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Shows worth making a song and dance about: new London musicals, West End, Off West End and Fringe, that will have you humming all the way home
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Irony and black comedy return in this revival of Dead Funny, starring Katherine Parkinson and Ralf Little
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The new Don Juan: David Tennant returns to the West End for an updated version of Moliere's masterpiece
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Global stars and best friends Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart star in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land at Wyndham's Theatre
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The final extension announced for exuberant hiphop musical In the Heights, from the creator of Hamilton
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100 years after Easter Rising, Irish drama takes centre stage at the National's Lyttelton Theatre in Howard Davies' harrowing revival
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Alan Ayckbourn's classic comedy, How the Other Half Loves returns to the West End for the first time since 1970
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Former head of Chichester Jonathan Church revives spirited comedy about an ambitious daughter 100 years after its premiere
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Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith are glove fits in this blistering portrayal of what it's like to be an ageing actor in the theatre
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Back for an overdue London revival, An Inspector Calls, Stephen Daldry's five star, award-winning production returns to the West End
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Helen McCrory gives a masterful lead performance in Carrie Cracknell's elegant, atmospheric Rattigan revival
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Rory Kinnear makes for a cool callous Mack in Simon Stephens' translation of The Threepenny Opera, directed by Rufus Norris,
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Joe Penhall's piercing indictment of race, power and the NHS is just as potent 16 years later in Matthew Xia's Young Vic revival
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After the death of playwright Brian Friel, Faith Healer is revived at the Donmar Warehouse, directed by Lyndsay Turner
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Jon Snow plays Doctor Faustus: Kit Harington stars in a flashy anarchic production of Marlowe's tragedy directed by Jamie Lloyd
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Sheridan Smith shines as Funny Girl Fanny Brice
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St. James Theatre welcomes Maureen Lipman: My Mother Said I Never Should by Charlotte Keatley returns to the stage
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Les Blancs, Lorraine Hansberry's searing play about racial tension and revolution in an African country is revived with clout
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The most harrowing things to happen at the National Theatre? Sarah Kane's Cleansed comes to the Dorfman, directed by Katie Mitchell
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Kate Fleetwood and James Norton bring star power to pop-up theatre Found111 in an edgy revival of Tracey Letts' play Bug
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Ralph Fiennes masters Ibsen's tragic hero in playwright David Hare's thrilling but frigid adaptation at the Old Vic
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Olivier-winning actors Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russelll star in UK premiere of hit Broadway musical Grey Gardens
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For the 50th anniversary of the Homecoming, Pinter's classic is as arresting as ever in this star-studded revival
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Zoë Wanamaker shines in a revival of Terrence Rattigan's comedy as part of the Plays at the Garrick Theatre season.
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Controversial play Waste by Harley Granville Barker is revived for the National Theatre's winter season, 2015 starring actor Charles Edwards
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GET READY TO BOOK: for the National Theatre's new season, Dominic Cooke directs first major revival of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
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Timberlake Wertenbaker's masterpiece about the humanising power of theatre for prisoners in 1788 Australia is revived at the National Theatre.
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With a trail of 5 star reviews from Chichester, Gypsy starring Imelda Staunton is every bit as superlative in this West End transfer.
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The Cocktail Party, T.S Eliot's prose play is revived at in the newly-refurbished Print Room Theatre for autumn 2015.
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It may not be as shocking or searing as when it premiered in 1999 but this Donmar Warehouse Closer revival still sizzles, says Lucy Brooks