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London Shows Archive

Wild Horses

Closed: 10 July 2010 - Theatre 503

17-year-old Ellie has finally come home to face the music. But can her family, or even her friends, get over her betrayal? And who is in control of her future?… Read More

WIld Lunch

Closed: 1 December 2006 - Young Vic

Wild Lunch cooks up eight new writers with a new play each lunchtime. In the past it has produced plays by Sarah Kane, Dennis Kelly and Mark Ravenhill – to… Read More

Wild Swans

Closed: 13 May 2012 - Young Vic

This production of Wild Swans is the first stage adaptation of Jung Chang’s multi-million selling tale of one fiercely courageous family living through a time of great change in China.Wild… Read More

Wild Worlds – Dark Side

Closed: 15 February 2015 - The Vaults (Main Entrance)

Artful Badger's Dark Sides is a curated collection of breathtaking breakages, emotional explosives, anti gravity time travellers, buffooning birds, bad habits & allegorical aerial. This show is taking part in… Read More

Wilde Creatures

Closed: 31 December 2017 - Vaudeville Theatre

The hauntingly beautiful fairy tales of Oscar Wilde are retold with original live music, imaginative storytelling and a generous dash of comedy in Wilde Creatures. Playing as part of the year-long celebration… Read More

Wildefire

Closed: 29 November 2014 - Hampstead Theatre

Lorraine Stanley leads the cast of Roy Williams’ police drama Wildefire at the Hampstead Theatre. The production tells the story of Gail Wilde, an average policeman who lives up to… Read More

Will Adamsdale: Human Computer

Closed: 23 March 2007 - Battersea Arts Centre

Perrier Award-winner Will Adamsdale gives a Scratch performance of his newest work. Read More

Will Franken: Things We Did Before Reality

Closed: 9 March 2013 - Soho Theatre

Armed with a ‘highly developed sense of the absurd' (New York Times), comedy virtuoso Will Franken deluges his audiences with a kaleidoscopic tsunami of mind-blowing character comedy so funny that… Read More

Will Hodgson: Straight Outta Chippenham

Closed: 23 February 2008 - Soho Theatre

The former skinhead, punk, professional wrestler and member of the Communist Party regales us with tales of anti-fascism, small town prejudice, his passion for ‘the big women’ and care bears. Read More

Will Smith: How To Be Cool

Closed: 9 December 2006 - Arts Theatre

Stand-up comic Smith explores the theory of being cool and the hypocrisies at the heart of Western society. Read More

William Andrews: Nitwit

Closed: 27 February 2010 - Soho Theatre

Part stand-up, part sketches, part monster, William Andrews’s Nitwit comes to Soho theatre for an exclusive London showing after its critically and wittily acclaimed Edinburgh festival run. Read More

William Forsythe

Closed: 24 July 2005 - Royal Opera House

The opening Steptext to Bach's magnificent Chaconne, Approximate Sonata and The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude all demand of the dancers incredible feats of bravura and stamina. In the middle, somewhat… Read More

Wilton’s Vintage Christmas

Closed: 18 December 2010 - Wilton’s Music Hall

Wilton's Music Hall goes back to its roots this festive season with a traditional music-hall style variety show. Wilton's Victorian Christmas combines Charles Dickens with Henry Mayhew, Christmas carols with… Read More

Wind In The Willows, The

Closed: 13 January 2007 - Linbury Studio (Royal Opera House)

Dance, songs, verse, music and puppetry come together to tell the story of Toad, Mole, Ratty, Badger and the other inhabitants of the Wild Wood.Will Tuckett is both choreographer and… Read More

Wind In The Willows, The

Closed: 27 August 2005 - Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Conville and Gooderson's adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic tale has already become the Open Air Theatre's most successful children's show ever. This isn't surprising considering it is packed with enough… Read More

Wind Shadow

Closed: 11 October 2009 - Barbican Theatre

In Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan’s Wind Shadow, choreographic genius Lin Hwai-Min has created a contemporary dance work that makes shadows come alive. Joining forces with leading Chinese visual… Read More

Windfall

Closed: 11 March 2023 - Southwark Playhouse

Mark Bell, director of international hit The Play That Goes Wrong, directs Scooter Pietsch’s hilarious and chaotic new comedy, which arrives at Southwark Playhouse for five weeks only! Pushed to the… Read More

Winky

Closed: 26 May 2013 - Soho Theatre

‘Someone is crapping in your oatmeal. If you're losing, someone is doing it to you.' Neil Yaniky, a born loser, strongly suspects his yugly sister Winky to be his metaphorical… Read More

Winner’s Curse

Closed: 11 March 2023 - Park Theatre

Making war is a dirty business. So is making peace. Two countries are locked in battle over a strip of land when a fragile ceasefire provides a chance for peace.… Read More

Winter Dance Party

Closed: 24 January 2014 - New Wimbledon Theatre

Recreating Buddy Holly’s last historic concert, Winter Dance Party takes you back to 1959 when Buddy Holly, recharged by a fresh band, embarks on a tour accompanied by rock legends… Read More

Winter Wassail

Closed: 3 January 2011 - Globe Theatre

Winter Wassail is a midwinter feast of song, music and poetry to celebrate the arrival of the new year. The Gabrieli Consort & Players plays a choral programme of seasonal… Read More

Winter’s Tale, The

Closed: 21 May 2005 - Richmond Theatre

When King Leontes of Sicily is attacked by a fit of jealousy, he single-handedly destroys everything around him: his family, his kingdom and himself. When circumstances conspire to lead him… Read More

Winterling, The

Closed: 8 April 2006 - Royal Court Theatre

West waits in a burnt-out farmhouse, on Dartmoor, in the depths of winter, for two associates from the city. The wine has been poured and the revolver loaded. But who… Read More

Wise Children

Closed: 10 November 2018 - The Old Vic

Emma Rice launches her exciting new company Wise Children with a playful and heart-wrenching adaptation of the novel of the same name. Set in Brixton, Wise Children follows Nora and Dora Chance… Read More

Wish I Was Here

Closed: 12 May 2007 - Drill Hall

In How To Get Away With Suicide, Malcolm's marriage disintegrates; he leaves his wife and children and moves into a flat nearby, yet feels so far away. Malcolm rants through… Read More

Wish List

Closed: 11 February 2017 - Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

Tamsin packs boxes in a warehouse, on the clock, with a zero-hour contract. Her brother Dean is housebound. Working to obsessive-compulsive rituals of his own. When Dean is declared fit… Read More

Wit

Closed: 26 October 2008 - New Wimbledon Studio

Vivian Bearing Phd, a renowned lecturer in the poetry of John Donne, has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Her initial approach to her illness is rational and intellectual, but as… Read More

Witch-Hunt

Closed: 25 May 2013 - Linbury Studio (Royal Opera House)

Bern Ballett, directed by Cathy Marston (ex-Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House), is known for its technical prowess, stylistic versatility and physical storytelling. Following acclaimed productions of Ghosts for… Read More

Witches, The

Closed: 3 April 2005 - Wyndham’s Theatre

The Witches follows the adventures of a seven-year-old boy and his mystically-endowed gran who battle with real-life witches, led by the gloriously vile Grand High Witch. Plotting to get rid… Read More

Witches, The

Closed: 24 April 2005

The Witches follows the adventures of a seven-year-old boy and his mystically-endowed gran who battle with real-life witches, led by the gloriously vile Grand High Witch. Plotting to get rid… Read More

With A Doll In Her Pocket

Closed: 26 February 2006 - Unicorn Theatre

An innocent young girl, a talking doll, a wicked stepmother and her gruesome daughters, a witch who travels by pestle and mortar, a house which stands on chicken legs, a… Read More

With All Our Hearts – A Concert

Closed: 9 April 2024 - Adelphi Theatre

The crème de la crème of the entertainment industry is coming together this April to celebrate over 75 years of the NHS and their wonderful life changing and life saving… Read More

Withering Looks

Closed: 17 September 2011 - Greenwich Theatre

LipService revives its cult Bronte spoof, Withering Looks, looking at the lives and works of the Bronte sisters. Read More

Without Words. Nunc Dimittis. Prelude

Closed: 7 April 2013 - London Coliseum

The Mikhailovsky Theatre ballet company will take to the stage of the London Coliseum for a third time with their enchanting programme of ballet. A triple bill of Nacho Duato… Read More

Witness For The Prosecution

Closed: 15 May 2010 - Richmond Theatre

Witness For The Prosecution is one of Agatha Christie's most acclaimed stories. Emily French, an eldery woman who recently bequeathed her considerable estate to the charming young Leonard, is found… Read More

WitTank

Closed: 6 May 2013 - Courtyard Theatre

Like a battering ram to the funny-bone, stars of BBC3's Live At The Electric start a new residency at Shoreditch's Courtyard Theatre presenting brand new material with the help of… Read More

Wittenberg

Closed: 1 October 2011 - Gate Theatre

Set in late 1517, Wittenberg imagines a fictitious meeting between university colleagues Dr Faustus (a man of appetites), Martin Luter (a man of faith) and their student Hamlet (a young… Read More

Wiz, The

Closed: 23 June 2007 - Greenwich Theatre

'Ease on down' the yellow brick road with Dorothy and her chums - the scarecrow, the lion and the tin man in this exhuberant adaptation of the classic Oz advernture.Looking to… Read More

Wizard Of Oz, The

Closed: 15 April 2006

Based on the legendary hit film starring Judy Garland, this RSC version features all the classic hits such as Somewhere Over the Rainbow, We’re Off To See The Wizard and… Read More

Wolf Hall

Closed: 4 October 2014 - Aldwych Theatre

The RSC’s acclaimed production of Hilary Mantell’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel about Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power transfers to the West End. Adapted by Mike Poulton, Wolf Hall is set… Read More

Wolf Witch Giant Fairy

Closed: 3 January 2022 - Royal Opera House

In the far-away land of fairy tales is a magical wood full of fantastical creatures, enchanted folk and tall pines stretching as far as the eye can see. Here, the… Read More

Wolfboy

Closed: 31 July 2010 - Trafalgar Studios 2

In Wolfboy, two boys share an intimate adventure in an institution. Bernie is a Grade A golden boy who has attempted suicide. David is a street hustler who may or… Read More

Wolves In The Walls, The

Closed: 29 April 2006 - Lyric Hammersmith

Lucy's family don't believe that there are wolves in the walls... but they soon will!Julian Crouch, co-creator of Shockheaded Peter, has worked with Frantic Assembly's Steven Hoggett and a host… Read More

Wolves On Road

Closed: 21 December 2024 - Bush Theatre

From the director of West End hit Red Pitch, Daniel Bailey, comes this thrilling deep-dive into the mysterious world of cryptocurrency. “I think your son just made ten thousand pounds…”… Read More

Woman And Scarecrow

Closed: 25 July 2006 - Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

A woman, gaunt and haggard after giving birth eight times, faces her death. She considers her life. What was it? What else could it have been? Her passionate lament is… Read More

Woman Before, The

Closed: 18 June 2005 - Royal Court Theatre

When a woman turns up unexpectedly at Frank's door, he doesn't recognise her. She knows him and has come to remind him of a vow he made twenty years earlier.… Read More

Woman Hater, The

Closed: 2 February 2008 - Orange Tree Theatre

Jilted on the verge of marriage, Sir Roderick spurns all contact with all women. The woman who jilted him, wooed with verses by another, became Lady Smatter and is, she… Read More

Woman In Mind

Closed: 3 May 2009 - Vaudeville Theatre

Woman In Mind is the story of a clergyman’s wife, Susan, who, bored, restless and frustrated with life in general and her family in particular, escapes to a happier, more… Read More

Woman In White, The

Closed: 25 February 2006 - Palace Theatre

Freely adapted from Wilkie Collins's racy Victorian thriller, The Woman In White tells the story of a dashing young man, employed as the art tutor to two devoted sisters, is stranded at… Read More

Womb Man

Closed: 27 July 2007 - Theatre 503

Woman and Man explore what they are through fictional and historical characters who find themselves in a twisted struggle against the Author’s words Read More

Women Are From Venus

Closed: 19 March 2005 - artsdepot

Acclaimed choreographer Mavin Khoo creates two contrasting pieces, juxtaposing the strikingly contemporary with the overtly classical. Shringara, is a solo piece for Nina Rajarani, addressing the orthodoxy of Bharatanatyam and… Read More

Women Beware Women

Closed: 4 July 2010 - National Theatre Olivier

Corruption will not go unpunished in Thomas Middleton’s blackly funny, fast and ferocious tragedy Women Beware Women.Women Beware Women is set in the Italian court, where wealth secures power, power… Read More

Women Of Lockerbie, The

Closed: 1 October 2005 - Orange Tree Theatre

The play is set on 21 December 1995, the 7th anniversary of the day that Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie. When disaster strikes many have to learn to… Read More

Women Of Troy

Closed: 27 February 2008

A radical interpretation of Euripides's great tragedy.An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once Queen, watches as… Read More

Women Of Troy After Euripides

Closed: 14 April 2012 - Blue Elephant Theatre

Women Of Troy After Euripides is set amidst the slaughter and ruins of Troy, as the women wait to be handed out to the victors. Hecuba, Queen of Troy, must… Read More

Women, Power And Politics: Now

Closed: 17 July 2010 - Tricycle Theatre

In the wake of this year's general election, Women, Power And Politics is a new season examining the history and current role of women in politics in the UK through… Read More

Women, Power And Politics: Then

Closed: 17 July 2010 - Tricycle Theatre

In the wake of this year's general election, Women, Power And Politics is a new season examining the history and current role of women in politics in the UK through… Read More

Women, The

Closed: 2 July 2006 - King’s Head Theatre

A star-studded rehearsed reading of Claire Booth Luce's story of unscrupulous ladies who lunch.One of the King's Head's fundraising gala shows. Read More

Wonder Boy

Closed: 19 October 2024 - Theatre Royal Stratford East

A heart-warming and inspiring story about the power of communication. Packed with playful humour, dazzling visuals and thrilling original music this innovative production includes live creative captioning on stage throughout. Read More

Wonder! A Woman Keeps A Secret, The

Closed: 11 March 2007 - Battersea Arts Centre

A contemporary take on an 18th century feminist farce. Read More

Wonderful Life and Miserable Death of the Renowned Magician Dr Faustus, The

Closed: 25 February 2004 - National Theatre Cottesloe

What might happen if you want too much, if you meet the Devil, or if you spend a lot of time looking for sausages? Actors, puppets and live music combine… Read More

Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, The

Closed: 30 December 2005

We're off to see the wizard in this fantastical children's musical. Dorothy is caught up in a whirlwind, and when her house comes down she's not in Kansas any more.… Read More

Wonderful World Of Dissocia, The

Closed: 21 April 2007 - Royal Court Theatre

Lisa Jones is on a journey to discover the one lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life. In doing so she enters Dissocia, a world whose inhabitants… Read More

Wonderland

Closed: 26 July 2014 - Hampstead Theatre

Set in 1984, Beth Steel’s epic drama Wonderland explores the turbulent events of the Miners’ Strike, from Westminster’s corridors of power to the Nottinghamshire coal face. In the Midlands, two… Read More

Woodland

Closed: 1 June 2013 - artsdepot

Woodland is a safe place for rare creatures, some so rare that you may never have heard of them. It's a place where experts manage a strict daily routine and… Read More

Woody Sez

Closed: 2 April 2011 - Arts Theatre

Woody Sez is a joyous, toe-tapping, and moving theatrical concert event that uses Woody's words and over 25 of Woody's songs to transport the audience through the fascinating, beautiful, and… Read More

Woolf Works

Closed: 26 May 2015 - Royal Opera House

Based on the life and writings of Virginia Woolf, Woolf Works is Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor's first full-length work for the Royal Ballet. Modernist icon Virginia Woolf defied the false… Read More

Worbey & Farrell: Well Strung!

Closed: 21 March 2012 - Greenwich Theatre

The internationally acclaimed musical comedy duo (formerly known as Katzenjammer) take a “hugely impressive” (Chortle) and hilarious look at the piano’s most famous pieces and players.Expect exquisite musical virtuosity, utter… Read More

Word Temple, The

Closed: 18 November 2006 - Albany Theatre

A new show in which hip hop, poetry, spoken word and reggae collide. Stars from the spoken word and Slam scene take a journey around life in today's Britain.Part of… Read More

Words Of Honour: The Mafia Exposed

Closed: 3 October 2009 - Jermyn Street Theatre

Words Of Honour: The Mafia Exposed charts the lives of mafia bosses; through the eyes of an investigative journalist. Words of Honour is a stage adaptation of Parole d'Onore, the… Read More

Work

Closed: 26 October 2008 - Courtyard Theatre

One city, five people, a single day. Work is a moving, funny and tender piece unfolding the simple stuff of life and the complications that surround it. Read More

World Cup Final 1966

Closed: 15 January 2005 - Battersea Arts Centre

From an era when football was all about the game; before footballers became mega-millionaires, before substitutes, red and yellow cards, and before the scandals. World Cup Final 1966 is a… Read More

World Enough And Time

Closed: 13 April 2014 - Park Theatre

Sarah Sigal’s new play World Enough And Time interweaves three stories from three different centuries to create a provocative piece of theatre about women’s lives in political landscapes. 2014. Celia… Read More

World Factory

Closed: 6 June 2015 - Young Vic

Audiences are invited to participate in the politics of fashion in this thought-provoking investigation of fast fashion directed by Zoë Svendsen at the Young Vic. Delving into the murky history… Read More

World In One City

Closed: 22 October 2007 - Soho Theatre

Alex Horne and Owen Powell's quest to find someone from every country in the world living in London comes to a frantic conclusion. Read More

World Temple R:evolution Tour 2006, The

Closed: 21 October 2006 - Hackney Empire

Hip-hop, poetry and reggae combine in this show, which brings the UK's best spoken word performers to the Hackney Empire. Read More

World’s Biggest Diamond, The

Closed: 26 November 2005 - Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs

A cottage by the sea. Two old lovers re-unite for a weekend after 30 years. He has an appointment with death, and she has left her husband upstairs. Both think… Read More

Worlds End

Closed: 8 March 2008 - Trafalgar Studios 2

Kat is moving out of the London flat she shares with ex-boyfriend, Ben. Helping her are best friend, Thea, and new man in her life, Josh. Ben (who’s not even… Read More

Worm That Squirmed, The

Closed: 1 April 2006 - Jackson’s Lane Theatre

A crazy work causes chaos wherever he cavorts.Suitable for ages five and over. Read More

Wot is Jazz?

Closed: 14 November 2004 - artsdepot

It’s never to early to start, and you don’t need an instrument, so come down to artsdepot and find out what all the fuss is about. Ages 7-17, with accompanying… Read More

Wot? No Fish!!

Closed: 19 July 2014 - Battersea Arts Centre

A true story of love, art, history and fish balls, Wot? No Fish!! comes to the Battersea Arts Centre following an acclaimed run at 2013’s Edinburgh Festival. The production tells… Read More

Would Like To Meet

Closed: 16 May 2010 - Barbican Theatre

Would Like To Meet is an intimate, individual journey in which participants explore a series of environments in the Barbican Centre led by a voice heard through a pair of… Read More

Woyzeck

Closed: 24 June 2017 - The Old Vic

Screen superstar John Boyega and acclaimed writer Jack Thorne reinvigorate the ground-breaking Georg Büchner drama Woyzeck at The Old Vic. Legendary in its influential theatrical legacy, Woyzeck portrays the adverse… Read More

Woyzeck

Closed: 15 July 2006 - Barbican Theatre

Icelandic company Vesturport return to the Barbican with Buchner's tale of a young man struggling to make the best of what life has dealt him. Played out through a series… Read More

Woyzeck

Closed: 22 October 2005 - Barbican Theatre

Büchner’s Woyzeck is arguably both the first working-class hero and the first modern play. A hostage to fortune, class and his sadistic superiors, Woyzeck struggles desperately to make the best… Read More

Woyzeck

Closed: 11 December 2004 - Gate Theatre

Animals morphing into human beings and human beings into animals, visions of Hell, the Devil, echoing voices and a desperate love affair merge in a raw new version of this German… Read More

Woyzeck On The Highveld

Closed: 10 September 2011 - Barbican: Silk Street Theatre

Handspring Puppet Company’s Woyzeck On The Highveld is magical, wondrous and darkly poetic in equal parts.In Woyzeck On The Highveld, a migrant worker struggles to survive in a callous, inhospitable,… Read More

Wozzeck

Closed: 25 May 2013 - London Coliseum

Wozzeck tells the story of a simple soldier, troubled by visions, who murders his unfaithful partner and dies, leaving behind an orphaned child. Berg's early 20th-century masterpiece comes to ENO… Read More

Wozzeck

Closed: 13 March 2006 - Royal Opera House

Johan Reuter makes his debut with the Royal Opera playing Wozzeck, a man experimented on, taunted and ultimately driven to violent outburst. Fellow debutant Susan Bullock plays the wife of… Read More

Wozzeck

Closed: 15 November 2013 - Royal Opera House

Wozzeck, a poor soldier, tries to support his girlfriend Marie and their young son, while battling mental illness. When the brutal Drum Major seduces Marie, Wozzeck is driven to violent… Read More

Wrecks

Closed: 28 March 2009 - Bush Theatre

Wrecks centres on Edward Carr, an ordinary man, a doting father of four and a successful businessman, whose world has been shattered by the death of his beloved wife JoJo.… Read More

Written On Skin

Closed: 22 March 2013 - Royal Opera House

When Written On Skin had its premiere at the 2012 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, conducted by George Benjamin himself, it received a standing ovation. The opera's arrival at Covent Garden in 2013… Read More

Written On The Heart

Closed: 19 May 2012 - Duchess Theatre

David Edgar’s Written On The Heart transfers to the West End following a successful run at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan theatre.Starring Oliver Ford Davies and Stephen Boxer, the drama,… Read More

Wunderkammer

Closed: 6 February 2016 - Barbican: The Pit Theatre

Sweet, melancholic and sometimes tongue in cheek, Wunderkammer is a gem of puppet-theatre at the Barbican Theatre, referencing art, science and the natural world through mystical creations. Three puppeteers mysteriously emerge one… Read More

Wuthering Heights

Closed: 4 December 2015 - Ambassadors Theatre

Emily Brontë’s classic novel is brought to life on stage as part of the National Youth Theatre’s West End season at the Ambassadors Theatre. Adapted by Stephanie Street and directed… Read More

Wuthering Heights

Closed: 23 May 2009 - Lyric Hammersmith

The scorched desert landscape of Rajasthan is the setting for this musical interpretation of Emily Bronte's classic tale of passion, jealousy and revenge, Wuthering Heights. Shakuntala, the headstrong daughter of… Read More

Wuthering Heights

Closed: 10 December 2006 - Battersea Arts Centre

A look at Bronte's famous tale through the eyes of a Japanese tourist and some very curious sheep.The production was created by BAC Associate Artist Kazuko Hohki and Colin Carmichael… Read More

Wuthering Heights

Closed: 19 March 2022 - National Theatre

The epic story of love, revenge and redemption. Rescued from the Liverpool docks as a child, Heathcliff (Ash Hunter) is adopted by the Earnshaws and taken to live at Wuthering… Read More

Wuthering Heights

Closed: 19 March 2022

The epic story of love, revenge and redemption. Rescued from the Liverpool docks as a child, Heathcliff (Liam Tamne) is adopted by the Earnshaws and taken to live at Wuthering… Read More

Wuthering Heights

Closed: 27 May 2023 - Rose Theatre

'We don’t in general take to foreigners here… unless they take to us first' With characteristic humour, passion and pathos, Inspector Sands offer a fresh take on the infamous love… Read More
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