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39 STEPS , THE
by John Buchan, adapted by Patrick Barlow. From an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon
at Criterion Theatre
Comic adaptation of Hitchcock's 1935 classic move thriller.
(from 14 Sep 2006 - Booking to 22 Oct 2011)
AS YOU LIKE IT (RSC)
by William Shakespeare
at Roundhouse Theatre
Royal Shakespeaere Company at the Roundhouse
(from 13 Jan 2011 - Closing on 05 Feb 2011)
BLITHE SPIRIT
By Noel Coward
at Apollo Theatre
Novelist Charles Condomine and his second wife Ruth are literally haunted by a past relationship when an eccentric medium manages to conjure up the ghost of Charles's neurotic first wife, Elvira, at a seance.
(from 02 Mar 2011 - Booking to 18 Jun 2011)
DESIGN FOR LIVING
by Noel Coward
at Old Vic Theatre
Three egotistical, beguiling and self-absorbed characters - Gilda, Otto, and Leo - challenge the moral boundaries of relationships.
(from 03 Sep 2010 - Closing on 27 Nov 2010)
EDUCATING RITA
by Willy Russell
at Trafalgar Studios 1 Theatre
Much to the dismay of her husband Denny, Rita, a young, brash hairdresser, has recently discovered a passion for English literature and enrols with the Open University. Her fresh, unschooled reaction to the classics challenges the attitudes of the University and her lecturer Frank who begins to question his own understanding of his work and himself.
(from 08 Jul 2010 - Booking to 30 Oct 2010)
FLEA IN HER EAR
by Georges Feydeau, translation by John Mortimer
at Old Vic Theatre
When Raymonde suspects her husband Victor of infidelity, she enlists the help of a friend to set a trap resulting in mistaken identities, bruised egos and comic disaster.
(from 04 Dec 2010 - Closing on 05 Mar 2011)
IDEAL HUSBAND, AN
by Oscar Wilde
at Vaudeville Theatre
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed.
(from 04 Nov 2010 - Booking to 19 Feb 2011)
KING LEAR (RSC)
by William Shakespeare
at Roundhouse Theatre
Royal Shakespeaere Company at the Roundhouse
(from 21 Jan 2011 - Closing on 04 Feb 2011)
LA BETE
By David Hirson
at Comedy Theatre
When Princess Conti invites street clown Valere to inject some bawdy fun and mischief into her staid acting troupe, she anticipates an exciting creative combination.
(from 26 Jun 2010 - Booking to 04 Sep 2010)
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR , THE
by William Shakespeare
at Shakespeare's Globe
The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands' money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both.
(from 14 Aug 2010 - Closing on 02 Oct 2010)
PAM ANN - FLYING HIGH
by Caroline Reid and Hugh Fink
at Vaudeville Theatre
Comic Stand-up.Pam Ann is the comic creation of Australian comedian Caroline Reid, she portrays 1960's clad air-hostess Pam Ann, a mixture of comedy, camp and glamour.
(from 29 Sep 2010 - Closing on 10 Oct 2010)
PRISONER OF SECOND AVENUE, THE
by Neil Simon
at Vaudeville Theatre
A black comedy set in the 1970's, depicting a New York couple, Mel and Edna Edison, enduring the trials and tribulations of city life.
(from 30 Jun 2010 - Closing on 25 Sep 2010)
SHIRLEY VALENTINE
by Willy Russell
at Trafalgar Studios 1 Theatre
Meet Shirley: a middle-aged Liverpudlian housewife who talks to the wall whilst preparing her husband's egg and chips. She's in a rut. What has happened to her life? When her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation for two to Greece she packs her bags, heads for the sun and starts to see the world and herself rather differently..
(from 20 Jul 2010 - Booking to 30 Oct 2010)
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN POOFS
by Simon Gross
at Leicester Square Theatre Basement
Packed with comedy audience participation and feelgood party anthems (including 'Whistle While You Work', 'Hi Ho Hi Ho', 'Get The Party Started', 'YMCA', 'I Want To Be Evil', 'Bad Romance') as well as the most outrageous Seven Dwarfs ever to appear in pantomime history.
(from 01 Dec 2010 - Closing on 09 Jan 2011)
WHEN WE ARE MARRIED
by JB Priestley
at Garrick Theatre
Three well-to-do West Yorkshire couples, married on the same day, at the same church, and by the same vicar, join to celebrate 25 years of blissful matrimony. Disaster strikes with the shocking revelation that the vicar who married them wasn't actually licensed
(from 19 Oct 2010 - Booking to 26 Feb 2011)
YES, PRIME MINISTER
by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay
at Gielgud Theatre
Prime Minister Jim Hacker and Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby face a country in financial meltdown. The only prospect of salvation comes from morally dubious allies - leading to deliciously comic consequences.
(from 17 Sep 2010 - Booking to 15 Jan 2011)
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