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PLAYS
National Theatre
OLIVIER THEATRE
FAWLTY TOWERS
Nearly 50 years since it first hit TV screens,
join Basil and an 18-strong cast as they bring
to life all the favourite moments from the
show’s unforgettable twelve episodes.
APOLLO THEATRE
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0330 333 4809)
THE FIFTH STEP
Following a sold-out Edinburgh season,
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden reprises
his role as Luka in this provocative,
entertaining and subversively funny new play
from David Ireland. Until 26 July.
@sohoplace
4 Soho Place, Charing Cross Road, W1
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
Based in a unique court room setting inside
London’s County Hall, a landmark production
of Agatha Christie’s gripping story of justice,
passion and betrayal.
COUNTY HALL
Belvedere Road, SE1 (0844 815 7141)
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
A polytechnic amateur drama group are putting
on a 1920s murder mystery and everything that
can go wrong... does!
DUCHESS THEATRE
Catherine Street, WC2 (0330 333 4810)
MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION
Four-time Olivier Award winner Imelda
Staunton joins forces with real-life daughter,
Betsy, reuniting with Dominic Cooke to bring
George Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral
classic crashing into the 21st Century.
GARRICK THEATRE
Charing Cross Road, WC2 (0330 333 4811)
GIANT
John Lithgow reprises his role as Roald Dahl
in the west end transfer of Mark Rosenblatt's
critically acclaimed play. Until 2 August.
HAROLD PINTER THEATRE
Panton Street, SW1 (0333 009 6690)
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LYTTELTON THEATRE
INTER ALIA
Suzie Miller and Justin Martin reunite
following their smash-hit Prima Facie for this
searing examination of motherhood and
masculinity.
DORFMAN
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Directed by Nicholas Hytner, and following its
critically-acclaimed run at the Bridge in 2019,
seating is wrapped around the action while
the immersive tickets allow the story to be
followed on foot. Until 20 August.
BRIDGE THEATRE
Potters Fields Park, SE1 (0333 320 0052)
THIS
NYE
Michael Sheen reprises his role as Nye Bevan
in this celebration of the life and legacy of the
man who transformed Britain’s welfare state.
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THE ESTATE
BAFTA winner Adeel Akhtar is Angad in this
razor-sharp exploration of family, power and
the lies we tell about ourselves.
Tina – The Tina Turner Musical is
playing it’s final summer in the West
End.
Photo: Matt Crockett
MUSICALS
NATIONAL THEATRE
South Bank, SE1 (020 7452 3000)
STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW
Directed by Stephen Daldry, this gripping new
adventure will take you back to the beginning
of the Stranger Things story – and may hold
the key to the end...
PHOENIX THEATRE
Charing Cross Road, WC2
CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story about a boy
born old, who grows younger every day,
transposed to a Cornish fishing village.
Until 30 August.
AMBASSADORS THEATRE
West Street, WC2 (0207 395 5405)
FAULTY TOWERS THE DINING EXPERIENCE
Inspired by one of Britain’s greatest ever
comedy series, a 2 hour production is set in a
restaurant where the audience are the diners.
PRESIDENT HOTEL
Guilford Street, WC1 (0845 154 4145)
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Adventure based on the 1985 blockbuster
about a rock‘n’roll teenager who is
accidentally transported back to 1955 in a
time-travelling DeLorean.
ADELPHI THEATRE
Strand, WC2 (020 7557 7300)
THE MOUSETRAP
Agatha Christie’s whodunnit is the longest
running play of its kind in the history of
British theatre.
ST MARTIN’S THEATRE
West Street, WC2 (0844 499 1515)
TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL
The untold story of the late Tina Turner, a
woman who dared to defy the bounds of her
age, gender and race.
ALDWYCH THEATRE
The Aldwych, WC2
TILL THE STARS COME DOWN
Critically acclaimed National production is a
passionate, heart-breaking and hilarious
portrayal of a larger-than-life family struggling
to come to terms with a changing world.
THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET
Suffolk Street, SW1 (020 7930 8800)
WICKED
The West End and Broadway musical
phenomenon, which tells the untold story of
two unlikely friends’ extraordinary adventures
in Oz, on their journey to becoming Glinda
The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
APOLLO VICTORIA THEATRE
Wilton Road, SW1 (0333 009 6690)
MY MASTER BUILDER
Inspired by Ibsen, this startling new play by
Lila Raicek lays bare the vulnerabilities we
expose, when we leave ourselves open to
love. Ewan McGregor stars. Until 12 July.
WYNDHAM’S THEATRE
Charing Cross Road, WC2
MATILDA
Critically acclaimed Royal Shakespeare
Company production of Roald Dahl’s book,
directed by Matthew Warchus.
CAMBRIDGE THEATRE
Earlham Street, WC2
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