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Tried and Tested
Musicals
Michael R Jackson’s Pulitzer and Tony-winning play A Strange Loop comes to the Barbican stage with a cast led by the superb Kyle Ramar Freeman
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Theatre
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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Theatre
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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Theatre
A trilogy of monologues from formally innovative playwright Alistair McDowall centre on the internal worlds of three women living mundane yet emotionally rich lives
Tried and Tested
Musicals
Heartwarming, folky and masterfully performed, Jethro Compton and Darren Clark’s musical take on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button deserves a long life on stage
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Theatre
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
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Theatre
Elle While’s sorcery-led production explores The Dream’s darker undertones, with Globe boss Michelle Terry delivering a nightmarish Puck
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Theatre
With his latest play Retrograde, trailblazing writer Ryan Calais Cameron takes us behind the scenes of Sidney Poitier’s struggles in racist 1950s Hollywood
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Theatre
London's love affair with musicals shows no sign of abating, with beloved revivals and fresh arrivals landing this May. Elsewhere, outdoor theatres reopen!
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Theatre
Philip Ridley’s critically acclaimed 2007 play Leaves of Glass is revived at the Park Theatre in a new production starring Bridgerton's Geraldine Alexander
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Theatre
Nina Segal and Anthony Lau's modernised take on Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan is entertaining and incisive, but at times over-embellished
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Musicals
Lynn Nottage’s musical adaptation of The Secret Life of Bees buzzes onto stage at the Almeida where it’s sweetened by a cast of powerful vocalists
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Theatre
Katie Mitchell’s compelling production of Rebecca Watson’s novel Little Scratch returns to the stage, performed by a tight cast at the New Diorama
Essential
Theatre
Complicité’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, led by the formidable Kathryn Hunter, is a lesson in the power of good storytelling
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Theatre
Grange Hill co-stars Ricky Simmonds and Simon Vaughan miss the mark with their musical Berlusconi about the three-time Italian prime minister, media mogul and sex pest
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Theatre
It's a starry month on the London stage (see The Motive and the Cue and Private Lives in particular), and there's revivals aplenty celebrating the classics
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Musicals
Director Nicholas Hytner, designer extraordinaire Bunny Christie and a team of tip-top musical theatre talent make this immersive Guys and Dolls a rip-roaring sensation
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Theatre
From award-winning revivals to fresh work from Complicité and a new musical pitched as 'Evita on acid', we round up the best new theatre opening in London this month
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Theatre
Lulu Raczka’s period play parody brims with bright ideas, but too many ingredients prevent this potion from leaving us spellbound
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Theatre
Callum Scott Howells and Rosie Sheehy are riveting in playwright Gary Owen’s new play Romeo and Julie, a Bard-inspired story of working-class love in Wales
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Theatre
Ancient works in exciting hands, West End transfers for winning productions and new writing in major venues are among February's theatre offerings
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Theatre
With Sound of the Underground, Travis Alabanza delivers a vital examination of the queer performance landscape, fusing spectacle, comedy and hard-hitting facts
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Theatre
Feeling the pinch? SOLT’s head of marketing Emma De Souza on pocket-friendly hacks for seeing more theatre
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Theatre
It's a bumper month for London theatre, with farces through to gory tragedies offering thrilling entertainment for just about everybody. Here are 11 highlights not to miss
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The great Dolly Parton gives a warm southern makeover to A Christmas Carol, reimagining the action in a mining town in East Tennessee
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Stars making their West End debuts, award-winning collaborators reuniting and fresh takes on classic titles: the best London theatre shows of 2022
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Musicals
Showing at the Young Vic, Mandela: A New Musical about the great South African freedom fighter will put some fire in your heart, if not in your hearth, this winter
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Theatre
From a one-night-only chance to see the Wagatha Christie saga unfold on stage to dramas celebrating historical figures: the best new plays to see this month
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Theatre
Japanese composer and musician Joe Hisaishi teams up with the RSC to bring Studio Ghibli’s 1988 movie My Neighbour Totoro to the Barbican stage
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Theatre
Carrie Hope Fletcher shines in this otherwise overstuffed retelling of Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Rose Theatre
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Theatre
Based on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, this stage adaptation of The Boy with Two Hearts details the heartrending struggle of Afghan refugees
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Theatre
Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland gives voice to a diverse array of contemporary British Jews and their views on antisemitism