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Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical is driven by a magnetic lead performance from Arinzé Kene, but the narrative feels underdeveloped

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Bleakness abounds in Love and Other Acts of Violence, Cordelia Lynn's grave drama on love, loathing and societal deterioration, which reopens the Donmar

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Celebrated director Yaël Farber returns to London with an elemental production of Macbeth, starring Saoirse Ronan and James McArdle

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Martin McDonagh’s first, brilliantly manipulative play The Beauty Queen of Leenane is revived at the Lyric Hammersmith, directed by Rachel O’Riordan

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Composer-producer Jack Terroni and playwright Kevin McMahon present a musical uniting the soulful sounds of the 1950s with a character on a mission to right his wrongs.

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Magical theatre adaptation of Man Booker-winning novel Life of Pi hits West End stage, after five-star reviews of sell-out Sheffield production

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Double Man Booker prize winner Hilary Mantel masters the art of playwriting in her adaptation of The Mirror and The Light, the third instalment of her Wolf Hall series

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Emily Brontë’s gothic novel Wuthering Heights comes to the National Theatre in a music and dance-heavy production by Emma Rice’s Wise Children

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Cush Jumbo delivers a soaring performance in Greg Hersov’s relationship-driven Hamlet at the Young Vic Theatre

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Premiering at the Royal Court, Caryl Churchill’s 20-minute micro-play What If If Only taunts its focal character and audience with the possibilities of unseeable futures

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Director Blanche McIntyre stages Shakespeare’s ‘problem play’ Measure for Measure in the atmospheric Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe

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Director Sean Holmes stages the first ever production of Hamlet to play inside the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe

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Larry Kramer’s political and largely autobiographical Aids drama The Normal Heart is revived at the National Theatre in a production directed by Dominic Cooke

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The National Theatre’s Christmas show Hex reframes Sleeping Beauty’s evil fairy as the story’s misunderstood heroine. Rosalie Craig stars and Rufus Norris directs

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East is East, Ayub Khan Din’s culture-clash comedy about a British-Pakistani family, comes to the National Theatre to mark its 25th anniversary

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Cock, Mike Bartlett’s 2009 Olivier-winning play, makes its West End debut. Marianne Elliott directs, and Taron Egerton, Jonathan Bailey, Phil Daniels and Jade Anouka star

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Inherited family trauma brings laughter, tears and bloodshed: Aleshea Harris’ revenge play Is God Is comes to the Royal Court in the hands of director Ola Ince

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Amy Adams makes her West End debut in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Jeremy Herrin directs the production from new company Second Half Productions

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In this West End musical, the six wives of Henry VIII are queens of pop reclaiming their narrative

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Frozen glitters at the West End’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane, where a cast led by Samantha Barks and Stephanie McKeon bring to life the sisterhood-championing story

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Days after playing Hamlet, Sir Ian McKellen stars in The Cherry Orchard at Theatre Royal Windsor, alongside Jenny Seagrove, Steven Berkoff and Francesca Annis

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Punchdrunk’s Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle on the company’s major new London show, The Burnt City, an immersive extravaganza based on the fall of Troy

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Award-winning playwright Winsome Pinnock provides poignancy and fury in her epic on slavery, legacy and representation

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Northwest London's literary queen Zadie Smith pens her first play, giving a Willesden twist to Chaucer's Wife of Bath

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From Saoirse Ronan playing Lady Macbeth at the Almeida to West End transfers for two of Broadway's hottest musicals, the best new plays to see in London this autumn

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Lily Allen makes her West End debut in 2:22 – A Ghost Story: a hair-raising, contemporary take on a classic dramatic genre, directed by Matthew Dunster

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Kae Tempest’s Paradise, showing at the National Theatre under the direction of Ian Rickson, lends contemporary relevance to the Greek myth of Philoctetes

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The Globe’s Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes presents a Twelfth Night that sparkles with gender fluidity, astute comic timing and nostalgic Americana

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Curtains are rising above an enticing cluster of new shows, both on and off the West End. Here are the best new plays to see in London this August

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The Young Vic reopens with Changing Destiny, Ben Okri’s bare-bones sprint through the 4,000-year-old story of the Egyptian official Sinuhe

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Sell-out production Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns to the London Palladium for summer 2021

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Kids' Week: Children get free theatre tickets throughout August to the very best London family shows on in the West End and beyond