclaimed Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine classic, Sunday In The Park With George! The duo reprise...
If you've never seen live stand-up, make a resolution to start here
Join a rotating cast of comedians for their take on the weirdest, wackiest and just plain mad news stories of the week. Featuring a hilarious mixture of satire, jokes, puns, songs and even competitions,...
When you believe...
DreamWorks' 1998 smash hit movie The Prince of Egypt is finally heading to London in 2020! Based on the biblical story of Moses, The Prince of Egypt features songs by musical extraordinaire Stephen Schwartz...
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But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's 2020 season continues with Kimberly Sykes' take on the Bard's timeless love story Romeo and Juliet. Nominated for the UK Theatre 2018 Best Director Award for her critically...
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Penn & Teller and Mischief Theatre combine magical forces for brand new West End comedy.
From the minds behind The Play That Goes Wrong and The Comedy About A Bank Robbery comes a brand new, and disaster-prone, magic show! Co-created between the worlds most iconic magical duo Penn & Teller...
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An open night mic, with a difference!
A comedy night so brutally famous that even safely established comedians quake in their boots at a mere mention of it, The Comedy Store's King Gong is quite something to behold. Each week, 30 new acts...
winning and enthusiastic performances. The audience applause between scenes is politely anticipatory of what might be next. By the end, it is rapturous.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one's creative output captivates across the centuries, an improv show will capitalise on it. After becoming one of the biggest draws of the Edinburgh Fringe...
It fizzes with life, rattles along at a cracking pace and provides an entertaining an evening as I've seen this year.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an off-West End production with rave reviews must be in want of a West End run... and thus The Watsons wish is granted! After thrilling audiences and critics...
Rory Kinnear returns to the National in 2018
Anne-Marie Duff and Rory Kinnear lead Shakespeare's murderous tragedy when it returns to the National in 2018, directed by Rufus Norris. Marking Kinnear's return to the NT since his star turn in 2016's...
Based on the BAFTA winning 1983 film
An American oil executive gets far more than he bargained for in this brand new musical adaptation of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film, heading to the Old Vic for summer 2020. On arrival in a small fishing village...
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High flying canine fun for the whole family!
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre kicks off its 2020 season with the rollicking animal adventure 101 Dalmatians. Based on the classic children's story by English novelist Dodie Smith, this brand new musical...
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Williams' 90-minute play packs a knockout punch.
Pulling no punches, Award-winning English playwright Roy Williams received much critical acclaim and won an Olivier Award and an Evening Standard for its thrilling 2010 run at the Royal Court Theatre....
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"The Greatest Show on Earth", one paper declared the other day. C'mon! But seriously folks, there's going to be more where that came from, because - lock up your doubters: I have to report that it really is as good as we've been told
It's the musical that has bowled over Broadway, an all out smash-hit epic that traverses the life of one Alexander Hamilton, one of America's Founding Fathers, who took on the might of the British and...
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With so much to see and do, a visit to ZSL London Zoo is the perfect day out for people of all ages.
Whether you love animals cuddly, scary, creepy, slinky, big or small, old or very young, you are bound to be thrilled by at least one of the 750 species of animal at ZSL London Zoo. Nestled within Regent's...
A ghoulishly great time!
What's scarier than stepping into the London Dungeon? Knowing that all the horrors within are all based on real historical events! London's grisly past is brought to creeptastically realistic life by London...
Hollywood star Jessica Chastain makes West End debut in A Doll's House
Hollywood powerhouse Jessica Chastain makes her West End debut in a new version of the Henrik Ibsen classic, A Doll's House courtesy of the Jamie Lloyd Company residency at the Playhouse Theatre. Directed...
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The iconic Eighties movie is reincarnated as a new musical!
London's West End gets a taste of both Seattle and the Big Apple when this new musical adaptation of Nora Ephron's iconic Eighties romance movie arrives next year. Following years of speculation, Sleepless...
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Our version of Sherlock Holmes will have all the elements that fans want and expect, but with new twists and turns and plenty of surprises.....
Watson! The Game is afoot! The world's most famous sleuth is about to get a brand-new stage play adaptation on Broadway in 2017, then headed back over to the West End, at a venue yet to be confirmed....
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There is much at Ripley's to enjoy and I suspect that children, especially, will love it.
For fans of the weird, wonderful and downright bonkers, venture into Ripley's London where over 700 exhibits wait to be discovered. Here you can experience the dark and irregular sides of art, foreign...
So this is Dickens, with magic. It's a raunchless Game of Thrones with heart. Crucially, it's authentic Potter but, most importantly, it's new. It's not the movie of the book. It's the real deal, live in front of you, so much better than any film could b
Brace yourselves London, JK Rowling has blessed us with another foray into the Potterverse, announcing that new play 'Harry Potter And The Cursed Child' will apparate into The Palace Theatre sometime next...
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Henry VIII's epic palace!
This huge red-brick palace sprawls in lush green grounds of Surrey and was Henry VIII's favourite dwelling in all of England! The grand rooms are fit for a king, decorated with paintings, velvet drapes...
Experience the glittering world of fame for a day, and more!
Get up close and personal with your favourite faces from the worlds of film, music, sport, history and more at the world-famous Madame Tussauds, one of London's premiere tourist attractions! Founded by...
Step back in time!
Step back in history to experience life in the Middle Ages, at the most famous of Britain's fortresses and places of execution, as well as the home of the Crown Jewels. You can choose to take a guided...
What was once a stuffy and frustrating member of the Historic Royal Palaces to visit is now accessible, lively, intriguing and very, very modern.
Kensington Palace is synonymous with the generations of stylish royal women who have called it their home: where Queen Victoria was born and raised; Queens Mary, Anne and Caroline held court; and the royal...
The mangled, magnificent history and scale of the city is on full display.
No matter where you are in London, there is one sight that you will always see, towering above the rest of the skyline majestically. We are of course talking about the Shard building at London Bridge,...
The capital at its very best
Get schooled in Shakespeare with The Globe Exhibition, London's ultimate guide to The Bard. Packed full of video, artifacts and practical reconstructions, it takes you back in time to the raucous streets...
The live commentary is superb and everyone who takes this river cruise will learn something new about one of theattractions they pass.
All aboard for this history and view-packed circular cruise which launches from just underneath the London Eye! In 40 minutes, you will be sweeping along the Thames taking in the sights and sounds of London...
The most famous Ferris wheel in the world
Since opening in March 2000 The London Eye (formerly The Millennium Wheel) has become an iconic landmark and a symbol of modern Britain. The London Eye is the UK's most popular paid-for visitor attraction,...
The SEALIFE London Aquarium underwent a 5 million pound refurbishment and transformed into Sea Life London Aquarium in 2009, and still continues to improve
Situated next to the London Eye at County Hall, this mega aquarium is the jewel in the crown of the 28 Sea Life Centres throughout the UK and Europe. You will be taken on a truly fascinating journey from...
Explore the world's most famous garden!
Founded in 1840 by Lord Capel John of Tewkesbury, Kew Gardens remains one of the capital's most popular and unique attractions. A vast expanse that covers some 300 acres, Kew comprises numerous greenhouses,...
An official royal residence for over 900 years
The oldest inhabited castle in the world, Windsor Castle is an official royal residence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Home to the British Royal family since the reign of Henry I, the castle, which...
The best way to see London
London is one of the most tourist-friendly cities in the world, with every square mile of the capital absolutely packed with iconic buildings, new and old. And there's no better way to see it all than...
