What’s closing in London theatres this month (June 2024)

The Hills of California (15 June)

Legends of stage and screen, Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem) and Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy), have teamed up once again to create another epic piece of theatre. With countless 5-star reviews The Hills of California is the hottest ticket in town, which is only apt for a show set in the sweltering heatwave of 70s Britian…

The ‘rich, funny, brilliantly layered drama surfs time, place and mood’ (Financial Times) as we untangle the complicated relationships of the four Webb sisters. Billed as ‘devastatingly moving, bitterly funny, tender, cruel and wise’ by The Stage, this thrilling family drama is everything you would hope for in a Butterworth and Mendes collaboration.

Featuring a tour de force performance from Laura Donnelly (The Ferryman) as the ferocious matriarch Veronica, alongside her stage sisters Leanne Best (Sweat), Ophelia Lovibond (The Libertine) and Helena Wilson (Jack Absolute Flies Again), this is one family reunion you’re not going to want to miss.

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Player Kings – Henry IV Part I and II (22 June)

Adapted by the award-winning writer and director Robert Icke, Shakespeare’s two great history plays (Henry IV, parts 1 and 2) are combined to create the event of the season. A three-and-a-half-hour epic starring Sir Ian McKellen, this is a ‘must-see masterclass in acting’ (Sunday Times).

A divided country, leadership crumbling, corruption in the air. Sound familiar? This urgent and intelligent retelling of Henry IV parts I and II transports this 400-year-old play to modern times.

Co-starring Toheeb Jimoh (Ted Lasso, Romeo & Juliet) and Richard Coyle (To Kill a Mockingbird, Macbeth) Hal wasn’t born to be king. Only now, it seems, he will be. His father longs for him to leave behind his friends in the taverns of Eastcheap, most notably the infamous John Falstaff. War is on the horizon. But will Hal ever come good? Find out at the Noël Coward Theatre.

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