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Brian Cox gives a monumental performance in this devastating revival of Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical family drama
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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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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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Harriet Walter is fittingly terrifying in Alice Birch and Rebecca Frecknall's revival of suffocating family drama The House of Bernarda Alba
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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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Musicals
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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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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Richard Jones helms a rare production of Pygmalion, starring Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel, which misses a trick in being so staid
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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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Musicals
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 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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Musicals
Ola Ince’s revival of Olivier-winning musical Once On This Island is performed with gusto at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
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A well-timed revival of the Italian satire, riddled with contemporary references to the ongoing scrutiny of London’s Metropolitan Police
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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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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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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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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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Director Lindsay Posner takes on Michael Frayn’s superlatively funny farce (again!), fronting it with screen stars Felicity Kendal, Matthew Kelly and Tracy-Ann Oberman
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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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1984 hit musical Chess brings soaring songs and tricky manoeuvres to the London Coliseum in a landmark 30 year revival
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Theatre
James Macdonald's lively production of William Congreve's satire of desire, fortune and greed wows the Donmar
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Theatre
Director Robert Hastie revives Peter Gill's landmark story of two men in love in 1960s Yorkshire
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Juliet Stevenson and Natalie Abrahami return to the Young Vic for a soaring story about a stroke victim in recovery
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'More chilly than chilling': at the Almeida, Martin Crimp's biting satire wags its crooked finger once again
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Even Hollywood heavyweights cannot energise this stale update of Molière’s satire on greed and guile
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Viciousness is transfixing in this stunning revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill make the trauma live
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Director John Tiffany brings magic touch to this dreamy and absorbing revival of Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie
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The stars are out in full force this February: London Theatre highlights include appearances from Daniel Radcliffe, Imelda Staunton and Andrew Scott
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Theatre
Billie Piper reprises her role for a re-run of the Young Vic's triumphant, sellout Yerma
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Mark Gatiss, Sherlock star and Oscar winner, comes to the West End for a limited two week run of this 1968 play about nine gay men at a party
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A new Saint Joan: Gemma Arterton stars in Bernard Shaw's tragedy, revived by the Donmar's Josie Rourke