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...

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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.

The West End’s newest venue, @sohoplace, will open this October. Neil Baldwin and Malcolm Clarke’s *Marvellous* will run at [@sohoplace](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/soho-place) for six weeks from 15 October to 26 November. Book *Marvellous* tickets on London Theatre.

*Marvellous* details Neil Baldwin’s eccentric life, from being a famous clown, receiving an honorary degree from Kelle University, and making the New Years Honour list.

Speaking about *Marvellous* opening @sohoplace, Nica Burns said: “[*Marvellous*] is a wonderful production of a heartwarming and uplifting tale about an extraordinary man who decided he would lead an exceptional life. And against all the odds, he has and does."

Theresa Heskins directs Suzanne Ahmet, Charlie Bence, Gareth Cassidy, Alex Frost, Mike Hugo, Jerone Marsh-Reid and Daniel Murphy in *Marvellous*. The show features design by Lis Evans, lighting design by Daniella Beattie, and sound design by Paul Groothius, 

Future productions at @sohoplace include shows directed by Josie Rourke and Dominic Cooke.

Soho Place is owned and operated by Nimax Theatres. It's located adjacent to the Astoria Theatre and close to Tottenham Court Road station. 

The interior will include a curved auditorium, known as “the hug”, and can change configuration for every production. No seat will be further than six rows from the stage.

*Marvellous* is at @sohoplace.

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The opening production @sohoplace will be the New Vic Theatre’s much acclaimed production *Marvellous*, directed by Theresa Heskins. The New Vic Theatre is the oldest purpose built, in-the-round theatre in the UK and @sohoplace is the first new West End theatre in 50 years, with a flexible, 602-seat auditorium, purpose built and opening in-the-round.

Growing up in the 1950’s in less enlightened times, Neil Baldwin was not expected to be a success. But Neil decided he was destined to do wonderful things and that his life was going to be marvellous. And it is.

He hitchhiked across the country, became a famous clown, got an honorary degree from Keele University, was appointed Stoke City’s legendary kit man, appeared on the Queen’s New Year Honours list and accepted a BAFTA award for the film made about his life. A friend to anyone he meets, he became a local hero and an inspiration to the world. A reminder to us all not to let anything stand in the way of your dreams, just go out and make them happen.

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Let’s start with the good news, which in this case is the venue: the awkwardly named but entirely welcoming @sohoplace, which graces a formerly tatty stretch of central London near where those of a certain vintage will recall the Astoria Theatre of long ago. (That one closed in 2009.) This 602-seat theatre in the round joins the nearby Elizabeth Line station as part of an urban regeneration that gives an entirely welcome lift to a heavily trafficked thoroughfare.

Purpose-built with the audience on all sides, the auditorium is immediately inviting and, unusually these days, allows actors’ voices to carry without the need of the amplification. This intimacy bodes well for the two classics lined up for later this season: *As You Like It*, with Alfred Enoch, Leah Harvey, and Martha Plimpton; and *Medea*, boasting the powerhouse combo of Ben Daniels and Sophie Okonedo.

So I hope it’s not overly churlish of me to be underwhelmed by the season opener, *Marvellous*, which arrives trailing kudos from its premiere engagement at the New Vic Theatre in the Staffordshire market town of Newcastle-under-Lyme. (That's not to be confused with the larger industrial locale of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, an altogether more urban destination.)

*Marvellous* opened there in March, and one can see the logic of inaugurating a new address with its London debut. It’s important that theatre in the capital be outward-looking, and *Marvellous* manages to be inclusive on that level and many others, all of them salutary reminders of the theatre’s potentially wide reach. 

The problem is a show so busy ingratiating itself that you reel under the weight of its insistent good cheer. The subject is Neil Baldwin, aka Nello, a Staffordshire legend whose story has been told in an autobiography and in a BAFTA-winning 2014 TV film in which Toby Jones played Baldwin. Telling of a triumph over adversity that comes honestly by both laughter and tears, the TV *Marvellous* avoids the twin traps of cutesiness and sentimentality to which stage director and co-author Theresa Heskins’s stage adaptation succumbs.

Very little in the bustling production — that more than once breaks the fourth wall — was as moving at the performance attended as the genuinely heartwarming sight of the real Baldwin, now 76, watching his life unfold from a ringside seat. There he was again by the exit as playgoers filed out, so one could voice a delight in his achievements face-to-face.

If only the play let us discover Baldwin’s gifts for ourselves, rather than announcing them at every turn. As it is, we get an energetic, pantomime-style approach to biography that went off without a hitch at the press performance attended. That’s worth saying given the sudden illness of cast member Daniel Murphy: Two understudies, Perry Moore and Joe Sproulle, ably stepped into a company that folds neurodivergent performers into its embrace with ease.

Baldwin is the magpie figure who transcended learning difficulties to become a clown and kit man for Stoke City football club and a spokesperson for the value of positivity in life. His irrepressible nature is caught by a hardworking ensemble’s evident lead, Michael Hugo. He comes cheekily billed as “real Neil,” which must be rather amusing to the real Neil seated that night just metres away. Here’s someone for whom the world would be his oyster, if he liked seafood.

The play exists to impart a life lesson, and might be better off not checking in so constantly with the audience to see if we are enjoying ourselves. (“Isn’t it marvellous?” we’re rather predictably asked at one point.) A man in a chicken suit hops into view one minute; an impromptu cookery class takes place the next. Moments of greatest pathos are saved for the scenes between Neil and his ceaselessly progressive and kind mum (Suzanne Ahmet, in the role for which Gemma Jones won a BAFTA on screen). 

In need of trimming, the play possesses something of the regional appeal and direct emotional allure of a musical like *Blood Brothers*, which became a West End fixture. But you can’t help but feel more sophisticated storytelling would allow *Marvellous* to live up to its name and draw in those spectators – and London will be full of them – new to the happiness Neil imparted, and who might like that quality fully dramatised and not just larkily announced. The show has lots of heart and could now use some art.

*Marvellous* is at @sohoplace through 26 Nov. 2022. Book *Marvellous* tickets on London Theatre.

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Following smash hit runs in London’s West End, two record-breaking national tours and sell out seasons at London’s The Other Palace, the WhatsOnStage ‘BEST NEW MUSICAL’ winner, Heathers the Musical is coming to @sohoplace for 6 weeks only.

# Soho Place Theatre
Soho Place Theatre is a prominent cultural hotspot nestled in the heart of London. Its location in Soho, a hub buzzing with vibrant nightlife, trendy boutiques, and eclectic dining options, ensures an enriching visit to this unique theatre. The venue, known for its visionary artistic performances, provides an enhancing experience to the audience in terms of aesthetics, acoustics, and ambience. The intimate seating arrangement, exquisite architecture, and compelling performance lineup make it a must-visit destination. The venue prides itself on showcasing a diverse range of performances from globally renowned playwrights and new-age artists. Furthermore, the Soho Place Theatre regularly introduces fresh works that push the boundaries of conventional storytelling, offer unique perspectives, and ignite thoughtful conversations.

## How to Get to Soho Place Theatre
Soho Place Theatre is easily accessible by a wide range of public transport services, which mirror the city's rich interconnectivity. Oxford Circus Tube Station is the closest station, just a short walk away from the venue. Other nearby stations include Tottenham Court Road and Leicester Square. For those travelling by bus, routes 1, 7, 8, 10, 25, 55, 98, 176 and 390 stop close by. If you’re planning on driving, there are numerous parking spaces available around the Soho area. However, due to its central location, traffic can sometimes be quite heavy. So, it's much recommended to use public transportation for a hassle-free journey.

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Soho Place opened in the West End in 2022. The interior includes a curved auditorium, known as “the hug”, and can change configuration for every production. No seat will be further than six rows from the stage. The Soho Place theatre is owned by Nica Burns.

The inaugural production, *Marvellous*, followed the life of local hero Neil Baldwin. *As You Like It* was the first in-house production. Rose Ayling-Ellis made her West End debut as Celia. *Photo credit: Tim Soar and AHMM*

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Opened in 2022, West End's Soho Place features a versatile auditorium, ensuring close stage proximity. It premiered *Marvellous* and is owned by Nica Burns.

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Located in vibrant Soho, the Soho Place Theatre offers a variety of compelling performances. Public transport, especially tube, is recommended for hassle-free travel.

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