{"title": "GIANT - The Play", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hammond Theatre", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "film/drama"], "description": "GIANT - The Play is the big-screen presentation of the critically acclaimed stage play starring John Lithgow as Roald Dahl. Winner of 3 Olivier Awards including Best Play and a Tony Award for John Lithgow, the production was filmed live in London's West End ahead of its sold-out Broadway run, with a cast that includes Aya Cash, Elliot Levey and Rachael Stirling. Set in the summer of 1983, it follows Dahl on a single afternoon at his family home, where the outcry over his antisemitic article forces him to choose between a public apology and his reputation. 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Nadica is a driven young Macedon/Brit who stops at nothing to build an empire of lies, defying tech giants, Covid lockdowns and a crumbling economy. 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Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the show. Built on a single deliberately bad joke, it becomes a dream-riff on families, intergenerational trauma, envy, hate, mothers and sons, and the theatre itself. Following a successful Camden Fringe run, it was the Camden New Journal's Pick of the Fringe of over 400 shows.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-gall-of-the-house-of-sud-the-perils-of-youth-play-65857/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/theperilsofyouthplay", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9d2a388a03531c81fb4be307298c7ff47047d2fcc7afb2f270ac575373ce020-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Major", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-07-31T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Olivier - National Theatre", "address": "South Bank, SE1 9PX London", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "36.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/political-drama", "history"], "description": "Major is a new political drama staged at the Olivier - National Theatre on the South Bank. Playwright James Graham, a three-time Olivier Award winner, chronicles John Major's rapid rise from obscure Whip to Prime Minister, taking over from Margaret Thatcher in 1990 during a pivotal moment for the UK. 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Sam Yates, an Olivier Award-winner, directs this drama about Joe Bonaparte, a gifted young violinist lured by fame and fortune into the brutal world of professional boxing. Josh O'Connor leads the cast, with Hayley Squires and Daniel Mays, and the performance was filmed live from the Almeida Theatre with a live string quartet. The story explores ambition, identity, and the high price of success, as Joe confronts what he is willing to sacrifice and how to find his place in a world that demands he choose a side.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nt-live-golden-boy-36998/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10229596", "image": "https://noky.io/images/98fa1571a35f5746adcb8214361a005066cd899a77626cd420a43a68051e66e4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-09-05T23:30:00+01:00", "place": "Palace Theatre", "address": "Cambridge Circus, W1D 5AY London", "price": "GBP 25–175", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "175.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a stage play performed at the historic Palace Theatre in London's West End, recommended for theatre lovers, families and visitors. It is based on an original new story by J.K. 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The production features spectacular spells, a mind-blowing race through time and an epic battle to stop mysterious forces while the future hangs in the balance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-37384/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/50e8ca1f55d178e21b4e3511a42c9c774fb75024bf33dfdbc68b84d1e91ed97b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "start": "2026-09-21T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00Z", "place": "@sohoplace", "address": "Soho Place 4, W1D 3BG London", "price": "Tickets from £40.00", "price_from": "40.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "A new production of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, set in the round, runs at @sohoplace in the West End. Directed by Tony and Olivier Award winner Marianne Elliott, it stars Gillian Anderson as Martha and Billy Crudup as George. In the early hours on an American college campus, Martha has invited new professor Nick and his wife Honey for after-party drinks, and the young couple are drawn into George and Martha's toxic games as dawn approaches. Produced by Sonia Friedman Productions for a strictly limited run, the evening culminates in a moment of devastating truth-telling.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf-38659/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3611a750947aa92a1805dba3181683b49706390ae1b10517a0760e1b320fa666-2000.webp"}, {"title": "\"Emlyn – A Divided Life\" – A Chamber Play by W. A. Drew", "start": "2026-11-14T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Fan Museum", "address": "Crooms Hill 12, SE10 8ER London", "price": "£25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "A charity premiere performance of the chamber play \"Emlyn – A Divided Life\" by W. A. Drew, staged in the painted orangery of The Fan Museum in Greenwich. The new play, written by W. A. Drew and performed by actor Mansel David, portrays the life of the writer and actor Emlyn Williams, from his roles on stage and screen – including Caligula in the ill-fated film of \"I, Claudius\" – to his famous plays \"The Corn is Green\" and \"Night Must Fall\" and his friendships with figures such as Richard Burton, Bette Davis and Noël Coward. Filled with humour, anecdotes, gossip, scandal and tears, it runs for one hour and twenty minutes without intermission and is suitable for adult audiences only. The evening also includes light refreshments and private entry to the museum's latest exhibition by contemporary fan maker Frédérick Yvan Manuel Gay.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/emlyn-a-divided-life-a-chamber-play-by-w-a-drew-39177/", "official_url": "https://www.thefanmuseum.org.uk/events/emlyn-a-divided-life-a-chamber-play-by-w-a-drew", "image": "https://noky.io/images/df0409beee6bc7ac912d08d73bd8451ca02b524f68559e0471c7c1ba438b1ef7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Death of a Salesman", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-09-30T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Lyttelton - National Theatre", "address": "South Bank, SE1 9PX London", "price": "GBP 209.50", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "209.50", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/classic-drama"], "description": "Death of a Salesman is a new staging of Arthur Miller's Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play, widely considered one of the greatest American works of theatre. Rebecca Frecknall directs a star-studded cast including Paul Mescal, Monica Dohan, and Tracy Letts in his UK stage acting debut, alongside Sharon D Clarke and Wendell Pierce. The play follows Willy Loman, a despondent aging salesman obsessed with greatness, who is losing his grip on reality. Unfolding over the final 24 hours of his life in Brooklyn, it offers a scathing deconstruction of the American Dream.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/death-of-a-salesman-63402/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3bd4a561b2942bc4efcef1b5636e87c270cf71f719eff85eedf2e1e159d01402-600.webp"}]}