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The best theatre shows opening in June

By Lucy Brooks on 1/6/2022

Spend summer nights at the theatre with our guide to the best new shows opening in London in June. From starry Chekhov and a Disney musical to gender-blind Shakespeare and a chilling stolen identity thriller, these are the hottest tickets to book.

The Seagull, Harold Pinter Theatre

Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is swapping her dragons for a seagull as she makes her West End debut in a fresh take on Chekhov. Clarke will play Nina, the ambitious ingenue at the heart of 1896 play The Seagull.

WHEN

29 Jun 2022 – 10 Sep 2022, Times TBD

WHERE

Harold Pinter Theatre
Panton Street, London, SW1Y 4DN

This is Not Who I Am, Royal Court Theatre

This is a slippery stolen identity thriller written by someone who is an expert in the field. Debut playwright Dave Davidson brings 38 years of experience from working in the security industry. This world premiere promises to challenge everything you think you know about who you are.

WHEN

10 June - 16 July 2022

WHERE

Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square London SW1W 8AS

King Lear, Shakespeare’s Globe

Kathryn Hunter reprises her ground-breaking role of King Lear 25 years after the production's divisive and disruptive premiere. Tradition and innovation combine in Shakespeare's Globe as a team of talented women including Michelle Terry and Complicité Theatre founder Marcello Magni explore duty, devotion and madness.

WHEN

10 Jun 2022 – 24 Jul 2022, Performance times vary

WHERE

The Globe
21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, London, SE1 9DT

A Doll's House, Part 2, Donmar Warehouse

After an impressive premiere in New York, this 'smart, funny and utterly engrossing' (New York Times) sequel to Henrik Ibsen's 1979 classic follows Nora Helmer as she comes back to face the music - 15 years after walking out on her family. The mighty, Olivier-winning Noma Dumezweni stars as the disgraced matriarch.

WHEN

10 June - 6 August 2022

WHERE

Donmar Warehouse, 41 Earlham Street Seven Dials London WC2H 9LX

Beauty and the Beast the Musical, The London Palladium

There's nothing like a Disney stage show to deliver maximum magic and sing-along family fun. Be our guest as Beauty and the Beast comes to the Palladium for a short summer stint. Twenty-eight years since the show's Broadway debut, the original creative team reunite to bring the romance back to life.

WHEN

24 Jun 2022 - 17 Sep 2022

WHERE

The London Palladium, 8 Argyll Street, London W1F 7TF

Jitney, The Old Vic

August Wilson's 1982 story about an unlicensed cab company takes audiences into the parts of Pittsburgh where nobody else dares to go. Set in a racially-segregated, post-Vietnam America, it tells the story of eight black men, each of whom is connected to this unofficial taxi company.

WHEN

9 June - 9 July 2020

WHERE

The Old Vic, The Cut, London SE1 8NB

Mad House, Ambassadors Theatre

David Harbour (Stranger Things, Black Widow, The Newsroom) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, All My Sons, Independence Day) star in the world premiere of this caustic comedy about children returning home to see their dying father -- and to stake their claim on the inheritance.

WHEN

15 June - 4 September 2022

WHERE

Ambassadors Theatre, West Street WC2H 9ND

Highlights to catch at LIFT Festival 2022. Photo: Sun & Sea at the Albany

London's International Festival of Theatre

LIFT, London’s biennial international festival of theatre, turns 40 this year and its celebrating with a typically bold and thought-provoking programme, bringing together some the world's most exciting creatives. From a climate opera on the beach to an interactive ghost hunt around a shopping centre, there's plenty to spark your curiosity.

WHEN

23 Jun 2022 – 10 Jul 2022, Performance times vary depending on event