To ask which theatre shows you’ve seen this year?

[AllaMova]

This year, I’ve seen:

Pride: The Musical
Phantom of the Opera in London
Under Milk Wood
I also streamed National Theatre’s The Importance of Being Earnest at home, but not sure if it counts.

I also have these booked for this year:

Oliver! In London
Operation Mincemeat
Owain and Henry

I go to the theatre all the time so quite a list since January:
Cursed Child
OVO - does this count?
Mousetrap
Hadestown
Inspector Morse
Noughts & Crosses
I, Daniel Blake
Priscilla
The Bodyguard
The Red Shoes
Going to Legally Blond on Wednesday and have lots more booked for the rest of the year
Also like comedy gigs

Those teenagers in the bed were a nightmare and I was desperate for the Loo I was just thinking hurry up and die ffs 😫

We are going to see The Tempest on Thursday at RSC I am so excited- Kenneth Brannagh as Prospero!

We have discovered with the Royal Exchange if you go to the preview shows you can get tickets for as cheap as £12 so we're trying to go and see everything this year.

The current show, Private Lives was brilliant. And we have tickets for the next show Even These Things

We have Hobson's choice in Hebden Bridge soon as well.

The outsiders - based on the movie? I am very jealous - will have to watch out for that coming to the UK at some point

Buddy - the Buddy Holly story
Mamma Mia
Starlight Express

Going to see Mean Girls in a couple of weeks and taking my eldest to see Stranger Things , debating wether to also take him to Beetlejuice or Totoro while we are in London.

Matilda
Hamilton
And Juliet
Dear Evan Hansen - all in Edinburgh
The Mousetrap (for DD’s first trip to London)
We will rock you (am dram performance)
Inter Alia - streamed

I’ll also be seeing WWRY again as DD is performing in it for school.

I mean technically the book we all had to read in middle school, but yes, also the movie.

And I'm sure you'll get it eventually. :)

In the last year I've seen
In london
Evita
Oliver
In Dublin
&Juliet
Fiddler on the roof
Little shop of horrors
Blood brothers
The nutcracker
I'm going to see Waitress next week and I have tickets for
Oklahoma
Matilda
swan lake
The cursed child in London

I love musicals

Matilda so far, seeing Six later in the year and Everybody’s talking about Jamie and Back to the future next year.

Love going to the theatre, it’s just so expensive!

We didn't get to read books like that at school - was mainly Dickens, Hardy etc

This year as in, 2026? None! This year as in the last 12 months:

Joseph
Twelfth Night
Wicked
Phantom of the Opera
Murder on the Orient Express
A Comedy about Spies

The shows were all fantastic. The audience for Wicked was absolutely despicable though, which spoilt it for me.

For those who mentioned ticket costs, our local theatre runs on volunteer ushers (Wales millennium centre) so I get to see all shows free, I only found this out a few years ago so may be applicable to other theatres around the country!

Took DD9 to see a touring production of Hairspray, and both her and DD6 to see Joseph. Both were great fun but Hairspray was astounding.

I would take them every week given the chance, we all love the theatre (bar DH who is a miserable sod), but we simply can't afford it. Would love to take them to watch Paddington but the ticket prices are extortionate.

I didn't rate it. The songs weren't great.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in local theatre
A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Globe

Hoping to book either The Lion King or The Play That Goes Wrong for DD and I over the summer.

I have a very close friend who is in amdram so will also book anything I can to support.

What a weirdly smug comment 😭 'We read Dickens and Hardy'—okay? American schools also teach higher-brow literature later on. The Outsiders is just an extremely standard middle school book because it’s hugely relatable to young teens, and was literally written by a 15-year-old, which is part of why kids connect to it so strongly. Sorry we weren’t assigning emotionally repressed Victorian suffering and 600 pages of fog to seventh graders.

I think you misread that post and the poster was lamenting the fact we only read the classics because she’s a big fan of the outsiders (things have changed now mind you)

I’ve seen Cabaret and Dracula

Also went to ABBA Voyage earlier in the year if that counts as a show.

The Book of Mormon
rocky horror

booked to see

moulin rough
mamma Mia

Quite a few thanks to school trips to London!

My Neighbour Totaro
Stranger Things x2
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (bad choice for teens)
The Play that Goes Wrong x 2

Yes agree with your reading of it also I mis-read completely and thought it was the Inbetweeners 😄 thought wow I didn't realize that was also a book.....

🤣

In the last year

Dear England
Les Miserables (amateur)
Kinky Boots
Hunchback of Notre Dame (concert version)
Miss Saigon
Sleeping Beauty
Blood Brothers
Once on this Island (concert version)
Operation Mincemeat
Bank of Dave

granted three of those Ds was either performing in or working behind the scenes in). Also not sure if you can count the Evita balcony scene!

coming up we have

Something Rotten
Life Behind Bars
Beetlejuce
Jesus Christ Superstar

I don't go often as I hate musicals and its rare that a really good play is showing near me, but I am seeing an Oscar Wilde play next week and i can't wait. I was at dd's school production recently if that counts, it was in a proper theatre.

Sound of music
my neighbour torto
witness for the prosecution

upcoming
beetlejuice
hamilton
heathers

i don’t think it was intended as smug at all. You seem somewhat thin skinned and prickly — have you been in the UK too long 😆