Help to find a show that you can take your Dad or Grandad to at the theatre in London.

Men are often hard to buy for, and a trip to the London Theatre is a great gift for the Dad or Grandad in your life.

This post obviously makes huge assumptions about what men like to watch in the theatre, and there’s no room here for camp musicals or female-starring weepies. Which we know if wrong, and we urge you to check these shows out too.

But for the sake of narrowing things down, the list below makes a start in giving you some inspiration for planning a birthday or special occasion for your father or grandfather. And we’ve thrown a few wild cards in there to keep things nicely shaken up!

Amadeus - Noel Coward Theatre London - Tickets
Amadeus
Noël Coward Theatre
See Amadeus at the Noël Coward Theatre, starring Michael Sheen and Callum Scott Howells, directed by Jeremy Herrin.

Starts: 17 Apr 2027
Booking to: 7 Aug 2027

Beetlejuice the Musical poster with a man screaming against a green backdrop, neon 'It's ShowTime!' sign on the left and bold 'BEETLEJUICE' letters across the bottom.
Beetlejuice
Prince Edward Theatre
The hit Broadway musical Beetlejuice is now haunting the Prince Edward Theatre in London’s West End

Booking to: 2 Jan 2027

Bill Bailey Vaudevillean - Tickets - London
Bill Bailey: Vaudevillean
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Bill Bailey returns to London with Vaudevillean - his acclaimed new live show.

Starts: 16 Dec 2026
Booking to: 6 Feb 2027

Derren Brown - Only Human - Tickets - London
Derren Brown Only Human
Apollo Theatre
Book tickets for Derren Brown: Only Human in London. A mind-blowing new West End show at the Apollo Theatre for a limited season.

Booking to: 30 Jan 2027

Eurotrash Tickets, Young Vic London
Eurotrash
Young Vic Theatre
Ben Whishaw and Kathryn Hunter star in Eurotrash at the Young Vic - a darkly comic new play about family, fortune and redemption.

Starts: 13 Nov 2026
Booking to: 7 Jan 2027

Man in a blue shirt and red sneakers sings into a microphone against a red background with white graffiti-style text nearby.
Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen
The Other Palace
Samuel Barnett stars in Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen at the Bush Theatre in London.

Starts: 19 Nov 2026
Booking to: 10 Jan 2027

Banner for Garry Starr: Classic Penguins with a man in a penguin suit and orange ruff, surrounded by five-star reviews from publications on orange/cream background.
Garry Starr: Classic Penguins
The Other Palace
Book tickets for Garry Starr: Classic Penguins at the Garrick Theatre — a chaotic, mostly-naked literary comedy

Starts: 22 Oct 2026
Booking to: 3 Jan 2027

Poster art for Magic Mike Live London
Magic Mike Live
The Theatre, Hippodrome Casino
Channing Tatum's exhilarating Magic Mike Live at the London Hippodrome

Booking to: 2 Jan 2028

Mr Loverman at the National Theatre
Mr Loverman
National Theatre - Lyttelton Theatre
Book tickets to Mr Loverman at the National Theatre, Natasha Gordon's adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Bernardine Evaristo.

Starts: 25 Feb 2027
Booking to: 17 Apr 2027

Sinatra The Musical - Tickets - London 2026
Sinatra The Musical
Aldwych Theatre
Book tickets for Sinatra The Musical, charting the extraordinary life of Frank Sinatra, starring Joel Harper-Jackson, at the Aldwych Theatre.

Booking to: 10 Apr 2027

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Tartuffe (Remixed) at the Marylebone Theatre
Tartuffe (Remixed)
Marylebone Theatre
Book Tartuffe (Remixed) tickets in London. Mark Rylance stars in a bold new adaptation of Molière at Marylebone Theatre. Limited run.

Booking to: 24 Oct 2026

The Choir of Man - London 2024
The Choir of Man
The Arts at Marble Arch
Book tickets for The Choir of Man at The Arts at Marble Arch, the Olivier-nominated pub singalong.

Starts: 10 Dec 2026
Booking to: 14 Feb 2027

Poster Art: The Elvis Years - London
The Elvis Years
Dominion Theatre
Smash-hit Elvis Presley tribute The Elvis Years is back at the Dominion Theatre in London, starring Mario Kombou.

Starts: 20 Dec 2026
Booking to: 20 Dec 2026

The Pianist Musical London, Park Theatre
The Pianist
Park Theatre
The acclaimed memoir and film lands on the stage in a new musical adaptation.

Booking to: 28 Nov 2026



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