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  • The Habit of Art

    Frances de la Tour and Richard Griffiths shine in Alan Bennet's teasing tribute to the National Theatre

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  • Cock

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    Critics' Choice

    Until Sat Dec 19, Royal Court Theatre

    New play about a guy who takes a break from his boyfriend and meets the girl of his dreams. With legendary young Hamlet Ben Whishaw

  • The Full Monty

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    Dec 3-Jan 2 2010, New Players Theatre

    After doing time on the fringe, emerging directing talent Thom Southerland hits Theatreland with the one about the stripping steelworkers

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  • A Man of No Importance

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sat Dec 5, Union Theatre

    As theatrical premises go, there can be few as unappetising as this: Alfie, a middle-aged bus conductor, finally comes out, and still doesn't get any. But...

  • Pains of Youth

    Critics' Choice

    Until Jan 21 2010, National Theatre, Cottesloe

    With remarkable prescience, Ferdinand Bruckner wrote his troubling play in 1926, now presented in a new version by Martin Crimp. On the day that Marie (Laura...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • The Pitmen Painters

    Critics' Choice

    Until Jan 17 2010, National Theatre, Lyttelton

    When Lee Hall turned 'Billy Elliot' the film into a musical, he was careful to pay attention to the miners and their grievances. Now he puts them centre...

  • 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...

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