The festive classic to end all classics, no holiday season is complete without taking your seats for a showing of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol - and this year, Mark Gatiss' version of Dickens' winter ghost story is coming to haunt the Alexandra Palace Theatre again in 2025. A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story - a thrillingly atmospheric take on the tale - promises to sweep you up in this supernatural Victorian world, with the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformative supernatural Christmas Eve visitations.

Buddy the Elf is stepping into the Aldwych Theatre this holiday season, all the way from the North Pole. This hit musical follows the hilarious and touching story of a man who was mistakenly brought up as an elf in Santa's workshop and sets off for New York in order to find his real father. Cue some run-ins with a department store manager, his first taste of love with a fellow shop worker and trying to win over his cynical, business-like father in the run up to the holidays. When Christmas is threatened however, will Buddy be able to save the day?

C.S Lewis' magical world returns to London in this critically acclaimed adaptation of his beloved children's novel from Sally Cookson. Currently on a highly successful UK tour, this captivating and innovative production uses ingenious stagecraft in the place of flashy effects to tell the story of four evacuee siblings that discover an enchanted realm at the back of a dusty old wardrobe and the epic adventure that awaits. A perfect ticket for all the family, let The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe capture your imaginations as it comes to Sadler's Wells.

It's been over 20 years since Richard Curtis' Christmas rom-com Love Actually hit cinema screens, turning into an instant cult classic that continues to be a staple come the colder months. In the tradition of fellow rom com masterpieces Bridget Jones' Diary, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, its tales of yearning, first love, heartbreak, and reconciliation are filled with charm, whimsy, and sweetness that makes them perfect festive-viewing fodder.

This international award-winning hit is now considered one of the capital's leading Christmas shows, having delighted theatregoers worldwide for over two decades! It's theatre like you've never experienced before. Perfect for the whole family to enjoy together, this larger-than-life production now takes to the road this Christmas, transforming stages across the country into a whirling winter wonderland, with a heart-stopping blizzard of snow.

All aboard! Gilbert and Sullivan's delightful slapstick tale about over-the-top nationalism, personal ambition and, of course, a love triangle across the social classes of British society and the Royal Navy comes to the English National Opera! Directed by Cal McCrystal and led by conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren, award winning baritone Neal Davis stars as the Rt. Hon Sir Joseph Porter, with John Savournin as Captain Corcoran and Henner Mun as Josephine. HMS Pinafore first premiered in London in 1878 and was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth collaboration, and their first international sensation; don't miss it as it sails back into London!