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‘I’m always asking – is this boring or not?’ – Japanese stage genius Hideki Noda talks ‘Love in Action’
For his latest extravaganza, Noda has adapted a Dostoevsky novel for the stage; no mean feat – boring or not – but such challenges...
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There are far, far too many one-off, multi-performer comedy nights in London for us to compile a single coherent page with our favouites on, which is entirely...
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Richard Bean sails into familiar, yet new waters with his second play about the Hull distant water trawling fleet…
Swiss Cottage
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It would be reductive and probably untrue to say Finn Beames & Company’s Quiet Songs is the strangest winner of theOxford Trust Samuel Beckett Prize...
Barbican
Bridge Command
Even if you have literally never wanted to be part of the crew of a spaceship you’ll probably have a fun time at Parabolic Theatre’s Bridge...
Elephant & Castle
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry’s great 1959 work A Raisin in the Sun is a hugely famous play, frequently staged on Broadway, but for whatever reason much less so...
Hammersmith
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National Theatre
Arguably the greatest theatre in the world, the Royal National Theatre is also one of London's most recognisable landmarks and perhaps this country's foremost...
Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court Theatre
London's premiere new writing theatre, the Royal Court made its name in the 1950s when it was synonymous with kitchen sink dramas and the Angry Young Men, and...
Shakespeare's Globe
Shakespeare's Globe
Built in 1599 and destroyed by fire in 1613, the original Globe Theatre was at the heart of London’s seedy South London entertainment district in William...
Lyric Hammersmith
Lyric Hammersmith
A beacon of culture in Hammersmith, the Lyric's distinctive look is largely down to a fusion of the building's 1970s structure, the theatre's Victorian...