Every London show on this page plays its final performance within the next six weeks, listed by the week it closes. We check the list against our booking dates each morning, so a run drops off once it has ended.
Updated Monday 19 October 2026
Final performances 19-25 October
Darkling, Bush Theatre. Final performance 24 October. A play that returns to the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster through one life it shaped.
Jane Eyre, Southwark Playhouse Elephant. Final performance 24 October. A musical version of Charlotte Brontë’s gothic novel.
Man to Man, Royal Court Theatre. Final performance 24 October. Tilda Swinton returns to a role closely tied to her, in a revival of the wartime survival play.
Tartuffe (Remixed), Marylebone Theatre. Final performance 24 October. Mark Rylance leads an updated version of Molière’s comedy about a household taken in by a fraud.
The Story, Olivier Theatre at the National Theatre. Final performance 24 October. Letitia Wright leads the UK premiere of a drama set inside a newsroom.
The Urmetazoan, Hampstead Theatre. Final performance 24 October. A comedy-drama about two sisters finding their way back to each other before a final goodbye.
Thelma & Louise, Young Vic. Final performance 24 October. Rachel Tucker and Amy Lennox lead the musical version of the 1991 road movie.
Final performances 26 October - 1 November
Angel’s Bone, London Coliseum. Final performance 31 October. English National Opera stages Du Yun’s Pulitzer-winning opera about human trafficking.
Fences, Lyric Hammersmith. Final performance 31 October. August Wilson’s drama about a family in 1950s Pittsburgh.
Final performances 9-15 November
Franz & Marie, Charing Cross Theatre. Final performance 14 November. An indie-folk musical spun from Büchner’s Woyzeck, with a vein of dark humour.
Kimberly Akimbo, Hampstead Theatre. Final performance 14 November. Maria Friedman plays a teenager whose body is ageing far faster than she is, in the Tony-winning Broadway musical.
TRU, Menier Chocolate Factory. Final performance 14 November. Jesse Tyler Ferguson plays Truman Capote in Jay Presson Allen’s solo play.
An Oak Tree, The Other Palace. Final performance 15 November. Tim Crouch’s experimental two-hander, in which a different guest performer joins him unrehearsed each night.
Final performances 16-22 November
Some Woman, Dorfman Theatre at the National Theatre. Final performance 21 November. A new play about an ordinary woman who refuses to give way to a system set against her.
Final performances 23-29 November
Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s Globe. Final performance 24 November. Shakespeare’s comedy of the sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick.
As You Like It, Shakespeare’s Globe. Final performance 25 November. Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden comedy of exile and disguise.
Manon, Royal Opera House. Final performance 25 November. Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet of love and money, danced by The Royal Ballet.
Martin Guerre, The Old Vic. Final performance 25 November. Boublil and Schönberg’s musical, staged in the round as Matthew Warchus’s last production at the theatre.
Affluenza, Riverside Studios. Final performance 28 November. A sharp comedy about wealth, privilege and how the American courts treat them.
The Pianist, Park Theatre. Final performance 28 November. A new musical built on the true story and the music of Władysław Szpilman.
