Shows at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Cymbeline

Listing
London Fringe
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
10th Jan - 20th Apr 2025

For the first time in ten years, see CYMBELINE, Shakespeare’s late, tragic comedy of love and rebellion, in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

All’s Well That Ends Well

Listing
London Fringe
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
8th Nov 2024 - 4th Jan 2025

Inside the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, uncover a twisted tale of obsession, game-playing and deception in Shakespeare’s ruthless thriller, All’s Well That Ends Well.

Rough Magic

Listing
London Fringe
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
27th Jul 2024 - 23rd Aug 2025

They’re back! Our ‘wildly entertaining’ ★★★★ (The Stage) family show Rough Magic returns to cast its spell in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe thi…

The Duchess of Malfi

Director Rachel Bagshaw has created a vibrant and vivid production of John Webster’s tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre that revels in the candlelight se…

The Duchess of Malfi

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West End
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
17th Feb - 14th Apr 2024

Ten years after opening the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2014, John Webster’s seminal revenge tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, returns to London’s only indoor candlelit the…

Ghosts

The traditional blacked-out auditorium that marks the start of a play at the Sam Wanamaker theatre is illuminated one candle at a time, until the six candelabra and four sconces br…

Othello

Review
★★★
Simon Ximenez
West End
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse / The Lyttelton Theatre
3rd Dec, 2022

Do you need to know a play before you see a play?The question came to mind at the opening of what we’re told is a “landmark production” of Othello, now playing at the Nationa…

Three Sisters

Listing
London Fringe
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
31st Jan - 19th Apr 2025

For the first time ever in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, experience a ★★★★★ ‘entertaining and profound’ (The Telegraph) production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, …