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Tried and Tested
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A trilogy of monologues from formally innovative playwright Alistair McDowall centre on the internal worlds of three women living mundane yet emotionally rich lives
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Heartwarming, folky and masterfully performed, Jethro Compton and Darren Clark’s musical take on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button deserves a long life on stage
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From the West End premiere of a Martin McDonagh classic to new work conceived by and starring the great Mark Rylance, June's best new theatre shows
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Elle While’s sorcery-led production explores The Dream’s darker undertones, with Globe boss Michelle Terry delivering a nightmarish Puck
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Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn are riveting in The Motive and the Cue: Jack Thorne's study of the famous Gielgud/Burton Hamlet, directed here by Sam Mendes
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With his latest play Retrograde, trailblazing writer Ryan Calais Cameron takes us behind the scenes of Sidney Poitier’s struggles in racist 1950s Hollywood
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London's love affair with musicals shows no sign of abating, with beloved revivals and fresh arrivals landing this May. Elsewhere, outdoor theatres reopen!
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Philip Ridley’s critically acclaimed 2007 play Leaves of Glass is revived at the Park Theatre in a new production starring Bridgerton's Geraldine Alexander
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Nina Segal and Anthony Lau's modernised take on Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan is entertaining and incisive, but at times over-embellished
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Lynn Nottage’s musical adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees buzzes onto stage at the Almeida where it’s sweetened by a cast of powerful vocalists
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Katie Mitchell’s compelling production of Rebecca Watson’s novel Little Scratch returns to the stage, performed by a tight cast at the New Diorama
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Powerful and poetic: book now for For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy on the West End
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Complicité’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, led by the formidable Kathryn Hunter, is a lesson in the power of good storytelling
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Grange Hill co-stars Ricky Simmonds and Simon Vaughan miss the mark with their musical Berlusconi about the three-time Italian prime minister, media mogul and sex pest
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It's a starry month on the London stage (see The Motive and the Cue and Private Lives in particular), and there's revivals aplenty celebrating the classics
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Director Nicholas Hytner, designer extraordinaire Bunny Christie and a team of tip-top musical theatre talent make this immersive Guys and Dolls a rip-roaring sensation
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From award-winning revivals to fresh work from Complicité and a new musical pitched as 'Evita on acid', we round up the best new theatre opening in London this month
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Lulu Raczka’s period play parody brims with bright ideas, but too many ingredients prevent this potion from leaving us spellbound
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Callum Scott Howells and Rosie Sheehy are riveting in playwright Gary Owen’s new play Romeo and Julie, a Bard-inspired story of working-class love in Wales
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Playwright Chris Bush, with former Pulp and The Longpigs band member Richard Hawley, has written a vital musical about Sheffield's giant housing estate, Park Hill
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Ancient works in exciting hands, West End transfers for winning productions and new writing in major venues are among February's theatre offerings
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With Sound of the Underground, Travis Alabanza delivers a vital examination of the queer performance landscape, fusing spectacle, comedy and hard-hitting facts
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Feeling the pinch? SOLT’s head of marketing Emma De Souza on pocket-friendly hacks for seeing more theatre
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It's a bumper month for London theatre, with farces through to gory tragedies offering thrilling entertainment for just about everybody. Here are 11 highlights not to miss
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The great Dolly Parton gives a warm southern makeover to A Christmas Carol, reimagining the action in a mining town in East Tennessee
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Broadway imports, star-fronted revivals and classics explored through a contemporary lens are among the highlights coming to the London stage in 2023
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Stars making their West End debuts, award-winning collaborators reuniting and fresh takes on classic titles: the best London theatre shows of 2022
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Showing at the Young Vic, Mandela: A New Musical about the great South African freedom fighter will put some fire in your heart, if not in your hearth, this winter
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From a one-night-only chance to see the Wagatha Christie saga unfold on stage to dramas celebrating historical figures: the best new plays to see this month
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Japanese composer and musician Joe Hisaishi teams up with the RSC to bring Studio Ghibli’s 1988 movie My Neighbour Totoro to the Barbican stage
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Carrie Hope Fletcher shines in this otherwise overstuffed retelling of Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Rose Theatre
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Based on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, this stage adaptation of The Boy with Two Hearts details the heartrending struggle of Afghan refugees