What is the best way to get cheap theatre tickets in London?
You’re asking about two conflicting things here–CHEAP tickets and AVAILABLE tickets to three very popular shows. If you want to guarantee you get to see them all, get tickets in advance. Either use a travel agent to book you a package or find the theatres themselves on the internet and use a credit card to book tickets over the phone. If you want to see them cheaply, you can shoot for last-minute (“standby”) tickets. If you or a member of your party is a student, theatres in the UK also sometimes have cheaper tickets (especially on standby) for that population. In either case, students or no, ask the individual theatres what their standby policies are. Many theatres keep a number of tickets to release on standby a matter of hours or minutes before curtain. Some theatres also sell in this manner the last-minute tickets of patrons who don’t show up. However, cheap is going to equal risky and time-consuming–you trade price for the high probability that what you want to see won’t be avai
