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Thursday, 13 February, 2020

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Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt: epic and intimate. Plus: Death of England and The Haystack
Stoppard’s moving, teeming drama tells the story of a Viennese Jewish family from 1899 to 1955
Thursday, 6 February, 2020

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Best new London theatre — Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe in Endgame; plus Poet in da Corner and The Gift
Beckett’s spirit of experimentation is picked up in two innovative new dramas
Thursday, 30 January, 2020

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Best new London theatre: Uncle Vanya, Faustus: That Damned Woman, and Kunene and the King
Chekhov and Marlowe revised and revisited; Antony Sher shines as a cantankerous actor
Thursday, 23 January, 2020

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Best new London theatre — Maxine Peake in The Welkin, Beckett triple bill, The Sunset Limited
Lucy Kirkwood brings 18th-century women into focus; Trevor Nunn directs Beckett; Cormac McCarthy’s life-or-death debate
Friday, 17 January, 2020

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Best new London theatre: This Time, RAGS The Musical and Magic Goes Wrong
Three new shows tackle issues of jeopardy, trust and faith
Friday, 10 January, 2020

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Lucy Kirkwood on going from kitchen to courthouse with ‘The Welkin’
The playwright, who dazzled with ‘Chimerica’, has a new drama that combines housework and hanging in 18th-century England
Thursday, 2 January, 2020

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New Year — new drama coming to the British stage
Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Stoppard are among the names bringing shows to theatres in 2020
Thursday, 19 December, 2019

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Best new London theatre: Teenage Dick contends with disability, plus Swive and A Kind of People
Richard III goes to high school; Elizabeth I takes centre stage; racism satire asks questions about contemporary Britain
Monday, 16 December, 2019

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane — a thrilling adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel at the National Theatre, London
Spectacular illusions blend with superb storytelling in this scary, magical drama
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Thursday, 12 December, 2019

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Best new London theatre: James McAvoy is an outstanding Cyrano, plus Three Sisters and The Duchess of Malfi
Three classic dramas reimagined and seen in a fresh light
Tuesday, 10 December, 2019

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Fairview takes the domestic drama into racially charged territory
The Pulitzer Prize winner begins as a cosy family comedy, but pulls the rug out from under audiences at London’s Young Vic
Friday, 6 December, 2019

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Best new London theatre: The Boy Friend, Cinderella and White Christmas
Three Christmas shows offer respite from election fever
Tuesday, 3 December, 2019

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The Arrival — Bijan Sheibani’s beautifully developed first play opens in London
Showing at the Bush Theatre, the drama is an impressive writing debut
Friday, 29 November, 2019

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Best new UK theatre: The Boy in the Dress and more
Three much-loved books are brought to the stage
Thursday, 28 November, 2019

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Director Rebecca Frecknall: ‘I want to be moved and if I’m not I feel slightly cheated’
The director on why Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi completes a trilogy begun with Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke
Thursday, 21 November, 2019

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Dear Evan Hansen and Touching the Void push boundaries in London theatre
Why the best new West End shows are the ones that take risks
Thursday, 21 November, 2019

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Tom Morton-Smith on dramatising the ‘chess match of the century’
The playwright talks about 1972’s bad-tempered Spassky-Fischer contest and turning it into a cold war thriller
Thursday, 14 November, 2019

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Zizi Strallen is practically perfect in a gorgeously designed Mary Poppins
Richard Eyre’s razzle-dazzle staging at the Prince Edward Theatre highlights the story’s emotional core
Thursday, 7 November, 2019

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Best new London theatre: Murder in the Cathedral, God’s Dice, Botticelli in the Fire
Three plays put faith, dogma and power in the spotlight
Thursday, 31 October, 2019

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Best new London theatre: The Antipodes, On Bear Ridge, Ghost Quartet
Memory, loss and storytelling are the threads that link these shows
Friday, 25 October, 2019

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Claire Foy and Matt Smith in Lungs, plus Vassa and [BLANK]
Three London shows tackle big questions about the Earth and motherhood with humour and compassion
Friday, 18 October, 2019

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Best new London theatre: Solaris; A History of Water in the Middle East
Two new shows explore watery planets — an alien one, and our own
Friday, 11 October, 2019

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Best new London theatre
Three West End shows seek truth through humour and farce
Friday, 4 October, 2019

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Best new London theatre: ‘Master Harold’ . . . and the boys; Our Lady of Kibeho; The Watsons
Athol Fugard’s personal shame; visions in Rwanda; Jane Austen made meta
Friday, 27 September, 2019

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The best new London theatre: Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp; Two Ladies
Caryl Churchill dazzles with a quartet of new plays, while Nancy Harris examines power, control and violence