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‘Electra/Persona’ starring Cate Blanchett at the National Theatre
Blanchett and her Tár co-star Nina Hoss reunite for two hours of cerebral stage magic
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The 10 best new London theatre openings in September 2026
From Gillian Anderson to Cate Blanchett, Letitia Wright to Sting, it’s one hell of a month
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The top London comedy shows to see in September
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The best dance and ballet shows in London this September
September is when London’s first-class dance scene kicks back into action…
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‘You can have empathy for anyone’ – director Rebecca Frecknall on staging one of the most extreme plays ever written
The star director talks Sarah Kane’s shocking Cleansed
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Kimberly Akimbo
Kimberly Akimbo has the sort of outlandish premise that makes you wonder if it’s going to be another entry in the annals of ‘mad things that only...
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for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Fifty years on, For Colored Girls still hits. Ntozake Shange’s 1976 choreopoem arrives at the Yard Theatre with all the love, rage, grief, humour and...
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A Month in the Country
If it looks like a Chekhov play and it pines wistfully in the pre-revolution Russian countryside like a Chekhov play… that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a...
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‘West Side Story’, Paul Mescal, Emilia Clarke, Tracy Letts and more: the National Theatre announces a year of programming
NT boss Indhu Rubasingham has laid out pretty much all her plans for 2027, and there’s some thrilling stuff
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One of London’s most beloved off-West End theatres has closed for good
The Gate had struggled on without a building or an artistic director in the post-Covid era
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Old Vic
One of London's most storied theatres, the Old Vic – which opened its doors in 1818 – was the first home of the National Theatre, under the...
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National Theatre
Arguably the greatest theatre in the world, the Royal National Theatre is also one of London's most recognisable landmarks and perhaps this country's foremost...
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Royal Court Theatre
London's premiere new writing theatre, the Royal Court made its name in the 1950s when it was synonymous with kitchen sink dramas and the Angry Young Men, and...
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Shakespeare's Globe
Built in 1599 and destroyed by fire in 1613, the original Globe Theatre was at the heart of London’s seedy South London entertainment district in William...
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Lyric Hammersmith
A beacon of culture in Hammersmith, the Lyric's distinctive look is largely down to a fusion of the building's 1970s structure, the theatre's Victorian...