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Don't miss the West End transfer of this uproarious 'play with songs', which impressed at the National Theatre last summer
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Cold and crisp: this new televisual David Hare play is technical marvel - and a sight for sore eyes
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100 years after Easter Rising, Irish drama takes centre stage at the National's Lyttelton Theatre in Howard Davies' harrowing revival
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Annie Baker's polarising, Pulitzer-winning play The Flick is a long, slow slog that's utterly worth your patience
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Helen McCrory gives a masterful lead performance in Carrie Cracknell's elegant, atmospheric Rattigan revival
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Complicite and Bryony Kimmings create fearless theatre in this new musical about life with cancer, at the National's Dorfman Theatre
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Rory Kinnear makes for a cool callous Mack in Simon Stephens' translation of The Threepenny Opera, directed by Rufus Norris,
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This adaptation of Erdman's The Suicide is a rambunctious, if overly-ambitious, critique of austerity Britain
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Les Blancs, Lorraine Hansberry's searing play about racial tension and revolution in an African country is revived with clout
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The most harrowing things to happen at the National Theatre? Sarah Kane's Cleansed comes to the Dorfman, directed by Katie Mitchell
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Impressive performances and moments of warm comedy can't distract from the contrivances of Alexi Kaye Campbell's earnest play about a Greek island
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Sophie Melville enthrals as a very modern heroine in Gary Owen's stunning, shatteringly relevant one woman show
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A bold, fully accessible new play by Jack Thorne: The Solid Life of Sugar Water comes to the National's Temporary Theatre
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GET READY TO BOOK: for the National Theatre's new season, Dominic Cooke directs first major revival of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
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BOOKING REMINDER: National Theatre new season tickets on sale from 8.30am, Thursday 12th February, with Caryl Churchill, Damon Albarn and Rufus Norris at the helm.