THEATRE

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Musicals 

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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Immersive 

Argentina's most thrilling performance troupe, Fuerza Bruta, returns to its London home, the Roundhouse, with is high-octane show, Aven

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Musicals 

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express is back 40 years on, bigger, glossier, speedier and camper than ever before

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Theatre 

The irrepressible Japanese drummers of Yamato are once again shaking the very foundations of the Peacock Theatre with their new show The Wings of Phoenix

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Musicals 

Director John Caird brings Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away to the stage with giant puppets, soaring spirits and bursts of lavish spectacle

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Dance 

May B, French choreographer Maguy Marin’s homage to playwright Samuel Beckett, is powerful piece of performance now at Sadler’s Wells

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Theatre 

Emma Rice’s gut-punching take on the old tale of Blue Beard arrives at the Battersea Arts Centre after an extensive UK tour

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Theatre 

London Tide, a sprawling play with songs adapted for the National Theatre from Dickens’s last novel, drags on and fails to grip

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Theatre 

Searingly funny and abruptly sad, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' latest uses the guise of a school reunion to ponder the fragility of life and consequences of decisions

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Festival 

The Taiwan Festival at the Coronet Theatre is London's fist major celebration of contemporary Taiwanese arts and culture

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Theatre 

Brian Cox gives a monumental performance in this devastating revival of Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical family drama

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Dance 

One of the most compelling and original dance-makers in the UK today, Mark Bruce, brings his haunting Frankenstein to The Place as part of a double bill

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Dance 

Reality and myth blend in Assembly Hall, Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s latest dance theatre collaboration brought to Sadler’s Wells by Pite’s company, Kidd Pivot

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Theatre 

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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Theatre 

In Nye, an epic play which resonates deeply today, Michael Sheen prowls the Olivier Theatre stage as the visionary father of the NHS, the Labour politician Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan

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Dance 

BalletLORENT's The Velveteen Rabbit at Sadler's Wells's Lilian Baylis studio is a special treat for young children this Easter holiday

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Dance 

The Greek master of surreal visual spectacle Dimitris Papaioannou returns to Sadler's Wells with his water-logged show INK

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Theatre 

Playwright Chris Bush, with former Pulp and The Longpigs band member Richard Hawley, has written a vital musical about Sheffield's giant housing estate, Park Hill

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Theatre 

In Nachtland, German playwright Marius von Mayenburg explores morality versus money through the shock discovery of a problematic painting

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Theatre 

Lindsay Duncan leads a fine ensemble in the National Theatre’s revival of Dear Octopus, Dodie Smith’s pean to the family

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Theatre 

A towering performance by Danny Sapani grips in Yaël Farber’s searing production of King Lear at the Almeida Theatre

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Theatre 

Kip Williams’ The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring Sarah Snook, is blazingly entertaining, but relies too heavily on tech

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Musicals 

Writer John O'Farrell and director Luke Sheppard, with Bob Geldof's blessing, bring Live Aid musical Just For One Day to the Old Vic Theatre

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Theatre 

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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Theatre 

Author, poet and national treasure Lemn Sissay joins forces with Frantic Assembly to breathe contemporary relevance into Kafka's Metamorphosis

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Dance 

Physical theatre company Ockham’s Razor brings Tess, a feminist version of Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles to the Peacock Theatre, as part of the inaugural MimeLondon festival

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Musicals 

Following the movie beat for beat, with 90s hits thrown in for good measure, this Cruel Intentions musical is a nostalgic feast for millennials – and it knows it

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Dance 

English National Ballet’s Giselle brings the Romantic story of love betrayed and forgiveness to the London Coliseum

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Theatre 

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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Theatre 

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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Theatre 

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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Dance 

Scottish Dance Theatre’s Pirates! – a zany, swashbuckling dance theatre adventure for the whole family – is this year’s Christmas offering at The Place