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Essential
Musicals
Kids' Week: Children get free theatre tickets throughout August to the very best London family shows on in the West End and beyond
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Last Chance
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Dear Evan Hansen prepares to take its final West End bow. Here's how it became the landmark musical all teens, their parents and everyone in between should see.
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In The Know
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From a charming children's show to urgent pieces about the climate and austerity, plus two bumper festivals, August's best theatre covers all bases
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Award-winning theatre company RashDash dissect the complexities of motherhood with a frenzied non-linear narrative in Oh Mother, showing at Soho Theatre
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Patrick Marber’s 1997 drama delving into the desires and lust-fuelled relationships of four Londoners is revived at the Lyric Hammersmith by director Clare Lizzimore
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Director Simon Godwin teams up with designer Anna Fleischle to present a loud and glitzy Much Ado About Nothing, set in an Art Deco beachside hotel
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July's theatre shows are transporting audiences back in time or taking them on far-flung adventures: here are the new plays in London to book this month
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Richard Bean returns to the National Theatre with Jack Absolute Flies Again, a WWII-set rewrite of restoration comedy The Rivals that struggles to gain momentum
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The Jamie Lloyd Company has done it again: The Seagull is a minimally dressed take on the classic brought vividly to life by a skilled ensemble
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Screen titans Bill Pullman and David Harbour star in Theresa Rebeck's new play Mad House, a festering family drama that's predictable but entertaining
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A cast of former SIX queens bring to life Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, a musical homage to history's great women
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Kathryn Hunter and Michelle Terry deliver star performances in Helena Kaut-Howson's revival of her 1997 production of King Lear at Shakespeare's Globe
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Seminal playwright Lucy Kirkwood, under the pseudonym Dave Davidson, presents a deeply chilling and hyper real thriller at the Royal Court Theatre
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American playwright Lucas Hnath writes a follow-up to Ibsen's A Doll's House, imagining Nora calling in at the family home 15 years after her shock departure
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Director Tinuke Craig gives August Wilson's 1979 play Jitney its first London revival in 20 years. Her Old Vic production reminds us how relevant its themes remain
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The debut play of northwest London's literary queen Zadie Smith returns to the Kiln Theatre for Christmas 2022, ahead of transferring to the US
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In the Know
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From a new grassy amphitheatre nestled in the Cotswolds to the one perched on a Cornish clifftop, these are the outdoor theatres worth visiting this summer
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Amy Adams makes a vibrant West End debut in Jeremy Herrin's insightful and atmospheric production of Tennessee Williams’s most autobiographical play
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Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII comes in for a savage reappraisal in Hannah Khalil’s radical rewrite of the play, now on at the Globe Theatre
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Strong performances battle against poor acoustics in director Lucy Moss’s revival of Legally Blonde the Musical at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
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Playwright Sami Ibrahim and director Omar Elerian imagine the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 20 years from now in Two Palestinians Go Dogging at the Royal Court
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Anne-Marie Duff stars in the world premiere of Beth Steel’s House of Shades, a family-cum-political saga observing six decades of working-class Britain
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SpitLip's Operation Mincemeat (a musical comedy for the stage, not the film!) has been honed to excellency and is deserving of its long run at Riverside Studios
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In the Know
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Esteemed American playwright Naomi Wallace's The Breach is built on a tantalising premise, but a patchy plot and lazy design fail to lift it from page to stage
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The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs at Soho Theatre is a much-needed queer narrative exploring intersectional lesbian lives
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Diane Page’s topsy-turvy take on Shakespeare's historical tragedy Julius Caesar, showing at The Globe, is consistently inconsistent
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In Middle, the second instalment of playwright David Eldridge's trilogy on love and relationships, attempts at relatability become distancing
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May's theatre sees some serious stars arrive on the London stage. There's also big musical revivals, daring new writing and fresh takes on Shakespeare
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Ivo van Hove returns to the Barbican with another epic trek through history. Age of Rage fuses the myths of ancient Greek dramatists Euripides and Aeschylus
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Director Lucy Bailey returns to the Globe with a playful, libido-fuelled take on Much Ado About Nothing that runs on Love Island-style drama and sexual tension
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Immersive
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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Pulitzer-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury reunites with the team behind her 2018 play Fairview to tell the story of Mary Seacole and black caregivers today
