The Official London Theatre Guide is the essential fortnightly guide to London theatre, distributed for free across London, the UK and internationally.

Created in 1922, and, bar a brief hiatus during World War Two, published continually ever since, the guide provides an invaluable archive of all stage productions in the West End in the last nine decades. Here, we bring you a snapshot of that archive, with a selection of scans (in PDF format) of editions of the Official London Theatre Guide across the years. Click on the links below for a glimpse of the ghosts of Theatreland past…

Official London Theatre Guide issues:
26 June 1922: Cover / Listings
26 December 1932: Cover / Listings
20 May 1940: Cover / Listings
7 September 1942: Cover / Listings
27 April 1953: Cover / Listings
3 November 1969: Cover / Listings
23 May 1977: Cover / Listings
25 January 1982: Cover / Listings
8 April 1991: Cover / Listings
22 April 2002: Cover / Listings