Shifters
The beautiful and intoxicating play about young love and lost memories transfers to the West End for an exclusive, limited run at the Duke of York’s Theatre. Despite having a small cast of two, the production is hilarious and tear-jerking, bringing all of the most-loved rom-com elements to the stage. Grab your tickets to the limited run of the fierce new romance on the West End before they’re gone!
Theatre Week
Booking until 12 October 2024
Barcelona
Bess Wolh’s latest play has a star-studded cast including Emily in Paris’ Lily Collins and Money Heist’s Álvaro Morte. Set over one night, the sexy yet surprising thriller focuses on an American tourist in Barcelona. When a tourist bumps into a Spaniard, they talk, have a few drinks and then decide to head home together. What started as a carefree flirtation quickly turns into danger. Grab your tickets to the limited run of the powerful new play as it makes its West End debut.
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Booking from 21 October 2024 until 11 January 2025
Box Office Contacts
| Box Office: | 0844 871 7615 |
| Access Booking: | 033 3009 5399 |
| Group Booking: | 020 7206 1174 |
| Stage Door: | 020 7836 4615 |
History
Originally opening in 1892 as the Trafalgar Square Theatre, the venue was designed by Walter Emden before being renamed the Trafalgar Theatre in 1894 and then to the Duke of York's Theatre in 1895, to honour King George V. A Grade II listed building known for hosting a variety of plays, musicals and operas, the building is now best-known for housing straight plays under the management of ATG.
The venue's first ever production was Wedding Eve (1892), with musicals such as Go-Bang (1894), operas such as Madame Butterfly (1900) and world premieres such as JM Barrie's Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) gracing the stage. Peter Pan returned to the venue successively each year for the next decade, once starring Noel Coward in 1912.
Early productions included The Admirable Crichton (1902) and What Every Woman Knows (1908), London Calling (1923), Easy Virtue (1926) and Home Chat (1927). Following the takeover of the theatre by ATG, the Duke of York's Theatre has hosted high quality productions such as The Rocky Horror Show, as well as successful Royal Court seasons.
Notable productions throughout the years have included Journey's End (2004-2005), The Dresser (2005), starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Julian Glover, Hedda Gabler (2005), Embers (2006), starring Jeremy Irons, Eh Joe (2006), starring Michael Gambon and Tom Stoppard's star-studded Rock 'n' Roll (2006-2007), which included Dominic West and Rufus Sewell.
Sheridan Smith starred in Little Shop of Horrors (2007), followed by In Celebration (2007), starring Orlando Bloom. Further productions included Rent Remixed (2007-2008), starring Denise Van Outen, No Man's Land (2008-2009), A View from the Bridge (2009), starring Ken Stott, Ghost Stories (2010-2011), Posh (2012), Jumpy (2012), starring Tamsin Grieg, Constellations (2012-2013), The Judas Kiss (2013), starring Rupert Everett, and Passion Play (2013), starring Zoe Wanamaker.
Following these, Hattie Morahan starred in A Doll's House (2013), with Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (2014) scooping the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. 2015 saw productions of Neville's Island, The Nether, Hay Fever, starring Felicity Kendal, Hetty Feather and Mark Rylance in Farinelli and the King.
A West End revival of popular children's tale Goodnight Mr Tom finished off the year, playing in rep with Peppa Pig's Surprise (2016). 2016 saw a revival of The Father transfer to the Duke of York's from Wyndham's Theatre, starring Olivier Award-winner Kenneth Cranham. Game of Thrones star Kit Harington starred in Jamie Lloyd's adaptation of Doctor Faustus, which was followed by popular comedy How the Other Half Loves, which transferred from the Theatre Royal Haymarket, starring Jenny Seagrove. 2016 rounds off with Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith starring in Ronald Harwood's The Dresser.
2017 began with an acclaimed performance of Ron Harwood's The Dresser, starring Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith. Further productions included the Olivier Award nominated The Glass Menagerie, starring Cherry Jones and directed by John Tiffany. Olivier Award-winning comedy Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour was next, after a sold-out run at the National Theatre, followed by the Almeida Theatre transfer of James Graham's play Ink, directed by Rupert Goold and starring Bertie Carvel.
Robert Icke's Mary Stuart was another Almeida transfer, arriving at the venue in January 2018, starring Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams. Roger Allam and Nancy Carroll then went on to reprise their roles in The Moderate Soprano, followed by a star-turn from Ian McKellen in King Lear, transferring from Chichester Festival Theatre. The final Almeida transfer of 2018 to grace the stage was Summer and Smoke, a revival of a lesser-known Tennessee Williams play.
2019 will see the National Theatre transfer of Laura Wade's play Home I'm Darling, starring Katherine Parkinson. Following this will be Ibsen's play Rosmersholm, starring Hayley Atwell and Tom Burke. The UK tour of The Girl on the Train plays for four weeks. In August, the theatre will host the West End transfer of Florian Zeller's The Son, first performed at the Kiln Theatre. For the festive period, Peppa Pig's Surprise played at the theatre.
David Greig's adaptation of award-winning true story Touching the Void transferred to the theatre for a limited season in November.
In March 2020, the Duke of York's Theatre closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Theatre transfer of The Ocean at the End of the Lane opened in October 2021. Planned productions of The Doctor and The Pillowman were postponed.
From May 2022, six-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams starred in a revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, followed by the West End transfer of The Doctor starring Juliet Stevenson.
Over Christmas 2022, Sir Ian McKellen and John Bishop starred in the pantomime Mother Goose, and in 2023, Sheridan Smith appeared in a revival of Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine, followed by Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman, starring Lily Allen and Steve Pemberton. In Autumn 2023, Andrew Scott starred in Vanya, a one-man version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya followed by Luke Evans and Penelope Wilton in Backstairs Billy.
From February - April 2024, Matt Smith starred in a new version of An Enemy of the People directed by Thomas Ostermeier. From May - August 2024, Tom Holland starred in Jamie Lloyd's adaptation of Romeo & Juliet. From August - October 2024, Shifters will be making its West End debut for a limited run. In Winter Lily Collins makes her West End debut in Bess Whol's Barcelona play.
The venue's first ever production was Wedding Eve (1892), with musicals such as Go-Bang (1894), operas such as Madame Butterfly (1900) and world premieres such as JM Barrie's Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) gracing the stage. Peter Pan returned to the venue successively each year for the next decade, once starring Noel Coward in 1912.
Early productions included The Admirable Crichton (1902) and What Every Woman Knows (1908), London Calling (1923), Easy Virtue (1926) and Home Chat (1927). Following the takeover of the theatre by ATG, the Duke of York's Theatre has hosted high quality productions such as The Rocky Horror Show, as well as successful Royal Court seasons.
Notable productions throughout the years have included Journey's End (2004-2005), The Dresser (2005), starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Julian Glover, Hedda Gabler (2005), Embers (2006), starring Jeremy Irons, Eh Joe (2006), starring Michael Gambon and Tom Stoppard's star-studded Rock 'n' Roll (2006-2007), which included Dominic West and Rufus Sewell.
Sheridan Smith starred in Little Shop of Horrors (2007), followed by In Celebration (2007), starring Orlando Bloom. Further productions included Rent Remixed (2007-2008), starring Denise Van Outen, No Man's Land (2008-2009), A View from the Bridge (2009), starring Ken Stott, Ghost Stories (2010-2011), Posh (2012), Jumpy (2012), starring Tamsin Grieg, Constellations (2012-2013), The Judas Kiss (2013), starring Rupert Everett, and Passion Play (2013), starring Zoe Wanamaker.
Following these, Hattie Morahan starred in A Doll's House (2013), with Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (2014) scooping the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. 2015 saw productions of Neville's Island, The Nether, Hay Fever, starring Felicity Kendal, Hetty Feather and Mark Rylance in Farinelli and the King.
A West End revival of popular children's tale Goodnight Mr Tom finished off the year, playing in rep with Peppa Pig's Surprise (2016). 2016 saw a revival of The Father transfer to the Duke of York's from Wyndham's Theatre, starring Olivier Award-winner Kenneth Cranham. Game of Thrones star Kit Harington starred in Jamie Lloyd's adaptation of Doctor Faustus, which was followed by popular comedy How the Other Half Loves, which transferred from the Theatre Royal Haymarket, starring Jenny Seagrove. 2016 rounds off with Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith starring in Ronald Harwood's The Dresser.
2017 began with an acclaimed performance of Ron Harwood's The Dresser, starring Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith. Further productions included the Olivier Award nominated The Glass Menagerie, starring Cherry Jones and directed by John Tiffany. Olivier Award-winning comedy Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour was next, after a sold-out run at the National Theatre, followed by the Almeida Theatre transfer of James Graham's play Ink, directed by Rupert Goold and starring Bertie Carvel.
Robert Icke's Mary Stuart was another Almeida transfer, arriving at the venue in January 2018, starring Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams. Roger Allam and Nancy Carroll then went on to reprise their roles in The Moderate Soprano, followed by a star-turn from Ian McKellen in King Lear, transferring from Chichester Festival Theatre. The final Almeida transfer of 2018 to grace the stage was Summer and Smoke, a revival of a lesser-known Tennessee Williams play.
2019 will see the National Theatre transfer of Laura Wade's play Home I'm Darling, starring Katherine Parkinson. Following this will be Ibsen's play Rosmersholm, starring Hayley Atwell and Tom Burke. The UK tour of The Girl on the Train plays for four weeks. In August, the theatre will host the West End transfer of Florian Zeller's The Son, first performed at the Kiln Theatre. For the festive period, Peppa Pig's Surprise played at the theatre.
David Greig's adaptation of award-winning true story Touching the Void transferred to the theatre for a limited season in November.
In March 2020, the Duke of York's Theatre closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Theatre transfer of The Ocean at the End of the Lane opened in October 2021. Planned productions of The Doctor and The Pillowman were postponed.
From May 2022, six-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams starred in a revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, followed by the West End transfer of The Doctor starring Juliet Stevenson.
Over Christmas 2022, Sir Ian McKellen and John Bishop starred in the pantomime Mother Goose, and in 2023, Sheridan Smith appeared in a revival of Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine, followed by Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman, starring Lily Allen and Steve Pemberton. In Autumn 2023, Andrew Scott starred in Vanya, a one-man version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya followed by Luke Evans and Penelope Wilton in Backstairs Billy.
From February - April 2024, Matt Smith starred in a new version of An Enemy of the People directed by Thomas Ostermeier. From May - August 2024, Tom Holland starred in Jamie Lloyd's adaptation of Romeo & Juliet. From August - October 2024, Shifters will be making its West End debut for a limited run. In Winter Lily Collins makes her West End debut in Bess Whol's Barcelona play.
