LONDON’S West End is full of exciting productions, but it can be hard to keep track of them all and there are some you might want to see, finishing this year…
There is nothing worse than saying for ages that you want to see a specific show, finally coming to book it and finding out that it has actually ended.
Well, for a few big productions, that will be the case this year.
Back to the Future
Back to the Future will be leaving the West End on April 12.
You have just two months to catch Back to the Future in the West End if you haven’t seen it already.
The Olivier Award-winning production is currently at London’s Adelphi Theatre and is based on the 1985 film by the same name.
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The show even features high-tech effects, like a flying DeLorean.
And while it is leaving London’s West End, it will be touring the UK from October with stops in Bristol, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Milton Keynes, Sunderland and Southampton.
Meanwhile, Billy Elliot will be replacing it, coming to the Adelphi Theatre from February 12, 2027 to July 31, 2027.
It will mark the production’s first time in the West End in over 10 years and is part of a national tour of the original award-winning production.
If you do want to catch Back to the Future before it leaves London – there are some great offers available.
Direct through the production’s website you can get weekend tickets from just £19.85 (do you see what they did there?).
Or you can get four tickets from £50.
If you have the TodayTix app, you can get £29.50 Rush tickets for same day performances.
And some midweek shows cost £23.
Starlight Express
Starlight Express will be leaving the West End on May 3.
Currently at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, the show has been running since 2024 and is considered to be the longest-running revival of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in London over the past two decades.
The show follows the story of a train set that has come to life.
The Starlight Express will then be heading off on a world tour in 2027.
What show will be at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre next is yet to be announced.
Tickets are still available including discounted tickets for 16-25-year-olds for £25 when booked in advance, directly.
Regular tickets cost from £27.50 per person.
TodayTix has Rush tickets for same day performances for £30.
Hercules
Disney’s Hercules will be leaving the West End on September 5.
The show at Theatre Royal Drury Lane opened last summer and has received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for the anthem ‘Go the Distance’.
A replacement show has not yet been announced for the theatre.
If you book via LW Theatres, tickets cost as little as £29.50 and these are for lightning seats, which means you could pay less for a better seat.
TodayTix also sells Rush tickets for this price, for same day performances and regular tickets from £33.
MJ The Musical
MJ The Musical will perform its last show on February 28.
The show focuses on the creative process behind Michael Jackson’s 1992 Dangerous World Tour, with the show set during rehearsals.
Once it finishes in London’s Prince Edward Theatre, the production will go on tour in Asia before launching a UK tour in 2027.
As for the London theatre, Beetlejuice The Musical is set to replace it and open at London’s Prince Edward Theatre in May 2026.
If you still want to catch MJ The Musical before it finishes, you can book via the production’s website with tickets costing from £58.
Though, if you have or download the TodayTix app, you can snap up Rush tickets for same day performances from just £30
And even regular tickets are cheaper via TodayTix, costing from £51.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (two parts)
The two-part version of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be leaving the West End on September 20.
The much-loved stage show spin-off arrived at the Palace Theatre a decade ago but now it will be shrunken to just one show instead of two parts.
The theatre will close for a few weeks before reopening on October 6 with a single show which will run for two hours and 55 minutes.
Potterheads and for those who are intrigued by a two-part show have some time to catch it before it finishes – and it might be the best time to as historically, watching both parts has been expensive.
Whilst the best seats in the stalls are still priced at a couple-hundred quid for both parts, you can snap up tickets in the balcony for just £36 for both parts on TodayTix- a bargain!
If you want to try and get a bargain on good seats, then enter TodayTix’s Friday Forty, where you could get tickets in top seats for just £40 for both parts.
A couple of years ago, I managed to secure Friday Forty tickets and ended up in the front row of the Grand Circle – tickets that would have cost me upwards of £300 for both parts.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Live
In just a few days, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Live immersive show at London’s Riverside Studios will end.
The 90-minute show began back in November 2025 in Hammersmith and incorporates a live cast and a puppet of Marvin the Paranoid Android.
If you are desperate to go there are still a few tickets left via TodayTix with 25 per cent off costing £30 per person instead of £53 when you book direct.
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