The Nutcracker Tickets
About The Nutcracker
BEST FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT - 2025 Olivier Awards Nominee
Originally co-produced with Polka Theatre, this Christmas, Olivier Award-winning theatre company Little Bulb (Wolf Witch Giant Fairy, CBeebie’s Christmas Panto) invites you to experience an audacious reimagining of The Nutcracker as a fun-filled, magical, musical quest… with not a tutu in sight!
When two squabbling siblings receive a mysterious nutcracker from their flamboyant Aunt on Christmas Eve, it sets them off on a fantastical journey into ‘The Mousey Realm’. Can they put their differences aside and stop the evil, many-headed Mouse King before he ruins Christmas? Only time will tell…
This bold and brilliantly silly tale is brought to ingenious theatrical life with clever cardboard creations, comic characters and a chorus of cheeky musical mice. It’s crammed full of action, laugh-out-loud comedy, and a sleigh-load of feelgood festive bangers that’ll have you dancing in your seat - with just the right amount of cheese.
**** (4 stars) “JOYOUS! This ebullient retelling of this rodent classic packs an emotional charge” The Stage
Run time
1hr 5min. No interval.
Venue
Categories
Age
Ages 5+ (recommended). Babes in arms under 12 months permitted. Children over 12 months must have a ticket.
Start date
10th December, 2025
End date
4th January, 2026
Venue
Directions
Location: West End
Railway station: Charing Cross
Bus numbers: (Shaftesbury Avenue) 14, 19, 38; (Charing Cross Road) 14, 19, 38, 24, 29, 176
Night bus numbers: (Shaftesbury Avenue) 14, N5, N19, N20, N38, N41; (Charing Cross Road) 14, 24, 176, N5, N19, N29, N38, N41, N279
Car park: St Martin's Lane Hotel (4mins)
Directions from tube: (5mins) Take Cranbourn Street away from Leicester Square until St Martin’s Lane, where you head left up to West Street. The theatre’s at the right of the fork.
Show schedule
| Day of week | Morning | Matinee |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 11:00 AM | 1:30 PM |
| Tuesday | - | - |
| Wednesday | 11:00 AM | 1:30 PM |
| Thursday | - | - |
| Friday | 11:00 AM | 1:30 PM |
| Saturday | 11:00 AM | - |
| Sunday | 11:00 AM | 2:00 PM, 4:30 PM |
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