Take me to heaven 🙏
The best deals from London Theatre Week
This doesn’t happen often, but I’ve had a really good theatre week. Like I’ve genuinely really enjoyed every show I saw! I suppose you could say I’ve been in theatre heaven. I’d probably have booked some return trips if two of the shows weren’t closing this weekend. I would recommend trying some last minute rush seats for them though if you can.
I booked two of the shows this week on TodayTix’s rush tickets scheme. If you haven’t taken advantage before then definitely look it up - you can get on-the-day seats for top shows for as little as £20. They’re usually some of the best seats in the house too. I saw Cruise last weekend from the front row for £20 on a rush ticket. We also had a brilliant night at Sister Act on Wednesday with £25 rush tickets in the stalls.
We saw My Fair Lady on Monday through the WhatsOnStage offer I put in the newsletter a few weeks ago, but there is rush available too! Couldn’t believe how good our seats were on the WOS offer though - incredible view from the stalls and one of the comfiest seats I’ve ever sat in. Three really enjoyable shows, all for £25 or less. Absolute heaven in every sense, and proof you don’t have to spend a fortune to see amazing theatre - something I constantly preach about!
Happy ticket-buying!
Rochelle 🎭🎫
Carrying the banner
In the news this week…
I’m kind of a big deal
Right, you may have seen loads of adverts for London Theatre Week (LTW from here on) with tickets at £15, £25, £35 and £45. There’s lots of West End shows included, but not all of them have all price levels of tickets available. Also not all of them are massive reductions on the normal price or even great value for money!
There are some good deals to be had though, so I’ve looked through and picked out the best of the bunch individually below. Of course this is based on cheap tickets at £30 or less, so if you have a bit more to spend and want to browse yourself then try some of the agents listed below…
Hey big spender
Here’s your discounts, offers and cheap seats this week.
This is your absolute final call to get FREE kids tickets for London shows as part of Kids Week. Next week is September (can you believe it) and the offer is only running throughout August.
The show I’m in is having a little bank holiday sale, so you can get 10% off A Midsummer Night’s Dream until Monday. This means tickets are as little as £9! Use code MIDSUMMER10.
Love this half price offer for We Will Rock You in Manchester - you can get tickets for as little as £12.25! Valid Mon-Wed performances, ends on the bank holiday Monday.
Get £15 tickets for Grease in Sep & Oct, there’s also some good ones at £25.
There’s also £15 tickets for The Mousetrap.
Anything Goes has just over a week left in town and there’s some £15 seats remaining for its final shows.
There’s lots of £15 seats for The Drifters Girl in its final weeks, including in the stalls.
Some of the dates on offer for & Juliet have £15 tickets in the back row of the dress circle which is still a pretty good view, bargain!
And don’t forget there’s loads of seats on offer for Dirty Dancing months ahead of its next London run, they start from £15.
There’s £15 tickets for Millennials this weekend.
There’s a few £20 seats left for some of the final performances of Fashion Freak Show.
Get half price tickets for the new musical Ride at the Charing Cross Theatre - starting from £20.
I, Joan opens at The Globe this weekend and there’s lots of brilliant £20 seats on offer.
The Book of Mormon doesn’t normally have big discounts so I would really recommend the £25 seats available in LTW. They may be the back corners of the stalls and circle, but it’s a small theatre so they’re pretty good!
There’s some really good £25 seats for Wicked in the stalls, on the side but super close to the stage!
Get amazing seats for Come From Away for £25, including right at the front of the stalls!
There’s very limited £25 seats for Heathers but they are pretty good if you can find them.
And finally, most of the seats are at £25 for Choir of Man’s return in October.
Don’t throw away your shot
Competitions, on-sales and announcements.
There’s been lots of show announcements this week - about time, I was starting to wonder what was happening after all these show closures! First up, the new theatre @sohoplace will be opening with the show Marvellous, with tickets already on sale.
The sold-out Young Vic production of Oklahoma! will be transferring to the Wyndham’s Theatre in February. You can sign up to the newsletter for more information on tickets, dates and casting.
The Garrick Theatre is gonna be busy! Social media legend Rob Madge is getting a West End transfer of their show My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?) It will be followed by the new Death Drop tour and then by Orlando starring Emma Corrin. All three shows are now on sale.
Blippi the Musical will be coming back to the Lyric Theatre at Christmas. Tickets are on sale now.
The Almeida has announced a very exciting new season, including a new musical Tammy Faye which has songs by Elton John! Tickets go on public sale at midday on Tue 6 Sep.
The Stage Debut Awards are coming up and you can vote for the winner of the Best West End Debut Performer category. There are some biiiiig names in here, good luck choosing.
Last chance to enter this amazing competition to win a year of theatre - it closes on 31 Aug.
Win tickets to the Belgrade Theatre plus an overnight stay in Coventry.
And finally you can win some tickets to shows at the Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch, including their new production of Kinky Boots.
That’s all for this week. If you enjoyed the newsletter, please tell your friends. I’m also open to suggestions and requests for certain discounts, so do drop into my DMs. Right, time to finish off my takeaway pizza from last night. 🍕