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Aladdin at the Hackney Empire is everything you want a Christmas panto to be: fun, silly, magical and totally over the top.
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Modern Essex meets Elizabethan Windsor in this playful production of Shakespeare's silly Falstaff spin-off
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Explosive and timely, this new play about Boris Johnson will be rewritten every night
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Maverick theatre-maker Anthony Neilson makes his National Theatre debut with an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe
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Musicals
Hit musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns to the West End
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Theatre
Female comedians Pauline McLynn and Jocelyn Jee Esien have livened up Doctor Faustus into a giggling romp for the 2019 Sam Wanamaker Winter season
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The sweetest, silliest panto in town gets an all-female update as a trio of comics attempt to play 40 different parts
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Kids
Bite into The Gingerbread Man at Jacksons Lane for laughter, singing, dancing and baking fun this December.
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Theatre
After a seven-year break from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Regent's Park bring back the magical Open Air production
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Find merriment and festive spirit with a riotous season of cabaret, comedy and drag at Bush Theatre's Unwrapped Season
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Natasha Gordon's remarkable debut play exploring the comedy and devastation of ordinary life is just as brilliant in the West End transfer
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Comedy stars unite in aid of the refugee crisis at Choose Laughs Festive Special
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Kids
Based on the book by award-winning David Walliams, Awful Auntie fills the holidays with wackiness
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Musicals
Jamie Lloyd directs a new open air production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's 1978 hit musical Evita
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After sell-out shows in Ireland and Edinburgh, Class brings its sharp tale of social inequality to The Bush Theatre in 2019
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Academy Award-nominee and all round great showman Hugh Jackman brings a medly of musical theatre classics to London in his one-man show tour
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Musicals
Del Boy, Rodney and co. tread the boards as Only Fools and Horses: The Musical comes to Theatre Royal Haymarket
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Theatre
Warm yourself up this winter with Edinburgh Fringe favourite Hot Gay Time Machine at Trafalgar Studios
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Thornton Wilder's play Our Town, about the importance of appreciating life, comes to the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in 2019
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There's more to December than tinsel. London Theatres are offering up a feast of drama for those wishing to dodge the Christmas pantos this winter
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Royal Court Theatre announces seven methods of killing kylie jenner, an insight into the power of the social media star
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From Russian Revolution to Trump delusion, here are the big three shows at the Almeida in 2019 to book now
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The musical adaptation of 2006 hit film Little Miss Sunshine makes its European debut at the Arcola Theatre this spring
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An obscure play from the early days of Bolshevism is given a fresh perspective by Mike Bartlett
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Dead Poets Live is your chance to see A-List actors performing in intimate venues across London
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An African-American version of Arthur Miller, Idris Elba's musical and another Lorca tragedy: book now the three highlights of the Young Vic 2019 season
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Musical Man of La Mancha, inspired by 'Don Quixote' and featuring the song 'The Impossible Dream', returns to the West End after 50 years
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Young Vic artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah collaborates with Idris Elba in new multi-media musical Tree
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Direct Yaël Farber re-imagines Federíco Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding at the Young Vic
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Marianne Elliott directs a new production of Death of a Salesman at the Young Vic starring Wendell Pierce as Willy Loman
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The Royal Shakespeare Company's sell out production of Don Quixote is a riot on the West End
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The Polka Theatre brings the classic children's tale The Wind in the Willows to life this winter