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The culture wars are at the fore of Scandaltown, Mike Bartlett’s pastiche of a Restoration comedy, showing at the Lyric Hammersmith under director Rachel O’Riordan
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Playwright Mike Bartlett reunites with King Charles III director Rupert Goold on The 47th, a political satire set in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential race
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The 2022 Olivier Awards saw big wins for Cabaret and Life of Pi, with further recognition going to Back to the Future, Constellations and Moulin Rouge! The Musical
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Robert Icke's The Doctor, starring Juliet Stevenson, finally gets its West End after a stunning premiere at the Almeida
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Gare St Lazare Ireland returns to the Coronet Theatre with How It Is (Part 2), an abstract, musical voyage through Samuel Beckett’s final full-length novel
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Jeremy O. Harris makes his UK debut at the Almeida with “Daddy” A Melodrama, a play that lets designer Matt Saunders’ poolside set do the heavy lifting
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Between Mark Rylance reprising his role in 'the greatest play of the century' and Jodie Comer making her West End debut, April's theatre is brimming with excitement
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All rise for Aaron Sorkin's smash-hit stage adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, starring a masterful Rafe Spall as Atticus Finch
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Writer David Hare, director Nicholas Hytner and actor Ralph Fiennes return to the Bridge Theatre with Hare’s latest play, Straight Line Crazy
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While Mike Bartlett’s play Cock says nothing poignant about sexuality, this well-orchestrated revival is bolstered by performances from Jonathan Bailey and Taron Egerton
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Verbatim maestro Alecky Blythe returns to the National Theatre with Our Generation: a tour de force spotlighting the experiences of British teens today
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From new work by David Hare to a revival of an Olivier-winner by Mike Bartlett and the return of Punchdrunk, the London stage glitters with potential this March
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With February behind us, we look back on the month's stage highlights you can still catch – from the return of Cyrano to the revival of a French anti-play
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Debut playwright Sian Carter's Running With Lions, showing at the Lyric Hammersmith, is a tearjerker overflowing with grief and joy
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Florian Zeller's latest play The Forest, which has its world premiere at Hampstead Theatre, is a dreamlike thriller that struggles to take off
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Acclaimed practitioners and L'Ecole Jacques Lecoq alumni Kathryn Hunter, Marcello Magni and Toby Sedgwick star in Omar Elerian’s The Chairs at the Almeida
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Summer 2022 at Shakespeare's Globe includes the chance to watch Kathryn Hunter as King Lear, Sean Holmes's The Tempest, a feminist Henry VIII and more
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The Globe’s Sean Holmes transports audiences to the magical lair of Prospero and co with his fresh-air take on the Bard’s elemental comedy, The Tempest
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A moody, folky take on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights comes to the National’s Lyttelton Theatre in the hands of Emma Rice’s Wise Children
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Screen stars Lennie James and Paapa Essiedu breathe fresh life into A Number, Caryl Churchill’s clone-fuelled father-son drama, at the Old Vic
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Andrea Levy's epic tale of love, hope and sacrifice between Britain and Jamaica in the 40s returns after sold out premiere in 2019
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Writer John Logan and director Alex Timbers’ Tony-winning, Broadway-charming Moulin Rouge! The Musical is ‘spectacular, spectacular’ – and worth the wait
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Park yourself on one of the least sticky seats in town and be among the first audiences at these brand-new London theatres
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'The writing’s not on the wall, it’s on the floor' – Conundrum at the Young Vic disappoints
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The revamped, performance-focused Seven Dials Playhouse opens with the European premiere of Mark Gerard’s 2015 play Steve, directed by Andrew Keates
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On our radar in 2022 are so many exciting goodies and anticipated trends. Our editor-in-chief Eleonore Dresch organises them in alphabetical order
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Playwright Alistair McDowall returns to the Royal Court Theatre with The Glow, a Victorian-set thriller based in an asylum, directed by Vicky Featherstone
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From superstar directors giving the classics a fresh spin to book adaptations delighting anew on stage, we round up the best London theatre of 2021
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The Almeida Theatre’s Rupert Goold directs a talented young cast in his revival of Tony-winning musical Spring Awakening, but misses a trick in leaving the story in the past
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Following a critically acclaimed run at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre, Lolita Chakrabarti's adaptation of Life of Pi opens in the West End in a feat for puppetry and theatrics
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Playwright Moira Buffini returns to the National Theatre with Manor, a thriller-esque state-of-the-nation drama starring Nancy Carroll and Shaun Evans
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Musicals
Director Bronagh Lagan presents a musical version of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women that's sweet, sentimental and soft-boiled