Britain on the Cheap

It’s no Ponzi scheme—Visit London can save you $6 off a ticket to “Enron” at Noel Coward Theatre, London. One of the most infamous scandals in financial history mixes classical tragedy with savage comedy. The tickets, good through Aug. 14. are now $70/£45.75, down from $76/£50.50.

Psy is a new circus show by The 7 Fingers, inspired by the surreal underworld of the human psyche. Save $22 on the show, at the Peacock Theatre, London: the cost is now $38/£24.50, down from $60/£36 for a top price ticket. Through May 15.

Debbie Reynolds celebrates 50 years of show business in an award-winning one-woman show at the Apollo Theatre through May 9. Save on an upper circle seat at $38/£25, down from $58/£37.50. Top price is $60/ £39.50, down from $75/£49.50.

Reader Jennifer Dorn shares her theater tip:  “The highly regarded Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden makes a number of seats available for each performance beginning at 10 a.m. on the day. Recently my husband and I were in Row A of the mezzanine at ‘full price’ seats while a woman next to us had paid a fraction [...]

Cornwall’s Minack Theatre and Visitor Centre in Porthcurno, Penzance, will launch its new season April 2-5 and 10-12 with Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” The remarkable Minack has a rough stage and seating carved out of rock, with a gorgeous view of the sea as its backdrop. The theater won an Enjoy England Award in [...]

Hold onto your wallet! “Enron,” staged by Rupert Goold’s Headlong theater company, reveals one of the most infamous scandals in financial history through music, dance and video. A Superbreak package Feb. 19 is $214/£127.50 per person, based on two sharing, with one night’s B&B at the City Inn Westminster hotel and a top-priced ticket.

VisitBritain’s Online Shop is offering The Theatre Passport to shows such as “Chicago,” “Grease” and “Hairspray.” U.S. visitors pay $33 for a Theatre Passport, then exchange the voucher for a ticket in London, at the Encore Ticket Collection Point within the Britain and London Visitor Centre, 1 Regent St. The nearest tube stop is Piccadilly [...]

Get into London Theatre is offering tickets as low as $17/£10 to more than 55 top London shows now through Feb. 12. The show selection includes such popular musicals as “Billy Elliot The Musical,” “Jersey Boys,” “Priscilla Queen of the Desert” and “Sister Act,” and plays such as “The 39 Steps,” “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “Every [...]

Get into the “Sister Act” with a Superbreak package on Nov. 28 only, with one night at the Rydges Kensington Plaza Hotel with breakfast and a top-priced ticket to the show. The package is $230/£163 per person, based on two sharing.

Remember those long queues at the tkts booth for that day’s show? Now tkts, the London West End’s only official theater ticket booths, are now selling discounted tickets for up to a week before the day of performance. The tkts booths sell half-price, discounted and full-price tickets in the Clocktower Building on the south side [...]