Death Note The Musical
Barbican Theatre
4.7/5 based on 3 reviews (read reviews)- Opens: Thursday, 30 July 2026 -
Booking until: Saturday, 12 September 2026 - Running time: 2hr 20min. Incl. 1 interval.
Death Note The Musical description
Based on the best-selling Japanese manga series of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, this ground breaking musical (Winner Best Musical, Korea Musical Awards) has a score by Frank Wildhorn (‘Jekyll & Hyde’, 4 years on Broadway, ‘Dracula’, ‘Bonnie & Clyde’) with lyrics by Jack Murphy and book by Ivan Menchell.
Light Yagami, a bright but dissatisfied high school student in Tokyo comes across a discarded notebook owned by Ryuk, a mythological god of death.
Discovering he can kill anyone by just writing their names in the supernatural notebook, Light takes justice into his own hands by filling the notebook with names of the nation’s most wanted criminals. But a detective only known as “L” is soon tracking him down…
Playing at Barbican Theatre
Age restrictions
Ages 12+.