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Plus: grim masterpiece ‘The Homecoming’ at the Young Vic and interactive murder mystery ‘Boeing, Boeing, Gone!’
The director of ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ discusses ‘The Motive and the Cue’, his hit play about rehearsing Shakespeare
Also opening: ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ sparkles in Richmond; a candlelit ‘Ghosts’ at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Plus: festive romcom ‘Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)’ and historical spectacle ‘The Mongol Khan’
Plus: privilege under the spotlight in ‘Mates in Chelsea’ and fast and funny social media satire ‘Flip!’
Stage fright? The Netflix series gets a 1950s origin story of sorts while The Enfield Haunting dramatises real-life 1970s events
Also opening in London: Richard Bean’s comedy To Have and to Hold; a musical version of The Time Traveller’s Wife
Moving curtain-up to 6.30pm allows audiences to watch, dine, discuss, and still make the last train
Also opening in London: Kristin Scott Thomas in ‘Lyonesse’; ‘Death of England’ trilogy concludes with ‘Closing Time’
Also on the London stage: Lynn Nottage’s warm-hearted ‘Clyde’s’ and a revival of the contemporary classic ‘Portia Coughlan’
The playwright’s farce about the Queen Mother and her servant examines the dynamics of an unlikely friendship
Lolita Chakrabarti’s rich drama for the RSC comes to London’s Garrick Theatre
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical is reimagined for our image-obsessed age at London’s Savoy Theatre
Also opening in London: Tanika Gupta tackles Victorian imperialism in ‘The Empress’
Her new production of Lynn Nottage’s play ‘Clyde’s’ finds much metaphorical mileage in the sandwich
Complex cycles of revenge and powerplay feel newly fresh in Ravi Jain’s production
Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead a stellar cast through the composer and lyricist’s hits
Also on the London stage: ‘The White Factory’ at the Marylebone Theatre; ‘Mlima’s Tale’ at the Kiln
The writer at 90 on his lifelong mission to define the human situation and what the real roots of theatre are
Also opening in London: Anthropology at Hampstead Theatre; The Big Little Things at Soho Place
Also opening in London: footballing youngsters in Red Pitch; Emma Hamilton brought to life in Infamous
The author’s adaptation of Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ tackles darkness while his book of dawn poems looks to the light
Plus: As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe wraps the audience in a warm embrace
The actor and playwright discuss their one-man version, which restores the Russian’s funny, sexy and deeply humane spirit
London revival of the 1983 musical about a nightclub owner and his drag queen partner is newly resonant
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