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From the chance to see Lily James opposite Kristin Scott Thomas, to a dose of Shakespeare from the maestro Kenneth Branagh, the hottest theatre to book now
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Thin and lolloping, Ben Elton’s Twiggy musical fails to capture the woman behind the photos
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Playwright Chris Bush, with former Pulp and The Longpigs band member Richard Hawley, has written a vital musical about Sheffield's giant housing estate, Park Hill
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Western art’s grubby fixation with Asian stereotypes is in the crosshairs of this bombastic joyride of a play, starring Mei Mac. But does it pull the trigger?
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Tyrell Williams’ exceptional play about the relationship between three boys and their south London football pitch is a must-see in its Bush Theatre revival
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In Strategic Love Play, playwright Miriam Battye (Scenes with Girls) examines the pitfalls and disappointments of contemporary dating culture
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Andrew Scott, Nicole Scherzinger and Ian McKellen are just some of the stars descending on the London stage this month
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Sam Holcroft’s new play A Mirror looks to recreate the tension of staging forbidden theatre in a totalitarian state, but gets bogged down in trying to be clever
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Gareth Southgate’s reform of the England men’s football team is the subject of James Graham’s heartwarming play Dear England, transferring to the West End
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Our top picks of shows to see at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe
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Gillian Slovo’s verbatim play recounting the experiences of survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire is thorough, absorbing and sensitively handled at the National Theatre
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Michael Wynne’s new play Cuckoo airs the concerns facing a crippled Britain through the story of three generations of women in one Scouse family
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Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn are riveting in The Motive and the Cue: Jack Thorne's study of the famous Gielgud/Burton Hamlet, directed here by Sam Mendes
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Young Vic boss Kwame Kwei-Armah has penned a play inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, but while there's political bark, it lacks bite
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Newbie playwright to the Royal Court Tom Fowler offers a slightly surreal adventure about a ragtag bunch of misfits who are searching for family, or escaping them
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School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play: a tongue-in-cheek send up of the giddy highs and melancholic lows of adolescent life with poignant racial undertones
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From the West End premiere of a Martin McDonagh classic to new work conceived by and starring the great Mark Rylance, June's best new theatre shows
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Lolita Chakrabarti's adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel Hamnet comes to the West End for a 14-week run
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London's love affair with musicals shows no sign of abating, with beloved revivals and fresh arrivals landing this May. Elsewhere, outdoor theatres reopen!
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Lynn Nottage’s musical adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees buzzes onto stage at the Almeida where it’s sweetened by a cast of powerful vocalists
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Powerful and poetic: book now for For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy on the West End
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Grange Hill co-stars Ricky Simmonds and Simon Vaughan miss the mark with their musical Berlusconi about the three-time Italian prime minister, media mogul and sex pest
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It's a starry month on the London stage (see The Motive and the Cue and Private Lives in particular), and there's revivals aplenty celebrating the classics
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From award-winning revivals to fresh work from Complicité and a new musical pitched as 'Evita on acid', we round up the best new theatre opening in London this month
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Lulu Raczka’s period play parody brims with bright ideas, but too many ingredients prevent this potion from leaving us spellbound
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Callum Scott Howells and Rosie Sheehy are riveting in playwright Gary Owen’s new play Romeo and Julie, a Bard-inspired story of working-class love in Wales
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Showing at the Donmar, playwright Diana Nneka Atuona’s Trouble in Butetown is both a heartwarming and heartbreaking look at WWII life in multiracial Tiger Bay
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Ava Wong Davies’ sweet-turned-sour relationship drama Graceland is compellingly written but leaves too much unsaid to pack a proper punch
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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
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With Sound of the Underground, Travis Alabanza delivers a vital examination of the queer performance landscape, fusing spectacle, comedy and hard-hitting facts
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Based on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, this stage adaptation of The Boy with Two Hearts details the heartrending struggle of Afghan refugees
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Starring Oscar-winner Helen Hunt, Eureka Day is a hard-working satire about woke culture that wins over the Old Vic audience in post-pandemic London