Top West End and touring shows to see in 2025

West End shows

1. Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical

Celebrate the world’s most incredible concert that brought 1.5 billion people together, when performances of Just For One Day – The Live Aid Musical begin at the Shaftesbury Theatre on Thursday 15th May 2025. The performance features hit songs by Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Who, U2, Queen, Madonna, The Police, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Diana Ross and many more from the artists who made history by performing at the Live Aid concerts in 1985.

Groups of ten can enjoy group rates on Monday to Thursday off peak shows and senior groups can also book mid-week matinee performances at a subsidised rate.

2. Clueless, The Musical

Based on the hit 90s film of the same name, Clueless, The Musical tells the story of Cher Horowitz, the most popular student at Beverly Hills High, renowned for her unique talent at finding love for others. The coming-of-age comedy will begin performances at London’s Trafalgar Theatre on 15th February 2025 and will run until 14th June 2025, featuring an original score by multi-platinum singer-songwriter KT Tunstall.

Groups of ten or more can enjoy discounted tickets for a modern spin on Jane Austen’s Emma.

3. My Neighbour Totoro

Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro is transfering to the Gillian Lynne Theatre for a 34-week run, following record-breaking single day sales at the Barbican. The adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 animated feature film will run from Saturday 8th March until Sunday 2nd November 2025, telling the story of Satsuki and Mei, as the latter encounters magical creatures and the ancient protector of the forest she calls “Totoro”.

Groups of ten or more can book for £55 per person, available for Tuesday to Thursday performances. 

4. Hercules

Inspired by the 1997 Disney animated film, Hercules is heading to Theatre Royal Drury Lane for its West End debut from 24th June 2025. The show, which tells the story of Ancient Greece and Hercules as he attempts to save the world from Hades, is directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw (Book of Mormon, Aladdin) and will include the hit single Go The Distance.

Groups can book their tickets for certain Monday - Friday performance from 1st September 2025, with special rates available for nine or more people. Groups of 20 or more save even more on tickets. 

5. Richard II 

The Bridge Theatre will host Shakespeare’s classic tale of the charismatic, eloquent and witty, but disastrous and politically incompetant King played by star of Bridgerton and Wicked, Jonathan Bailey. Richard II opens on 10th February and is scheduled to run until 10th May 2025. The show is directed by Nicholas Hytner, whose other work includes Guys & Dolls and previously worked with Bailey in the National Theatre’s production of Othello.

Groups can enjoy discounted tickets to Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday matinees when booking for ten or more.

Now, for some brilliant touring shows…

1. Dear Evan Hansen

Touring until Saturday 5th July 2025, Dear Evan Hansen tells the story of high school student Evan, as his life spirals out of control after the truth comes out about a huge lie he told. 

Packed with some of the biggest musical theatre songs of the last decade, the show has won multiple awards, including the Tony® Award for Best Musical, Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theatre Album.

2. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is touring the UK until August 2025, enchanting audiences with the Bible’s story of Jacob’s son Joseph who is sold into slavery by his brothers, jealous of his ‘coat of many colours’. Joseph ends up imprisoned by an Egyptian noble but eventually becomes the Pharaoh’s right hand man.

It features much loved pop and musical theatre classics, including Any Dream Will Do, Close Every Door, There’s One More Angel In Heaven and Go, Go, Go Joseph. Former X Factor winner, Joe McElderry will join the cast on select dates to play Pharaoh.

Group bookings for the UK tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat are venue specific.

3. Matilda

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production, based on Roald Dahl’s beloved book, is heading back on tour for a second time from October 2025, following a sell-out 2018/19 tour. The show celebrates 15 years in 2025 and will begin touring at Curve, Leicester on 6th October 2025, before visiting locations including Bradford, Liverpool, Plymouth, Sunderland, Edinburgh and Manchester.

Matilda the Musical tells the story of an extraordinary little girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to take a stand and change her own destiny. It has won over 100 global awards, including 24 for Best Musical. The tour is scheduled to conclude at Palace Theatre, Manchester on 25th April 2026 and group bookings are subject to venue availability. 

4. Tina: The Tina Turner Musical

The musical, which tells the story of 12-time Grammy Award-winning artist Tina Turner, is set to begin a UK and Ireland tour at Leicester Curve Theatre from Thursday 6th March 2025, before running well into 2026. 

Set to the soundtrack of her iconic hits, including The Best, What’s Love Got To Do With It?, Private Dancer and River Deep, Mountain High, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical will visit venues including Bristol Hippodrome, Birmingham Hippodrome, Liverpool’s Empire Theatre, Southampton’s Mayflower theatre, Manchester’s Palace Theatre and Milton Keynes Theatre.

The musical is an inspiring true story of a woman who dared to dream fiercely, shatter barriers and defy the bounds of age, gender, and race to conquer the world against all odds.

5. Bat out of Hell

The musical featuring Meat Loaf’s iconic hits is returning for a UK tour in 2025. Beginning at Edinburgh Playhouse on Monday 6th January 2025, Bat out of Hell will visit cities including Liverpool, Cardiff, Sheffield, London and Milton Keynes, before closing at Northampton’s Royal & Derngate on Saturday 20th September 2025.

Audiences can rock out to Meat Loaf’s anthems, including I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That), Paradise By The Dashboard Light, Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad, Dead Ringer For Love, and title track, Bat Out of Hell.

The show features an eight-piece live band on stage, fire cannons, confetti, and growling motor bikes, as it tells the story of Strat and his underground gang of outcasts on the post-apocalyptic streets of Manhattan.