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The Globe stages Richard III, a deliciously villainous play featuring the hunchback that everyone loves to hate.

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Louis de Bernières’ best-selling novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin comes to the West End stage following a UK tour

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Brainiac Live! returns with some wacky, explosive experiments on a West End stage. Get those science goggles ready!

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A landmark production of musical theatre wizards Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar comes to the Barbican after two sellout runs at the Open Air Theatre.

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With Peter Gynt, David Hare returns for the National Theatre 2019 season, tweaking a classic Ibsen tale for the modern day

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Cinema 

From NT Live screenings to the best of the Royal Shakespeare Company – theatre screened in cinemas has plenty to offer in London

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Dominic Hill's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Regent's Park is dark, hilarious and open air theatre at its very best

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Kids 

Everyone's favourite 13-and-three-quarters-year-old sings out his innermost thoughts in this charming musical adaptation of Sue Townsend's novel

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Musicals 

The RSC is making David Walliams' The Boy in the Dress, into a musical this Christmas. Even better? Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers are writing the songs

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A West End transfer is announced for Marianne Elliott's stunning, sold out production of Death of a Salesman

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Michael Longhurst begins his tenure at the Donmar Warehouse with a timely revival of David Greig’s 1994 play, Europe

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Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson's book about a paper doll family is transformed into a musical family puppet show from Polka Theatre and Little Angel Theatre

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Direct Yaël Farber re-imagines Federíco Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding at the Young Vic

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Ibsen's A Doll's House connects four queer stories in Samuel Adamson's bold new play Wife, on at the Kiln Theatre

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Jamie Lloyd directs a new open air production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's 1978 hit musical Evita

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Once a hit movie starring Meryl Streep, the Tony-winning musical adaptation of The Bridges of Madison County comes to London, directed by Sir Trevor Nunn

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International theatre's most in-demand auteur is directing the legendary Comédie-Française company in his adaptation of Luchino Visconti's 1969 film

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Immersive performance experts Colab Theatre are bringing a challenging production to London with Spy Cinema, where the audience takes control of the mission

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After dazzling in New York, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview interrogates our preconceptions of race at the Young Vic

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Young Vic artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah collaborates with Idris Elba in new multi-media musical Tree

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In Shakespeare, Tolkien, Others & You, Sir Ian McKellen guides audiences through a retrospective of his 50-year career

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Kids 

Beatrix Potter's beloved characters are coming to life in Theatre Royal Haymarket's play, Where Is Peter Rabbit? Radishes at the ready...

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Kids 

Escape to Narnia and feel what it's like to be Big: these are the can't miss, kid-friendly shows to see this autumn.

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Strap yourself in for an hour of drag, cabaret, music and circus with larger-than-life theatre troupe YUMMY

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Here are the best shows to book now for autumn and winter's Christmas season for your toddler, from Peppa Pig to panto

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Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Snail and the Whale is coming to the West End for Christmas

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National Theatre's Peter Pan, by JM Barrie, will be delighting audiences of all ages at Troubadour White City this July

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Paul O'Grady and Julian Clary bring Goldilocks and the Three Bears to life at the London Palladium for Christmas.

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The Prince of Egypt musical comes to the West End with Stephen Schwartz’s Academy Award-winning score

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Matthew Broderick shines in The Starry Messenger, a sensitive though somewhat lacklustre exploration of a man's mid-life crisis

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show features four stories from Eric Carle live on stage at Troubadour White City Theatre.

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Blenheim Palace will welcome Europe's first pop-up Shakespearean theatre with a season of Renaissance revelry