England’s capital city beckons travellers with its vast array of awe-inspiring attractions. London’s countless architectural wonders, cultural institutions, and rich history make the city a popular destination. 

Whether you are building an itinerary for a one-day trip to London Town or are fortunate enough to embark on a longer excursion, there’s plenty to do. We have curated a list of London’s top attractions to make for lasting travel memories. Stroll through the city’s many pristine parks,...

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Read our guide to London's top attractions to get tickets to, from Buckingham Palace to the London Tower, Wembley Stadium to Kew Gardens, and more.

Pop the champagne because *The Great Gatsby* is coming to the West End! The new Tony Award-winning musical, which opened on Broadway in April 2024, will arrive at the London Coliseum on 11 April 2025, running until 7 September.

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, *The Great Gatsby* follows mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, who hosts decadent parties but pines for his former flame Daisy Buchanan. The novel was adapted for the screen in 2013 by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo...

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The new musical opened at The Broadway Theatre in April 2024, following a world premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey in late 2023. 

Help is on the way, dears! Everyone’s favourite Scottish nanny – first inhabited in the 1993 comedy film by Robin Williams, playing a divorced dad who disguises himself as Mrs Doubtfire so he can see his children – is now a West End star.

The inventive, heartfelt and raucously funny stage musical adaptation has become a new audience favourite, packed with gags, big musical numbers, and a touching reflection on how family can come in different forms, as long as there is love.

As you prepare for...

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Make your family visit to West End musical comedy *Mrs Doubtfire* a sure-fire hit by adding even more fun activities to your London trip.

Further casting has been announced for the Brie Larson-led production of Sophocles’s [*Elektra*,](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/42608-elektra) which begins performances at the Duke of York’s Theatre in the West End on 24 January, 2025.

Larson, who is making her West End debut, will be joined by Stockard Channing (*The West Wing, The Good Wife*), Marième Diouf (*Romeo and Juliet*), Greg Hicks (*Grapes of Wrath, Coriolanus*), and Patrick Vaill ([*Stranger Things: The First...

Further casting revealed for Brie Larson-led 'Elektra' in the West End

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Stockard Channing, Marième Diouf, Greg Hicks, and Patrick Vaill will join Brie Larson in Anne Carson's translation of Sophocles's great tragedy.

The full cast has been announced for William Shakespeare's *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, which opens at the Barbican in London on 3 December, running until 18 January, 2025.

Joining Mathew Baynton (*Ghosts, Wonka*) as Bottom, is Andrew Richardson (*Guys and Dolls*) as Oberon/Theseus and Katherine Pearce (*Waterloo Road*), who returns to the RSC as Puck.

New company members also include Alexander Bellinfantie (Moth), Eliza Smith (Mustardseed), and Natalie Thomas (Peaseblossom).

They join...

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Joining Mathew Baynton as Bottom, is Andrew Richardson as Oberon/Theseus and Katherine Pearce as Puck. Eleanor Rhode directs Shakespeare's play about love, magic, appearance, and jealousy.

Lead casting has been announced for new musical *Hercules*, which opens in the West End next summer. Performances will begin at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 6 June, 2025.

Luke Brady will play the title role in the musical next year. His stage credits include *As You Like It* (RSC), *SuperYou* (Lyric Theatre), *Assassins* (Chichester Theatre), *The Prince of Egypt* (Dominion Theatre), *Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice,* and *The Taming of the Shrew* (Shakespeare’s Globe), while on screen he...

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*Hercules* has music by Alan Menken and lyrics by David Zippel, and a new book by Robert Horn and Young Vic outgoing artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah.

There’s no better way to escape those dark winter nights than with a trip to the theatre. Happily, November is serving up plenty of exciting London shows to keep any winter blues at bay, with some major openings in the West End and beyond. 

Those who can't wait for *The Greatest Showman* musical to arrive in London can whet their appetities with [*Come Alive!*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/37379-come-alive), a spectacular circus show based on the music of the hit 2017 film, with an...

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Find out the best shows to see in London in November 2024, from *Barcelona* with Lily Collins and Álvaro Morte, to *Dr. Strangelove* with Steve Coogan.

Additional shows have been announced in the Bush Theatre's line-up for 2025, including a new play starring Olivier Award nominee and *It's a Sin* actor Omari Douglas.

He has been cast in Coral Wylie's new play *Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew*, which follows 19-year-old Pip as they dig into their family's past, unearthing old secrets. Directed by Debbie Hannan (Overflow), the cast also includes Wil Johnson, Pooky Quesnel, and writer Wylie. The show will run from 8 February to 22 March.

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Work by Coral Wylie, babirye bukilwa, and Mohamed-Zain Dada will continue the Bush Theatre's programming in 2025, with Olivier Award nominee Omari Douglas returning to the stage.

New play *The Last Laugh* will run at the Noël Coward Theatre in the West End from 25 February to 22 March next year, ahead of a season in New York and a UK tour. 

Written and directed by Paul Hendy, the show re-imagines the lives of three of Britain's greatest comedy heroes: Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe, and Bob Monkhouse. *The Last Laugh* played at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. 

Bob Golding, Damian Williams, and Simon Cartwright will all reprise their roles as Eric Morecambe,...

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Written and directed by Paul Hendy, the show re-imagines the lives of three of Britain's greatest comedy heroes: Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe, and Bob Monkhouse.

Something wicked this way comes… and London is packed with spook-tacular shows and activities that are perfect for Halloween 2024. The annual fright night falls on 31 October, which is a Thursday this year, and if you just love everything about this spine-tingling holiday, then you’ll want to start thinking about your plans now.

One ghoulishly great way to celebrate Halloween is with a play or musical – perhaps one that centres on witches, like...

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Trick or treat! Discover a wide variety of fun activities and events to book for Halloween in London, ranging from spine-chilling shows to eerie attractions.

Don your superhero cape along with the full [*Eugenius!*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/27824-eugenius) cast. *Eugenius!* begins previews at the [Turbine Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/turbine-theatre) on 17 March, ahead of an opening night on 21 March, and performances to 28 May.

The *Eugenius!* musical follows Eugene, a teenage boy who creates his own superhero universe. When a talent scout takes Eugene’s ideas to Hollywood, the teen must mix reality with fantasy in order to achieve his dreams.

Elliott Evans will play Eugene, with Jaina Brock-Patel and James Hameed as Eugene’s friends, Janey and Feris, Joseph Beach as Evil Lord Hector, Lara Denning as Lex, Maddison Firth as Carrie/Super-Hot Lady, Rhys Taylor as Theo/Space Diva, Dominic Andersen as Gerhard/Tough Man/Dad, and swings Naomi Alade, Louis Doran, and Sebastian Harwood.

Hannah Chissick directs Ben Adams’s and Chris Wilkins’s 1980s rock musical. Set and lighting design is by Andrew Exeter, with sound design by Alistair Penman, video design by Andy Walton, and choreography by Aaron Renfree.

*Eugenius!* is at the Turbine Theatre.

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Dreams come true for the lead protagonist, Eugene, in the *Eugenius!* musical. As his comic book creation becomes a Hollywood film, join the teenage boy as he finds the superhero inside himself. *Eugenius!* is more than a musical — it’s a celebration of what happens when you let your imagination run wild and champion your true, authentic self.

Ben Adams — of A1 and Eurovision act Subwoofer fame — collaborates with Chris Wilkins on the original musical. To date, the song "Go Eugenius!" boasts over 250,000 Spotify streams. 

After two years in development, *Eugenius!* premiered as a concert at the London Palladium in 2016. The musical then ran at The Other Palace in 2018, starring Rob Houchen, Laura Baldwin, and Scott Paige. [Reviews praised the show](https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/eugenius-review-at-the-other-palace-london--a-fantastic-score)'s "[superhero film] mockery, super silliness and tight spandex." A new, reworked version of *Eugenius!* in London opens at the Turbine Theatre in spring 2023. 

### What happens in the *Eugenius!* musical?

Follow Eugene. He’s a teenage boy who loves superheroes, so much so that he’s created his own universe. When a talent scout arrives at his school and discovers Eugene’s talents, the young boy is whisked off to Hollywood. Can Eugene mix reality with fantasy to become the hero of his dreams? This is a love letter to all things 1980s: movies, music, and comics. 

Tickets to *Eugenius!* are available now. Book your *Eugenius!* tickets on London Theatre today.

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*Eugenius!* is a thrilling, high-energy 80s-inspired British musical with a superhero-sized heart and an uplifting score. At this show, geeks rule, dreams do come true, and everyone finds the superhero inside themselves. The musical returns to London's Turbine Theatre. Find out more about *Eugenius!* tickets on London Theatre.

*Eugenius!* is more than a musical — it’s a testament to the power of imagination and inquisitive thinking. It's set to an infectiously catchy 1980s-themed soundtrack, capturing the nostalgic essence of an era gone by. Listen out for all the 1980s references too: *Back to the Future,* *Batman,* and *Star Wars*, as well as rubber masks and neon costumes all feature.

Just like Eugene's story making it in Hollywood, the *Eugenius!* musical also continues to rise. The show started in concert form at the London Palladium, followed by performances at The Other Palace, and now a limited run at the Turbine Theatre. 

## What to Watch For: 

- The *Eugenius!* cast recording has been streamed over 500,000 times, with popular songs including “The Future is Bright,” “Go You Genius,” and “Don't Shoot for the Stars.” 
- One of the musical’s creators, Ben Adams, isn’t just involved with theatre. He’s one-quarter of the 1990s boyband, A1, and also competed as Subwoofer at the Eurovision Song Contest for Norway.
- Many West End actors and famous faces have taken part in *Eugenius!* iterations, including Warwick Davis, Marcus Brigstocke, Brian Blessed, and Sharon D. Clarke.

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It would be disingenuous of me to make undue claims on behalf of [*Eugenius!*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/27824-eugenius), the long-aborning geek-empowerment musical first seen in concert in 2016 and then for two separate runs at The Other Palace in 2018. 

The collaboration between Ben Adams and Chris Wilkins strikes once again in a new [Turbine Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/turbine-theatre) production directed by Hannah Chissick that suggests a fair degree of remedial attention still needed, even after all these years.

It’s not just the details that niggle — a CEO joke that doesn’t work at all given that the rewrite on offer here (“capable of everything”) has the acronym COE. Or a “surely” one-liner that was tired well before this musical’s creatives were born. 

The far larger problem is a muddied and muddled thesis about finding your own inner Tough Man, which is the journey allotted to the musical’s desperately earnest high schooler, Eugene (Elliott Evans, in winning form). Does that mean we should all tap into whatever nascent Donald Trump is somewhere within us — Trump being just one of an endless sequence of notables name-checked along the way? (Let’s hope not.)

A passing allusion to “Trump fraud” allows for more reality than this material can bear. Among the better shout-outs is a truly clever one in the direction of Patti LuPone amidst a show that finds room within its comic book cavalcade to make an additional nod toward a revival of *Gypsy* itself. Conversely, a *Hello, Dolly!* quip is easily binned.

Our hero is Evans’s sweet-faced, clarion-voiced Ohioan, Eugene, whose mum has died and whose kindly father is struggling to speak his son’s pop culture vernacular. Dad makes mention of Naked Weapon, not Naked Gun, and clearly wants the best for this superhero-besotted teen. The two share an extended second-act scene whose unearned sentimentality is off the charts, though dad might do well 
to survey the clever assemblage of comics that line the entrance to the auditorium. 

It’s 1988, and Eugene is one of a trio of besties that includes the adoring Janey (Jaina Brock-Patel) and a horndog, Feris, who views the entire world through the lens of film. It’s not the hard-working James Hameed’s fault that this bespectacled wise-ass is entirely obnoxious, whether quoting Robert De Niro in *Taxi Driver* or not. (And, yes, he is the one given the inevitable fart joke.) 

You recoil from numbers like “The No Pants Dance” in which Feris puts the moves on Carrie (Maddison Firth), an actress who doesn’t know the meaning of the word pizzazz but has Chuck Norris for an acting coach. 

Janey, for her part, is amplified as if to do direct battle with the nearby trains whose rattle can be heard during the show. It’s not surprising that she and Eugene get a climactic duet reminiscent of “Up Where We Belong” from *An Officer and a Gentleman* — one of the few period-appropriate movies not named during a show whose reach extends to the heady likes of *Rocky IV*.

Eugene, to his delight and surprise, lands himself a Hollywood gig presided over by a distaff Lex Hogan (Lara Denning) — her character’s first name itself a supervillain tip-off. Denning shouts all her lines in accordance with the exaggerated acting throughout and is quick to revile a classical English actor in her midst: cue snark at the expense of Alec Guinness in *Star Wars*. 

*Eugenius!* is so busy casting a pan-cultural net that it doesn’t begin to achieve an identity of its own, beyond making a fetish of mock-inanity that itself tilts toward the inane. Musicals thrive on self-realisation – from *Wicked* through to *The Great British Bake Off Musical* and countless others, as well, and there’s a touching story here to be told about allowing fantasy to fuel someone’s actual life.

Instead, *Eugenius!* settles for low-level pastiche, enlivened in this instance by Andrew Exeter's witty design that resembles a parade of Roy Lichtenstein canvases come to life, and Nick Pinchbeck’s musical direction, which makes the band sound far bigger than a two-person enterprise.

The cast exist at the behest of the prevailing OTT approach, not least a glowering Joseph Beach as Evil Lord Hector, who quotes from *Les Misérables* and is the show’s nearest equivalent to a panto villain. Better off is Rhys Taylor, who brings deft timing to the camp Theo Schlong — to give the full name of Lex’s florid and hyper-attentive sidekick. 

An ace Dom Andersen does terrific triple duty as the beneficent dad, bad-ass Tough Man and a hapless German called Gerhard who can’t make his V’s into a W. In context, that’s the least of this show’s problems.

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*Photo credit: The Cast of Eugenius - Eugenius The Musical (Photo by Pamela Raith)*

'Eugenius!' review — no superhero could save this muddled musical

Read our two-star review of the superhero musical *Eugenius!*, currently running at the Turbine Theatre through 28 May. Get *Eugenius!* tickets on London Theatre.

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The Turbine Theatre is a unique addition to the colourful theatre scene in London. Situated within the hallowed confines of Battersea Power Station on the banks of the River Thames, this alluring venue provides an enriching experience for theatre-goers with its blend of traditional architecture and modern technologies. The intimate ambience created by the cleverly designed seating arrangement allows for an immersive theatrical experience. Not only does the venue strictly adhere to eco-friendly practices, but it also caters to accessibility needs that might have been overlooked in older theatre venues. Here, visitors enjoy high-quality sound and light systems. The Turbine theatre stages a diverse repertoire ranging from classics to new productions, and consistently encourages the development of fresh talent. Additionally, this theatre also works towards improving social cohesion by showcasing performances from various cultures.

**Getting to the venue**

The Turbine Theatre is easily accessible by numerous modes of transportation. For visitors preferring to take the tube, the closest stations are Sloane Square and Victoria; both are a leisurely walk away. Bus routes 156, 344 and 436 stop nearby. For those travelling by car, there's a paid underground parking at Circus West Village. Alternatively, people can also use river services to Plantation Wharf pier.

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The Turbine Theatre opened in 2019. The Turbine is home to festivals of brand new works, as well as world premieres of new productions and classic stories reimagined for contemporary audiences. The Turbine Theatre aims to be just the first stage for every idea, risk and labour of love that is brought to life in this electric new environment.

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The Turbine Theatre, located in Battersea Power Station, offers an engaging theatre experience. It's readily accessible by tube, bus, car and river services.

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