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Woman in Mind

Critics' Choice

Until Sat May 30, Vaudeville Theatre

Alan Ayckbourn's 1985 play 'Woman in Mind' – directed by the playwright – begins like one of his tip-top sitcoms...
Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical

Mar 10-Sep 26, Palace Theatre

Jason Donovan launches what could be the finest comback since Rocky Balboa, starring in the new stage musical of the much-loved drag queen drama

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How It Ended

Until Sat Mar 14, Arcola Theatre

Studio II: Staged in the round, accompanied by live music and presented by an international company made up of artists from France, Greece and Puerto Rico,...
King Lear

Critics' Choice

Until Sat Mar 28, Young Vic

Pete Postlethwaite plays the King in Rupert Goold's Thatcher-years 'Lear', down from Liverpool's Everyman Theatre
Saturday Night

Critics' Choice

Until Sat Mar 14, Jermyn Street Theatre

The first UK revival since its world premiere in 1997 of Sondheim's 'forgotten' first musical, set just before the Wall Street Crash, about the relationship...
On the Waterfront

Last Chance!

Critics' Choice

Until Sat Apr 25, Haymarket Theatre Royal

Stephen Berkoff is to be applauded for taking this play as far away from Elia Kazan's seminal 1954 film as possible, transforming the traditionally flaky...
Duet for One

Critics' Choice

Until Sat Mar 14, Almeida Theatre

In the 29 years since Tom Kempinski's chamber-play about an MS-afflicted violinist and her mind-doctor was first performed, drama has pushed the...
Entertaining Mr Sloane

Critics' Choice

Until Sat Apr 11, Trafalgar Studios

New major revival of Orton's dark study of sexual manners starring Imelda Staunton and Matthew Horne from 'Gavin and Stacey'

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The Paper Cinema

Recommended

Mar 5-10, Toynbee Studios

Go on a fantastical journey through east London with Paper Cineam, featuring live music by Roger Eno and images by Nic Rawling
East09 Cycle East, Sun Mar 8, Arcola Theatre
New shorts by a selection of East End playwrights including Steven Berkoff and David Eldridge...
Drive Walk Ride, Tue Mar 10, Rich Mix
East Festival: New part-opera, part-musical theatre piece which uses nine actor/singers to...
East, Mar 5-29, Courtyard Theatre
New production of Steven Berkoff's grotesque '70s portrait of lust, racism and brutality in the...

West End Musicals

New shows like 'Sunset Boulevard', 'Oliver!' and 'Carousel' plus old favourites 'Billy Elliot', 'Wicked', 'Hairspray' et al
Berlin
David Hare's 55 minute meditation on Germany's capital city.
Be Near Me
Stage adaptation of Hagan's Booker Prize nominated novel about a Catholic priest who befriends...
La Clique
The spirit of the London Hippodrome in its heyday lives on, in aptly scuzzy form, in 'La...
Dancing at Lughnasa
Brian Freil's Olivier-award winning play about 1930s rural Ireland.
England People Very Nice
New comedy – with songs – surfing four waves of immigration in Bethnal Green, from...
Enjoy
Alan Bennett's rarely-performed dark comedy about an elderly couple who are observed by a...
A Little Night Music
Influenced by Ingmar Bergman, Shakespeare, Chekhov and even Noël Coward, Stephen Sondheim's...
The Pitmen Painters
When Lee Hall turned 'Billy Elliot' the film into a musical, he was careful to pay attention to...
Spring Awakening
Frank Wedekind's oft-banned 1891 play about repression, brutality, masturbation and Christian...
The Taming of the Shrew
The RSC ends its winter season at the Novello with one of Shakespeare's most controversial...
Three Days of Rain
'Atonement' star James McAvoy returns to the West End stage in an exploration of the enigma of...
A View from the Bridge
Miller's classic study of the 'American dream' starring 'Brideshead Revisited' actress Atwell.