A play about one very bad night at home is one of the hardest tickets in London this autumn. Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is back in the West End with Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup in the lead roles.
According to Time Out’s guide to London events in October 2026, it is the first major West End revival of the play in a decade. The guide places it among its highlights for the month.
The couple and the guests
Crudup plays George and Anderson plays Martha. Time Out describes them as an acidic, middle-aged couple. They invite George’s young colleague Nick and Nick’s wife, Honey, to their home. The evening turns into a series of strange and problematic games.
Time Out’s phrase for the casting is “a cast to die for”. That is the magazine’s view, not a measure of the reviews.
A small room for a big fight
The production is at @sohoplace. Time Out calls it a wonderfully intimate venue for watching the horrors unfold. A small auditorium suits a play that takes place almost entirely in one living room.
Availability is the catch. Time Out says the run is heavily sold out. At the time of writing, it adds, a decent number of more expensive tickets were still available across the run. That information may now be out of date, so readers should check the box office directly.
What is not yet clear
The Time Out guide is a listings roundup, not a review. It does not give the production’s director, the closing date or critics’ verdicts. Those details would need to come from the theatre or from published reviews.
The guide also lists other autumn cultural events in London. They include an exhibition of Korean visual and material culture. According to the museum, quoted by Time Out, it is the most comprehensive chronological survey of its kind seen in Europe in more than 40 years.