Les Misérables (West End)
Ends Sep 2025 2h 50m
Les Misérables (West End)
94%
94%
(1514 Ratings)
Positive
97%
Mixed
2%
Negative
1%
Members say
Absorbing, Great singing, Entertaining, Enchanting, Great staging

About the Show

The West End's longest-running musical has brand new staging at the renamed Sondheim Theatre.

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Critic Reviews (9)

Time Out London
September 25th, 2021

I don’t think anybody could realistically see this imperfect, absurd, magnificent show and suggest that its crown as London’s longest-runner is in any danger.
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The London Evening Standard
January 17th, 2020
For a previous production

All in all, Les Mis and the refurbished Sondheim feel fit for purpose for the next decade or three.
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The Telegraph (UK)
January 16th, 2020
For a previous production

Assisted by a cluster of terrific lead performances...London’s longest-running musical has seldom looked, or sounded, so fresh.
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The Times (UK)
January 17th, 2020
For a previous production

[Les Miserables] remains grossly melodramatic, overlong and overloud. Most of the lyrics and sung-through dialogues are painfully clunky, every emotion stamped in blaring capitals.
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WhatsOnStage
January 17th, 2020
For a previous production

It's all very efficient and sharp. At its heart is Jon Robyns as a big-voiced and tender-hearted Valjean, catching the character's tortured valour and bringing gentle passion to the quiet "Bring Him Home"...
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London Theatre
January 17th, 2020
For a previous production

The show remains a thrilling triumph. Here's to the next 35 years, as it looks set to become The Mousetrap of musical theatre; but unlike that murder mystery, there's hardly any mystery to why it's such an enduring success.
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The Stage (UK)
January 17th, 2020
For a previous production

Swift, slick, sexy, sounding better than ever and constantly spectacular, the posters that flood Shaftesbury Avenue are, to be fair, pretty much on the money: this is a Les Mis for the 21st century.
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The Arts Desk
January 17th, 2020
For a previous production

It barely needs to be said that the picture that [Les Miserables] paints of the poor echoes sights you can see in the streets every day, and so there is little point in denying its political punch.
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