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Mary Goes First
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Orange Tree Theatre
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Auriol Smith directs Henry Arthur Jones's rarely performed political play, written in 1913.
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Crocosmia
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BAC
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Little Bulb's beguiling and moving show about loss, memory and the three Brackenburg siblings.
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The Cordelia Dream
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Wilton's Music Hall
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Michelle Gomez stars in the RSC staging of Marina Carr's lyrical play.
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Loot
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Tricycle Theatre
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David Haig and Doon Mackichan star in Joe Orton's black farce.
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
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BAC
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1927's macabre yet magical show blends animation, music and performance.
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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover at Christmas
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Bush Theatre
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Ralf Little stars in the Bush's summer hit, re-written for the festive season.
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Mother Goose
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Hackney Empire
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Clive Rowe stars in the Empire's reliably entertaining annual pantomime.
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Coming Up For Air
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Rich Mix
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Don Kinch's 1987 play about young black men within the mental health system.
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Cinderella
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Lyric Hammersmith
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Melly Still stages a deliciously dark version of the classic fairy tale.
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Hansel and Gretel
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Barbican Theatre
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Inventive promenade production of the classic fairy tale from Catherine Wheels Theatre Company.
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A Little Night Music
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Menier Chocolate Factory
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Trevor Nunn directs a sparkling version of the Stephen Sondheim musical.
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Twelfth Night
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Tricycle Theatre
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Filter's raucous staging of Shakespeare's comedy returns to the Tricycle.
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The Time Of Your Life
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Finborough Theatre
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Revival of William Saroyan's 1939 comedy set in a San Francisco honky-tonk.
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Barbershopera
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Theatre 503
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Inventive musical comedy from barbershop quartet Toni and the Guys.
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In a Dark Dark House
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Almeida Theatre
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David Morrissey stars in Neil LaBute's three-hander.
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Sweet William
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Hampstead Theatre
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Michael Pennington's one-man show about the life and works of Shakespeare.
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Tombstone Tales and Boothill Ballads
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Arcola Theatre
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Carl Heap's colourful production about life - and death - in the Wild West.
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Newley: The Fool Who Dared To Dream
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Upstairs at the Gatehouse
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David Boyle and Peter Gallagher's new musical about the life of Anthony Newley.
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The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes
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Wilton's Music Hall
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The RSC stages Adriano Shaplin's ambitious historical drama.
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Muhammad Ali and Me
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Oval House
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Mojisola Adebayo's vibrant play about a young girl in care in the 1970s.
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Sweeney Todd
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Union Theatre
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Sasha Regan directs a lively production of Sondheim's macabre classic.
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I Caught Crabs in Walberswick
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Bush Theatre
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Joel Horwood's Fringe First winning play is a Suffolk-set slice of teenage angst.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Victoria Park
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The acclaimed Footsbarn theatre company stage Shakespeare's comedy in a big top in Hackney.
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Security
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BAC
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Vibrant one woman show from spoken word artist Zena Edwards.
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Sixteen Up
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Unicorn Theatre
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Frank discussions of sex and relationships in Box Clever's teen two-hander.
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On Emotion
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Soho Theatre
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Mick Gordon and Paul Broks's theatrical eassy on human emotions.
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State of Emergency
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Gate Theatre
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Falk Richter's thought-provoking play about surveillance and state control.
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Protest/Private View
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Orange Tree Theatre
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Sam Walters directs a second double bill of plays by Vaclav Havel.
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Othello
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Lyric Hammersmith
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Frantic Assembly's energetic update of Shakespeare's tragedy set in a Yorshire pub.
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Low Life
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BAC
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Puppet theatre company Blind Summit present a series of sketches set in a dive bar.
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Delirium
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Barbican Pit
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Theatre O and playwright Enda Walsh present an updated version of The Brothers Karamazov.
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Lucky Seven
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Hampstead Theatre
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Anthony Clark directs Alexis Zegerman's new play about a 7 Up style reality show.
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American Briefs
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Above The Stag
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A new fringe venue in Victoria hosts its first show; a collection of gay-themed shorts by American writers
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Follow
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Finborough Theatre
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New play from Dameon Garnett, about fatherhood and responsibilty
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Audience/Mountain Hotel
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Orange Tree Theatre
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A double bill of short plays by Vaclav Havel from the mid-1970s.
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Rue Magique
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King's Head Theatre
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New musical, by Brett Kahr, set in a south London brothel.
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The Dying Of Today
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Arcola Theatre
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New play by Howard Barker about the way tragedy impacts on civilisation.
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Blowing Whistles
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Leicester Square Theatre
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Matthew Todd's play about relationships in the age of Gaydar.
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Overspill
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Soho Theatre
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Ali Taylor's bombastic new play about three lads out on the town in Bromley.
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A Disappearing Number
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Barbican Theatre
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Complicite's award-winning production about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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Radioplay
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Lyric Studio
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Quirky one-man-and-a-jazz-band comedy about the radio days of 1920s New York.
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Spyski!
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Lyric Hammersmith
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Peepolykus present a madcap spy spoof at the Lyric - or do they?
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Iris Brunette
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BAC
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Melanie Wilson's hypnotic solo show, influenced by the short film La Jetee.
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The White Devil
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Menier Chocolate Factory
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Jonathan Munby directs John Webster's blood-soaked tragedy.
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Mine
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Hampstead Theatre
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Shared Experience stage Polly Teale's play about a couple who long to have a child.
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The Two Gentlemen Of Verona
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Barbican Pit
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Energetic staging of Shakespeare's comedy by Brazilian company Nos do Morro.
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Broken Space
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Bush Theatre
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Since they can't turn on the lights, the Bush Theatre presents a series of short plays set in the dark.
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Waste
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Almeida Theatre
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Sam West directs a stirring production of Harley Granville Barker's political drama.
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Cradle Me
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Finborough Theatre
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Simon Vinnicombe’s moving new play about a grieving family and the boy next door.
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Leaving
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Orange Tree Theatre
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Sam Walters directs the English language premiere of Vaclav Havel's new play.
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Fight Face
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Lyric Studio
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Sophie Woolley's energetic two-hander set in a west London kebab shop.
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Small Craft Warnings
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Arcola Theatre
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Greg Hicks and Sian Thomas star in Tennessee Williams' late play of wave-tossed lives.
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The Family
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Hackney Empire
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Surreal comedy from acclaimed St Petersburg clown company Licedei.
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Turandot
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Hampstead Theatre
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Anthony Clark directs the first UK staging of Brecht's comic satire.
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Sons Of York
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Finborough Theatre
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James Graham's moving family study set during 1978's Winter of Discontent.
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Joan Rivers: Work in Progress By a Life in Progress
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Leicester Square Theatre
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American comic Joan Rivers brings her Edinburgh Fringe show to London.
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The Collector
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Arcola Theatre
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Ben Caplan directs a tense staging of John Fowles's cult novel about a man who kidnaps and imprisons a woman.
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Hedda
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Gate Theatre
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Lucy Kirkwood updates Ibsen's play to modern day Notting Hill.
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Romeo And Juliet
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Middle Temple Hall
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Juliet Rylance stars in a staging of Shakespeare's tragic romance in Middle Temple Hall.
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Coloured Lights
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Jermyn Street Theatre
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A trawl through the lesser known songs of Kander and Ebb at Jermyn Street Theatre.
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Miss Behave's Variety Nighty
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Roundhouse
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Cabaret queen and sword swallower Miss Behave hosts an evening of variety.
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They're Playing Our Song
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Menier Chocolate Factory
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Connie Fisher and Alistair McGowan star in a Neil Simon revival.
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Elaine Stritch at Liberty
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Shaw Theatre
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Confessional musical show by octogenarian Broadway legend Elaine Stritch.
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Edward II
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BAC
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Michael Oakley directs a modern dress staging of Christopher Marlowe's tragedy.
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The Mikado
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Union Theatre
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An all-male staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta.
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Shakespeare's R & J
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Southwark Playhouse
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Joe Calarco's play transplants Romeo and Juliet to a 1950s boarding school.
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Wink The Other Eye
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Wilton's Music Hall
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Escapology, tight-rope walking, acrobatics and dance in a celebration of the lost world of music hall.
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Gob Squad's Kitchen
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Soho Theatre
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Anglo German performance collective Gob Squad rework Andy Warhol's 1965 film.
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Chu Chin Chow
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Finborough Theatre
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A semi-staged, script in hand, performance of the 1916 musical.
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Nocturne
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Almeida Theatre
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Pre-Edinburgh staging of Adam Rapp's raw and potent monologue.
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Hangover Square
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Finborough Theatre
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Gemma Fairlie stages Patrick Hamilton's ink-black, Earls Court-set novel.
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Moonlight And Magnolias
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Tricycle Theatre
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Ron Hutchinson's entertaining comedy about the making of Gone With The Wind returns to the Tricycle.
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The Last Maharajah
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Hoxton Hall
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New musical charting the life of Dalip Singh, the last Sikh ruler of the Punjab.
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The Tailor And Ansty
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Old Red Lion
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P. J. Connor’s engaging stage adaptation of Eric Cross' once-banned book.
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Unstated
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Southwark Playhouse
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Topher Campbell's promenade production draws on the testimonies of refugees.
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Frozen
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Riverside Studios
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Revival of Bryony Lavery's gripping and witty three-hander about a child murderer.
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Black Watch
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Barbican Theatre
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John Tiffany's acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland production finally arrives in London.
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Terrorism
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Greenwich Playhouse
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The Presnyakov Brothers' pre-9/11 black comedy follows the consequences of an airport bomb-scare.
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Torn
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Arcola Theatre
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Femi Oguns' new play depicts the divisions within the British Black community.
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Running The Silk Road
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Barbican Pit
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Yellow Earth Theatre stages Paul Sirret’s play about a man who runs 5000 miles to Beijing
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All Nudity Shall Be Punished
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Union Theatre
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Fear, sex and obsession explored in Nelson Rodrigues' Brazil-set play.
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The Diver
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Soho Theatre
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Hideki Noda blends elements of Noh with a contemporary crime drama. Starring Kathryn Hunter.
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Falstaff
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Warehouse Theatre, Croydon
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Roger Forbes stars in a one-man show about Shakespeare's enduring comic character.
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2,000 Feet Away
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Bush Theatre
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Josie Rourke directs Joseph Fiennes and Ian Hart in Anthony Weigh's morally complex play.
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The Magdalene Mysteries
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St James, Piccadilly
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The life of Mary Magdalene told through drama, music and dance in a central London church.
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Sail Away
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Lilian Baylis Studio
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Noel Coward's infrequently performed work is staged as part of the Lost Musicals series.
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Many Roads To Paradise
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Finborough Theatre
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Miriam Karlin stars in Stewart Permutt's bittersweet study of six interconnected lives.
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Dov And Ali
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Theatre 503
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Anna Ziegler’s intense and insightful play about a Jewish teacher and his Muslim student
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...Sisters
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Gate Theatre
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The Gate stages Chris Goode's improvised riff on Chekhov's Three Sisters.
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Story Of A Rabbit
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Barbican Pit
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A touching and endearing show about death from Hoipolloi and Hugh Hughes.
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The Six Wives Of Timothy Leary
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Riverside Studios
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Philip de Gouveia’s play about the counter-cultural icon and the women in his life.
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Hysteria
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St Barts Great Hall
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The Barbican presents a participatory production exploring the lives of women in a mental institution.
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Love - The Musical
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Lyric Hammersmith
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Love blossoms in an old people's home - to a soundtrack of David Bowie and Amy Winehouse.
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Fast Labour
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Hampstead Theatre
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Steve Waters' powerful play about the exploitation of immigrant workers.
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Topless Mum
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Tricycle Theatre
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Ron Hutchinson's satire on the ways in which the tabloid media can manipulate.
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Troilus and Cressida
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Barbican Theatre
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Declan Donnellan and Cheek By Jowl stage Shakespeare's play of moral decay.
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Rock
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Oval House
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Bette Bourne stars in Tim Fountain's two-hander about Rock Hudson and his agent Henry Wilson.
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The Common Pursuit
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Menier Chocolate Factory
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James Dreyfus, Reece Shearsmith and Nigel Harman star in a revival of Simon Gray's play.
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Rosmersholm
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Almeida Theatre
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Helen McCrory and Paul Hilton star in Anthony Page's staging of Ibsen's rarely performed play.
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Fucking Men
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Finborough Theatre
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Scott Capurro stars in a contemporary all-male update of La Ronde.
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Hard Hearted Hannah And Other Stories
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Lyric Studio
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A different show each night as Cartoon de Salvo bring 'long form' improvisation to London.
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Hitting A Brick Wall/Love Song Dedication
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BAC
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Part of the Burst Festival, a double bill of work by the Sydney-based performance artist Rosie Dennis.
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Under Milk Wood
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Tricycle Theatre
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The Tricycle stages Dylan Thomas' most famous work, originally intended for radio.
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Boris Godunov
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Barbican Theatre
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Declan Donnellan and Cheek By Jowl stage Pushkin's 1825 epic - in Russian.
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Smile Off Your Face
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BAC
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Ontroerend Goed’s extraordinary and intimate piece of one-to-one theatre plays as part of the Burst Festival.
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Stockholm
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Hampstead Theatre
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Playwright Bryony Lavery and Frantic Assembly join forces to create a captivating study of a volatile relationship.
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The Birthday Party
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Lyric Hammersmith
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Sheila Hancock stars in the Lyric's 50th anniversary staging of Pinter's sinister classic.
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Beau Jest
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Hackney Empire
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Lara Pulver stars in James Sherman's affectionate portrayal of Jewish family life.
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Celia
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New Players Theatre
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Set in the American South, Richard Nyeila’s new play tells the story of a slave who murders her master.
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In Spitting Distance
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Barbican Pit
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Khalifa Natour stars in a one man show about Palestinian struggle and identity.
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Richard III
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Roundhouse
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Jonathan Slinger stars in the concluding production of Michael Boyd's series of RSC history plays.
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Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3
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Roundhouse
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Michael Boyd's ambitous season of Shakespeare's histories for the RSC continues.
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The Lady From The Sea
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Arcola Theatre
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Lia Williams stars in the Arcola's staging of Ibsen's fable, in a new translation by Frank McGuinness.
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De Monfort
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Orange Tree Theatre
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Justin Avoth stars in the Orange Tree's revival of Joanna Baillie's tragedy of hatred.
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Tinderbox
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Bush Theatre
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Sheridan Smith stars in Lucy Kirkwood's new play, a dystopian comedy set in a Bradford butcher's shop.
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Henry V
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Roundhouse
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Geoffrey Streatfeild plays the ambitious king in Michael Boyd's production for the RSC.
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Henry IV, parts 1 and 2
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Roundhouse
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The next installments of Michael Boyd's RSC Histories come to the Roundhouse.
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Richard II
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Roundhouse
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After a successful run at Stratford, the first of Michael Boyd's RSC History plays arrives in London.
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