Get In The Spooky Spirit This Halloween Around Villiers Street

Looking for last minute Halloween plans in London? Fear not! With spooky season in full swing, you may  be wondering how to fill your wicked weekend. Whether your planning creepy cocktails or a thrilling theatre experience, hop off the tube onto Villiers Street and enjoy the numerous Halloween haunts happening near Charing Cross and Embankment. Below, we’ve put together a mini guide of our favourite eery events to fill your fright night. 

THEATRE

With the West End back in full swing, Villiers Street is the perfect place to grab a bewitched bite to eat before the drama unfolds. If you’re looking to fill your evening with spook-tacular performances, there’s something on the West End for everyone. Here are our top three recommendations this Halloween. 

The multi-award-winning musical, Wicked, is a ‘devilishly’ clever spin on The Wizard of Oz. Wicked tells an enchanting story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two friends on their journey to becoming Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West. Already the 9th longest-running West End musical of all time, Wicked is the winner of over 100 major international awards. Tickets are available to purchase here. 

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The impactful elements of live performances merged with cinematic qualities of the film, The Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre is certainly not for the faint hearted. A lawyer obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over him and his family by the spectre of a Woman in Black, engages a sceptical young actor to help him tell his terrifying story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul. It all begins innocently enough, but then, as they reach further into his darkest memories, they find themselves caught up in a world of eerie marshes and moaning winds. Now celebrating over three decades in the West End, Robin Herford’s gripping production is a brilliantly successful study in atmosphere, illusion and controlled horror. Tickets are available to purchase here. 

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Our last recommendation is one for the hopeless romantics amongst us. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s award-winning The Phantom of the Opera has returned to its home, Her Majesty’s Theatre, and is now celebrating its 35th anniversary in London’s West End. Considered one of the most beautiful and spectacular productions in history, The Phantom of the Opera’s romantic, haunting and soaring score includes Music of the Night, All I Ask of You, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, Masquerade and the iconic title song. Tickets are available to purchase here.

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The Haunted West End Ghost Tour

Fancy a spooky West End ghost tour? London Walks’s Halloween Special Edition Ghost walk might just be the fright night you need! Walk about as the day heads south and the living dead begin to stir. Gas-lit alleyways, Georgian streets that nobody visits, old buildings frozen in another time, they call it London’s parallel universe. The walk starts off as jolly, fun and eccentric, but as the shadows lengthen darkness descends. The walk ends in an eyeball to eyeball confrontation with the most haunted statue in London, just round the corner from St. James’ Park Tube. Tickets are available here. 

Halloween Cocktails 

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Start your eery evening the right way with All Bar One’s limited edition Halloween cocktails. It’s the perfect opportunity to take a trip to the dark side, as well as free reign to wear whatever outlandish outfit you wouldn’t be brave enough to put on the rest of the year. 

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