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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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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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In Nachtland, German playwright Marius von Mayenburg explores morality versus money through the shock discovery of a problematic painting
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Author, poet and national treasure Lemn Sissay joins forces with Frantic Assembly to breathe contemporary relevance into Kafka's Metamorphosis
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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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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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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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Soulful, sprawling and laced with a fervid mix of Polish folk songs and Elvis Costello hits, Conor McPherson's Cold War adaptation hits all the right notes
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Tyrell Williams’ exceptional play about the relationship between three boys and their south London football pitch transfers to the West End
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Matthew Dunster's take on Harold Pinter's 1965 classic The Homecoming wears its darkness on its sleeve and is deeply unsettling
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In her latest marvel for the National Theatre, Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker explores the pains and longings of women holed up at a detox clinic
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Following its premiere at the Almeida, Sam Holcroft’s play A Mirror, about the tension of staging forbidden theatre in a totalitarian state, transfers to the West End
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In the candlelit confines of the Sam Wanamaker playhouse, the plight of the living in Ibsen’s Ghosts is current and oppressive
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Powerful and poetic: book now for For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy on the West End
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Following a favourably received run at the Donmar, mental health-tackling Broadway hit Next to Normal is getting a West End transfer
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Fleabag meets Baby Reindeer in Marcelo Dos Santos’s intense and brilliant one-man play about a gay comedian navigating romance and existential dread
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Woody Harrelson stars alongside Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland in Jeremy Herrin's new production of David Ireland's black comedy, Ulster American
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From a stage prequel to hit sci-fi series Stranger Things to a stellar team taking on Roald Dahl's The Witches, these are the shows to book this month
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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From eagerly awaited transfers to poignant new writing, we round up the best plays opening in London this July