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  • Madame de Sade

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    Until Sat May 23, Wyndham's Theatre

    Judi Dench and Rosamund Pike are joined by Frances Barber in this, the third production in the Donmar West End season

  • New Boy

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    Mar 17-Apr 11, Trafalgar Studios

    'Skins' star Nicholas Hoult (he, of angular face and directional hair) makes his West End debut in William Sutcliffe's schoolboy drama

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  • Burnt by the Sun

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    Critics' Choice

    Until Tue Apr 28, National Theatre, Lyttelton

    Rory Kinnear and Kieron Hines star in Peter Flannery's adaptation of the classic Russian film about Stalin's Great Terror

  • Dancing at Lughnasa

    Until Sat May 9, Old Vic

    Brian Friel's bittersweet hymn to rural sisterhood in 1930s Donegal is misty-eyed but still luminous nearly twenty years after its premiere. And Anna...

  • The New Electric Ballroom

    Until Sun Mar 29, Riverside Studios

    Dublin playwright and screenwriter Enda Walsh has established himself as one of the chief chroniclers of his generation. But while writers like Mark O'Rowe...

  • A Miracle

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    Until Sat Mar 21, Royal Court Theatre

    A teenage mum, her unwanted baby daughter, a proto-psychotic soldier on sick leave, a pig farmer with a gun and a death wish: there's tragedy in the air in...

  • Duet for One

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    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...

  • 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...

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  • West End Musicals

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    New shows like 'Sunset Boulevard', 'Oliver!' and 'Carousel' plus old favourites 'Billy Elliot', 'Wicked', 'Hairspray' et al

  • Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical

    Jason Donovan launches what could be the finest comback since Rocky Balboa, starring in the new...

  • Wall

    Jerwood Downstairs: Stephen Daldry directs David Hare as his reads his own companion piece to...

  • Pied Piper

    The Olivier Award-winning hip hop street dance version of Robert Browning's poem finally gets a...

  • Be Near Me

    Stage adaptation of Hagan's Booker Prize nominated novel about a Catholic priest who befriends...

  • Spring Awakening

    Frank Wedekind's oft-banned 1891 play about repression, brutality, masturbation and Christian...

  • The Pitmen Painters

    When Lee Hall turned 'Billy Elliot' the film into a musical, he was careful to pay attention to...

  • Dido, Queen of Carthage

    James Macdonald tackles Christopher Marlowe's rarely-performed short play based on Virgil's...

  • Woman in Mind

    Alan Ayckbourn's 1985 play 'Woman in Mind' – directed by the playwright – begins like one...

  • England People Very Nice

    New comedy – with songs – surfing four waves of immigration in Bethnal Green, from...

  • On the Waterfront

    Steven Berkoff is to be applauded for taking this play as far away from Elia Kazan's seminal...

  • Berlin

    David Hare's 55 minute meditation on Germany's capital city.

  • La Clique

    The spirit of the London Hippodrome in its heyday lives on, in aptly scuzzy form, in 'La...

  • Enjoy

    Alan Bennett's rarely-performed dark comedy about an elderly couple who are observed by a...

  • 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.

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