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Dr Semmelweis, a play originated by and starring Mark Rylance, comes to the West End’s Harold Pinter Theatre following a critically acclaimed run at Bristol Old Vic

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Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges star in a new musical adaptation of Annie Proulx’s seminal short story Brokeback Mountain, opening in the West End

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Writing royalty Jack Thorne and the Duffer Brothers, together with Kate Trefry, bring Netflix's hit sci-fi series Stranger Things to the West End stage

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A well-timed revival of the Italian satire, riddled with contemporary references to the ongoing scrutiny of London’s Metropolitan Police

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Strong performances manage to bring home the Young Vic's revival of Zinnie Harris's Further Than the Furthest Thing, which feels burdened by narrative cargo

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Playwright James Graham turns his attention to football, exploring the struggles of the England men's team through their manager Gareth Southgate at the National

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Sam Mendes directs Jack Thorne's new play The Motive and the Cue. The National Theatre production stars Johnny Flynn, Mark Gatiss and Tuppence Middleton

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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 musical revivals to quality kids' shows, here's what you can see at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre this summer

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Director Timothy Sheader helms a long-awaited revival of Olivier and Tony-winning musical La Cage aux Folles at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

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Writer Carl Grose and director Melly Still promise to send arrows flying in a bold new direction with their production of Robin Hood for Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

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The Tempest has been reimagined to give little ones aged 6+ their first taste of Shakespeare at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre this summer

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Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri's first kids' novel Every Leaf A Hallelujah has been adapted for the stage, hoping to delight little theatregoers at Regent's Park this summer

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A fresh take on Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Olivier-winning coming-of-age musical Once On This Island opens the 2023 season at Regent's Park

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James Norton heads the cast of Ivo van Hove’s A Little Life, running at the West End’s Harold Pinter Theatre in 2023

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No soggy bottoms here: TV favourite The Great British Bake Off has been kneaded and rolled into a musical – and it rises pleasingly on the West End stage

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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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Showing at the Donmar, playwright Diana Nneka Atuona’s Trouble in Butetown is both a heartwarming and heartbreaking look at WWII life in multiracial Tiger Bay

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Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels are stunning in Dominic Cooke’s stripped-back and static take on the ancient Greek tragedy of Medea

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Ava Wong Davies’ sweet-turned-sour relationship drama Graceland is compellingly written but leaves too much unsaid to pack a proper punch

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Cheryl makes her West End debut in 2:22 – A Ghost Story: a hair-raising, contemporary take on a classic dramatic genre, directed by Matthew Dunster

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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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Writer-director Simon Stone (Yerma), with a top-notch cast led by Janet McTeer, transposes the Greek myth of Phaedra to contemporary Britain

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Sam Mendes’s production of the familial finance saga returns from Broadway and is performed with aplomb by Nigel Lindsay, Hadley Fraser and Michael Balogun

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In director Josie Rourke’s production of this dystopian two-hander, Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman star as the couple confined to using just 140 words a day

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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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Director Lindsay Posner takes on Michael Frayn’s superlatively funny farce (again!), fronting it with screen stars Felicity Kendal, Matthew Kelly and Tracy-Ann Oberman

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The Unfriend, a new thriller-sitcom from Doctor Who and Sherlock writer Steven Moffat, has a winning premise but gets bogged down by toilet humour

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