Duchess Theatre

Duchess Theatre

Catherine Street, London WC2B 5LA

Duchess Theatre Safety Policy

Health & safety measures
  • Regular visible cleaning of all touchable surfaces before and after performances
  • Paperless or print at home tickets
  • Availability of hand sanitiser

Getting here

Closest Tube Station

Covent Garden

Closest Train Station

Charing Cross

The Duchess Theatre is a theatre in London's West End. The theatre opened on 25th November, 1929 and is one of the smallest ''proscenium arched'' West End theatres. It has 479 seats on two levels.

Notable productions at The Duchess Theatre include Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, which transferred from the Piccadilly Theatre to the St. James Theatre before moving to the Duchess Theatre where it completed a record run of 1,997 performances in 1942. Tom Eyen's The Dirtiest Show in Town, which ran for just under 800 performances in the 1970s. Oh! Calcutta! transferred to The Duchess Theatre from the Royalty Theatre in December 1974, and remained there until 1980.

The Players Theatre Company presented their Late Joys Victorian Music Hall programme between 1987 and 1990 Marc Camoletti's Don't Dress For Dinner, which transferred to the Duchess from the Apollo Theatre in October 1992 and stayed until 1st March, 1997.

The Royal Shakespeare Company's The Herbal Bed by Peter Whelan ran for six months from April to October 1997.

 

 

Duchess Theatre Seating Plan

The Play That Goes Wrong is the current production at Duchess Theatre. The latest booking period for The Play That Goes Wrong at Duchess Theatre started 02/01/2018 14:30:00 and runs until 01/02/2026 19:00:00. Tickets for The Play That Goes Wrong start at £31 and are available to book now.

Duchess Theatre is located in London. The full address is Duchess Theatre, Catherine Street, London WC2B 5LA.

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This Comedian

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Through The Leaves

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Ecstasy

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Buddy

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Endgame

Samuel Beckett's Endgame at the Duchess Theatre is no longer on sale. See below if you are looking for the 2020 Old Vic production.

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Hound of the Baskervilles, The

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Fences

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Secret Of Sherlock Holmes

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No Turn Unstoned

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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

'You simply can’t take your eyes off Goodman… He is horribly, hypnotically watchable'Daily Telegraph

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Arlene! The Glitz. The Glamour. The Gossip.

Freddie Mercury. Whitney Houston. Elton John... The list goes on… and on... and on…

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Bakersfield Mist

'Beautifully performed play put a smile on my face and kept my brain buzzing' The Times

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Collaboration

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Behind The Iron Mask

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George Gershwin Alone

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Untold Stories

Alex Jennings leads critically acclaimed double-bill of Hymn and Cocktail Sticks in Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories

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Our Boys

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Taking Sides

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Written On The Heart

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See How They Run

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Michael McIntyre plus special guests - Work in Progress

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Buddy (dinner package)

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Coyote On A Fence

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Morecambe

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Been On Broadway

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Breakfast with Mugabe

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Plague Over England

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Lights! Camera! Improvise!

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Man and Boy

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Zipp!

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Pitmen Painters

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Cool Rider: The Cult Musical Sequel

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Fantasticks, The

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Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby

‘A stunning performance from Lisa Dwan’ Telegraph

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Little Women

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Fences

‘The cast is uniformly excellent. Lenny Henry is simply remarkable’ Daily Telegraph

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Guide To Sexual Misery, A

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The 8th Fold

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The Hurly Burly Show

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Damsels in Distress

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Stones In His Pockets

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Krapp's Last Tape

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Butley

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Glorious

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Sooty In Space

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Underneath the Lintel

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Tell Me On A Sunday

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tell Me On A Sunday

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Dr Richard Shepherd: Unnatural Causes

Leading forensic scientist Dr Richard Shepherd comes to Duchess Theatre

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Love Story

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Captain Sandy Live

Set sail across a sea of adventure, drama and laughter with Captain Sandy Live!

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Sign of The Times

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Danny Bhoy

Make Something Great Again For Stronger Better Future Tomorrow Together

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Sara Pascoe - Animal

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Nish Kumar

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Lee Nelson: Suited and Booted

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Blofeld and Baxter – Rogues on the Road