WHAT'S ON at THEATRE AT THE TABARD
40th Anniversary Year
WINNER PUB THEATRE OF THE YEAR 2025
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2 Bath Road
London
W4 1LW
A minute’s walk from Turnham Green tube station (district line). Just leave the station and turn right. The Theatre has its own entrance in the Tabard pub’s beer garden.
The 94 Bus from the West End, Notting Hill and Shepherd’s Bush stops outside our front door. Other buses stopping nearby are the 27, 267, 237, 391, E3 and H91.
There is free parking on The Avenue after 6.30pm.
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READ INTERVIEW WITH IN-HOUSE PRODUCERS SARAH AND SIMON REILLY CHATTING ABOUT THE TABARD'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY
Al Murray : All You Need is Guv (Work in Progress)
17 Nov - 8 Dec 2025
Stand Up Comedy
The chance to catch Britain’s favourite publican as he tries out material for his new tour All You Need is Guv.
This is a rare opportunity to catch one of Britain’s finest comedians in an intimate setting as he polishes his legendary bar-room banter.
‘A supremely polished performer’ ★★★★★ Mail on Sunday
5 Dec 2025 - 3 Jan 2026
Family
From the creative team behind the Tabard’s Christmas hits, Five Children and It, The Secret Garden and The Snow Queen comes a heartwarming new adaptation of the much-loved classic story from E.Nesbit.
When their father is unexpectedly called away, three children -Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis - are uprooted from their London home and find themselves in the countryside. Through a world of steam trains, station porters, and unexpected adventures, they discover the power of kindness, courage, and hope.
Adapted by Louise Haddington and directed by the Tabard’s Artistic Director Simon Reilly, The Railway Children is a joyful and moving tale that celebrates the importance of family and community.
Book today for the perfect festive treat and a magical journey for all ages.
7 Dec 2025
Comedy
In a special Christmas event for the Tabard Theatre’s 40th anniversary, Kevin McNally reprises the role of Tony Hancock in The Missing Hancocks, a loving recreation of the missing episodes of Hancock’s Half Hour radio show.
Between 1954 and 1959, BBC Radio recorded 102 episodes of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson’s comedy classic, Hancock’s Half Hour. The first modern sitcom, it made stars of Tony Hancock, Sid James and Kenneth Williams, and launched Galton & Simpson as one of the most successful comedy-writing partnerships in history. Actor Neil Pearson discovered the scripts of recordings lost from the BBC’s archives and the show was first performed at the Assembly Rooms for the Edinburgh Festival in 2015 and then was recorded for BBC Radio 4.
A Jazz Noël: The Christmas Sessions
15 Dec 2025
Music
Celebrate the festive season in style with A Jazz Noël: The Christmas Sessions — an evening of classic Christmas jazz delivered with charm, flair, and a fresh twist. Set in the intimate surroundings of the Tabard, this special concert brings together some of the UK’s finest jazz musicians for a night of timeless music and holiday cheer.
The show features a vibrant live band made up of a four-piece horn section, a dynamic rhythm section, and a charismatic vocalist — delivering a rich, full-bodied sound that captures the warmth and spirit of the season. Audiences can expect to hear festive favourites made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, and Harry Connick Jr, alongside inventive new arrangements that bring a fresh perspective to the Christmas songbook.
20 - 24 Dec 2025
Returning after a sell-out run, actor Clive Francis returns to the Tabard this Christmas with his acclaimed adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic.
Francis plays the misanthropic Ebenezer Scrooge in this delightful one-man show for family audiences.
Inspired by Dickens’ first reading and performance of A Christmas Carol in December 1853, Clive Francis re-enacts this festive masterpiece with words penned by Dickens, while playing every notable character from the original, haunting story.
★★★★ “Performance of his career” Daily Telegraph
★★★★ “Touches the heart” Independent
★★★★ “Wondrous old skinflint” Daily Mail
★★★★ “Spell-binding” The Sunday Times
★★★★ “Clive Francis’ storytelling is enthralling a if it had only this minute sprung to life” The Irish Times
4 & 5 Jan 2026
Comedy Drama
Originally staged at the Tabard and now returning for just two showcase performances following a sell out season Off Broadway
Take Note Theatre for the Tabard, Epsilon Productions & Smokescreen Productions present
APPRAISAL by Tim Marriott
An annual work review that goes horribly wrong.
Head of Department Nicky wants to get on with her job, her boss Jo has other ideas. He has a plan and thinks she is going to like it…
A two-hander dark comedy, Appraisal is a power play of manipulation, subtext and subterfuge, exploring the explosive consequences that can arise out of a seemingly innocent conversation. It achieved 5* reviews and Sold Out performances at Edinburgh Festival and Adelaide Fringe, where it also won a Best Theatre Award. The 2023 Edinburgh run garnered multiple award nominations from OffFest and Dark Chat including Best Play, Best Director, Best Show, and winning Best Actor and Best Actress.
Appraisal is the latest play by sitcom veteran (BBC’s The Brittas Empire) Tim Marriott who will perform alongside Angela Bull, recently seen in ITV's Coronation Street and DI Ray.
‘Intelligent and incisive, utterly captivating’ ***** Stage Whispers
‘A battle of wits, tight, well paced and engrossing’ ***** Reviews Hub
'A terrific play, disturbingly realistic' ***** GlamAdelaide
‘A masterclass of gaslighting and a masterpiece of manipulation’ **** Everything Theatre
‘Genius - a tense, relatable thriller’ **** Bohemian Britian
‘Absolutely gripping and funny’ **** Dark Chat
‘A romp through workplace politics’ **** One4Review
‘Very funny, with some wonderful linguistic thrusting and parrying' **** Scottish Field
The Ballad of Buckingham Nicks
7 - 20 Jan 2026
Cabaret
Following a sold-out preview back in June, The Ballad of Buckingham Nicks returns for a eight performance run prior to touring.
A tribute through stories and songs the show charts the relationship, music and drama of two legendary figures of rock and roll - Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
We are transported forward and back through time to the different eras - with Wendy Morgan and Julian Littman telling Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's unique tale - singing and playing some of their iconic songs - highlighting and illustrating the roller coaster of their lives and their love story.
14 - 31 Jan 2026
Comedy Drama
It’s happened. The ultimate scientific breakthrough. Boffins discover a drug that heals everything.
Max is a scientist in a secret lab who stumbles on a cure for all diseases. His boss, Judy, decides to sell it privately to millionaires but Max wants it distributed free to everyone. He smuggles out a batch of samples to a nearby hospital. When his teenage daughter, Felicity, joins the rebellion, Judy orders a junior researcher, Vic, to guard her. But they fall in love and together they plot to seize control of the lab. Meanwhile Judy has a secret plan to deal with the troublemakers permanently.
One Jab Cures All asks a question that scientists don’t want to hear: if they cured everything would they tell us?
From Lumbago Theatre Company, directed by Matthew Parker and written by Lloyd Evans, author of ‘Dom – the Play’ and ‘Who’s the Daddy?’
Book your tickets for this new scientific comedy about medics, morals and miracles.
25 Jan 2026
Comedy
ANYONE FOR TENNIS?
A Wimbledon line judge for 20 years, comedian Pauline Eyre is ready to spill the Pimms on tennis gossip from the fragrant royal box to the musty locker room, and why line judges are OUT!
Expect smashing stories, ace anecdotes and a 40-love letter to the game.
And there’s nobody to say ‘quiet please’.
She cannot be serious… can she?
“Laughs aplenty… juicy locker room secrets…
Sherlock Holmes: The Death and Life
26 & 27 Jan 2026
Drama
SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Death and Life
Starring Nigel Miles-Thomas, written by David Stuart Davies, adapted for the stage and directed by Gareth Armstrong; with original music by Simon Slater.
A fantasy based upon a fiction, finds Arthur Conan Doyle tiring of ‘his’ intolerably arrogant Sherlock Holmes, and inventing the arch villain, Moriarty, to dispose of him.
But Doyle’s dangerous strategy, combined with his passion for raising the spirits of the dead, has rather more surreal and dramatic consequences than he bargains for!
A light-hearted and intriguing investigation of the consequences, when fictional characters take on lives and ambitions of their own, quite against the wishes of the author.
In this wryly humorous one man tale, of murder, mystery and the occult the world’s greatest detective refuses to leave the stage!
