{"title": "The Comedy About Spies", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "New Wimbledon Theatre", "address": "The Broadway 93, SW19 1QG London", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy/farce"], "description": "The Comedy About Spies is an action-packed comedy thriller set in 1960s London, from the creators of The Play That Goes Wrong. Written by Henry Lewis and Henry Shields, directed by Matt Di Carlo and produced by Kenny Wax and Stage Presence in association with Jo Danvers, it comes from Mischief Theatre, founded in 2008 by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields. In the play, a rogue British agent steals the plans for a new top secret weapon, and spies from the CIA and KGB gather at the Piccadilly Hotel to find the mole and get the file back, until three actors auditioning for the first James Bond film, Dr No, arrive and things start to go very wrong. Expect a feast of misunderstandings, miscommunication and mistaken identity in a madcap farce full of slapstick humor.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-comedy-about-spies-112056/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/660f94c82ab1d938ed6bcba0cfa5082fcab93afa4634c4be0e3bc55d7832694a-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "New Wimbledon Theatre", "address": "The Broadway 93, SW19 1QG London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Christmas Carol Goes Wrong", "start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-23T00:00:00Z", "place": "Wyndham's Theatre", "address": "32-36 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0DA London", "price": "GBP 42", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "198.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy/farce", "occasion/christmas"], "description": "Christmas Carol Goes Wrong is a laugh-out-loud comedy that turns the beloved holiday classic into a chaotic disaster full of mishaps and mayhem. It was written by original Mischief team members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, the Olivier Award-winners behind The Play That Goes Wrong. The ill-fated Cornley Amateur Drama Society stages Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, but hilarious problems with miscommunications, delays, missing actors and a fight over the lead role destroy the much-loved story of Ebeneezer Scrooge. With brilliant physical comedy and unexpected twists, it is recommended for ages 8 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/christmas-carol-goes-wrong-46101/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/600e26132d720b5b231da294aaf9854ea26e0b0d33ac44ce9f9fb798941cbb64-600.webp"}, {"title": "Noises Off", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Theatre Royal Stratford East", "address": "Gerry Raffles Square, E15 1BN Stratford", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy/farce"], "description": "Noises Off is a riotously funny farce about a theatre company desperately trying to keep its disastrous production on the road, while the real drama unfolds backstage: doors are slammed, lines are forgotten, and egos begin unravelling. Written by English playwright Michael Frayn in 1980, inspired by watching one of his own plays from the wings, it is a love letter to backstage chaos. This revival is directed by Stratford East Artistic Director Lisa Spirling and stars Tameka Empson and Paterson Joseph, opening Stratford East's highly anticipated 2027 season.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/noises-off-112057/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1bee2cc58421d99a95912c63c8eb9303026dec9b7a1ce7384132817425ae6343-600.webp"}, {"title": "Racists, Recessions and Revolutions", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Theatre503", "address": "The 503Studio, Moat Street, Nine Elms, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "A 60-minute comedy play with no interval, recommended for ages 10 and up, that traces the untold birth of Fake News. It is written by Isabella Heaver, directed by Harry Conway, and presented by DBN Productions LTD/Harry Conway, with Heaver also playing Nadica. 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. DBN Productions is a new writing company staging cutting contemporary theatre that has toured Britain and Ireland and appears often at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/racists-recessions-and-revolutions-65430/", "official_url": "https://theatre503.com/whats-on/racists-recessions-and-revolutions/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c05d00dd2b9ac75502a93607f8843495de4d6cae6decf3499e3e3f32ab5969b1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Out of Order", "start": "2026-11-11T19:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Compass Theatre", "address": "", "price": "£15 to £16", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": [], "description": "Out of Order is a farce in which Government Junior Minister Richard Willey plans a night of passion with an opposition secretary at the Westminster Hotel, only to find a body trapped in his room's sash window. Ruislip Dramatic Society presents Ray Cooney's riotous comedy, in which hapless private secretary George Pigden helps with increasingly elaborate invented stories and manic cover-ups. Things worsen with the arrival of Richard's wife, Jane's distraught husband Ronnie, a frustrated hotel manager, an unscrupulous waiter and the bossy Nurse Foster.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/out-of-order-36526/", "official_url": "https://pre.hillingdon.gov.uk/discover/out-of-order", "image": "https://noky.io/images/611b9ab14945132ebe72d891b077a8f8578a41d3877eda74717c9e1e6782aedf-600.webp"}, {"title": "Much Ado About Nothing", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-24T00:00:00Z", "place": "Globe Theatre", "address": "21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT Bankside", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "Much Ado About Nothing is Shakespeare's wittiest comedy, staged at the Globe Theatre in Bankside, London. Director Chelsea Walker brings the play to life as part of the Globe's 'Imagine Together' summer season. 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It is by Hamish Lloyd Barnes, co-artistic director of the award-winning theatre company Spies Like Us and a Leicester Square Sketch Off finalist, directed by Ollie Norton-Smith. The show is a ghost story told by ghosts: the haunted Ableforth Theatre will be demolished tonight, but first it stages one hell of a show, featuring whispering curtains, pouting ghosts of leading men and musical theatre kids. 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Stephen Mangan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Sarah Hadland and Janie Dee star in the Olivier-nominated play about two married couples caught in a tangled web of adultery and deception. Michel, a middle-aged businessman, has been having an affair with Alice, the wife of his best friend Paul, and things come to a head when the couples spend a night away in a hotel. Packed with twists, secrets and biting humour, it promises to leave audiences on the edge of their seats.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-truth-63390/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f79b16ea8703f7602155010e53a290e4423fbba74a722f0cb245b97c568a2231-600.webp"}, {"title": "Mother Russia", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hampstead Theatre", "address": "Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU London", "price": "GBP 34", "price_from": "34.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/dark-comedy"], "description": "Mother Russia is a dark comedy play making its UK premiere in London. Written by multi award-winning writer Lauren Yee, it follows old friends Evgeny and Dmitri in St Petersburg in the nineties, who become embroiled in racketeering and espionage as capitalism rises from the ashes of communism, before things go wrong when Evgeny falls for one of their marks. Directed by Oscar Toeman, the off-Broadway smash-hit from New York's Signature Theater delivers biting comedy and clever social commentary on the realities of the free market in a changing world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mother-russia-63495/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed5a9a92addb0e1e911c6d1b0cf0a3ff95d0e17dece5a25264a9911a4425ed2e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Remember, Remember!", "start": "2026-11-06T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "From £14.00", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "19.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy/musical-comedy", "history/early-modern/tudor"], "description": "Remember, Remember! is a comedy musical about the Gunpowder Plot, promising an intentionally misinformed and inaccurate retelling of one of Britain's most infamous tales of treason, with songs, forbidden love and explosive action. It is by WIT? Theatre Company, four actor-writers from the comedy show NewsRevue, and is presented at Pleasance London following a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe. The show features the pre-recorded voice of Stephen Fry as narrator and has won the Glitch Award at the Lambeth Fringe 2025 and the Pleasance's Charlie Hartill Fund 2026. It runs for 70 minutes and is recommended for ages 15 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/remember-remember-63898/", "official_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/remember-remember", "image": "https://noky.io/images/17bb07deb8050f263737fcef624f41b80f847c795377df5bf7613a114c74ede9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible is Going to Happen", "start": "2026-11-19T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Other Palace", "address": "Palace Street 12, SW1E 5JA London", "price": "£20 – £45", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "45.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/dark-comedy"], "description": "This is a dark comedy play at a theatre near Victoria, following a stand-up comic whose perfect romance spirals into obsession, deception and killer punchlines. It was written by Marcelo Dos Santos, is directed by Matthew Xia, and stars West End favourite Steven Webb as The Comedian. From the Olivier Award-winning producers of Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, the Fringe First Award-winning hit explores vulnerability, intimacy, ego and truth, running about 1 hour 5 minutes without an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/feeling-afraid-as-if-something-terrible-is-going-to-happen-39525/", "official_url": "https://theotherpalace.co.uk/feeling-afraid/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4df24fee7bc40557c40441bc4464d07f74cf8c63c0dd35c7149dfca07708a33c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Jumpers", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-23T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hampstead Theatre", "address": "Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU London", "price": "GBP 42", "price_from": "42.00", "price_to": "66.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "Jumpers is a comedy play by Tom Stoppard, about murder, marriage and metaphysics. A professor of moral philosophy calls the police on his wife's late-night election party, only to find that she is the prime suspect in a murder that occurred there. The 1972 comedy has not been staged in London for over 20 years, and is directed by Blanche McIntyre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jumpers-63494/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32fa5f3647c2e78ff5d1a0f73966c1ea80ebef1c1005d38a74aeafb2a6b0ee9a-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": null, "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": "Hay Fever", "start": "2026-09-22T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00Z", "place": "Leicester Square", "address": "", "price": "££", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy/farce"], "description": "Hay Fever is a comedy of bad manners by Noël Coward, staged at Wyndham's Theatre in a new production directed by Emily Burns. Stage and screen icons Christine Baranski, making her West End debut as Judith Bliss, and Richard E. Grant star in it. The retired actress Judith, missing the applause, invites a young fan for a weekend at the family's country home, unaware each of the self-involved Blisses has a guest of their own arriving too. Unsuited to hosting and allergic to compromise, the house erupts into a chaos of parlour games, put-downs and unrequested encores.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hay-fever-69939/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3fd349ae9296403e2e771b58c4c906298b7e6a22dcd6a799bdef138c5c90d5dc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Murder, She Didn't Write", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-04-19T23:30:00+01:00", "place": "Duchess Theatre", "address": "Catherine Street 3-5, WC2B 5LA London", "price": "GBP 19.50", "price_from": "19.50", "price_to": "29.50", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "comedy/improv"], "description": "Murder, She Didn't Write is an improvised comedy show that creates a brand-new murder mystery live on stage at every performance. It is staged at the Duchess Theatre in London's West End. Edinburgh Fringe favourites Degrees of Error use audience suggestions to act out an original, Agatha Christie-inspired whodunnit, and the audience must solve it. Each show lasts 2 hours including an interval and is recommended for ages 12 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/murder-she-didnt-write-37390/", "official_url": "https://nimaxtheatres.com/shows/murder-she-didnt-write/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3ee5c95014f67ca5e5bb7c8ab009652a150b60f2ad5a8e5bc25985e80f9403ef-2000.webp"}, {"title": "(Un)Shakespearean Nightmares", "start": "2026-11-07T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£16, concessions £14", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "(Un)Shakespearean Nightmares is a fast-paced comedy in which Shakespeare's forgotten and iconic characters rebel against the Bard himself. Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the show, whose cast plays multiple roles in a surreal battle to rewrite destiny and reclaim their stories from their tyrannical creator. It blends farce, parody, and meta-theatre and is recommended for ages 15 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/unshakespearean-nightmares-65864/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/unshakespeareannightmares", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0c8351e37d2fe144a7517d708c1896ce00f57c8905e3aef963bad633c63dca1a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Comedy Store Players", "start": "2026-11-08T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Comedy Store", "address": "Oxendon Street 7, SW1Y 4EE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/improv"], "description": "The Comedy Store Players are an improvisational comedy team who have been performing their unique shows every Sunday in the heart of London's West End for many years, wowing audiences with their improvisational skills. The concept is simple: the team asks the audience for suggestions of locations, genres and characters, then improvises hilarious scenes and sketches around those ideas. No two performances are ever the same and the only limit is your imagination. The Players hold the Guinness World Record for the longest running comedy show with the same core team and were presented with the Legend of Comedy Award at the 2025 Leicester International Comedy Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-comedy-store-players-60327/", "official_url": "https://london.thecomedystore.co.uk/event/the-comedy-store-players/2026-11-01_19-30", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fe1add3244b1b3c2cb7b494923a7cc4e73eead2bbe161f48a66af38ed2070ef5-1200.webp"}]}