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- DirectorIvo van HoveNick WickhamStarsLily JamesGillian AndersonJulian OvendenEve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing and tells Margo and her friends a melancholy life story. Margo takes Eve under her wing, only to have Eve use her and connive against her.
- DirectorDanny BoyleTim Van SomerenStarsJonny Lee MillerBenedict CumberbatchAndreea PaduraruChildlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the Creature determines to track down his creator.
- DirectorMarianne ElliottBridget CaldwellStarsAndrew GarfieldRussell ToveyDenise GoughThe National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's play 'Angels in America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis during the mid-1980s.
- DirectorJosie RourkeTim Van SomerenStarsRochenda SandallMark StanleyDwane WalcottCaius Martius Coriolanus is a war hero, banished from his home, seeking to come back.
- DirectorRob AshfordTim Van SomerenStarsDavid AnnenAndy ApolloElliot BalchinAs Macbeth rides home from battle, three witches prophecise that he will soon rise in power to become King of Scotland. Aided by his wife, the pair will stop at nothing to seal their fate.
- DirectorTony Grech-SmithVicky JonesStarsPhoebe Waller-BridgeA rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. With family and friendships under strain and a guinea pig cafe struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds herself with nothing to lose.
- DirectorMelly StillStarsDavid AjalaGaye BrownGary CarrA parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress. Neither speaks the others language, but somehow they must learn to survive and forge a new nation.
- DirectorJeremy HerrinRoss MacGibbonStarsJenna ColemanSally FieldBill PullmanAmerica, 1947, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. But their contented lives are about to shatter. A figure from the past forces long buried truths to the surface lying bare the price of their American dream.
- DirectorLloyd NewsonRobin LoughStarsTaylor BenjaminLee BoggessGabriel CastilloLloyd Newson interviewed more than 50 men asking them frank questions, initially about love and sex. One of those men was John.
- DirectorNadia FallStarsZubin VarlaGurjeet SinghScott Karim1659 Mughal India. A ferocious war of succession rages between the heirs to the Muslim empire; two brothers with very different visions of its future.
- DirectorSean MathiasRobin LoughStarsSean MathiasIan McKellenDamien MolonyFollowing their hit run on Broadway, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, broadcast live to cinemas from Wyndham's Theatre, London.
- DirectorSimon GodwinRobin LoughStarsTamara LawranceDaniel EzraOliver ChrisTamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare's classic comedy of mistaken identity. A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love.
- DirectorCarrie CracknellMatthew AmosStarsVanessa KirbyEric Kofi AbrefaThalissa TeixeiraWild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party, which rapidly descends into a savage fight for survival.
- DirectorCarrie CracknellRoss MacGibbonStarsHelen McCroryDanny SapaniMichaela CoelMedea, a woman stricken with grief after learning that her ex-husband has decided to remarry is faced with impossible choices in this exhilarating and breathtaking adaptation of Medea.
- DirectorNick WickhamStarsKate DuchêneChukwudi IwujiÉva MagyarHedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.
- DirectorMatthew DunsterRoss MacGibbonStarsJosef DaviesJames DrydenJohnny FlynnLocal hangman Harry is unaware of the recent abolition of hanging in Great Britain, and everyone, including his old assistant Syd, and the peculiar Mooney, are just dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news.
- DirectorYaël FarberMatthew AmosStarsOlwen FouéréShahar IsaacPaul ChahidiA re-telling of the the classic tale of Salome.
- DirectorDominic CookeTim Van SomerenStarsImelda StauntonGary RaymondTracie BennettThe former Weismann's Follies girls return to their old theatre one last time. At the core of the story are two married couples on the brink of collapse. As the night goes on, egos are unleashed, lies are exposed, and secrets are revealed.
- DirectorJonathan MunbyRoss MacGibbonStarsIan McKellenSinéad CusackDanny WebbTwo aging fathers - one a King, one his courtier - reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, and their worlds crumble.
- DirectorMichael GrandageRobin LoughStarsMichael HadleyPaul JessonAlec NewmanAn ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child's love rejected. As Lear's world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsJonathan BaileySandy BatchelorAdam BerryThe Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerTony Grech-SmithStarsBen WhishawMichelle FairleyDavid MorrisseyCaesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat's popularity, the educated elite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of Rome.
- DirectorRufus NorrisTony Grech-SmithStarsAmy ForrestLeah HarveySandra James-YoungA journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 - the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury.
- DirectorBill T. JonesNick WickhamStarsLydie AlbertoSherinne Kayra AndersonJonathan AndreA provocative and wholly unique hybrid of dance, theatre and music, exploring the extravagant, decadent and rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsRichard GriffithsAlex JenningsAdrian ScarboroughBenjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden.
- DirectorSally CooksonStarsSaikat AhamedSuzanne AhmetMarc AntolinWhen leader of the Lost Boys, Peter Pan, loses his shadow during a visit to London, headstrong Wendy helps him re-attach it; in return she is invited to Neverland.
- DirectorRufus NorrisTim Van SomerenStarsNadia AlbinaMichael BalogunStephen BoxerThe ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness.
- DirectorJosie RourkeTony Grech-SmithStarsGemma ArtertonFisayo AkinadeMatt BardockJoan, a young Frenchwoman, decides to spring to action when England invades France. After having visions of Archangel and Saints, she goes to Charles VII to offer her support.
- DirectorPolly FindlayStarsZoë AldrichJamie BallardPaul BentallThe new King Creon is desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war and refuses to bury the body of Antigone's rebellious brother. Outraged, she defies him.
- DirectorSimon StoneTony Grech-SmithStarsBillie PiperJohn MacmillanBrendan CowellThe extraordinary Billie Piper plays Her, a woman driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child. Simon Stone creates a radical new production of Lorca's achingly powerful masterpiece.
- DirectorMichael LonghurstTim Van SomerenStarsLucian MsamatiAdam GillenKarla CromeWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world - and he's determined to make a splash.
- DirectorSimon GodwinRobin LoughStarsRowena BentleyLindsay DuncanAlex JenningsOn a summer's morning in 1988, a Tory politician and his wife begin to dig up buried secrets.
- DirectorBridget CaldwellSally CooksonStarsBenji BowerWill BowerCraig EdwardsAfter a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
- DirectorRoger MichellStarsPriyanga BurfordPip CarterBen ChaplinFriends take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of the truth is challenged.
- DirectorSimon GodwinStarsRalph FiennesIndira VarmaCorey JohnsonBased on Nietzsche's theory of the Superman, this reinvention of Shaw's witty, provocative classic tells of Ann Whitefield's relentless pursuit of dedicated bachelor Jack Tanner.
- DirectorNeil ArmfieldRobin LoughStarsSian BrookeOwen FindlayAlex HassellPauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a stalwart loyalist in Labour Party politics, she's faced with an agonising decision.
- DirectorNick WickhamStarsJude LawChukwudi IwujiHalina ReijnA drifter falls for a married woman at road side diner and the two plot to kill her husband.
- DirectorPolly FindlayTim Van SomerenStarsLeon AnnorPhilip ArdittiJoe BannisterAfter the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
- DirectorYaël FarberStarsSheila AtimGary BeadleSidney ColeAn African country teeters on the edge of civil war, as a society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future.
- DirectorRufus NorrisNick WickhamStarsChiwetel EjioforPhilip Martin BrownPaul BullionEveryman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. He is forced to abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend.
- DirectorRufus NorrisStarsOlivia WilliamsOlivia ColmanPaul HiltonIn 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters together. The collision threatens them all with chaos.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerStarsMichael PeavoyMatthew BarkerDavid CalderHamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
- DirectorBijan SheibaniStarsMike AherneNeal BarryRendah BeshooriThrown together by their work, chefs, waitresses and porters from across Europe - English, Irish, German, Jewish - argue and flirt as they race to keep up.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerTim Van SomerenStarsSamuel BarnettSam BondJacqueline ChanThe Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsRory KinnearNancy CarrollOliver Chris1850. Europe's most feared terrorist is hiding in Soho. Broke, restless and horny, his only hope is a job on the railway. But there's still no one in the capital who can show you a better night on the piss than Karl Heinrich Marx.
- DirectorTimothy SheaderTim Van SomerenStarsNicholas BlaneNicholas BurnsNancy CarrollWhen amiable magistrate Posket marries widow Agatha, little does he realise she's lopped five years off her age - and her son's.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsFranc AshmanLinda BassettEllie BurrowPeople spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one's house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do?
- DirectorNadia FallStarsRonke AdekoluejoAdedayo Adeleke OyedejiJonathan AjayiNigeria, 1967. Three sisters, grieving the loss of their father, long to return to their former home in Lagos as conflict encroaches on their provincial village.
- DirectorBenedict AndrewsNick WickhamStarsGillian AndersonClare BurtLachele CarlAs Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace - but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
- DirectorSimon GodwinTony Grech-SmithStarsRalph FiennesSophie OkonedoTim McMullanCaesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love.
- At the outbreak of World War One, Albert's beloved horse, Joey, is sold to the Cavalry and shipped to France. Though still not old enough to enlist he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home.
- StarsAndrew Hunter MurrayIan Hislop and Private Eye magazine venture into the world of audio with a brand new program hosted by Andrew Hunter Murray.
- DirectorCarrie CracknellMatthew AmosStarsMarion BaileyHubert BurtonYolanda KettleWhen Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge.
- DirectorIvo van HoveNick WickhamStarsEmun ElliottPhoebe FoxMichael GouldIn Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsSuzanne ToaseTrevor LairdFred RidgewayFrancis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe, a small time East End hood. Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubber. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart.
- DirectorJosie RourkeTony Grech-SmithStarsJanet McTeerMorfydd ClarkAdjoa AndohMarquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cecile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel.
- DirectorHoward DaviesRoss MacGibbonStarsClaudie BlakleyMark BonnarPip CarterMadame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage.
- DirectorRufus NorrisNick WickhamStarsRory KinnearRosalie CraigHaydn GwynneAs London's East End scrubs up for the coronation, Mr and Mrs Peachum gear up for a bumper day in the beggary business. Keeping tight control of the city's underground - and their daughter's whereabouts.
- DirectorDominic CookeTim Van SomerenStarsMarcus AdolphyTom AndersonPaul BentallAegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Unfortunately, Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransom's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them...
- DirectorAdam PenfordMatt WoodwardStarsNadia AlbinaNicholas BishopMark GatissWith the King's mind unravelling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to undermine the power of the Crown, and expose the fine line between a King and a man.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerStarsNick SampsonRichard FramePaul ReadyGrace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt in return for his financial support of her family. At a house party in her father's place, Harcourt's son Charles also falls in love with Grace.
- DirectorWils WilsonStarsNaana Agyei AmpaduOliver BirchRichie HartBear's hat is gone. He loves his hat. He wants it back. He asks all the animals in the forest, but no one has seen it. WAIT. He has seen it somewhere.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRoss MacGibbonStarsAlex JenningsSimon Russell BealeMark AddyMoscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom.
- DirectorJamie LloydTony Grech-SmithStarsJames McAvoyAnita-Joy UwajehEben FigueiredoAn intense, raw and deep revival of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac by the Jamie Lloyd Company.