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Theatre
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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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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Ferrante fever reignites as April De Angelis's stage adaptation of the Neapolitan novels comes to the National Theatre
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Grime star Deborah 'Debris' Stevenson challenges theatrical form in an autobiographical new work Poet in da Corner
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Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig premieres a gripping story of a whistleblower during the Chinese Aids crisis at the Hampstead Theatre
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The UK's fastest-growing arts extravaganza returns with underground parties, comedy and theatre at The Vaults Festival 2019
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Nicôle Lecky debuts with Superhoe at the Royal Court, a frustrating depiction of the struggles facing millennial artists
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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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Words, music and movement combine in a new play that rages against what it is to be a woman
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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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Musicals
Greek mythology meets American folk music and classic New Orleans Jazz in genre-defying new musical Hadestown
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Debbie Tucker Green writes and directs this searing portrayal of race relations in the UK and the US
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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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From women's prison drama to the story of an Asian skin-whitening start up, here are the highlights of the Royal Court 2019 season
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Robert Alan Evans returns to the Royal Court mysterious tale about a cabin deep in the woods
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A bold, brilliantly sharp new play explores youth, ambition through the cut-throat world of competitive dance
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A dark new comedy from up-and-coming playwright Lisa Carroll comes to the Soho Theatre this autumn
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Rory Mullarkey returns to the Royal Court to offers some escapism amid our challenging political climate
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Alan Bennett's new poignant ode to the NHS premiers at the Bridge Theatre
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Up-and-coming playwright Cordelia Lynn returns to the Royal Court with a new play about liberal fear
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Domesticity meets the macabre in this unsettling snapshot of American suburbia that draws on Harold Pinter and Taylor Swift
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Peaky Blinders' Paul Anderson stars in a dual language Trump-era update of classic French comedy Tartuffe
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Post-truth politics, zeitgesty comedy and haunting drama: three premieres come to the Hampstead Theatre 2018
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Barney Norris, hailed as one of our most promising playwrights, returns with a new play about family life and loss, set in the countryside near Winchester
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The drama and psychodrama of making music is explored on stage in a new play by Sunny Afternoon playwright Joe Penhall
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Writer and director Anthony Neilson takes us into a stale, sexless long term relationship in the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
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Geeks rule in sassy new musical about a teenager who dreams up a comic book blockbuster
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Romola Garai stars in a political, provocative new play by Ella Hickson
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Jane Horrocks stars in a new play about a world where kids comes with instruction manuals and refund policies
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After impressing at the Fringe Ontroerend Goed's play about human extinction comes to Battersea Arts Centre
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The unstoppable playwright behind Ink and Labour of Love hits the jackpot once more with this witty game-show drama
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Ingmar Bergman's film is re-imagined for the stage with brilliant performances from the ensemble cast, but it stumbles in the second act