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    Our theatre critics pick the hottest outdoor tickets in town, from Shakespeare at the Globe to quick-stepping parkour action on the South Bank

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    Until Sun Sep 27, National Theatre Square

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  • Dances For a Lost Traveller

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    Critics' Choice

    Until Sun Jul 12, Warehouse Theatre

    Signdance Collective return to the Warehouse Theatre with a new production which explores language and landscape through live music, film and signdance.

  • Moonshadow

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sun Jul 19, White Bear Theatre

    An impending total eclipse in Cornwall sparks havoc in a psychiatric unit in this production by mental health theatre group, Stepping Out Theatre. Written by...

  • As You Like It

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sat Oct 10, Shakespeare's Globe

    Eternal summer reigns in Shakespeare's woodlands, and actual trees are about the only thing missing from Thea Sharrock's exceptionally witty and touching...

  • Arcadia

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sat Sep 12, Duke of York's Theatre

    Tom Stoppard's dizzying 1993 drama is set in a country house in two different eras. In 1809, earnest young Lady Thomasina quibbles over Fermat's last theorem...

  • All's Well That Ends Well

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sat Jul 11, National Theatre, Olivier

    Oliver Ford Davies plays a sickly French King cured by a lowly beauty in Marianne Elliott's production of Shakespeare's bittersweet comedy.

  • Sister Act

    Critics' Choice

    Until Feb 13 2010, London Palladium

    'Sister Act' is definitely a marmite musical. You'll either love its effervescence, its razzle-dazzle set design and its shimmying chutzpah or the same...

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  • Phèdre

    Until Sun Aug 2, National Theatre, Lyttelton

    Helen Mirren stars as the eponymous heroine in Racine's tragedy, translated into free verse by Ted Hughes and directed by Nicholas Hytner

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  • Sister Act

    'Sister Act' is definitely a marmite musical. You'll either love its razzle-dazzle set design...

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    Ronald Harwood's double bill about musicians in Nazi Germany transfers from Chichester

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    Jude Law wrestles with one of the greatest challenges in the Shakespearean canon. Just don't...

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    Just when the Minogue sisters thought they had the 'Aussie glamour' thing sewn up, Jason...

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  • England People Very Nice

    New comedy – with songs – surfing four waves of immigration in Bethnal Green, from...