London Summer Season 2025

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 5/29/25 at 3:09pm

Just curious what people are excited about this summer season in London. Very excited to catch Intimate Apparel at the Donmar, Moon for the Misbegotten at the Almeida, and possibly Evita at the Colosseum (depending on reviews&hellip

Interested in what others think are the must see shows of the season. 

Updated On: 5/29/25 at 03:09 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/29/25 at 3:20pm

I’m looking forward to “Burlesque”, now that Orfeh is in it &  curious what they’ve done with “Hercules”. “Sing Street”, “Brigadoon”, “Top Hat” at Chichester, “Mrs. Warren’s Professjon” and the “Hunchback” concert are all things I’m also looking forward to. 
 

 

[Owen22]

Posted: 5/29/25 at 3:54pm

I'm only there nine days in June but I'm seeing The Brightening Air, Hercules, Here We Are, The Deep Blue Sea, Sondheim's The Frogs, Master Builder, London Road, Mrs. Warren's Profession and Evita, 

[Sauja]

Posted: 5/29/25 at 4:40pm

I’m in for just a long weekend in June. Have tickets to The Fifth Step, Evita, and Intimate Apparel. Can’t decide how to fill my last two open slots! Fiddler, Benjamin Button, Giant, and My Neighbor Totoro are leading the list, but how to decide???

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 5/29/25 at 4:46pm

Giant was so damn good, but it’s almost certainly going to transfer when Lithgow’s schedule will allow. Not sure if it helps but I booked Fiddler after I saw they offer a 230 Tuesday matinee. 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/29/25 at 4:48pm

For what it’s worth (and Im clearly in a minority) I found “Tototo” to be one is the single most boring things I’ve ever had to endure in a theater. 

[Sauja]

Posted: 5/29/25 at 5:00pm

Helpful all around! Can happily scratch Totoro off the list so now need to just decide...probably between Fiddler and Giant for my last spot. I'll almost certainly see Benjamin Button. If I knew for sure Giant was transferring, I would definitely go Fiddler, but we'll see if my fear that I miiiiiight miss it finds me biting the bullet and grabbing Giant in the last slot!

I had also considered The Frogs, but...I just feel like even as much as I adore Sondheim, I can probably miss this one.

[SteveSanders]

Posted: 5/29/25 at 5:58pm

Good Night Oscar with Sean Hayes starts in late July at the Barbican in case that is of interest to you.

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 5/30/25 at 12:27am

I had also considered The Frogs, but...I just feel like even as much as I adore Sondheim, I can probably miss this one."

Who’s doing the Frogs? Going to admit that I hated it at Lincoln Center, but might be open to a new interpretation. 

[Idiot]

Posted: 5/30/25 at 1:11am

I thought about making the trip just for LONDON ROAD.  I'm fascinated by the piece - it was a ton of fun to learn - and don't feel that the film did it justice.  Seeing it right back where it started would be a treat.

[Sauja]

Posted: 5/30/25 at 6:50am

The Frogs is at Southwark Playhouse. I think it’s the version that was done at LCT, though obviously in a new production. https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/the-frogs/

[SteveSanders]

Posted: 5/30/25 at 7:15am

Play Esq. said: "

I had also considered The Frogs, but...I just feel like even as much as I adore Sondheim, I can probably miss this one."

Who’s doing the Frogs? Going to admit that I hated it at Lincoln Center, but might be open to a new interpretation."

Comments about the Southwark production begin here on the TheatreBoardUK.

 

[inception]

Posted: 5/30/25 at 7:24am

The production photos on the website make it look pretty fun.  I love the frog costumes.

[Ensemble1728379893]

Posted: 5/30/25 at 7:50am

I will be there for a long weekend in July and I have booked: "Till the Stars...," "Evita," "Inter Filia," "Giant" and "Sing Street."  Fingers crossed. 

[NotCarylChurchill2]

Posted: 5/31/25 at 8:12am

I saw The Frogs the other day. Great fun, very fringy, weirdly hetero considering how camp it is, but the second act drags like anything. If they'd cut it down to a tight 80 minutes straight through it would be perfection.

 

My Master Builder is almost certainly the worst play of the year. It's absolutely shameful that a play that dire, by a first time writer, went straight into the West End just because the playwright is an ultra-wealthy and well-connected socialite who is best friends with many powerful celebrities. One of the cast is married to a friend and I heard the cast accepted based on Michael Grandage + 3 month West End run, without seeing the finished script, and are now mortified with having to perform such poor material. Lots of lines that are clearly intended to be deadly serious meditations on art and live generating giggles, or even howls of laughter. It's almost Mystery Science Theatre 3000 territory it's so bad. 

[inception]

Posted: 5/31/25 at 10:31am

Interesting reading about Raicek nee Feinberg.  Quite the striver.  A talented Mrs Ripley?

Might be good for Ewen McGregor to be in such a stinker.  His career with Expedia seems to have eclipsed doing any real work.