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London on Stage (Alumni Edition)


March 05-14, 2026
Double Occupancy: $6050 per person
Single Occupancy: $6550 per person
Airfare is not included.

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London on Stage (Alumni Edition) - Overview

London, thou art the flower of cities all.”
— William Dunbar, In Honour of the City of London, circa 1510


There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere."
— Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer

Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a ticket to London.”
— Anonymous (but it might be Jane)

Go Learn is delighted to once again partner with U Alumni for a truly unforgettable journey. This time, with trip leaders Tim Slover and Jane England, we are headed to the heart of British theatre and culture! London On Stage: Alumni Edition is a unique opportunity to explore one of the world’s most iconic regions with fellow U alumni, friends, and family. Traveling in a small group like this allows for meaningful connections and shared experiences that make this trip especially memorable.

This trip is exclusively for U Alumni and their family or friends, membership will be verified by the Alumni office.

London is a city that never stops inspiring. From its world-class theatre and historic landmarks to its charming pubs and lively markets, there’s something for everyone. On this trip, we’ll walk in the footsteps of legends, gaining rare access to places steeped in history and reflection. Whether it’s standing where Shakespeare once stood, admiring masterpieces in quiet galleries, or uncovering treasures in lively markets, each experience is designed to feel personal and unforgettable. We’ll even journey beyond London to explore ancient wonders and centuries-old cities, where history comes alive in the most unexpected ways.

Whether you're a theatre lover, history buff, or simply looking for a meaningful way to travel, this is your chance to experience London like never before, with the U community by your side.


Trip goers in front of the Tower Bridge

Trip goers in front of the Tower Bridge


Know Before You Go:

To qualify for this trip, you must be able to walk 4-5 miles (approximately 10,000 steps) and negotiate up to 100 stairs per day. We use public transportation (included in the price of the trip)—buses, the Tube, and railways—to get around. You must be able to board these independently, though we will always lead the way in group activities.

Tour Highlights

We want to take full advantage of the best London has to offer during our precious 10-day stay. So when we’re not at plays, we’ll be visiting art exhibitions, taking exclusive just-for-us tours of cultural/historical sites, and having meals at amazing restaurants. (Don’t worry: there will still be plenty of free time for your own adventures.) Here are some highlights we’ve arranged so far:

  • An overnight excursion by private hired coach to the City of Bath. We’ll spend the night at the swanky Queensberry Hotel and dine at its Michelin-star Olive Tree Restaurant. The next morning we’ll visit the place the city was named for: the 1700-year-old Roman Baths.
  • Think that’s old? Just before the sun goes down, we’ll enter five-thousand-year old, neolithic Stonehenge, all on our own on a private “Stone Circle Access” tour, with a henge expert in tow.
  • Our own private walking tour of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
  • Two major art exhibitions, Seurat & the Sea at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Turner & Constable at the Tate Britain gallery
  • An exclusive private cheese-tasting event at renowned Neal’s Yard Dairy
  • A privately led tour of iconic Westminster Abbey
  • Shopping at Portobello Road Market
  • An exclusive us-only visit to Sixteenth Century Middle Temple Hall, where Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night had its first performance
  • A spirit-lifting wander through UNESCO World Heritage Site, Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, home of the largest glass house in the world. Kew is the real Earthly Paradise.

  • Want more? There will be more. Believe me, it’s tempting to give sneak previews now, but no, we’ll unveil more superb plays, breathtaking events, and scrumptious meals as we secure them. So, please stay tuned!

    Aerial view of Bath
    Aerial view of Bath

    Daily Itinerary

    “To Learn Gives the Liveliest Pleasure”

    This quote from Aristotle’s Poetics is the premise of our London on Stage trips. Learning a little about each play, art exhibition, and historical site beforehand makes experiencing them all the more pleasurable. And it’s sheer pleasure to discuss them together afterwards. We’ll accomplish both in scheduled chats on most days—accompanied by tea, coffee, hot chocolate, etc.

    “A Play There Is, My Lord”

    Theatre is the beating heart of London on Stage. We’re watching our theatre sources like beady-eyed hawks, poised to strike the moment tickets are made available for March productions. The five or six plays that will make up our theatre portfolio will be selected for their promise of rich emotional and intellectual rewards and to showcase the marvelous variety London theatre offers. Of course, to experience a play properly you have to have great seats. No problem: great seats are our signature feature!

    And speaking of great seats, we’ve snagged them for two exciting productions made available to us insiders:

    • Some of the best stage work being done these days is by the Artistic Director of the Bridge Theatre, Nicolas Hytner (former AD of the Royal National Theatre, now struck out on his own). His revival of Guys & Dolls was revelatory, and now he is turning his attention to Stephen Sondheim’s and James Lapine’s justly celebrated INTO THE WOODS—the thought-provoking fairytale musical that explores what happens after “happily ever after.”
    • Thornton Wilder’s eye-opening, powerful play about life, death, and afterlife in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, OUR TOWN, was ground-breaking when it premiered in 1938. It still is. And new ground will be broken in this major revival at the Rose Kingston Theatre.

    Please note: this itinerary is a work in progress. More plays, events, and meals will be added as they are confirmed.

    Thursday, March 5: Many Meetings (😀)

    We'll arrange your transportation from Heathrow Airport to The Rockwell, our charming boutique hotel in South Kensington—where complimentary breakfast is served every morning. After you're settled in, we'll go on a walking tour of our ‘hood, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, where various Windsors are our neighbors over at Kensington Palace—capped by a delicious Welcome Dinner at a nearby restaurant. Early to bed will help us beat jetlag.

    Hotel: The Rockwell opens a new window
    Meal: D
    Activity Level: Moderate to Strenuous


    Kensington
    Kensington

    Friday, March 6: Let’s Get Shakespearean—and Pointillist

    We’ll start in the morning with a privately arranged visit to Middle Temple Hall, the Elizabethan masterpiece where Shakespeare, himself, performed. We’ve arranged for a regal room off the Hall for today’s chat preparing for us for the art exhibition we’re seeing on this day at the Courtauld Institute of Art: Seurat & the Sea. Evening? We’ll get back to you: got things brewing!

    Hotel: The Rockwell opens a new window
    Meal: B
    Activity Level: Moderate to Strenuous


    Middle Temple Hall
    Middle Temple Hall

    Saturday, March 7: Of Treasures and Lincolnshire Poacher

    After a chat at our favorite classroom—upstairs at the King’s Head Pub, we’ll begin this adventurous day at the world’s best street market. The Saturday-only Portobello Road Market has something for everyone. It’s famous for its antiques and vintage items, but it also features a superb collection of fashion, food, crafts, and books. Plus, you know, there’s a song about it in Bedknobs & Broomsticks, so… Then it’s off to Neal’s Yard Dairy, Britain’s finest cheese monger, for a private tasting event featuring (wait for it) British cheeses of remarkable distinction and variety, paired with lots of other yummy eateries and…drinkeries. Evening? See above!

    Hotel: The Rockwell opens a new window
    Meals: B, L
    Activity Level: Moderate to Strenuous


    Cheese-tasting at Neal's Yard Dairy
    Cheese-tasting at Neal's Yard Dairy

    Sunday, March 8: Visiting Bath

    After a history chat in the morning, we’ll make the journey by privately hired coach to the lovely City of Bath and our home-from-London, the fabulous Queensberry Hotel. After settling in, we’ll dine privately in the Queensberry’s Michelin-star restaurant, the Olive Tree. Get a good night’s sleep, please: tomorrow we have several hundred years of history to survey.

    Hotel: The Queensberry Hotel opens a new window
    Meals: B, D
    Activity Level: Moderate


    Bath
    Bath

    Monday, March 9: Ancient Wonders

    The Queensberry has kindly arranged a room in which we’ll prepare for two wonders of the world—after we’ve had breakfast, of course. The Celts worshipped their goddess, Sulis, at her naturally occurring hot spring, and when the Romans arrived in the First Century AD, they happily combined her with their goddess Minerva and built a shrine honoring both. And then some Roman got the idea of channeling some of the water into a purpose-built bath complex—just like one at home in Rome. By the time of Jane Austen in the Eighteenth Century, Bath had become a spa town, a luxury retreat for the rich and famous. We’ll visit it all. That evening we’ll travel by coach the geographically few miles to the Salisbury Plain—and the chronologically far distant Stonehenge standing tall there, a neolithic astronomical observatory and place of sacred ritual. This will be a private tour with an expert guide, and we’ll have permission to step over the rope and into the heart of the ancient wonder.

    Hotel: The Rockwell opens a new window
    Meal: B
    Activity Level: Moderate to Strenuous


    Stonehenge
    Stonehenge

    Tuesday, March 10: Coronations, Weddings, and Funerals

    After our chat, we’ll visit Westminster Abbey, one building that sums up seven hundred years of English history. We won’t have the place on our own, but we’ll have our own guide to show us, oh, the chair where King Charles was crowned, the grave of Charles Dickens, those amazing Waterford crystal chandeliers, the shrine of Edward the Confessor, the most beautiful fan-vaulted ceiling in the UK, the final resting places of Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking—those sorts of things. Dinner and a play in the evening.

    Hotel: The Rockwell opens a new window
    Meals: B, D
    Activity Level: Moderate to Strenuous


    Westminster Abbey
    Westminster Abbey

    Wednesday, March 11: Just a Genius Day

    Can you have too much greatness in one day? We’re fixin’ to find out today. At our morning chat we’ll prepare for a blockbuster exhibition at the Tate Britain gallery, Turner and Constable. These are two of the truly towering figures in British painting, not just in their own 19th Century, but for all time. Spend all the time you want there on this free afternoon. We’ll reconvene, starry-eyed, to cross the Thames over the iconic Tower Bridge for dinner at Baluchi at LaLit, one of London’s finest Indian restaurants in a beautiful room you have to see to believe. We’ll stay on that side of the river to attend Stephen Sondheim’s and James Lapine’s masterpiece of musical theatre, Into the Woods, at the Bridge Theatre.

    Hotel: The Rockwell opens a new window
    Meals: B, D
    Activity Level: Moderate to Strenuous


    Tate Britain
    Tate Britain

    Thursday, March 12: “We All Know that Something Is Eternal.”

    The above is a famous line from Thornton Wilder’s theatrically revolutionary master work, Our Town. We’ll be seeing a matinee performance of the play at the Rose Kingston Theatre after our chat at the King’s Head. The evening after the play is a canvas on which we’re still painting, to be unveiled in due course.

    Hotel: The Rockwell opens a new window
    Meals: B, L
    Activity Level: Moderate to Strenuous


    King's Head pub
    King's Head pub

    Friday, March 13: Royal Gardens

    No March trip to London is complete without walking among the thousands of spring flowers at World Heritage Site Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Take as long as you like strolling among trees that pre-date the American Revolution, visiting tropical Palm House and largest-in-the-world Temperate House, taking in the art at two galleries, visiting the lake, and on and on: 300 acres of highly oxygenated bliss. Our final dinner and play in the evening.

    Hotel: The Rockwell opens a new window
    Meals: B, D
    Activity Level: Moderate to Strenuous


    Kew Gardens
    Kew Gardens

    Saturday, March 14: Many Partings (😢)

    We’ll get you back to the airport—or wherever you’re going next—on time. I mean, if that’s what you really want. Sniff.

    Meal: B


    Tour Leaders: Tim Slover and Jane England

    Tim and Jane

    Tim and Jane bring their expertise and enthusiasm to Go Learn from also directing the University of Utah's Beacons of Excellence Award-winning Theatre, Fine Arts and Humanities in London Learning Abroad student program—for fifteen years and still going strong.

    Tim is a Professor in the Department of Theatre, where he teaches Playwriting, Dramatic Literature, Shakespeare, and Contemporary Drama. Tim is also a produced screenwriter, a published novelist, and an award-winning playwright with plays produced off-Broadway and in the US, Britain, and Canada.

    Jane teaches Introduction to Theatre and Dramatic Literature in the Department of Theatre and administers London Learning Abroad programs for both the Theatre and English Departments. She attended the London School of Economics for post-graduate studies and, in addition to her many London and UK tours, has led travel programs in Bali and Japan.


    If the logistics of a trip are right, travelers don't even notice them. That's my job."
    — Jane


    She does her job really, really well. Can we talk about the play now?"
    — Tim

    Details and What to Expect



    Tower Bridge

    Pre-departure

    Like all Go Learn journeys, the adventure begins at home. We'll make sure you have all the information you need before you arrive in London—we'll answer questions about what to pack, how to get around, and our daily itinerary. We want you to arrive in London ready to learn!

    A trip reunion about a month after returning will be the perfect conclusion to our journey. We will exchange pictures and stories while remembering the highlights of our tour. Go Learn expeditions are designed to be small, boutique experiences where one returns with a group of friends. Good food, drink, and company await us at this reunion.

    About London

    It’s hard to fit what London is into one sentence, but let's give it a shot: London is the capital of the United Kingdom (and hence has all the Washington D.C.-type buildings), and it also has hundreds of historical sites from a Roman temple to Jimi Hendrix's apartment, and it's also the biggest city in the European Union (8.5 million) with the most diverse population (270 nationalities and 300 languages—imagine what that means for restaurants, yum), and it’s also one of the world’s premier financial and commercial hubs (um, shopping), and it has the most museums in the world (173, with 11 of them national museums, and unlike other European cities, they're mostly FREE); it also has the most restaurants in the world (37,450), 5,000 acres of parks (8 of them Royal) and 214 theatres to which 14.2 million people flock each year (including us); plus it has fourteen football clubs, including 6 Premier League teams, is home to the tallest building in the UK (the Shard) and has hosted the Olympic Summer Games 3 times. Whew! But it isn't all about bigness and most-ness. London is also home to quiet nooks and curious crannies—truly an adventure around every corner.

    Weather

    The temperature range in March is 42 degrees - 53 degrees, and there is always a chance of rain. Bring a water-resistant jacket, warm clothing, and an umbrella to be ready for British weather. The best news: the spring bulbs will be out, and the city won’t be crowded with visitors.

    Activity levels and restrictions

    In order to fully explore the sights on our itinerary, we will be walking every day. Most city walking is flat on paved surfaces. When visiting gardens, museums and churches, we may be walking long distances or standing on our feet for prolonged times. Be sure to bring comfortable walking shoes! Since we will be waking up early with jet lag, we often will start our days early and continue until sundown. Our exciting itinerary and daily learning adventures will keep you happily exhausted. This is an Activity Level 2 trip.

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    Be sure to pack comfortable shoes; we’ll be doing a lot of walking! We will rely on private shuttles for our transportation.

    Dates
    March 5 - 14, 2026

    Size
    Tour is limited to 20 participants

    Cost
    Double occupancy: $6,050 per person
    Single occupancy: $6,550

    Payment options are available upon request. Contact golearn@utah.edu for information.

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    Past london trip goersIncluded

    • Pre-departure courses in history, theatre, culture, and tour logistics
    • Small group size to maximize learning, comfort, and flexibility
    • Two lead guides for the entire classroom experience and tour
    • 9 nights accommodation at comfortable and centrally-located hotels
    • Entrance fees of scheduled sightseeing
    • 6 theatre productions at top theatres, a special tour behind the curtains, and personalized play analysis by our lead guides
    • Local guides and experts, including their fees and tips
    • Daily breakfast, as well as 7 hand-picked culinary highlights for lunch or dinner
    • Transportation to and from daily destinations and activities
    • Comprehensive trip insurance, including sick and/or emergency evacuation insurance

    Not included

    • Airfare to and from London
    • Meals that are not specifically noted in itinerary
    • Cancellation and lost luggage insurance
    • Any costs outside of the itinerary