The best theatre shows opening in June
Spend summer nights at the theatre with our guide to the best new shows opening in London in June, from starry Chekhov to gender-blind Shakespeare
The Seagull, Harold Pinter Theatre
Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is swapping her dragons for a seagull as she makes her West End debut in a fresh take on Chekhov. Clarke will play Nina, the ambitious ingenue at the heart of 1896 play The Seagull.
Read more ...This is Not Who I Am, Royal Court Theatre
This is a slippery stolen identity thriller written by someone who is an expert in the field. Debut playwright Dave Davidson brings 38 years of experience from working in the security industry. This world premiere promises to challenge everything you think you know about who you are.
Read more ...King Lear, Shakespeare’s Globe
Kathryn Hunter reprises her ground-breaking role of King Lear 25 years after the production's divisive and disruptive premiere. Tradition and innovation combine in Shakespeare's Globe as a team of talented women including Michelle Terry and Complicité Theatre founder Marcello Magni explore duty, devotion and madness.
Read more ...A Doll's House, Part 2, Donmar Warehouse
After an impressive premiere in New York, this 'smart, funny and utterly engrossing' (New York Times) sequel to Henrik Ibsen's 1979 classic follows Nora Helmer as she comes back to face the music - 15 years after walking out on her family. The mighty, Olivier-winning Noma Dumezweni stars as the disgraced matriarch.
Read more ...Beauty and the Beast the Musical, The London Palladium
There's nothing like a Disney stage show to deliver maximum magic and sing-along family fun. Be our guest as Beauty and the Beast comes to the Palladium for a short summer stint. Twenty-eight years since the show's Broadway debut, the original creative team reunite to bring the romance back to life.
Read more ...Jitney, The Old Vic
August Wilson's 1982 story about an unlicensed cab company takes audiences into the parts of Pittsburgh where nobody else dares to go. Set in a racially-segregated, post-Vietnam America, it tells the story of eight black men, each of whom is connected to this unofficial taxi company.
Read more ...Mad House, Ambassadors Theatre
David Harbour (Stranger Things, Black Widow, The Newsroom) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, All My Sons, Independence Day) star in the world premiere of this caustic comedy about children returning home to see their dying father -- and to stake their claim on the inheritance.
Read more ...London's International Festival of Theatre
LIFT, London’s biennial international festival of theatre, turns 40 this year and its celebrating with a typically bold and thought-provoking programme, bringing together some the world's most exciting creatives. From a climate opera on the beach to an interactive ghost hunt around a shopping centre, there's plenty to spark your curiosity.
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