An RSC stage version of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel ‘Hamnet’ was clearly always going to end up in the West End, and as it happens Lolita Chakrabarti’s adaptation has announced that it’s playing a limited 14-week West End run before its long-sold-out Stratford-upon-Avon run has even started.
After the chaos of the pandemic years, London’s theatre scene is fully reopened, and essentially back to how it was pre-Covid: the best theatre city in the world, heaving with classic musicals, bold new writing, exciting international work and the all-important fringes.
This rolling list is constantly updated to share the best of what’s coming up and currently booking: these choices aren’t the be-all and end-all of great theatre in 2023 and 2024, but they are, as a rule, the biggest and splashiest shows on the horizon, and the smaller, cooler ones we’re looking forward to the most as well. They’re shows worth booking for, pronto.
Want to see if these shows live up to the hype? Check out our theatre reviews.
Check out our complete guide to musicals in London.
And head over here for a guide to every show in the West End at the moment.