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    Six shows to book at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

    Summer at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre: 2023 season

    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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    La Cage aux Folles revived at Regent's Park

    La Cage aux Folles, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

    19 Jul 23 – 16 Sep 23

    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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    A Robin Hood for our divided times

    Robin Hood, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

    17 Jun 23 – 22 Jul 23

    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 for kids in Regent's Park

    The Tempest, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

    30 Jun 23 – 22 Jul 23

    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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    Ben Okri's Every Leaf A Hallelujah on stage

    Every Leaf a Hallelujah, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

    22 May 23 – 10 Jun 23

    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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    Great British Bake Off musical rises surprisingly well

    The Great British Bake Off Musical, Noël Coward Theatre review ★★★★★

    25 Feb 23 – 13 May 23

    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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    London's best new plays to see this March

    Best new theatre shows: London, March 2023

    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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    Women, Beware the Devil review

    Women, Beware the Devil, Almeida Theatre review ★★★★★

    11 Feb 23 – 25 Mar 23

    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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    Romeo and Julie: a working-class love story for modern Wales

    Romeo and Julie, National Theatre review ★★★★★

    14 Feb 23 – 01 Apr 23

    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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    Trouble in Butetown: heartwarming and heartbreaking

    Trouble in Butetown, Donmar Warehouse review ★★★★★

    10 Feb 23 – 25 Mar 23

    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 Medea

    Medea, @sohoplace review ★★★★★

    10 Feb 23 – 22 Apr 23

    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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    Graceland review: sweet-turned-sour relationship drama

    Graceland, Royal Court Theatre review ★★★★★

    09 Feb 23 – 11 Mar 23

    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 stars in 2:22 – A Ghost Story at the Lyric Theatre

    2:22 – A Ghost Story, Lyric Theatre review ★★★★★

    21 Jan 23 – 23 Apr 23

    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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    Standing at the Sky’s Edge review

    Standing at the Sky's Edge, National Theatre review ★★★★★

    09 Feb 23 – 25 Mar 23

    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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    Simon Stone presents a Phaedra for contemporary Britain

    Phaedra, National Theatre review ★★★★★

    01 Feb 23 – 08 Apr 23

    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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    The Lehman Trilogy remains a stage highlight

    The Lehman Trilogy, Gillian Lynne Theatre review ★★★★★

    24 Jan 23 – 20 May 23

    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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    Review: Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

    Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, Harold Pinter Theatre review ★★★★★

    18 Jan 23 – 18 Mar 23

    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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    The best new plays to see this February

    The best new theatre shows: London, February 2023

    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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    Sound of the Underground: political theatre meets cabaret

    Sound of the Underground, Royal Court Theatre review ★★★★★

    19 Jan 23 – 25 Feb 23

    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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    Noises Off: a solid revival of Frayn’s superlatively funny farce

    Noises Off, Phoenix Theatre review ★★★★★

    19 Jan 23 – 11 Mar 23

    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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    Steven Moffat’s The Unfriend: thriller sitcom loses pace

    The Unfriend, Criterion Theatre review ★★★★★

    15 Jan 23 – 16 Apr 23

    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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    SOLT’s guide to getting cheap theatre tickets

    SOLT interview: budget cuts, West End changeovers and finding cheap theatre tickets

    Feeling the pinch? SOLT’s head of marketing Emma De Souza on pocket-friendly hacks for seeing more theatre

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    Musicals 

    Six: The Musical review – a fun, feminist history lesson

    Six: The Musical, Vaudeville Theatre review ★★★★★

    29 Sep 21 – 29 Oct 23

    In this West End musical, the six wives of Henry VIII are queens of pop reclaiming their narrative

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    January's best new theatre shows

    The best new theatre shows: London, January 2023

    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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    Theatre, cabaret & comedy: VAULT Festival returns for 2023

    VAULT Festival 2023: theatre, comedy and late-night parties

    24 Jan 23 – 19 Mar 23

    VAULT Festival makes its post-pandemic comeback, staging 500 cutting-edge productions in the dimly lit tunnels beneath Waterloo Station and launching a new venue

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    A Christmas Carol with southern charm

    Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol, Southbank Centre review ★★★★★

    08 Dec 22 – 08 Jan 23

    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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    The best new theatre shows opening in 2023

    The best new theatre shows: London 2023

    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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    London's best theatre shows of 2022

    Looking back: London's best theatre shows, 2022

    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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    Josie Rourke's As You Like It is full of wintry charm

    As You Like It, @sohoplace review ★★★★★

    06 Dec 22 – 28 Jan 23

    Director Josie Rourke’s overtly musical take on the Bard's As You Like It @sohoplace proves the pastoral tale can be just as cheery in winter

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    Hex: this gorgeous musical is bonkers but good fun

    Hex, National Theatre review ★★★★★

    26 Nov 22 – 14 Jan 23

    Hex, the National Theatre's once-cursed Christmas musical, is worth the wait

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    Theatre 

    Kerry Jackson: skewers the British class divide but doesn’t roast it

    Kerry Jackson, National Theatre review ★★★★★

    30 Nov 22 – 28 Jan 23

    Fay Ripley from Cold Feet fame adds sparkle to an otherwise ill-thought through class comedy at the National Theatre

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    Mandela musical: full of zest and fiery songs

    Mandela: A New Musical, Young Vic review ★★★★★

    29 Nov 22 – 04 Feb 23

    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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