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A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Game's a Foot, Try the Fish
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theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Man with the Twisted Hip
***
theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
Atlantic: A Scottish Story
*****
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland at Assembly Hall
Atlantic: America and the Great War
*****
Royal Conservotoire of Scotland and the American Music Theatre Project at Assembly Hall
Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide to Consciousness
****
Soho Playhouse Inc at Assembly George Square Studios
Beethoven in Stalingrad
****
Arin Production / Teateri at Greenside @ Nicolson Square
Between the Crosses
****
Flying Bridge Theatre Ltd at Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
Big Bite-Size Lunch-Hour: Izzy's Manifestos
****
Bite-Size Plays at Gilded Balloon Teviot
Bin Laden: The One Man Show
****
Knaïve Theatre at C
Bone Woman
****
Imani G Alexander at Greenside @ Infirmary Steet
Breakfast Plays: B!rth – Choices
****
Traverse Theatre
Breakfast Plays: B!rth – Ouroboros
****
Traverse Theatre
Breakfast Plays: B!rth – Q&Q
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Traverse Theatre
Breakfast Plays: B!rth – So Far as a Century’s Reach
****
Traverse Theatre
Brutal Cessation
*
Assembly George Square Theatre
Camille O'Sullivan: Where Are We Now
****
Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
Creatives
**
Pleasance Courtyard
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Curse of Cranholme Abbey
*****
Young Pleasance at Pleasance Courtyard
Death on the Nile
****
Livewire Theatre Company at theSpace on the Mile
Desperation Bingo
**
Creative Electric at The Biscuit Factory
From the Ground Up
*****
Almeida Theatre Young Company at Assembly Roxy
Gráinne Maguire: Gráinne With a Fada
****
Gilded Balloon Teviot
Gratiano
*****
Grist To The Mill at Assembly Hall
Gutted
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The Conker Group and Home at Pleasance Dome
How to Act
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National Theatre of Scotland at Summerhall
How to Be a Kid
Paines Plough at Roundabout @ Summerhall
Instructions for Border Crossing
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Annabel Turpin at ARC at Northern Stage at Summerhall
Into the Woods
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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland at Assembly Hall
Jason and the Argonauts
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Take Thou That Theatre Company at theSpace on Niddry St
Jonny & The Baptists: The Best of 2012-2017
*****
Fourth Wall at Roundabout @ Summerhall
Karoo Moose - No Fathers
*****
The Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town at Assembly George Square Studios
Kin
*****
Barely Methodical Troupe at Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
Mary Go Nowhere
**
Black Rocking Chair Productions at Assembly George Square Studios
Mavis Sparkle
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M6 Theatre Company at Pleasance Courtyard
Mouthpiece
****
Quote Unquote Collective and Why Not Theatre at Canada Hub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall
Once Were Pirates
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Gobsmacked Theatre Company at Pleasance Dome
Out of Love
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Paines Plough at Roundabout @ Summerhall
Out of the Bad
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New Town Theatre
Pip Utton's Greatest Hits
*****
Pip Utton at Pleasance Courtyard
Quarter Life Crisis
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Underbelly, Cowgate
Replay
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DugOut Theatre at Pleasance Courtyard
Requiem for Aleppo
****
Pleasance at the EICC at Pleasance at EICC
Ruby Redfort
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Escapade Theatre Company at Assembly George Square Theatre
Seanmhair
****
The Other Room at Bedlam Theatre
Stand By
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Utter, in association with The Byre Theatre, St Andrews at Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
The Charlie Question
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je ne sais quoi theatre at theSpace on the Mile
The Edelweiss Pirates
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Parker and Snell Youth Company at theSpace on the Mile
The Fall
*****
Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town at Assembly Hall
The Gun Show
*****
CoHo Productions at SpaceTriplex
The Inevitable Quiet of the Crash
**
Leoe & Hyde in association with FoxTale Productions at C royale
The Runner
*****
MCS Drama at Underbelly, Cowgate
The Sweet Science
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Tramp at C too
The Time Machine
****
Dyad at Assembly Roxy
There Was A Soldier...
*****
OpenCast at Stockbridge Church
Three Tales of Life and Death by Craig Lucas
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Assembly Rooms
To Hell in a Handbag
****
Assembly Rooms
Two Sides of the Curtain
**
SUDS at theSpace on North Bridge
What If I Told You
***
The Mayers Ensemble at Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
Woolf
****
Theatre with Teeth at theSpace on North Bridge
Philip's Top 5
Every week London editor Philip Fisher selects the top five plays in London.
- Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Lyttelton Theatre (National Theatre))
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[Search for tickets] - The Ferryman (Gielgud (reviewed at Royal Court Theatre Downstairs))
[Search for tickets] - Girl from the North Country (Old Vic Theatre)
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The Alternative Top 5
- Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre)
[Search for tickets] - Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (Duke of York's Theatre)
[Search for tickets] - The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre)
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[Search for tickets] - The Tempest (Barbican Centre)
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Starry Addams Family for Salford
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Strictly stars for St Helens
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Park Life in Bernard's garden in Lancaster
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Cockfight for Chester
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Vertigo paints it Noir
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Cinderella set for the ball in Blackpool
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Programme funding for Hullabaloo
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Challenging new play from Open Clasp
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2Faced Dance tours Outlands
2Faced Dance Company presents Outlands in autumn 2017, a new triple bill of contemporary dance.
Project Polunin at London Coliseum
Ukrainian ballet star Sergei Polunin’s company Project Polunin will present a mixed programme of new and revived work at the London Coliseum in December 2017.
Mukhamedov joins Putrov’s Men in Motion at Coliseum
Irek Mukhamedov will join the line-up of Men in Motion when Ivan Putrov’s celebration of the male dancer returns to the London Coliseum in November 2017.
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Wolverhampton produces first show in 40 years
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A monster zoo on tour
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The Hawth auditions for Snow White
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Robin Hood cast at Woking
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Liverpool and Salford Fallen Angels recovery dancers
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What Shadows at Park Theatre
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Zakharova and stars of Bolshoi at London Coliseum
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Phoenix Dance celebrates female choreographers
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Midlands productions
Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 14 August.
The new season at Wilton’s Music Hall
Zigger Zagger and The Terrible Infants get anniversary productions whilst Manfred Karge’s Man to Man has its London première this autumn at Wilton’s Music Hall.
UK revival of People, Places & Things at HOME
Full casting has been announced on Jeremy Herrin’s UK revival of Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places & Things, coming to HOME in Manchester.
Manchester gets one from Down Under
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Charlie Fink in new Salford play
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Letters to Morrissey from HOME
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Chester venue's autumn plans
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Catch yourself a shark in Lancaster!
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Freak destined for Manchester venue
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Julie chips in to Port Stories
The history of Lancaster’s maritime past is brought to life in audio dramas, films and artwork.
Bayadere première's bold design in Salford
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Pop-up theatre returns to Little Hulton
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Take That musical The Band opens in Manchester
The Band opens its UK tour at Manchester Opera House next month.
Six of the best from Opera North
Opera North is returning to The Lowry from November 15 to 17 with a festival of short operas.
Pay per view at Lancaster Dukes
Audiences pay what they decide for two forthcoming shows at Lancaster’s Dukes theatre.
NW productions
Round-up of regional productions opening week beginning Sunday August 13.
Overdue adds a new date and venue
Overdue by Arabella Arnott has added a new date and a new venue to its run in September.
Panto Auditions & Creative / Technical Positions 2017
Auditions and Creative / Technical Positions for Panto Season 2017. Latest Update: 13/08/2017.
What's on in the North East
Professional theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 14 August 2017.
Even more at Alphabetti
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