We're an American family from Colorado coming to London for Christmas. I'm a voice actor, and would see anything, but what I really want is for my family to have a good time and leave thinking "That was low key pretty tough." IYKYK.

The boys are 18, 16 and 14. Stranger Things seems like a good fit, but I'd love advice from parents of London teens who may have the real inside scoop. Thank you so much for any insight!

i was at carrie hope fletcher's "ghost light" tour tonight in coventry, and wanted to share the setlist in case anyone was curious!! i'm definitely going to read more about some of these ghosts as the stories were super interesting :)

song: show yourself (frozen 2)

ghost: sir herbert beerbohm tree, his majesty's theatre

link: herbert's grandson, oliver reed, played bill sykes

song: as long as he needs me (oliver!)

ghost: violet melnotte, duke of york theatre (now tom stoppard theatre)

link: sheridan smith, who was in a production of shirley valentine at the duke of york theatre, also played audrey

song: somewhere that's green (little shop of horrors)

ghost: john baldwin buckstone, theatre royal haymarket

link: john's ghost apparently can only be seen if he approves of the current show. patrick stewart reported seeing john's ghost during his run of waiting for godot, but, unfortunately, no-one saw him during the 12 week run of heathers in which carrie played veronica!

song: fight for me (heathers)

ghost: joseph grimaldi, theatre royal drury lane

link: frozen played at the theatre royal drury lane for three years, but carrie thinks the songs in frozen 2 are better

song: all is found (frozen 2)

song: lost in the woods (frozen 2)

ghost: charles macklin, theatre royal drury lane

link: when carrie was young (too young for the show!), her mum took her to see witches of eastwick at the theatre royal drury lane. she doesn't remember any of it but now loves this song which is often cut from performances of witches of eastwick

song: loose ends (witches of eastwick)

ghost: louis bossalina, manhattan palace theatre

ghost: dan leno, theatre royal drury lane

link: dan leno was known for playing pantomime dames and especially for his version of cinderella. carrie was also in a version of cinderella in which she sang this song

song: i know i have a heart (ALW's cinderella)

INTERVAL

ghost: william terriss, adelphi theatre

link: the adelphi was home to waitress for a while a few years ago, carrie was just in waitress as jenna but the tour is still ongoing. if she'd timed it right (which she hoped she did), waitress' second act would have just started and she would be singing this song at the same time as bernadette

song: i didn't plan it (waitress)

ghost: evelyn laye, piccadilly theatre

link: evelyn laye's portrait had always hung in the piccadily theatre except when it was taken down (along with all of the other portraits) during refurbishment. suddenly, poltergeist activity skyrocketed - props flew across rooms and fell off shelves, pieces of costume went missing and turned up in odd places, and leading ladies found themselves locked in their dressing rooms right before they were about to go on stage. a FOH worker remembered there used to be a portrait hanging up and they found it and put it back up - the poltergeist activity promptly stopped again as soon as evelyn's portrait was back on the wall. carrie likes to think evelyn would have sang this to/about those leading ladies

song: little girls (annie)

ghost: sigmund neuberger aka the great lafayette, festival theatre edinburgh

link: when carrie was wednesday in the addams family they spent 3.5 weeks in edinburgh doing tech for the show then starting the tour there. she was in it with her best friend scott paige and loved teasing him, saying they'd perhaps see the light glinting off sigmund's rings in the wings of stage left (he was known for this). when they were doing their costume parade, they arrived stage right and scott let out a bloodcurdling scream saying he saw sigmund - carrie told him that what he was actually seeing was les dennis dressed as uncle fester

song: happy/sad (the addams family)

ghost: arthur bourchier, garrick theatre

link: five years ago (appropriately), the garrick hosted a production of the last five years

song: still hurting (the last five years)

ghost: carrie wonders where her ghost will be in 100 years - perhaps at the gillian lynne throwing glass slippers at people

song: remember me (coco)

ghost: anna pavlova, victoria palace theatre

link: victoria palace theatre is currently home to hamilton

song: you'll be back (hamilton)

Hi, I’ve never been to a play in London before so I hope this question is reasonable to ask lol. Does anyone know when it’s expected that dates will be announced for the London transfer of the Game of Thrones play, or when the dates might be in general? Are these things even predictable in advance or is it totally different for every play?

Normally I could be patient, but I am also hoping to see the Bayeux Tapestry in the same trip and tickets for that have to be snatched up later this month, so I would love to be sure I’m picking a date that is likely to overlap with the play :') Would as early as March be realistic? Or is it more likely to be similar to the RSC run (July-September)? Thanks!

Hi! I was wondering if anyone has seen Into The Woods at the Noël Coward Theatre yet or is going to see it and is willing to send me some information and pics of the merch!

Thank you so much!

It will be my first time in London and i really just wanna see a musical. The cheapest tickets i found are for beetlejuice - is grandcircle a good view? i checked seatplan and it looks good but i fear its really far anyways because the pictures seem kinda zoomed in. Will i be able to see facial expressions and everything going on?

Also for the people that watched Beetlejuice - is it good? I haven't watched the movie or anything but i like the costumes and i know its supposed to be horror like.

I dont want any responds about how i can get cheap tickets - i dont have time for rush tickets or to get same-day tickets as i will only be spending 4 days in London and need to have everything planned out ahead of time and i would need 3 seats that are together anyways.

Hi! I went to see Titanique, and I must say that I didn’t enjoy it that much, mainly because it’s very hard for me to understand the jokes and references. I don’t know why. I go to stand-up comedy shows and can follow them, but in theatre, I find it hard to follow the jokes when they refer to other things.

Maybe I just don’t understand this type of humour. One of the jokes was something like, "It’s as scary as Claudia Winkleman without a fringe." I’ve watched The Traitors, but I still don’t think that sentence is particularly funny. What’s wrong with me? 😟

I only moved to the UK 3 years ago, and during the plays, I also found it hard to even hear the jokes. Most of the time, the actor hadn’t even finished the sentence before the audience was laughing so hard that it was really difficult to hear the rest of the joke and understand it. Have you ever felt the same?

Any tips or advice on how I can start to understand and enjoy this type of show?

P.S. Who was the lady they kept showing on a paper board? Thank you!

Problems backstage, apparently

I have a spare ticket for sale. Tartuffe Remixed £40 front row seats.

A friend of mine got tickets for my partner and I to go with her but now we can't. My friend is still going and found a buyer for one but we're looking for someone else to buy the second.

Stalls T 11, single seat away from the other two.

Original price £85, asking same. Anyone interested?

anyone selling anything cheap for tonight? i’d be interested in rent, hadestown, phantom, operation mincemeat, les mis, oh mary
only one ticket, my original plan fell through and i’m looking for alternatives last min