Britain on the Cheap

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 [...]

Hop on your chariot, there’s still time to see Ben Hur at London’s O2 Arena. Superbreak has last-minute packages for Sept. 17-20 to see the £5 million stage spectacle, bursting from the stage with a live chariot race, massed gladiator combat and a sea battle. The three-star package with a hotel stay Sept. 19 and [...]

Benefit the Aspinall Foundation and laugh along with the “Calendar Girls” during the charity night Sept. 18. The website Superbreak offers a $226-per-person package for one night’s B&B at the Hampstead Britannia hotel, a top-priced ticket to the show, a drinks reception with the chance to meet some of the cast, a free program per [...]

The website www.dealchecker.co.uk has a hotel deal for theater lovers. Book two tickets for one of 16 selected West End shows and receive an overnight stay in a twin or double room at the Crowne Plaza London Docklands or Days Hotel Shoreditch free. Shows range from “Stomp” for $75 per person to “Calendar Girls” from [...]

Always wanted to see Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” the world’s longest-running stage show — it opened in 1952. This is the year, with a pair of good seats at $60, down from $80 in 2008.

Kids Week in London’s West End is back! Kids Week offers a child 5-16 a free ticket to such West End shows as “Wicked,” “Hairspray” and “Sister Act” when he is accompanied by a full-paying adult; another two children can go for half price. The deals extend from Aug. 14-28; booking lines open in mid-July. [...]