Step back in time and into the shoes – literally – of different people from Shakespeare’s world at one of our Elizabethan Costume Demonstrations and discover some of the fashions (and fashion faux pas) of the 16th Century.

Elizabethan Costume Demonstration

Shakespeare's Globe

One wild and windy night the Gruffalo’s Child ignores her father’s warnings about the Big Bad Mouse and tiptoes out into the deep dark wood. She follows snowy tracks and encounters mysterious creatures – but the Big Bad Mouse doesn’t really exist… does he?

EPSG:4326

The Gruffalo’s Child

Ualbany Performing Arts Center

artsdepot

At the dawn of the 20th century, two brothers driven by their dying father’s charge to seize the boundless opportunities of the New World set off to find their fortune. From the frenzy of the Gold Rush to the real estate boom in Florida, Sondheim and Weidman’s complex, catchy, and darkly funny tale based on the true story of the Mizner Brothers chronicles the curdling of the American Dream.

Road Show

The Gatehouse

Join a Sword Fighting Demonstration and watch as Early Modern stage combat comes to life. Includes a photo opportunity for you to handle the weapons yourself!

Family Sword Fighting Demonstration

The fortunes of the Cavaliers are about to change: the great LeBron James, the biggest star in basketball, is coming to Cleveland. But when superfan Matt’s latest business venture turns sour, he has to sell his most prized possession – his pair of Cavs season tickets. The buyer, Shawn, just sold his first short story – so watching his team in the flesh for the first time will be a sweet reward. Now just to figure out what to do with that second ticket…

KIng James

Hampstead Theatre

Ben Duke’s electric work asks: what if Medea had a chance to tell her own story?

Ruination

Royal Opera House

A E Housman is, as he understands it, finally dead. The noted Latin scholar and celebrated poet of A Shropshire Lad is being ferried across the Styx to Hades – but beyond the stygian gloom on the other side of the river he finds, to his surprise, the Oxford University of his youth. Alive with the academic debates that shaped his work and the friendships that shaped his life, this is the Oxford of Ruskin and Pater; a place still marked by the brilliance of a recently departed student called Wilde…

The Invention of Love

Join Dick on his search for fortune, fame and new beginnings! Along the way, he’ll experience the adventure of a lifetime, battling rats, falling in love, and finding himself on the path to becoming the Mayor of London.

Dick Whittington and his Cat

Hackney Empire

Join wooden puppet Pinocchio, and his poor toy maker father Geppetto in Stratford this Christmas!  

Will Blue Rinse Fairy and Krik Krak the cricket be able to keep Pinocchio off the crooked path, as he battles the trials and tribulations of becoming a “real boy”? 

Pinocchio

Stratford East

Inside the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, uncover a twisted tale of obsession, game-playing and deception in Shakespeare’s ruthless thriller, All’s Well That Ends Well.

All's Well That Ends Well

Hailed by the New York Times as a ‘genuinely epic production’, The Lehman Trilogy is a sweeping story of a family spanning generations and a company that changed the world.

John Heffernan, Aaron Krohn and Howard W. Overshown bring their ‘virtuosic performances’(The Mercury News) to London, following a critically acclaimed run in San Francisco, playing the Lehman brothers, their sons and grandsons in this thrilling ‘tour de force of acting talent.’(KQED Radio)

The Lehman Trilogy at the Gillian Lynne Theatre

Gillian Lynne Theatre

With Mathew Baynton (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) as Bottom, this hilarious production of Shakespeare’s captivating comedy will transport you from deepest midwinter to the most magical of midsummer nights. As four young lovers are faced with the prospect of unhappy marriage or worse, they flee the court of Athens and stumble into an enchanted forest, where the real and fairy worlds collide.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Barbican Centre

This festive season, join Clara on a fantastical adventure where anything is possible. Embark on a journey full of colour and wonder as English National Ballet brings Nutcracker to life with over 100 dancers and musicians.

Nutcracker

London Coliseum

Mayflower Theatre

John Heffernan, Aaron Krohn and Howard W. Overshown bring their ‘virtuosic performances’ (The Mercury News) to London, following a critically acclaimed run in San Francisco, playing the Lehman brothers, their sons and grandsons in this thrilling ‘tour de force of acting talent.’ (KQED Radio)

On a cold September morning in 1844, a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers, and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, triggering the largest financial crisis in history.

The Lehman Trilogy

This is THE CHOIR OF MAN, an uplifting celebration of community and friendship where everyone is welcome! It’s a party…it’s a concert…it’s a theater experience unlike any before.

The Choir of Man

Seven Dials

Apollo Theater

This enchanting ballet by The Royal Ballet’s Founding Choreographer Frederick Ashton is a theatrical experience for all the family this Christmas. 

Cinderella

There’s magic in every moment at Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the most awarded play in history and “one of the most defining pop culture events of the decade” (Forbes). And now, the 8th Harry Potter story is bringing the magic back to London’s West End. 19 years after Harry, Ron, and Hermione saved the wizarding world, they’re back on a […]

Harry Potter And The Cursed Child

Palace Theatre London

The Smartest Giant in Town live theatre show is back in London's West End this Christmas.

George wishes he wasn't the scruffiest giant in town. So when he sees a new shop selling giant-sized clothes, he decides it's time for a new look: smart trousers, smart shirt, stripy tie, shiny shoes. Now he's the smartest giant in town . . . until he bumps into some animals who desperately need his help - and his clothes!

The Smartest Giant In Town

St. Martin's Theatre

Iggety ziggety zaggety zoom! 
Jump on board the broom with the witch and her cat in Tall Stories’ fun-filled adaptation of Room on the Broom, the best-selling picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

The witch and her cat are travelling on their broomstick when they pick up some hitch-hikers – a friendly dog, a beautiful green bird and a frantic frog. But this broomstick’s not meant for five and – CRACK – it snaps in two… just as the hungry dragon appears!

Room on the Broom

Lyric Theatre London

Each ticket entitles you to one complimentary drink. Have your ticket scanned at any of Barbican’s bars on Level G or Level -1 for one single 175ml measure of house wine, 330ml bottle of standard beer, or standard soft drink, subject to our bars' stocks. Valid only on Wed 1 Jan 2025.

Events in London next month

Elizabethan Costume Demon...

Shakespeare's Globe

The Gruffalo’s Child

artsdepot

Road Show

Upstairs At The Gatehouse

Family Sword Fighting Dem...

Shakespeare's Globe

KIng James

Hampstead Theatre

Ruination

Royal Opera House

The Invention of Love

Hampstead Theatre

Dick Whittington and his ...

Hackney Empire

Pinocchio

Theatre Royal Stratford East

All's Well That Ends Well...

Shakespeare's Globe

The Lehman Trilogy at the...

National Theatre

A Midsummer Night’s Dream...

Barbican Centre

Nutcracker

English National Ballet

The Lehman Trilogy

LW Theatres

The Choir of Man

Apollo Theater Chicago

Cinderella

Royal Opera House

Harry Potter And The Curs...

Palace Theatre London

The Smartest Giant In Tow...

St. Martin’s Theatre

Room on the Broom

Lyric Theatre London

New Year's Day Proms

Barbican Centre