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From classic musicals to great new writing, give the gift of theatre this Christmas with Theatre Tokens

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Emma Corrin is compelling as Virginia Woolf’s time-travelling androgyne in Michael Grandage’s timely production of Orlando

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Clint Dyer’s slick production of Othello at the National Theatre starkly illuminates the systemic racism and misogyny in society

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London's most popular Christmas highlights will sell out long before December comes around. Here is what you need to book now to have the best Christmas in town

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Fresh from Broadway (via Manchester), a new musical based on hit 1993 movie Mrs. Doubtfire comes to the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre

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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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Playwright James Graham teams up with musical legend Sir Elton John to dramatise the story of Tammy Faye Bakker: televangelist turned unlikely gay icon

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Neil Baldwin’s life story Marvellous is a charming choice to open new West End theatre @sohoplace

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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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Grammy-winning, hit Broadway musical The Band's Visit impresses at the Donmar Warehouse in a new production directed by Michael Longhurst

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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

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Samira Wiley (Orange Is the New Black) and Giles Terera (Hamilton) star in Lynette Linton’s mesmeric revival of Blues for an Alabama Sky at the National Theatre

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Sir Ian McKellen leads the cast of Mother Goose. The pantomime is touring until Easter 2023, calling in at the West End's Duke of York's Theatre for Christmas

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Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland gives voice to a diverse array of contemporary British Jews and their views on antisemitism

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Director Daniel Fish's Tony-winning revival of Oklahoma! transfers from the Young Vic to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre for 2023

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Starring Oscar-winner Helen Hunt, Eureka Day is a hard-working satire about woke culture that wins over the Old Vic audience in post-pandemic London

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The 2014 Olivier award-winning play Handbagged returns to the Kiln, breathing life into the fractious relationship between the Iron Lady and Queen Elizabeth II

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Acclaimed director Richard Eyre pens his first original play, The Snail House. It’s got the buzzwords to make it a story of 2022, but haven’t we met these characters before?

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Dipo Baruwa-Etti poses interesting questions about race and class in The Clinic, showing at the Almeida, but too many mic drop moments see it dissolve into melodrama

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Lauded Belgian director Ivo Van Hove returns to London with his take on Édouard Louis's internationally acclaimed book Who Killed My Father

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Following a critically-acclaimed, sell-out run at the Young Vic theatre last winter, James Graham's Best of Enemies gets a West End transfer

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From the return of The Doctor starring Juliet Stevenson to Erin Doherty in The Crucible at the National Theatre, September's theatre shows are looking starry

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Director Jude Christian takes on Titus Andronicus, Holly Race Roughan does Henry V and Sean Holmes presents an indoor-outdoor take on The Winter's Tale

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Shakespeare’s Globe, Headlong and Leeds Playhouse unite to present a fresh take on Shakespeare’s timeless history play Henry V, directed by Holly Race Roughan

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Shakespeare’s first and bloodiest tragedy Titus Andronicus in a new production by pioneering director Jude Christian at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

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In a first for Shakespeare's Globe, director Sean Holmes presents a promenade The Winter’s Tale that moves between the theatre’s indoor and outdoor spaces

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All of Us is an immensely moving, emotionally raw account of the consequences of cuts to disability benefits from writer, comedian and actor Francesca Martinez

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Director Daniel Evans proves there’s still a place on the stage for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s controversial musical South Pacific

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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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Dear Evan Hansen prepares to take its final West End bow. Here's how it became the landmark musical all teens, their parents and everyone in between should see.

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From a charming children's show to urgent pieces about the climate and austerity, plus two bumper festivals, August's best theatre covers all bases