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The 10 best new London theatre openings in May 2025
May is here and with it the London open air theatre season gets into full swing. But there’s one big talking point: the final work by...
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The top London comedy shows to see in May
With May 2025 comes an event in the London comedy calendar that has been years coming: the opening of the new Soho Theatre Walthamstow…
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Stormzy, Punchdrunk, Paul Mescal and the return of rep feature in Indhu Rubasingham’s first NT season
The first programming from the new NT boss includes some thrilling stuff
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First look inside London’s jaw-dropping 1,000-seat new theatre – and it’s not in the West End
Soho Theatre Walthamstow is much more than than franchise extension
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‘It was high chaos’: the death and rebirth of London’s coolest theatre
As Hackney Wick’s Yard Theatre prepares to be demolished, we get the inside story on the improbable life and times of London’s hippest venue
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Scenes from a Repatriation
Genre-bending Singaporean playwright Joel Tan throws a lot into the mix to make a play about whether we should return artefacts to China not dull, and quite a...
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Dealer’s Choice
Patrick Marber’s reputation as a playwright was sealed with 1997’s Closer, but wowee his debut Dealer’s Choice is good, a hugely...
Seven Dials
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My Master Builder
Ibsen’s original Master Builder is a weird, stodgy play, and US playwright’s Raicek’s celebrity-studded new version does a lot to address its...
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The 10 best new London theatre openings in May 2025
From Sondheim’s final musical to start of open air theatre season, it’s all systems go for London theatre this month
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Stormzy, Punchdrunk, Paul Mescal and the return of rep feature in Indhu Rubasingham’s first NT season
The seventh artistic director of the National Theatre has unveiled an ambitious two-year programme of shows
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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...