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Rope
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Almeida Theatre
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The Almeida stages Patrick Hamilton's psychological thriller.
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Dr Marigold and Mr Chops
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Riverside Studios
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Simon Callow performs a double bill of plays by Charles Dickens.
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Frisky and Mannish's Twistmas Treat
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Pizza on the Park
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Cabaret duo Frisky and Mannish present their own unique take on the songs of the season.
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1984
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BAC
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Puppet theatre company Blind Summit stage George Orwell's novel of state manipulation.
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Stick Man
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Soho Theatre
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Scamp Theatre's simple show for the under-10s, based on the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
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The Stefan Golaszewski Plays
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Bush Theatre
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A double bill of plays, written and performed by Golaszewski, about lost love.
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Frank's Closet
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Hoxton Hall
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Stuart Wood’s gleefully camp celebration of music hall and the divas of the past.
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Aladdin
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Hackney Empire
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For the sixth year running, Clive Rowe stars in the Empire's regular festive offering.
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Jiggery Pokery
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BAC
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Amanda Lawrence's one-woman show about the life and demise of the British comic actor Charles Hawtrey.
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This Wide Night
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Soho Theatre
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Chloe Moss's play about surviving life after prison returns to Soho Theatre.
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La Clique
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Roundhouse
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The hugely popular circus and variety showcase returns to London.
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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Unicorn Theatre
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Shared Experience's staging of Brecht's play in a new translation by Alistair Beaton.
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The Line
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Arcola Theatre
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Henry Goodman stars in Timberlake Wertenbaker's new play about the relationship between Degas and Suzanne Valadon.
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Roman Tragedies
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Barbican Theatre
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Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s six-hour staging brings together Shakespeare's Roman plays.
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The Fahrenheit Twins
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Barbican Pit
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Told by an Idiot's Arctic fable based on a story by Michel Faber.
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The Making of Moo
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Orange Tree Theatre
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Sam Walters revives Nigel Dennis' satirical 1957 play about the birth of a religion.
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Letting in Air
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Old Red Lion
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A teenage girl befriends an aging widower in Becky Prestwich's intriguing new play.
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Salad Days
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Riverside Studios
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Opera company Tete a Tete stage a perky, summery 1950s musical that was hugely popular in its day.
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The Kreutzer Sonata
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Gate Theatre
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Natalie Abrahami directs an atmospheric stage version of Tolstoy’s famous 1889 novella
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Architecting
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Barbican Pit
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Ambitious collaboration between TEAM and the National Theatre of Scotland.
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Shraddha
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Soho Theatre
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Natasha Langridge's new play tells a Romeo and Juliet story set against the backdrop of the Romany community.
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This Much is True
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Theatre 503
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Sarah Beck and Paul Unwin's exploration of the events surrounding the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes.
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Origin of the Species
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Arcola Theatre
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Tom Littler's revival of Bryony Lavery's quirky two-hander about the birth of human kind.
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Mrs Klein
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Almeida Theatre
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Clare Higgins stars in Nicholas Wright’s 1988 play about the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein.
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Little Fish
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Finborough Theatre
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European premiere of Michael John LaChiusa's musical about one woman's attempt to give up smoking.
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If There is I Haven't Found It Yet
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Bush Theatre
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Rafe Spall stars in Nick Payne's funny and moving new play.
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The Spanish Tragedy
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Arcola Theatre
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Dominic Rowan stars in a rare staging of Thomas Kyd's revenge play of the 1580s.
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Raoul
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Barbican Theatre
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James Thierree's imaginative solo show blends theatre with circus, dance and slapstick.
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Alison's House
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Orange Tree Theatre
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Jo Combes directs Susan Glaspell's 1931 play inspired by the life of Emily Dickinson.
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It Felt Empty...
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Arcola Theatre
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Lucy Kirkwood's powerful and inventively staged new play for Clean Break.
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Double Dutch Expresso
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Tristan Bates Theatre
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Double bill of new plays by South Asian playwrights, directed by Poonam Brah.
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Talent
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Menier Chocolate Factory
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Victoria Wood directs a reworked revival of her own play from 1978.
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The Fastest Clock in the Universe
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Hampstead Theatre
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Jaime Winstone stars in a revival of Philip Ridley's second play.
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Orestes: Re-Examined
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Southwark Playhouse
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Full Tilt Theatre stages a reworking of Aeschylus in which the audience plays the jury.
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Judgment Day
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Almeida Theatre
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Ödön von Horváth's gripping fable, in a new version by Christopher Hampton.
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Punk Rock
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Lyric Hammersmith
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Tom Sturridge stars in Simon Stephens' latest play, set in a Stockport grammar school.
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The Ring of Truth
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Orange Tree Theatre
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A rare revival of Wynyard Browne's 1959 comedy about a lost engagement ring.
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Vanya
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Gate Theatre
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Natalie Abrahami directs Sam Holcroft's inventive reworking of Chekhov.
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Pornography
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Tricycle Theatre
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Simon Stephens' layered play about the events of July 2005 transfers to the Tricycle.
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Ghosts
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Arcola Theatre
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Rebecca Lenkiewicz's raw adaptation of Ibsen's morally knotty play.
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Mad Forest
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BAC
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A revival of Caryl Churchill's play about the Romanian Revolution by JMK Award winning director, Caroline Steinbeis.
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Stockwell
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Landor Theatre
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Kieron Barry's verbatim play based on the inquest into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.
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The Wrong Sleep
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Cock Tavern
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Mary Mazzili's surreal two-hander about insomnia and terrorism.
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The Pirates of Penzance
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Union Theatre
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Sasha Regan directs an all-male version of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta.
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Death of Long Pig
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Finborough Theatre
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Nigel Planer's new play about the lives - and deaths - of Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin.
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Dr Korczak's Example
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Arcola Theatre
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David Greig's play about an orphanage for Jewish children during the Second World War.
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Mincemeat
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Cordy House
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Cardboard Citizens' captivating promenade production about identity and secret missions.
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The Case
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Oubliette
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Donkeywork's First World War-set play is based on a true story and staged in a Waterloo squat.
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Observe the Sons of Ulster...
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Hampstead Theatre
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John Dove directs a powerful revival of the play by Frank McGuinness.
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Apologia
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Bush Theatre
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Alexi Kaye Campell's second play concerns the relationship between an art historian and her two sons.
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The Mountaintop
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Theatre 503
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David Harewood stars in a play about the last hours in the life of Martin Luther King.
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Jim Bailey as Judy Garland
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Leicester Square Theatre
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Jim Bailey performs as Judy Garland in a 40th anniversary concert.
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I am Montana
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Arcola Theatre
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Yaller Skunk's production of Samuel D. Hunter’s play about the employees of an American mega-mart.
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Naked Boys Singing
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King's Head Theatre
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Phil Willmott directs a review celebrating the pleasures of the male form.
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Sandra Bernhard
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Leicester Square Theatre
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The incomparable Sandra Bernhard returns to the London stage.
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Amongst Friends
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Hampstead Theatre
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Helen Baxendale stars in April de Angelis' new play of middle class fears.
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Company
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Union Theatre
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Sparkling staging of Sondheim's musical at the tiny Union Theatre.
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Painting a Wall
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Finborough Theatre
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A revival of David Lan's play about life under apartheid in 1970s Cape Town.
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England
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Whitechapel Gallery
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Tim Crouch's play is staged at the newly reopened east London gallery.
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Monsters
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Arcola Theatre
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Swedish writer Niklas Radstrom's play about the killing of James Bulger.
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The Contingency Plan
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Bush Theatre
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Steve Waters' urgent, gripping double bill of plays about climate change.
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Peer Gynt
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Barbican Theatre
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Dominic Hill's acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland production of Ibsen's poetic masterpiece.
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Wuthering Heights
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Lyric Hammersmith
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Tamasha's musical Bollywood-style staging of Emily Bronte's classic novel.
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Nocturnal
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Gate Theatre
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Amanda Lawrence stars in the UK premiere of Juan Mayorga's teasing play about isolated lives.
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Andromaque
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Barbican Silk Street Theatre
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Declan Donnellan directs a passionate staging of Racine by Cheek by Jowl - in French.
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Interiors
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Lyric Studio
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Captivating new production from Vanishing Point, inspired by Maurice Maeterlinck's play.
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Void Story
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Soho Theatre
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Forced Entertainment mark their 25th year with an unsettling new production.
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Alphabetical Order
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Hampstead Theatre
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Imogen Stubbs stars in Christopher Luscombe's revival of Michael Frayn's comedy.
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The Woodsman
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Old Red Lion
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Steven Fechter's play, on which the 2004 Kevin Bacon film was based, receives its European premiere.
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Panic
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Barbican Pit Theatre
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Phelim McDermott plays the Greek god Pan in the new production from Improbable.
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Country Magic
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Finborough Theatre
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Phil Willmott stages Arthur Wing Pinero's forgotten fable of the First World War and its aftermath.
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Jan Fabre: Orgy of Tolerance
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Belgian theatre maker Jan Fabre bombards his audience at the Southbank Centre.
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Don John
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BAC
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The latest show from Kneehigh Theatre stars Gisli Orn Gardarsson as the notorious seducer.
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Candide
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Greenwich Playhouse
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Greenwich Playhouse stages Prentis Hancock's one man take on Voltaire.
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Once and For All...
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BAC
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Thirteen teenagers take to the stage in the latest show from Flemish company Ontroerend Goed.
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About Tommy
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Southwark Playhouse
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Thor Bjorn Krebs' play about a young Danish soldier posted to the former Yugoslavia.
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Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness
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Soho Theatre
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Revival of Anthony Neilson's play about a travelling Victorian showman.
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Parlour Song
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Almeida Theatre
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Toby Jones and Andrew Lincoln star in a new play by Jez Butterworth.
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Twelfth Night
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Barbican Theatre
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Unique staging of Shakespeare's comedy by Shochiku Grand Kabuki.
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Trying
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Jermyn Street Theatre
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Michael Craig stars in a new play by Joanna McClelland Glass.
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Billy Twinkle
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Barbican Silk Street Theatre
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New production from the acclaimed Ronnie Burkett's Theatre of Marionettes.
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Trumbo
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Jermyn Street Theatre
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Corin Redgrave plays Dalton Trumbo, one of the 'Hollywood Ten'
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The Backroom
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Cock Tavern
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Revival of Adrian Pagan's lively comedy set in a gay brothel.
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Deep Cut
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Tricycle Theatre
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Philip Ralph's powerful verbatim play exploring the deaths of four young cadets at the Deepcut barracks.
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Berlin Hanover Express
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Hampstead Theatre
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Ian Kennedy Martin's play about Irish neutrality in the Second World War.
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Stovepipe
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West 12 Shopping Centre
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Potent promenade production in a west London shopping centre.
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The New Electric Ballroom
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Riverside Studios
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Galway's Druid Theatre stage Enda Walsh's meditation on the power of story-telling.
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Obama on my Mind
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Hen and Chickens
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It had to happen sooner or later: the inevitable Obama Musical.
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Hippolytus
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Riverside Studios
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Temple Theatre present Euripides in modern dress in a new adaptation by Timberlake Wertenbaker.
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Isfahan Calling
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Old Red Lion
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Philip de Gouveia's new play about British journalists in Iran.
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How It Ended
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Arcola Theatre
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Moving account of a war time romance, directed by Emily Watson Howes.
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Wrecks
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Bush Theatre
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Josie Rourke directs a Neil LaBute play with a typical twist in its tail.
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Saturday Night
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Jermyn Street Theatre
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Rare staging of Stephen Sondheim's first musical, written in 1954.
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Greenwash
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Orange Tree Theatre
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Sam Walters' directs David Lewis' eco themed farce.
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Othello
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Hackney Empire
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Kathryn Hunter directs Patrice Naiambana in a touring production for the RSC.
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When Do We Start Fighting?
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Courtyard Theatre
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Charlie Shand's play about the militant protest groups of the 1970s.
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Untitled
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Finborough Theatre
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Lena Farugia's poignant play about the twilight years of Wallis Simpson.
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Shun-kin
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Barbican
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Visually inventive collaboration between Complicite and Tokyo's Setagaya Public Theatre.
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Resident Alien
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New End Theatre
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Bette Bourne reprises his role as Quentin Crisp in Tim Fountain's play.
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Spring Awakening
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Lyric Hammersmith
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The UK production of the Broadway musical based on Frank Wedekind's 1891 play.
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Duet For One
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Almeida Theatre
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Juliet Stevenson and Henry Goodman star in Tom Kempinski's two-hander.
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Why I Don't Hate White People
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Lyric Studio
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Poet and performer Lemn Sissay's autobiographical solo show.
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Private Lives
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Hampstead Theatre
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To mark Hampstead Theatre's 50th Anniversary, Lucy Bailey directs Noel Coward's comedy.
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Circus Klezmer
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Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
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Delightful circus show set in an Eastern European village.
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Simpatico
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Old Red Lion Theatre
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Hannah Eidinow directs a revival of Sam Shephard's play.
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Hit Me! The Life and Rhymes of Ian Dury
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Leicester Square Theatre
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Adrian Schiller plays the distinctive singer in Jeff Merrifield's play about his life.
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Roaring Trade
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Soho Theatre
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Steve Thompson's new comedy about the cut-throat world of big City banking.
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Dorian Gray
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Leicester Square Theatre
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New staging of Oscar Wilde's novel about age, beauty and the dark side of Victorian London.
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In Blood: The Bacchae
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Arcola Theatre
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Greg Hicks stars in Frances Viner's play set in 1920s Brazil.
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Studies for a Portrait
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White Bear Theatre
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Daniel Reitz's new play about a terminally ill artist offers insight into the art world.
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