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Starring Oscar-winner Helen Hunt, Eureka Day is a hard-working satire about woke culture that wins over the Old Vic audience in post-pandemic London
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The 2014 Olivier award-winning play Handbagged returns to the Kiln, breathing life into the fractious relationship between the Iron Lady and Queen Elizabeth II
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Acclaimed director Richard Eyre pens his first original play, The Snail House. It’s got the buzzwords to make it a story of 2022, but haven’t we met these characters before?
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Dipo Baruwa-Etti poses interesting questions about race and class in The Clinic, showing at the Almeida, but too many mic drop moments see it dissolve into melodrama
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Lauded Belgian director Ivo Van Hove returns to London with his take on Édouard Louis's internationally acclaimed book Who Killed My Father
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From the return of The Doctor starring Juliet Stevenson to Erin Doherty in The Crucible at the National Theatre, September's theatre shows are looking starry
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All of Us is an immensely moving, emotionally raw account of the consequences of cuts to disability benefits from writer, comedian and actor Francesca Martinez
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From a charming children's show to urgent pieces about the climate and austerity, plus two bumper festivals, August's best theatre covers all bases
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Award-winning theatre company RashDash dissect the complexities of motherhood with a frenzied non-linear narrative in Oh Mother, showing at Soho Theatre
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Patrick Marber’s 1997 drama delving into the desires and lust-fuelled relationships of four Londoners is revived at the Lyric Hammersmith by director Clare Lizzimore
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July's theatre shows are transporting audiences back in time or taking them on far-flung adventures: here are the new plays in London to book this month
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Kids
A cast of former SIX queens bring to life Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, a musical homage to history's great women
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Seminal playwright Lucy Kirkwood, under the pseudonym Dave Davidson, presents a deeply chilling and hyper real thriller at the Royal Court Theatre
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American playwright Lucas Hnath writes a follow-up to Ibsen's A Doll's House, imagining Nora calling in at the family home 15 years after her shock departure
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Director Tinuke Craig gives August Wilson's 1979 play Jitney its first London revival in 20 years. Her Old Vic production reminds us how relevant its themes remain
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Playwright Sami Ibrahim and director Omar Elerian imagine the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 20 years from now in Two Palestinians Go Dogging at the Royal Court
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Anne-Marie Duff stars in the world premiere of Beth Steel’s House of Shades, a family-cum-political saga observing six decades of working-class Britain
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Musicals
SpitLip's Operation Mincemeat (a musical comedy for the stage, not the film!) has been honed to excellency and is deserving of its long run at Riverside Studios
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Esteemed American playwright Naomi Wallace's The Breach is built on a tantalising premise, but a patchy plot and lazy design fail to lift it from page to stage
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The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs at Soho Theatre is a much-needed queer narrative exploring intersectional lesbian lives
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Pulitzer-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury reunites with the team behind her 2018 play Fairview to tell the story of Mary Seacole and black caregivers today
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Pioneering immersive theatre company Punchdrunk returns to London with The Burnt City, an eerie, dance-led journey through the fall of Troy
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The culture wars are at the fore of Scandaltown, Mike Bartlett’s pastiche of a Restoration comedy, showing at the Lyric Hammersmith under director Rachel O’Riordan
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Playwright Mike Bartlett reunites with King Charles III director Rupert Goold on The 47th, a political satire set in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential race
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Gare St Lazare Ireland returns to the Coronet Theatre with How It Is (Part 2), an abstract, musical voyage through Samuel Beckett’s final full-length novel
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Jeremy O. Harris makes his UK debut at the Almeida with “Daddy” A Melodrama, a play that lets designer Matt Saunders’ poolside set do the heavy lifting
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Between Mark Rylance reprising his role in 'the greatest play of the century' and Jodie Comer making her West End debut, April's theatre is brimming with excitement
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Verbatim maestro Alecky Blythe returns to the National Theatre with Our Generation: a tour de force spotlighting the experiences of British teens today
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From new work by David Hare to a revival of an Olivier-winner by Mike Bartlett and the return of Punchdrunk, the London stage glitters with potential this March
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With February behind us, we look back on the month's stage highlights you can still catch – from the return of Cyrano to the revival of a French anti-play
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Debut playwright Sian Carter's Running With Lions, showing at the Lyric Hammersmith, is a tearjerker overflowing with grief and joy
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Acclaimed practitioners and L'Ecole Jacques Lecoq alumni Kathryn Hunter, Marcello Magni and Toby Sedgwick star in Omar Elerian’s The Chairs at the Almeida