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2 Bath Road
London
W4 1LW
A minute’s walk from Turnham Green tube station (district line). Just leave the station and turn right. The Theatre has its own entrance in the Tabard pub’s beer garden.
The 94 Bus from the West End, Notting Hill and Shepherd’s Bush stops outside our front door. Other buses stopping nearby are the 27, 267, 237, 391, E3 and H91.
There is free parking on The Avenue after 6.30pm.
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The Ballad of Buckingham Nicks
7 - 20 Jan 2026
Cabaret
Following a sold-out preview back in June, The Ballad of Buckingham Nicks returns for a eight performance run prior to touring.
A tribute through stories and songs the show charts the relationship, music and drama of two legendary figures of rock and roll - Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
We are transported forward and back through time to the different eras - with Wendy Morgan and Julian Littman telling Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's unique tale - singing and playing some of their iconic songs - highlighting and illustrating the roller coaster of their lives and their love story.
14 - 31 Jan 2026
Comedy Drama
It’s happened. The ultimate scientific breakthrough. Boffins discover a drug that heals everything.
Max is a scientist in a secret lab who stumbles on a cure for all diseases. His boss, Judy, decides to sell it privately to millionaires but Max wants it distributed free to everyone. He smuggles out a batch of samples to a nearby hospital. When his teenage daughter, Felicity, joins the rebellion, Judy orders a junior researcher, Vic, to guard her. But they fall in love and together they plot to seize control of the lab. Meanwhile Judy has a secret plan to deal with the troublemakers permanently.
One Jab Cures All asks a question that scientists don’t want to hear: if they cured everything would they tell us?
From Lumbago Theatre Company, directed by Matthew Parker and written by Lloyd Evans, author of ‘Dom – the Play’ and ‘Who’s the Daddy?’
Book your tickets for this new scientific comedy about medics, morals and miracles.
25 Jan 2026
Comedy
ANYONE FOR TENNIS?
A Wimbledon line judge for 20 years, comedian Pauline Eyre is ready to spill the Pimms on tennis gossip from the fragrant royal box to the musty locker room, and why line judges are OUT!
Expect smashing stories, ace anecdotes and a 40-love letter to the game.
And there’s nobody to say ‘quiet please’.
She cannot be serious… can she?
“Laughs aplenty… juicy locker room secrets…
Sherlock Holmes: The Death and Life
26 & 27 Jan 2026
Drama
SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Death and Life
Starring Nigel Miles-Thomas, written by David Stuart Davies, adapted for the stage and directed by Gareth Armstrong; with original music by Simon Slater.
A fantasy based upon a fiction, finds Arthur Conan Doyle tiring of ‘his’ intolerably arrogant Sherlock Holmes, and inventing the arch villain, Moriarty, to dispose of him.
But Doyle’s dangerous strategy, combined with his passion for raising the spirits of the dead, has rather more surreal and dramatic consequences than he bargains for!
A light-hearted and intriguing investigation of the consequences, when fictional characters take on lives and ambitions of their own, quite against the wishes of the author.
In this wryly humorous one man tale, of murder, mystery and the occult the world’s greatest detective refuses to leave the stage!
4 Feb - 21 Feb 2026
Comedy Drama
The Tabard Theatre presents the premiere of Gareth Armstrong’s latest play, Round About Hogarth where painter and player collide in a witty battle of egos.
Chiswick’s most famous resident, William Hogarth, was the preeminent English artist of the eighteenth century. David Garrick, who revolutionised the English stage, was that century’s greatest actor. Masters of their respective arts, the self-assured Garrick proclaims the stage superior, putting their tender friendship to the test. However, Hogarth has a counter-stroke up his sleeve, one that will lay bare their professional disputes.
Round About Hogarth explores the unlikely friendship between these two fiercely opposing
8 Feb 2026
Drama
A man stands on stage in a pool of light and attempts the ultimate magic trick: disappearing while remaining in full sight.
Get ready for an unforgettable night at the theatre with The Event, a one-man tour de force starring award-winning actor David Calvitto. With sharp wit and deep insight, this play breaks down the art of performance while exploring the absurdities of life itself.
First performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010, David Calvitto has performed The Event in seven countries, in cities including London, New York, Berlin, Edinburgh, Belfast, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Adelaide, and Perth. He’s toured in Australia, Germany, Holland, Ireland, the UK and the USA.
Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show
22 Feb 2026
Comedy
Back by Popular Demand
After three previous sell-out shows at the Tabard, The UK’s No. 1 Tommy Cooper tribute show returns to the Tabard!
Tommy Cooper was a true comic genius. His impeccable timing, love of slapstick and quick-fire gags made him an international star. Complete with his trademark fez and a plethora of misfiring magic, the man is an undisputed icon of live entertainment. Celebrating over 100 years of Tommy, this all-encapsulating show of magic, music and mirth is the perfect celebration of Britain’s top comedian and features all of Tommy’s classic gags combined with lesser-known gems lovingly selected from his joke
25 Feb - 1 Mar 2026
Drama
Imogen Stubbs as Leni Riefenstahlin a new play by
Wendy Oberman and Jonathan Lewis.
Imogen Stubbs stars as Leni Riefenstahl in A Thing of Beauty, a fictional play about the legendary film icon whose work inspired George Lucas and Steven Spielberg but forever blighted by her association with the Nazis.
“The Camera is a great tool. It can create beauty where there is none.”Leni Riefenstahl.
In the Summer of 1975, Leni Riefentahl agrees to an in-depth interview with Harry Adams, a BBC documentary superstar nursing his own demons. Leni, older than Harry by more than a comfortable
