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PLAYS
National Theatre
MUSICALS
OLIVIER THEATRE
RETROGRADE
Following its sold out run at the Kiln
Theatre, Ryan Calais Cameron's play explores
identity, resilience and integrity as it examines
a true event in 1950's Hollywood.
Until 14 June.
LONDON ROAD
Award-winning, verbatim musical based on
tragic events which took place in Ipswich two
decades ago. Rufus Norris directs this
extraordinary show. 6-21 June.
APOLLO THEATRE
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0330 333 4809)
LYTTELTON THEATRE
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.
@sohoplace
4 Soho Place, Charing Cross Road, W1
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)
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,
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)
HERE WE ARE
Stephen Sondheim’s final work is directed by
two-time Tony Award-winner Joe Mantello,
with book by Tony Award-nominee David Ives.
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
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)
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)
THE DEEP BLUE SEA
Tamsin Greig stars in Terence Rattigan’s
1950’s study of obsession and the destructive
power of love in a new production from
Theatre Royal Bath.
THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET
Suffolk Street, SW1 (020 7930 8800)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
MATILDA
Critically acclaimed Royal Shakespeare
Company production of Roald Dahl’s book,
directed by Matthew Warchus.
CAMBRIDGE THEATRE
Earlham Street, WC2
TITANIQUE
Camp reimagining of the maritime
blockbuster, which makes a musical fantasia
of the famous film and promises plenty of
deranged fun.
CRITERION THEATRE
Piccadilly Circus, W1 (020 7839 8811)
STEREOPHONIC
Invites the audience to immerse themselves –
with fly-on-the-wall intimacy – in the powder
keg process of a rock band blowing up.
DUKE OF YORK’S THEATRE
St. Martin’s Lane, WC2
OLIVER!
Directed and choreographed by Matthew
Bourne, this version of Dickens’ favourite tale
has a wonderful score, including Food
Glorious Food, Consider Yourself, You’ve Got
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