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Ancient works in exciting hands, West End transfers for winning productions and new writing in major venues are among February's theatre offerings
With Sound of the Underground, Travis Alabanza delivers a vital examination of the queer performance landscape, fusing spectacle, comedy and hard-hitting facts
Director Lindsay Posner takes on Michael Frayn’s superlatively funny farce (again!), fronting it with screen stars Felicity Kendal, Matthew Kelly and Tracy-Ann Oberman
The Unfriend, a new thriller-sitcom from Doctor Who and Sherlock writer Steven Moffat, has a winning premise but gets bogged down by toilet humour
Feeling the pinch? SOLT’s head of marketing Emma De Souza on pocket-friendly hacks for seeing more theatre
In this West End musical, the six wives of Henry VIII are queens of pop reclaiming their narrative
Wondering what theatre to book and what plays to see? From fringe to the West End: London's best theatre
Rebecca Frecknall masters another Tennessee Williams revival. A Streetcar Named Desire hits all the right beats with the help of its leads Patsy Ferran and Paul Mescal
It's a bumper month for London theatre, with farces through to gory tragedies offering thrilling entertainment for just about everybody. Here are 11 highlights not to miss
VAULT Festival makes its post-pandemic comeback, staging 500 cutting-edge productions in the dimly lit tunnels beneath Waterloo Station and launching a new venue
Broadway imports, star-fronted revivals and classics explored through a contemporary lens are among the highlights coming to the London stage in 2023
Sam Mendes's generation-spanning finance epic returns to London's West End following a Tony-winning run on Broadway
Stars making their West End debuts, award-winning collaborators reuniting and fresh takes on classic titles: the best London theatre shows of 2022
Tim Minchin's glorious Groundhog Day musical returns to the Old Vic for 2023. Matthew Warchus directs and Andy Karl reprises his Olivier-winning lead role
Showing at the Young Vic, Mandela: A New Musical about the great South African freedom fighter will put some fire in your heart, if not in your hearth, this winter
Newsies, the Broadway hit musical based on the eponymous Disney film, has opened at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, in a vibrant and polished new production
From classic musicals to great new writing, give the gift of theatre this Christmas with Theatre Tokens
Emma Corrin is compelling as Virginia Woolf’s time-travelling androgyne in Michael Grandage’s timely production of Orlando
From twisted fairytales to traditional panto: book now for the best Christmas theatre shows London 2022 has to offer
James Norton heads the cast of Ivo van Hove’s A Little Life, running at the West End’s Harold Pinter Theatre in 2023
TV’s Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner star in the West End revival of Sam Steiner’s dystopian romcom Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons
Fresh from Broadway (via Manchester), a new musical based on hit 1993 movie Mrs. Doubtfire comes to the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre
Reality TV's beloved baking show gets a West End makeover: The Great British Bake Off Musical is set to rise at the Noël Coward Theatre in 2023
Tom Hollander reprises his role as the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky in Peter Morgan’s brilliant new play Patriots, transferring to the West End for 2023
The London International Mime Festival returns in 2023 with a mind-boggling variety of physical and visual theatre shows
From a one-night-only chance to see the Wagatha Christie saga unfold on stage to dramas celebrating historical figures: the best new plays to see this month
Get ready to pass Go! Beloved board game Monopoly has been transformed into an immersive theatre experience in London
Kate Prince's suffragette musical Sylvia, starring Beverley Knight, is fully realised at the Old Vic.
From ten-time Tony award-winners to hyped premieres, these are the most exciting theatre shows to open in October
Director Daniel Fish's Tony-winning revival of Oklahoma! transfers from the Young Vic to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre for 2023
Music, theatre, visual arts and dance were the richer for the patronage of Queen Elizabeth II, who has died, aged 96
Following a critically-acclaimed, sell-out run at the Young Vic theatre last winter, James Graham's Best of Enemies gets a West End transfer