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From the people who brought you London Theatre Week – which is actually a month long, and happens twice a year – here comes the Summer Theatre Sale, which is, by most definitions, running in late spring.
But who cares when you once again have an opportunity to take the sting out of the cost of West End tickets?
As with all these sales (which Time Out is a partner on), the basic deal is very simple: many if not quite all of the West End productions in London participate. Some, established shows like Book of Mormon and Matilda are offering a few quid off, which is obviously totally worth it. Others, you can get some pretty stonking savings: there’s 43 percent off prices for Tina – The Tina Turner Musical, which has recently announced that it’ll be calling it a day in September. You can get a walloping 75 percent off for the last few weeks of Ryan Calais Cameron’s excellent new thriller Retrograde.
And if it is undeniably taking place before most definitions of summer, it is a very good sale for actually getting your summer in order and snapping up tickets for what will hopefully be extremely popular shows before the reviews come out and ticket sales go nuts: highly recommended shows with big savings now that probably won’t soon include wildly acclaimed US drama Stereophonic – a fictionalised account of the making of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours – the return of the Bridge Theatre’s excellent immersive A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and another chance to see acclaimed Bob Dylan musical Girl from the North Country at the Old Vic.
In other words whatever your taste in theatre, and whatever your definition of British summer, there should be something for you in the Summer Theatre Sale.
The Summer Theatre Sale runs from now until Jun 8. You can access the sale and all offers in it here.
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