Oh, Mary! Tickets at the Trafalgar Theatre
The multi-award-winning Oh, Mary! runs 80 minutes straight through, with no interval. It plays six days a week at the Trafalgar Theatre on Whitehall, booking to 2 January 2027. Lolly Adefope plays Mary Todd Lincoln from 28 September to 5 December 2026.
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Who's Oh, Mary! For?
For you if you want to laugh for eighty minutes and go home. Five actors, a set with two doors, and no interval to break it up. You are out by about ten to nine most nights.
Not for you if you want the history. Cole Escola, who wrote it, has said they did no research.
Not for you if you would rather not sit through sex jokes for eighty minutes. The humour is crude, there is a great deal of drinking on stage, and the innuendo does not let up.
What Tickets Cost
Most seats are between £40 and £80, and premium seats from around £100. Tickets start from around £30.
Around £51.50 gets you the back two rows of the Stalls, or high in the Dress Circle. The front row and the back third of the Stalls sit at around £72. From £92.50 you are into the middle of either level. The top price is the centre of Stalls rows E to H and the centre of Dress Circle rows B and C, and those two cost exactly the same.
The top price does not move on a Saturday. The cheap and middle seats go up a band. Book midweek if that is where you are buying.
Call us on 020 7193 9050 and we will tell you what is on your date.
About Oh, Mary! at the Trafalgar Theatre
Cole Escola wrote Oh, Mary! and played Mary first, Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel in January 2024 and then on Broadway from that June, where it broke Box Office records.
It won two 2025 Tony Awards from five nominations, for Escola as Best Actor in a Play and Sam Pinkleton for Best Direction, and was a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Escola was the first openly non-binary performer to win that Tony. In London it won the 2026 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play.
It opened at the Trafalgar in December 2025 and has been extended three times since. The title role changes hands every few months, and Pinkleton has directed each new Mary himself. Who has played it, and when, is in the Cast and Creatives tab.
What's Oh, Mary! About?
Mary Todd Lincoln is stuck in the White House in the last weeks of the Civil War, married to a man who does not want her there and cannot say why. She wants to get back on a stage and sing, and everyone around her is working to keep her off it.
The play runs on two jokes built on that. Mary is a foul-tempered drunk who believes she is a great performer, and Abraham Lincoln, billed throughout as Mary's Husband, is a closeted gay man. The acting teacher she is eventually allowed turns out to be her husband's former lover.
It is spring 1865, and the play moves towards the assassination. It is a play with cabaret in it, not a musical, so there is no score to know beforehand.
Performance Schedule
The show plays Monday to Saturday. There is no Sunday performance.
Thursday runs at 5:30pm and 8:45pm. The early one is out by about ten to seven, so you eat afterwards rather than before it. The late one finishes around five past ten, by which time most of Whitehall has stopped serving.
| Day | Matinee | Evening |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | - | 19:30 |
| Tuesday | - | 19:30 |
| Wednesday | - | 19:30 |
| Thursday | 17:30 | 20:45 |
| Friday | - | 19:30 |
| Saturday | 15:30 | 19:30 |
| Sunday | - | - |
Arrive 15 to 20 minutes before, no later. With no interval there is no natural break for latecomers to be brought in at, so arriving after the start may mean a long wait or no admission at all.
Best Seats for Oh, Mary!
Book the Stalls. Two levels, 630 seats, and nothing in the building is far from the stage. Rows D to L in the centre are the seats to want, and the rake starts at row F.
If you are on the shorter side, book the Dress Circle. The Stalls here are not offset, so a tall person in front is a problem for the whole eighty minutes. The Dress Circle has three steps between every row and you see over everybody.
Stalls row A is the value pick at around £72 midweek, against £144 for row E four rows behind it. The cheapest seat in the house is Dress Circle row M, from around £30. The four Boxes are not on sale for this run.
Every level is broken down in the Tickets and Best Seats tab, and the whole auditorium is in our Trafalgar Theatre guide.
Call us on 020 7193 9050 and we will talk you through what is left on your date.
Cast and Creative Team
Lolly Adefope plays Mary Todd Lincoln from 28 September to 5 December 2026. Jinkx Monsoon played Mary until 26 September. Nothing has been announced for after 5 December.
Syrus Lowe plays Mary's Husband. Vinnie Heaven plays Mary's Teacher, Lucy Frederick plays the Chaperone and J.R. Ballantyne plays the Assistant.
Cole Escola wrote the play. Sam Pinkleton directs. Set by dots, costumes by Holly Pierson, lighting by Cha See, sound and music by Daniel Kluger, wigs by Leah J. Loukas.
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FAQs
Eighty minutes, in one act with no interval. A 7:30pm performance is finished by about ten to nine, and the Thursday 8:45pm by about five past ten.
Lolly Adefope, from 28 September to 5 December 2026. Jinkx Monsoon played Mary until 26 September. The role rotates in this production, so check who is on for the date you want. Call us on 020 7193 9050 and we will confirm it.
Thursday runs an early performance at 5:30pm and a late one at 8:45pm, instead of the usual 7:30pm.
The recommendation is 14 and over, and children under 4 are not admitted at any performance. The 14+ is a recommendation. The under-4 rule is not. Either way the content is adult.
The production uses water-based haze, and there is one gunshot, which is loud and comes late. The comedy is crude and sexual throughout, and the central character is drunk for most of the play.
No, it is a play. Mary wants to be a cabaret singer, so there is singing in it.
No! Cole Escola has said so, and you need to know nothing about the Lincolns going in. The show is a dark comedy. Mary's drinking and mental ill health are on the record; almost nothing else in the play is.
There is no interval, so there is no obvious break to be let in at. You may be held a long time or not admitted at all. Arrive 15 to 20 minutes before, and allow for a bag check on the door. You might not be able to sit with your friends.
The centre of the Stalls, rows D to L. If you are short, the Dress Circle is the better choice here, because the Stalls seats are not offset. Call us on 020 7193 9050 for seat advice on your date.
To 2 January 2027, having been extended three times.
It divided the critics, from two stars to five. Every verdict is in what the critics say.
Accessible seating and the venue's access scheme are handled by the Trafalgar's own team rather than by us. The audio described and captioned performances scheduled for this run have both played, and no further assisted date is listed at present, so the venue's team is the place to ask about one. The building is covered in our Trafalgar Theatre guide.
Tickets and Best Seats for Oh, Mary!
Two levels and nothing above them. 630 seats, sixteen rows in the Stalls and twelve in the Dress Circle, plus four Boxes. Nothing is reconfigured for this production and no seat in the house is sold as restricted.
The Stalls
The level to book. Rows D to L in the centre are the best of it. The floor starts to rake at row F and the rise is clear by row G, so sit from row D back and the row in front stops being a problem.
Row A is the shortest row at fourteen seats, around £72 midweek against £144 for row E four rows behind it. It goes first at the weekend.
Rows P and Q lose the top of the stage to the Dress Circle, and so do the outer four seats of row O. Nothing is flown in this production, so at around £51.50 they are a good buy. The sound desk sits in the middle of both back rows and the seat numbers jump around it.
The side walls narrow towards the stage from row E back, so the ends of row F and behind sit close to a wall. Sit two seats in from the aisle if you can.
Nothing here is offset. If you are short, go upstairs.
The Dress Circle
Steeply raked, three steps between every row, and nothing overhangs it. The view holds up a long way back, and it is the better level if you are short.
Rows B and C in the centre are premium and cost the same as the best Stalls seats.
You come in at row G, with row A down from there and row M up, so there are stairs either way. Row G has very little legroom, because the entrance takes the space.
Row A is the longest row in the theatre at 28 seats with no aisle in the middle, and the far ends look in at enough of an angle to lose the edges of the stage. Row M is the cheapest seat in the house at around £30 midweek, and row L sits a row closer for a little more.
The Boxes
Four of them, one at Stalls level and three at Dress Circle level. None is on sale for this production.
Prices
Six bands, and they do not follow the rows. The same row can hold two or three different prices, so the seat number matters more than the row.
The weekend uplift only reaches the cheaper and middle seats. The top price does not move, so book midweek if you are buying below it.
Call us on 020 7193 9050 and we will find the best seat available on your date.
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Getting to the Trafalgar Theatre
The Trafalgar Theatre is at 14 Whitehall, London SW1A 2DY, on the west side of Whitehall a few doors down from Trafalgar Square.
Charing Cross is the station, two to three minutes on foot, on the Bakerloo and Northern lines and the mainline. Embankment is about seven minutes up Villiers Street, Leicester Square seven to eight, Westminster about ten.
Buses stop outside on Whitehall, under a minute from the door: the 12, 24, 26, 87, 88, 91, 159 and 453. The 9, 15, 23, 29, 139 and 176 stop at Trafalgar Square and Charing Cross, three to four minutes away.
The theatre sits inside both the Congestion Charge and the ULEZ zones and the nearest car park is closed, so come by train.
Arrive 15 to 20 minutes before, no later. Bag checks operate on the door, and this show has no interval.
Two bars, one in the foyer and a larger one in the basement. The Box Office opens at 10am on performance days.
The auditorium, access and everywhere to eat and drink nearby are in our Trafalgar Theatre guide.
Address
14 Whitehall, London SW1A 2DY
Nearest Tube
Charing Cross
Oh, Mary! Cast
The company from 28 September to 5 December 2026.
| Role | Performer |
|---|---|
| Mary Todd Lincoln | Lolly Adefope, to 5 December 2026 |
| Mary's Husband | Syrus Lowe |
| Mary's Teacher | Vinnie Heaven |
| Mary's Chaperone | Lucy Frederick |
| Mary's Husband's Assistant | J.R. Ballantyne |
Lolly Adefope is playing Mary for the first time. She is best known as Kitty in Ghosts, and has been in Shrill, This Time with Alan Partridge, Miracle Workers and Taskmaster, on top of a long stand-up and Edinburgh career.
The title role rotates in London. Mason Alexander Park opened the show in December 2025 and played it to 25 April 2026, Catherine Tate took it from 27 April, and Park returned on 8 July to finish that stint to 18 July. Cole Escola played it from 20 July to 15 August 2026 and Jinkx Monsoon from 17 August to 26 September. Nothing has been announced beyond 5 December 2026.
Giles Terera played Mary's Husband from the opening and was Olivier-nominated for it. Scott Karim played it from August to 26 September 2026, when the whole supporting company changed with Adefope's arrival.
Nobody in this play gets their own name. The part is billed as Mary's Husband, and the others are Mary's Teacher, Mary's Chaperone and Mary's Husband's Assistant. It has been credited that way since it opened Off-Broadway in 2024.
Creative team
Written by Cole Escola. Directed by Sam Pinkleton, who won the 2025 Tony Award for it. Set by dots. Costumes by Holly Pierson, Tony-nominated for them. Lighting by Cha See. Sound and music by Daniel Kluger, with Drew Levy. Wigs by Leah J. Loukas, whose ringleted wig for Mary is the image the show is sold on. UK casting by Stuart Burt.
Oh, Mary! Reviews
Press night was December 2025, with Mason Alexander Park as Mary and Giles Terera as her husband. The notices ran from two stars to five, and no national went above four. The Guardian and The Times went to two, the Telegraph, the Independent and the Evening Standard to four, with The Stage and WhatsOnStage alongside them. Time Out gave three, and the fives came from smaller sites.
The two camps do not disagree about what the show is. The Telegraph called the history nonsense and still gave it four. WhatsOnStage described it as almost entirely without sub-text and counted that a virtue. The Evening Standard wrote that the show cannot see a top without going over it, then argued the performance was exact and finely detailed anyway.
The Guardian's objection is the specific one. Arifa Akbar argued that a play billed as giving Mary Todd Lincoln her due gives her nothing, hands the drama to the men around her and makes her the butt of it. The Times called it a sketch stretched past its length. Its critic named Titanique one of his favourite shows of the year, so camp is not the objection.
The Independent called it a genre of its own, mixing the farce of Charley's Aunt with the queer energy of early John Waters films. The Telegraph found real feeling under it, about people not allowed to be themselves. Time Out gave three and described the same divided room from the sceptic's side.
Read our full account of what the critics say.
Oh, Mary!
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