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King's Head Theatre

116p Upper St, N1 1QP
London

King's Head Theatre is a theatre in London.

Upcoming Shows

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Oct 6 – Oct 10, 2026

Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes tale, in a wildly enjoyable, fun-filled comedy mystery. WhenSir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the grounds of BaskervilleHall, his family estate on Dartmoor, with a look of terror carved on hisface and the paw prints of a...

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Review: WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINA WOOLF?, Starring Gillian Anderson & Billy Crudup

Review: WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINA WOOLF?, Starring Gillian Anderson & Billy Crudup

by Alexander Cohen · October 1, 2026

Actors start your engines. Edward Albee’s masterpiece for four lives and dies on the horsepower of its performers. Albee does not batter you with ideological interrogation. Its sparks fly from watching it performs bash into each other, lashing each other with venomous cruelty in one breath, then l…

Review: EXTREMISM,The Cockpit Theatre

Review: EXTREMISM,The Cockpit Theatre

by Cindy Marcolina · October 1, 2026

Anders Lustgarten’s play may have been written in 2017, but its core subject could be lifted off today’s newspapers. As right-wing propaganda gains more traction by the day, this is a revival of staggering relevance. Extremism sees a secondary school being rattled by the fallout of radicalisatio…

Review: MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG, Watermill Theatre

Review: MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG, Watermill Theatre

by Mica Blackwell · September 30, 2026

If you're in the mood for a cosy crime play in a cosy theatre this autumn, Murder Before Evensong will more than suffice. With plenty fans of the book will appreciate and enough newcomers will enjoy, you'll be in for a night of humour and intrigue.…

Review Roundup: James Graham's New Play, THE STANDARD OF LIVING

Review Roundup: James Graham's New Play, THE STANDARD OF LIVING

by Aliya Al-Hassan · September 30, 2026

Olivier Award winner Rory Kinnear stars as John Maynard Keynes, the radical economist and member of the influential Bloomsbury Group who became the singular driving force behind arts funding in Britain and built a new and fairer financial model, that ultimately helped reshape the Western World in th…

Review: JERKER, Waterloo East

Review: JERKER, Waterloo East

by Clementine Scott · September 29, 2026

An early tableau in Robert Chesley’s 1986 play Jerker involves a character masturbating to a generic message on his answering machine. It’s not the last masturbation scene in the play – which was once the subject of an obscenity-related censorship attempt on Californian radio – nor is it the…

Review: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW: A KINKY RETELLING, Bread And Roses Theatre

Review: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW: A KINKY RETELLING, Bread And Roses Theatre

by Cindy Marcolina · September 30, 2026

Perhaps the trickiest, most controversial work in Shakespeare’s arsenal, The Taming of the Shrew comes to the Lambeth Fringe in a peculiar rewrite. Zak Rosen and Paige Hann flip the script on coercive control and try to make the Bard kinkier: Petruchio becomes the submissive simp to Katherina’s …

Review: THE STANDARD OF LIVING, Starring Rory Kinnear

Review: THE STANDARD OF LIVING, Starring Rory Kinnear

by Aliya Al-Hassan · September 30, 2026

James Graham's latest play, The Standard of Living opens with a smartly dressed, well spoken man trying (and failing) to address an audience about his economic theory. It's a wry wink to the fact that the subject matter may not be everyone's specialist subject. But this is Graham, a master of makin…

Review: A SMALL AND QUIET LIGHT, Orange Tree Theatre

Review: A SMALL AND QUIET LIGHT, Orange Tree Theatre

by Aliya Al-Hassan · September 29, 2026

I suspect like most people, you have never come across the name of Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan before.  A mixed-heritage British Indian and Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in Nazi-occupied Paris who was the first woman to be parachuted into France to provide radio communication vital to the R…

Review Roundup: Jesse Tyler Ferguson in TRU

Review Roundup: Jesse Tyler Ferguson in TRU

by Aliya Al-Hassan · September 28, 2026

Directed by the award-winning Rob Ashford, Tru is now open at the Menier Chocolate Factory, following the production’s New York run earlier this year. It's December 1975 and Truman Capote is alone in his New York apartment, reeling from a crisis that cost him friendship of the elite social circle …

Past Shows

17 total · showing 11–17

Oh Yes I Am!

Oh Yes I Am!

Sep 11 – Sep 12, 2022

Panto-dame musical Oh Yes I Am! comes to the King's Head Theatre. Hector Hanley wanted to be a celebrated great actor. He didnt want to be a panto dame. He didnt want to fall in love with his irritatingly successful rival, Dicky. And he didn't want to finish up in an actors'...

No Strings Attached

No Strings Attached

May 25 – Jun 19, 2021

Aileen Gonsalves directs the world premiere of magnificent new talent Charles Entsies debut play - winner of the Adrian Pagan Award for New Writing 2019.This electrifying two-hander will be staged in The Ignition Room, a site-specific location just minutes from the Kings Head...

TICKLE the Musical

TICKLE the Musical

Oct 14 – Oct 26, 2019

Two young good looking guys offered they can earn decent money from tickling. Really? Amazingly based on a true story, TICKLE takes us into the strange, hilarious, twisted, and undeniably sexy world of competitive endurance tickling, where its all about laughing and lasting...

MARGOT, DAME, THE MOST FAMOUS BALLERINA IN THE WORLD

MARGOT, DAME, THE MOST FAMOUS BALLERINA IN THE WORLD

Jul 17 – Jul 18, 2019

PANAMA 1956. Embroiled in a failed coup to oust the President of Panama, Margot Fonteyns husband, Roberto Tito Arias escapes Panama and returns to Peru. Margot, however, was arrested and detained for 24 hours in a Panamanian jail. Her protg, Alexandro, liaises with the British...

Colour is too Sweet

Colour is too Sweet

Jul 8 – Jul 9, 2019

Enny: Three women walked hand in hand.Celia: I see now how young we were, only just out of girlhood but a head full of dreams.Enny: They werent dreams, it was revolution. Dreams are nave by nature.Celia: We dreamt of revolution then?Enny: No, we fought for changeAmahle: We three...

THE CRUMPLE ZONE

THE CRUMPLE ZONE

Nov 24 – Dec 9, 2018

LAMBCO Productions are once again taking the late night slot at the King’s Head Theatre with this delightfully funny Christmas Comedy. Taking place in a Staten Island apartment over the Christmas holiday season, this hilarious comedy gives a fly-on-the-wall perspective when four...

Boys in the Buff - the Concert

Boys in the Buff - the Concert

Nov 25 – Dec 9, 2017

LAMBCO Productions proudly present a late night pre-Christmas offering: “BOYS IN THE BUFF”. A musical revue about body image, diets, the gym, selfies, Botox, nip ‘n’ tucks, photo-shopping and what we endure trying to look good. It’s a show about everybody for everybody! “This...

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