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Palace Theatre

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, in the theatre it has filled since 2016.

West EndWorth it for the building

Photo by Matt May uploaded and derivative work: MrPanyGoff, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Also in Harry Potter.

Jack Thorne's play, from a story by Rowling, John Tiffany and Thorne, opened at the Palace in 2016 as two parts seen on one day or on consecutive evenings, and after ten years it becomes one: the two-part production gives its last performances on 20 September 2026, and a reworked single-performance version of about two hours fifty-five, with one interval, opens on 6 October. The building was Richard D'Oyly Carte's Royal English Opera House of 1891 and later ran Les Misérables for nineteen years; inside it is one of the West End's grandest, with marble stairs and a four-tier auditorium, and the red terracotta front on Cambridge Circus is painted with golden wings.

Where
113 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5AY
Nearest station
Leicester Square · 3 min walk

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Performance days

Two-part production until 20 September 2026; the one-part version from 6 October, on sale to June 2027.

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