Pride Tickets at the Bridge Theatre
Pride the Musical opens at the Bridge Theatre beside Tower Bridge on 12 November 2026 and books to 8 May 2027. It is a new hit British musical about the year a group of London lesbians and gay men spent raising money for a Welsh mining village during the 1984 miners' strike.
2 hours 40 minutes, with an intervalAges 12 and up
At the Bridge Theatre, near London BridgeCloses 8 May 2027
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Who's Pride For?
Anyone who loved the 2014 film, which was made by the same writer and the same director.
Anyone who wants a new British musical with a new score rather than a jukebox.
Not for you if you are booking for the miners' strike story itself. The show is based around it, but it's not at the centre of the narrative.
Not for you if you want a straightforwardly happy night. It's not London's happiest show.
What Tickets Cost
The cheapest seats are in Gallery 2 at the top of the theatre, and with our fees included they start at around £35. The theatre's own face-value price for the same seat is £30 midweek and £31.50 at the weekend, so that is the difference all-in pricing makes: one number, paid once, with nothing added at the checkout.
The Stalls and Gallery 1 both open at around £61.50 midweek and around £76.50 at the weekend. Most seats go for around £70 to around £120, with premium seats above that and the top of the range at around £200.
The weekend premium falls hardest on the cheapest Stalls and Gallery 1 seats, which go up by about a quarter, and barely touches the top level, which goes up by £1.50.
There are no day seats at the Bridge.
About Pride at the Bridge Theatre
Matthew Warchus directed the 2014 film and directs the musical; Stephen Beresford wrote the film and has written the book and lyrics here. Same authors, new score.
The music is by Christopher Nightingale, Josh Cohen and DJ Walde, and it moves between disco, rock and pop, picket-line anthems and Welsh choral singing. The released song is You Stood By Me; The Enemy Within and Light Perpetual are in it too.
The score is what some disagree about. The songs do their work while you are watching, and they are not the ones you come out humming.
Bunny Christie designed the set and costumes, and Lizzi Gee the choreography.
What's Pride About?
Summer 1984. Margaret Thatcher is dismantling the coal industry, the miners are on strike, and a lethal new virus is spreading through gay men in London with almost nothing known about it.
Mark Ashton, a twenty-four-year-old activist, argues a bookshop full of people into founding Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners. Not everyone there agrees. They phone their way down a list of mining communities, most of whom put the receiver down at the words "Lesbians and Gays", until someone in the Dulais Valley in South Wales says yes.
What follows is two communities with nothing in common working out what to do about each other, and for long stretches it is a comedy. When The Sun attacks the miners' union under the headline "Pits and Perverts", the group takes the insult for the name of its own benefit concert and raises £5,650 with it.
The strike gets harder to win, and men in London start getting ill. Beresford has said the comedy and both tragedies are inseparable. Mark Ashton died in 1987, aged twenty-six.
Performance Schedule
Pride plays Monday to Saturday at 7:30pm, with matinees on Thursday and Saturday at 2:30pm. There is no Sunday performance. That is eight performances a week.
| Day | Matinee | Evening |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | - | 7:30pm |
| Tuesday | - | 7:30pm |
| Wednesday | - | 7:30pm |
| Thursday | 2:30pm | 7:30pm |
| Friday | - | 7:30pm |
| Saturday | 2:30pm | 7:30pm |
| Sunday | - | - |
Best Seats for Pride
The middle of the Stalls, rows E to L. That block is where the premium seats sit for this production, and rows F to H inside it are premium plus.
Central row A is the buy of the Stalls, in the fourth price band and close to a high stage. Take the centre of it rather than the sides.
The centre of Gallery 2 is the value pick of the building. Nothing overhangs the top level and it is the cheapest thing we sell.
Think twice about rows S and T at the back of the Stalls, where Gallery 1 overhangs you.
A ticket for this show says Circle or Gallery where the theatre's own plans say Gallery 1 and Gallery 2.
Every level, the fold-out seats, the pillars and the cold spots are in our Bridge Theatre guide.
Cast and Creative Team
Samuel Barnett plays Jonathan Blake, a real man who in October 1982 became the second person in the UK to be diagnosed HIV-positive, and who is still alive and still campaigning. It is the part the critics kept singling out at the National, including the two-star Telegraph. Courtney Stapleton, from Six the Musical, plays Steph.
Further casting is still to be announced, including Mark, the part the story turns on. Bromley, Martin, Reggie and Margaret are also open. The full company and creative team are in the Cast and Creatives tab.
Book Pride the Musical Tickets
Tickets from around £35, and around £70 to around £120 for most of the theatre. All-in pricing, so the price you see is what you pay.
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FAQs
Yes, and closely. Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners was a real group, founded in London in 1984 by a real activist, Mark Ashton, and it raised money for mining communities in the Dulais Valley.
The alliance, the fundraising, the community and the people are real. What is compressed is the strike itself: critics at the National agreed that the miners' side is thinner than the LGSM side and the defeat softened.
Yes, and the show ends there: a Pride parade joined by people from the Dulais Valley and by miners from around the country. At the 1985 Labour Party conference the miners' union voted to back lowering the age of consent for gay men to 16.
Two groups with nothing in common in 1984: gay and lesbian activists in London, and a striking mining community in South Wales. The AIDS crisis runs alongside it throughout.
The Bridge Theatre, 3 Potters Fields Park, SE1 2SG, beside Tower Bridge, from 12 November 2026 to 8 May 2027.
No tour has been announced. The Bridge is the only theatre it is booking at.
2 hours 40 minutes, including a 20 minute interval.
An evening performance starts at 7:30pm and is out at about 10:10pm. The Thursday and Saturday matinees start at 2:30pm and finish around 5:10pm.
The Bridge advises 12+. It is a serious story with adult subject matter and it is not a family musical.
The AIDS crisis, illness and death. Homophobia in 1984 and the language that went with it. A community losing a strike. Flashing and strobing lights, and haze.
Same writer and same director, and the story is the one you know. The score is new, some scenes from the screenplay are pared back, and the stage version has more space for music and movement.
You Stood By Me is the one released so far. The Enemy Within, Light Perpetual and You Might As Well Live are also in the show.
Not yet announced. Eleven performers are confirmed, including Samuel Barnett, and five named roles are open, Mark among them. It is a partial transfer of the National company.
The critics divided over it at the National, from five stars down to two, agreeing on Samuel Barnett and on the miners' half being the thinner one. The full picture is in the News and Reviews tab.
Accessible seating and the venue's access scheme are handled by the Bridge Theatre's own team. This run has a captioned performance on 3 February 2027, audio description with a touch tour on 10 February, and British Sign Language on 24 February. More on the building is in our Bridge Theatre guide.
Tickets and Best Seats for Pride
The Bridge changes shape from show to show. Pride is staged end-on, with the stage at one end and everyone facing it, rather than in the round or in promenade. About 960 seats are on sale, 632 of them in the Stalls across 20 rows, with 176 in Gallery 1 and 152 in Gallery 2.
Your ticket will say Circle or Gallery, where the theatre's own plans and our venue guide say Gallery 1 and Gallery 2.
The Stalls
The front section runs from row A to row H. The stage is high and there is a step between every row, so the view is good throughout it.
Premium is the centre block, rows E to L, with F to H sold as premium plus. The best seat below premium is central row D.
Central row A is in the fourth price band and it is the best value on the level. The side blocks in rows A and B cost a band more and have the worse view, so take the centre. Row B in the centre block is not raised over row A, which is specific to how this production is set, so if you are short take A instead.
The fold-out seats on the ends of rows G to Q are the budget pick of the Stalls, in the fourth band. They have no armrests, and you sit alongside people who paid a great deal more.
The back rows of the Stalls, R, S and T, curve round the rest of it. Gallery 1 starts overhanging them at row S, which takes the top of the set and the overhead lighting rather than the playing area. A sound desk sits behind row L on one side, and seats in rows R to T within about five of the centre aisle on that side look over it, so ask for the other side of the auditorium. Row T is not yet on sale.
Gallery 1, sold as the Circle
The fourth price band is the one to go for. Row B, seats 9 to 19 and 59 to 66, gets you close for sensible money. Avoid B57 and B58, which sit in front of a cold air vent. The middle of row A is sold at premium, which is a lot to pay for a seat that far from the stage.
Gallery 2, sold as the Gallery
Nothing overhangs the top level, and its centre block is the best value seat in the theatre. Take A31 to A44 first, then the rest of A22 to A53. The front row needs a little leaning forward over the safety rail. If the centre has gone, row B at the sides, 7 to 18 and 57 to 68, gets you closer than sitting centrally further back.
Bring a layer. The theatre names the seats in front of air conditioning vents when you book, and the rows either side of them get cold too.
The pillars, the legroom and the step counts are in our Bridge Theatre guide.
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Getting to the Bridge Theatre
The Bridge Theatre is at 3 Potters Fields Park, London SE1 2SG, on the river between Tower Bridge and City Hall.
London Bridge is 10 minutes away on foot and serves the Northern and Jubilee lines plus mainline trains. Take the Tooley Street exit and follow Tooley Street towards Tower Bridge, then turn left along Potters Fields. Tower Hill, on the Circle and District lines, is 15 minutes over Tower Bridge itself.
Buses. The 42, 78 and 343 stop at Tower Bridge, which is the closest stop to the theatre. The 47 and 381 stop on Tooley Street by the Unicorn Theatre, about seven minutes away, and the 188 stops on Druid Street, about five.
Arrive 15 to 20 minutes before, no later. Latecomers may not be admitted at the Bridge and there are no readmissions once the show has started. The walk from London Bridge is ten minutes and there is a bag search on the door, so count both in.
The theatre opens from 5:30pm, or 12:30pm on a matinee day, so there is somewhere to sit and eat first.
Parking, the bars and everywhere worth eating nearby are in our Bridge Theatre guide.
Address
3 Potters Fields Park, London SE1 2SG
Nearest Tube
London Bridge
Pride Cast
Eleven performers are announced for the Bridge, and as at 9 September 2026 five named roles are still to be cast.
| Role | Performer |
|---|---|
| Jonathan | Samuel Barnett |
| Mike | Matthew Durkan |
| Gwen | Gillian Elisa |
| Gethin | Chris Jenkins |
| Cliff | Darren Lawrence |
| Hefina | Kirsty Malpass |
| Siân | Sarah Pugh |
| Maureen | Caroline Sheen |
| Steph | Courtney Stapleton |
| Dai | Matthew Woodyatt |
| Ensemble | Madeleine Morgan |
Mark, Bromley, Martin, Reggie and Margaret are not yet announced.
Samuel Barnett was in The History Boys on stage and on film, Courtney Stapleton in Six the Musical, Chris Jenkins in Groundhog Day and Caroline Sheen in Mary Poppins.
Creative team
Book and lyrics by Stephen Beresford. Music by Christopher Nightingale, Josh Cohen and DJ Walde. Developed and directed by Matthew Warchus.
Set and costume by Bunny Christie. Lighting by Hugh Vanstone. Sound by Bobby Aitken. Choreography by Lizzi Gee. Orchestrations by Christopher Nightingale and Tom Kelly, who also music supervises. Musical direction by Jo Cichonska.
Pride Reviews
Press night was at the National Theatre on 25 June 2026. The ratings ran from five stars down to two, and three things came back from critics on both sides of that.
The Guardian's Arifa Akbar and Time Out's Tom Wicker both gave it five stars, Akbar calling it "a remarkable piece of British social history, deeply moving, deeply important", and five stars came too from the Financial Times, BroadwayWorld and Musical Theatre Review. The Independent's Louis Chilton, the Standard's Nick Curtis, The Stage's Dave Fargnoli and WhatsOnStage's Sarah Crompton went to four. The Times's Dominic Maxwell gave it three. The Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish gave it two, and wrote that it "falls far short of the required landmark".
The first is Samuel Barnett as Jonathan. The critic who liked the show least still said Barnett stole it: the Telegraph, at two stars, wrote that he "steals the show as the flamboyant activist Jonathan Blake, using disco to break the ice". The Standard had him knowingly stealing every scene he is in.
The second, and six critics independently made it: the miners' half of the story is thinner than the LGSM half, and the strike's defeat is softened. The Telegraph put it hardest, finding "a touching requiem for the generation lost to Aids, nothing comparable for the vanquished strikers". WhatsOnStage found "a fair amount of airbrushing about just how much division there was in 1984". So if you are booking for the strike specifically, book knowing that.
The third comes from the show's admirers rather than its detractors: the lesbians of LGSM are reduced to a single character. Four critics made that one, three of them while giving the show top marks.
The score divided them. The Guardian found "the songs are fabulous, even if there are an awful lot of them", the Standard "superb songs" alongside "a few duds", the Telegraph "blandly generic numbers".
These are notices for the National Theatre run, and the Bridge production has not been reviewed. The performances praised in the title role are not the ones a Bridge audience will see: Jhon Lumsden played Mark Ashton at the National and is not on the Bridge cast list.
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