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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Young Vic Theatre at Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
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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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- Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre)
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The Midnight Gang
Chickenshed at Chickenshed
Treating Odette
Ovation at Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The House They Grew Up In
Chichester Festival Theatre with Headlong at Minerva Theatre, Chichester
The Hired Man
Union Theatre
Nina – A Story about Me and Nina Simone
Unity Theatre and Riksteatern at Young Vic Maria Studio
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's Globe
Bin Laden: The One Man Show
Knaive Theatre at The Lab, Theatre Royal Plymouth
Titus Andronicus
Royal Shakespeare Company at Royal Shakespeare Theatre
What We Wished For
Sheffield People's Theatre at Crucible Theatre
Briefs: Close Encounters
Briefs Factory at Underbelly Festival Southbank
No Dogs, No Indians
Penned in the Margins at Live Theatre, Newcastle
Taking Steps
Stephen Joseph Theatre Company at Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
Fiddler on the Roof
Chichester Festival Theatre at Chichester Festival Theatre
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Trajal Harrell: Hoochie Koochie
Barbican Arts Centre at Barbican Art Gallery
An Injury
Ovalhouse and Permanent Red at Ovalhouse
Dessert
Southwark Playhouse
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Disco Pigs
Trafalgar Studios
Summer in London
Theatre Royal, Stratford East
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Guildford Shakespeare Company at University of Law Gardens, Guildford
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Twilight Song
Cahoots Theatre Company at Park Theatre
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Midlands productions
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Live Lab Bursaries and Associate Artists announced
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