Olivier Award-winning West End musical Operation Mincemeat has announced its longest ever London extension.
Extending for an 18th time at the West End’s Fortune Theatre, Operation Mincemeat has added a whole year of new dates, and is now booking to 20 February 2027.
What we think: There’s simply no stopping this juggernaut of a musical. It’s rare for a West End show to go on sale with dates for a full year ahead. But with fans like Operation Mincemeat’s, and its ever-expanding global profile (Broadway, current UK tour, forthcoming tours in the US, Australia, Canada, China, Mexico and New Zealand), there’s no stopping this home-grown show.
Operation Mincemeat is directed by Olivier Award-nominated Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge), following his directorial support for the Riverside Studios run, with Olivier Award-nominated Jenny Arnold (Jerry Springer: The Opera) as Choreographer.
Operation Mincemeat is running simultaneously in London and New York, and is also starting a 40-week UK tour from tonight, 16 February 2026.
Operation Mincemeat – Fortune Theatre London (2025). Photo by Matt Crockett
Operation Mincemeat cast
The London cast features Alex Young (Stranger Things: The First Shadow) as Ewen Montagu & others, Roshani Abbey (Hamilton) as Jean Leslie & others, Maddie Jackson-Smith (Jingle Street, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang UK Tour) as Jean Leslie & others, Danny Becker (Disney’s Aladdin) as Hester Leggatt & others, Jason Kajdi (Matilda The Musical) as Hester Leggatt & others, Chloe Hart (Six The Musical, Hairspray, Wicked) as Johnny Bevan & others, Geri Allen as Johnny Bevan & others, Peter McGovern (Much Ado About Nothing) as Charles Cholmondeley & others, and George Jennings (Tina – The Tina Turner Musical) as Charles Cholmondeley & others. The cast also includes Madeleine Jackson-Smith (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) as Ewen Montagu, Jean Leslie & others.
More about the show
- Operation Mincemeat started its life at the Off-West End New Diorama Theatre in 2019, and then played the Southwark Playhouse and Riverside Studios before opening at the West End’s Fortune Theatre on 9 May 2023.
- The show has subsequently won Olivier and WhatsOnstage Awards for Best New Musical.
- In Operation Mincemeat, it’s 1943, and the Allied Forces are on the ropes. Luckily, they’ve got a trick up their sleeve. Well, not up their sleeve, per se, but rather inside the pocket of a stolen corpse. Equal parts farce, thriller, and Ian Fleming-style spy caper (with an assist from Mr. Fleming himself), Operation Mincemeat tells the wildly improbable and hilarious true story of the covert operation that turned the tide of WWII.
Plan your visit
- Theatre: Fortune Theatre, London
- Booking until: 20 February 2027
- Performance schedule: Monday to Saturday evenings and Tuesday & Saturday matinees
- Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes (including interval)
- Age range: Recommended for ages 6+
- Tickets: Book tickets to Operation Mincemeat at the Fortune Theatre in London
Fortune Theatre, London
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