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War Horse
© Simon Annand
Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris's critically-acclaimed adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's children's book transfers to the West End
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Parlour Song
New
Until Sat May 9, Almeida Theatre
Ian Rickson directs Amanda Drew, Andrew Lincoln and Toby Jones in Jez Butterworth's new play
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Dimetos
Until Sat May 9, Donmar Warehouse
Fresh from his Olivier Award-winning turn as an ageing drag queen in 'La Cage aux Folles', Douglas Hodge takes to the director's chair in this new Athol Fugard play
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King Lear
Last Chance!
Critics' Choice
Until Sat Mar 28, Young Vic
Pete Postlethwaite plays the King in Rupert Goold's inventive Thatcher-years 'Lear'
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Burnt by the Sun
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
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Dancing at Lughnasa
Recommended
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...
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The New Electric Ballroom
Recommended
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...
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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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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...
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New Boy
Until Sat Apr 11, Trafalgar Studios
'Skins' star Nicholas Hoult (he, of angular face and directional hair) makes his West End debut in William Sutcliffe's gay schoolboy drama
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Madame de Sade
Judi Dench and Rosamund Pike are joined by Frances Barber in this, the third production in the...
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Dido, Queen of Carthage
James Macdonald tackles Christopher Marlowe's rarely-performed short play based on Virgil's...
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Woman in Mind
Alan Ayckbourn's 1985 play 'Woman in Mind' – directed by the playwright – begins like one...
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England People Very Nice
New comedy – with songs – surfing four waves of immigration in Bethnal Green, from...
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On the Waterfront
Steven Berkoff is to be applauded for taking this play as far away from Elia Kazan's seminal...
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La Clique
The spirit of the London Hippodrome in its heyday lives on, in aptly scuzzy form, in 'La...
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Alan Bennett's rarely-performed dark comedy about an elderly couple who are observed by a...
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Three Days of Rain
'Atonement' star James McAvoy returns to the West End stage in an exploration of the enigma of...
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A View from the Bridge
Miller's classic study of the 'American dream' starring 'Brideshead Revisited' actress Atwell.
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