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Pains of Youth
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National Theatre
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Katie Mitchell directs Ferdinand Bruckner's play, in a new version by Martin Crimp.
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The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
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Vaudeville Theatre
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Lesley Sharp and Diana Vickers star in Jim Sheridan's play about a girl with a gift for vocal impersonation.
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Pains of Youth
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National Theatre
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Katie Mitchell directs Ferdinand Bruckner's play, in a new version by Martin Crimp.
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The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
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Vaudeville Theatre
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Lesley Sharp and Diana Vickers star in Jim Sheridan's play about a girl with a gift for vocal impersonation.
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Annie Get Your Gun
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Young Vic
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Jane Horrocks stars in Richard Jones' revisionist staging of Irving Berlin's classic musical.
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Endgame
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Duchess Theatre
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Complicite's staging of Beckett's bleak play has artistic director Simon McBurney starring alongside Mark Rylance.
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Life is a Dream
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Donmar Warehouse
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The Wire's Dominic West returns to the London stage in a new production of a play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
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The Power of Yes
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National Theatre
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Angus Jackson directs David Hare's latest play, in which "a dramatist seeks to understand the financial crisis."
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The Author
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Royal Court
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Playwright Tim Crouch plays playwright Tim Crouch in a play about theatre and its audience.
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Speaking in Tongues
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Duke of York' Theatre
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John Simm and Ian Hart star in a revival of Andrew Bovell's play of betrayal and coincidence.
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Rat Pack - Live From Las Vegas
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Adelphi Theatre
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The popular show, recreating a night at the Sands with Frank, Dean and Sammy, returns to the West End.
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Mother Courage
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National Theatre
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Deborah Warner directs Fiona Shaw in Tony Kushner's new version of Brecht's play.
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Our Class
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National Theatre
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Tadeusz Slobodzianek's harrowing play about a wartime atrocity in Poland.
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Ben Hur Live
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O2 Arena
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It's been 15 years in the making and features animals aplenty but can the stage spectacular match the hype?
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Kurt and Sid
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Trafalgar Studios
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Roy Smiles' new play pairs Cobain and Vicious on a fateful night in 1994.
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The Shawshank Redemption
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Wyndham's Theatre
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Stage version of the Stephen King's novella on which everyone's favourite prison film is based.
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Ed Byrne: Different Class
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Vaudeville Theatre
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The affable Irish comedian brings his 2008 show to the West End.
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The Girlfriend Experience
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Young Vic
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Alecky Blythe's Recorded Delivery production about the lives of women in a Bournemouth brothel.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Donmar Warehouse
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Rachel Weisz, Ruth Wilson and Elliot Cowan star in Tennessee Williams' play.
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4.48 Psychosis
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Young Vic
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Christian Benedetti directs a powerful version of Sarah Kane's final play.
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Troilus and Cressida
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Globe Theatre
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Matthew Kelly stars in Matthew Dunster's erratic production of Shakespeare's play.
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The Black Album
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National Theatre
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Hanif Kureishi adapts his own 1995 novel for the stage.
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The Container
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Young Vic
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Clare Bayley's play about human trafficking, staged in a real shipping container.
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Jerusalem
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Royal Court
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Mark Rylance gives his all as a rural outlaw in Jez Butterworth's new play.
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Frisky and Mannish's School of Pop
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Leicester Square Theatre
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Sublime pop parodies from musical cabaret duo Frisky and Mannish.
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Eight
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Trafalgar Studios
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The audience has the power of choice in Ella Hickson's series of short monologues.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Open Air Theatre
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Oscar Wilde grapples with the elements at the Open Air Theatre.
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Avenue Q
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Gielgud Theatre
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The 'smutty Seasame Street' musical re-opens in its new Shaftesbury Avenue home.
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Carrie's War
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Apollo Theatre
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Stage adaptation of Nina Bawden's children's novel about two young wartime evacuees.
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Been So Long
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Young Vic
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Che Walker and Arthur Darvill's vibrant, exciting urban musical.
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Derren Brown: Enigma
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Adelphi Theatre
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The mysterious Mr Brown brings his new show to the West End.
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The King and I
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Royal Albert Hall
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Maria Friedman and Lost's Daniel Dae Kim star in an in-the-round staging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
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Kursk
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Young Vic
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Bryony Lavery and Sound&Fury collaborate on a play inspired by the Russian submarine disaster.
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The Winter's Tale
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Old Vic
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Simon Russell Beale and Ethan Hawke head the cast in the second Bridge Project production.
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The Cherry Orchard
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Old Vic
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The first production of Sam Mendes and Kevin Spacey's ambitious Bridge Project.
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As You Like It
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Globe Theatre
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Thea Sharrock directs a bright, witty staging of Shakespeare's comedy.
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Arcadia
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Duke of York's Theatre
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Samantha Bond, Neil Pearson and Ed Stoppard star in a revival of Tom Stoppard's idea rich play.
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Sister Act
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Palladium
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Patina Miller and Sheila Hancock star in the musical staging of the 1990s movie.
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Open Air Theatre
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Samantha Spiro stars in the first production of the Open Air Theatre's summer season.
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All's Well That Ends Well
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National Theatre
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Marianne Elliott directs Claire Higgins and Oliver Ford Davies in Shakespeeare's comedy.
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Aunt Dan and Lemon
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Royal Court
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Jane Horrocks stars in the concluding production in the Royal Court's Wallace Shawn season.
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The Observer
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National Theatre
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Anna Chancellor and James Fleet star in Matt Charman's new play set in a fictious West African state.
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A Doll's House
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Donmar Warehouse
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Gillian Anderson and Toby Stephens star in Zinnie Harris' update of Ibsen.
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Ordinary Dreams
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Trafalgar Studios
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James Lance and Adrian Bower star in Marcus Markou's new comedy.
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The Frontline
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Globe Theatre
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Che Walker's lively play set in modern day Camden returns to the Globe for a second run.
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Waiting for Godot
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Theatre Royal Haymarket
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart star in Samuel Beckett's masterwork.
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Time and the Conways
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National Theatre
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Francesca Annis stars in Rupert Goold's revival of J B Priestley's time play.
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Romeo and Juliet
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Globe Theatre
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Domic Dromgoole directs the opening production in the Globe's Young Hearts season.
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Shout!
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Arts Theatre
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Su Pollard stars in a 1960s jukebox musical featuring the songs of Lulu and Dusty Springfield.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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National Theatre
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Matthew Kelly stars in Edward Albee's emotionally brutal play.
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Death and the King's Horseman
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National Theatre
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Rufus Norris directs a lavish production of Wole Soyinka's play.
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The Fever
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Royal Court
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Claire Higgins stars in Wallace Shawn's attack on American excess.
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War Horse
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New London Theatre
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The National's acclaimed staging of Michael Morpurgo's novel transfers to the West End.
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Tusk Tusk
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Royal Court
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Following the success of her debut play, That Face, Polly Stenham's second play opens at the Court.
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Dimetos
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Donmar Warehouse
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Douglas Hodge directs Jonathan Pryce in Athol Fugard's poetic play.
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Dido, Queen of Carthage
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National Theatre
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James MacDonald directs Christopher Marlowe's tragedy at the Cottesloe.
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New Boy
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Trafalgar Studios
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Skins' Nicholas Hoult stars in a stage version of William Sutcliffe's novella.
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Kafka's Monkey
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Young Vic
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Kathryn Hunter stars in a one-woman show based on Kafka's A Report to an Academy
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Madame de Sade
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Wyndham's Theatre
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The Donmar's West End residency continues with a staging of Yukio Mishima's play, starring Judi Dench.
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Over There
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Royal Court
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Twins Luke and Harry Treadaway star in Mark Ravenhill's political allegory about the unification of Germany.
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A Miracle
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Royal Court
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The Royal Court's Young Writers Festival continues with a play by Molly Davies.
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Burnt by the Sun
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National Theatre
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Howard Davies directs Rory Kinnear and Ciaran Hinds in a staging of the Oscar winning Russian film.
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Toyer
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Arts Theatre
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The Arts Theatre reopens (again) wth a tense psychological thriller.
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Plague Over England
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Duchess Theatre
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The first full length play by theatre critic Nicholas de Jongh transfers to the West End.
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The Taming of the Shrew
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Novello Theatre
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Michelle Gomez stars, as the RSC production opens in the West End.
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On The Waterfront
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Theatre Royal Haymarket
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Steven Berkoff directs and stars in a stage version of the 1950s film.
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England People Very Nice
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National Theatre
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Nicholas Hytner directs Richard Bean's controversial new play charting waves of immigration in east London.
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King Lear
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Young Vic
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Rupert Goold directs and Pete Postlethwaite stars as the Liverpool production arrives in London.
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Shades
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Royal Court
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Alia Bano's debut play explores the ups and downs of dating within the Muslim community.
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