Dirty Dancing Tickets at the Prince Edward Theatre
Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage plays at the Prince Edward Theatre on Old Compton Street, in Soho, from 19 January to 24 April 2027. It is a limited season, and booking is open.
2 hours 15 minutes, with an intervalAges 14 and up
At the Prince Edward Theatre, near Leicester Square and Tottenham Court RoadCloses 24 April 2027
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Who's Dirty Dancing For?
Anyone who loves the film and wants to see it live. The watermelon, the lift and the songs are all in it.
People making a night of it. The theatre is on Old Compton Street, so dinner before and a drink after are a few doors away rather than a journey.
Hen parties. Dirty Dancing has always been a favourite for a hen do, and the Friday 5pm show is made for one: you are out by about 7:15pm with the whole evening in Soho still ahead of you.
Not for you if you want a reinvention. Nobody has reworked this story for the stage or written new songs for it. It is the film, live, and that is the point of it.
Not for a young child. The theatre recommends it for 14 and over, and under 3s are not admitted at all. There is more on why in the FAQs.
What Tickets Cost
Most seats are around £70 to around £125, and premium seats start from around £140. The cheapest tickets start from around £30. Where in that range your seat falls depends on the level and how close to the centre you sit.
We sell with all-in pricing, so the price you see is what you pay.
Call us on 020 7193 9050 and we will tell you what is available on your date and in which part of the theatre.
About Dirty Dancing at the Prince Edward Theatre
This is Dirty Dancing's sixth London run.
The original London production opened at the Aldwych in 2006 on a £15 million advance, the largest in West End history at the time, and it remains the fastest-selling show the West End has had. It ran five years, longer than anything else in that theatre's history, and more than two million people saw it. It has come back repeatedly since, and toured between times.
Federico Bellone directs and designs the set. Austin Wilks choreographs, and he knows the show from the inside: he danced in it in the West End and on tour, Johnny Castle among his roles, before he took over the choreography in 2021.
The Prince Edward is one of the bigger theatres in the West End, with around 1,700 seats across the Stalls, the Dress Circle and the Grand Circle, and ten Loges along the sides.
What's Dirty Dancing About?
Summer 1963. Frances Houseman, who everyone calls Baby, arrives at Kellerman's, a resort in the Catskills, on a family holiday with her parents and her sister. She wanders into the staff quarters one night, finds a room full of people dancing in a way nobody is dancing upstairs, and meets Johnny Castle, the resort's dance instructor.
She ends up learning his routine, badly at first. Around that, the staff have troubles of their own that the guests are not supposed to know about, and Baby's father is the last person who should find out she is involved.
The story is the film's, scene for scene, and so is a good deal of the dialogue. The songs are the film's songs, played live, with a few more besides. Most people booking it already know how it ends. Seeing it happen in front of you is the reason to come.
Performance Schedule
Eight performances a week. There is no Sunday performance, and Friday has two shows at unusual times.
| Day | Matinee | Evening |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | - | 7:30pm |
| Tuesday | - | 7:30pm |
| Wednesday | - | 7:30pm |
| Thursday | - | 7:30pm |
| Friday | - | 5pm and 8:30pm |
| Saturday | 2:30pm | 7:30pm |
| Sunday | - | - |
Friday has two evening shows, at 5pm and again at 8:30pm, instead of one at 7:30pm. The 8:30pm finishes late, so check your last train home before you book it.
Best Seats for Dirty Dancing
The stage is at one end, behind a proscenium arch, with three levels facing it.
The Stalls are good almost all the way back and have the best legroom. The centre of the Dress Circle is the best seat in the building. The Grand Circle is high and steep, and its first three rows are a good, cheap way in.
Call us on 020 7193 9050 and we will tell you what is left on your date.
Each level, row by row, is in our Prince Edward Theatre guide.
Cast and Creative Team
Michael O'Reilly plays Johnny Castle, Pippa Jackson plays Baby and Emily Layden-Fritz plays Penny. The full company and creative team are in the Cast and Creatives tab.
Book Your Dirty Dancing Tickets
Dirty Dancing plays the Prince Edward Theatre from 19 January to 24 April 2027, with eight performances a week and none on a Sunday. Tickets start from around £30, and our prices are all-in, so the price you see is what you pay.
It is a limited season with no extension announced, so the date you want is worth booking early.
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Dates & tickets
FAQs
The Prince Edward Theatre, Old Compton Street, London W1D 4HS, in Soho. Tottenham Court Road tube is four minutes' walk and Leicester Square five.
From 19 January to 24 April 2027. It is a limited season, and there are no dates after 24 April.
Most seats are around £70 to around £125, with premium seats from around £140 and the cheapest from around £30. Call us on 020 7193 9050 and we will tell you what is available on your date.
About 2 hours 15 minutes, including a 20-minute interval.
A 7:30pm performance is out at about 9:45pm. The Friday 5pm finishes about 7:15pm and the Friday 8:30pm about 10:45pm. The Saturday 2:30pm matinee is out about 4:45pm.
Yes, it is one of the most popular hen-do shows in London: everybody knows the songs, and the lift gets the cheer you would expect. Book the Friday 5pm and you are out by about 7:15pm, with dinner and drinks in Soho a few doors from the theatre. Everyone in the group needs to be 14 or over, and each of them needs a ticket. For a large group, call us on 020 7193 9050 and we will find seats together.
Yes, closely. The writer of the 1987 film, Eleanor Bergstein, wrote the stage version too, so the characters and most of the lines are the same. The songs are the film's, played live. It is a faithful retelling rather than a new take on it.
The theatre recommends it for 14 and over, so it is too young. Under 3s are not admitted at all, and anyone under 16 has to sit next to an adult of 18 or over. The film it follows is a 15 in this country. The dancing is openly sexual, and a second storyline turns on a resort dancer, Penny, being made pregnant and abandoned, having a back-street abortion in 1963 that goes badly wrong, and nearly dying of it. None of that is hidden in the story, so think it through before booking it as a family night.
Yes. The production contains haze, short moments of strobe lighting and adult themes. What those themes are is in the answer above.
It has the same director, choreographer and costume designer as the UK and Ireland tour, and its own London cast. The tour carries on round the country into summer 2027.
It is billed as Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage rather than as a musical. The story and the dialogue are the film's, and the songs are played live.
Tottenham Court Road and Leicester Square tube stations are four and five minutes' walk. Buses 14 and 19 stop on Shaftesbury Avenue, and 24, 29 and 176 on Charing Cross Road.
Not at the theatre. Q-Park Theatreland takes 50% off after midday, and NCP Brewer Street is nearby, but Soho is slow to drive into and the tube is quicker.
The centre of the Dress Circle, with the Stalls good almost throughout. Call us on 020 7193 9050 and we will tell you what is left.
Accessible seating is handled by the Prince Edward's own access team rather than by us. There is an audio described performance at 7:30pm on Tuesday 9 March 2027 and a captioned performance at 7:30pm on Wednesday 17 March 2027.
Tickets and Best Seats for Dirty Dancing
The Prince Edward is a traditional theatre, with the stage at one end and three levels facing it. Pick by level first, then by where on it you sit.
Stalls
Good almost all the way back, with the best legroom in the building. The Dress Circle hangs over the back of the Stalls, and it takes less of the view than people expect. What changes from row to row is getting out rather than seeing: rows A to K have no aisles, so you go in from the ends, and from row U back the ends of the rows are against the side wall. Rows L to T avoid both.
Dress Circle
The centre is the best seat in the theatre. The back rows sit further from the stage, and we like them less. Row A has a wall in front of it with lights often fixed to it, which can get in the way of shorter people and, because of the lights, of tall people too, so row B is the safer front row.
Grand Circle
High and steep, with rows that curve round so the seats at the ends see less. The first three rows are the good buy up here, with a clear view for not much money.
Loges and Boxes
The ten Loges jut out at the front of the Dress Circle, five on each side, and they are some of our favourite seats in the West End: close to the stage and almost unobstructed. The Boxes are much further round to the side, and you miss parts of the stage from them.
Call us on 020 7193 9050 to hear what is left on your date in each part of the theatre, and what each costs.
Each level, row by row, is in our Prince Edward Theatre guide.
Seating plan
Dates & tickets
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Getting to the Prince Edward Theatre
The Prince Edward Theatre is on Old Compton Street, London W1D 4HS, in Soho.
Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern and Elizabeth lines) is about four minutes away on foot, and Leicester Square (Northern and Piccadilly) about five. Charing Cross is the nearest mainline station.
By bus, 24, 29 and 176 stop on Charing Cross Road and 14 and 19 on Shaftesbury Avenue. The two roads meet at Cambridge Circus, at the end of Old Compton Street.
After the late Friday show, night buses N29, N41 and N279 run on Charing Cross Road, and N5, N19 and N20 on Shaftesbury Avenue.
There is no parking at the theatre. If you drive, Q-Park Theatreland takes 50% off after midday, and there is also NCP Brewer Street and metered parking at Soho Square.
Arriving
Arrive 20 to 30 minutes before, no later. The entrance is narrow for a theatre of this size, there are security checks at the door, and before a show the queue often reaches the pavement.
Latecomers are held until a suitable break in the show, and the theatre does not guarantee to let them in at all.
Where to eat and drink nearby, and the rest of the building, are in our Prince Edward Theatre guide.
Address
Old Compton Street, London W1D 4HS
Nearest Tube
Leicester Square and Tottenham Court Road
Dirty Dancing Cast
Michael O'Reilly plays Johnny Castle, the resort's dance instructor. Pippa Jackson plays Frances 'Baby' Houseman, and Emily Layden-Fritz plays Penny Johnson. The rest of the London company has not been announced.
Creative team
Eleanor Bergstein wrote it. She also wrote the original 1987 screenplay, and the stage version keeps the film's characters and much of its dialogue.
Federico Bellone directs and designs the set. He has directed the show in its other recent stagings as well.
Austin Wilks is the choreographer. He danced in the show before taking it over in 2021, Johnny Castle among the parts he played. Jennifer Irwin designs the costumes and Ceri Adams the wigs and hair. Richard John is the music supervisor, Valerio Tiberi designs the lighting and Chris Whybrow the sound. Harry Blumenau CDG is casting director.
Karl Sydow produces, with Lionsgate and Magic Hour Productions. Juliet Gough is associate director.
Dirty Dancing News
Dirty Dancing plays the Prince Edward Theatre from 19 January to 24 April 2027, and general booking opened on 6 October 2026. Michael O'Reilly, Pippa Jackson and Emily Layden-Fritz were announced as Johnny, Baby and Penny on 30 September.
If you had tickets for the Capital Theatre at Westfield, the producer is contacting ticket holders directly.
There are no reviews of this London season yet, because it has not opened. The reviews you will find at the moment are of the UK and Ireland tour, which shares this season's director, choreographer and costume designer but has a different cast.
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Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage
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