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Canned Goods
Canned Goods
1/16 - 2/8/2025


“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough – it will be believed.” It’s 1939. On the border between Germany and ...


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HEAVEN Makes London Premiere at Southwark Playhouse Borough in 2025


by Stephi Wild - December 16, 2024

Fishamble will bring HEAVEN to Southwark Playhouse Borough for its London premiere next year.  Learn more about the upcoming production and find out how to get tickets here!...

Kevin McHale Will Make UK Stage Debut in Sondheim's THE FROGS


by Stephi Wild - December 05, 2024

Kevin McHale will make his UK stage debut in Sondheim's The Frogs, coming to Southwark Playhouse Borough next year. Learn more about the show and how to get tickets here!...

New Musical MIDNIGHT COWBOY Will Open at Southwark Playhouse in 2025


by Stephi Wild - November 27, 2024

The world premiere of MIDNIGHT COWBOY – A NEW MUSICAL will open at Southwark Playhouse Elephant in April 2025. Learn more about the upcoming production here!...

Review: [TITLE OF SHOW], Southwark Playhouse


by Cindy Marcolina - November 19, 2024

Director Christopher D. Clegg assembles Jacob Fowler (Hunter), Abbie Budden (Heidi), Mary Moore (Susan), and Thomas Oxley (Jeff) as the quartet, while Tom Chippendale is their accompanying pianist Larry. New casts will never have that je-ne-sais-quoi of the artists playing themselves, but, if the ch...

A VERY NAUGHTY CHRISTMAS Arrives In London This December


by A.A. Cristi - October 28, 2024

A VERY NAUGHTY CHRISTMAS, the acclaimed play, is set to debut in London this December. ...

Review Roundup: FLY MORE THAN YOU FALL at Southwark Playhouse


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 24, 2024

See what the critics are saying about Fly More Than You Fall at Southwark Playhouse. Read the reviews for the production starring Keala Settle and others, and learn more!...

Review Roundup: LAND OF THE FREE at Southwark Playhouse


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 16, 2024

See what the critics are saying about Land of the Free at Southwark Playhouse. Playing in the lead up to the most contentious American presidential election since the time of the Civil War, Land of The Free, tells the full story for the first time in British theatre of the life of the actor John Wil...

Review Roundup: FOREVERLAND at Southwark Playhouse


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 10, 2024

See what the critics are saying about Foreverland at Southwark Playhouse. Learn more about the play written by upcoming playwright Emma Hemingford, and read the reviews for the production....

A VERY NAUGHTY CHRISTMAS Lands In London This December


by A.A. Cristi - September 24, 2024

A VERY NAUGHTY CHRISTMAS has announced its London debut this December....

CABLE STREET Will Return at Southwark Playhouse ELEPHANT This Autumn


by Stephi Wild - April 09, 2024

The sell-out new British musical CABLE STREET comes to Southwark Playhouse ELEPHANT on Friday 6 September to Thursday 10 October 2024 - for just 42 performances!...

Past Shows

Garry Starr Performs Everything
Garry Starr Performs Everything
11/29 - 12/23/2023


Disgraced actor Garry Starr defies his critics by performing every style of theatre imaginable, thus saving the performing arts from extinction. Starr tears through genres ...

Sugar Coat
Sugar Coat
3/29 - 4/22/2023


After an acclaimed run at VAULT Festival in 2020, the queer, feminist pop-punk hit Sugar Coat returns to Southwark Playhouse as a timely rallying cry ...

WINDFALL
WINDFALL
2/9 - 3/11/2023


Pushed to the edge by their maniacal boss, five downtrodden office workers decide to risk it all on a $500million lottery ticket in the hope ...

The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville Ghost
10/11 - 11/5/2022


Step right up to Oscar Wilde's uproarious vaudeville spectacular The Canterville Ghost which is coming to haunt and delight audiences at the Southwark Playhouse this ...

Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus
9/1 - 10/1/2022


Bringing the supernatural to Southwark this autumn, Lazarus Theatre Company are transforming Christopher Marlowes Elizabethan tragedy into a multi-sensory theatrical experience. Exploring the modern tragedies ...

Yeast Nation (The Triumph of Life)


The European premiere of a bio-historical musical comedy from the Tony-award winning writers of Urinetown opens at the Southwark Playhouse this summer. Yeast Nation (The ...

Mohand & Peter
Mohand & Peter
3/9 - 4/2/2022


Mohand & Peter from PSYCHEdelight, one of the worlds leading creators of theatre made by refugees. The show is inspired by Mohands own life as ...

Gatsby
Gatsby
12/8 - 1/8/2022


Gatsby: The Musical- A staged musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'...

Gatsby: The Musical


This original retelling of Fitzgeralds classic novel pivots the focus to Daisy, with references to the real woman that inspired her character; his wife, Zelda ...

Exile
Exile
11/7


Its 2016. Donnas life is thrown into disarray when she discovers shes pregnant, forcing her to make a secret journey from her home in Ireland ...

Yellowfin
Yellowfin
10/13 - 11/6/2021


A fiercely original new play fusing politically charged drama with biting comedy, Yellowfin delves into the backroom dealings of a future in which all of ...

Staircase
Staircase
6/23 - 7/17/2021


Not seen in London for more than half a century, Staircase by Charles Dyer (1928 2021) was a West End and Broadway hit at its ...

Staircase
Staircase
6/23 - 7/17/2021


Not seen in London for more than half a century, Staircase by Charles Dyer (1928 2021) was a West End and Broadway hit at its ...

You Are Here
You Are Here
5/17 - 6/12/2021


You Are Here is the UK premiere of an intimate, hilarious and heart-breaking tour-de-force musical that will leave you cheering for the resilience of the ...

The Poltergeist
11/20 - 11/21/2020


Philip Ridley's new play The Poltergeist will no longer be performed in front of a live audience at Southwark Playhouse due to England entering a ...

Lipstick
3/4


Lane Stanley; dir: Andy Rogow. World Premiere...


The Last Five Years, a poignant and unconventional musical by Jason Robert Brown, explores the complexities of love and relationships through a fragmented timeline. Unlike ...


Seven classic pantomimes for the price of one! The great British festive tradition returns to the West End, in a whistle-stop tour for all the ...

Superstar
11/26

Islander: A New Musical
Islander: A New Musical
10/2 - 10/26/2019


Eilidh stares out to sea and dreams of a new life beyond her lonely island. Myth and reality collide when the tide washes a mysterious ...

Frankenstein
10/25


In its premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse, the audiences and critics cheered this new adaptation of one of the greatest novels in the English ...

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