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‘Seagull: True Story’: Chekhov’s Bird Returns, Sans Guns

Three-time Tony Award-winning puppet-fuelled parody ‘Avenue Q’ returns to the West End in all its riotous glory.

Does 'Double Indemnity' pay out or is it just murder to sit through?

An Evening Without Kate Bush – Underbelly Boulevard ★★★★★

Sarah-Louise Young's affectionate 'An Evening Without..." returns to the West End bigger, bolder and Kate Bushier!

The RSC’s maritime 'Hamlet' poses the question: to sea or not to sea?

In ‘The Adding Machine’, Humanity Is the First Thing Subtracted

Celebrating 10 years of Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson's 'Waitress The Musical', Carrie Hope Fletcher takes the lead in an extensive UK tour.

It's the biggest, awardiest evening of British Theatre - and The Recs' editor Steve Coats-Dennis is ready with some predictions.

Eva Victor depicts the aftermath of sexual assault in their directorial debut, 'Sorry, Baby'.

'One Battle After Another' offers an Oscar-tempting satire of political extremism and generational conflict

Timothée Chalamet serves up an Oscar hot shot with 'Marty Supreme'

Red spells danger...but for whom?

Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal mine the deepest emotions of the tragedy that inspired one of the world's greatest plays.

In Steve, Cillian Murphy proves an encapsulation of being a teacher can be riveting.

On Swift Horses gallops into cinemas at a leisurely pace

The Traitors Ireland offers conniving, cunning and a nice cuppa to banish the Autumnal gloom

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Sarah-Louise Young's affectionate 'An Evening Without..." returns to the West End bigger, bolder and Kate Bushier!

Northern Ballet bring to the stage the extraordinary story of Anne Lister – with the world premiere of 'Gentleman Jack'.

By turns light and frothy, then dark and grotesque, 'The Red Shoes' is a visual treat and a thought-provoking tale of love and artistic compulsion.

Scottish Opera's 'The Great Wave' explores artist Katsushika Hokusai and his famous woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny – ENO ★★★★

Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s rarely performed and disturbingly timely tale, 'Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny' gets an epic ENO reworking.

Derren Brown: Only Human Live (touring) ★★★★

Derren Brown brings his unique brand of mentalism back to the stage in his latest, unflinching production 'Only Human Live'

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Seagull: True Story ★★★

Avenue Q – Shaftesbury Theatre ★★★★★

Double Indemnity (touring) ★★

An Evening Without Kate Bush – Underbelly Boulevard ★★★★★

RSC’s Hamlet (touring) ★★★★

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