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Theatre

The best new theatre shows: London 2023

By Holly O'Mahony on 19/12/2022

Broadway imports, star-fronted revivals and classics explored through a contemporary lens are among the highlights coming to the London stage in 2023. While many more shows are still to be announced, here are the best new plays of 2023 you can book now and take your seats for later.

A Streetcar Named Desire, Almeida Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire, Almeida Theatre

Paul Mescal of Normal People fame stars alongside Patsy Ferran (Summer and Smoke, Three Sisters) and Anjana Vasan (We Are Lady Parts) in a new production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire at the Almeida Theatre. And who better to direct it than the ever-brilliant Rebecca Frecknall, who delivered the theatre's sensational take on Williams' Summer and Smoke in 2018/19.

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WHEN
Saturday 17 December–Saturday 4 February 2023
WHERE
Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, London N1 1TA
The Great British Bake Off Musical, Noël Coward Theatre

The Great British Bake Off Musical, Noël Coward Theatre

The Noël Coward Theatre is being transformed into reality TV's famous white tent, as The Great British Bake Off Musical plays the West End for a limited run of 12 delicious weeks.

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WHEN
Saturday 25 February–Saturday 13 May 2023, 7:30pm–9:35pm
WHERE
Noël Coward Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4AU
Beverley Knight stars in suffragette musical Sylvia

Sylvia, Old Vic Theatre

Kate Prince's suffragette musical Sylvia is being fully realised at the Old Vic, after running there as a work-in-progress in 2018. The cast is mouth-watering, featuring world-famous soul singer Beverley Knight (The Bodyguard, Memphis et al) as Emmeline Pankhurst and Sharon Rose (Hamilton, Caroline or Change, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) in the title role.

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WHEN
Friday 27 January–Saturday 1 April 2023, 7:30pm–9pm
WHERE
The Old Vic, The Cut, London SE1 8NB
Guys and Dolls, Bridge Theatre

Guys and Dolls, Bridge Theatre

It’s staged immersive Shakespeare and transformed its stage into a flooded Oxford for its adaptation of Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage, now the Bridge Theatre is putting on its first musical, running with a Golden Age classic: Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows’ 1950 hit, Guys and Dolls.

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WHEN
Monday 27 February–Saturday 2 September 2023, 7:30pm–10pm
WHERE
Bridge Theatre, 3 Potters Fields Park, London SE1 2SG
Phaedra, National Theatre

Phaedra, National Theatre

Writer-director and adapter extraordinaire Simon Stone (Yerma) reimagines Seneca's play about the Cretan princess Phaedra (here, a politician) consumed with love for her stepson. Janet McTeer (Ozark) plays the title role, with Assaad Bouab (Call My Agent) making his London stage debut as Hippolytus.

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WHEN
Wednesday 1 February–Saturday 8 April 2023
WHERE
National Theatre, Upper Ground, London SE1 9PX
The Pillowman, Duke of York's Theatre

The Pillowman, Duke of York's Theatre

Twenty years after it premiered at the National Theatre in a production starring David Tennant, and having already run on Broadway, Martin McDonagh's seminal play The Pillowman makes its West End debut. Lily Allen (2:22 – A Ghost Story) stars in the gender-flipped role of Katurian, a writer of gruesome short stories involving children, who has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

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WHEN
Saturday 10 June–Saturday 2 September 2023
WHERE
Duke of York's Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4BG
Berlusconi: A New Musical, Southwark Playhouse

Berlusconi: A New Musical, Southwark Playhouse

Fleabag and Baby Reindeer producer Francesca Moody is working with writers Ricky Simmonds and Simon Vaughan (who met as child actors on Grange Hill) to tell the 'almost true' story of three-time Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi – as a musical. Pitched as 'Evita on acid' and a 'modern-day cautionary tale', it tells the story of the populist leader through the eyes of various women in his life including his second wife, the magistrate who investigated him and a journalist.

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WHEN
Saturday 25 March–Saturday 29 April 2023
WHERE
Southwark Playhouse, 77-85 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BD
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, Harold Pinter Theatre

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, Harold Pinter Theatre

If words were strictly limited, what would you say? Such is the premise of Sam Steiner’s play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons. The two-hander was a hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2015, and now it comes to the West End for 2023. Jenna Coleman (The Serpent, Doctor Who) and Aidan Turner (Poldark, The Lieutenant of Inishmore) star in the show, which is being directed by former Donmar Warehouse boss Josie Rourke.

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WHEN
Wednesday 18 January–Saturday 18 March 2023, 7:45pm–9pm
WHERE
Harold Pinter Theatre, Panton Street, London SW1Y 4DN
A Little Life, Harold Pinter Theatre

A Little Life, Harold Pinter Theatre

Belgian director Ivo van Hove helms the first English-language stage adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s best-selling novel A Little Life. The production stars James Norton (Happy Valley, Grantchester) as the story’s troubled hero Jude, with Bridgerton's Luke Thompson, It's a Sin's Omari Douglas and The Witcher's Zach Wyatt playing his close friends Willem, JB and Malcolm.

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WHEN
Saturday 25 March–Sunday 18 June 2023. Performances start at 7pm, run time TBC
WHERE
Harold Pinter Theatre, Panton Street, London SW1Y 4DN
The Winter’s Tale, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

The Winter’s Tale, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

In a monumental first for Shakespeare’s Globe, associate artistic director Sean Holmes (The Tempest, Hamlet, Twelfth Night) presents a production of The Winter’s Tale that makes use of both the theatre’s candle-lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and its outdoor auditorium, which usually remains closed in winter. The audience travels with the story from the stiff court of Sicilia in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse to the more care-free, pastoral lands of Bohemia in the Globe Theatre – presumably come wind, rain or snow.

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WHEN
Thursday 9 February–Sunday 16 Apr 2023, 7:30pm–10pm
WHERE
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, 21 New Globe Walk, London SE1 9DT
The Lehman Trilogy, National Theatre 2018

The Lehman Trilogy, Gillian Lynne Theatre

Stefan Massini's finance saga opened at the National to critical acclaim in 2018 before transferring to the West End and later Broadway. Having scooped up five Tony Awards, including Best Play, The Lehman Trilogy is returning to London in January 2023.

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WHEN
Tuesday 24 January–Saturday 20 May 2023
WHERE
Gillian Lynne Theatre, 166 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5PW
Mrs. Doubtfire, Shaftesbury Theatre

Mrs. Doubtfire, Shaftesbury Theatre

Fresh from Broadway (via Manchester), a new musical based on hit 1993 movie Mrs. Doubtfire comes to the West End. Wig, stockings and bust at the ready: it's Euphegenia Doubtfire, dear, and she's here to make things ship-shape.

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WHEN
Friday 12 May 2023–Saturday 13 January 2024, 7:30pm–10pm
WHERE
Shaftesbury Theatre, 210 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8DP
Standing at the Sky's Edge, National Theatre

Standing at the Sky's Edge, National Theatre

It opened to critical acclaim in Sheffield back in 2019, now new musical Standing at the Sky's Edge is finally getting its pandemic-delayed London run. With a book by the ever-exciting Chris Bush (Hungry, Nine Lessons and Carols), and music and lyrics by Richard Hawley, the show follows the lives and hopes of three generations living on an estate in Sheffield.

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WHEN
Thursday 9 February–Saturday 25 March 2023
WHERE
National Theatre, Upper Ground, London SE1 9PX
Titus Andronicus, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Titus Andronicus, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Steel yourself: a new production of Shakespeare’s first and most gory tragedy, Titus Andronicus, is getting 2023 off to a stomach-lurching start in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. It won’t be all blood-thirsty horror and no poignance, though, when exciting director Jude Christian (Dick Whittington) is at the helm.

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WHEN
Thursday 19 January–Saturday 15 April 2023, 7:30pm–10pm
WHERE
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, 21 New Globe Walk, London SE1 9DT
Medea, @sohoplace

Medea, @sohoplace

Dominic Cooke (Good, The Normal Heart) is directing Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels in a new production of Euripides' Medea, running at new West End theatre @sohoplace.

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WHEN
Friday 10 February–Saturday 22 April
WHERE
@sohoplace, 2 Soho Place, London WC1
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