London editor Philip Fisher selects the top five plays in London.
William Shakespeare
Jermyn Street Theatre
11 March to 4 April 2020
Joseph Cullen & Sasha Wilson
Claire Gilbert for Out Of The Forest Theatre
The Vaults (cavern) Leake Street
11 to 15 March 2020
Ecoute Theatre
Network Theatre - Lower Road
10 to 15 March 2020
Stephen Laughton
Scene Change Productions and Greenwich Theatre
Trafalgar Studios
10 March to 4 April 2020
Papergang Theatre
The Vaults (Pit) Leake Street
Harvey Fierstein
Network Theatre Company
Devised by Abigail Hirsch, Aida Rocci, Antonia Georgieva, OliverMcFadden and ...
'Punkt Collective
Lion and Unicorn Theatre
10 to 14 March 2020
UnDisposables
The Space London
10 to 21 March 2020
Michelle Sewell
HACK theatre
10 to 13 March 2020
Choreography Richard Alston, Martin Lawrance, music Ta Travudia, Jo Kondo, Ch...
Richard Alston Dance Company
Sadler’s Wells
7 to 8 March 2020
Tristan Bernays
6 to 8 March 2020
Robert Lepage and Ex Machina
Ex Machina
Lyttelton Theatre (National Theatre)
6 to 22 March 2020
Sebastian Barry
Fishamble: The New Play Company
Trafalgar Studios (Studio One)
5 March to 2 May 2020
Mike Bartlett
Lyric Hammersmith
5 March to 4 April 2020
Choreography Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, production & additional choreograp...
The Royal Ballet
Royal Opera House
5 March to 16 May 2020
Noël Coward
Theatre Royal Bath
Duke of York's Theatre
5 March to 11 April 2020
Lily Shahmoon
Rupert Henderson Productions
Southwark Playhouse (The Little)
4 to 28 March 2020
E V Crowe
Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
4 to 21 March 2020
Thomas Middleton
Cheek by Jowl and Piccolo Teatro di Milano
Barbican Theatre
4 to 7 March 2020
Erich Remarque adapted by Incognito Theatre Company
Incognito Theatre Company
The Vaults (crescent) Leake Street
3 to 8 March 2020
Dameon Garnett
The Tristan Bates Theatre
3 to 21 March 2020
Simon Stephens, David Spencer and Max Saunders-Singer
Boxless Theatre, Bag of Beard, Grindstone & Take Two Theatricals, in associat...
Old Red Lion Theatre
Adam Lazarus
The Theatre Centre in association with Glynis Henderson Productions
Battersea Arts Centre
3 to 28 March 2020
Paul Kember
Finborough Theatre
Finborough Theatre, Earl's Court
Simon Grangeat, translated by Laure Fernandez and Legal Aliens
Legal Aliens
The Vaults (cage), Leake Street
Iskandar Sharazuddin, Cordelia O’Neill and Lucinda Burnett
Unlikely Productions
Omnibus Theatre
Choreography and direction Crystal Pite, text Jonathon Young
Kidd Pivot
3 to 5 March 2020
Music Ludwig van Beethoven, libretto Joseph Sonnleithner, Stephan von Breunin...
The Royal Opera
1 to 17 March 2020
Josh Azouz
Orange Tree Theatre
28 February to 28 March 2020
Mark Bruce
Mark Bruce Company
Wilton's
28 February to 14 March 2020
Jo Sutherland
Nevertheless Theatre Company
26 February to 1 March 2020
Hassan Abdulrazzak
Synergy Theatre Project
Soho Theatre
26 February to 21 March 2020
David Thame
Above the Stag Theatre in association with Em-Lou Productions
Above the Stag Theatre (Studio)
26 February to 29 March 2020
Shakespeare's Globe
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
26 February to 18 April 2020
Choreography Cheng Tsung-lung, Lin Hwai-min, music Lim Giong, Dmitri Shostako...
Cloud Gate Theatre of Taiwan
26 to 29 February 2020
Jingen Young
Pokfulam Rd Productions
The Vaults (cage) Leake Street
25 February to 1 March 2020
Sally Abbott
Frantic Assembly production with Theatre Royal Plymouth, co-produced by Curve
Theatre Royal Stratford East
25 February to 21 March 2020
John Osborne
Big Boots Theatre Company
White Bear Theatre
25 February to 14 March 2020
Günter Grass adaptated by Oliver Reese
The Berliner Ensemble
The Coronet Theatre
24 to 29 February 2020
Julia Grogan and Lydia Higman
Daring Hare Productions, Thena Mimmack
The Vaults (forge) Leake Street
23 February 2020
Viviana Durante Company
Barbican Centre
21 to 29 February 2020
Matt Winning
The Vaults (crypt) Leake Street
21 to 23 February 2020
Choreography Tim Rushton, Juliano Nunes, Johan Kobborg, Frederick Ashton
Alina Cojocaru
20 to 23 February 2020
Diane Herbert
She’s Diverse
19 to 23 February 2020
Gillian Greer
Emily Carewe, 45North and Theatre503
Theatre503
19 February to 4 March 2020
Osama Al Azza
Creative Destruction and Osama Al Azza
The Vaults (vehicle venues) Leake Street
19 February to 21 March 2020
Coletiva Ocupação, Lowri Evans, Otavio Bontempo
19 to 29 February 2020
Danaja Wass
The Thelmas
Tim Cowbury
Shoreditch Town Hall
18 February to 7 March 2020
Tina Jay
Jack Brett Anderson, Tina Jay and Mont-Dore Anderson
Tristan Bates Theatre
18 to 29 February 2020
Sergio Blanco, translated by Daniel Goldman
Tangram Theatre and the Pleasance
Pleasance Theatre (Main House)
18 February to 8 March 2020
Choreography Jerome Robbins, Cathy Marston, music Chopin, Philip Feeney
17 February to 4 March 2020
Choreography Jenny MacNamara, Jakob Myers, Frederick Ashton, Marius Petipa / ...
Elmhurst Ballet Company
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells
15 February 2020
Caryl Churchill
Bridge Theatre
14 February to 14 March 2020
Book by Garry Marshall and J F Lawton, music and lyrics by Bryan Adams and Ji...
Piccadilly Theatre
14 February 2020 to 2 January 2021
Antoinette Nwandu
Kiln Theatre
13 February to 4 April 2020
Choreography Marianela Boán, Maria Rovira, Rafael Bonachela, Juliano Nunes, R...
Acosta Danza
Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House
13 to 24 February 2020
Jack Shepherd
Arcola Theatre
13 February to 21 March 2020
Choreography Pina Bausch, music Béla Bartók, libretto Béla Balázs
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
12 to 15 February 2020
Music and lyrics by Joe Iconis, book by Joe Tracz, based on the novel by Ned ...
The Other Palace
12 February to 14 June 2020
Mark Heywood
Inkjocky Limited
12 to 16 February 2020
Paul Minx
Jermyn Street Theatre production
12 February to 7 March 2020
Kate Reid
Plain Heroines
11 to 16 February 2020
Devised by the performers
Border Crossings in association with Dugdale Centre and Exchange Theatre
Tara Theatre
11 to 15 February 2020
Devised and directed by Caitlin Evans
Shybairn
The Vaults (studio) Leake Street
11 to 13 February 2020
Amy Bethan Evans
Scripped Up
Olivia Hirst & David Byrne
New Diorama with Greenwich Theatre
New Diorama Theatre
11 February to 14 March 2020
Various
Chickenshed
Chickenshed Theatre
11 to 22 February 2020
Temi Wilkey
Bush Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Bush Theatre (Holloway Theatre)
11 February to 21 March 2020
Ben Elton
Gielgud Theatre
7 February to 25 April 2020
Choreography and direction Russell Maliphant
Russell Maliphant Dance Company
6 to 22 February 2020
Donmar Warehouse
6 February to 28 March 2020
Kate Prince
ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company
Peacock Theatre
6 February to 21 March 2020
Tim Crouch
Unicorn Theatre (Clore Theatre)
5 to 29 February 2020
Jonathan Harvey with songs by the Pet Shop Boys
Cahoots Theatre Company
Leicester Square Theatre
5 February to 1 March 2020
Michael Keegan-Dolan (with company)
Teaċ Daṁsa
Sadler's Wells
5 to 7 February 2020
Music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. book by Lionel Bart and Joan Maitland
The Union Theatre / Phil Willmott Company
Union Theatre
5 February to 7 March 2020
A Radical New Version of Henrik Ibsen’s Play by Stef Smith
Young Vic and Citizens Theatre Glasgow
Young Vic Theatre
5 February to 21 March 2020
Music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Philip Lazebnik
Dreamworks Theatricals, Michael McCabe, Neil Laidlaw, John Gore, Tom Smedes &...
Dominion Theatre
5 February to 31 October 2020
Music and libretto Gerald Barry
4 to 9 February 2020
Ross McGregor
Arrows & Traps Theatre
Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
4 to 22 February 2020
Joseph Crilly
Doreen Productions in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre
4 to 10 February 2020
Florencia Cordeu and Omar Elerian
Battersea Arts Centre, Roundhouse and CASA
3 to 22 February 2020
Shakespeare’s Globe
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe
1 February to 18 April 2020
Almeida Theatre
1 to 29 February 2020
Debris Stevenson Feat. Jammz
1 to 22 February 2020
Roland Schimmelpfennig translated by David Tushingham
Unicorn Theatre, presented with PRLtd, London in association with S.Fischer V...
Unicorn Theatre (Weston Theatre)
31 January to 1 March 2020
Al Blyth
Hampstead Theatre
31 January to 12 March 2020
Based on the play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, adapted by Tony Kushner, original ...
National Theatre
Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
31 January to 30 March 2020
31 January to 1 February 2020
Clint Dyer and Roy Williams
Dorfman Theatre (National Theatre)
31 January to 7 March 2020
Created by Waleed Akhtar & Zoe Lafferty
Creative Destruction
Vault Festival (Network Theatre)
30 to 31 January 2020
Janice Okoh
Revolution Mix presented by Eclipse Theatre and Belgrade Theatre Coventry
29 January to 15 February 2020
Amy Gwilliam
The Vault, Leake Street
28 January to 2 February 2020
Harry Darell
Admission Productions
Bridewell Theatre
28 January to 8 February 2020
Samuel Beckett
The Old Vic
27 January to 28 March 2020
Ensemble Productions
London Coliseum
26 January 2020
Tom Stoppard
Wyndham’s Theatre
25 January to 13 June 2020
John Kani
The Fugard Theatre, Cape Town and Royal Shakespeare Company
Ambassadors Theatre
24 January to 28 March 2020
Miriam Sherwood with music by Thom Andrewes and Will Gardner
Dynamite Island
Camden People's Theatre
24 to 26 January 2020
The Watermill Ensemble
Wilton's Music Hall
22 January to 15 February 2020
Peter Quilter
Above the Stag
Above the Stag Theatre (Main House)
22 January to 1 March 2020
Chris Bush
Headlong and Lyric Hammersmith
22 January to 22 February 2020
Alexis Gregory
Alexis Gregory & Emmerson and Ward
21 January to 1 February 2020
Ingmar Bergman (adapted by Paul Schoolman)
Persona Onstage
Riverside Studios (Studio 3)
21 January to 23 February 2020
Director Kibwe Tavares, choreography Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar, music and sound...
Rambert
21 January to 9 February 2020
Joe Marsh
Althea Theatre
21 January to 8 February 2020
Alan Ayckbourn
Bill Kenwright / The Classic Comedy Theatre Company
Richmond Theatre
20 to 25 January 2020
Choreography John Cranko, music Tchaikovsky / Kurt-Heinz Stolze
18 January to 29 February 2020
English National Ballet
17 to 18 January 2020
Robert Pearce
Petite Pantos
Balham Bowls Club
17 to 19 January 2020
Sam Steiner
Paines Plough
Southwark Playhouse
16 January to 22 February 2020
Cormac McCarthy
Boulevard Theatre
16 January to 14 March 2020
15 January to 8 February 2020
Lucy Kirkwood
15 January to 23 May 2020
Miriam Battye
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
15 January to 22 February 2020
Tony Tortora
Andy Jordan Productions and Pluto Productions
15 January to 1 February 2020
Jack Brunger
Anton Chekhov, in a new Adaptation by Conor McPherson
Harold Pinter Theatre
14 January to 2 May 2020
Daniele Finzi Pasca
Cirque du Soleil
Royal Albert Hall
12 January to 1 March 2020
Music Giacomo Puccini, libretto Guiseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
10 January to 13 February 2020
Book by Joseph Stein, music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, r...
Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment and Hope Mill Theatre in association with ...
Park Theatre (Park 200)
9 January to 8 February 2020
Choreography Anna-Marie Holmes (after Marius Petipa and Konstantin Sergeyev),...
8 to 14 January 2020
Andy Dickinson
Stolen Elephant Theatre
Park Theatre
8 January to 11 February 2020
Rosalind Blessed
Brian Blessed
8 January to 1 February 2020
Lulu Raczka
Holy What
7 January to 1 February 2020
Athena Stevens
Sarah Lawrie for Aegis Productions in association with Neil McPherson for the...
Firenza Guidi
NoFit State Circus
Roundhouse
3 to 18 January 2020
Book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein
Phoenix Theatre
30 January 2019 to 17 October 2020
Book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, inspired on Alexander Hamilton ...
The Public Theater
Victoria Palace Theatre
From 6 December 2017
Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields
Mischief Theatre
Duchess Theatre
From 5 September 2014
Book by Alan Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel by Victo...
Cameron Mackintosh
Sondheim Theatre
18 December 2019
Based on the novel by Roald Dahl, book by Dennis Kelly, music and lyrics by T...
Royal Shakespeare Company
Cambridge Theatre
7 October 2011
