What's love got to do with it? Everything. It's love - for music, for rock and roll, and, of course, for Tina Turner herself - that has taken [*Tina - The Tina Turner Musical*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/reviews/review-tina-the-tina-turner-musical-at-the-aldwych-theatre) to millions of ticketholders in the West End. On 26 September, the show will celebrate its 2 millionth audience member at the [Aldwych Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/venues/aldwych-theatre), awarding surprise...

'Tina - The Tina Turner Musical' to welcome 2 millionth audience member

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Charting the live of the trailblazing rock and roll singer, the musical will hold a special celebration in honor of the milestone at the Aldwych Theatre.

Brie Larson is trading the superhero cape for Greek classics. The Oscar-winning actor from such projects as *Room*, AppleTV+'s *Lessons in Chemistry*, and Marvel's *Captain Marvel* will be making her West End debut in a new revival of Sophocles's classic tale *Elektra* at the [Duke of York's Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/venues/duke-of-yorks-theatre) in London on 24 January 2025. 

The new production will be directed by Daniel Fish, who has staged stunning revisionist takes on classic...

Brie Larson to make West End debut in 'Elektra' in 2025

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The Academy Award-winning star of *Room* and *Captain Marvel* makes her London debut in a new revival of Sophocles's timeless drama beginning in January.

Get your cauldrons ready and put on your witch's hats. [*Room on the Broom*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/25225-room-on-the-broom-tickets) is making its return to London and has set its cast. The show, produced by Tall Stories, will run at the [Lyric Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/venues/lyric-theatre) from 22 November 2024 – 5 January 2025 before a UK tour.

The *Room on the Broom* cast includes Amy Harris as Witch, Joe Lindley as Bird and Dragon, Dan Armstrong as Dog and...

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Loved by families all over, production company Tall Stories announces the new cast for *Room on the Broom* for November 2024 to January 2025. 

You can't stop the beat, as [*Strictly Comes Dancing Live Tour*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/34579-strictly-come-dancing-london) returns for new dates throughout the UK from 17 January to 9 February 2025. Motsi Mabuse will join as a judge for the first time alongside Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, and Craig Revel Horwood.

Mabuse, who first gained international attention for her appearances on German television's *Let's Dance* alongside *Eurovision* star Guildo Horn, first joined...

‘Strictly Come Dancing’ to tour the UK in 2025

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*Strictly Come Dancing Live* makes its spectacular return in January, with Motsi Mabuse joining the tour at the judge's table for the first time.

No one is ever too old to be enchanted by the worlds conjured up by incredible folklore. The oral tradition is the oldest form of storytelling, and versions of beloved tales of magic, romance and adventure have been handed down through hundreds, or even thousands, of years.

These stories have been told through drama, musicals, opera, ballet, and pantomime. Revisionist interpretations can offer fascinating insights into how they relate to our contemporary society, while traditional takes provide...

A guide to shows inspired by myths, folklore, and fairy tales

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Surrender to the fantastic with an array of magical shows, including *Hadestown*, *Wicked*, and *The Nutcracker*.

It was one of the most successful and memorable concerts ever performed, one of the most astonishing feats of spectacle, and all for charity. Now, it's a stage spectacular. [*Just for One Day - The Live Aid Musical*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/35497-just-for-one-day) will transfer to the West End in July 2025 at the [Shaftesbury Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/venues/shaftesbury-theatre). 

Originally organized as an effort to probide relief to the ongoing famine in Ethiopia...

‘Just For One Day – The Live Aid Musical’ to transfer to the West End

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After a succesful run at The Old Vic, the stage adaptation of the famed concert will transfer to the West End in July 2025, 40 years after the original.

Get ready for your love of Tina Turner to run river deep and mountain high again! [*Tina - The Tina Turner Musical*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/8547-tina-the-musical-tickets) has announced that it will extend booking through 25 October 2025 at the [Aldwych Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/venues/aldwych-theatre). 

Based on the life of one of the most electrofying voices in music history, this biographical musical charts Tina Turner's life through her devastating lows and...

‘Tina - The Tina Turner Musical’ extends booking through October 2025

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The exhilarating biographical musical based on the life of one of the greatest rock and roll singers of all time has played the Aldwych Theatre since 2018.

In *[Wicked](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/313-wicked-tickets)*, enemies-turned-best friends Elphaba and Glinda enjoy “one short day” in the Emerald City, with all the dress salons, libraries, palaces and museums it has to offer. While London is very different to the Emerald City in many ways, it has just as much to offer, and it’s impossible to run out of things to do and see. 

Read on for a selection of wickedly enjoyable activities that are sure to entertain and inspire you and your...

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Have an enchanted day out in London with plenty of gravity-defying experiences to complement your trip to *Wicked*.

Matilda and her gang of misfit kids have more to celebrate! [*Matilda*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/305-matilda-the-musical-tickets) will play an extended booking period at the [Cambridge Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/305-matilda-the-musical-tickets), with performances now scheduled through to 24 May 2026. 

The Royal Shakespeare Company is thrilled to present the delightful musical for its 13th year in the West End. Angelica Scott has joined Anna Deikalo, Ava Posniak,...

‘Matilda’ extends West End booking period through May 2026

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The award-winning musical based on Roald Dahl's seminal coming of age young adult novel extends releases new tickets in the West End through May 2026

It's hard to find a good nanny these days. After just over a year and a half in the West End, [*Mrs. Doubtfire the Musical*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/24395-mrs-doubtfire) will close 26 April 2025 at the [Shaftesbury Theatre](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/24395-mrs-doubtfire). 

In an announcement [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXgX2DK6Gbc), Mrs. Doubtfire is seen standing with a globe, and the cheerful Scottish au pair thanks her London audiences for the wonderful...

'Mrs. Doubtfire' to close in London in April 2025

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After opening in May 2023, the musical adaptation of the beloved Robin Williams film will play its final performance at the Shaftesbury Theatre next spring.

Head into the woods with the [*A Midsummer Night’s Dream*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/27564-a-midsummer-nights-dream-globe) cast this summer. *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* is at [Shakespeare’s Globe](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatres/shakespeares-globe) from 27 April to 12 August.

Elle While directs the popular Shakespeare comedy that follows young lovers, actors, and fairy kings and queens in an enchanted forest. It’s the first play in the 2023 season, with *The Comedy of Errors*, *Macbeth*, and *As You Like It* also in the season.

Shakespeare Globe’s artistic director Michelle Terry plays Puck, alongside Sam Crerar as Lysander, Mariah Gale as Bottom, Vinnie Heaven as Demetrius, Francesca Mills as Hermia, Anne Odeke as Hippolyta, Marianne Oldham as Titania, Rebecca Root as Quince, Isobel Thom as Helena, Sarah Finigan as Egeus and Snug, Jack Laskey as Oberon and Theseus, Molly Logan as Flute and Fairy, and Tanika Yearwood as Snout and Mustardseed.

James Maloney composes original music, with costume supervision by Sabia Smith, and movement by Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster.

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Join a band of excited revellers and be welcomed into Shakespeare’s famous green forest. *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* tickets are available on London Theatre now.

It’s Midsummer’s Eve. It’s a time to celebrate the summer solstice and all the joyful moments that the warmer months bring. In this riotous play, young lovers, artisan players, and a Fairy King and Queen find themselves pitted against one another. When a shapeshifting servant begins to cast spells on everyone, all hell breaks loose — Mother Nature can’t work her magic here. Can anyone make their way out of the forest? Is life just but a dream?

Elle While directs a hilarious version of *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* at the Globe. She previously helmed a 1930s take on The Merry Wives of Windsor in the wooden ‘O’. Expect new, refreshing takes on Shakespeare’s classic comedy.

*A Midsummer Night’s Dream* in London starts a Shakespeare comedy season at the Globe: *The Comedy of Errors* and *As You Like It* will also be performed in 2023.

### Who are the characters in *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*?

Join Titania, the fairy queen who falls in love with Bottom, after being tricked by her husband Oberon, who likes to make fun of the mortals in the green forest. Then there's Puck, a mischievous fairy who'll do anything regardless of his responsibilities, and Bottom, a weaver who is caught up in Puck's pranks. Plus Hermia and Lysander want to elope, and Demetrius looks for Helena’s hand in marriage. There's lots going on in the woods.

Tickets to *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* are available now. Book your *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* tickets on London Theatre today.

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“Reason and love keep little company,” we’re reliably informed some way into [*A Midsummer Night’s Dream*](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/27564-a-midsummer-nights-dream-globe), the Shakespeare play that perhaps more than any other invites reinvention. 

And why not, given the degree to which the irrational is embedded in this title’s very fabric. This, after all, is a play in which Puck claims to be able to put “a girdle around the earth in 40 minutes” and where the fairy queen, Titania, can fall for the donkey she assumes the weaver, Nick Bottom, to be.

So it’s no surprise that Elle While’s busy, bustling production – its opening delayed by illness – finds its own way into Shakespeare’s most otherworldly comedy, complete with the most extravagant costuming, courtesy the international designer takis, who is working at full tilt here. (Theseus’s splendiferous raiments are themselves worthy of permanent display.)

You quickly come to expect the unexpected, from a prologue that takes revelry to newly enthusiastic heights and on to our first glimpse of Michelle Terry’s extraordinary-looking Puck, who could well have stepped out of the visual world of Arthur Rackham or the Jim Henson Creature Shop.

Only at the very end does this performer, herself the Globe’s artistic director, remove the enveloping headgear that allows us to see her actual face. Advancing towards the audience, hands in her pockets, she’s a disarmingly casual presence. Can this be the same figure who, not much earlier, was seen silencing the musicians visible above the action or inducing shrieks at the breadth of her cunning.

Terry is always a pleasure to encounter at this, or any, address, her command of the language so complete that she finds a playfulness where others might not. “I go, I go, look how I go,” she says, vampily drawing a laugh on this simplest-seeming of lines. Elsewhere, her Puck is a strange, supernatural creature who looks of a piece with the tendrils that seem visibly to be crawling up the side of the Globe’s sturdy oak pillars. (The design is by Paul Williams, who goes by the solo moniker Wills.)

The show has been cast as inclusively as I’ve yet come across at a theatre boldly at the forefront on such matters. Nick Bottom is here Nicola Bottome (accent very much on the second syllable), a gender flip allowing the lovely Mariah Gale to relish the  pronunciation of her own name in a linguistic climate in which words like “prologue” and “epilogue” get a ludicrous comic spin. (Gale deliberately hiccups her way through much of the part, aptly enough when you’re wanting to convey a donkey.)

Hermia, in turn, is that perpetual live wire Francesca Mills, whose achondroplasia, or short-limbed dwarfism, lends a real sting to the character’s self-questioning amidst the gathering mania of the lovers that she is “so dwarfish and so low.” (The same performer was crucially invigorating in the Francesca Martinez play *All of Us* last year at the National.)

At times, you wish the production’s component parts cohered rather more fully: Missing is the unifying point of view that made something both dark and dazzling of Nicholas Hytner’s pre-pandemic *Midsummer Night’s Dream* for the Bridge Theatre, still the defining version of this play in recent years.

Mills’s energy notwithstanding, the lovers don’t really land; the stakes between them feel notably low even with the Helena of Isobel Thom, the nonbinary performer who led last season’s Globe company of the new play *I, Joan*. (Lysander and Demetrius are correspondingly pallid.) And though the Mechanicals’ play within-a-play is endearingly stage managed by Rebecca Root’s Peter Quince, that scene devolves into a competitive mugging that a tighter handle on the whole might put right.

Unusually, the characteristic doubling of Oberon and Theseus – adroitly managed by the ever-charismatic Jack Laskey, a Globe mainstay – isn’t given in this instance to Titania and Hippolyta, as well. That latter role is played by Anne Odeke without the suggestion of feminine subjugation that has attended views on this warrior-queen of late (and was very evident in the Hytner version). Titania, meanwhile, is in the radiant hands of Marianne Oldham, whose immediate stage authority brings to mind a younger Harriet Walter, which is no bad thing.

The vibe suggests a rave that could perhaps turn at any minute and that gives particular pride of place to the brass-intensive band who knock James Maloney’s score out of the park – or, in this case, yard. Actual engagement with the yard is here less than is the norm, though Theseus does recline toward the lip of the stage to deliver his “airy nothing” remarks around the same time that Hippolyta attempts a backward roll with which those standing near the front could perhaps assist.

And the climactic dance – another Globe mainstay – carries a particular frenzy. Make merry, it seems to be suggesting, and feast on what mirth you can before the madness of the world, like the broom-wielding Puck, sweeps it all away.

[*A Midsummer Night's Dream* is at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre through 12 August. Book *A Midsummer Night's Dream* tickets on London Theatre.](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/show/27564-a-midsummer-nights-dream-globe)

*Photo credit: The company of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe. (Photo by Helen Murray)*

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' review — lively production is extravagant but busy

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Read our three-star review of *A Midsummer Night's Dream*, directed by Elle While, now in performances at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre through 12 August.

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Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Hansel and Gretel, as a new version of The Brothers Grimm’s fairy tale by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage transforms the Globe Theatre with poetry, songs and hope. Returning with a new recipe of music, mayhem and festive magic, this is a delicious treat for everyone aged 5+ directed by Nick Bagnall.

The Globe Theatre, located in London, is an iconic piece of British heritage steeped in rich artistic history. It is a modern reconstruction of the original Elizabethan playhouse, where some of William Shakespeare's most celebrated plays were first performed. Featuring an open-air setting, similar to how it would have been in the 16th century, it truly transports spectators back in time. Visitors can immerse themselves in renowned Shakespearean works or participate in educational and cultural programs curated by the team at The Globe. Regardless of your knowledge or interest in Shakespeare, the theatre promises an intrigue-filled experience. The Globe Theatre's circular architectural design provides a unique theatrical experience, with unobstructed views from every angle. 

## How to Get to the Venue

Located at 21 New Globe Walk, London, SE1 9DT, England, reaching the Globe Theatre is simple. The venue is accessible via public transportation with London Bridge (Northern and Jubilee lines) and Southwark (Jubilee Line) being the nearest Tube stations. If you prefer to arrive by bus, the routes 45, 63, 100 to Blackfriars Bridge; 15, 17 to Cannon Street; and 11, 15, 17, 23, 26, 76 to Mansion House station drop off near the theatre. For those driving, there are parking facilities nearby at Park Street.

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The 'wooden O' honours the 16th-century theatre: audience members can purchase a standing ticket and be a "groundling." [Find out more about Shakespeare's Globe in London.](https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/visit-shakespeare-globe)

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