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Audio-Described PerformanceAimed at people with visual impairment. Trained describers prepare and perform a script commenting on the set, costumes, body language, facial expressions and physical movement. This information is received through a discreet headset during the pauses in the performance.
Showing at Victoria Palace Theatre
opening night: 11 May 2005
booking until: 15 Dec 2012
Billy comes from a northern town where boys grow up to box and become miners. The last thing on their mind is winning a place at the Royal Ballet School...
Showing at National Theatre Cottesloe
opening night: 01 Nov 2011
closing: 31 Mar 2012
National Theatre regulars Alex Jennings and Simon Russell Beale combine in this tale of a writer with a distinctly tricky commission.
Showing at Barbican: The Pit Theatre
opening night: 07 Feb 2012
closing: 25 Feb 2012
Witness a tragic comedy of manslaughter and love in Improbable's The Devil And Mister Punch.
Showing at Piccadilly Theatre
opening night: 19 Jul 2011
booking until: 13 Oct 2012
Based on the hit film, Ghost The Musical tells a timeless story about the power of love.
Showing at Almeida Theatre
opening night: 26 Jan 2012
closing: 10 Mar 2012
Lorca's work is relocated to Iran in this new production at the Almeida theatre.
Showing at Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs
opening night: 22 Feb 2012
closing: 24 Mar 2012
An epic family drama exploring inheritance and the myth of place.
Showing at Lyceum Theatre
opening night: 19 Oct 1999
booking until: 01 Sep 2012
Julie Taymor directs the stage adaptation of Disney's hugely successful animated film The Lion King.
Showing at Cambridge Theatre
opening night: 24 Nov 2011
booking until: 21 Oct 2012
Matilda, Roald Dahl’s much-loved tale of an extraordinary child with hideous parents is given the musical treatment by the combined talents of Tim Minchin and the RSC.
Showing at Lyric Hammersmith
opening night: 13 Feb 2012
closing: 17 Mar 2012
Innovative theatre company Filter remixes Shakespeare's magical tale.
Showing at Old Vic
opening night: 13 Dec 2011
closing: 25 Feb 2012
Michael Frayn’s Olivier Award-winning comedy about the goings-on behind the scenes or a touring sex comedy returns to the London stage.
Showing at Adelphi Theatre
opening night: 21 Nov 2011
closing: 25 Feb 2012
James Corden stars in One Man, Two Guvnors, Richard Bean’s English version of Goldoni’s classic Italian comedy of sex, food and money.
Showing at Bush Theatre
opening night: 17 Jan 2012
closing: 18 Feb 2012
A wicked new thriller looking behind the shiny doors of a perfect London home.
Showing at Donmar Warehouse
opening night: 14 Feb 2012
closing: 14 Apr 2012
An unashamed celebration of love, lust and victory in battle and in the bedroom.
Showing at Shaftesbury Theatre
opening night: 27 Sep 2011
booking until: 20 Oct 2012
A simple love story set to a soundtrack of classic 80s rock tunes.
Showing at Drury Lane, Theatre Royal
opening night: 14 Jun 2011
booking until: 16 Dec 2012
The hit Dreamworks film, about a swamp-dwelling ogre who is forced to become a hero, brings its wicked fairytale humour to the London stage.
Showing at Bush Theatre
opening night: 29 Feb 2012
closing: 24 Mar 2012
Secrets are revealed when four men meet on the sixth anniversary of their friend's death.
Showing at Trafalgar Studios 1
opening night: 02 Nov 2011
closing: 03 Mar 2012
Warren Clarke stars as Winston Churchill in this new drama about three of the most pivotal days in British history.
Showing at Hampstead Theatre
opening night: 24 Jan 2012
closing: 18 Feb 2012
Simon Stephens’s new satirical play sees an amoral megalomaniac brought before an international tribunal.
Showing at New London Theatre
opening night: 03 Apr 2009
booking until: 16 Feb 2013
The National Theatre’s Laurence Olivier Award-winning World War I-set family drama.
Showing at Apollo Victoria Theatre
opening night: 27 Sep 2006
booking until: 27 Apr 2013
The magical hit musical about two unlikely friends and how they become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.