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    All of Us review: a coup for disability programming

    All of Us, National Theatre review ★★★★★

    27 Jul 22 – 04 Sep 22

    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

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    Award-winning RashDash present Oh Mother

    Oh Mother, Soho Theatre review ★★★★★

    19 Jul 22 – 13 Aug 22

    Award-winning theatre company RashDash dissect the complexities of motherhood with a frenzied non-linear narrative in Oh Mother, showing at Soho Theatre

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    That Is Not Who I Am: multiple deceptions at the Royal Court

    That Is Not Who I Am / Rapture, Royal Court Theatre review ★★★★★

    10 Jun 22 – 16 Jul 22

    Seminal playwright Lucy Kirkwood, under the pseudonym Dave Davidson, presents a deeply chilling and hyper real thriller at the Royal Court Theatre

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    This A Doll’s House follow up struggles to make new points

    A Doll’s House, Part 2, Donmar Warehouse review ★★★★★

    10 Jun 22 – 06 Aug 22

    American playwright Lucas Hnath writes a follow-up to Ibsen's A Doll's House, imagining Nora calling in at the family home 15 years after her shock departure

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    Olivier-winning Aids drama Cruise gets West End revival

    Cruise, Apollo Theatre

    13 Aug 22 – 04 Sep 22

    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

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    Two Palestinians Go Dogging review: bold and experimental

    Two Palestinians Go Dogging, Royal Court Theatre review ★★★★★

    07 May 22 – 01 Jun 22

    Playwright Sami Ibrahim and director Omar Elerian imagine the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 20 years from now in Two Palestinians Go Dogging at the Royal Court

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    Review: Anne-Marie Duff gives star turn in House of Shades

    House of Shades, Almeida Theatre review ★★★★★

    18 May 20 – 27 Jun 20

    Anne-Marie Duff stars in the world premiere of Beth Steel’s House of Shades, a family-cum-political saga observing six decades of working-class Britain

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    The Breach review: a grisly tale that's poorly executed

    The Breach, Hampstead Theatre review ★★★★★

    06 May 22 – 04 Jun 22

    Esteemed American playwright Naomi Wallace's The Breach is built on a tantalising premise, but a patchy plot and lazy design fail to lift it from page to stage

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    For Black Boys... is powerful and poetic

    For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy, Royal Court Theatre review ★★★★★

    31 Mar 22 – 30 Apr 22

    Powerful and poetic: book now for For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy at the Royal Court Theatre

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    The Forest: a dreamlike thriller that struggles to take off

    The Forest, Hampstead Theatre review ★★★★★

    07 Feb 22 – 12 Mar 22

    Florian Zeller's latest play The Forest, which has its world premiere at Hampstead Theatre, is a dreamlike thriller that struggles to take off

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    Best of Enemies review: dexterous and perfectly balanced

    Best of Enemies, Young Vic Theatre review ★★★★★

    10 Dec 21 – 22 Jan 22

    James Graham’s Best of Enemies, showing at the Young Vic, is dexterous and perfectly balanced play on political debate

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    Review: Rare Earth Mettle is a timely dark comedy

    Rare Earth Mettle, Royal Court Theatre review ★★★★★

    10 Nov 21 – 18 Dec 21

    Most Promising Playwright nominee Al Smith takes Royal Court audiences to the Bolivian salt flats with Rare Earth Mettle, a dark satire about a grapple to commodify lithium

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    Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a rip-roaring triumph

    Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), Criterion Theatre review ★★★★★

    02 Nov 21 – 17 Apr 22

    Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) reimagines Jane Austen’s 1813 novel with sparky storytelling, gutsy humour, feisty feminism and impassioned outbursts of karaoke

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    2:22 – A Ghost Story with Lily Allen transfers to the Gielgud

    2:22 – A Ghost Story, Gielgud Theatre

    04 Dec 21 – 12 Feb 22

    Lily Allen makes her West End debut in 2:22 – A Ghost Story: a hair-raising, contemporary take on a classic dramatic genre, directed by Matthew Dunster

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    Review: Cordelia Lynn's Love and Other Acts of Violence

    Love and Other Acts of Violence, Donmar Warehouse review ★★★★★

    07 Oct 21 – 27 Nov 21

    Bleakness abounds in Love and Other Acts of Violence, Cordelia Lynn's grave drama on love, loathing and societal deterioration, which reopens the Donmar

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    Changing Destiny: a sketchy sprint through an ancient story

    Review: Changing Destiny, Young Vic ★★★★★

    24 Jul 21 – 21 Aug 21

    The Young Vic reopens with Changing Destiny, Ben Okri’s bare-bones sprint through the 4,000-year-old story of the Egyptian official Sinuhe

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    Anna X simmers on the West End stage

    Anna X, Harold Pinter Theatre review ★★★★★

    09 Jul 21 – 04 Aug 21

    Emma Corrin stars in Joseph Charlton’s tepid tale of a fraudulent aspiring art collector at the West End’s Harold Pinter Theatre

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    J’Ouvert: race-charged debut at the Harold Pinter Theatre

    J’Ouvert, Harold Pinter Theatre ★★★★★

    16 Jun 21 – 03 Jul 21

    J’Ouvert, the race-charged debut play by James Tait Black Award-winner Yasmin Joseph, opens as part of the Harold Pinter Theatre’s Reemerge series

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    Gemma Arterton returns to the West End in Walden

    Walden, Harold Pinter Theatre

    22 May 21 – 12 Jun 21

    The Harold Pinter Theatre reopens with Walden, a debut play by Amy Berryman. Gemma Arterton stars and Ian Rickson directs

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    Platform Presents announce Playwright’s Prize winner

    Platform Presents announces 2020 winner of the Playwright’s Prize

    Emerging playwright Anoushka Warden wins Platform Presents’ Playwright’s Prize with her comic entry: My Dad’s A Cunt, starring Aimee Lou Wood

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    A spectacular blend of light and dark: Wise Children streamed on BBC

    Wise Children stage show streamed on BBC

    Emma Rice's bold, bright and brilliant stage adaptation of Angela Carter's Wise Children is available to stream on the BBC

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    Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels come to life on stage

    My Brilliant Friend, National Theatre review ★★★★★

    12 Nov 19 – 31 Jan 20

    Ferrante fever reignites as April De Angelis's stage adaptation of the Neapolitan novels comes to the National Theatre

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    Grime reigns at the Royal Court

    Debris Stevenson's Poet in da Corner returns to Royal Court

    30 Jan 20 – 22 Feb 20

    Grime star Deborah 'Debris' Stevenson challenges theatrical form in an autobiographical new work Poet in da Corner

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    New play about China's Aids crisis

    The King of Hell's Palace, Hampstead Theatre

    05 Sep 19 – 12 Oct 19

    Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig premieres a gripping story of a whistleblower during the Chinese Aids crisis at the Hampstead Theatre

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    VAULT Festival, Waterloo

    VAULT Festival 2019 Highlights

    23 Jan 19 – 17 Mar 19

    The UK's fastest-growing arts extravaganza returns with underground parties, comedy and theatre at The Vaults Festival 2019

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     Millennial turbulence in Superhoe, Royal Court

    Superhoe, Royal Court

    30 Jan 19 – 16 Feb 19

    Nicôle Lecky debuts with Superhoe at the Royal Court, a frustrating depiction of the struggles facing millennial artists

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    Mark Ravenhill returns to the Royal Court

    The Cane, Royal Court Theatre review ★★★★★

    06 Dec 18 – 26 Jan 19

    Book now for a new play by Mark Ravenhill: The Cane explores the consequences of control and the legacy of violence

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    A wild rage against the patriarchy

    Hole, Royal Court Theatre review ★★★★★

    28 Nov 18 – 12 Jan 19

    Words, music and movement combine in a new play that rages against what it is to be a woman

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    A psychological stage thriller about Patricia Highsmith

    Switzerland, Ambassadors Theatre review ★★★★★

    10 Nov 18 – 05 Jan 19

    Lucy Bailey directs a thrilling bio-play about writer Patricia Highsmith. Switzerland transfers to the West End after impressing in Bath

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    Greek Myth meets modern America in Hadestown

    Hadestown, National Theatre review ★★★★★

    02 Nov 18 – 26 Jan 19

    Greek mythology meets American folk music and classic New Orleans Jazz in genre-defying new musical Hadestown

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    Potent new play by Debbie Tucker Green

    Review: ear for eye, Royal Court Theatre ★★★★★

    25 Oct 18 – 24 Nov 18

    Debbie Tucker Green writes and directs this searing portrayal of race relations in the UK and the US

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    A Very Very Very Dark Matter, Bridge Theatre review

    A Very Very Very Dark Matter, Bridge Theatre review ★★★★★

    12 Oct 18 – 06 Jan 19

    Jim Broadbent stars in a new dangerous, twisted and funny play by Martin McDonagh, premiering at the Bridge Theatre this autumn

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