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Hello, Dolly! fills the London Palladium stage with colour, joy and razzmatazz in a traditional production given tremendous depth by Imelda Staunton in the title role
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Brian Cox gives a monumental performance in this devastating revival of Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical family drama
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Syncopation, at the Bridewell Theatre, is a thoroughly entertaining play, set in New York in the early days of ballroom dancing
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Kip Williams’ The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring Sarah Snook, is blazingly entertaining, but relies too heavily on tech
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Playwright Jez Butterworth and director Sam Mendes join forces again to present The Hills of California: an astute and compelling all-female family drama
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From long-awaited stage adaptations of cult movies to rare appearances from famous faces, we round up the best plays 2024 is promising
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In what's been a strong year for musical revivals and an even stronger one for advancements in tech on stage, we round up the best theatre shows 2023 provided
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Starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, Max Webster's Macbeth-with-headphones dodges the obvious pitfalls and pulls off the extraordinary
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Steve Coogan reunites with frequent collaborator Armando Iannucci in the latter's stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s war comedy Dr. Strangelove
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Save your seats for Sheridan Smith in Rufus Wainwright and Ivo van Hove's new musical adaptation of Opening Night, based on the 1977 movie
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Marcelo Dos Santos delivers a humorous homage to the relationship between the Queen Mother and her footman Backstairs Billy, but fails to ground it in politics
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Hollywood golden couple Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City) and Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) star together in Plaza Suite
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Featuring songs by Joss Stone, The Time Traveller’s Wife comes to the West End as a musical where its moving story get swallowed up by schmaltz
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Start trying to make fetch happen: the Mean Girls musical finally comes to London after dazzling on Broadway
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Kenneth Branagh returns to the London stage for the first time in almost a decade with a bizarrely melodramatic and abridged King Lear
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From a stage prequel to hit sci-fi series Stranger Things to a stellar team taking on Roald Dahl's The Witches, these are the shows to book this month
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Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas bring star prowess to Lyonesse, but Penelope Skinner’s story in Ian Rickson’s production is a jumble of ideas
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The European premiere of Broadway hit Clyde's reunites Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage with director Lynette Linton at the Donmar Warehouse
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The Royal Shakespeare Company's enjoyable stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel Hamnet comes to the Garrick Theatre for a 14-week run
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Jamie Lloyd's Sunset Boulevard revival, fronted by Nicole Scherzinger, is both a homage to the black-and-white movie and a thrilling feat for tech on stage
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Doctor Who and The Crown star Matt Smith returns to the West End to star in a new production of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People
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From the chance to see Lily James opposite Kristin Scott Thomas, to a dose of Shakespeare from the maestro Kenneth Branagh, the hottest theatre to book now
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The Unfriend, a thriller-sitcom from Doctor Who and Sherlock writer Steven Moffat, returns to the West End
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Andrew Scott delivers a phenomenal performance playing all eight characters in this batty but brilliant one-man take on Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya
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The memoir of Henry Fraser, a former rugby player paralysed from the shoulders down, becomes an uplifting musical about coping with adversity
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Andrew Scott, Nicole Scherzinger and Ian McKellen are just some of the stars descending on the London stage this month
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Ian McKellen and Roger Allam reunite with director Sean Mathias to bring Ben Weatherill's Frank and Percy to the stage
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Gareth Southgate’s reform of the England men’s football team is the subject of James Graham’s heartwarming play Dear England, transferring to the West End
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From the long-awaited arrival of a Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical to, er, more musicals and the return of a Lucy Prebble masterpiece (not Enron, sorry!)
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Mark Rylance’s play about Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, whose early discovery of bacteria was snubbed by his seniors, is compelling from start to finish
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Susan Stroman's Crazy For You revival takes up a seven-month residency at the West End's Gillian Lynne Theatre after impressing in Chichester
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From eagerly awaited transfers to poignant new writing, we round up the best plays opening in London this July