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Oh help! Oh no! It’s a Gruffalo! Every child’s favourite monster lands at artsdepot in time for Halloween

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Yankees and hankies: Yank! at Charing Cross Theatre overindulges in tear-jerking cliché, leaving little space for genuine heart

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The seldom-told historical story of the last Stuart Queen is brought to life with compelling courtly machinations in the West End transfer of Helen Edmundson's Queen Anne

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A love for the ages: an adaptation of De Profundis, Oscar Wilde’s heartrending love letter from Reading Gaol, comes to the Vaudeville Theatre

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Culture Whisper gives you the scoop on this Pride weekend’s must-see performances and exhibitions

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Mime, manga and monochrome animation: we recommend Mr Potsunen’s Peculiar Slice of Life

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Oscar-winning Homeland star F. Murray Abraham is devilish and droll in this literary comedy about a playwright past his prime

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Benedict Andrews (A Streetcar Named Desire) directs Jack O'Connell and Sienna Miller in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Apollo Theatre tickets available now!

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Ahoy, matey! Classic children’s book The Night Pirates comes to the Rose Theatre Kingston to inspire the very smallest sailors

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Birdsong, bongo drums and Brazilian beats: the Polka Theatre’s latest production is a multi-sensory experience for our tiniest theatregoers

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From a rambunctious Rat to a Toad with road rage, revisit your favourite childhood characters with this innovative production

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Double the fun: this raucous romp is one for kids, adults and fans of a rude joke or two

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A darkly whimsical yarn of a play receives new life thanks to Forced Entertainment's mastery

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Heading the How To Academy’s line-up for July, Dame Harriet Walter talks Shakespeare with Katherine Rundell

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Spirited performances from some of our favourite actors can't save this over-stuffed, under-charged epic

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Stephen Jackson's debut jukebox musical Roller Diner brings 'the full English Brexit' to Soho Theatre

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Matt Hartley's drama Deposit is a provocative piece of theatre that will chime with millennials and anyone else despairing over house prices

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A personal account of the Srebrenica massacre is performed by an all-female cast of four singers and a dancer at Notting Hill's Print Room Theatre

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This heartfelt comedy about friendship and family breaks stereotypes by treating its characters with the compassion they deserve

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Director Yaël Farber brings her new vision of Salomé to the National Theatre

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Bertolt Brecht's satire about a fascist dictator's rise to power gets a timely revival at the Donmar Warehouse starring Lenny Henry

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Every week we curate a top selection of cheap London theatre tickets and you can book yours right here

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Jamie Lloyd's highly anticipated handling of Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj exceeds expectations

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A sweeping, smart, and often funny drama about the force of two seemingly insignificant objects colliding — with superb acting from Olivia Colman

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Grammy-winning singer Sheena Easton leads a cast of 50 in this big-budget, all-singing, high-kicking musical revival

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Sir Ian McKellen in Shakespeare, Tolkien, Others & You guides audiences through a retrospective of his 50-year career. One week only

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West End transfer to Apollo Theatre: directed by Trevor Nunn, Terence Rattigan's Love in Idleness explores the clash of values in pre- and post-war Britain

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Andrew Garfield, Jude Law and Sam Mendes lead the charge of movie stars coming to London Theatres, April 2017

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Steve Waters shows how politics are coming full circle in this potent, pacy and all too prescient new play about the 1981 Labour Party split

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Rufus Norris and Carol Ann Duffy collaborate to bring verbatim post-Brexit conversations to the stage

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A new play about virtual reality therapy combines the talents of Kate Fleetwood and Es Devlin in a visually spectacular but emotionally flat story about recovery

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David Tennant is a sex addict, Damian Lewis is in love with a goat and the Labour Party is splitting: London theatres are not short of drama this March