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Tried and Tested
Musicals
Michael R Jackson’s Pulitzer and Tony-winning play A Strange Loop comes to the Barbican stage with a cast led by the superb Kyle Ramar Freeman
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Musicals
Grammy-winning, hit Broadway musical The Band's Visit impresses at the Donmar Warehouse in a new production directed by Michael Longhurst
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Musicals
Director Bartlett Sher’s My Fair Lady is a traditional take on the classic musical, but with loyalty to Pygmalion hidden up its puff sleeve
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Theatre
Matthew Broderick shines in The Starry Messenger, a sensitive though somewhat lacklustre exploration of a man's mid-life crisis
Tried and Tested
Best of
Disney's blockbuster Aladdin musical brings Arabian nights, magic carpets and a surfeit of sparkle to London's West End
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Best of
May the best man win in this starry revival of Gore Vidal's White House drama
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Theatre
American upstart and Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker returns to the National Theatre with an uncanny new story
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Theatre
Oslo, J. T. Rogers' political thriller about negotiations between Israel and Palestine is an intelligent, moving reminder that peace is fragile
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Theatre
Game of Thrones' Natalie Dormer dominates an otherwise unsatisfying story of control and kink
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Theatre
Cut loose with this big-haired, high-energy stage version of the hit 1980s film: Footloose – the Musical returns to London for a limited run at the Peacock Theatre
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Theatre
New York performance artist Taylor Mac's subversive comedy exploring gender comes to London, with Arthur Darvill leading the cast
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Theatre
Broadway's Stockard Channing and Downton's Laura Carmichael star in a revival of Alexi Kaye Campbell's 2009 play
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Theatre
Andrew Garfield, Denise Gough and Nathan Lane lead a star-studded cast in this mighty National Theatre revival of Angels in America
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Theatre
An extraordinary performance by Broadway great Audra McDonald makes Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill at the Wyndham’s Theatre an unmissable show
Things To Do
Shows worth making a song and dance about: new London musicals, West End, Off West End and Fringe, that will have you humming all the way home
Tried and Tested
Theatre
The final extension announced for exuberant hiphop musical In the Heights, from the creator of Hamilton
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Theatre
The return of Mark Rylance: Nice Fish comes to London and promises free tickets for people dressed up as fish
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Theatre
An alternative type of musical that Londoners will relish, two of musical theatre's biggest stars align for this show about Siamese twins
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Theatre
Sheridan Smith shines as Funny Girl Fanny Brice
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Theatre
Megastar actor Glenn Close makes West End debut as Norma Desmond, the role she played to jubilant success on Broadway
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Theatre
Olivier-winning actors Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russelll star in UK premiere of hit Broadway musical Grey Gardens
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Theatre
Fresh from impressing in Bond, Andrew Scott stars in Richard Greenberg's The Dazzle at the theatre space in the Old Central St Martins Building
In the Know
Theatre
The smash hit stage adaptation starring James Franco and Chris O'Dowd is the first ever Broadway show to be broadcast live in UK cinemas
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Theatre
Though the grand scale musical Thoroughly Modern Millie feels a little squashed in the Landor Theatre, it's full of fun, fizz and fabulous dancing
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Theatre
With a trail of 5 star reviews from Chichester, Gypsy starring Imelda Staunton is every bit as superlative in this West End transfer.
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Theatre
After a triumphant US tour and sizzling reviews, Memphis' London run is rocking, with nine Olivier nominations and new star Matt Cardle, X Factor winner