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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
In this West End musical, the six wives of Henry VIII are queens of pop reclaiming their narrative
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
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
Sam Mendes's generation-spanning finance epic returns to London's West End following a Tony-winning run on Broadway
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
Emma Corrin is compelling as Virginia Woolf’s time-travelling androgyne in Michael Grandage’s timely production of Orlando
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
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.
Sir Ian McKellen leads the cast of Mother Goose. The pantomime is touring until Easter 2023, calling in at the West End's Duke of York's Theatre for Christmas
Director Daniel Fish's Tony-winning revival of Oklahoma! transfers from the Young Vic to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre for 2023
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
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
The Bridge announces its first musical: an immersive production of Guys and Dolls, directed by Nicholas Hytner
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
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
Writer John Logan and director Alex Timbers’ Tony-winning, Broadway-charming Moulin Rouge! The Musical is ‘spectacular, spectacular’ – and worth the wait
Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne star in Rebecca Frecknall’s superb revival of Cabaret, staged inside an intimate reconstruction of the musical’s Kit Kat Club
Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical is driven by a magnetic lead performance from Arinzé Kene, but the narrative feels underdeveloped
Frozen glitters at the West End’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane, where a cast led by Samantha Barks and Stephanie McKeon bring to life the sisterhood-championing story
Tim Minchin and Dennis Kelly bring pint-sized revolution to the stage in Matilda, the Musical.