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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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Playwright Alexander Zeldin returns to the National Theatre with The Confessions: a tender play following one woman's life over eight decades

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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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Thin and lolloping, Ben Elton’s Twiggy musical fails to capture the woman behind the photos

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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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Western art’s grubby fixation with Asian stereotypes is in the crosshairs of this bombastic joyride of a play, starring Mei Mac. But does it pull the trigger?

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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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Marking 30 years since the murder of Stephen Lawrence, this moving tribute takes its audience on a journey through south-east London and the Black British experience

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In Strategic Love Play, playwright Miriam Battye (Scenes with Girls) examines the pitfalls and disappointments of contemporary dating culture

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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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Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell bring fine chemistry to Jamie Lloyd's revival of Lucy Prebble's The Effect, about volunteers on a clinical drug trial

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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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Our top picks of shows to see at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe

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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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Gillian Slovo’s verbatim play recounting the experiences of survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire is thorough, absorbing and sensitively handled at the National Theatre

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Michael Wynne’s new play Cuckoo airs the concerns facing a crippled Britain through the story of three generations of women in one Scouse family

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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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Mark Gatiss and Johnny Flynn are riveting in The Motive and the Cue: Jack Thorne's study of the famous Gielgud/Burton Hamlet, directed here by Sam Mendes

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Young Vic boss Kwame Kwei-Armah has penned a play inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, but while there's political bark, it lacks bite

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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

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Magic and a plot twist aren’t enough to enthral us in this flighty re-write of the Robin Hood legend, showing at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

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Arriving from Broadway, Mrs. Doubtfire the musical is a cheeky, high-spirited family show, with the potential to tickle audience members of all ages

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Newbie playwright to the Royal Court Tom Fowler offers a slightly surreal adventure about a ragtag bunch of misfits who are searching for family, or escaping them

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School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play: a tongue-in-cheek send up of the giddy highs and melancholic lows of adolescent life with poignant racial undertones

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Make the most of Kids Week: free theatre tickets for children to London family shows in London this August will sell out fast!

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A trilogy of monologues from formally innovative playwright Alistair McDowall centre on the internal worlds of three women living mundane yet emotionally rich lives

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From the West End premiere of a Martin McDonagh classic to new work conceived by and starring the great Mark Rylance, June's best new theatre shows