Paranormal Activity Tickets at the Ambassadors Theatre
A couple move into a London house, set a camera running overnight, and watch the recording in the morning.
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Who Is Paranormal Activity Best For?
- Anyone who wants to be frightened. An intimate 410-seat theatre creates an atmosphere you cannot get on television at home.
- People who know the films. This is a new story rather than a stage version of any of them, so nothing is spoiled either way.
- People who have never seen the films. Nothing carries over that you need to have watched first.
- Anyone who liked what Punchdrunk did with Sleep No More. Felix Barrett directs, and the interest is in what he does with a normal theatre and a fixed seat.
- Not for you if you want characters to care about. That is the one thing reviewers consistently said the show does not give you.
About Paranormal Activity at the Ambassadors Theatre
James and Lou have moved from Chicago to a house in London to get away from something. Strange things start happening at night, so they do what the films taught everybody to do: they point a camera at the bedroom and go to sleep.
The show is written by Levi Holloway, who wrote Grey House, and directed by Felix Barrett, who founded Punchdrunk and created the show Sleep No More. Barrett's work usually involves an audience walking through a building. Here he has a proscenium arch and 410 seated people, and the effect he gets out of that constraint is the reason the show has kept extending.
The set runs to two floors on one of the smallest stages in the West End, which means you are watching both at once and the show can put something upstairs while you are looking down. Chris Fisher designed the illusions and Gareth Fry the sound, and between them they do most of the frightening. Expect sudden total darkness and a great deal of noise rather than blood.
The films it comes from are one of the great returns on investment in cinema: the 2007 original cost around $15,000 to make and took nearly $200 million, and six sequels followed.
This stage version opened at Leeds Playhouse in July 2024, transferred to the Ambassadors on 5 December 2025 for twelve weeks, and has extended five times since. It was nominated for the 2026 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play.
Based on the Paranormal Activity films, first written and directed by Oren Peli and brought to screen by Blumhouse and Solana Films. Produced in association with Paramount Pictures.
What's Paranormal Activity About?
A couple, a new house, and a camera left running while they sleep. What could possibly happen?
James and Lou have come from Chicago to London for a fresh start. Lou starts to think something is in the house. James does not. They set up a camera to settle it, and the recordings do not settle it.
The line the show is built on is "places aren't haunted, people are", and the plot follows that idea rather than the plot of any of the films. It is a new story with new characters, so knowing the films tells you the shape of what is coming and nothing else.
Performance Schedule
2 hours 20 minutes, including one interval.
| Day | Matinee | Evening |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | - | 7:30pm |
| Tuesday | - | 7:30pm |
| Wednesday | - | 7:30pm |
| Thursday | - | 7:30pm |
| Friday | 2:30pm | 7:30pm |
| Saturday | 2:30pm | 7:30pm |
| Sunday | - | - |
There is no Sunday performance. The matinees are on Friday and Saturday.
This run ends on Saturday 2 January 2027.
Best Seats for Paranormal Activity
The Ambassadors holds 410 people over two levels, which makes it one of the smallest theatres in the West End. Nothing is far from the stage, so the question is which part of the show you want most of.
- Stalls rows D to J. The best seats in the theatre, and close enough that the darkness of theatre really hits home.
- The set is two storeys. If you want all of it at once, the front of the Circle sees the upstairs and the downstairs in one look, which the front Stalls cannot quite do.
- Book a side seat and save. There is no centre aisle at the Ambassadors, so the rows run unbroken and a seat at the end of a row sees everything a seat in the middle sees.
- Circle legroom is tight. It is a 1913 building and the top level shows it, so anyone tall should ask us before booking up there.
Full detail by row, band and level is in the Tickets and Best Seats tab. The only assisted performance listed for this run is captioned, on Tuesday 3 November 2026 at 7:30pm. Anyone with access requirements should speak to the Ambassadors Theatre's own access team, who handle all of that for the venue.
Call us on 020 7193 9050 and we will talk you through what is actually available on your date.
Cast and Creative Team
| Role | Performer |
|---|---|
| James | Ty Fanning |
| Lou | Ami Okumura Jones |
| Etheline Cotgrave | Kirsty Bushell |
| Carolanne | Pippa Winslow |
Written by Levi Holloway and directed by Felix Barrett, with set design by Fly Davis, illusions by Chris Fisher, lighting by Anna Watson and sound by Gareth Fry.
Full cast and creative team are in the Cast and Creatives tab.
Book Your Paranormal Activity Tickets
Paranormal Activity is at the Ambassadors Theatre until 2 January 2027, with eight performances a week and matinees on Friday and Saturday.
Tickets start at around £25, most seats cost from around £45 up to around £95, and premium seats are around £130. All-in pricing: the price you see is what you pay.
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FAQs
Yes. Critics who review horror for a living said so, and the show does it through sudden darkness, sound and stage illusions rather than gore. If you are easily frightened, take that as a warning rather than a recommendation.
No. The story here has not been taken from any of the seven films, so there is nothing to catch up on first. People who know the films recognise the style; people who do not are missing nothing.
A play. There are no songs and nobody sings. Sound and music are used heavily, but as part of the horror rather than as numbers.
The Ambassadors Theatre on West Street, WC2H 9ND, between Cambridge Circus and Seven Dials. St Martin's Theatre is next door, so check the name above the door.
2 hours 20 minutes, including one interval.
Evening performances start at 7:30pm and finish at about 9:50pm. The Friday and Saturday matinees start at 2:30pm and finish at about 4:50pm.
The theatre advises caution for audiences under 15. There is no certificate as such, but the show contains strong language, blood and gore, strobe lighting and long stretches of darkness.
They can be admitted, and we would think hard about it. The theatre advises caution under 15. It is not gory in a horror-film way, but the darkness is long and the noise is sudden, and a frightened 13 year old has 443 people around them and no easy way out mid-scene.
There are, though the reviews singled out the show for not relying on them. Most of the fear comes from tension and from things you notice a moment too late.
No. The films were made as though they were found footage, and the stage show carries that style over, but the story is invented.
Eight. Evenings Monday to Saturday at 7:30pm, with matinees on Friday and Saturday at 2:30pm. There are no Sunday performances.
Stalls rows D to J for the best of it. The front of the Circle if you want to see the two-storey set whole. It is a small theatre, so nowhere is far away.
From around £25, with most seats from around £45 up to around £95, and premium seats around £130. Weekends run higher. A midweek date is the cheapest way to see it. Our prices are all-in, so the price you see is what you pay.
Two, and both are small. Order your interval drinks before the show starts and they will be waiting for you.
Leicester Square is the closest tube, 2 to 3 minutes away on foot. Buses 14, 19, 24, 29, 38 and 176 stop by Cambridge Circus, about 2 minutes from the door.
The current run ends on Saturday 2 January 2027.
Where to Sit at the Ambassadors for Paranormal Activity
Two levels, 410 seats, and no seat that is genuinely far from the stage. What changes between them here is how much of Fly Davis' two-storey set you see at once, and how the sound reaches you.
The Stalls
Rows D to J are what we book people into when they ring and leave the choice to us. That is the distance the show is built around, and it is where the money goes if you are paying for one band over another.
Rows A to C are the cheaper end of the good seats. You are level with the ground floor of the set and you will lose part of what happens on the floor above, which on this show is a genuine trade rather than a technicality. Ask us what those rows are priced at on your date before you decide.
Ask about row K. It sees what row J sees and the overhang has not reached it, so it is the row to try when D to J has gone.
About the overhang. From row L back, the Circle sits above you. At the Ambassadors that normally costs a customer very little, because most productions here play low on the stage. This one is built upwards across two floors, so the usual reassurance does not automatically apply. Ring us before you book anything from row L back and we will tell you what that specific seat sees.
The side seats are where the value is, and on this show they are more than that. There is no centre aisle in this theatre, so the rows are unbroken and an end-of-row seat is a whole seat, normally at a lower price than the middle of the same row. This production also uses the sides of the auditorium in the Stalls, so a seat towards the end of a row is closer to some of what happens rather than further from it. Ask us for the second band rather than the first.
The Circle
Rows A to E take in both floors of the set at once, which no seat in the Stalls can do. Going up here is a real choice on this show rather than somewhere to end up, and it is often the cheaper of the two levels, so it is worth asking us to compare the two before you book.
Behind row E the seats sit back from the rest of the auditorium and are priced for it. In a theatre of 410 that is still a fair seat at the lower price, and we will tell you honestly whether it is the right call on your date.
Legroom in the Circle is tight, as it is across this 1913 building. Tell us when you book if you need the space and we will put you downstairs instead.
Price bands
Most seats run from around £45 up to around £95, with a premium tier at around £130, and the cheapest start around £25. Most of the theatre sits below the premium price, so the top figure is not the one to plan around. The same seat costs noticeably more on a Friday or Saturday, so if the date is flexible, midweek is where the value is.
Across 410 seats the top band and the one below it are often two seats apart on the same row, so the question worth asking is what the extra money actually buys on your date. That is the sort of thing we will tell you straight.
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Getting to the Ambassadors Theatre
The Ambassadors is on West Street, London WC2H 9ND, a short street off Upper St Martin's Lane with St Martin's Theatre next door.
Tube: Leicester Square, 2 to 3 minutes on foot, on the Northern and Piccadilly lines. Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road and Piccadilly Circus are all about 10 to 15 minutes away. Charing Cross is the nearest rail station, about 10 minutes.
Buses: 14, 19, 24, 29, 38 and 176 stop near Cambridge Circus, roughly 2 minutes from the theatre.
Arrive 15 to 20 minutes before the performance, no later. The foyer is small and the Stalls are below street level, so the last few minutes get busy.
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The Auditorium
410 seats over two levels, the Stalls and the Circle. The Stalls sit below street level, which is why the building looks smaller from West Street than it is. Rows run A to Q in the Stalls and A to K in the Circle.
There is no centre aisle on either level, so all seating is reached from the sides. There are a few Box seats, not always on sale.
Air conditioning and WiFi throughout, and a cloakroom for small items only. Large bags and suitcases are not allowed in the building.
The full guide to the building, level by level, is in our Ambassadors Theatre guide.
Address
West Street, London WC2H 9ND
Nearest Tube
Leicester Square (2-3 min walk)
Paranormal Activity Cast
| Role | Performer |
|---|---|
| James | Ty Fanning |
| Lou | Ami Okumura Jones |
| Etheline Cotgrave | Kirsty Bushell |
| Carolanne | Pippa Winslow |
Four performers carry the whole show.
Creative Team
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Writer | Levi Holloway |
| Director | Felix Barrett |
| Set | Fly Davis |
| Illusions | Chris Fisher |
| Lighting | Anna Watson |
| Sound | Gareth Fry |
Felix Barrett founded Punchdrunk and directed Sleep No More. Levi Holloway wrote Grey House. Chris Fisher is one of the illusion designers British theatre calls when a trick has to work eight times a week.
What the Critics Said About Paranormal Activity
The show opened to press on 15 December 2025, and most of the critics gave it four stars.
They agreed about the style of the show. The Times called it "as terrifying as the film", the Financial Times "a brilliantly terrifying stage response", and the Telegraph "a spook-a-thon mounted with devious technical finesse". Time Out noted that it "avoids manipulative jump scares" and works instead through moments where what you thought was happening turns out to be wrong.
They split about the script. The lowest score in the set, two stars from BroadwayWorld, put it plainly: "it's hard to care about people when the script seems barely acquainted with them itself." An unstarred review made a similar point about the writing. Several of the four-star reviews said the same thing and minded less.
Audience scores have run ahead of the critics, at 4.5 out of 5 across several hundred verified reviews, and the booking period has been extended five times since December.
Read what the critics said in full.
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