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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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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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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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Jack Holden’s Aids drama Cruise captivated at the West End's Duchess Theatre in 2021. Now it returns for a second West End run
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Director Bartlett Sher’s My Fair Lady is a traditional take on the classic musical, but with loyalty to Pygmalion hidden up its puff sleeve
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Jodie Comer delivers a compelling stage debut in Prima Facie, Australian playwright Suzie Miller’s award-winning play about a criminal justice system stacked against rape victims
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All rise for Aaron Sorkin's smash-hit stage adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, starring a masterful Rafe Spall as Atticus Finch
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Ivo van Hove and Ruth Wilson reunite to bring Jean Cocteau’s The Human Voice to the Harold Pinter Theatre
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While Mike Bartlett’s play Cock says nothing poignant about sexuality, this well-orchestrated revival is bolstered by performances from Jonathan Bailey and Taron Egerton
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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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Writer John Logan and director Alex Timbers’ Tony-winning, Broadway-charming Moulin Rouge! The Musical is ‘spectacular, spectacular’ – and worth the wait
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From superstar directors giving the classics a fresh spin to book adaptations delighting anew on stage, we round up the best London theatre of 2021
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Musicals
Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne star in Rebecca Frecknall’s superb revival of Cabaret, staged inside an intimate reconstruction of the musical’s Kit Kat Club
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Following a critically acclaimed run at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre, Lolita Chakrabarti's adaptation of Life of Pi opens in the West End in a feat for puppetry and theatrics
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Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) reimagines Jane Austen’s 1813 novel with sparky storytelling, gutsy humour, feisty feminism and impassioned outbursts of karaoke
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& Juliet re-writes history’s most famous love story, swapping tragedy for empowering feminist comedy and anthemic pop songs
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From Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne on stage in Cabaret to Ralph Fiennes’ take on TS Eliot’s Four Quartets, the best new plays to see in London
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Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical is driven by a magnetic lead performance from Arinzé Kene, but the narrative feels underdeveloped
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French writer-director Joël Pommerat brings his celebrated production of Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), to London's The Coronet Theatre
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Double Man Booker prize winner Hilary Mantel masters the art of playwriting in her adaptation of The Mirror and The Light, the third instalment of her Wolf Hall series
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Constellations, Nick Payne’s seminal play probing the infinite possibilities facing a relationship returns to the West End with four diverse and starry casts
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Curtains are rising above an enticing cluster of new shows, both on and off the West End. Here are the best new plays to see in London this August
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Mark Rylance reprises his role in 'the greatest play of the century' as Jerusalem returns to the London stage in 2022
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Emma Corrin stars in Joseph Charlton’s tepid tale of a fraudulent aspiring art collector at the West End’s Harold Pinter Theatre
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Ralph Fiennes’ stage adaptation of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets comes to the West End’s Harold Pinter Theatre after impressing at Theatre Royal Bath
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Junior doctor-turned-writer and comedian Adam Kay returns to the West End with This is Going to Hurt
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With Tony- and Olivier Award-winning musical Come From Away preparing to reopen, the team behind it share their pandemic experiences and hopes
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From The Crown's Emma Corrin making her West End debut in Anna X to a starry revival of Nick Payne’s seminal play Constellations, July's top theatre is awaits
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Musicals
Tim Minchin and Dennis Kelly bring pint-sized revolution to the stage in Matilda, the Musical.
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J’Ouvert, the race-charged debut play by James Tait Black Award-winner Yasmin Joseph, opens as part of the Harold Pinter Theatre’s Reemerge series