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    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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    Andrew Scott is exceptional in this original one-man Vanya

    Vanya, Duke of York's Theatre review ★★★★★

    15 Sep 23 – 21 Oct 23

    Andrew Scott delivers a phenomenal performance playing all eight characters in this batty but brilliant one-man take on Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya

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  • Tried and Tested

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    Red Pitch: touching portrayal of teenage male friendship

    Red Pitch, Bush Theatre review ★★★★★

    07 Sep 23 – 30 Sep 23

    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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    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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  • Tried and Tested

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    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 for Kenneth Branagh's King Lear

    King Lear, Wyndham's Theatre

    21 Oct 23 – 09 Dec 23

    Shakespeare aficionado Kenneth Branagh directs and leads the cast in King Lear, coming to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre this autumn

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    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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  • Tried and Tested

    Theatre 

    A Mirror: a Marmite play that’s uneven but inventive

    A Mirror, Almeida Theatre review ★★★★★

    15 Aug 23 – 23 Sep 23

    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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    Next to Normal review: exceptional performances

    Next to Normal, Donmar Warehouse review ★★★★★

    14 Aug 23 – 07 Oct 23

    Broadway hit Next to Normal, showing at the Donmar, is an intense and unrelenting portrayal of mental illness performed by an exceptional cast

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    See Ian McKellen on stage in Frank and Percy

    Frank and Percy, The Other Palace Theatre

    08 Sep 23 – 03 Dec 23

    Ian McKellen and Roger Allam reunite with director Sean Mathias to bring Ben Weatherill's Frank and Percy to the stage

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    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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    James Graham’s Dear England transfers to West End

    Dear England, Prince Edward Theatre

    09 Oct 23 – 13 Jan 24

    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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    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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    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

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    The National’s Grenfell play returns a voice to the survivors

    Grenfell: in the words of survivors, National Theatre review ★★★★★

    13 Jul 23 – 26 Aug 23

    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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    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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    Mark Rylance is riveting in his own play, Dr Semmelweis

    Mark Rylance in Dr Semmelweis, Harold Pinter Theatre review ★★★★★

    29 Jun 23 – 07 Oct 23

    Mark Rylance’s play about Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, whose early discovery of bacteria was snubbed by his seniors, is compelling from start to finish

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  • Tried and Tested

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    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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    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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    Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James star in new West End play

    Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James in Lyonesse, Harold Pinter Theatre

    17 Oct 23 – 23 Dec 23

    Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James swap screen for stage, starring in Jerusalem director Ian Rickson's production of Penelope Skinner's new play Lyonesse

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  • Tried and Tested

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    Review: Crazy For You

    Crazy For You, Gillian Lynne Theatre review ★★★★★

    24 Jun 23 – 20 Jan 24

    Susan Stroman's Crazy For You revival takes up a seven-month residency at the West End's Gillian Lynne Theatre after impressing in Chichester

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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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    Kids 

    Robin Hood rewrite gets lost in muddle of ideas

    Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre review ★★★★★

    17 Jun 23 – 22 Jul 23

    Magic and a plot twist aren’t enough to enthral us in this flighty re-write of the Robin Hood legend, showing at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

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    Mrs. Doubtfire the musical: fuzzy family fun

    Mrs. Doubtfire, Shaftesbury Theatre review ★★★★★

    12 May 23 – 02 Jun 24

    Arriving from Broadway, Mrs. Doubtfire the musical is a cheeky, high-spirited family show, with the potential to tickle audience members of all ages

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    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

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    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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  • Essential

    Musicals 

    Kids Week 2023 is here

    A guide to Kids Week 2023: half-price theatre tickets for families

    01 Aug 23 – 31 Aug 23

    Make the most of Kids Week: free theatre tickets for children to London family shows in London this August will sell out fast!

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    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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    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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  • In the Know

    Theatre 

    Lynn Nottage's Clyde at the Donmar Warehouse

    Clyde's, Donmar Warehouse

    13 Oct 23 – 02 Dec 23

    The European premiere of Broadway hit Clyde's reunites Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage with director Lynette Linton at the Donmar Warehouse

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  • Tried and Tested

    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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  • In the Know

    Musicals 

    Nicole Scherzinger fronts Sunset Boulevard revival

    Sunset Boulevard, Savoy Theatre

    21 Sep 23 – 06 Jan 24

    The Jamie Lloyd Company brings Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Sunset Boulevard to a new generation with a production starring pop star Nicole Scherzinger

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