The Comedy About Spies
Comedy About Spies play tickets? Mission accepted!
Listen up, agents: Mischief Theatre’s WhatsOnStage Award-winning Comedy About Spies play is back in the West End for a strictly limited season! The team behind The Play That Goes Wrong brings their hilarious Cold War spy caper to the Adelphi Theatre, where intel suggests you can expect intrigue, action, romance, and lots of laughs.
When a British agent goes rogue and steals plans for a top-secret weapon, the very best minds at MI5, the CIA, and the KGB converge at the Piccadilly Hotel… and they’re all trying to recover the files. This is a comedy, so don’t expect everything to go to plan – there’s also a couple of young lovers, a washed-up actor hoping for a 007-shaped breakthrough, and double agents who can’t even remember what side they’re on.
The Comedy About Spies play is the latest hit from Mischief Theatre, who’ve been bringing laughs to London theatre fans since 2012. Their most famous show, The Play That Goes Wrong, won the Olivier Award for Best New Play and is still a West End favourite more than 10 years after it opened. From The Comedy About a Bank Robbery to Mischief Movie Night, this hilarious theatre troupe are the one to watch if you want a night out that tickles your funny bone.
The creative team for Comedy About Spies includes co-writers Henry Lewis and Henry Shields and director Matt Di Carlo. After premiering at the Noel Coward Theatre in 2025, it quickly became a critical and audience hit. Reviews called it a “delightfully silly” (The Guardian) show that “made me laugh out loud more often than just about anything else I’ve seen in the last 12 months” (The Evening Standard). It has picked up major recognition, including a WhatsOnStage Awards win for Best New Comedy, alongside nominations at the Olivier Awards and Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Your mission, theatregoers: book tickets for The Comedy About Spies this spring – expect chaos, disguises, and laugh-out-loud mayhem in a brilliantly slick spoof. Don’t miss your chance to catch the madness live.
Child friendly?
The Comedy About Spies play age rating is 10+. Children under 16 must be accompanied by and sat next to an adult.
This production includes strobe lighting, infrequent mild bad language and the use of haze and gunshots.