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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
New Players Theatre, London
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
Barbican Pit, London
Khalifa Natour stars in a one man show about Palestinian struggle and identity.
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Richard III
Roundhouse, London
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
Roundhouse, London
Michael Boyd's ambitous season of Shakespeare's histories for the RSC continues.
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The Lady From The Sea
Arcola Theatre, London
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
Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond
Justin Avoth stars in the Orange Tree's revival of Joanna Baillie's tragedy of hatred.
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Tinderbox
Bush Theatre, London
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
Roundhouse, London
Geoffrey Streatfeild plays the ambitious king in Michael Boyd's production for the RSC.
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Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2
Roundhouse, London
The next installments of Michael Boyd's RSC Histories come to the Roundhouse.
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Richard II
Roundhouse, London
After a successful run at Stratford, the first of Michael Boyd's RSC History plays arrives in London.
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War And Peace
Hampstead Theatre, London
Shared Experience bring their two-part staging of Tolstoy's epic novel to Hampstead.
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The Internationalist
Gate Theatre, London
Elliot Cown stars as an American abroad in Anne Washburn's 'foreign' comedy.
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John Moran And His Neighbour Saori
Soho Theatre, London
An unclassifiable collision of theatre, music and dance from Philip Glass protege Moran.
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An Enemy Of The People
Arcola Theatre, London
Greg Hicks stars in Mehmet Ergen's striking staging of Ibsen's potent drama.
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Cotton Wool
Theatre 503, London
Ali Taylor's lyrical play about two Scottish brothers mourning the death of their mother.
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Contains Violence
Lyric Hammersmith, London
Shunt's David Rosenberg presents a site-sympathetic exercise in voyeurism.
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Instructions For Modern Living
Barbican Pit, London
Inventive multimedia piece, mixing music and video imagery, by Duncan Sarkies and Nic McGowan.
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In My Name
Old Red Lion, London
James Alexandrou stars in a volatile odd couple play set in the aftermath of the July 7 bombings.
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Jingo
Finborough Theatre, London
Susannah Harker stars in the Finborough's revival of Charles Wood's farce of war.
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Days Of Significance
Tricycle Theatre, London
The RSC production of Roy Williams' latest, politically charged play transfers from Stratford to London.
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Chains Of Dew
Orange Tree, Richmond
A rare revival of Susan Glaspell's neglected 1922 comedy of cultural collision.
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The Harder They Come
Barbican, London
The Theatre Royal Stratford East production of the cult Jamaican film transfers.
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A Couple Of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians
Soho Theatre, London
A wild ride of a debut play from award-winning Polish author Dorota Maslowska.
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Sarajevo Story
Lyric Studio, London
Lightwork's new multimedia production explores failures in communication.
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Plague Over England
Finborough Theatre, London
Theatre critic Nicholas de Jongh turns his hand to playwriting with the story of John Gielgud's near career-ending arrest.
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Shadow Language
Theatre 503, London
American playwright Kelly Stuart's new work examines the plight of the Kurdish people in Turkey.
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Artefacts
Bush Theatre, London
A young girl recieves an unusual gift from her estranged father in Mike Bartlett's new play.
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Thin Toes
Pleasance Theatre, London
Laura Stevens' new play at the Pleasance explores anorexia and the art world.
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The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
Lyric Hammersmith, London
Lucian Msamati stars in David Farr's transposition of Brecht's Nazi satire to an African setting.
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Tough Time, Nice Time
Barbican Pit, London
Ridiculusmus return to the Barbican with a two-hander set in a Bangkok bath house.
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Dad's Army
Hackney Empire, London
Leslie Grantham stars in a stage version of the classic sitcom's lost episodes.
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The Merchant Of Venice
Greenwich Playhouse, London
Galleon Theatre stage a well balanced production of Shakespeare's difficult drama.
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The Homecoming
Almeida Theatre, London
A family of gangsters and pimps get used to having a woman around the house in Pinter's 1964 play.
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The Death of Margaret Thatcher
Courtyard Theatre, London
Tom Green's controversy-courting new play about the death of the Iron Lady.
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Counterfeit Skin
Courtyard Theatre, London
Jason Charles' exploration of the ins and outs of modern homosexual relationships.
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Mad Funny Just
Theatre 503, London
An inventive devised piece, staged in conjunction with Old Vic, New Voices.
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White Boy
Soho Theatre, London
Tanika Gupta's schoolyard drama returns for a second stint at Soho Theatre.
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Let There Be Love
Tricycle Theatre, London
The Tricyle stages Kwame Kwei Armah's latest, a tender play of cultural collision.
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The Arab And The Jew
Lyric Studio, London
The Arab Israeli conflict explored in a near-wordless work by two-man theatre compnay Gecko.
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Helter Skelter/Land Of The Dead
Bush Theatre, London
Powerful, punchy double bill of new work from the reliably controversial Neil LaBute.
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My Sister In This House
Greenwich Playhouse, London
Drama based on the true story of a brutal murder of a mother and daughter by their servants.
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The Conservatory
Old Red Lion, London
Life, death and home improvements explored in a new play by Mark Dooley.
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Metamorphosis
Lyric Hammersmith, London
David Farr and Gisli Orn Gardarsson's acrobatic take on Kafka returns to the Lyric.
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La Cage Aux Folles
Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Douglas Hodge and Philip Quast star in the Menier's revival of the Broadway hit.
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Anansi Trades Places
Shaw Theatre, London
A retelling of the Anansi myths provides the basis for Talawa's alternative Christmas show.
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A Christmas Carol
Greenwich Playhouse, London
A staging of Charles Dickens ever-popular Christmas story by Flatpack Theatre.
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Beauty And The Beast
Lyric Hammersmith, London
The Lyric stages Told By An Idiot's family friendly retelling of the popular fairy tale.
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Jack And The Beanstalk
Barbican, London
Following on from Mark Ravenhill, this year it's Jonathan Harvey's turn to pen a panto for the Barb.
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God In Ruins
Soho Theatre, London
Anthony Neilson collaborates with the RSC on an alternative Christmas show.
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Dick Whittington And His Cat
Hackney Empire, London
Clive Rowe stars in the Empire's hugely entertaining annual pantomime.
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Limbo
Arcola Theatre, London
Declan Feenan's poignant monologue about a young woman's relationship with an older man
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The Six-Days World
Finborough Theatre, London
Long buried family secrets come to light at Christmas time in Elizabeth Kuti's new play.
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Crestfall
Theatre 503, London
Niamh Cusack stars in Mark O'Rowe's new play, a series of three visceral monologues.
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Cinderella
Little Angel Theatre, London
The Little Angel presents their version of the classic fairy story, told entirely with puppets.
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Doubt
Tricycle Theatre, London
John Patrick Shanley's contentious play set in a Catholic School in the Bronx.
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tHe dYsFUnCKshOnalZ!
Bush Theatre, London
A punk band reforms for one last gig in Mike Packer's raucous but soft-hearted comedy.
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They Have Oak Trees In North Carolina
Tristan Bates Theatre, London
A stranger claims to be a couple's missing son in Sarah Wooley's tense drama.
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Chains
Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond
The Orange Tree revives Elizabeth Barker's fascinating social drama, written in 1909.
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The Human Computer
BAC, London
Comic actor Will Adamsdale's latest inventive show celebrates technological ineptitude.
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Hedda Gabler
Greenwich Playhouse, London
Alice de Sousa takes the lead in a staging of Ibsen's biting indictment of the bourgeoisie.
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Songs Of Grace And Redemption
Theatre 503, London
Lonely lives collide in John Donnelly's darkly comic and intriguing new play.
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Being Norwegian
Shunt Vaults, London
A sweet, short play by David Greig, the first in Paines Plough's series of A Play, A Pie and A Pint events.
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Cloud Nine
Almeida Theatre, London
Thea Sharrock directs a revival of Caryl Churchill's ambiguous study of sexual politics.
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Red Death Lates
BAC, London
The BAC stages the coolest after-show party in town following their masterful Masque.
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Meetings
Arcola Theatre, London
Food is at the heart of this staging of Mustapha Matura's Trindad set drama
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The Masque Of The Red Death
BAC, London
Punchdrunk return with another sumptuous performance, this time of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe.
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