WELCOME

LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE

The Leicester Square Theatre is London's newest theatre. We're kicking off in style with a programme that hits the highest notes, and a season that really reflects the sort of entertainment we want to see (and we think you want to see) in the West End. It's tempting for us to call this a revolution - so we're going to. We hope you'll come down soon to see exactly what we're talking about.
 
We're looking forward to christening the beautiful main house, with unique, newly-installed Oscar seating as well as two bars in the auditorium, and the intimate Basement @ Leicester Square Theatre is taking shape nicely downstairs - we've spent the summer programming the theatre with some truly legendary names, and we're bringing some of our favourite shows and artists in London here. The list is certainly not restricted to the big names on the front cover - we think it's important (and exciting, too) to bring in brilliant up-and-coming artists, and the cult names of the underground, You won't recognise all the names in the brochure - but you'll certainly be hearing more from them soon.
 
We're continuing the momentum of a great start with our comedy festival, the BIG JOKE - featuring Roseanne Barr, Roy Walker, Doug Stanhope and the extraordinary online phenomenon Bo Burnham, this really will be the best comedy festival in London this year. Later into the season, we have transfers of Blowing Whistles and Alex - while downstairs we have the very best in the most unclassifiable comedy, cabaret and more.

the BIG JOKE is London's biggest comedy festival and the pride and joy of  the Leicester Square Theatre's opening season. We're featuring up to six shows a day from a truly inspirational lineup of comedy performers from right across the spectrum in origin, age and reputation.
We catch up with cult US superstars Doug Stanhope and Bo Burnham as well as more familiar faces, including  Reginald D Hunter. We're then moving even closer to home with a familiar television face from the 80s in Roy Walker, and we close late in October with the massively anticipated London debut of Roseanne Barr.