LGBTQ+ theatre in London runs from intimate new plays to musicals with a much bigger spotlight. Add drag theatre, adult panto and performers we’d happily cross town for, and there’s every reason to make a night of it.
We keep this guide refreshed so you can find something to see now, catch an opening or get a future date in the diary. We include queer stories and productions with a clear connection to our community.
Updated 11 November 2026.
On now
Currently on stage, with performances still to catch.
tell me straight & aggy
King’s Head Theatre · Islington
15 October 2026 to 14 November 2026
Paul Bradshaw’s double bill puts queer relationships under pressure from two directions. In tell me straight, a man with a weakness for supposedly straight men attempts a month without hookups. In aggy, a couple’s plan to get ahead in the arts starts to unravel when an invented persona proves rather too successful. Sex, ambition and the identities we perform are all up for discussion, across two portraits of London queer life.
Orlando: A Pornobiography
New Diorama Theatre · Regent’s Place
10 November 2026 to 12 December 2026
Tickets: £13 full-price previews (10 to 17 November). £19 full price from 18 November. Concessions and pay-what-you-can performances also available
Woolf’s Orlando has never been short on gender trouble. Now piss / CARNATION hand the story to an ensemble of transfemme performers, including Mary Malone and Sharon Le Grand. This new take moves between centuries, bodies and erotic encounters, taking in palace grounds and contemporary Berlin. It’s a production rooted in transfeminine experience, with desire firmly in the foreground. The venue recommends it for adults. Runs until 12 December at New Diorama Theatre.
Opening soon
New runs and guest appearances opening in the next six weeks.
Blue Hour
Theatro Technis · Camden
16 November 2026 to 17 November 2026
Tickets: £14, £9 concessions
Two couples find that moving forward together is considerably harder than sharing a home. ScapeGoat Theatre’s hour-long drama moves between uneasy relationships and disruptive dreams, with Marie and Kara’s love story sitting alongside Sanja and Owen’s increasingly different plans. Created by Nasia Ntalla, Kim Rechsteiner and Giverny Masso, it brings queer intimacy and questions of belonging to the Voila! festival. There are just two Camden performances.
Jesus Christ Superstar: Bob the Drag Queen as King Herod
Theatre Royal Drury Lane · West End
Bob’s appearances: 16 November 2026 to 21 November 2026
Bob the Drag Queen takes on King Herod for six days in Tim Sheader’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Sam Ryder plays Jesus in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock musical, which follows the final days of Christ through Judas’s eyes. The queer draw here is Bob’s guest appearance, so choosing the right performance matters: the role rotates throughout the run.
Read GLL’s feature on Jesus Christ Superstar: Bob the Drag Queen as King Herod.
Goblin
Park Theatre · Finsbury Park
17 November 2026 to 5 December 2026
Tickets: £15 to £25, with separate concession schemes
Growing up gay in small-town Illinois is difficult enough before your imaginary friend becomes your closest ally. Derek Mitchell plays Eliot, a bullied teenage emo whose relationship with an older reality TV personality changes the course of his life. This solo play explores loneliness, obsession and the need to be seen. The comedy comes with difficult material, including grooming and exploitation. At Park Theatre from 17 November to 5 December.
Cinderella: Buttons Undone!
Charing Cross Theatre · Charing Cross
21 November 2026 to 9 January 2027
Tickets: From £22, plus a £2.50 online/phone booking fee and 50p restoration levy
He’s Behind You! relocates Cinderella to the seaside resort of Lob-on-Sea, where a tennis champion’s search for a bride gives hotel maid Cindy a possible escape from her stepsister’s rule. Her gay best mate Buttons has problems of his own. Matthew Baldwin and Chris Lane return for Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper’s adult panto, directed by Andrew Beckett, with songs by Bradfield and a firmly queer take on the fairytale. Strictly 18+.
Pulled: The 2026 RVT Panto
Royal Vauxhall Tavern · Vauxhall
24 November 2026 to 3 January 2027
Tickets: £23 general admission or £25 guaranteed seating, plus booking fee
King Arthur gets the Royal Vauxhall Tavern treatment in this year’s adult panto, with Patrick Eamon Cook as Arthur and Ada Campe as Merlin. Tim Benzie and Paul Joseph’s script takes Camelot into the RVT’s world of drag and rewritten pop songs, directed by Tim McArthur. It’s an 18-plus production, with both seated and standing tickets.
The Human Voice
The Cockpit · Marylebone
24 November 2026 to 5 December 2026
Tickets: £23.66, concessions £19.54, including booking fees
A breakup by telephone hardly needs updating, but Andrew Visnevski’s production brings Cocteau’s drama back to its queer roots. Elliot Pritchard plays The Woman, trying to hold on to a lover who is already slipping away. Adapted by Jeff Lewis, this 70-minute solo piece uses physical theatre to explore desire, abandonment and the strain of living outside society’s expectations. It’s intimate material, with nowhere to hide once the receiver is lifted.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Emerald Theatre · Embankment
2 December 2026 to 10 January 2027
TuckShop gives Jack’s ill-advised bean purchase an all-drag makeover, with Bones as Jack, Kitty Scott-Claus as Princess Jill and Kate Butch as his mother. Rosé plays Fleshcreep until 23 December, with Kyran Thrax taking over from 27 December. A rotating line-up of guest Giants joins the cast across the run. Expect adult themes and strong language, and check the cast schedule if you’re booking to see a particular performer.
Throbbin’ Hood & His Messy Men
Union Theatre · Southwark
3 December 2026 to 9 January 2027
Tickets: £34, with £20 tickets for Tuesday, Saturday matinee and Sunday performances
Joshua Coley’s adult pantomime sets Robin Hood loose in a financially squeezed Frottingham. Prince Andy and the Sheriff are making life miserable, while Robin’s rescue mission brings Maid Marion, Little John Thomas and Freya Tucked into the firing line. Directed by Sasha Regan, the Union’s Christmas show leans into sexual innuendo and theatrical absurdity.
Thick & Tight: Camp as Christmas
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre · South Bank
10 December 2026 to 3 January 2027
Tickets: From £26, with £20 preview tickets on 10 December
Daniel Hay-Gordon and El Perry bring their queer dance-theatre company to the Purcell Room for a festive variety show with an unruly guest list. Judy Garland, Liza and assorted nativity characters turn up in a mix of dance, drag, mime and lip-sync, with Harry Alexander and Annie Edwards joining the pair on stage. The hour-long performance is for ages 15 and over.
Book ahead
Further-ahead productions with public booking already open.
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story
King’s Head Theatre · Islington
19 January 2027 to 31 January 2027
Linus Karp’s Diana is back at the King’s Head, telling her version of royal history from heaven. Awkward Productions combines drag, puppetry, film and audience involvement for a deliberately fictional celebration of the princess, with Joseph Martin puppeteering and Geri Allen appearing live as the Queen. The show returns for its fifth anniversary and runs for 75 minutes.
Redcliffe
Criterion Theatre · Piccadilly Circus
28 January 2027 to 17 April 2027
Tickets: From £21.25 through Official London Theatre
Jordan Luke Gage’s musical follows the relationship between William Critchard and sailor Richard Arnold in eighteenth-century Bristol, where falling in love carries a dangerous cost. Gage returns as William for the West End transfer, directed by Paul Foster. The story places queer desire at its centre, alongside the prejudice and scrutiny that threaten the couple’s future.
Fault
King’s Head Theatre · Islington
3 March 2027 to 28 March 2027
Jay’s tennis career is approaching a breakthrough when an old friend arrives with a secret and a demand. Tom Ratcliffe’s thriller follows an openly gay player chasing a place in the world’s top ten, with blackmail and match-fixing threatening the image he has carefully built. Ratcliffe writes and directs, with dramaturgy by Rikki Beadle-Blair.
Saving Alan Turing
King’s Head Theatre · Islington
22 April 2027 to 30 May 2027
Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky’s new play focuses on Alan Turing’s sessions with the Jungian analyst Franz Greenbaum during the final years of his life. Their developing friendship brings two complicated histories together, while Turing’s wartime work remains a secret he cannot share. Marking 75 years since his conviction for gross indecency, the production places his private life and persecution at the centre of the story.
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