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Steve Coogan reunites with frequent collaborator Armando Iannucci in the latter's stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s war comedy Dr. Strangelove

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Save your seats for Sheridan Smith in Rufus Wainwright and Ivo van Hove's new musical adaptation of Opening Night, based on the 1977 movie

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Marcelo Dos Santos delivers a humorous homage to the relationship between the Queen Mother and her footman Backstairs Billy, but fails to ground it in politics

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Hollywood golden couple Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City) and Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) star together in Plaza Suite

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Succession's Sarah Snook plays all 26 characters in Kip Williams' mind-boggling production of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Featuring songs by Joss Stone, The Time Traveller’s Wife comes to the West End as a musical where its moving story get swallowed up by schmaltz

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Start trying to make fetch happen: the Mean Girls musical finally comes to London after dazzling on Broadway

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Kenneth Branagh returns to the London stage for the first time in almost a decade with a bizarrely melodramatic and abridged King Lear

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From a stage prequel to hit sci-fi series Stranger Things to a stellar team taking on Roald Dahl's The Witches, these are the shows to book this month

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Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas bring star prowess to Lyonesse, but Penelope Skinner’s story in Ian Rickson’s production is a jumble of ideas

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The European premiere of Broadway hit Clyde's reunites Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage with director Lynette Linton at the Donmar Warehouse

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Sam Mendes directs The Hills of California, the latest play from Jerusalem playwright Jez Butterworth, showing at the Harold Pinter Theatre in 2024

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The Royal Shakespeare Company's enjoyable stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel Hamnet comes to the Garrick Theatre for a 14-week run

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Jamie Lloyd's Sunset Boulevard revival, fronted by Nicole Scherzinger, is both a homage to the black-and-white movie and a thrilling feat for tech on stage

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Doctor Who and The Crown star Matt Smith returns to the West End to star in a new production of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People

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From the chance to see Lily James opposite Kristin Scott Thomas, to a dose of Shakespeare from the maestro Kenneth Branagh, the hottest theatre to book now

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The Unfriend, a thriller-sitcom from Doctor Who and Sherlock writer Steven Moffat, returns to the West End

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Andrew Scott delivers a phenomenal performance playing all eight characters in this batty but brilliant one-man take on Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya

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The memoir of Henry Fraser, a former rugby player paralysed from the shoulders down, becomes an uplifting musical about coping with adversity

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Andrew Scott, Nicole Scherzinger and Ian McKellen are just some of the stars descending on the London stage this month

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Ian McKellen and Roger Allam reunite with director Sean Mathias to bring Ben Weatherill's Frank and Percy to the stage

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Gareth Southgate’s reform of the England men’s football team is the subject of James Graham’s heartwarming play Dear England, transferring to the West End

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From the long-awaited arrival of a Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical to, er, more musicals and the return of a Lucy Prebble masterpiece (not Enron, sorry!)

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Mark Rylance’s play about Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, whose early discovery of bacteria was snubbed by his seniors, is compelling from start to finish

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Susan Stroman's Crazy For You revival takes up a seven-month residency at the West End's Gillian Lynne Theatre after impressing in Chichester

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From eagerly awaited transfers to poignant new writing, we round up the best plays opening in London this July

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Arriving from Broadway, Mrs. Doubtfire the musical is a cheeky, high-spirited family show, with the potential to tickle audience members of all ages

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Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman finally arrives in the West End – 20 years after its premiere – with Lily Allen in the lead role and Matthew Dunster directing

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From the West End premiere of a Martin McDonagh classic to new work conceived by and starring the great Mark Rylance, June's best new theatre shows

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Gorgeous staging and near-perfect performances can’t mask the ick factor of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love, revived at the West End’s Lyric Theatre

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Brokeback Mountain looks the part and is fronted by two worthy stars, but this mechanical production fails to capture the intense longing of the story

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Brian Cox returns to the West End for the first time in almost a decade to star in Jeremy Herrin’s starry revival of Long Day’s Journey into Night