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    Red Pitch transfers to the West End

    Red Pitch, @Sohoplace

    15 Mar 24 – 04 May 24

    Tyrell Williams’ exceptional play about the relationship between three boys and their south London football pitch transfers to the West End

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    The Homecoming review: in-your-face and highly stylised

    The Homecoming, Young Vic Theatre ★★★★★

    27 Nov 23 – 27 Jan 24

    Matthew Dunster's take on Harold Pinter's 1965 classic The Homecoming wears its darkness on its sleeve and is deeply unsettling

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  • Tried and Tested

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    Annie Baker's Infinite Life is a slow, enthralling masterpiece

    Infinite Life, National Theatre review ★★★★★

    22 Nov 23 – 13 Jan 24

    In her latest marvel for the National Theatre, Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker explores the pains and longings of women holed up at a detox clinic

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    Theatre 

    A Mirror transfers to the West End

    A Mirror transfers to the West End

    22 Jan 24 – 20 Apr 24

    Following its premiere at the Almeida, Sam Holcroft’s play A Mirror, about the tension of staging forbidden theatre in a totalitarian state, transfers to the West End

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  • Tried and Tested

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    Ghosts review: a clear and urgent revival

    Ghosts, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse ★★★★★

    10 Nov 23 – 24 Jan 24

    In the candlelit confines of the Sam Wanamaker playhouse, the plight of the living in Ibsen’s Ghosts is current and oppressive

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  • Book Now

    Theatre 

    'For Black Boys...' returns to the West End

    For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy, Garrick Theatre

    25 Mar 24 – 07 May 24

    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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  • Tried and Tested

    Theatre 

    Next to Normal transfers to West End

    Next to Normal, Wyndham's Theatre

    14 Aug 23 – 07 Oct 23

    Following a favourably received run at the Donmar, mental health-tackling Broadway hit Next to Normal is getting a West End transfer

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  • Tried and Tested

    Theatre 

    Review: Feeling Afraid as if Something Terrible is Going to Happen

    Feeling Afraid as if Something Terrible is Going to Happen, Bush Theatre review ★★★★★

    10 Nov 23 – 23 Dec 23

    Fleabag meets Baby Reindeer in Marcelo Dos Santos’s intense and brilliant one-man play about a gay comedian navigating romance and existential dread

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  • Essential

    Theatre 

    Book now for Woody Harrelson in Ulster American

    Ulster American, Riverside Studios

    04 Dec 23 – 27 Jan 24

    Woody Harrelson stars alongside Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland in Jeremy Herrin's new production of David Ireland's black comedy, Ulster American

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    Theatre 

    The best new plays opening this November

    Best new theatre shows: London, November 2023

    From a stage prequel to hit sci-fi series Stranger Things to a stellar team taking on Roald Dahl's The Witches, these are the shows to book this month

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    Theatre 

    The Confessions: tender portrayal of a quietly remarkable life

    The Confessions, National Theatre review ★★★★★

    19 Oct 23 – 04 Nov 23

    Playwright Alexander Zeldin returns to the National Theatre with The Confessions: a tender play following one woman's life over eight decades

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    The best theatre shows opening in October

    Best new theatre shows: London, October 2023

    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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  • Tried and Tested

    Musicals 

    Twiggy musical fails to capture its star

    Close-Up: The Twiggy Musical, Menier Chocolate Factory review ★★★★★

    18 Sep 23 – 18 Nov 23

    Thin and lolloping, Ben Elton’s Twiggy musical fails to capture the woman behind the photos

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  • We love

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    Book now for Standing at the Sky’s Edge

    Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Gillian Lynne Theatre

    08 Feb 24 – 03 Aug 24

    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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  • Tried and Tested

    Theatre 

    untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play: a bombastic joyride

    untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play, Young Vic Theatre review ★★★★★

    18 Sep 23 – 04 Nov 23

    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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    Theatre 

    The Architect: moving tribute to Stephen Lawrence

    The Architect review ★★★★★

    06 Sep 23 – 10 Sep 23

    Marking 30 years since the murder of Stephen Lawrence, this moving tribute takes its audience on a journey through south-east London and the Black British experience

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    Theatre 

    Strategic Love Play: unsettling subversion of boy-meets-girl romance

    Strategic Love Play, Soho Theatre review ★★★★★

    06 Sep 23 – 23 Sep 23

    In Strategic Love Play, playwright Miriam Battye (Scenes with Girls) examines the pitfalls and disappointments of contemporary dating culture

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  • Book Now

    Theatre 

    The best new plays opening this month

    Best new theatre shows: London, September 2023

    Andrew Scott, Nicole Scherzinger and Ian McKellen are just some of the stars descending on the London stage this month

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  • Book Now

    Theatre 

    Jamie Lloyd revives Lucy Prebble's The Effect

    The Effect, National Theatre review ★★★★★

    01 Aug 23 – 07 Oct 23

    Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell bring fine chemistry to Jamie Lloyd's revival of Lucy Prebble's The Effect, about volunteers on a clinical drug trial

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    Theatre 

    Highlights to catch at Edinburgh Fringe 2023

    Edinburgh Fringe 2023: best shows (well, our favourites) from a four-day visit

    Our top picks of shows to see at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe

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  • Book Now

    Musicals 

    The best new plays opening this month

    Best new theatre shows: London, August 2023

    From the long-awaited arrival of a Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical to, er, more musicals and the return of a Lucy Prebble masterpiece (not Enron, sorry!)

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  • Tried and Tested

    Theatre 

    Cuckoo sings at the Royal Court

    Cuckoo, Royal Court Theatre review ★★★★★

    06 Jul 23 – 19 Aug 23

    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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  • Tried and Tested

    Theatre 

    The Motive and the Cue transfers to the West End

    The Motive and the Cue, Noel Coward Theatre

    09 Dec 23 – 31 Mar 24

    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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    Theatre 

    Review: Beneatha's Place has bark but no bite

    Beneatha’s Place, Young Vic Theatre review ★★★★★

    27 Jun 23 – 05 Aug 23

    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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    The best theatre shows opening in July

    Best new theatre shows: London, July 2023

    From eagerly awaited transfers to poignant new writing, we round up the best plays opening in London this July

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  • Tried and Tested

    Musicals 

    A Strange Loop: meta musical is clever and entertaining

    A Strange Loop, Barbican Theatre review ★★★★★

    17 Jun 23 – 09 Sep 23

    Michael R Jackson’s Pulitzer and Tony-winning play A Strange Loop comes to the Barbican stage with a cast led by the superb Kyle Ramar Freeman

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  • Tried and Tested

    Theatre 

    Hope Has a Happy Meal: promising but messy

    Hope has a Happy Meal, Royal Court Theatre review ★★★★★

    03 Jun 23 – 08 Jul 23

    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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  • Tried and Tested

    Theatre 

    Review: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play

    School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Lyric Hammersmith review ★★★★★

    08 Jun 23 – 15 Jul 23

    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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  • Tried and Tested

    Theatre 

    all of it: Alistair McDowall's monologues at the Royal Court

    all of it, Royal Court review ★★★★★

    06 Jun 23 – 17 Jun 23

    A trilogy of monologues from formally innovative playwright Alistair McDowall centre on the internal worlds of three women living mundane yet emotionally rich lives

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  • Tried and Tested

    Musicals 

    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: a passionate, folky musical

    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Southwark Playhouse Elephant ★★★★★

    22 May 23 – 01 Jul 23

    Heartwarming, folky and masterfully performed, Jethro Compton and Darren Clark’s musical take on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button deserves a long life on stage

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    Theatre 

    Our favourite plays and musicals opening in June

    Best new theatre shows: London, June 2023

    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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    Theatre 

    A darkly sorcerous take on The Dream

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s Globe review ★★★★★

    27 Apr 23 – 12 Aug 23

    Elle While’s sorcery-led production explores The Dream’s darker undertones, with Globe boss Michelle Terry delivering a nightmarish Puck

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