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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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Following a critically-acclaimed, sell-out run at the Young Vic theatre last winter, James Graham's Best of Enemies gets a West End transfer
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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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Director Jude Christian takes on Titus Andronicus, Holly Race Roughan does Henry V and Sean Holmes presents an indoor-outdoor take on The Winter's Tale
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Shakespeare’s Globe, Headlong and Leeds Playhouse unite to present a fresh take on Shakespeare’s timeless history play Henry V, directed by Holly Race Roughan
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Shakespeare’s first and bloodiest tragedy Titus Andronicus in a new production by pioneering director Jude Christian at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
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In a first for Shakespeare's Globe, director Sean Holmes presents a promenade The Winter’s Tale that moves between the theatre’s indoor and outdoor spaces
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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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Musicals
Director Daniel Evans proves there’s still a place on the stage for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s controversial musical South Pacific
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Dear Evan Hansen prepares to take its final West End bow. Here's how it became the landmark musical all teens, their parents and everyone in between should see.
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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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Director Simon Godwin teams up with designer Anna Fleischle to present a loud and glitzy Much Ado About Nothing, set in an Art Deco beachside hotel
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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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Richard Bean returns to the National Theatre with Jack Absolute Flies Again, a WWII-set rewrite of restoration comedy The Rivals that struggles to gain momentum
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The Jamie Lloyd Company has done it again: The Seagull is a minimally dressed take on the classic brought vividly to life by a skilled ensemble
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Screen titans Bill Pullman and David Harbour star in Theresa Rebeck's new play Mad House, a festering family drama that's predictable but entertaining
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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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Kathryn Hunter and Michelle Terry deliver star performances in Helena Kaut-Howson's revival of her 1997 production of King Lear at Shakespeare's Globe
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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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The debut play of northwest London's literary queen Zadie Smith returns to the Kiln Theatre for Christmas 2022, ahead of transferring to the US
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From a new grassy amphitheatre nestled in the Cotswolds to the one perched on a Cornish clifftop, these are the outdoor theatres worth visiting this summer
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Amy Adams makes a vibrant West End debut in Jeremy Herrin's insightful and atmospheric production of Tennessee Williams’s most autobiographical play
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Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII comes in for a savage reappraisal in Hannah Khalil’s radical rewrite of the play, now on at the Globe Theatre
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Musicals
Strong performances battle against poor acoustics in director Lucy Moss’s revival of Legally Blonde the Musical at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre