Theatres in London

I'm Every Woman: the Chaka Khan Musical

How To Make A Mess: A Totally Unauthorised Love Letter to Nigella Lawson

HOW TO MAKE A MESSA Totally Unauthorised Love Letter to Nigella LawsonA Mouth-Watering New Musical by Emily Rose SimonsWhen Anna’s estranged mother dies, she skips sitting shiva and immerses herself in NIGELLA LAWSON’s seminal cookbook How To Eat, somehow summoning an imagined Nigella as her guide. Folding together heartache and humour, Anna...

Dinosaur World Live!

High School Musical

That’s Why Mums Go to Switzerland

From the mind, and true lived experience, of Bonnie Oddie, That's Why Mums Go to Switzerland (Winner: Best Solo Show at Riverside Studios Bitesize Festival) is a blazing, darkly comic new play. This one-woman show steps into an exploration of assisted dying within modern family dynamics, with wit and disarming...

Asian Pirate Musical

The year is 2049: A lone pirate sails the Straits of Melaka under a red sky, alone… until a storm throws seafarers from across time and space onto the same ship. The pirates struggle for power – and acceptance – make enemies – and friends. As the budding-bickering crew sail...

Pride and Prejudice in Words and Music

After sold-out performances at the 2025 Bath Jane Austen and Chawton Pride and Prejudice Festivals, the Cohen-Wingfield Duo — creators of the acclaimed Einstein's Violin — bring Pride and Prejudice in Words and Music to Upstairs at the Gatehouse for one night only.Gill Hornby's witty and dynamic abridged version of...

Darling, I Think I'm Turning Into A Chicken

Butterfly Eye Productions’ new totally absurd and slightly horrific Extravaganza comes to Upstairs at the Gatehouse for its premiere run this July. An imaginative, physical and text-led exploration of how illness is not only biological, but emotional, social and generational, asking what it takes to break cycles of inheritance—and whether...

Secrets of The Simpsons

Comedy producer Mike Reiss won four Emmys during his thirty-six years writing movie scripts, American TV shows and countless episodes of The Simpsons. ‘Entertainment Weekly’ called Season 4 of The Simpsons “the greatest season of the greatest show in history”. Mike Reiss lectures regularly throughout the USA and onboard cruise ships...

The Jive Aces

Got the blues? Well, step right up, because The Jive Aces are bringing their "Feelin’ Happy" Tour to town, and it’s gonna flip your frown upside down! When these cats burst onto the stage in their signature yellow suits, you’ll be tapping your feet and grinning like a fool before...

Sweet Lorraine

Highly-respected jazz musician Harry Sumner's world is turned upside down when Lorraine Tait, a complete stranger, arrives in his life. From the very moment she sits at his piano for her first lesson, Harry feels inspired, excited, and adored again.But Lorraine brings more than talent, enthusiasm, and love. Harry finds...