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Kids 

The Polka Theatre brings the classic children's tale The Wind in the Willows to life this winter

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Antler's bold and thoughtful exploration of relationships, Lands, is on at the Bush Theatre

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Immersive 

With signature acting snippets and nostalgic anecdotes, Sir Ian McKellen celebrates turning 80 with an ambitious one-man show

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The Royal Shakespeare Company brings the Bard’s most famous love story to the Barbican Theatre

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Maisie Williams stars in Lauren Gunderson's fast-talking, two-character teen drama, I and You at the Hampstead Theatre

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After the success of Consent, Nina Raine returns to the National Theatre with a new play about the complexity of starting a family

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Chekov's earliest work is performed in London for the first time in an absurdist adaptation by Dead Centre

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Kids 

It’s as if Christmas came early! Poet John Masefield’s much-loved tale The Box of Delights becomes a festive holiday show at Wilton’s Music Hall this winter

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Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's satirical WWI play returns to London's Arts Theatre

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Prolific playwright David Hare delves into 20 years of Labour Party history, but this heavy-going play is bogged down with Big Ideas and combative dialogue

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Opera 

The China National Peking Opera Company returns to Sadler's Wells with two new productions

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Theatre 

Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare's sensuous lovers in a large-scale revival of Antony and Cleopatra

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New York musical theatre bar hits London's Marylebone for five nights only

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Legendary director Peter Brook returns to the National Theatre with a strangely staid, under-powered new play

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We lift the curtain on the biggest and best plays opening in London this autumn and beyond

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A fresh new interpretation of the legendary collection of tales

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Vinay Patel's love story spans seven decades and three continents in An Adventure at Bush Theatre

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Musicals 

From the makers of The Gruffalo comes Tall Stories' Room on the Broom, the best-loved children's book now adapted for stage

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Classical Music 

Come and experience Aurora Orchestra's gothic showstopper Smoke and Mirrors at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, if you dare...

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Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack star in the RSC's production of Macbeth, which transfers to London

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One of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

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Alex Oates’ bitcoin-funded play about drug trafficking site Silk Road

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Michael Fentiman's revival of Wilde's ‘trivial comedy for serious people’ plays it remarkably safe, and lacks any memorable flair

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Mark Rylance returns to the Globe to play the villainous Iago in Othello

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Musicals 

Reader, they're singing: new musical about the Brontë siblings sheds light on the wild lives of the literary giants

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Off the back of a quadruple Tony Award-winning Broadway run, Stephen Karam's dark comedy The Humans comes to the Hampstead Theatre this summer

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Festival 

Stellar outdoor art, music and dance festival comes to Grosvenor Square this summer for its inaugural year

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This superlative revival of Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece has substance, form and a formidably talented team – now there's another chance to see it

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Blanche McIntyre's production of Shakespeare's tragicomedy

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A comic tragedy: the musical theatre adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel Fun Home is a vital, life-affirming show that's not to be missed

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A play shining the light on America’s poverty-to-prison pipeline

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Immersive 

Trojan Women the contemporary opera to see at LIFT Festival 2018 fuses ancient epic, East Asian traditions and modern music in an immersive performance celebrating female solidarity