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Shakespeare’s Globe, Headlong and Leeds Playhouse unite to present a fresh take on Shakespeare’s timeless history play Henry V, directed by Holly Race Roughan
Shakespeare’s first and bloodiest tragedy Titus Andronicus in a new production by pioneering director Jude Christian at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
In a first for Shakespeare's Globe, director Sean Holmes presents a promenade The Winter’s Tale that moves between the theatre’s indoor and outdoor spaces
All of Us is an immensely moving, emotionally raw account of the consequences of cuts to disability benefits from writer, comedian and actor Francesca Martinez
Director Daniel Evans proves there’s still a place on the stage for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s controversial musical South Pacific
Kids' Week: Children get free theatre tickets throughout August to the very best London family shows on in the West End and beyond
Dear Evan Hansen prepares to take its final West End bow. Here's how it became the landmark musical all teens, their parents and everyone in between should see
Escape to Narnia with an enchanting stage adaptation of C.S Lewis’s beloved tale of Aslan, the White Witch and four brave children
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre presents a new musical version of 101 Dalmatians, with witty songs, oodles of cuteness and a show-stealing Cruella de Vil
Director Simon Godwin teams up with designer Anna Fleischle to present a loud and glitzy Much Ado About Nothing, set in an Art Deco beachside hotel
Kathleen Marshall’s show-stopping revival of Anything Goes glides back onto the Barbican Theatre stage, following a sell-out run in 2021
Richard Bean returns to the National Theatre with Jack Absolute Flies Again, a WWII-set rewrite of restoration comedy The Rivals that struggles to gain momentum
Tom Hollander enthrals as the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky in Peter Morgan’s brilliant new play Patriots, now showing at the Almeida
The Jamie Lloyd Company has done it again: The Seagull is a minimally dressed take on the classic brought vividly to life by a skilled ensemble
Screen titans Bill Pullman and David Harbour star in Theresa Rebeck's new play Mad House, a festering family drama that's predictable but entertaining
The Bridge announces its first musical: an immersive production of Guys and Dolls, directed by Nicholas Hytner
The debut play of northwest London's literary queen Zadie Smith returns to the Kiln Theatre for Christmas 2022, ahead of transferring to the US
Sam Mendes's generation-spanning finance epic returns to the National Theatre following transfers to the West End and Broadway, and a spate of Tony Awards
Amy Adams makes a vibrant West End debut in Jeremy Herrin's insightful and atmospheric production of Tennessee Williams’s most autobiographical play
David Tennant returns to the stage to explore Nazism in a revival of CP Taylor's production of Good, directed by Dominic Cooke
Jack Holden’s Aids drama Cruise captivated at the West End's Duchess Theatre in 2021. Now it returns for a second West End run
Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII comes in for a savage reappraisal in Hannah Khalil’s radical rewrite of the play, now on at the Globe Theatre
Japanese composer and musician Joe Hisaishi teams up with the RSC to bring Studio Ghibli’s 1988 movie My Neighbour Totoro to the Barbican stage
Director Bartlett Sher’s My Fair Lady is a traditional take on the classic musical, but with loyalty to Pygmalion hidden up its puff sleeve
Diane Page’s topsy-turvy take on Shakespeare's historical tragedy Julius Caesar, showing at The Globe, is consistently inconsistent
Director Lucy Bailey returns to the Globe with a playful, libido-fuelled take on Much Ado About Nothing that runs on Love Island-style drama and sexual tension
Punchdrunk’s Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle on the company’s major new London show, The Burnt City, an immersive extravaganza based on the fall of Troy
Barber Shop Chronicles writer Inua Ellams adapts the Ancient Greek tragedy of Antigone for Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, with direction from Max Webster
Pioneering immersive theatre company Punchdrunk returns to London with The Burnt City, an eerie, dance-led journey through the fall of Troy
Robert Icke's The Doctor, starring Juliet Stevenson, finally gets its West End after a stunning premiere at the Almeida
All rise for Aaron Sorkin's smash-hit stage adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, starring a masterful Rafe Spall as Atticus Finch
For its latest immersive venture, Secret Cinema storms into the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its distinctly unheroic team of superheroes: the Guardians of the Galaxy