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Dad jokes, scat jokes, surreal jokes, cabaret, drag and improvised murder mysteries: what the best London comedy clubs have to offer
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Kunene and the King transfers to Ambassadors Theatre after a five-star premiere in Stratford-upon-Avon
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Bijan Sheibani's production of 50s play A Taste of Honey brings the spirit of working class Salford to the West End
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Members are invited to BELONGING(s) at the Greenwich + Docklands International Festival, a site-specific play about migration
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Hold on to your seat as Laura Wade's 2010 smash Posh gets a gender-bending makeover – and there's not a smug Kit Harington in sight
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Absorbing, challenging and entertaining, this immersive game is unlike anything we've experienced on stage. Lucy Brooks reviews World Factory.
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Arthur Miller's classic is made freshly devastating in this flawless RSC revival as it transfers to the West End, says Lucy Brooks.
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Elegant, Swellegant and utterly charming, High Society brings Hollywood glamour to jubilant life at the Old Vic says Lucy Brooks
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The humour and heartbreak of Shakespeare's problem play are brought to life with Jonathan Pryce making a stellar Shylock says Lucy Brooks
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Bugsy Malone on stage is a joyous Prohibition pastiche that delights all ages, say Eleonore and Anatole Dresch.
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Bold, ambitious but a little hollow, Everyman is more spectacle than spiritual, writes Lucy Brooks
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David Mamet's muscular comedy, starring John Goodman, Tom Sturridge and Damian Lewis, is revived with style says Lucy Brooks.
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Simon Stephen's adaptation distills the passion of opera through the anonymity of modern city life with poetic power Lucy Brooks
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Eugene O'Neil's gently uplifting family portrait is brought to life with a dreamlike set and dark undertones says Lucy Brooks.
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REVIEW: Enda Walsh's The Twits: a heap of fun with a set to boggle the mind.
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Sam Holcroft breaks the rules with an uproarious and acutely observed comedy that collapses into chaos, writes Lucy Brooks
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Fast-paced, spitting with emotion and a joy to watch, The Broken Heart at the Wanamaker playhouse is not to be missed, writes Helena Kealey.
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REVIEW: Lippy, Young Vic's latest production, is brave, clever and very entertaining.
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REVIEW: 'Man and Superman', George Bernard Shaw's enormous drama, is kept upright by Ralph Fiennes' National Theatre triumph. But why now?
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Greg Wise's return to theatre in Kill Me Now is darkly funny and a relentless punch to the heart
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Arrestingly alive and bitterly funny, this fragmented and disturbing coming of age tale will get under your skin, writes Lucy Brooks
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It may not be as shocking or searing as when it premiered in 1999 but this Donmar Warehouse Closer revival still sizzles, says Lucy Brooks
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REVIEW: Zinnie Harris' new play, How to Hold Your Breath, opens at the Royal Court
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REVIEW: It was overseen by National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner and all the Tom Stoppard themes are there, but is it a brilliant play? asks Ella Cory-Wright
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Opposites still spark in this snappy and heart-warming rom-com told through the first and last hour of a relationship, writes Lucy Brooks
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A devastating yet subtle tale of maternal devotion and determination, stunningly performed by Penelope Wilton, writes Lucy Brooks
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An exuberant example of the joys of fringe theatre, which will have you howling with laughter, writes Lucy Brooks
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REVIEW: Shakespeare's Othello is made urgently alive as the physical theatre brings thrilling ripples of violence and sensuality writes Lucy Brooks
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Fun, feisty and refreshingly feminist, Almodóvar's film fizzes on stage, but some of the hysteria and heartbreak feels a little hollow, writes Lucy Brooks
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All that glitters in Shakespeare's most controversial comedy sparkles on the Almeida stage as Rupert Goold's boldly updated production illuminates both humour and tragedy.
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It's man against the machine this winter as bold boundary-breaking theatre company 1927 satirise technology in a spectacular family show.