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An activist group defaces a painting and calls on a museum to drop its dubious funders, but if you dig deep enough, they are all dubious. An aggressively people-pleasing Head of Development is pulled between a queer-adjacent nepo-baby artist and a conniving pharmaceutical heiress, until a brush with Death themself forces her to reconsider her ethical position.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/the-triumph-of-death-63908/", "official_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/triumph-death", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/119e39784e13de391ff35df28d9e546d6d72329aaebf2ec3a626d3dfa22299aa-1200.webp"}, {"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. 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It was written by original Mischief team members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, the Olivier Award-winners behind The Play That Goes Wrong. The ill-fated Cornley Amateur Drama Society stages Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, but hilarious problems with miscommunications, delays, missing actors and a fight over the lead role destroy the much-loved story of Ebeneezer Scrooge. 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It is the biting debut play by Saskia Mollard and Tobias Abbott, winner of the Best New Writing Award at the London Pub Theatre Standing Ovation Awards. 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Voila! 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. Following a successful Camden Fringe run, it was the Camden New Journal's Pick of the Fringe of over 400 shows.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/the-gall-of-the-house-of-sud-the-perils-of-youth-play-65857/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/theperilsofyouthplay", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/c9d2a388a03531c81fb4be307298c7ff47047d2fcc7afb2f270ac575373ce020-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Book of Mormon", "start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-20T00:00:00Z", "place": "Prince of Wales Theatre", "address": "Coventry Street 31, W1D 6AS London", "price": "GBP 24", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/book-of-mormon-tickets/2026/10/26/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["comedy/satire", "stage/musical"], "description": "The Book of Mormon is an award-winning musical comedy playing at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London's West End. It was created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the writers behind South Park, together with Robert Lopez, co-creator of Frozen. The story follows two Mormon missionaries from Salt Lake City, Elder Price and Elder Cunningham, who are sent to Uganda to convert the local people, only to be met with hostility in a small village. 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Ben Stower's Natural Affairs, directed by Livia Sardão, follows the guests, staff and resident ghosts of a rundown English B&B as secrets become scandals and beliefs are tested. 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Ray Shell and the theatre present new work from Bruno Ribelo, Aaron Barschak, David Rubin, Ollie Adewusi, Lee Payne and Ray Shell, with special guest readers Deserne Dekker, Ian Pierce and Donna King and musical guest Claudia Cadette. It is also a fundraiser for The Playground Theatre, and donations are collected at the end of the evening. 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Written by multi award-winning writer Lauren Yee, it follows old friends Evgeny and Dmitri in St Petersburg in the nineties, who become embroiled in racketeering and espionage as capitalism rises from the ashes of communism, before things go wrong when Evgeny falls for one of their marks. Directed by Oscar Toeman, the off-Broadway smash-hit from New York's Signature Theater delivers biting comedy and clever social commentary on the realities of the free market in a changing world.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/mother-russia-63495/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/ed5a9a92addb0e1e911c6d1b0cf0a3ff95d0e17dece5a25264a9911a4425ed2e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Nerdy Prudes Must Die", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Apollo Theatre", "address": "Shaftesbury Avenue 31, W1D 7EZ London", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/apollo-theatre", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy/musical-comedy", "film/horror"], "description": "A horror-comedy musical in which an ancient evil stalks the students of Hatchetfield High, forcing a group of social outcasts to band together to stop it. It comes from Team StarKid, the American musical theatre company founded at the University of Michigan and best known for A Very Potter Musical, with the original cast directed and choreographed by Lauren Lopez. Cheeky and irreverent, the show pays homage to 90s and 2000s teen slasher movies with a catchy score and loveable characters.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/nerdy-prudes-must-die-63370/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/34aeccd4903141305f0f9ef3313e89ccda75e725ea9d747acaa1d050aaff7b83-600.webp"}]}