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A massive stage version of ‘The Hunger Games’ is coming to London next year
Conor McPherson is writing the first ever stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s blockbuster dystopia
Sam Mendes will direct Jez Butterworth’s new play ‘The Hills of California’
The follow-up to the duo’s smash ‘The Ferryman’ opens in January
Leicester Square
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The Confessions
At the start of Alexander Zeldin’s new play Alice, an elderly woman played by Amelda Brown, reflects on her unremarkable life. ‘I am not...
South Bank
Hamnet
A stage version of Maggie O’Farrell’s 1.5m-selling 2020 novel ‘Hamnet’ feels like it should be an effortless home run for the...
Charing Cross Road
The Flea
Can something as minuscule as a flea really change the course of one family’s history? Well, according to James Fritz’s new dramatisation of the...
Hackney Wick
Portia Coughlan
Every day, almost 30 years ago, Marina Carr would walk through wards of mothers and babies at Dublin’s National Maternity Hospital and hunker down...
Islington
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Read the latest theatre news
Iconic ‘90s film ‘Cruel Intentions’ is coming to the West End as a musical
It’ll be packed full of ‘90s bangers
A massive stage version of ‘The Hunger Games’ is coming to London next year
Katniss and pals are heading to Theatreland in 2024
The National Theatre is experimenting with 6:30pm start times
Catch a show and get to bed early
After 15 years, Jersey Boys will close on the West End
The Four Seasons musical is in its final weeks
The best London theatres
National Theatre
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...
Royal Court Theatre
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...
Shakespeare's Globe
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...
Lyric Hammersmith
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...