Tickets for The Hunger Games: On Stage went on pre-sale today (March 25), but technical difficulties have left many fans frustrated and without a spot secured for the show.
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As eager fans logged on to nab their tickets, issues with the ticketing website saw them put in a queue, only to be met with an error message once they reached the front saying that their queue number had been rejected.
Many have shared their annoyance online, with one user publishing a post on X that read: “Why is the Hunger Games On Stage presale an absolute shambles?”
Everyone trying to get pre-sale tickets to The Hunger Games on stage this morning pic.twitter.com/azve0G2ntl
— Nicola Austin (@nicola_aus) March 25, 2025
maybe the real hunger games is the queue for the hunger games on stage tickets.
— this is Li trying⸆⸉ (@cowboylikeli_) March 25, 2025
why is the hunger games on stage presale an absolute shambles
— ⋆ rachel ⋆ (@racheIaIi) March 25, 2025
Another wrote: “Maybe the real hunger games is the queue for the Hunger Games On Stage tickets.”
X user @nicotinemoon posted: “Why tf is the queue not moving at all for the Hunger Games On Stage man not even a queue number or anything, guess the odds are not in my favour”
Why tf is the queue not moving at all for the hunger games on stage man not even a queue number or anything, guess the odds are not in my favour
— liss (@nicotinemoon) March 25, 2025
streets are saying once you get to the front of the hunger games on stage queue it just says queue number rejected 😭 pic.twitter.com/mQH1HUhPb1
— annie ❀༉‧₊˚ | on swift horses era (@crestadoll) March 25, 2025
The official The Hunger Games On Stage account on X replied to disgruntled fans throughout the morning, saying: “There are still plenty of tickets available, please remain patient.” Recent posts imply that some fans have now been able to secure their spots, though the issue may emerge again when tickets go on general sale on Thursday (March 27).
The stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling novel and following movie series will premiere in London in October, at the newly-built Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre. The synopsis on the show’s website reads: “Based on the original “Hunger Games” story, this gripping tale of courage, defiance and unbreakable human spirit, follows the fearless heroine Katniss Everdeen on her journey of self-discovery, as she emerges as a beacon of rebellion and hope.
“Multi award-winning playwright Conor McPherson (Girl from the North Country, The Weir) and Director Matthew Dunster(2:22 – A Ghost Story, Hangmen, The Pillowman), will bring this powerful story to life on stage, using extraordinary stunts and illusions in an epic, unforgettable, theatrical experience.”
Jennifer Lawrence played Katniss Everdeen in the big-screen Hunger Games adaptations, but no cast for the stage show has been announced as of yet.
The most recent instalment in the franchise was prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes, which followed eventual President Coriolanus Snow as a young man during the 10th edition of the Games. It scored a four-star review from NME, with Lou Thomas writing: “What makes this fifth film the best of the franchise is its tense, paranoid latter half.
“Snow finds himself exiled to District 12 as a peacekeeper and his sympathies for the rebels seem to sway back and forth. Though we know what he eventually becomes, it’s a treat to watch him working out which master he should serve as he spies, lies and betrays.”
“It’s rare to see moral ambivalence depicted in such non-judgemental fashion, especially in a blockbuster movie,” it added. “As Snow stalks the industrial gloom, we’re almost rooting for him.”
There is another Hunger Games movie on the way, too. Collins published the new novel Sunrise On The Reaping, which tells the story of Haymitch Abernathy’s Games (played by Woody Harrelson in the original movies), on March 18, and a big-screen version is due in cinemas in November 2026.