Little Dancer Tickets at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

Tiler Peck's Dates

Tiler Peck is billed to appear at every performance until Saturday 20 March. If she's the reason you're going, book a date by then. Who plays Marie in the final week, 22 to 27 March, hasn't been announced, and the producers can't guarantee any performer on a given night.

What Tickets Cost

Tickets start from around £30, and most seats cost around £65 to £150. The best seats go up to around £215 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and at the Wednesday and Saturday matinees.

Monday to Wednesday evenings top out lower, at around £200, and the first three performances, Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 February, are the cheapest dates for a top seat, at around £150.

All-in pricing, the price you see is what you pay. For a group, or if you'd like us to find the best seats for your budget, give us a call.

Performance Schedule

The first matinees are Saturday 20 and Wednesday 24 February. Thursday 18 February is the press night, at 7pm. The first performance is Monday 15 February and the last is Saturday 27 March, at 7:30pm.

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Best Seats for Little Dancer

For a show built on dance, book the middle of the Royal Circle, rows B to E. You're a little above the stage, so you see the whole floor and the shape of the dancing, and it's the best view in the theatre. The middle of the Stalls, rows D to K, puts you closer, at eye level. Avoid Stalls row A, which is under a high stage, where you'll miss the dancers' feet.

It's an old theatre that hasn't been modernised inside, so seats are narrow and legroom is tight on every level. The middle of the Upper Circle, from row C back, is the value.

More on every level is in the Tickets and Best Seats tab.

Where to Sit for Little Dancer

Tickets run from around £30 to around £215, all-in, and most seats are around £65 to £150.

Royal Circle

Rows B to E in the middle are the best seats in the theatre for this show, looking down on the dancing. Row A is good too, though its ends lose the front corners of the stage, and the end seats of rows G and H are sold as restricted view.

Stalls

The middle of rows D to K is close and at eye level. Row A sits under a high stage. From about row R back, the Royal Circle above cuts off the top of the stage.

Upper Circle

The middle block, from row C back, sees the whole stage for much less. Every seat in the side blocks is sold as restricted view.

Gallery

The cheapest seats, on benches with fixed armrests, at the very top, 65 steps up.

Seat by seat, it's all on the Theatre Royal Haymarket seating plan. Call us on 020 7193 9050 and we'll find the best seats left on your date.

Who's Little Dancer For?

Anyone who loves ballet. Tiler Peck is a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, and in a theatre of 860 seats you're close to her. Here she sings and acts as well as dances, in a part she's played since the show began in 2014.

It's also for fans of Julian Ovenden, who you'll know from Downton Abbey and Bridgerton, and for anyone drawn to Degas and his dancers.

What Is Little Dancer About?

Marie van Goethem is a teenager in 1880s Paris, a student at the Paris Opera Ballet with a family that has almost nothing. When Edgar Degas picks her to pose for him, the work changes both their lives, and it leaves her pulled between her family, her place in the ballet and the rich men who take an interest in her. The grown-up Marie, played by Laura Pitt-Pulford, looks back on it all, with Josefina Gabrielle as her mother, Martine.

You'll know the sculpture Degas made of her: a young dancer with her hands behind her back and her chin up. The real Marie was dismissed from the ballet and nobody knows what became of her after that. The musical imagines her story.

The songs are by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, who wrote Ragtime, Anastasia and Once on This Island, and Susan Stroman, who made The Producers, directs and choreographs. There's a lot of dancing.

Little Dancer News and Reviews

Little Dancer was announced for the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 1 October 2026, six weeks only before a world tour. Previews begin on 15 February 2027 and the press night is 18 February, so the reviews will follow from then.

It's been a long road to London. The show began at the Kennedy Center in Washington in 2014, was reworked as Marie, Dancing Still for Seattle in 2019, and had a one-night concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in July 2025.

Tiler Peck as Marie

Tiler Peck has been a principal dancer with New York City Ballet since 2009, and she's played Marie in every version of this show: in Washington in 2014, in Seattle in 2019 and at the London concert in 2025. She grew up in California and was on Broadway as a child, in Susan Stroman's production of The Music Man. More recently she played the ballerina Eva Cullman in Étoile, on Prime Video.

Julian Ovenden as Edgar Degas

Julian Ovenden is Charles Blake in Downton Abbey and Sir Henry Granville in Bridgerton, and he's a musical theatre leading man too, in South Pacific and High Society. He's no stranger to this theatre: he was here in A Woman of No Importance in 2003 and Marguerite in 2008.

Also in the Cast

Laura Pitt-Pulford plays the older Marie. She's been in Standing at the Sky's Edge, Into the Woods and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Josefina Gabrielle plays Marie's mother, Martine; her credits include Chicago, Les Misérables and High Society. Further casting is to be announced.

The Creative Team

Book and lyrics are by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty, the team behind Ragtime, Anastasia and Once on This Island. Susan Stroman directs and choreographs; her shows include The Producers, Crazy for You and Oklahoma!. Sets are by Beowulf Boritt, costumes by William Ivey Long, lighting by Ken Billington and sound by Kai Harada. The orchestrations are by Doug Besterman and Larry Hochman, and Sam Davis is music supervisor and wrote the dance arrangements.

Getting to the Theatre Royal Haymarket

The Theatre Royal Haymarket is on Haymarket, London SW1Y 4HT, between Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. Piccadilly Circus, on the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines, is about 3 minutes' walk, and Charing Cross is the nearest mainline station.

Buses 12, 88, 159 and 453 stop on Haymarket at Charles II Street, a couple of minutes from the door, and the 9, 23 and 139 stop at Jermyn Street. Haymarket is one way, so for buses north or west after the show, walk up to Regent Street, St James's.

Arrive 15 to 20 minutes before, no later. Tickets are e-tickets on your phone or printed, and the bars take cards only. There's no lift, and the Upper Circle and Gallery are 65 steps up.

Everything else, including access, is in our Theatre Royal Haymarket guide.

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