Back to the Future (West End)
Ends Jul 2025 2h 40m
Back to the Future (West End)
91%
91%
(1999 Ratings)
Positive
94%
Mixed
4%
Negative
2%
Members say
Entertaining, Clever, Great staging, Delightful, Absorbing

About the Show

A musical adaptation of the 1985 smash hit film - winner of the Best New Musical Olivier Award.

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Critic Reviews (11)

Theatre Bee (UK)
May 20th, 2022

An absolutely electrifying show that induces child-like wonder at the state-of-the-art special effects. With endearing characters, charming music, and nostalgia-inducing jokes of bygone decades, Back to the Future's Olivier award for Best New Musical is extremely well-deserved.
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Time Out London
January 31st, 2022

Again, your enjoyment is going to depend on how up you are for ‘Back to the Future’ cranked to the absolute max for virtually the whole night. Where this musical is going, you don’t need roads. But you might need a good lie down.
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The Telegraph (UK)
September 13th, 2021

It’s a feelgood triumph. Is it the most sophisticated musical around? No, but it’s a no less exhilarating all-American entertainment drive-thru than Hamilton.
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The Independent (UK)
September 14th, 2021

Back to the Future is a Russian Doll of nostalgic comforts: through its time-travelling antics, it revels both in a rose-coloured American Fifties and in the vitality of the Eighties.
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WhatsOnStage
September 13th, 2021

It's undoubtedly an evening that sends you back to your own future with a smile on your face, a perfect night out for nostalgics and car-loving kids of all ages.
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The London Evening Standard
September 13th, 2021

This musical adaptation of Robert Zemeckis’s hit 1985 time-travel movie is enormous fun. Loyal to the story and the larky spirit of the original, it’s been deftly expanded by Zemeckis’s co-writer Bob Gale into a standalone stage work.
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The Stage (UK)
September 14th, 2021

...dashes of Secret Cinema and theme-park ride thrown into the mix. If this spectacle is the future of West End shows, sign me up. There’s just the small problem of everything else.
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The Times (UK)
September 14th, 2021

I suspect that if you’re a hardcore fan who knows every line of the film script you’re going to buy a ticket anyway. Others should beware...Yet even though the film’s co-creator, Bob Gale, is credited for the show’s book, John Rando’s West End production is middling at best.
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