{"title": "We Have Always Lived in the Castle", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-11-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lyric Hammersmith", "address": "King Street, Lyric Square, W6 0QL London", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "A stage adaptation of Shirley Jackson's gothic thriller and final novel, presented as a world premiere production. Alistair McDowall adapts and Sarah Frankcom directs the story of eighteen-year-old Merricat Blackwood, who lives in isolation on the family estate with her agoraphobic sister and ailing uncle as the only survivors of a family tragedy. Ostracised by the nearby villagers, the sisters hide behind Merricat's magical wards until their long-lost cousin Charles arrives and nothing will ever be the same. The dark, harrowing psychological thriller explores the social and psychological implications of societal ostracisation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-129583/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d106f3e66aa6a2e0c6220fa296a58f0a330499ddafceb840019e51e5a9dcdb04-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-11-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lyric Hammersmith", "address": "King Street, Lyric Square, W6 0QL London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "August: Osage County", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-04-10T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Noël Coward Theatre", "address": "St Martin's Lane 85-88, WC2N 4AU London", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/family-drama"], "description": "A major stage play at a West End theatre, presented as its first major revival. It is Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, directed by Jeremy Herrin and starring Lesley Manville and Anna Maxwell Martin. It follows the Weston family, a wildly dysfunctional and embittered clan forced to reunite at their Oklahoma home after the patriarch's suicide, where old wounds reopen and long-buried secrets surface at his funeral. It is a poignant, darkly funny family drama about grief, addiction, and trauma.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/august-osage-county-63417/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4d97a126843650ab8bbb026b6247515ccf0102fe747e530fe957a3aaacaea996-600.webp"}, {"title": "Paranormal Activity", "start": "2026-08-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-27T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ambassadors", "address": "West Street, London", "price": "GBP 44", "price_from": "44.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/horror"], "description": "Paranormal Activity is a new story live on stage, inspired by the iconic, terrifying film series. Written by Levi Holloway and directed by Felix Barrett, visionary Artistic Director of Punchdrunk and the international hit Sleep No More, it is based on the films first written and directed by Oren Peli and brought to screen by Blumhouse and Solana Films, and produced in association with Paramount Pictures. James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape their past, but they soon discover that places aren't haunted, people are. It runs at the Ambassadors Theatre and contains moments of high tension and strong language, with caution advised for audiences under the age of 15.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/paranormal-activity-34719/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6d2089116a92dc8de23c462b4b4ce3e3e1158514dab905ecf330df9a37aae428-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Autumn Season: Jekyll and Hyde by Evan Placey after Robert Louis Stevenson", "start": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rose Bruford College", "address": "Burnt Oak Lane, DA15 9DF Sidcup", "price": "", "price_from": "2.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/gothic"], "description": "A stage performance at The Barn Theatre of Rose Bruford College, running in the college's Autumn Season. It is Evan Placey's adaptation of Jekyll & Hyde, reimagining Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Gothic thriller for a modern audience, directed by Maisie Newman and performed by BA Acting and Actor Musicianship students. After Dr Jekyll's mysterious death, his widow Harriet searches for answers as rumours spread about the elusive Hyde, in a story blending Victorian London with today's digital world that explores identity, power and the suppression of who people really are.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-season-jekyll-and-hyde-by-evan-placey-after-robert-lo-64925/", "official_url": "https://www.bruford.ac.uk/event/jekyll-and-hyde/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b7ecc6ea2e9c115f2c9c9d8167194abb80aef27c4f3df3f69900a3bb6af32e96-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hamish Lloyd Barnes: Stage Presence (WIP)", "start": "2026-11-19T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "from £10.00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/character-comedy"], "description": "A work-in-progress character comedy show at the Pleasance London Studio. 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. The hour-long performance is for ages 14 and up and contains strong language.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hamish-lloyd-barnes-stage-presence-wip-63921/", "official_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/hamish-lloyd-barnes-stage-presence-wip", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ff9f07c92892683b5d063745e5eb588744ac9469615bc82fa88b4e49ee13c110-1200.webp"}, {"title": "20th Nov: UNDER MILK WOOD A very Welsh production by The Eastcastle Players", "start": "2026-11-20T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Eglwys Gymraeg Canol Llundain (Eastcastle Welsh Baptist Chapel)", "address": "30 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8DJ", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/play", "literature/drama"], "description": "A staged production of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, performed in the original English by The Eastcastle Players with an all-Welsh cast. The play for voices portrays the small Welsh town of Llareggub and its colourful inhabitants in a funny, tender and poetic way. Trefor Ellis, Dylan Thomas' son-in-law, takes a leading role, and all proceeds go to the homelessness charity St Mungo's. Note that the performance takes place at Eglwys Gymraeg Canol Llundain on Eastcastle Street, not at the London Welsh Centre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/20th-nov-under-milk-wood-a-very-welsh-production-by-the-east-41659/", "official_url": "https://londonwelsh.org/events/under-milk-wood-a-very-welsh-production-by-the-eastcastle-players/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10e66cff1fcb3d55bd8587ed6c1f72ba94955cc4002ed72367115b3fd2ee6d25-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Northanger Abbey", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hampton Hill Playhouse", "address": "High Street 90, TW12 1NZ Hampton Hill", "price": "£17", "price_from": "17.00", "price_to": "17.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "literature/adaptation"], "description": "A stage production of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey at Hampton Hill Playhouse. It is staged by YAT (Youth Action Theatre) and follows Catherine Morland, a young reader whose love of Gothic novels fires her imagination as she navigates the social whirl of Bath and the mysterious Northanger Abbey. The ensemble production promises wit, romance and Gothic drama in a lively Regency world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/northanger-abbey-36397/", "official_url": "https://www.hamptonhilltheatre.org.uk/events/northanger-abbey", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b99d6b2ebf7851aca6aa524f4c63fd65f393d9d9ec07b6abb4af29b0126baed5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Bloomsbury Theatre", "address": "Gordon Street 15, WC1H 0AH London", "price": "£16, £12 (Concessions), £8 (UCL Students)", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "A stage production of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a psychological thriller about a respected doctor whose experiment to split the two halves of human nature unleashes a violent alter ego. It is presented by UCL Drama Society in David Edgar's adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella. Set in the Victorian era but strikingly contemporary, it asks what is lost when we reduce people to wholly good or bad. The show runs roughly 2 hours 10 minutes including an interval and is recommended for ages 14 and up, with flashing lights, haze, loud noises and scenes of violence among its warnings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-60070/", "official_url": "https://www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/2026/11/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde", "image": "https://noky.io/images/601ce30e480081bd99766b0b927180ece9de3c5c53850dcdeca9f94078ff1648-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Southbury Child", "start": "2026-11-07T19:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Geoffrey Whitworth Theatre", "address": "Beech Walk, DA1 4NP Crayford", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy-drama"], "description": "The Southbury Child is a darkly funny and moving stage play about grief, faith, family and the rituals that shape our lives. Written by Stephen Beresford, it follows David Highland, a raffish and frequently drunk vicar who has held onto his remote coastal parish through charm and determination. When his faith compels him to take a stand with a bereaved parishioner, he finds himself isolated, with his family, his place in the town and his certainties all at risk. This amateur production is directed by Melinda Hunt and runs 2 hours 30 minutes including an interval, with strong language and themes of bereavement, racism and family breakdown.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-southbury-child-36230/", "official_url": "https://www.thegwt.org.uk/production/the-southbury-child-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bb0d99830de5901198b86661c50e59aef9025fee0bc326a4f74b2e2010e3f700-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Happy Birthday, Imogen Dutt", "start": "2026-11-17T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/experimental-theatre"], "description": "A Happy Birthday, Imogen Dutt is a theatre piece by Half Chewed. Polly Waldron and Adrian Greensmith devised and perform it, with Luis Odriozola as movement director and performer and Lillian Cheever as designer. Imogen Dutt celebrates her birthday every year while being haunted, and tonight at 25 she learns she did not kill what haunts her. The fictional story, loosely inspired by Mark Fisher's book Capitalist Realism, follows her out to celebrate as she reckons with why it is so hard to imagine alternatives, followed by a creature with an impossible face; it runs 70 minutes with no interval and is for ages 15+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-happy-birthday-imogen-dutt-65859/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/ahappybirthdayimogendutt", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9eca39f69f30f4da8a6f565cf5e3160a5e6770af69240093774401cc2012f5fa-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hame. Teeth. CLUB.", "start": "2026-11-19T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Theatre503", "address": "The 503Studio, Moat Street, Nine Elms, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy"], "description": "Hame. Teeth. CLUB. is a darkly comedic one-woman play placing a working-class Scottish young woman at the centre of her own narrative. Written by Kari Hall and directed by Jessie Wren Jacobs, presented by Iona Bremner Productions and Sláinte! Theatre. It follows Morgan Shields, a hedonistic party girl who, after a sexual assault, is forced to confront her lack of ambition, her personal chaos, and the emptiness of being believed while no one stands by her side. Written in a blend of colloquial Scots and English, it tackles how communities treat survivors of assault, complicity, and female friendship.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hame-teeth-club-65433/", "official_url": "https://theatre503.com/whats-on/hame-teeth-club/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/baa3fc6b19f18f931157b581fc0d9e036c29ff6e58bfd01f57dd9a91b30c13f9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Before the Coffee Gets Cold", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-07-17T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Lyric Hammersmith", "address": "King Street, Lyric Square, W6 0QL London", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "A stage adaptation of a novel about a small Tokyo cafe where customers can travel back in time, as long as they return before their coffee gets cold. Toshikazu Kawaguchi wrote the cosy, whimsical novel that the play is based on. Conor McPherson brings this beloved and best-selling story to the UK stage for the first time. It is a heartwarming, emotional story about love, regret, and missed connections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/before-the-coffee-gets-cold-63503/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}