Wicked

@ Victoria Apollo Theatre

Suitable for KS2 +

Wicked is already the ninth longest running musical in West End history and has won more than 100 major international awards, including 3 Tony Awards on Broadway and 2 Olivier Audience Awards in the UK.

Twice voted 'Best Theatre Production for Schools' by teachers at the annual School Travel Awards, Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two young women who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba. Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths.

Glinda's unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power while Elphaba's determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

Visit the Wicked website for access information and more details about the cast and creative team.

SPECIAL OFFER TO NEW SCHOOLS: Pay just £150 for up to 33 people (staff and students) if this is your first time booking a Theatre Openers trip with us.

Watch the trailer below for a taste of what to expect

Life of Pi

@ Wyndam’s Theatre

Suitable for KS3 +

Based on one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction – Life of Pi is the smash hit adaptation of an epic journey of endurance and hope.

After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a sixteen year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors - a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?

Visit the National Theatre website for access information and more details about the cast and creative team.

Watch the trailer below for a taste of what to expect

Wicked

@ Victoria Apollo Theatre

Suitable for KS2 +

Wicked is already the ninth longest running musical in West End history and has won more than 100 major international awards, including 3 Tony Awards on Broadway and 2 Olivier Audience Awards in the UK.

Twice voted 'Best Theatre Production for Schools' by teachers at the annual School Travel Awards, Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two young women who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba. Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths.

Glinda's unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power while Elphaba's determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

Visit the Wicked website for access information and more details about the cast and creative team.

SPECIAL OFFER TO NEW SCHOOLS: Pay just £150 for up to 33 people (staff and students) if this is your first time booking a Theatre Openers trip with us.

Watch the trailer below for a taste of what to expect

Back To The Future the Musical

@ Adelphi Theatre

Suitable for KS3 +

Great Scott! It’s time for “perfect musical escapism” (Metro) with Back to the Future: The Musical. The 1985 blockbuster film and pop culture phenomenon has blazed into the West End in this ground-breaking production of “extraordinary theatrical wizardry” (Metro) that the critics are hailing as a “feel-good triumph” (Telegraph) and “enormously good fun” (WhatsOnStage).

When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 in a time machine built by the eccentric scientist Doc Brown, he accidentally changes the course of history. Now he’s in a race against time to fix the present, escape the past and send himself... back to the future.

Back to the Future the Musical features original music by multi-Grammy winners Alan Silvestri (Avengers: Endgame) and Glen Ballard (Michael Jackson’s Man in the Mirror), alongside hit songs from the movie including The Power of Love, Johnny B. Goode, Earth Angel and Back in Time.

Visit the National Theatre website for access information and more details about the cast and creative team.

Watch the trailer below for a blast of the show!

Back To The Future the Musical

@ Adelphi Theatre

Suitable for KS3 +

Great Scott! It’s time for “perfect musical escapism” (Metro) with Back to the Future: The Musical. The 1985 blockbuster film and pop culture phenomenon has blazed into the West End in this ground-breaking production of “extraordinary theatrical wizardry” (Metro) that the critics are hailing as a “feel-good triumph” (Telegraph) and “enormously good fun” (WhatsOnStage).

When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 in a time machine built by the eccentric scientist Doc Brown, he accidentally changes the course of history. Now he’s in a race against time to fix the present, escape the past and send himself... back to the future.

Back to the Future the Musical features original music by multi-Grammy winners Alan Silvestri (Avengers: Endgame) and Glen Ballard (Michael Jackson’s Man in the Mirror), alongside hit songs from the movie including The Power of Love, Johnny B. Goode, Earth Angel and Back in Time.

Visit the National Theatre website for access information and more details about the cast and creative team.

Watch the trailer below for a blast of the show!

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

@ Duke of York’s Theatre

Suitable for KS3 +
NB: This production is recommended for ages 12+ and contains some adult themes that some people may find distressing, including a depiction of suicide and scenes discussing suicide.

Don’t miss this chance to take your students to see this acclaimed National Theatre production on its limited West End run!

Adapted by Joel Horwood from the best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman, this spectacular and thrilling adventure directed by Katy Rudd, is a theatrical tour de force of imagination and storytelling. 

Returning to his childhood home, a man finds himself standing beside the pond of the old Sussex farmhouse where he used to play. He’s transported to his 12th birthday when his friend Lettie claimed it wasn’t a pond, but an ocean…

Plunged into a magical world, their survival depends on their ability to reckon with ancient forces that threaten to destroy everything around them.

Visit the National Theatre website for access information and more details about the cast and creative team.

Watch the trailer below for a taste of what to expect

The Book of Dust

@ Bridge Theatre

An acclaimed stage adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage 

Suitable for KS3 +
NB: Contains Adult Language

Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. And as the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption to others.

18 years after his ground-breaking production of His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner returns to Pullman’s parallel universe to direct a gripping adaptation by Bryony Lavery.

Visit the Bridge Theatre website for access information and more details about the cast and creative team.

CONTENT ADVISORY: This production contains adult language, scenes depicting threat and physical violence, a gunshot sound effect and reference of sexual violence towards a minor.  

The Book of Dust

@ Bridge Theatre

An acclaimed stage adaptation of Phillip Pullman’s The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage 

Suitable for KS3 +

Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. And as the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption to others.

18 years after his ground-breaking production of His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner returns to Pullman’s parallel universe to direct a gripping adaptation by Bryony Lavery.

Visit the Bridge Theatre website for access information and more details about the cast and creative team.

CONTENT ADVISORY: This production contains adult language, scenes depicting threat and physical violence, a gunshot sound effect and reference of sexual violence towards a minor.   

LUZIA

@ The Royal Albert Hall

Suitable for KS3 +

Celebrating 25 Years since Cirque du Soleil first brought its captivating magic to the Royal Albert Hall, the acclaimed spectacular LUZIA is inspired by the people, places, and stories that define Mexico.

Take your students on a time-travelling adventure through a waking dream, from the folklore of old to the urban landscape of today.  With a surrealistic series of grand visual surprises and breath-taking acrobatic performances, LUZIA cleverly brings to the stage multiple places, faces and sounds of Mexico taken from both tradition and modernity.

Visit the Royal Albert Hall website for access and transport information.

Watch the trailer for a taste of the magic!

Join us in the Emerald City for a night of 'unlimited' musical magic, featuring Stephen Schwartz's iconic score and the most famous witch this side of Hogwarts.

Running time: 2 hours 45 minutes (including interval)

Special group ticket price: £150 per group up to 33 tickets

Please only book this performance if your school is new to Theatre Openers or hasn’t been on a Theatre Openers visit for 4 years.

Theatre COVID Safety Information

Shakespeare’s fairy-tale farce of everyday miracles and mistaken identity will give your students an early Christmas treat!

Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes (including interval)

Theatre COVID Safety Information

Shakespeare’s fairy-tale farce of everyday miracles and mistaken identity will give your students an early Christmas treat!

Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes (including interval)

Theatre COVID Safety Information

Join Simba on his journey through the Pride Lands to take his place as King of Pride Rock in Disney’s classic story of love, family, and courage.

Running time: 2 hours 30 minutes (including interval)

Please only book this performance if your school is new to Theatre Openers or hasn’t been on a Theatre Openers visit for 4 years.

Theatre COVID Safety Information

Stephen Schwartz's soaring score will have you and our students believing in miracles in this magical story about love, brotherhood, and standing up for what's right.

Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes (including interval)

Special group ticket price: £150 per group up to 33 tickets

Please only book this performance if your school is new to Theatre Openers or hasn’t been on a Theatre Openers visit for 4 years.

Theatre COVID Safety Information

Join us in the Emerald City for a night of 'unlimited' musical magic, featuring Stephen Schwartz's iconic score and the most famous witch this side of Hogwarts.

Running time: 2 hours 45 minutes (including interval)

Special group ticket price: £150 per group up to 33 tickets

Please only book this performance if your school is new to Theatre Openers or hasn’t been on a Theatre Openers visit for 4 years.

Theatre COVID Safety Information

This brand new verbatim play, based entirely on the real words of those involved in the Grenfell disaster, gives a human voice to one of the most shocking - and shockingly preventable - tragedies in our time. An Insight session is available for this performance. An Insight session is available for this performance.

Running time: TBC

For COVID Safety Information please call the venue on 020 7221 9700

This brand new verbatim play, based entirely on the real words of those involved in the Grenfell disaster, gives a human voice to one of the most shocking - and shockingly preventable - tragedies in our time. An Insight session is available for this performance.

Running time: TBC

For COVID Safety Information please call the venue on 020 7221 9700

LEOPOLDSTADT

@ Wyndham’s Theatre

by Tom Stoppard

Suitable for KS3 +

Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance. It is Stoppard’s most humane and heart-breaking play.

Vienna in 1900 was the most vibrant city in Europe, humming with artistic and intellectual excitement and a genius for enjoying life. A tenth of the population were Jews. A generation earlier they had been granted full civil rights by the Emperor, Franz Josef. Consequently, hundreds of thousands had fled from the Pale and the pogroms in the East and many found sanctuary in the crowded tenements of the old Jewish quarter, Leopoldstadt.

Regarded as ‘Britain’s greatest living playwright’ (The Times), Tom Stoppard’s new play, directed by Patrick Marber, is an intimate drama with an epic sweep; the story of a family who made good. “My grandfather wore a caftan,” says Hermann, a factory owner, “My father went to the opera in a top hat, and I have the singers to dinner.”

It was not to last. Half a century later, this family, like millions of others, has re-discovered what it means to be Jewish in the first half of the 20th century.

PLEASE NOTE: This is an hotly-anticipated show so tickets will be in high demand. Apply ASAP!

Visit the show website for more details about the cast and creative, as well as the essential access and transport information. There’s even an interview with Tom Stoppard on there, which you might like to share with your students before you come along!

Please note: The tickets available are for seats at the front of the BALCONY.

LEOPOLDSTADT

@ Wyndham’s Theatre

by Tom Stoppard

Suitable for KS3 +

Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance. It is Stoppard’s most humane and heart-breaking play.

Vienna in 1900 was the most vibrant city in Europe, humming with artistic and intellectual excitement and a genius for enjoying life. A tenth of the population were Jews. A generation earlier they had been granted full civil rights by the Emperor, Franz Josef. Consequently, hundreds of thousands had fled from the Pale and the pogroms in the East and many found sanctuary in the crowded tenements of the old Jewish quarter, Leopoldstadt.

Regarded as ‘Britain’s greatest living playwright’ (The Times), Tom Stoppard’s new play, directed by Patrick Marber, is an intimate drama with an epic sweep; the story of a family who made good. “My grandfather wore a caftan,” says Hermann, a factory owner, “My father went to the opera in a top hat, and I have the singers to dinner.”

It was not to last. Half a century later, this family, like millions of others, has re-discovered what it means to be Jewish in the first half of the 20th century.

PLEASE NOTE: This is an hotly-anticipated show so tickets will be in high demand. Apply ASAP!

Visit the show website for more details about the cast and creative, as well as the essential access and transport information. There’s even an interview with Tom Stoppard on there, which you might like to share with your students before you come along!

Please note: The tickets available are for seats at the front of the BALCONY.

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

@ Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue

Inspired by a true story, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is a fresh, feelgood musical that is guaranteed to uplift and inspire your students next Spring!

Premiered in Sheffield Theatres in 2017, it has won multiple awards and has already gained cult status among young people and the LGBT community.

Jamie New is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield.
Jamie doesn’t quite fit in.
Jamie is terrified about the future.
He is going to be a sensation.

Supported by his brilliant loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight.

Written by Tom MacRae and featuring songs by lead singer-songwriter of The Feeling, this funny, fabulous, feel-good, musical sensation is not to be missed!

Visit the show website for access information and to find out more about the cast and creatives.

Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

@ Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue

Inspired by a true story, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is a fresh, feelgood musical that is guaranteed to uplift and inspire your students next Spring!

Premiered in Sheffield Theatres in 2017, it has won multiple awards and has already gained cult status among young people and the LGBT community.

Jamie New is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield.
Jamie doesn’t quite fit in.
Jamie is terrified about the future.
He is going to be a sensation.

Supported by his brilliant loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight.

Written by Tom MacRae and featuring songs by lead singer-songwriter of The Feeling, this funny, fabulous, feel-good, musical sensation is not to be missed!

Visit the show website for access information and to find out more about the cast and creatives.

I Think We Are Alone

A Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth Production, co-produced by Curve

Written by Sally Abbott
Co-directed by Kathy Burke and Scott Graham

@ Theatre Royal Stratford East

Suitable for KS4 +

Frantic Assembly are celebrating their 25th Anniversary with this brand-new play, co-directed by Kathy Burke and Scott Graham.

I THINK WE ARE ALONE is a delicate and uplifting play about our fragility, resilience and our need for love and forgiveness. A bittersweet and funny take on our ache to connect with those voices we need to hear again, those arms we need to feel around us and those faces we need to see again. It is about letting go and holding on to what we love the most.

Visit the Theatre Royal Stratford East website for access information and to find out more about the show.

I Think We Are Alone

A Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth Production, co-produced by Curve

Written by Sally Abbott
Co-directed by Kathy Burke and Scott Graham

@ Theatre Royal Stratford East

Suitable for KS4 +

Frantic Assembly are celebrating their 25th Anniversary with this brand-new play, co-directed by Kathy Burke and Scott Graham.

I THINK WE ARE ALONE is a delicate and uplifting play about our fragility, resilience and our need for love and forgiveness. A bittersweet and funny take on our ache to connect with those voices we need to hear again, those arms we need to feel around us and those faces we need to see again. It is about letting go and holding on to what we love the most.

Visit the Theatre Royal Stratford East website for access information and to find out more about the show.

LUZIA

@ The Royal Albert Hall

Suitable for KS3 +

Take your students on an uplifting, time-travelling journey through Mexico in this vibrant new show from Cirque Du Soleil!

Experience a world where the “luz” (light in Spanish) quenches the spirit and the “lluvia” (rain) soothes the soul. Through a series of surreal visual surprises and breathtaking acrobatic performances, LUZIA cleverly brings to life places, faces and sounds of Mexico from throughout history to the modern day.

Visit the Royal Albert Hall website for access and transport information.

Watch the trailer for a taste of the magic!

Three Sisters

A new play by Inua Ellams after Chekhov
In co-production with Fuel

@ the Lyttleton Theatre

Suitable for KS4 +

Love and longing in 1960s Nigeria.

Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their father. Months before, two ruthless military coups plunged the country into chaos. Fuelled by foreign intervention, the conflict encroaches on their provincial village, and the sisters long to return to their former home in Lagos

Visit the National Theatre website for access information and more details about the cast and creative team.

Please note: You can apply for a maximum of 15 tickets per school for this performance.

Three Sisters

A new play by Inua Ellams after Chekhov
In co-production with Fuel

@ the Lyttleton Theatre

Suitable for KS4 +

Love and longing in 1960s Nigeria.

Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their father. Months before, two ruthless military coups plunged the country into chaos. Fuelled by foreign intervention, the conflict encroaches on their provincial village, and the sisters long to return to their former home in Lagos

Visit the National Theatre website for access information and more details about the cast and creative team.

The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe

@ Bridge Theatre

Suitable for KS3 +

Join Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter as they step through the wardrobe and into the magical kingdom of Narnia. Mr Tumnus, the White Witch, Aslan… the characters and adventures await you!

This critically-acclaimed production reunites director Sally Cookson and the creative team who originally brought the show to life in 2017, breaking box office records at Leeds Playhouse.

Visit the Bridge Theatre website for access information and more details about the cast and creative team.

Watch the trailer below for a taste of what to expect!

Three Sisters

A new play by Inua Ellams after Chekhov
In co-production with Fuel

@ the Lyttleton Theatre

Suitable for KS4 +

Love and longing in 1960s Nigeria.

Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their father. Months before, two ruthless military coups plunged the country into chaos. Fuelled by foreign intervention, the conflict encroaches on their provincial village, and the sisters long to return to their former home in Lagos

Visit the National Theatre website for access information and more details about the cast and creative team.

LUZIA

@ The Royal Albert Hall

Suitable for KS3 +

Take your students on an uplifting, time-travelling journey through Mexico in this vibrant new show from Cirque Du Soleil!

Experience a world where the “luz” (light in Spanish) quenches the spirit and the “lluvia” (rain) soothes the soul. Through a series of surreal visual surprises and breathtaking acrobatic performances, LUZIA cleverly brings to life places, faces and sounds of Mexico from throughout history to the modern day.

Visit the Royal Albert Hall website for access and transport information.

Watch the trailer for a taste of the magic!

The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe

@ Bridge Theatre

Suitable for KS3 +

Join Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter as they step through the wardrobe and into the magical kingdom of Narnia. Mr Tumnus, the White Witch, Aslan… the characters and adventures await you!

This critically-acclaimed production reunites director Sally Cookson and the creative team who originally brought the show to life in 2017, breaking box office records at Leeds Playhouse.

Visit the Bridge Theatre website for access information and more details about the cast and creative team.

Watch the trailer below for a taste of what to expect!