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Philip Ridley’s critically acclaimed 2007 play Leaves of Glass is revived at the Park Theatre in a new production starring Bridgerton's Geraldine Alexander
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From the National Theatre to the West End: Lyndsey Turner's production of The Crucible is back on stage with a new cast including Milly Alcock and Brian Gleeson
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Nina Segal and Anthony Lau's modernised take on Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan is entertaining and incisive, but at times over-embellished
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Lynn Nottage’s musical adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees buzzes onto stage at the Almeida where it’s sweetened by a cast of powerful vocalists
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Katie Mitchell’s compelling production of Rebecca Watson’s novel Little Scratch returns to the stage, performed by a tight cast at the New Diorama
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Michael Longhurst’s fresh look at Noël Coward’s Private Lives, playing at the Donmar, is a reminder of how far our views on gender equality have come in the last century
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Proving the public’s interest in the Vardy V Rooney trial still hasn’t waned, Liv Hennessy’s dramatisation of it returns to the West End, before tackling a national tour
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Ivo van Hove’s A Little Life is as relentless and harrowing as you’d expect, but artfully staged and led by a breathtaking central performance from James Norton
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Complicité’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, led by the formidable Kathryn Hunter, is a lesson in the power of good storytelling
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The 2023 Olivier Award winners in full, plus interviews with Jodie Comer, Marisha Wallace, My Neighbour Totoro's Tom Morton-Smith and more
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Grange Hill co-stars Ricky Simmonds and Simon Vaughan miss the mark with their musical Berlusconi about the three-time Italian prime minister, media mogul and sex pest
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It's a starry month on the London stage (see The Motive and the Cue and Private Lives in particular), and there's revivals aplenty celebrating the classics
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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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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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Kids
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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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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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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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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Feeling the pinch? SOLT’s head of marketing Emma De Souza on pocket-friendly hacks for seeing more theatre