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  • Waiting for Godot

    Ian McKellen © Sasha Gusov

    Ian McKellen as Estragon and Roger Rees, replacing Patrick Stewart as Vladimir, create a partnership that's simply moving

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  • 11 and 12

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    New

    Until Sat Feb 27, Barbican Centre

    The venerable Peter Brook returns with a startling new epic exploring religious conflict in Francophone West Africa

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

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    New

    Until Sat Mar 20, Rose Theatre Kingston

    Judi Dench first played Titania for Peter Hall in 1962; now she's taking the part again, in an interpretation that reimagines the young queen of the fairies as the ageing Elizabeth I of England

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  • Enron

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    Critics' Choice

    Until Sat May 8, Noël Coward Theatre

    Lucy Prebble's smart satire, in an exuberant production by Rupert Goold, transfers to the West End triumphantly after its acclaimed Royal Court run

  • Jerusalem

    Until Sat Apr 24, Apollo Shaftesbury

    This edgy piece of new writing delighted critics and audiences at the Royal Court last year and is set to wow even more with its West End transfer

  • Really Old, Like Forty Five

    Until Wed Mar 17, National Theatre, Cottesloe

    Questioning comedy about society's attitude towards old age, penned by Tamsin Oglesby

  • Wet Weather Cover

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sun Feb 28, King's Head Theatre

    Promising sounding two-hander from the pen of acclaimed stage actor Oliver Cotton. Michael Brandon and Steve Furst are a pair of bickering thesps trapped...

  • The Caretaker

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sat Apr 17, Trafalgar Studios

    Since 'The Caretaker' made his name in 1960, Pinter has haunted London theatre like a sabre-toothed ghost, his oeuvre sometimes seeming to revolve...

  • Rites of Privacy

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sun Feb 14, New End Theatre

    Following a sell-out off-Broadway run, David Rhodes's one-man show about five characters harbouring dark secrets, transfers to the New End.

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  • Legally Blonde

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    Critics' Choice

    Until Feb 20 2011, Savoy Theatre

    The Broadway hit musical about a homecoming queen who gets dumped and swots up to go to Harvard Law arrives in London with Sheridan Smith and Duncan James

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