{"title": "Mother Courage and Her Children", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-07-17T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Globe Theatre", "address": "21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT Bankside", "price": "GBP 8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/globe-theatre", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "literature/drama", "history"], "description": "\"Mother Courage and Her Children\" is a play at the Globe Theatre, staged for the first time as part of the venue's summer season. The drama was written by German playwright Bertolt Brecht, translated by Anna Jordan and directed by Elle While, with Michelle Terry starring as Mother Courage. Set during the Thirty Years War, it follows a war profiteer who trades with both sides to protect her children, until the conflict claims them one by one. 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The evening is in aid of The Royal British Legion Veterans Enterprise and Chelsea Theatre. A live 'Dad's Army' piano bar plays favourite tunes from yesteryear in the bar beforehand from 7pm. Wednesday's performance is a regular show, while the special Gala Night on Thursday raises funds and includes a champagne reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/picnic-on-a-battlefield-by-fernando-arrabal-60201/", "official_url": "https://chelseatheatre.org.uk/picnic-on-a-battlefield/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5e342376779fe6dab49b169730e7dd780746efe7a3626e4b16613587f1b7488-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Matilda The Musical", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-09-05T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Cambridge Theatre", "address": "Earlham Street, WC2H 9HU London", "price": "GBP 24", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "24.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/matilda-the-musical-tickets/2026/10/28/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature/childrens-books", "stage/musical"], "description": "Matilda The Musical is a stage musical for audiences of all ages, playing at the Cambridge Theatre in London's West End. 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Written by Inna Cebotari and directed by Sava Cebotari, it is produced and presented by Kinth Square, with four performers moving between three interwoven theatrical worlds. On a British building site, three construction workers navigate inductions, deadlines and banter, while elsewhere Mummy Pig reads her three sons a book that blurs work, migration, family and ambition. 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It was created by award-winning playwright Hannah Khalil with designer Sam Wilde, and directed by Ian Nicholson. 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It is an adaptation by Colin Teevan of Christian Kracht's internationally best-selling novel, directed by Walter Meierjohann, and stars Ben Whishaw and Kathryn Hunter as the bickering duo, who must come to terms with their own and Europe's dark history while carting a plastic bag stuffed with cash through the snowy mountains of Switzerland. The English language premiere reunites the creative team behind the Young Vic's productions Kafka's Monkey and The Emperor, and the show is part of the Young Vic's 2026/27 season.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/eurotrash-63384/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8a5d5693027241cbfe0db8e262f935167ed2dc5b1287fbe9da1786f11ddb1905-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Traitors - Acts of Betrayal", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-07-31T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gillian Lynne Theatre", "address": "Drury Lane, WC2B 5PW London", "price": "GBP 30", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "60.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/the-traitors-tickets/2027/05/11/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "film/reality-tv"], "description": "The Traitors - Acts of Betrayal is a stage adaptation of the BBC mega-hit series The Traitors, coming to the stage for the first time. It is made by Studio Lambert together with Sam Mendes' Neal Street Productions, written by John Finnemore and directed by Olivier Award winner Rob Hastie, with Nick Mohammed announced as host. The play brings to life the series's mix of whodunnit mystery and psychological drama, in which contestants compete for a cash prize while trying to weed out the traitors in their midst. It forms a cycle of five new plays sharing the same premise but diverging into different narratives, with Saturday performances letting audiences determine which character becomes a Traitor.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-traitors-acts-of-betrayal-63465/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a7adcb9a773cb60a0c577f0573fbbfe0efbd92b5acbc0c2422f414dba3919e19-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Gall Of The House Of Sud: The Perils of Youth Play", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£16 (General Admission); £14 (Concession, Senior over 60, Access for All, Unemployed, Student)", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://buytickets.at/theplaygroundtheatre/2278748", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/dark-comedy"], "description": "A play in which, in an ancient rotting house, an unseen visitor knocks and a poisonous crone and her pompous, disgraced son argue over who should answer the door. 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": "The Lives of Others", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Adelphi Theatre", "address": "Strand 409-412, WC2R 0NS London", "price": "Tickets from £25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.lwtheatres.co.uk/event/71460/performance/1119502", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/political-drama", "history/gdr/stasi"], "description": "The Lives of Others is a stage play at the Adelphi Theatre. Adapted and directed by Olivier Award-winner Robert Icke and based on the Oscar-winning 2007 film, it is Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's story set in 1984 East Germany, where a writer and an actor are placed under state surveillance and their Stasi man listens for evidence of subversion from the attic above their apartment. 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Directed by Rebecca Frecknall, it stars Matt Willis and Katie Hall and follows the English performer Sally Bowles, her relationship with the American writer Cliff Bradshaw, and the struggles of Fraulein Schneider and her Jewish lover Herr Schultz in Weimar Germany. Based on John van Druten's play and Christopher Isherwood's stories, with a book by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kinder and lyrics by Fred Ebb, the show has won seven Oliviers including Best Musical Revival. Featuring songs like Willkommen, Mein Herr and Cabaret, it runs about 2 hours 45 minutes including an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cabaret-63528/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ce82d5a2e35162f1881c8788d5354fae89171c2a9ec6fc21e5a9df6526994eb-600.webp"}, {"title": "Florence “Flo” Smith – Now & Then", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T19:30:00Z", "place": "Bridge House Theatre", "address": "High Street 2, SE20 8RZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-bridge-house-theatre", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "Florence “Flo” Smith – Now & Then is a historical biographical drama set in 1969, in which a woman looks back on her life in London from the Boer War to the Summer of Summer of Love, recalling with horror, humour, tears and joy those turbulent times at home and in the world beyond her front door. It was written and directed by Christopher Saul, who based it on tape recordings he made in 1969 of his grandmother Florence Smith's recollections of her Victorian childhood, her marriage to a man seriously wounded in the First World War, her struggle to feed three hungry children in the 1930s and her experiences of the London Blitz. Ursula Mohan plays Flo, portraying a woman whose body is slowed by aching bones but whose mind remains as sharp as ever, in a story of growing up in poverty and struggling in war-torn Britain that critics have called funny, poignant, moving and compelling.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/florence-flo-smith-now-then-35084/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a167a10f4aae351bf07036be1350ce1f1692a9f15631ff592efb32fb78cd1bdb-1200.webp"}]}