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LGBTQIA+ sHOWS in London
Queer theatre, cabaret and drag in London
Flicker Magazine is the number one place to find queer and LGBTQIA+ shows in London. We bring the widest selection of theatre, drag, cabaret, and community events running now and starting soon across the city.
Whether you search for queer shows in London, LGBTQIA+ theatre, drag nights, or cabaret, this guide brings everything together in one place.
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Mamma Mia!
Donna, Sophie and three possible dads meet on a Greek island in this joyous musical filled with ABBA hits. Up-beat, fun and perfect for anyone ready to sing, dance and be swept away. Ongoing Show
Six The Musical
The six wives of Henry VIII retell their stories through pop music and sharp humour. The concert-style musical flips traditional history, centring voice, power, and identity with energetic performance and catchy songs.
Come Alive! The Greatest Showman
A huge circus-theatre spectacular inspired by The Greatest Showman. Acrobatics, aerial feats, live vocals and circus magic meet hits like “This Is Me,” “Rewrite the Stars,” “A Million Dreams,” “Tightrope,” “The Greatest Show.” Begins with immersive pre-show in the Big Top’s backstage world.
The Devil Wears Prada
A musical based on the story of a young assistant in a fashion magazine office. Sharp power games, ambition, style, and queer culture in the background of the London fashion world.
The Producers
Two scheming theatre producers bribe their way into financing the worst Broadway show ever and then watch it become a surprise hit. A wild mix of sharp jokes, bold characters and big musical numbers in this lively revival.
Sabrage
A decadent cabaret-circus spectacle mixing acrobatics, vintage glamour and cheeky humour. Expect champagne sabering, burlesque, circus acts and a night full of energy.
Oh Mary!
Mary Todd Lincoln battles boredom, desire and a closeted husband in this camp re-imagining of history. Led by Cole Escola as Mary and Mason Alexander Park as Abraham Lincoln, the show blends absurd humour, queer chaos and fast, sharp storytelling.
Kinky Boots
A shoemaker inherits a failing factory and teams up with Lola, a drag queen with flair, to save it and the day. With an Olivier-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, this uplifting musical celebrates identity, resilience and high-heeled triumph.
Avenue Q
A comic musical where puppets mix with actors. Life on a small New York street brings questions about work, love, identity, purpose. Sharp jokes, quick songs, awkward truths, honest emotion. A playful show with a queer-friendly vibe.
Equus
Lindsay Posner's revival of Peter Shaffer's 1973 play puts the homoerotic core of the work front and centre in the Menier's intimate space. Toby Stephens plays psychiatrist Martin Dysart investigating why seventeen-year-old Alan Strang blinded six horses, with Noah Valentine as Strang in a breakout
Beetlejuice The Musical
Teen goth Lydia Deetz moves into a haunted house and calls up the ghost-with-the-most, Beetlejuice. Wild comedy, gothic flair and show-stopper songs combine for an outrageous musical ride.
Redcliffe
Written and performed by Jordan Luke Gage, this new musical tells the true story of two men in 18-century England whose forbidden love becomes a storm of passion, danger and self-discovery.
What’s Wrong With Angry
A play about queer love, identity and the challenges of coming out. It explores young gay relationships, family conflict and hope.
PRIDE The Musical
Based on the true story of gay and lesbian activists who supported striking miners in 1984, this bold new musical combines protest anthems, pop, disco and Welsh choir voices in a celebration of solidarity and identity.
Hot Mess: A New Musical
Earth and Humanity become the centre of this original queer friendly pop musical by Jack Godfrey and Ellie Coote. Climate anxiety, romance, heartbreak, and sharp comedy collide through high energy music and fast moving storytelling
RON
Ted Walliker writes and performs this genre bending queer solo show following a stand up comic whose routine slowly collapses into obsession, violence, and unrequited love. Dark comedy, live storytelling, and sharp tonal shifts collide inside this absurd theatrical odyssey.
CAMDENWALLA
Bhasker Patel and Nusrath Tapadar lead this new play by Jonny Khan set inside the real Camden Monitoring Project during one night in 1994. Racist violence, migration, activism, and community protection shape a story rooted in overlooked Bengali London history.
Grindr: The Opera
Grindr The Opera puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. Grindr itself appears as a mythical siren awoken from millennial slumber by technology, manipulating its gay devotees in a soaring soprano. Musical styles range from baroque to contemporary pop in this Off West End Award winner for Best New Musical.
Ania Magliano: Peach Fuzz
Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show nominee Ania Magliano brings Peach Fuzz to Soho Theatre, fresh from appearances on Taskmaster and Live at the Apollo. The show moves through her own body, boundaries and the legend of Eve in a set that is, by her own admission, occasionally unhinged. She has opened for Ed Gamble, Marc Maron and Catherine Cohen.
Liberace & Liza: A Tribute
David Saffert and Jillian Snow bring Liberace and Liza Minnelli together in this glitter soaked concert comedy packed with live piano, powerhouse vocals, camp humour, and pop standards. Cabaret classics collide with sequins, rivalry, and queer performance energy.
Swamplesque
The ogre-inspired burlesque and drag parody returns to the UK after smashing box office records at Edinburgh Fringe in 2024 and 2025. Swamplesque takes the fairy tale familiar and turns it into a night of laughter, burlesque performance styles and drag, with a devoted following that has toured it from Australia to Adelaide Fringe to the West End fringe circuit.
Minogueus Sanctus: Hersh Dagmarr Sings Kylie Minogue
Hersh Dagmarr transforms Kylie Minogue classics into theatrical cabaret through live vocals, dark humour, and dramatic reinterpretation. Pop nostalgia, queer nightlife energy, and offbeat performance collide inside this late night tribute concert.
Hot Singles In Your Area Play D&D
Comedy Dungeons and Dragons show from the queers behind Lesbian Space Crime and Count Dykula, following a party of adventurers far more interested in the romanceable options than stopping any goblin insurrection. The Dungeon Master requires audience help inventing characters. From Airlock, who make reliably ridiculous queer theatre.
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story
Linus Karp plays Diana in heaven, sharing the untold and untrue story of her life in this multi-award-winning drag show from Edinburgh Fringe. Mixing puppetry, multimedia, audience participation and queer joy, it is as camp as it is ridiculous, and has toured the world since its sold-out Edinburgh debut. From Awkward Prods, the company behind Gwyneth Goes Skiing.
Tender
Ivy has a boyfriend and a plan. Ash is freshly out of a bad relationship, in a flat where something feels wrong. When the two women meet, infatuation takes hold fast. Written by Eleanor Tindall, directed by Emily Aboud. Queer romance with a dark, surreal edge. Transfers to the main house following a
Heathers The Musical
Veronica Sawyer is pulled into the violent social hierarchy of Westerberg High in this cult musical based on the 1989 film. Dark comedy, teen angst, queer coded chaos, and pop rock numbers collide through a story of popularity, identity, bullying, and rebellion.
Here Comes J. Edgar! A Comedy Musical
A bold satirical musical about power, love and hidden identity. The story follows a controversial public figure whose private life and secret romantic past unravel in a 1950s-style musical comedy full of camp, subtext and dark humour.
Jonny Woo: Suburbia Re-Loaded
Jonny Woo's critically acclaimed theatrical memoir returns to Soho Theatre in a re-loaded version following a sell-out 2025 run and an award-winning Edinburgh Fringe season. Suburbia charts his life from a Medway childhood through the 90s rave scene to the drag bars and sex clubs of 00s New York, mixing performance art, cabaret and storytelling.
Pup Play
Noah Pantano explores queer fetish culture, activism, fear, and identity through this performative pseudo lecture blending personal testimony with live theatre. Academic research, vulnerability, and queer subculture collide inside an intimate experimental performance.
Legally Tiana
Drag star and West End performer Tiana Biscuit headlines her biggest solo cabaret show yet at The Other Palace, with a live band and guest vocalists Zak Marx and Luca Crawford. Tiana takes the audience through musical theatre anthems and personal stories from her drag career, her time on the West End, and her life beyond the stage.
Boobytrapped
Trans bodyswap trouble at The Glitch. Simon, a trans man, and Kevin, a cis man, meet in a gay club and are instantly drawn to each other, until a magical twist traps them in each other's bodies. From No Tits Theatre, the queer-led company behind Fckboy, winner of the Binge Fringe Queer Award and The Stagey Best LGBTQ+ Production.
Trains in the Night
Sapphic coming-of-age musical following Celine and Margot, two women on opposite sides of the country sustained by late-night calls, political debates and palpable chemistry they refuse to name. Funny, intimate and viscerally tender, this debut show is a love letter to sapphic yearning and the radical act of letting queer women have their happy ending.
HOLE!
Queer apocalyptic musical comedy from American Sing Song. In Nebraska, a religious sect wears butt plugs at all times because they believe a wrathful God will suck the unplugged up, ass-first, to burn on the sun. The crazy thing is they're right. HOLE! is an epic love story set in the aftermath of the Great Sucking, for everyone left behind.
Frankie Thompson: Horrible Things
Acclaimed clown Frankie Thompson previews her new show before Edinburgh Fringe: a formal presentation of horrible things collected from the back of sofas, the bins of the powerful, your mum's daydreams and your uncle's 2008 YouTube uploads. Described by the Guardian as wonderfully, confoundingly funny and by Time Out as hysterically funny, deeply strange.
Cleansed
A brutal, unflinching play about love under pressure, extreme devotion, identity, violence, desire, survival. Two lovers and two siblings face an institution ruled by cruelty. This staging asks what love becomes when everything else is stripped away.
I’m Every Woman: The Chaka Khan Musical
A musical celebrating the life and legacy of global icon Chaka Khan. The show traces her rise from humble beginnings to superstardom. Expect her greatest hits, powerful vocals, soulful riffs and a journey through triumphs, struggles, identity, fame and resilience.
Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical
Secret Cinema returns to Evolution London with their sold-out 2025 production of the 1978 film musical. The full two-and-a-half-hour immersive experience puts audiences inside Rydell High, with a cast of 30 actors, singers and dancers performing every song live against multiple movie screens. Themed locations include Frosty's Palace, the Autoshop and the Carnival.
The Rocket Man Show
Rus Anderson brings Elton John’s music, costumes, and stage energy to life in this live tribute concert packed with glam rock spectacle, piano classics, and pop nostalgia. Songs spanning decades collide with theatrical performance and flamboyant visual style.
Spin Cycle: The Lesbian Launderette Play
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets The L Word in this Off West End award-winning bittersweet absurdist play. Two women's eyes lock in a launderette, but something is off. Secrets whispered under the thrum of the washing machines ask whether what is forgotten can ever be remembered. Written by Zofia Zerphy, who also stars alongside Rhiannon Bell.
Temi Wilkey: Lover Girl
Temi Wilkey is a Lover Girl, somehow always single. Following sell-out shows across the country with Main Character Energy, she's back with a new show for the lovers: sexy, surreal and gloriously self-indulgent. Two Edinburgh preview performances at Soho Upstairs before the show heads to the Fringe. Directed by Ragevan Vasan.
Asian Pirate Musical
Queer time travel pirate musical set on the Southeast Asian seas, drawing on the real histories of 14th century Muslim navigator Zheng He and 19th century pirate queen Sek Yeong. Seafarers from across time crash onto the same ship in 2049, exploring freedom, resistance and solidarity.
HAM
Hotter Project's kinky eco-hijacking of Hamlet pits a grief-stricken vegan seeking revenge for a pig's death against a sausage-lover, as humanity hurtles toward its end. Described by The Stage as a Fringe sensation and by the Guardian as vividly, viscerally alive, HAM twists Shakespeare's tragedy into something sordid, surreal and deeply funny.
Dynasty Handbag: Hell in a Handbag
Queer performance artist Jibz Cameron celebrates the UK debut of her memoir with an evening where both she and her multimedia alter ego Dynasty Handbag appear on stage together for the first time. The book traces her path from hippie clowns in Northern California through the New York avant-garde scene, addiction and her mother's suicide, to the birth of Dynasty Handbag.
Frankie McNair: Huge Ass Mindset
After a lifetime of anxiety, complex PTSD and low self-esteem, Frankie McNair is done making themselves small. Their Edinburgh Fringe preview asks one question: what would someone with a huge ass do in this situation? Best of Fest winner at Sydney Comedy Festival 2026 and Most Outstanding Show nominee at Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026.
Jay Jurden Takes London
In his UK debut, Jay Jurden brings a brand-new hour of stand-up to Soho Upstairs. Known from Hulu, Netflix, HBO and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the New Orleans-born comedian has a machine-gun delivery the New York Times called frenzied and thrilling. Six nights only before the show heads to Edinburgh Fringe.
Patti Harrison: Just Ironing Some Things Out!
Trans comedian Patti Harrison, known from I Think You Should Leave, Shrill and The Tonight Show, returns to the UK with a new horrible comedy show. Part stand-up, part variety, possibly featuring some horrible guests. Named one of Vogue's 20 Funniest Female Comedians of All Time. Each night different, like a snowflake.
Aunty Mei is Looking for a Wife
Charmaine Cheong's solo comedy follows Aunty Mei, a Chinese mother who takes it upon herself to matchmake her almost-25-year-old lesbian daughter with London's finest lesbians. Culture shock, ancestral judgement and the fantasy of your Asian parent going to therapy collide in a warm, funny hour about family, identity and the weight of expectation.
Chris Parker: Take a Good Hard Look at Me
New Zealand comedian Chris Parker returns to Soho Theatre after a sold-out run last year with a brand new show. Thirty years of wanting people to look at him, and he's finally done pretending it's anything more profound than that. Praised by Time Out as a brilliant comedian who will leave you scream-laughing and by the NZ Herald as genuinely side-splitting.
Romeo and Hamed
Scott Horgan reimagines Shakespeare through this feral queer love story set between Croydon rooftops, raves, faith, and family loyalty. Desire, violence, religion, and belonging collide in a lyrical contemporary tragedy directed by Maddy Corner.
FUCCBOIS: Live in Concert
The world's biggest boyband are calling it quits, and they're going out with a bang. From award-winning writer Bridie Connell, FUCCBOIS: LIVE IN CONCERT is a comedy boyband extravaganza and irreverent satire of toxic dating culture. Time Out called it a glitzy, camp and hilarious pop extravaganza. State of the Arts called it perhaps the most fun you'll ever have in a theatre.
Trevor Ashley: A Million Years of Minnelli
International cabaret star and drag performer Trevor Ashley celebrates Liza Minnelli's 80th birthday with a one-night gala at the Garrick Theatre. Iconic songs, live band, wicked stories and two West End special guests. Camp, celebratory and unapologetically fabulous.
Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It
Triple Fringe First Award winners Xhloe and Natasha return to Soho with a Brechtian puppet show about two teenagers who fake Bigfoot sightings in their Appalachian town until a neighbour's dog turns up torn to pieces. What starts as a prank spirals into conspiracy, panic and the terrifying question of what might actually be out there.
Salty Brine: How Strange It Is
New York cabaret star Salty Brine fuses Neutral Milk Hotel's indie-rock triumph In the Aeroplane Over the Sea with Anne Frank's diary and his own adolescent confessions in a genre-defying show that is, according to the Guardian, filled with fiendishly funny, poignant and unexpected love. Five stars from The Stage. Sparks fly, time bends.
Deep-Heat Rivalry
Two sworn hockey enemies, Shane Hollandaise and Ilya Stroganoff, discover they are madly, inconveniently in love in this filthy parody musical from Olivier-nominated writer-director Trevor Ashley. Locker-room drama, forbidden romance, power ballads and absolutely no understanding of sport whatsoever. Loosely inspired by a certain hit TV series.
Burlesque The Musical
Songs by Christina Aguilera, Sia, Diane Warren, Todrick Hall, and Jess Folley drive this glitter soaked stage adaptation of the cult film. Desire, ambition, nightlife, and self discovery collide through powerhouse vocals, dance spectacle, and queer performance energy.
My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?)
Rob Madge brings childhood home videos, Disney obsession, and family memories to the stage in this joyful autobiographical musical. Recreating the living room parade once performed for their grandmother, the show celebrates queer identity, imagination, and unconditional family support through humour
Catherine Bohart: Borrowing Trouble
Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show nominee Catherine Bohart returns to Soho with a brand new hour about her birthright: all-encompassing, generational worry. Known from Live at the Apollo, QI, The Last Leg and her Amazon Prime special Immaculate, the Guardian calls her a firecracker. Nearly every date already sold out, check for returns.
Rent
Gaten Matarazzo makes his West End debut in Jonathan Larson’s landmark musical set during the AIDS crisis in New York’s East Village. Love, loss, queer identity, friendship, and survival collide through rock music, political anger, and raw emotional storytelling.
Barnum
This musical blends theatre with circus spectacle as P.T. Barnum’s life unfolds through soaring songs and daring acts. Lee Mead leads a cast of actor-musicians, acrobats, and circus performers, weaving imagination, ambition, and showmanship into a vibrant stage experience.
Dreamboys Show
Dreamboys brings high-energy choreography, playful audience moments and bold stage presence. A night built for fun with a cheeky, queer-friendly atmosphere.
Dirty Dancing
Baby and Johnny return to the stage in this dance heavy musical adaptation of the cult film. Romance, rebellion, class tension, and iconic choreography collide through live music, summer nostalgia, and one of the most recognisable love stories in popular culture.
Fran Lebowitz Live Show
Cultural critic Fran Lebowitz returns with her trademark sharp wit, unscripted opinions and razor-clean observations about modern life. Expect a candid talk, audience Q&A, and the kind of bite only Fran can deliver.
Ginger Johnson: Show Pony
Ginger Johnson, drag queen and MasterChef and RuPaul's Drag Race UK favourite, brings her new live show Show Pony to Soho Theatre for a week-long run. Following her sold-out 2024 tour Ginger Johnson Blows Off!, the show promises high camp, low morals and her trademark comic ridiculousness.
Daniel Foxx: How Lovely
A stand-up comedy show about breakups, dating in your thirties, failed self-care routines and the messy life of trying to stay optimistic. The show blends sharp wit, queer perspective, and relatable chaos.
Dick Whittington and His Cat
A festive pantomime retelling of the classic folk-tale: a poor boy travels to London seeking fortune with his clever cat, battling villainous rats, finding love and discovering that ambition, heart and courage can turn dreams into reality.
Taylor Mac: Holiday Sauce
Ibsen Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Taylor Mac returns to Soho after 15 years with a bedazzling, politically stirring holiday cabaret. Joined by designer Machine Dazzle and Music Director Matt Ray, Mac reframes the songs you love and the holidays you hate, celebrating chosen family and collective imagination in the face of capitalist Christmas.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie UK Tour
Jamie New begins a bold journey of self discovery as he pursues his dream to become a drag queen. Returning as a 10th Anniversary tour, the musical blends heart, humour, and pop music while celebrating identity, acceptance, and chosen family.
Redcliffe
Written and performed by Jordan Luke Gage, this new musical tells the true story of two men in 18-century England whose forbidden love becomes a storm of passion, danger and self-discovery.
Liberace & Liza: A Tribute
David Saffert and Jillian Snow bring Liberace and Liza Minnelli together in this glitter soaked concert comedy packed with live piano, powerhouse vocals, camp humour, and pop standards. Cabaret classics collide with sequins, rivalry, and queer performance energy.
CAMDENWALLA
Bhasker Patel and Nusrath Tapadar lead this new play by Jonny Khan set inside the real Camden Monitoring Project during one night in 1994. Racist violence, migration, activism, and community protection shape a story rooted in overlooked Bengali London history.
Equus
Lindsay Posner's revival of Peter Shaffer's 1973 play puts the homoerotic core of the work front and centre in the Menier's intimate space. Toby Stephens plays psychiatrist Martin Dysart investigating why seventeen-year-old Alan Strang blinded six horses, with Noah Valentine as Strang in a breakout
Ania Magliano: Peach Fuzz
Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show nominee Ania Magliano brings Peach Fuzz to Soho Theatre, fresh from appearances on Taskmaster and Live at the Apollo. The show moves through her own body, boundaries and the legend of Eve in a set that is, by her own admission, occasionally unhinged. She has opened for Ed Gamble, Marc Maron and Catherine Cohen.
What’s Wrong With Angry
A play about queer love, identity and the challenges of coming out. It explores young gay relationships, family conflict and hope.
RON
Ted Walliker writes and performs this genre bending queer solo show following a stand up comic whose routine slowly collapses into obsession, violence, and unrequited love. Dark comedy, live storytelling, and sharp tonal shifts collide inside this absurd theatrical odyssey.
Kinky Boots
A shoemaker inherits a failing factory and teams up with Lola, a drag queen with flair, to save it and the day. With an Olivier-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, this uplifting musical celebrates identity, resilience and high-heeled triumph.
Oh Mary!
Mary Todd Lincoln battles boredom, desire and a closeted husband in this camp re-imagining of history. Led by Cole Escola as Mary and Mason Alexander Park as Abraham Lincoln, the show blends absurd humour, queer chaos and fast, sharp storytelling.
Grindr: The Opera
Grindr The Opera puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. Grindr itself appears as a mythical siren awoken from millennial slumber by technology, manipulating its gay devotees in a soaring soprano. Musical styles range from baroque to contemporary pop in this Off West End Award winner for Best New Musical.
Avenue Q
A comic musical where puppets mix with actors. Life on a small New York street brings questions about work, love, identity, purpose. Sharp jokes, quick songs, awkward truths, honest emotion. A playful show with a queer-friendly vibe.
Sabrage
A decadent cabaret-circus spectacle mixing acrobatics, vintage glamour and cheeky humour. Expect champagne sabering, burlesque, circus acts and a night full of energy.
Hot Mess: A New Musical
Earth and Humanity become the centre of this original queer friendly pop musical by Jack Godfrey and Ellie Coote. Climate anxiety, romance, heartbreak, and sharp comedy collide through high energy music and fast moving storytelling
PRIDE The Musical
Based on the true story of gay and lesbian activists who supported striking miners in 1984, this bold new musical combines protest anthems, pop, disco and Welsh choir voices in a celebration of solidarity and identity.
The Producers
Two scheming theatre producers bribe their way into financing the worst Broadway show ever and then watch it become a surprise hit. A wild mix of sharp jokes, bold characters and big musical numbers in this lively revival.
The Devil Wears Prada
A musical based on the story of a young assistant in a fashion magazine office. Sharp power games, ambition, style, and queer culture in the background of the London fashion world.
Come Alive! The Greatest Showman
A huge circus-theatre spectacular inspired by The Greatest Showman. Acrobatics, aerial feats, live vocals and circus magic meet hits like “This Is Me,” “Rewrite the Stars,” “A Million Dreams,” “Tightrope,” “The Greatest Show.” Begins with immersive pre-show in the Big Top’s backstage world.
Six The Musical
The six wives of Henry VIII retell their stories through pop music and sharp humour. The concert-style musical flips traditional history, centring voice, power, and identity with energetic performance and catchy songs.
Beetlejuice The Musical
Teen goth Lydia Deetz moves into a haunted house and calls up the ghost-with-the-most, Beetlejuice. Wild comedy, gothic flair and show-stopper songs combine for an outrageous musical ride.
Mamma Mia!
Donna, Sophie and three possible dads meet on a Greek island in this joyous musical filled with ABBA hits. Up-beat, fun and perfect for anyone ready to sing, dance and be swept away. Ongoing Show
Mamma Mia!
Donna, Sophie and three possible dads meet on a Greek island in this joyous musical filled with ABBA hits. Up-beat, fun and perfect for anyone ready to sing, dance and be swept away. Ongoing Show
Six The Musical
The six wives of Henry VIII retell their stories through pop music and sharp humour. The concert-style musical flips traditional history, centring voice, power, and identity with energetic performance and catchy songs.
Come Alive! The Greatest Showman
A huge circus-theatre spectacular inspired by The Greatest Showman. Acrobatics, aerial feats, live vocals and circus magic meet hits like “This Is Me,” “Rewrite the Stars,” “A Million Dreams,” “Tightrope,” “The Greatest Show.” Begins with immersive pre-show in the Big Top’s backstage world.
The Devil Wears Prada
A musical based on the story of a young assistant in a fashion magazine office. Sharp power games, ambition, style, and queer culture in the background of the London fashion world.
The Producers
Two scheming theatre producers bribe their way into financing the worst Broadway show ever and then watch it become a surprise hit. A wild mix of sharp jokes, bold characters and big musical numbers in this lively revival.
Sabrage
A decadent cabaret-circus spectacle mixing acrobatics, vintage glamour and cheeky humour. Expect champagne sabering, burlesque, circus acts and a night full of energy.
Oh Mary!
Mary Todd Lincoln battles boredom, desire and a closeted husband in this camp re-imagining of history. Led by Cole Escola as Mary and Mason Alexander Park as Abraham Lincoln, the show blends absurd humour, queer chaos and fast, sharp storytelling.
Kinky Boots
A shoemaker inherits a failing factory and teams up with Lola, a drag queen with flair, to save it and the day. With an Olivier-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, this uplifting musical celebrates identity, resilience and high-heeled triumph.
Avenue Q
A comic musical where puppets mix with actors. Life on a small New York street brings questions about work, love, identity, purpose. Sharp jokes, quick songs, awkward truths, honest emotion. A playful show with a queer-friendly vibe.
Equus
Lindsay Posner's revival of Peter Shaffer's 1973 play puts the homoerotic core of the work front and centre in the Menier's intimate space. Toby Stephens plays psychiatrist Martin Dysart investigating why seventeen-year-old Alan Strang blinded six horses, with Noah Valentine as Strang in a breakout
Beetlejuice The Musical
Teen goth Lydia Deetz moves into a haunted house and calls up the ghost-with-the-most, Beetlejuice. Wild comedy, gothic flair and show-stopper songs combine for an outrageous musical ride.
Redcliffe
Written and performed by Jordan Luke Gage, this new musical tells the true story of two men in 18-century England whose forbidden love becomes a storm of passion, danger and self-discovery.
What’s Wrong With Angry
A play about queer love, identity and the challenges of coming out. It explores young gay relationships, family conflict and hope.
PRIDE The Musical
Based on the true story of gay and lesbian activists who supported striking miners in 1984, this bold new musical combines protest anthems, pop, disco and Welsh choir voices in a celebration of solidarity and identity.
Hot Mess: A New Musical
Earth and Humanity become the centre of this original queer friendly pop musical by Jack Godfrey and Ellie Coote. Climate anxiety, romance, heartbreak, and sharp comedy collide through high energy music and fast moving storytelling
RON
Ted Walliker writes and performs this genre bending queer solo show following a stand up comic whose routine slowly collapses into obsession, violence, and unrequited love. Dark comedy, live storytelling, and sharp tonal shifts collide inside this absurd theatrical odyssey.
CAMDENWALLA
Bhasker Patel and Nusrath Tapadar lead this new play by Jonny Khan set inside the real Camden Monitoring Project during one night in 1994. Racist violence, migration, activism, and community protection shape a story rooted in overlooked Bengali London history.
Grindr: The Opera
Grindr The Opera puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. Grindr itself appears as a mythical siren awoken from millennial slumber by technology, manipulating its gay devotees in a soaring soprano. Musical styles range from baroque to contemporary pop in this Off West End Award winner for Best New Musical.
Ania Magliano: Peach Fuzz
Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show nominee Ania Magliano brings Peach Fuzz to Soho Theatre, fresh from appearances on Taskmaster and Live at the Apollo. The show moves through her own body, boundaries and the legend of Eve in a set that is, by her own admission, occasionally unhinged. She has opened for Ed Gamble, Marc Maron and Catherine Cohen.
Liberace & Liza: A Tribute
David Saffert and Jillian Snow bring Liberace and Liza Minnelli together in this glitter soaked concert comedy packed with live piano, powerhouse vocals, camp humour, and pop standards. Cabaret classics collide with sequins, rivalry, and queer performance energy.
Swamplesque
The ogre-inspired burlesque and drag parody returns to the UK after smashing box office records at Edinburgh Fringe in 2024 and 2025. Swamplesque takes the fairy tale familiar and turns it into a night of laughter, burlesque performance styles and drag, with a devoted following that has toured it from Australia to Adelaide Fringe to the West End fringe circuit.
Minogueus Sanctus: Hersh Dagmarr Sings Kylie Minogue
Hersh Dagmarr transforms Kylie Minogue classics into theatrical cabaret through live vocals, dark humour, and dramatic reinterpretation. Pop nostalgia, queer nightlife energy, and offbeat performance collide inside this late night tribute concert.
Hot Singles In Your Area Play D&D
Comedy Dungeons and Dragons show from the queers behind Lesbian Space Crime and Count Dykula, following a party of adventurers far more interested in the romanceable options than stopping any goblin insurrection. The Dungeon Master requires audience help inventing characters. From Airlock, who make reliably ridiculous queer theatre.
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story
Linus Karp plays Diana in heaven, sharing the untold and untrue story of her life in this multi-award-winning drag show from Edinburgh Fringe. Mixing puppetry, multimedia, audience participation and queer joy, it is as camp as it is ridiculous, and has toured the world since its sold-out Edinburgh debut. From Awkward Prods, the company behind Gwyneth Goes Skiing.
The Devil Wears Prada
A musical based on the story of a young assistant in a fashion magazine office. Sharp power games, ambition, style, and queer culture in the background of the London fashion world.
The Producers
Two scheming theatre producers bribe their way into financing the worst Broadway show ever and then watch it become a surprise hit. A wild mix of sharp jokes, bold characters and big musical numbers in this lively revival.
Sabrage
A decadent cabaret-circus spectacle mixing acrobatics, vintage glamour and cheeky humour. Expect champagne sabering, burlesque, circus acts and a night full of energy.
Mamma Mia!
Donna, Sophie and three possible dads meet on a Greek island in this joyous musical filled with ABBA hits. Up-beat, fun and perfect for anyone ready to sing, dance and be swept away. Ongoing Show
Oh Mary!
Mary Todd Lincoln battles boredom, desire and a closeted husband in this camp re-imagining of history. Led by Cole Escola as Mary and Mason Alexander Park as Abraham Lincoln, the show blends absurd humour, queer chaos and fast, sharp storytelling.
Kinky Boots
A shoemaker inherits a failing factory and teams up with Lola, a drag queen with flair, to save it and the day. With an Olivier-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, this uplifting musical celebrates identity, resilience and high-heeled triumph.
PRIDE The Musical
Based on the true story of gay and lesbian activists who supported striking miners in 1984, this bold new musical combines protest anthems, pop, disco and Welsh choir voices in a celebration of solidarity and identity.
Redcliffe
Written and performed by Jordan Luke Gage, this new musical tells the true story of two men in 18-century England whose forbidden love becomes a storm of passion, danger and self-discovery.
What’s Wrong With Angry
A play about queer love, identity and the challenges of coming out. It explores young gay relationships, family conflict and hope.
Liberace & Liza: A Tribute
David Saffert and Jillian Snow bring Liberace and Liza Minnelli together in this glitter soaked concert comedy packed with live piano, powerhouse vocals, camp humour, and pop standards. Cabaret classics collide with sequins, rivalry, and queer performance energy.
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story
Linus Karp plays Diana in heaven, sharing the untold and untrue story of her life in this multi-award-winning drag show from Edinburgh Fringe. Mixing puppetry, multimedia, audience participation and queer joy, it is as camp as it is ridiculous, and has toured the world since its sold-out Edinburgh debut. From Awkward Prods, the company behind Gwyneth Goes Skiing.
Grindr: The Opera
Grindr The Opera puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. Grindr itself appears as a mythical siren awoken from millennial slumber by technology, manipulating its gay devotees in a soaring soprano. Musical styles range from baroque to contemporary pop in this Off West End Award winner for Best New Musical.
Tender
Ivy has a boyfriend and a plan. Ash is freshly out of a bad relationship, in a flat where something feels wrong. When the two women meet, infatuation takes hold fast. Written by Eleanor Tindall, directed by Emily Aboud. Queer romance with a dark, surreal edge. Transfers to the main house following a
The Rocket Man Show
Rus Anderson brings Elton John’s music, costumes, and stage energy to life in this live tribute concert packed with glam rock spectacle, piano classics, and pop nostalgia. Songs spanning decades collide with theatrical performance and flamboyant visual style.
Minogueus Sanctus: Hersh Dagmarr Sings Kylie Minogue
Hersh Dagmarr transforms Kylie Minogue classics into theatrical cabaret through live vocals, dark humour, and dramatic reinterpretation. Pop nostalgia, queer nightlife energy, and offbeat performance collide inside this late night tribute concert.
Hot Singles In Your Area Play D&D
Comedy Dungeons and Dragons show from the queers behind Lesbian Space Crime and Count Dykula, following a party of adventurers far more interested in the romanceable options than stopping any goblin insurrection. The Dungeon Master requires audience help inventing characters. From Airlock, who make reliably ridiculous queer theatre.
RON
Ted Walliker writes and performs this genre bending queer solo show following a stand up comic whose routine slowly collapses into obsession, violence, and unrequited love. Dark comedy, live storytelling, and sharp tonal shifts collide inside this absurd theatrical odyssey.
Spin Cycle: The Lesbian Launderette Play
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets The L Word in this Off West End award-winning bittersweet absurdist play. Two women's eyes lock in a launderette, but something is off. Secrets whispered under the thrum of the washing machines ask whether what is forgotten can ever be remembered. Written by Zofia Zerphy, who also stars alongside Rhiannon Bell.
Here Comes J. Edgar! A Comedy Musical
A bold satirical musical about power, love and hidden identity. The story follows a controversial public figure whose private life and secret romantic past unravel in a 1950s-style musical comedy full of camp, subtext and dark humour.
Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical
Secret Cinema returns to Evolution London with their sold-out 2025 production of the 1978 film musical. The full two-and-a-half-hour immersive experience puts audiences inside Rydell High, with a cast of 30 actors, singers and dancers performing every song live against multiple movie screens. Themed locations include Frosty's Palace, the Autoshop and the Carnival.
Avenue Q
A comic musical where puppets mix with actors. Life on a small New York street brings questions about work, love, identity, purpose. Sharp jokes, quick songs, awkward truths, honest emotion. A playful show with a queer-friendly vibe.
Equus
Lindsay Posner's revival of Peter Shaffer's 1973 play puts the homoerotic core of the work front and centre in the Menier's intimate space. Toby Stephens plays psychiatrist Martin Dysart investigating why seventeen-year-old Alan Strang blinded six horses, with Noah Valentine as Strang in a breakout
Six The Musical
The six wives of Henry VIII retell their stories through pop music and sharp humour. The concert-style musical flips traditional history, centring voice, power, and identity with energetic performance and catchy songs.
Heathers The Musical
Veronica Sawyer is pulled into the violent social hierarchy of Westerberg High in this cult musical based on the 1989 film. Dark comedy, teen angst, queer coded chaos, and pop rock numbers collide through a story of popularity, identity, bullying, and rebellion.
Swamplesque
The ogre-inspired burlesque and drag parody returns to the UK after smashing box office records at Edinburgh Fringe in 2024 and 2025. Swamplesque takes the fairy tale familiar and turns it into a night of laughter, burlesque performance styles and drag, with a devoted following that has toured it from Australia to Adelaide Fringe to the West End fringe circuit.
Legally Tiana
Drag star and West End performer Tiana Biscuit headlines her biggest solo cabaret show yet at The Other Palace, with a live band and guest vocalists Zak Marx and Luca Crawford. Tiana takes the audience through musical theatre anthems and personal stories from her drag career, her time on the West End, and her life beyond the stage.
Jonny Woo: Suburbia Re-Loaded
Jonny Woo's critically acclaimed theatrical memoir returns to Soho Theatre in a re-loaded version following a sell-out 2025 run and an award-winning Edinburgh Fringe season. Suburbia charts his life from a Medway childhood through the 90s rave scene to the drag bars and sex clubs of 00s New York, mixing performance art, cabaret and storytelling.
HOLE!
Queer apocalyptic musical comedy from American Sing Song. In Nebraska, a religious sect wears butt plugs at all times because they believe a wrathful God will suck the unplugged up, ass-first, to burn on the sun. The crazy thing is they're right. HOLE! is an epic love story set in the aftermath of the Great Sucking, for everyone left behind.
HAM
Hotter Project's kinky eco-hijacking of Hamlet pits a grief-stricken vegan seeking revenge for a pig's death against a sausage-lover, as humanity hurtles toward its end. Described by The Stage as a Fringe sensation and by the Guardian as vividly, viscerally alive, HAM twists Shakespeare's tragedy into something sordid, surreal and deeply funny.
Dynasty Handbag: Hell in a Handbag
Queer performance artist Jibz Cameron celebrates the UK debut of her memoir with an evening where both she and her multimedia alter ego Dynasty Handbag appear on stage together for the first time. The book traces her path from hippie clowns in Northern California through the New York avant-garde scene, addiction and her mother's suicide, to the birth of Dynasty Handbag.
CAMDENWALLA
Bhasker Patel and Nusrath Tapadar lead this new play by Jonny Khan set inside the real Camden Monitoring Project during one night in 1994. Racist violence, migration, activism, and community protection shape a story rooted in overlooked Bengali London history.
Pup Play
Noah Pantano explores queer fetish culture, activism, fear, and identity through this performative pseudo lecture blending personal testimony with live theatre. Academic research, vulnerability, and queer subculture collide inside an intimate experimental performance.
Asian Pirate Musical
Queer time travel pirate musical set on the Southeast Asian seas, drawing on the real histories of 14th century Muslim navigator Zheng He and 19th century pirate queen Sek Yeong. Seafarers from across time crash onto the same ship in 2049, exploring freedom, resistance and solidarity.
Boobytrapped
Trans bodyswap trouble at The Glitch. Simon, a trans man, and Kevin, a cis man, meet in a gay club and are instantly drawn to each other, until a magical twist traps them in each other's bodies. From No Tits Theatre, the queer-led company behind Fckboy, winner of the Binge Fringe Queer Award and The Stagey Best LGBTQ+ Production.
Trains in the Night
Sapphic coming-of-age musical following Celine and Margot, two women on opposite sides of the country sustained by late-night calls, political debates and palpable chemistry they refuse to name. Funny, intimate and viscerally tender, this debut show is a love letter to sapphic yearning and the radical act of letting queer women have their happy ending.
Ania Magliano: Peach Fuzz
Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show nominee Ania Magliano brings Peach Fuzz to Soho Theatre, fresh from appearances on Taskmaster and Live at the Apollo. The show moves through her own body, boundaries and the legend of Eve in a set that is, by her own admission, occasionally unhinged. She has opened for Ed Gamble, Marc Maron and Catherine Cohen.
Beetlejuice The Musical
Teen goth Lydia Deetz moves into a haunted house and calls up the ghost-with-the-most, Beetlejuice. Wild comedy, gothic flair and show-stopper songs combine for an outrageous musical ride.
Frankie Thompson: Horrible Things
Acclaimed clown Frankie Thompson previews her new show before Edinburgh Fringe: a formal presentation of horrible things collected from the back of sofas, the bins of the powerful, your mum's daydreams and your uncle's 2008 YouTube uploads. Described by the Guardian as wonderfully, confoundingly funny and by Time Out as hysterically funny, deeply strange.
Come Alive! The Greatest Showman
A huge circus-theatre spectacular inspired by The Greatest Showman. Acrobatics, aerial feats, live vocals and circus magic meet hits like “This Is Me,” “Rewrite the Stars,” “A Million Dreams,” “Tightrope,” “The Greatest Show.” Begins with immersive pre-show in the Big Top’s backstage world.
Temi Wilkey: Lover Girl
Temi Wilkey is a Lover Girl, somehow always single. Following sell-out shows across the country with Main Character Energy, she's back with a new show for the lovers: sexy, surreal and gloriously self-indulgent. Two Edinburgh preview performances at Soho Upstairs before the show heads to the Fringe. Directed by Ragevan Vasan.
Cleansed
A brutal, unflinching play about love under pressure, extreme devotion, identity, violence, desire, survival. Two lovers and two siblings face an institution ruled by cruelty. This staging asks what love becomes when everything else is stripped away.
I’m Every Woman: The Chaka Khan Musical
A musical celebrating the life and legacy of global icon Chaka Khan. The show traces her rise from humble beginnings to superstardom. Expect her greatest hits, powerful vocals, soulful riffs and a journey through triumphs, struggles, identity, fame and resilience.
Hot Mess: A New Musical
Earth and Humanity become the centre of this original queer friendly pop musical by Jack Godfrey and Ellie Coote. Climate anxiety, romance, heartbreak, and sharp comedy collide through high energy music and fast moving storytelling
Frankie McNair: Huge Ass Mindset
After a lifetime of anxiety, complex PTSD and low self-esteem, Frankie McNair is done making themselves small. Their Edinburgh Fringe preview asks one question: what would someone with a huge ass do in this situation? Best of Fest winner at Sydney Comedy Festival 2026 and Most Outstanding Show nominee at Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026.
Jay Jurden Takes London
In his UK debut, Jay Jurden brings a brand-new hour of stand-up to Soho Upstairs. Known from Hulu, Netflix, HBO and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the New Orleans-born comedian has a machine-gun delivery the New York Times called frenzied and thrilling. Six nights only before the show heads to Edinburgh Fringe.
Patti Harrison: Just Ironing Some Things Out!
Trans comedian Patti Harrison, known from I Think You Should Leave, Shrill and The Tonight Show, returns to the UK with a new horrible comedy show. Part stand-up, part variety, possibly featuring some horrible guests. Named one of Vogue's 20 Funniest Female Comedians of All Time. Each night different, like a snowflake.
Aunty Mei is Looking for a Wife
Charmaine Cheong's solo comedy follows Aunty Mei, a Chinese mother who takes it upon herself to matchmake her almost-25-year-old lesbian daughter with London's finest lesbians. Culture shock, ancestral judgement and the fantasy of your Asian parent going to therapy collide in a warm, funny hour about family, identity and the weight of expectation.
Chris Parker: Take a Good Hard Look at Me
New Zealand comedian Chris Parker returns to Soho Theatre after a sold-out run last year with a brand new show. Thirty years of wanting people to look at him, and he's finally done pretending it's anything more profound than that. Praised by Time Out as a brilliant comedian who will leave you scream-laughing and by the NZ Herald as genuinely side-splitting.
Romeo and Hamed
Scott Horgan reimagines Shakespeare through this feral queer love story set between Croydon rooftops, raves, faith, and family loyalty. Desire, violence, religion, and belonging collide in a lyrical contemporary tragedy directed by Maddy Corner.
FUCCBOIS: Live in Concert
The world's biggest boyband are calling it quits, and they're going out with a bang. From award-winning writer Bridie Connell, FUCCBOIS: LIVE IN CONCERT is a comedy boyband extravaganza and irreverent satire of toxic dating culture. Time Out called it a glitzy, camp and hilarious pop extravaganza. State of the Arts called it perhaps the most fun you'll ever have in a theatre.
Trevor Ashley: A Million Years of Minnelli
International cabaret star and drag performer Trevor Ashley celebrates Liza Minnelli's 80th birthday with a one-night gala at the Garrick Theatre. Iconic songs, live band, wicked stories and two West End special guests. Camp, celebratory and unapologetically fabulous.
Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It
Triple Fringe First Award winners Xhloe and Natasha return to Soho with a Brechtian puppet show about two teenagers who fake Bigfoot sightings in their Appalachian town until a neighbour's dog turns up torn to pieces. What starts as a prank spirals into conspiracy, panic and the terrifying question of what might actually be out there.
Salty Brine: How Strange It Is
New York cabaret star Salty Brine fuses Neutral Milk Hotel's indie-rock triumph In the Aeroplane Over the Sea with Anne Frank's diary and his own adolescent confessions in a genre-defying show that is, according to the Guardian, filled with fiendishly funny, poignant and unexpected love. Five stars from The Stage. Sparks fly, time bends.
Deep-Heat Rivalry
Two sworn hockey enemies, Shane Hollandaise and Ilya Stroganoff, discover they are madly, inconveniently in love in this filthy parody musical from Olivier-nominated writer-director Trevor Ashley. Locker-room drama, forbidden romance, power ballads and absolutely no understanding of sport whatsoever. Loosely inspired by a certain hit TV series.
Burlesque The Musical
Songs by Christina Aguilera, Sia, Diane Warren, Todrick Hall, and Jess Folley drive this glitter soaked stage adaptation of the cult film. Desire, ambition, nightlife, and self discovery collide through powerhouse vocals, dance spectacle, and queer performance energy.
My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?)
Rob Madge brings childhood home videos, Disney obsession, and family memories to the stage in this joyful autobiographical musical. Recreating the living room parade once performed for their grandmother, the show celebrates queer identity, imagination, and unconditional family support through humour
Catherine Bohart: Borrowing Trouble
Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show nominee Catherine Bohart returns to Soho with a brand new hour about her birthright: all-encompassing, generational worry. Known from Live at the Apollo, QI, The Last Leg and her Amazon Prime special Immaculate, the Guardian calls her a firecracker. Nearly every date already sold out, check for returns.
Rent
Gaten Matarazzo makes his West End debut in Jonathan Larson’s landmark musical set during the AIDS crisis in New York’s East Village. Love, loss, queer identity, friendship, and survival collide through rock music, political anger, and raw emotional storytelling.
Barnum
This musical blends theatre with circus spectacle as P.T. Barnum’s life unfolds through soaring songs and daring acts. Lee Mead leads a cast of actor-musicians, acrobats, and circus performers, weaving imagination, ambition, and showmanship into a vibrant stage experience.
Dreamboys Show
Dreamboys brings high-energy choreography, playful audience moments and bold stage presence. A night built for fun with a cheeky, queer-friendly atmosphere.
Dirty Dancing
Baby and Johnny return to the stage in this dance heavy musical adaptation of the cult film. Romance, rebellion, class tension, and iconic choreography collide through live music, summer nostalgia, and one of the most recognisable love stories in popular culture.
Fran Lebowitz Live Show
Cultural critic Fran Lebowitz returns with her trademark sharp wit, unscripted opinions and razor-clean observations about modern life. Expect a candid talk, audience Q&A, and the kind of bite only Fran can deliver.
Ginger Johnson: Show Pony
Ginger Johnson, drag queen and MasterChef and RuPaul's Drag Race UK favourite, brings her new live show Show Pony to Soho Theatre for a week-long run. Following her sold-out 2024 tour Ginger Johnson Blows Off!, the show promises high camp, low morals and her trademark comic ridiculousness.
Daniel Foxx: How Lovely
A stand-up comedy show about breakups, dating in your thirties, failed self-care routines and the messy life of trying to stay optimistic. The show blends sharp wit, queer perspective, and relatable chaos.
Dick Whittington and His Cat
A festive pantomime retelling of the classic folk-tale: a poor boy travels to London seeking fortune with his clever cat, battling villainous rats, finding love and discovering that ambition, heart and courage can turn dreams into reality.
Taylor Mac: Holiday Sauce
Ibsen Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Taylor Mac returns to Soho after 15 years with a bedazzling, politically stirring holiday cabaret. Joined by designer Machine Dazzle and Music Director Matt Ray, Mac reframes the songs you love and the holidays you hate, celebrating chosen family and collective imagination in the face of capitalist Christmas.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie UK Tour
Jamie New begins a bold journey of self discovery as he pursues his dream to become a drag queen. Returning as a 10th Anniversary tour, the musical blends heart, humour, and pop music while celebrating identity, acceptance, and chosen family.
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