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Detailed Listings

Above
the Stag – Blue Birds, a Musical – August 17/11 to Sept 4/11; Boys Play/Extra V*irgin – Sept 13/11 to Oct 16/11;

Adelphi – One Man, Two Guvnors – starts Nov 8/11 – opens Nov 21/11 to Feb 25/12 – moves to Haymarket March 2/12; Sweeney Todd (Michael Ball/Imelda Staunton) – from March 10, 2012;

Albery –

Aldwych – Midnight Tango from Jan 20/12 to March 31/12; Top Hat – starts April 19/12 – opens May 9/12 to Jan 26/13; Carousel – from Aug 15/12

Almeida
- (too many short stands to list) – House of Bernarda Alba – Jan 19/12 to March 10/12; Filumena – March 15/12 to May 12/12; Children’s Children – May 17/12 to June 30/12; King Lear (Jonathan Pryce) – August 31/12 to Nov 3/12;

Ambassadors – see New Ambassador’s
Theatre – Santa Claus and the Christmas Adventure – Nov 29/11 to Dec 31/11;

Apollo – 29 Shaftesbury Ave (Piccadilly Circus) – Jerusalem – starts Oct 8/11 – opens Oct 17/11 to Jan 14/12; Madness of King Geore III – Jan 18/12 to March 31/12; Long Day’s Journey Into Night (David Suchet/Laurie Metcalf) – April 2/12 to August 18/12;

Apollo Hammersmith – see Hammersmith Apollo

Apollo Victoria
- (Wilton Road)(Victoria) – Wicked – to Apr 27/13;

Arcola
Theatre – The Pitchfork Disney – Jan 25/12 to March 17/12; Brimstone and Treacle – starts May 2/12 – opens May 4/12 to June 2/12;

Arts – A Christmas Carol (Simon Callow) – Dec 8/11 to Jan 14/12; Big Pants and Botox – Feb 9/12 to Feb 11/12;

Arts
Depot (Tally Ho Corner, North Finchley alongside the Cannons Health &
Leisure Centre, Nether Street) –

Barbican Centre –
Pit – (Many short or one-night programmes – check paper) – Gross und Klein (Great and Small)(Cate Blanchett) – from April 13/12; Madamoiselle Julie (Juliette Binoche) – from Sept 20/12; The Devil and Mr. Punch – from Feb 2/12 to Feb 25/12; ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore – From Feb 16/12;

Bush Theatre – Knowledge – Jan 12/11 to Feb 19/11; Little Platoons – Jan 19/11 to Feb 19/11; Moment – Feb 25/11 to March 26/11; The Master and Margariets – from March 15/12; Cymbeline – from May 29/11;

Cadogan Hall –

Cambridge – Matilda the Musical – starts October 25/11 – opens Nov 24/11 to Oct 21/12;

Camden Roundhouse – La Clique – starts
Nov 19/09;

Charing Cross/formerly New Players Theatre – Naked Boys Singing (Fri & Sat nights only) – Jan 27/12 to May 19/12;

Cinema on Haymarket – ;

City Circ Season – new five-month
showcase of contemporary circus designed to raise the profile of the art form in
London – to run from April/09 to August 09/ at 20 venues including Camden’s
Roundhouse, Lyric Hammersmith, National Theatre, Shunt Vaults, E4 Udderbelly at
the Southbank Centre, Greenwich Dance Agency and Polka Theatre

Cock Tavern – Shrunk – May 18/10 to June 12/10

Coliseum – (Many
short or one-night programmes – check paper) – ;

Comedy – being renamed Harold Pinter as of Oct 2011) – Betrayal (Colin Furth,Kristin Scott Thomas) – starts May 27/11 – opens June 16/11 to Aug 20/11; (under new name when Opens) Death and the Maiden – starts Oct 13/11 – opens Oct 24/11 to Jan 21/12;

Criterion – 39
Steps – April 23/07 – to October 20/12; Peppa Pig’s Party – Nov 30/10 to Jan 2/11;

Dominion – We
Will Rock You – opened May 14/2002 – to October 20, 2012;

Donmar Warehouse
- also taking over Wyndhams Theatre in 2009;
The Recruiting Officer – Feb 9/12 to April 14/12; Making Noise Quietly – April 19/12 to May 26/12; The Physicists – May 31/12 to July 21/12;

Drillhall – ;

Drury Lane, Theatre Royal
- Shrek the Musical – starts May 6, 2011 – opening June 7, 2011 to Oct 21/12

Duchess – The Pitmen Painters – starts Oct 5/11 – opens Oct 11/11 to April 14/12;

Duke of York’s – Backbeat – starts September – opens Oct 10/11 to Feb 18/12; All New People (Zach Braff) – starts Feb 22/12 to April 28/12 only;

English National
Opera

Fortune – Woman
in Black (opened 1989 – 20th Anniversary) – to Dec 15/12;

Fringe Festival – August 6-30/10;

Frog and Peach – Richard III – Oct
2-26/08;

Gaiety – Big Fellah – starts April 19/11;

Garrick – Horrible Histories–Barmy Britain – a.m., and matinees begin Feb 14/12 – opens Feb 24/12; Chicago (America Ferrera moves here starting Nov 7/11;

Gatehouse – Zanna Don’t – June 9/09 to
July 5/09 (upstairs);

Gate
Theatre< – Kreutzer Sonata – starts Jan 6/12 – opens Jan 11/12 to Feb 18/12;

Gielgud –
The Ladykillers – starts Nov 26/11 – opens Dec 7/11 to April 14/12;

Globe – see Shakespeare’s Globe

Greenwich Playhouse – Say It With Music – August 9/11 to Sept 4/11 – closes end of April 2012 after 20 years;

Hackney Empire –
The Hounding of David Oluwale – March 24-28/09;

Hammersmith – see
Lyric Hammersmith

Hammersmith Apollo – Green Day’s American Idiot – to Dec 16/12;

Hampstead Theatre
- The Gods Weep (Jeremy Irons) – starts March 12/10 – opening March 17/10 to
April 3/10;

Hanover Grand -

Harold Pinter Theatre – Panton Street – formerly Comedy Theatre – Absent Friends – starts Jan 26/12 – opens Feb 9/12; The Browning Version and South Downs – starts April 19/12 – opens April 24/12 to July 22/12

Theatre
Royal Haymarket – The Importance of Being Earnest – Jan 31/12 to Feb 11/12; One Man Two Guvnors – starts March 2/12 to Sept 12/12 (transfer from National/Adelphi)

Her Majesty’s –
Phantom of the Opera (22nd birthday as of Oct 9/08) – to Oct 27/12;

Hippodrome – La Clique – starts Oct
2/08 – opening Oct 10/08 to June 27, 2009 – then closing to become Casino ;

Jermyn Street Theatre
- Bloody Poetry – Jan 31/12 to Feb 25/12; Soldier’s Wives – Feb 28/12 to March 3/12; Borge – March 6/12 to Mar 31/12;

Kensington Gardens – 1,100 seat tent –
Peter Pan – starts May 26/09 – opening June 10/09 to September 30/09 then to
tour U.S.;

King’s Head – H.M.S. Pinafore – to May 14/11;

Landor Theatre – Lucky Stiff – Feb 1-25/12;

Leicester Square Theatre (formerly Venue) –
Ezra Axelrod: Songs from American Motel – Feb 9/12 to March 3/12;

Lillian Bayliss Theatre
-

London Apollo
(Hammersmith) –

London Colisseum
- porgy and Bess – July 11-21/12;

London Hippodrome see Hippodrome

London Palladium
- The Wizard of Oz (Michael Crawford) – starts Feb 7, 2011 – opens March 29/11 to Oct 28/12; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – 2013;

Lyceum – Lion
King – to September 9/12;

Lyric Theatre – Thriller – Live – starts Jan 2/09 – opens Jan 21/09
to Sept 23/12; The Tiger Who Came to Tea – July 4/12 to Sept 2/12;

Lyric
Hammersmith – Lovesong (Sian Phillips) – Jan 11-28/12; Midsummer Night’s Dream – Feb 9/12 to March 17/12; Mogadishu – March 27-31/12; Oedipussy – Apr 10-21/12; Under Room and Have I None – April 19/12 to May 5/12; Bond’s Chair – May 11-25/12;

Menier Chocolate Factory – Pippin – starts Nov 22/11 – opens Dec 7/11 to Feb 25/12; Abigail’s Party – March 2/12 to April 21/12;Merrily We Roll Along 2012; Educating Rita – from April 25/12 for 3 weeks;

Millenium Dome (O2) – Ben Hur –
September 2009;

National – (Cottesloe;Lyttleton and Olivier) – (Many short or
one-night programmes – check paper) – She Stoops to Conquer – January 24, 2012 – opens Jan 31/12 to March 29/12; Light Princess; Danton’s Death; A Servant of Two Masters; Way of the World – January 2012; new musical by Tori Amos – April 2012; Last of the Haussmans – Summer 2012; THE COMEDY OF ERRORS from 22 Nov/11 – opens Nov 29/11, booking to April 1, 2012; JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK from 11 Nov 2011, booking to Feb 26, 2012; COLLABORATORS from 25 Oct 2011, bookings to May 13, 2012; THE ANIMALS AND CHILDREN TOOK TO THE STREETS from 7 Dec 2011, to 3 Jan 2012; Travelling Light (Antony Sher) starts Jan 11, 2012 – opens January 18/12 to March 6/12; She Stoops to Conquer – from Jan 24/12; Island – Feb 15-25/12; Moon on a Rainbow Shawl – March 7/12 – opens March 14/12 to May 27/12; Can We Talk About This? – from March 9/12 – opens March 12/12; Black T-Shirt Collection – starts April 12-24/12; Misterman – opens April 18/12 to May 28/12; Detroit – starts May 8/12 – opens May 15/12; Alice by Heart; Antigone – starts May 23/12 – opens May 30/12; The Last of the Haussmans (Julie Walters/Rory Kinnear) – June 2012; Timon of Athens (Simon Russell Beale) – July 2012; The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-time – July 2012; The Doctor’s Dilemma – July 2012; London Road – July 2012; King Lear (Jonathan Pryce) – from August 31/12; House – September 2012; Damned for Despair – October/12; People (Alan Bennett play) – late October 2012; he Count of Monte Cristo – November 2012; Lucy Prebble’s New Play – November 2012; Hansel and Gretel – December 2012; Captain of KoPenick (Antony Sher) – January 2013; Othello (Rory Kinnear) Adrian Lester) – 2013; Children of the Sun – March 2013;

Neverland Pavilion – Kensington Gardens
- Peter Pan – May 26/09 to Aug 30/09;

New Ambassador’s
changed to Ambassadors – Waiting for Godot;

New End Theatre (Hampstead) – Biblical Tales – Aug 3/10 to Aug 28/10;

New London – War
Horse (transfer from National) – starts March 28/09 – opens April 3/09 – to Feb 16/13;

New Players Theatre – will reopen on
Villiers Street – Barbra & Frank: Concert That Never Was – Nov 24/10 to Dec 18/10;

New Wimbleton –

Noel Coward – Hay Fever – starts Feb 10/12 to June 2/12;
Gatz – June 8/12 to July 15/12; Julius Caesar/Much Ado About Nothing – in repertory August, 2012 to October 2012;

Novello –
formerly Strand – Betty Blue Eyes – to Jan 28/12; Noises Off – transfers from Old Vid – beginning Masrch 24/12 to June 30/12;Crazy For You – follows Open Air performances – starts Oct 8/11 to July 28/12; Mamma Mia – transfers here Sept 6/12;

Old Red Lion – Hamlet House of Horror – Oct 10-28/10;

Old
Vic/Old Vic Tunnels – Noises Off – starts Dec 3/11 – opens Dec 13/11 to Feb 25/12; Eugene O’Neill’s The Sea Plays (Bound East for Cardiff; In the Zone; The Long Voyage Home) – Jan 23/12 to Feb 18/12; The Duchess of Malfi – March 17/12 to June 9/12;

Open Air – 12th Anniversary season 2012 includes: Ragtime and Midsummer Night’s Dream (from June 2/12) (in repertory) – May 18/12 to Sept 8/12;

Orange Tree – Once Bitten – Dec 15/10 to Feb 5/11;

O2 Arena – Batman Live – Aug 28/11 to Sept 4/11;

Palace – Singin’ in the Rain – starts Feb 4/12 – opens Feb 15/12; The Addams Family – 2012;

Peacock Theatre – Shoes – the Musical – Feb 8/11 to April 3/11;

Phoenix – Blood
Brothers – to Nov 24/12;

Piccadilly –
Ghost (musical) – starts previews June 22, 2011 – opens July 19/11 to Oct 13/12;