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Theatre
Fleabag’s Sian Clifford stars alongside Nikesh Patel in this digital production of Lorien Haynes’ Good Grief, produced by Platform Presents
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Kids
Iris Theatre’s The Snow Queen is an online, interactive adventure sure to delight little ones this winter
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Netflix
Featuring Chadwick Boseman's final performance, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – based on the August Wilson play – follows a 1920s blues band recording their next album. Viola Davis also stars
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Kids
Unlikely, loveable hero Stick Man returns to the stage in this delightful family Christmas show from Freckle Productions
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Theatre
The Almeida has reopened with Nine Lessons and Carols, playwright Chris Bush and director Rebecca Frecknall's deft reflection on 2020
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Theatre
Alice Hamilton directs a 60th-anniversary production of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter at Hampstead Theatre, where the play premiered in 1960
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Theatre
Nicholas Hytner directs this all-new production of A Christmas Carol at the Bridge Theatre, starring Simon Russell Beale, Patsy Ferran and Eben Figueiredo
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Immersive
Immersive theatre experts Les Enfants Terribles have created a virtual Sherlock Holmes-themed adventure: The Case of the Hung Parliament
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Theatre
With lockdown lifting, live theatre returns to London's stages just in time for Christmas. Here are the best plays to catch this winter
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Immersive
The swinging romance of summer 1963 gears up to get London audiences dancing in July 2022
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Themes
London families are desperately missing kid-friendly theatre. These are the immersive productions to watch with your tots in tow at home this Christmas season
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Theatre
Clint Dyer and Roy Williams return to the National Theatre with Death of England: Delroy, an unflinching examination of being a black working-class man in Britain
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Musicals
Director Luke Sheppard and actor Miriam-Teak Lee on the magic of their pop-fuelled musical & Juliet, which returns to the West End in 2021
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Theatre
Live theatre is making a comeback in the capital – and there's plenty you won't want to miss. Here are the best shows in London to see this autumn
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Kids
For one year only, the National Theatre is staging a panto for Christmas. Dick Whittington is being performed live to a socially distanced audience
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Theatre
Following its six-month slumber, the West End is reopening several of its best-loved shows this autumn. Here’s what you can watch over the next few months
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Theatre
From the excitement as the lights go down to the electric feeling the experience leaves you with, there’s nothing quite like a night at the theatre
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Theatre
Michael Sheen, Indira Varma and David Threlfall star in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, the third instalment of the Old Vic: In Camera live-streamed series
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Theatre
Dante of Die’s hit Edinburgh Festival Fringe play User Not Found, about death and social media, has been revamped for the digital sphere
Tried and Tested
Theatre
A second chance to catch Emma Rice's Romantics Anonymous comes this autumn, as the play is broadcast live from Bristol Old Vic
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Theatre
Emerging playwright Anoushka Warden wins Platform Presents’ Playwright’s Prize with her comic entry: My Dad’s A Cunt, starring Aimee Lou Wood
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Theatre
Andrew Scott returns to the stage to star in Stephen Beresford’s new play Three Kings, the second instalment of the Old Vic: In Camera live-streamed series
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Kids
The Hamilton trailer's arrived, and we get to watch the original Broadway cast perform the hit show on Disney+ from the best seats in the house (literally)
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Theatre
Helen Mirren and Mark Strong star in Robert Icke's modern re-telling of Oedipus, on the London stage in 2021
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Immersive
Dragons and Mythical Beasts is an interactive children's show that brings the most amazing creatures to life for the kids thanks to spectacular puppetry
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Kids
Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved novel, The Secret Garden, is coming to the West End for two performances this April 2020.