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Review: Affluenza, Riverside Studios - This hubristic new play revels in wild plot jumps and the baffling withholding of its star Noah Schnapp timeout.com/london/theatre/a…

Affluenza, Riverside Studios review: This hubristic new play revels in wild plot jumps and the...

We all love a plot twist but New York theatremaker Andy Sandberg’s play Affluenza feels like a cautionary story about what happens when you twist too hard.Wel

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreOct 9

Review: Rent, Tom Stoppard Theatre - ‘Stranger Things’ star Gaten Matarazzo feels out of place in this sexy but shallow take on Jonathan Larson’s masterpiece timeout.com/london/news/rent…

‘A great staged concert but a less good theatre show’ – Rent at the Tom Stoppard Theatre Review

Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo is miscast in this sexy but shallow take on the classic musical

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreOct 11

Sacha Baron Cohen will make his stage debut in Quentin Tarantino’s The Popinjay Cavalier, opening at the Phoenix Theatre early next year timeout.com/london/news/sach…

Sacha Baron Cohen will make his stage debut in Quentin Tarantino’s play ‘The Popinjay Cavalier’

Tarantino’s first outing as a playwright and theatre director now has a star, a venue, and an on sale date.

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreOct 2

Review: Hay Fever, Wyndham’s Theatre - A brilliant ensemble cast lift a very trad Noël Coward revival, though big name Richard E Grant is underwhelming timeout.com/london/news/hay-…

‘Richard E Grant’s performance is only okay’: Hay Fever at Wyndham’s Theatre Review

A brilliant ensemble cast lift a trad production of the Noël Coward classic, though big name Grant is the weakest link

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreSep 30

Review: The Standard of Living, Theatre Royal Haymarket – James Graham’s latest is flawed but fun (and almost certainly the most enjoyable play about an economist ever written) timeout.com/london/news/the-…

The Standard of Living, Haymarket Theatre Royal review: Rory Kinnear is a delight as radical...

Describing the plays of James Graham as ‘history podcast theatre’ would be mean and inaccurate but also a bit true. To be clear, Graham has produced many wond

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreSep 30

From Keira Knightley to High School Musical: it’s the ten biggest and best new London theatre openings in October 2026 timeout.com/london/news/best…

The 10 best new London theatre openings in October 2026

From Keira Knightley to ‘High School Musical’.

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreOct 1

Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, @sohoplace Sensational off-kilter turns from Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup are made even better by the ultra-intimate staging at @sohoplace timeout.com/london/news/whos…

‘If Gillian Anderson is good, Billy Crudup is phenomenal’: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf West End...

Sensational turns from Anderson and Crudup are made even better the ultra-intimate staging.

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreSep 24

Review: The Last Ship, Theatre Royal Drury Lane - Sting’s musical about the decline of the Tyneside shipyards is an awesome spectacle with decent songs and some mindboggling plotting timeout.com/london/news/revi…

‘A plot that lurches from tender social realism to pure garbage’ – Review: Sting’s musical The Last...

Sting’s musical about the decline of the Tyneside shipyards finally makes it to London, with the man himself starring.

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreSep 24

Britain’s greatest living playwright Caryl Churchill has just announced a new play starring Kate O’Flynn, that will open next month timeout.com/london/news/brit…

Britain’s greatest living playwright Caryl Churchill has just announced a new play starring Kate...

‘Widow’s Bay’ star O’Flynn will head up the legendary writer’s new play ‘Triumph’

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreSep 14

here’s our review from the weekend of Man to Man starring Tilda Swinton and a reminder that as with every Monday performance, all tickets to tonight’s show go on sale at 9am on the Royal Court website – it’s sold out apart from Mondays

Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreSep 12

Review: Man to Man, Royal Court Theatre - Tilda Swinton returns to the theatre after almost 40 years and you can barely believe she’s been away timeout.com/london/news/revi…

Man to Man, Royal Court Theatre review: The legendary actor returns to the stage after almost 40...

Last summer I was at an arts festival in Poland and so was Tilda Swinton, performing a show of her own devising called Embodying Pasolini. Performance art rat

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreSep 12

Review: Man to Man, Royal Court Theatre - Tilda Swinton returns to the theatre after almost 40 years and you can barely believe she’s been away timeout.com/london/news/revi…

Man to Man, Royal Court Theatre review: The legendary actor returns to the stage after almost 40...

Last summer I was at an arts festival in Poland and so was Tilda Swinton, performing a show of her own devising called Embodying Pasolini. Performance art rat

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreSep 10

Review: Kimberly Akimbo, Hampstead Theatre – Maria Friedman is sensational in this sweetly existential Broadway musical about a teen aging at four times the usual speed timeout.com/london/theatre/k…

Kimberly Akimbo, Hampstead Theatre review: Maria Friedman is sensational in this sweetly existent...

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 Americans are

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreSep 4

What the hell is going on with Sunday in the Park with George at the Barbican timeout.com/london/news/sund…

‘Sunday in the Park with George’ at the Barbican has been cancelled

The troubled production has lost its stars Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey – what’s going to happen next?

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreSep 7

Review: A Month in the Country, Donmar Warehouse - Sophie Okonedo is superb as a jaded aristocrat slowly ripping her own world apart in Lyndsey Turner’s take on the Russian classic timeout.com/london/theatre/a…

A Month in the Country, Donmar Warehouse review: Sophie Okonedo is superb as a jaded aristocrat...

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 Chekh

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreSep 9

The National Theatre has announced its complete 2027 programming, from Tracy Letts to West Side Story timeout.com/london/news/nati…

‘West Side Story’, Paul Mescal, Emilia Clarke, Tracy Letts and more: the National Theatre announces...

NT boss Indhu Rubasingham has laid out her plans for 2027

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreAug 18

Review: Death Note: The Musical, Barbican Centre - This eye-popping musical adaptation of the smash manga about a killer notebook should have been braver with the source material timeout.com/london/theatre/d…

Death Note the Musical, Barbican Centre review: This musical adaptation of the smash manga about a...

This review is from summer 2026; Death Note: The Musical returns spring 2027.Death Note: The Musical is a remarkably faithful adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and T

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreJul 15

Review: The Oresteia, Bridge Theatre - ‘trashy as hell and relentless gripping’ timeout.com/london/news/ores…

‘Trashy as hell and relentlessly gripping’: ‘The Oresteia’ at the Bridge Theatre Review

A true crime-influenced take on the great Greek tragedy.

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreJul 8

Review: Jesus Christ Superstar, London Palladium – Eurovision star Sam Ryder is out of his depth in this otherwise broodingly sexy take on the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic timeout.com/london/news/jesu…

Jesus Christ Superstar, London Palladium review: Sam Ryder is a touch underwhelming at the heart of...

Sam Ryder is not the Messiah. But he did come second for the UK in Eurovision, which places him close in some people’s eyes. And you can see the logic of cast

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreJul 1

Review: The Guilty, Donmar Warehouse - Russell Tovey is terrific in this gripping realtime thriller directed by Felix Barrett from Punchdrunk timeout.com/london/theatre/t…

The Guilty, Donmar Warehouse review: Russell Tovey is terrific in this gripping realtime thriller...

This nailbitingly tense thriller is director Felix Barrett’s second ‘normal’ piece of theatre to open in London in the last year, following West End smash Paran

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Time Out Theatre@TimeOutTheatreJun 30

July is upon us and here are our top theatre openings, from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar to Sarah Kane’s Cleansed and all the many points in between timeout.com/london/news/best…

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