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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 ColemanBill PullmanSally FieldAmerica, 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-SmithStarsAdjoa AndohMichelle FairleyBen WhishawCaesar 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.