UPSTAIRS AT THE GATEHOUSE

A brand-new play with an original score and captivating movement, LEARNING unravels the poignant journey of Debs and Jonathan—a couple hurtling in opposite directions. As ...

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by John Weidman Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick 12 December 2024 – 12 January 2025 Tuesdays - Saturdays 7.30pm ...

Get ready to swing into the holidays with the UK's No. 1 jive and swing band, the Jive Aces!   The band has been touring ...

The sensational court case of Edith Thompson in 1923 was a  cause célèbre  with people queuing outside The Old Bailey for days to get tickets. ...

Stephen Leslie Productions presents FAST by Kate Barton and Stephen Bennett “ How far would you go to find the perfect cure? ” Celebrity influencers, ...

Voila! Festival 2024 and Lara van Huyssteen present THAT BOY HAS NO SHOES. Following a four-star run at Camden Fringe 2024, THAT BOY HAS NO SHOES, “an immersive and emotional” ...

After a sold out performance Upstairs at the Gatehouse in February, Susan Black returns with THE PIAF STORY to relate the anecdotes and sing the ...

Maybury Productions and Chromolume present LIONESSES 110% The Women's Football Musical A rehearsed reading with songs.   Three generations of passionate women battle for the right ...

Do psychopaths rule the world? How do we define normal? Are you friends with a psychopath? Are you worried YOU might be one?   Fifteen years has passed ...

In 1917 their world was full of love, hope, and the certainty of an end to poverty and hatred. Things didn’t turn out like that.  ...

Jeremy Sassoon's MOJO Saturday 31st August 7.30pm A foot-stomping, barn-storming celebration of some of the most iconic and best-loved Jewish popular songwriters. Internationally renowned singer-pianist ...

With rhyme and rhythm comes this musical retelling of the lesser-known part of Exodus. Ancient Egypt arrives in London this summer, with a cast including ...

  World premiere of a new musical: crashing waves, swelling music and an emotional storm across the 18th century that will make you wish you’d ...

World premiere of a new musical with crashing waves, swelling music, and an emotional storm across the 18th century that will make you wish you’d ...

Join us, once a season, for an evening of Magic at the Gatehouse presented by an exciting line-up of top magicians. Witness miracles manifest before your ...

Bear doesn’t like birthdays He doesn’t like birthday parties or balloons He doesn’t like birthday cards or songs or candles  In fact, Bear is quite ...

In 1960, at the height of his fame, singer, songwriter, and satirist Tom Lehrer gave it all up. He spent the rest of his career ...

After a sold-out, SIX STAR(!) performance, Grammy and Emmy Award Winning musician Paul Bogaev is  back by popular demand  with an evening of songs from ...

Tim McArthur’s newest play A Word For Mother premieres this spring with an all-female cast and creative team. This simmering family drama, inspired by McArthur’s ...

"If it’s good enough for Shakespeare, it’s good enough for us." Rodgers and Hart’s classic 1938 musical comedy adaptation of  The Comedy of Errors  returns ...

How Margaret Thatcher first won and then lost the Tory leadership. The Rise and Fall of Margaret Thatcher  begins after the Conservatives’ defeat in the ...

On A Role presents Enid Blyton - Noddy, Big-Ears, and Lashings of Controversy. Wednesday 24 April Virtually everybody of a certain age has read an ...

What if people actually said what they really meant?’    Autistic actor & dramaturg Joseph Beach sets out to investigate what it actually means to ...

Silver Lining  is a hilarious comedy by beloved TV host, comedian, and writer;  Sandi Toksvig . It's a funny and heartfelt story of a group ...

Upstairs at the Gatehouse and Design & Canvas Co. present IN CLAY After a five-star, sellout run at VAULT Festival 2023, IN CLAY, a “perfectly ...

Join us for an evening with the UK's No.1 Jive & Swing band! The Jive Aces strive to spread smiles and cheer with their swinging music ...

Quite Good Theatre and Upstairs at the Gatehouse present SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD     Following a brief five-star run in Southend last year, ...

Join us, once again, for an evening of Magic at the Gatehouse presented by an exciting line-up of top magicians. Witness miracles manifest before your ...

In a world where people can break scientific laws just by understanding them, Zadie Sierra works with the government to lock away the rule-breakers: whether ...

After a sold-out, SIX STAR(!) performance, Grammy and Emmy Award Winning musician Paul Bogaev is  back by popular demand  with an evening of songs from ...

It’s time to ‘Lower The Tone’ for charity.  A celebration of the deeper voices in musical theatre, with performers from the West End and beyond!  ...

Dina Ibrahim for KFI Publishing presents The Mother of Kamal Written by Dina Ibrahim Directed by Stephen Freeman     It is 1948 in the ...

Chromolume Productions presents You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown 14th December 2023 - 14th January 2024 Based on The Comic Strip “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schulz  Book, ...

Garden Suburb Theatre presents Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters Stage Adaptation by Stephen Briggs Pratchett takes Macbeth and turns it up 'till the knob comes off. ...

EMUL8 Theatre presents Havisham Who was the woman being behind Dickens’ most monstrous female creation? What drove the hopeful young Miss Havisham to her cruel ...

The Jive Aces, renowned for their high-energy swinging music and spectacular live show are back Upstairs at the Gatehouse! Join us for an evening with ...

Hauntings is a spellbinding evening of three tales of the supernatural from two of the world’s greatest writers of ghost stories, E.F. Benson and M.R. ...

Research suggests that laughter can offer stress relief, soothe tension, improve mood and even relieve pain. This charity comedy event will put that to the ...

Escape Artists Theatre Company presents Bess - The Other Houdini   The startling true story of Harry Houdini’s beloved wife and her breakdown in the ...

Join us, once again, for an evening of Magic at the Gatehouse presented by an exciting line-up of top magicians. Witness miracles manifest before your ...

AIM Theatre presents Just Barking by Joe Wiltshire Smith   Performed in rep with That Day on the 18th & 20th October   Stumbling back into her ...

New play, ‘Just Barking’ premieres at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, starring Rebecca Gilliland (Wicked)

AIM Theatre presents That Day by Ben Hannigan Performed in rep with Just Barking on the 19th & 21st October A confused introvert trying to write a ...

Garden Suburb Theatre presents Murder With Ghosts A spine tingling, rollercoaster of suspense, spooks and laughter as eerie encounters unfold at Quittendon Manor in this ...

A Fundraiser in Aid of Upstairs at the Gatehouse Venice - 12th December 1889.  The great English poet Robert Browning is dying. In his last ...

The renowned short story by Anton Chekhov returns to the UK stage and is transported to Jazz Age Britain in a full-length bittersweet romantic comedy. ...

Alces Productions presents The Lady With A Dog The Chekhov story that the writer Vladimir Nabokov called ‘one of the greatest stories ever written’ returns ...

Night Light  is a 1-hour, 3-act, fast-paced, conversational comedy. 3 children in their mid-20s put off growing up until they're forced to let go of ...

Blood Gold and Oil by Jan Woolf From the Arab revolt of the First World War, a modern hero is constructed: the complex, flawed figure ...

Ovation presents Summer In The City Written by  Jennifer Selway   Musical Supervisor  Kevin Oliver Jones Directed by  John Plews  Ovation’s festive season show is ...

Two plant scientists feud over flora in a modern comic twist on an Alexandre Dumas novel. Loosely based on Alexandre Dumas’ The Black Tulip, two ...

Blending cabaret, queer theatre and circus, this tongue-in-cheek musical is inspired by surrealist pieces of art such as Eschers stairwell, Magrittes apples and Dalis melting ...

Five Guys Named Moe is an explosion of entertainment using the great music of Louis Jordan. Nomax is our Hero he's broke, his girlfriends left ...

New what if comedy The Funny Girls has announced an extended run at Upstairs at The Gatehouse this October, following their upcoming premiere with New ...

Gustav Holsts The Idea a UK Premier.Irrational Theatre freshly fuses an exuberant band and singers with this unseen early Holst to create a family fun, ...

When most of us think of the 1950s, we think of Rock n Roll, Hot Rods, Elvis, D.A. haircuts and teenage rebellion. But there was ...

Francis, Jinx, Smudge and Sparky loved to sing. They all met in high school around 1956, and, as Forever Plaid, dreamed of becoming like their ...

Alces Productions presents5th 29th March 2020So begins Once Upon a Mattress, a magical musical comedy journey into the world of Hans Christian Andersons beloved story ...

Twelve strangers collide in a controversial case that will change them forever. The pressure is on to unanimously decide on a verdict but they are ...

Ovation is delighted to present the London Fringe premiere of 42nd Street the all-singing, all-dancing Broadway musical. One of show businesss most classic and beloved ...

Ovation is delighted to present the London Fringe premiere of 42nd Street the all-singing, all-dancing Broadway musical. One of show businesss most classic and beloved ...

The Lady in the Van tells the true story of playwright Alan Bennetts friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd. Though she is a crabby, eccentric and ...

I Do! I Do! chronicles the highs and lows of a couples marriage spanning over fifty years. This new production will feature all-new and updated ...

A comedy about the creator of the welfare stateBy Francis BeckettMay 1945. Britain celebrates victory and cheers Winston Churchill. The people who fought the war ...

MARRIAGE CHILDREN CLONINGDavid and Lisa lead a blessed life in rural Virginia; children, a summer-house by the river, warmth and laughter. Then their worst nightmare ...

Opera Loki cuts right to the soulful heart of Puccinis world famous tale of love and desire whilst showcasing opera talent of tomorrow.Featuring world class ...

Nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Score, Working features songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton), Stephen Schwartz and James Taylor. Working celebrates our search for ...

Pericles is a Shakespearean epic an exciting and exotic adventure of mystery, marvels, and mayhem now brought to life in a bold new production by ...

Pericles is a Shakespearean epic an exciting and exotic adventure of mystery, marvels, and mayhem now brought to life in a bold new production by ...

Pericles is a Shakespearean epic an exciting and exotic adventure of mystery, marvels, and mayhem now brought to life in a bold new production by ...

Six anorexics walk into a sandwich bar! Putting the 'logical' in 'Pathological,' Francesca Forristal's one woman show invites audiences into the brain of a person ...

Putting the 'logical' in pathological, this one woman show invites audiences into the brain of a personwith an eating disorder, to explore thought processes which ...

Ovation presents:A modern day comedy about real estate, mice and adultery. Written by Jennifer SelwayFrom the writer of Wallis and Odette, a new comedy set ...

Presented by OvationWritten by Jennifer SelwayDirected by John PlewsFrom the writer of Wallis and Odette, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of SouthKensington ...

Old bones ache before a storm. Within an hour trowel had hit bone, and the moment it did, the thunder rolled in. The archaeologists disturbed ...

Winner of the 1990 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, ‘Return to the Forbidden Planet’ is a rockin’ rollercoaster ride into the future. Join Captain ...

Presented by Katy Lipson for ARIA ENTERTAINMENT Directed by Bronagh Lagan Written by Chris Burgess Musical Arrangements by Andy Collyer Every year Hollywood pats itself ...

Top Hat tells the story of Broadway sensation Jerry Travers who dances his way across Europe to win the heart of society girl Dale Tremont ...

Madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to Southampton. This revival is based on the 1962 off-Broadway version which was the first ...

In the shadows of the newly-built Eiffel Tower and Moulin Rouge, the Parisian bohemian community flourishes. Four young men have been trying to make their ...