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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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Theatre
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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Theatre
The Royal Shakespeare Company brings the Bard’s most famous love story to the Barbican Theatre
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Theatre
Maisie Williams stars in Lauren Gunderson's fast-talking, two-character teen drama, I and You at the Hampstead Theatre
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Theatre
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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Theatre
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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Theatre
Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's satirical WWI play returns to London's Arts Theatre
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Theatre
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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Theatre
New York musical theatre bar hits London's Marylebone for five nights only
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Theatre
Legendary director Peter Brook returns to the National Theatre with a strangely staid, under-powered new play
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Theatre
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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Theatre
Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack star in the RSC's production of Macbeth, which transfers to London
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Theatre
One of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
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Theatre
Alex Oates’ bitcoin-funded play about drug trafficking site Silk Road
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Theatre
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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Theatre
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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Theatre
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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Theatre
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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Theatre
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