We’ve collated a handy list of West End Shows with Olivier Award Nominations for 2025. The Olivier Awards this year are celebrating their 40th Anniversary since they took Laurence Olivier’s name. For many performers, an Olivier is the highest theatrical honour you could ever receive. This years awards are hosted by two highly acclaimed performers of our time: Billy Porter and Beverely Knight! Billy Porter is currently in one of the biggest West End Shows at the moment, Cabaret. Beverely Knight, perhaps better known as a music artist has only recently stepped off stage from her lead role in Sister Act last year. In fact, Knight is the recipient of an Olivier Award herself back in 2023.

The curtain up for the awards is on 6th April at the Royal Albert Hall. Many of the shows nominated are still playing in London. Book tickets to one of these West End Shows and see for yourself what you think of the nominated shows.

Here’s The List of Nominated West End Shows

The Show With The Most Nominations

Giant – Play
The Harold Pinter Theatre now booking from 26th April – 2nd August 2025.

• Mark Rosenblatt – Best Play
• John Lithgow – Best Actor
• Elliot Levey – Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• Romola Garai – Best Actress in a Supporting Role
• Nicholas Hytner – Best Director

Giant is transferring to the Harold Pinter following its sold-out run at The Royal Court Theatre. John Lithgow (The Crown, Conclave) plays Roald Dahl who is dealing with a scandal some of his writing has caused. This provocative play is Mark Rosenblatt’s writing debut. Director Nicholas Hytner is no stranger to West End Shows, he has directed a countless amount and was actually the director of the beloved National Theatre for 12 years. Elliot Levey is a previous Olivier Award Winner for his role in Cabaret. This year he is nominated for a second time in the category of Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Romola Garai has also been nominated as Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Interestingly, she has been nominated twice within the same category at this years awards.

West End Shows With 4 Nominations

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Years
• Oliver!

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Musical
The Ambassadors Theatre now booking until 20th August 2025.

• Outstanding Musical Contribution – Darren Clark for music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements and Mark Aspinall for musical direction, music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements
• Clare Foster – Best Actress in a Musical
• John Dagliesh – Best Actor in a Musical
• Best New Musical

You may remember the Hollywood Blockbuster of the same name however this West End Show is based on the iconic short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The show is reimagined in a Cornish fishing village by award-winning writing team Jethro Compton and Darren Clark. Under the light of a full moon, something most curious occurs… Benjamin Button is born old. He is bound to the fate of growing younger each day. The show opened in October 2024 and due to its success, has recently announced an extension into August this year. John Dagliesh (Sunny Afternoon) has won this category before in 2014 and Clare Foster (Crazy For You) is also a previous Olivier Award Nominee.

The Years – Play
The Harold Pinter Theatre now booking until 19th April 2025.

• Best Play
• Thijs van Vuure – Best Sound Design
• Romola Garai – Best Actress in a Supporting Role
• Gina McKee – Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Based on Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux’s groundbreaking masterpiece and memoires, The Years is an unapologetic portrait of a woman shaped by her rapidly-changing world. Writer, mother, student, activist, wife, daughter, lover, grandmother… each vivid version of Annie is told through a series of snapshots. Weaving together memory and history, an ordinary life is marked by a changing body and a changing society. The Actresses in a Supporting Role take half the nominations in this category and it is Romola Garai’s second nomination in this category also.

Oliver! – Musical
The Gielgud Theatre, booking in the West End until 29th March 2026.

• Matthew Bourne – Best Theatre Choreography
• Paule Constable and Ben Jacobs – Best Lighting Design
• Best Musical Revival
• Simon Lipkin – Best Actor in a Musical

This classic musical written by Lionel Bart is based on Charles Dickens Novel, Oliver Twist. It follows orphaned Oliver in his fight for survival in Victorian London. The show stopping hits such as Consider Yourself and Food Glorious Food have been choreographed by Matthew Bourne. Matthew Bourne currently has the joint most amount of Olivier Awards, this year could see him take the lead! Simon Lipkin (Guys and Dolls) plays Fagin who takes Oliver in and teaches him the skills of pick-pocketing. This role sees him nominated for Best Actor in a Musical.

West End Shows with 3 Nominations

• MJ The Musical
• Starlight Express
• Titanique

MJ The Musical – Musical
The Prince Edward Theatre, currently booking in the West End until 26th March 2026.

• Best New Musical
• Myles Frost – Best Actor in a Musical
• Christopher Wheeldon – Best Theatre Choreography

This show is already Tony Award winning for its run on Broadway. In fact, winners Myles Frost and Christopher Wheeldon moved to the UK to open the London version of the show. I would consider this one of our best selling shows here at Theatre Bookings so it’s only natural that the show has been nominated for Best New Musical. The show follows Michael Jacksons life, particularly getting ready for the Dangerous World Tour. You can expect to hear some of his greatest hits in this musical.

Starlight Express
The Troubadour Theatre, Wembley Park, currently booking in the West End until 1st March 2026.

• Best Musical Revival
• Gabriella Slade – Best Costume Design
• Howard Hudson – Best Lighting Design

As a child’s train set magically comes to life and the engines race to become the fastest in the world, Rusty the steam train has little hope of winning until he is inspired by the legend of the ‘Starlight Express’. The show has reopened in the UK after being closed in the West End for 20 Years. A big draw for this show is the impresive visuals which has seen it nominated in two design categories at this year’s Olivier Awards. All of the performers are on rollerskates in the purpose built theatre, creating the speed and illusion of the performers themselves being trains.

Titanique – Musical
The Criterion Theatre, currently booking in the West End until 8th June 2025.

• Best New Entertainment or Comedy Play
• Layton Williams – Best Supporting Actor in a Musical
• Lauren Drew – Best Actress in a Musical

Titanique is a parody of the classic Titanic film. Celine Dion famously sings the theme tune to the film and who better to tell us the story of what happened that night other than… Celine Dion herself… played by Lauren Drew (Six). This musical is another jukebox musical featuring all Celine Dion songs. It has proved to be a laugh out loud hit earning it the nomination of Best New Entertainment or Comedy Play. To give you an idea of the style of the show, star Layton Williams (Cabaret) has achieved his first ever Olivier Nomination for his role of… The Iceberg!

The Show with 2 Nominations

The West End Cast for Mrs. Warren’s Profession has just been announced. The show will run at the Garrick Theatre from 10th May – 16th August and will star 4 time Olivier Award Winner Imelda Staunton. She will be playing the title role of Mrs Warren. Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) is not only Stauntons real-life daughter but also will play her on stage daughter. This is the first time the mother/daughter duo are performing on stage together.

Furthermore, the shows cast is completed by Kevin Doyle (Downton Abbey) as Reverend Samuel Gardner and Robert Glenister (Sherwood) as Sir George Crofts. Finally, Reuben Joseph (Hamilton) as Frank Gardner and Sid Sagar (Cabaret) as Mr Praed will complete the cast.

Also, Dominic Cooke (Follies) will direct the West End Cast and Sonia Friedman (Stranger Things: The First Shadow) will produce the show. The rest of the creative team includes Designer Chloe Lamford (Next To Normal), Lighting Designer Jon Clark (The Lehman Trilogy) and Sound Designer Christopher Shutt (Macbeth).

What is the show about?

The George Bernard Shaw play explores the estranged relationship between Mrs. Warren and her daughter Vivie who studies mathematics at Cambridge University. Mrs. Warren is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune and paid for her daughter’s expensive education – but at what cost? Vivie is modern woman and doesn’t know how her mother made her money. Mrs. Warren’s Profession challenges ideas around class and a woman’s role in society accordingly. Its critical discussions on the hypocrisy and corruption of the English class system was certainly confronting. Therefore, its frank and controversial subject matter led to it being initially banned for 30 years by Lord Chamberlain following its publication in 1902.

Keep updated with theatre news here. To book this West End Play and many more head to Theatre Bookings.

The longest-running show on the West End, The Mousetrap has been running for over 70 years. Yes, that’s right… 70 years! Agatha Christie’s iconic murder mystery play continues to keep audiences guessing night after night.

The Mousetrap first opened in London’s West End in 1952 with Richard Attenborough as Detective Sergeant Trotter and his wife Sheila Sim as Mollie Ralston. The play is based on a short story, which is itself based on the radio play but Christie asked that the story not be published as long as the play ran in the West End.

When she originally wrote the play, Christie gave the rights to her grandson Mathew Prichard as a birthday present. In the UK only one production of the play in addition to the West End production can be performed annually. Also under the contract terms of the play is that no film adaptation can be produced until the West End production has been closed for at least six months. As the play has never closed no one has ever been able to produce a film adaptation. In 2022 Damian Jones, a British producer came up with the idea to produce a film that is more loosely based on the play. The film See How They Run is a murder mystery that takes place at the 100th performance of The Mousetrap in the West End in 1953. The film tells a different story in which the murder victim is the director of the play itself. It was nominated for Outstanding British Film at the 76th British Academy Film Awards.

The Mousetrap is a classic ‘Whodunit’ with a twist ending, which the audience is traditionally asked not to reveal after leaving the theatre. The play centers around a group of seven strangers who find themselves snowed in at a remote countryside guesthouse. When news spreads of a murder in London and a police sergeant turns up at the door, they soon realise that the killer is in their midst! Each character reveals their sordid pasts one by one but the question is… who did it?

There are eight members of the cast, and by 2012 more than 400 actors had played the roles. Christie’s script allows for lots of flexibility in the interpretation and embodiment of each of the roles. Every new cast member is able to bring new depth to the production, and every audience brings a new energy into the theatre. Because of this, every single one of the 28,000+ performances of the show has been unique.

For over 70 years this thrilling tale of mystery and intrigue has kept millions of people on the edge of their seats. Can you solve the mystery of The Mousetrap? Find out now a book The Mousetrap tickets online via the Theatre Bookings website or visit our box office in Leicester Square. Book now to see London’s greatest ‘Whodunit’.