Best new plays: London 2019 theatre highlights

Death of a Salesman, Piccadilly Theatre

After a superlative premiere at the Young Vic, Marianne Elliott's stunning, sold out production of Death of a Salesman transfers to the West End.

The Antipodes, National Theatre

Pulitzer-winner Annie Baker is one of America's rising star playwrights, celebrated for capturing the cadences of realism in shows that subtly shift theatrical forms. After impressing with first The Flick then John, she returns with a surreal exploration of story-telling.

Lungs, Old Vic Theatre

Claire Foy and Matt Smith are set to make their Old Vic debuts in an upcoming production of Duncan Macmillan’s 2011 plays Lungs.

Blood Wedding, Young Vic

Federíco Garcia Lorca’s 1932 tale of feuding families and repressed love is re-imagined by Olivier Award nomined director Yaël Farber at the Young Vic.

Three Sisters, National Theatre

After impressing with sell-out Barber Shop Chronicles, Inua Ellams retruns to the National Theatre with a new take on Chekhov's Three Sisters., set in Nigeria's Biafran war.

Touching the Void, Duke of York's Theatre

London theatre will reach dizzying new heights as the true story of the struggle for survival in the Andes comes to the Duke of York's Theatre. Touching the Void transfers to London after five-star reviews from a National tour.

Fairview, Young Vic

After winning the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for drama, the Susan Blackburn Prize for female playwrights and a series of jubilant reviews in New York, Fairview comes to London. Jackie Sibblies Drury's 2018 play challenges preconceptions with a meta-textual exploration of race and privilege.

Dear Evan Hansen, Noel Coward Theatre

Teenage dreams are about to come true as a smash hit Broadway musical about adolescence transfers to London. Dear Evan Hansen is the heartfelt story of a misfit who accidentally becomes a social media sensation. The show stormed Broadway, scooping six Tony Awards and a Grammy.

Appropriate, Donmar Warehouse

Appropriate, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s incendiary exploration of race set in a former slave plantation, gets its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse.

the end of history..., Royal Court Theatre 2019

Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, the dream team behind Harry Potter and The Cursed Child and Let the Right One In, return to the Royal Court for an enigmatic new domestic drama.

Mary Poppins, Prince Edward Theatre London

Get ready for a flurry of kites, jolly holidays and spoons full of sugar as everyone's favourite nanny flies back onto the London stage. Fifteen years after its impressive premiere, Disney's stage show Mary Poppins returns to its original home on the West End.

My Brilliant Friend, National Theatre

A reclusive Italian writer sparked an international media frenzy with her irresistibly absorbing Neapolitan novels. Now Elena Ferrante's engrossing saga comes to the National Theatre stage.

& Juliet, Shaftesbury Theatre

Pop song-writer supreme Max Martin presents a new Shakespearean musical exploring life after Romeo and featuring pop hits such as 'Baby One More Time', 'Everybody (Backstreet's Back), 'Love Me Like You Do' and 'I Can’t Feel My Face'.

White Christmas, Dominion Theatre

If you're dreaming of a white Christmas then head to the Dominion Theatre this winter, where the classic musical is revived with a starry cast.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Fleabag, Wyndham's Theatre

Before the Hot Priest and obnoxious God Mother, before the BAFTAs and Broadway transfers, before Bond, Star Wars and Villanelle, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag started out on stage. And she's coming back for a final farewell performance of the original 2013, starring Waller-Bridge herself.

The Man in the White Suit, Wyndham's Theatre

Double Olivier Award-winning actor, director and writer Sean Foley is back in the West End with an adapted version of the classic 1951 Ealing studios comedy, The Man in the White Suit, starring Stephen Mangan.

Present Laughter, Old Vic Theatre

Andrew Scott returns to the stage to play the part that Noel Coward wrote for himself. Garry Essendine, the narcissistic hero of Present Laughter, is one of Coward's best-loved creations. Scott will don silk pajamas to play the charming matinee idol in a revival of the 1942 comedy at The Old Vic.

Night of the Iguana, Noel Coward Theatre

Clive Owen returns to the stage after 18 years to star in a strange and lesser-known Tennessee Williams play, the tropically-tinged Night of the Iguana.