Screen To Stage: Best Movie Adaptions Currently Playing In London

From the silver screen to the West End stage
From the silver screen to the West End stage, London's theatre scene is serving up some serious movie magic! Get ready to trade your popcorn for playbills as some of your favorite films are reimagined with show-stopping musical numbers and dazzling stagecraft. So, get ready to be immersed in these beloved stories like never before!
Here are the best stage adaptions of beloved movies currently playing in London...
Mean Girls
Savoy Theatre until June 8th
Tina Fey's musical adaptation of her 2004 movie Mean Girls finally brings the Burn Book to the West End in 2025! Featuring a book by Fey, music from Jeff Richmond, lyrics from Legally Blonde's Nell Benjamin and direction from Book of Mormon's Casey Nicholaw the production garnered 12 Tony Award nominations when it opened on Broadway in 2018. So join wide-eyed Cady Heron once again as she heads from the wilds of Africa to the wilds of high-school...

The Devil Wears Prada
Dominion Theatre (Open Run)
Hold onto your Louboutins because the iconic 2006 movie The Devil Wears Prada is receiving a fashionable musical makeover. With Elton John lending his song-writing genius to the project, lyrics from Shaina Taub, a book by Kate Wetherhead, and direction and choreography from Kinky Boots and Pretty Woman mastermind Jerry Mitchell, it's going to be a hell of a show!

Back To The Future
Adelphi Theatre (Open Run)
The DeLorean has landed in London! The hit 80's movie is now live on stage in this fantastic production from Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis. Back To The Future follows Marty McFly and kooky scientist Doc Brown as they travel through space and time. But when their plan goes awry and the pair are stranded in the 1950s, they're forced to come up with a creative way to get back - to the future!

Clueless
Trafalgar Theater until June 14th
Clueless the Musical is finally coming to the West End in this brand new adaptation from the iconic movie's screenwriter Amy Heckerling, with direction from Sarna Lapine, music from multi-platinum singer-songwriter KT Tunstall and lyrics from Glenn Slater (Grammy winner and Tony nominee no less). So don't be branded as ensemble-y challenged, get your electronic wardrobe to pick out your best threads to relive this nineties cult classic live on stage!

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre (Open Run)
Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a new play by Jack Thorne. It is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The critically acclaimed production is the most awarded new play in theatre history, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has won 24 major theatre awards in the UK and is the most awarded play in the history of the Olivier Awards, winning a record-breaking nine awards including Best New Play. The production has also won 25 major US awards with six Tony Awards including Best Play.
