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Amy Adams makes her West End debut in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Jeremy Herrin directs the production from new company Second Half Productions
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In this West End musical, the six wives of Henry VIII are queens of pop reclaiming their narrative
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Frozen glitters at the West End’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane, where a cast led by Samantha Barks and Stephanie McKeon bring to life the sisterhood-championing story
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Days after playing Hamlet, Sir Ian McKellen stars in The Cherry Orchard at Theatre Royal Windsor, alongside Jenny Seagrove, Steven Berkoff and Francesca Annis
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Punchdrunk’s Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle on the company’s major new London show, The Burnt City, an immersive extravaganza based on the fall of Troy
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Award-winning playwright Winsome Pinnock provides poignancy and fury in her epic on slavery, legacy and representation
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Kae Tempest’s Paradise, showing at the National Theatre under the direction of Ian Rickson, lends contemporary relevance to the Greek myth of Philoctetes
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The Globe’s Associate Artistic Director Sean Holmes presents a Twelfth Night that sparkles with gender fluidity, astute comic timing and nostalgic Americana
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Curtains are rising above an enticing cluster of new shows, both on and off the West End. Here are the best new plays to see in London this August
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The Young Vic reopens with Changing Destiny, Ben Okri’s bare-bones sprint through the 4,000-year-old story of the Egyptian official Sinuhe
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Sell-out production Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns to the London Palladium for summer 2021
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Kids' Week: Children get free theatre tickets throughout August to the very best London family shows on in the West End and beyond
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Mark Rylance reprises his role in 'the greatest play of the century' as Jerusalem returns to the London stage in 2022
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It may have arrived two years later than planned, but Sam Yates’ technologically apt take on The Two Character Play finds special resonance in post-lockdown London
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Emma Corrin stars in Joseph Charlton’s tepid tale of a fraudulent aspiring art collector at the West End’s Harold Pinter Theatre
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Ralph Fiennes’ stage adaptation of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets comes to the West End’s Harold Pinter Theatre after impressing at Theatre Royal Bath
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Junior doctor-turned-writer and comedian Adam Kay returns to the West End with This is Going to Hurt
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With Tony- and Olivier Award-winning musical Come From Away preparing to reopen, the team behind it share their pandemic experiences and hopes
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Trailblazing director Ola Ince delivers a contemporary take on Romeo & Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe, marrying scenes with stats on a broad range of social justice issues
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Nicholas Hytner will transform Philip Pullman's La Belle Sauvage into a play at The Bridge Theatre in time for Christmas
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Greenwich Theatre has reopened with a quadruple bill of playwright Caryl Churchill’s rarely staged works, directed by James Haddrell
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From The Crown's Emma Corrin making her West End debut in Anna X to a starry revival of Nick Payne’s seminal play Constellations, July's top theatre is awaits
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Dylan Thomas’s ‘play for voices’ is reframed and revived in a vibrant medley of poetry and memory with a shining performance from Michael Sheen
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Olivier award-winning director Miranda Cromwell and BBC/HBO’s Industry star David Jonsson tap into the universality of grief in and breathe… at the Almeida Theatre.
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After impressing on Broadway, the stage musical of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge brings spectacular spectacular theatre to London in autumn 2021
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Following a sell-out premiere in 2019, Jasmine Lee-Jones' debut play seven methods of killing kylie jenner returns to the Royal Court Theatre
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Writer Jack Thorne, director Jeremy Herrin and designer Bunny Christie join forces to bring Hirokazu Kore-eda’s tender movie After Life to the National Theatre’s Dorfman stage
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Helmed by Stephen Daldry and Good Chance Theatre, The Walk sees a giant puppet of a Syrian refugee travel from her homeland to the UK in search of her mother
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Old Vic welcomes back studio audiences for the first time in 16 months with Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter, directed by Jeremy Herrin, starring David Thewlis and Daniel Mays
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J’Ouvert, the race-charged debut play by James Tait Black Award-winner Yasmin Joseph, opens as part of the Harold Pinter Theatre’s Reemerge series
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Sir Ian McKellen, on turning 82, will play Hamlet in a new age-blind production at Theatre Royal Windsor. He'll also play Firs in an adaptation of The Cherry Orchard
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The Harold Pinter Theatre reopens with Walden, a debut play by Amy Berryman. Gemma Arterton stars and Ian Rickson directs
