London's Greatest Spine Chiller Returns!

After three decades of terrifying West End audiences and a brief break in 2023, The Woman in Black is back to haunt London - this time at the atmospheric Alexandra Palace Theatre!

This spine-chilling adaptation of Susan Hill's gothic novella first premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1989 before transferring to the Fortune Theatre later that year, where it ran for over 30 years. 

Don't miss this iconic play within a play that sees elderly Arthur Kipps retelling his terrifying experiences at Eel Marsh as a junior solicitor to a young actor in an abandoned Victorian theatre. Will it exorcise his mind from the ghosts that lurk there? See for yourself!

What is The Woman in Black About?

Retired solicitor Arthur Kipps is still haunted by the strange events which took place in a small English village, Eel Marsh, years before. Sent on a routine assignment to look over a widow's legal papers, Kipps encountered a mysterious spectre known as The Woman in Black, a ghostly figure who seems intent on taking the lives of Eel Marsh's young children.

Hoping to exorcise the demons of his past, Kipps calls on a young actor to recreate the events of Eel Marsh in the form of a play. The actor plays the part of Kipps, while Kipps himself takes on the roles of all those characters whom he met during that terrible visit. Unfortunately, this play seems to raise more ghosts for Kipps than it banishes...