{"title": "Expecting", "start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-27T00:00:00Z", "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "price": "GBP 30", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "35.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/expecting-tickets/2027/01/30/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["comedy"], "description": "Expecting is a witty, thoughtful new comedy about the chaos of adulthood and the realities of parenthood. In it, Zoey and Ethan are deciding whether or not to have a baby, while Zoey's younger sister Trish juggles two kids with parenting her new boyfriend Matt. The new play by Scott Elmegreen and Drew Fornarola explores why couples are waiting longer to have kids, or debating whether to have them at all. It is directed by Andy Sandberg, Artistic Director of the Hermitage Artist Retreat in the U.S., and is filled with authentic characters, clever storytelling, and laugh-out-loud humour.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/expecting-46104/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/0c15d431a64a76b06706820dd0aa9bf95aed7b9840e8f5ad218b5372dc12d552-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-27T00:00:00Z", "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "HIM.", "start": "2026-10-19T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Union Theatre", "address": "Old Union Yard Arches", "price": "£28 (concessions £25, Nimbus carer assistant card holders £0)", "price_from": "28.00", "price_to": "28.00", "tickets_url": "https://uniontheatre.savoysystems.co.uk/UnionTheatre.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_836.TcsWebTab_837", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy-drama"], "description": "HIM. is a play performed at the Union Theatre. 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Will is a booked-out professional who sticks to his \"10 commandments\", until his boss makes him train a gorgeous twinky newbie and his firm routine starts to wobble. 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The audience makes decisions about her love life, spots red flags and competes in games, exploring romantic love, family approval and cultural expectations.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/love-vs-fear-and-my-mothers-prayers-39100/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/love_vs_fear_and_my_mothers_prayers", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/9140b4599bd8610668339eb535f9407d9f79f9bfe3ed7e8bdf4b91ed311e59ac-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Babies", "start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Mountview Academy", "address": "Peckham Hill Street 120, SE15 5JT London", "price": "Standard £21, Restricted View £16, Concessions £13.50, Southwark Presents Cardholder £12", "price_from": "21.00", "price_to": "21.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.mountview.org.uk/shop/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["music/pop", "stage/musical"], "description": "Babies is a British pop-rock musical performed by Mountview's Musical Theatre cohort. 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Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the show. Built on a single deliberately bad joke, it becomes a dream-riff on families, intergenerational trauma, envy, hate, mothers and sons, and the theatre itself. 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Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the piece by Shhh Theatre, an emerging company making contemporary theatre around intimacy and modern relationships. As one employee begins to question the system they help sustain, the boundary between performance and genuine emotion starts to dissolve. Blending absurdity with wit, the play explores emotional labour, race, identity and modern intimacy, asking what remains of human connection when our most intimate relationships become transactional.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/much-crazy-about-nothing-65856/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/much-crazy-about-nothing", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/a68e758dcd484026d5167c2aced76a39390b2b5a09d50cf68fd3c9de2b683f99-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Affluenza", "start": "2026-09-26T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "price": "GBP 28", "price_from": "28.00", "price_to": "32.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/affluenza-tickets/2026/10/28/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Affluenza is a dark comedic play about wealth and the consequences of immense privilege. It is written and directed by Andy Sandberg, who stages its world premiere with a company including Noah Schnapp, Janette Manrara, Juliet Cowan, Wallis Currie-Wood, Rupert Young and Donald Sage Mackay. Set within the extreme wealth of the Hamptons, it begins after a teenager's drunken car ride ends in devastation and asks whether a person who has grown up with so much privilege can truly tell right from wrong. Inspired by true events around a controversial legal defence, it examines what happens when money and entitlement are passed from one generation to the next.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/affluenza-46112/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/5908cd32ae100dd6f2a44323d90c08139a0e28b77df0cf78e68e6c1dc936ef17-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dog Mom", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Southwark Playhouse Borough", "address": "Newington Causeway 77-85, SE1 6BD London", "price": "Standard from £22, Concessions from £18, Previews £16, Pioneers' Preview (14 Oct) £10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/group-booking-enquiry-form/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "society/family"], "description": "Dog Mom is a stage comedy at Southwark Playhouse Borough, staged by EnActe Arts in association with Riding Lights as part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Written by Tate Elizabeth Hanyok and directed by Ajay Chowdhury, it follows Sarita, freshly divorced in a tiny Brooklyn flat, who insists she is not a dog person until a scruffy stray appears on her doorstep and refuses to leave. As she is drawn into dog parks and meddling dog owners, her ordered life slides into comic chaos and she finds that family can arrive covered in mud. The cast includes Vinita Belani, Patty Gallagher, Joey Holden, Tom Barnes and Jarreau Antoine.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/dog-mom-38737/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/7035d0ae737230e5240bd394417b898d0b89b497543e855af4d7bafa53f48198-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lightstreams", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "place": "Theatre503", "address": "The 503Studio, Moat Street, Nine Elms, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://theatre503.com/whats-on/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society/migration"], "description": "Lightstreams is a stage play about a migrant couple, Maurice and Hermia, who have made their home in the UK. Written by Mary Mazzilli and directed by Richard Bland, it follows care worker Maurice as he is torn between the residents of an elderly care home and his own family when a global crisis forces him to live there full-time. Developed through interviews with migrant health and social care workers across London, Essex and the South East, the play explores migration, care, racism, mental health and belonging. Lumenis Theatre and Turnpike Productions present this production, whose 2 November performance is followed by a post-show Q&A with the writer.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/lightstreams-65426/", "official_url": "https://theatre503.com/whats-on/lightstreams/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/5f4ecd42d2a9e8b8e517dc7a1a8b7ea6e2cfa4c15e83384c23034d0afe896f72-2000.webp"}, {"title": "COMING TO CONCLUSIONS", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hope & Anchor", "address": "Upper Street 207, N1 1RL London", "price": "£18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "'coming to conclusions.' is a coming-of-age play about a cocky and clever uni student set on finding herself through sex and living up to her expectations of modern queerness. From her bedroom, we follow her through hookups, situationships and spliff-fuelled philosophical discussions as people come in and out of her life and bed. One surprising hookup might bring her modern love montage to an end, and the play asks whether those people help her come to conclusions about her identity and future. After a successful run during The Hope Theatre's 'Write Club' festival, the play returns to the venue for an extended run, and the show is for ages 18+.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/coming-to-conclusions-43337/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Baby", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ovalhouse Theatre", "address": "Kennington Oval 52-54, SE11 5SW London", "price": "", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "24.00", "tickets_url": "https://brixtonhouse.co.uk/book-online/315864", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/contemporary-play"], "description": "Baby is a play about a young woman called Baby who has had it tough and wants to keep Bliss, but something terrible stands in her way, forcing her to solve a problem in which the audience becomes part of her solution. 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When their mother meets an untimely demise, the siblings must figure out which parts of their reality to keep and which to break. Writer Thomas Kirby won the WriteForTheStage Prize for New Writing for this play at the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival in 2022, and this production is fully restaged for its London debut by director Olivia Cole.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/mother-there-art-thou-60511/", "official_url": "https://www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/mother-there-art-thou", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/5e9d41d630e09bd0bc935dab3ad987494f71ec03afba8e0f1327c9ab223759c8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sacrilegious", "start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-05-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "price": "GBP 30", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/sacrilegious-tickets/2027/04/03/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["comedy"], "description": "Sacrilegious is a smart, funny, and provocative comedy about what money can or can't buy, staged at the Riverside Studios. 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It follows Will, the professional entertainer, booked every weekend and guided by his '10 commandments', whose rulebook is thrown out the window when his boss makes him train an opinionated newbie. Loosely based on real experiences, it features Australian daddies, assertive agents and bubbles, in a sharp queer comedy about an expiring entertainer trying to age gracefully. It runs 60 minutes and is for ages 16 and over.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/thou-shalt-sit-the-f-down-60843/", "official_url": "https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/thou-shalt-sit-the-f-down-7y68", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/23579311567195c28b5c3310e62bbe13e277a5a28d48dc3157049b4f76342d22-1200.webp"}]}