Immersive Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy live show to open in London this autumn

A live immersive version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Live Show, has been announced.

The show opens at Riverside Studios on 15 November 2025 and runs until 15 February 2026, with tickets on sale now.

Inspired by Douglas Adams’ novels and the Touchstone Pictures film, the production will take place across multiple spaces within the west London venue, including Studios 2 and 3, corridors, loading docks and bar areas. Riverside Studios has previously been used for a variety of science fiction productions, including early Doctor Who episodes.

Co-director of the show, Simon Evans of Myriad Entertainment, said “My introduction to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was a (slightly battered) cassette of the radio version, which I borrowed from my school library and listened to on an old Walkman. I remember hearing the voice of the Guide, then The Eagles’ ‘Journey of the Sorcerer’, and I was hooked. From an immersive perspective, it is such an incredible world to build and pull an audience into: strange and expansive, silly and moving, filled with unique characters and tackling things which are still very much relevant today with a quintessentially British sense of humour.”

The production is created by Arvind Ethan David, a writer and producer who previously adapted Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency for Netflix. It is co-directed by Evans, Lorin Latarro, Georgia Clarke-Day and David Frias-Robles. Set design comes from Jason Ardizzone-West. The show is produced by Tamar Climan and Prodigal Entertainment, with general management by Smart Entertainment. It is presented by arrangement with Buena Vista Theatricals.

Audience members will begin their evening in a pub before being drawn into a narrative journey involving spaceships, mice, robots and the search for the meaning of life. Characters include Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebrox and Fenchurch.

Tickets are on sale now.