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  • Pains of Youth

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    Six bored, promiscuous students go on a sexually charged rampage in Martin Crimp's adaptation of Ferdinand Bruckner's 1920s play.

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  • Life is a Dream

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sat Nov 28, Donmar Warehouse

    It's a bold and exquisite dream in this Spanish classic, with Dominic West.

  • Not Black and White

    Until Sat Dec 19, Tricycle

    The only major London theatre to acknowledge Black History Month, the Tricycle has commissioned three eminent writers to dramatise 'the state of black Britain'

  • Mrs Klein

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sat Dec 5, Almeida Theatre

    Thea Sharrock directs Claire Higgins in the title role of Nicholas Wright's play about a psychoanalyst's relationship with her daughter in 1934.

  • Our Class

    Last Chance!

    Critics' Choice

    Until Jan 12 2010, National Theatre, Cottesloe

    In late 1930s Poland, anti-Semitism blooms again like a cancer out of remission; the Russians arrive and start enrolling spies, then the Germans file in and...

  • Endgame

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sat Dec 5, Duchess Theatre

    Purists may disapprove of the vivid emotional shades in Simon McBurney's striking Complicite production. But, for audiences condemned to wait with the actors...

  • Speaking in Tongues

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sat Dec 12, Duke of York's Theatre

    'Life on Mars' actor John Simm treads the boards for the first time since his Olivier Award-winning turn in the West End transfer of 'Elling' to star in...

  • Inherit the Wind

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sun Dec 20, Old Vic

    Trevor Nunn directs Kevin Spacey in this courtroom drama inspired by the true story of a teacher in 1920s Tennessee accused of violating state laws by...

  • Bedroom Farce

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sat Nov 28, Rose Theatre Kingston

    Peter Hall directs Jane Asher in the Rose's first homegrown rep season.

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  • Our Class

    In late 1930s Poland, anti-Semitism blooms again like a cancer out of remission; the Russians...

  • La Cage aux Folles

    Like its cross-dressing central character, Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein's groundbreaking...

  • War Horse

    'War Horse' is a lovely piece of family theatre, based on Michael Morpurgo's novel about a...

  • The Rise and Fall of Little Voice

    Until Jan 30 2010, Vaudeville Theatre

    'X-Factor' star Diane Vickers makes her stage debut in the first major West End revival of Jim Cartwright's social comedy since its 1992 premiere

  • Inherit the Wind

    Trevor Nunn directs Kevin Spacey in this courtroom drama inspired by the true story of a...

  • Breakfast at Tiffany's

    Sean Mathias directs Anna Friel as Holly Golightly in Samuel Adamson's adaptation of Truman...

  • Mother Courage and Her Children

    Fiona Shaw teams up with Deborah Warner again to play the mother of all roles in Tony Kushner's...

  • Annie Get Your Gun

    Revival of Irving Berlin's musical comedy about a sharp-shooting woman and her womanising...

  • Endgame

    Richard Briers was to play the ailing, blind Hamm in Complicité's staging of Samuel Beckett's...

  • Speaking in Tongues

    'Life on Mars' actor John Simm treads the boards for the first time since his Olivier...

  • The Power of Yes

    David Hare's new play looks at the sub-prime mortgage scandal, based on interviews with major...

  • The Shawshank Redemption

    Following a sell-out run in Dublin, Owen O'Neill and David Johns bring their stage adaptation...

  • Thriller Live

    'Thriller Live' isn't, it transpires, a theatre show, it's 'X-Factor' with a single white...