.SOME TRACE OF HER

Cottesloe, National Theatre

inspired by The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky and adapted by Katie Mitchell and the company

A woman lies dead on a bed in her wedding dress, a silver knife through her heart. The two men who loved her lie beside her.

(from 23 July 08 to 14 Aug 08)

AFTERLIFE

Lyttelton, National Theatre

by Michael Frayn

Exploring the life of the Austrian impresario and founder of the Salzburg Festival, Max Reinhardt

(from 3 Jun 08 to 16 Aug 08)

BE NEAR ME

Donmar Warehouse

By Andrew O'Hagan, adapted for the stage by Ian McDiarmid

David Anderton, an Oxford-educated Catholic priest is assigned to a parish in a dispirited Scottish town on the Ayrshire coast. Lonely and adrift he befriends two unstable teenagers from the local school and is drawn into their exotic world.

(from 22 Jan 09 to 14 Mar 09)

BRIEF ENCOUNTER

Cinema Haymarket

by Noel Coward, adapted by Emma Rice

Stage adaptation

(from 2 Feb 08 to 21 Sep 08)

CHALK GARDEN, THE

Donmar Warehouse

By Enid Bagnold

16 year-old Laurel runs wild. As her eccentric grandmother tends to the garden, Laurel's need for love forces her into a world of fantasy.

(from 5 Jun 08 to 2 Aug 08)

CITY, THE

Royal Court Theatre Downstairs

by Martin Crimp

Clair wants to be kissed - but not now. Chris wants to celebrate his new job by driving into the oncoming traffic. Jenny arrives to complain about the screaming children.

(from 24 Apr 08 to 7 Jun 08)

CONTRACTIONS

Royal Court Theatre Backstage

By Mike Bartlett

Emma's been seeing Darren. She thinks she's in love. Her boss thinks she's in breach of contract. The situation needs to be resolved.

(from 29 May 08 to 14 Jun 08)

CREDITORS

Donmar Warehouse

by Strindberg, in a new version by David Greig

Anxiously awaiting the return of his new wife, Adolf finds solace in the words of a stranger. But comfort soon turns to destruction as old wounds are opened, insecurities are laid bare and former debts are settled.

(from 25 Sep 08 to 15 Nov 08)

DEEP BLUE SEA, THE

Vaudeville Theatre

by Terrance Rattigan

Hester Collyer, the daughter of a clergyman and wife of a judge is foundering in the closing stages of a hopeless affair. Freddie Page, her lover, a handsome but shallow ex-Battle of Britain pilot, is out of his depth in their relationship, overwhelmed by the strength of an emotion he is incapable of reciprocating.

(from 29 Apr 08 to 19 Jul 08)

EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR

Olivier, National Theatre

by Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn

(from Sep 08? to )

FAMILY REUNION, THE

Donmar Warehouse

by T.S. Eliot

After eight years absence, Harry returns to the ancestral home to celebrate his mother's birthday.Tormented by a dark secret, he confides in Aunt Agatha only to discover that the family too have their own hidden demons.

(from 20 Nov 08 to 10 Jan 09)

FRAM

Olivier, National Theatre

by Tony Harrison

About the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen

(from 10 April 08 to 22 May 08)

FREE OUTGOING

Royal Court Theatre Downstairs

by Anupama Chandrasekhar

When a well-behaved Indian girl is filmed having sex in her classroom, the video clip spreads like a virus.

(from 2 Jul 08 to 19 Jul 08)

FRONT LINE, THE

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

by Che Walker

Set on a Saturday night outside Camden tube and presents a modern, vigorous tale of London life on the edge.

(from 6 Jul 08 to 17 Aug 08)

GONE TOO FAR!

Royal Court Theatre Downstairs

by Bola Agbaje

When two brothers from different continents go down the street to buy a pint of milk, they lift the lid on a disunited nation where everyone wants to be an individual but no one wants to stand out from the crowd.

(from 23 Jul 08 to 9 Aug 08)

GOOD SOUL OF SZECHUAN, THE

Young Vic Theatre (Main House)

by Bertolt Brecht, translation by David Harrower

Three gods visit earth to find out if humans are living up to their high moral standards.

(from 7 May 08 to 28 Jun 08)

HAMLET

Wyndham's Theatre

By William Shakespeare

(from 29 May 09 to 22 Aug 09)

HARPER REGAN

Cottesloe, National Theatre

by Simon Stephens

On a startlingly bright Autumn night in 2006 Harper Regan walked away from her home and her husband and her daughter and she kept walking. She told nobody that she was going. ..

(from 16 Apr 08 to 9 Aug 08)

HAUNTED

Arts Theatre

by Jon Claydon & Tim Lawler

Five guests attend a dinner party at a chi-chi loft apartment in Southwark, south London. As the evening progresses, things begin to unravel and a sixth character becomes apparent - the house itself. Is it haunted? And is the lift in the living room a portal to evil spirits?

(from 21 May 08 to 14 Jun 08)

HELLO AND GOODBYE

Trafalgar Studios 2 Theatre(formerly Whitehall Theatre)

by Athol Fugard

In one tense and desperate night a sibling reunion evokes powerful childhood memories as buried secrets are unearthed.

(from 22 Apr 08 to 17 May 08)

HER NAKED SKIN

Olivier, National Theatre

by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Set against the backdrop of the Suffragette movement

(from 24 Jul 08 to 9 Aug 08)

IN MY NAME

Trafalgar Studios 2 Theatre(formerly Whitehall Theatre)

by Steven Hevey

An insight into the consequences of allowing life to pass you by... because no matter how much you bury your head in the sand, the world has a funny way of forcing itself right through your front door.

(from 1 Jul 08 to 19 Jul 08)

IVANOV

Wyndham's Theatre

by Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Tom Stoppard

Once a man of limitless promise, Ivanov is plunged into debt.

(from 12 Sep 08 to 29 Nov 08)

KING LEAR

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

by William Shakespeare

(from 23 Apr 08 to 17 Aug 08)

LIBERTY

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

by Glyn Maxwell, an adaptation of Anatole France's 1912 novel Les Dieux ont Soif.

ARevolutionary magistrate turns from being a radical idealist to a fanatical apologist forstate violence

(from 31 Aug 08 to 4 Oct 08)

MADAME DE SADE

Wyndham's Theatre

By Yukio Mishima, translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene

Against her mother's wishes, Renee remains vehemently devoted to her husband, the Marquis de Sade, the notorious aristocrat imprisoned in the Bastille for his lurid escapades and licentious behaviour.

(from 13 Mar 09 to 23 May 09)

MAJOR BARBARA

Olivier, National Theatre

by Bernard Shaw

Major Barbara works tirelessly for the poor at a Salvation Army shelter until a large but morally dubious donation is welcomed from her estranged father.

(from 26 Feb 08 to 3 Jul 08)

MOUSETRAP, THE

St Martin's Theatre

by Agatha Christie

A group of people gathered together in a remote part of the countryside discover there is a murderer in their midst. The question is which one of them is the guilty party.

(from 26 Mar 74 to 1 Nov 08)

MRS AFFLECK

Cottesloe, National Theatre

by Samuel Adamson, from Ibsen's Little Eyolf

(from Nov 08 to )

NEVER SO GOOD

Lyttelton, National Theatre

by Howard Brenton

About Harold Macmillan (Conservative politician and Prime Minister 1957-1963)

(from 17 Mar 08 to 14 Aug 08)

NOCTURNE

Almeida Theatre (Off West End)

by Adam Rapp

(from 16 Jul 08 to 26 Jul 08)

OEDIPUS

Olivier, National Theatre

by Sophocles, in a new version by Frank McGuinness

(from Oct 08 to )

OXFORD STREET

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs

by Levi David Addai

Where the streets are paved with gold, if you just know where to look.

(from 2 May 08 to 31 May 08)

PIAF

Donmar Warehouse

By Pam Gems

Vividly capturing the glamour and squalor, the rise and fall, of this complex, fragile and enigmatic performer.

(from 8 Aug 08 to 20 Sep 08)

PITMEN PAINTERS, THE

Cottesloe, National Theatre

by Lee Hall, inspired by a book by William Feaver

Pitmen learn to become painters.

(from 19 May 08 to 25 Jun 08)

PYGMALION

Old Vic Theatre

by Bernard Shaw

Professor of Phonetics makes a bet with his friend that he can turn Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle into a duchess.

(from 7 May 08 to 2 Aug 08)

QUIZ, THE

Trafalgar Studios 2 Theatre(formerly Whitehall Theatre)

by Richard Crane

If you've been performing 'The Grand Inquisitor' for too many years and it's always been your dream to die on stage like Kean, Irving and Tommy Cooper - is tonight the night to make the ultimate leap?

(from 17 Jun 08 to 28 Jun 08)

RELOCATED

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs

by Anthony Neilson

A sinister mystery

(from 6 Jun 08 to 5 Jul 08)

REVENGER'S TRAGEDY, THE

Olivier, National Theatre

by Thomas Middleton

As he holds the skull of his beloved - who rejected the licentious old Duke's advances and so was poisoned - Vindice plots the Duke's grotesque murder.

(from 27 May 08 to 7 Aug 08)

ROMEO AND JULIET

Open Air, Regent's Park

by William Shakespeare

(from 2 Jun 08 to 2 Aug 08)

ROSMERSHOLM

Almeida Theatre (Off West End)

by Henrik Ibsen, in a new version by Mike Poulton

Written in 1886 - charts the struggle between freedom and the cruelty of conscience in an age of political division.

(from 15 May 08 to 5 Jul 08)

RUNNING THE SILK ROAD

Barbican Pit

by Paul Sirett, conceived by David Tse Ka-shing

In the year of the Beijing Olympics, a group of friends from London set themselves an epic challenge - to run the ancient Silk Road trading route to China, carrying an 'alternative' Olympic flame. Once on the road, complications and conflicts test friendships and soon threaten their chances of success.

(from 24 Jun 08 to 28 Jun 08)

SHAKESPEARE PARTY

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

by Footsbarn Theatre

(from 23 May 08 to 25 May 08)

SLIGHT ACHE, A

Lyttelton, National Theatre

by Harold Pinter

Takes an oblique view of a long-married couple, the irascible Edward and his frustrated wife Flora, when the arrival of a statuesque silent stranger splinters their loveless bourgeois marriage.

(from 21 Jul 08 to 13 Aug 08)

SMALL CHANGE

Donmar Warehouse

By Peter Gill

Recalls the friendship between two boys and the relationship with their mothers.

(from 10 Apr 08 to 31 May 08)

TELL ME...LIES

Arts Theatre

by Carole-Anne Le Foll

Combines physical theatre, drama and surrealism. The play introduces us to Abi, a young woman whose mother has just died. Abi is totally our of control., yet despite her increasingly bizarre and antisocial behaviour her sister refuses to let her move out and on - the question is why?

(from 6 May 08 to 17 May 08)

THAT FACE

Duke of York's Theatre

by Polly Stenham

Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Martha's. Henry is preparing for art college. He has access to alcohol. From Martha. Martha controls their lives. Martha is their mother.

(from 1 May 08 to 5 Jul 08)

TIMON OF ATHENS

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

by William Shakespeare

(from 26 Jul 08 to 3 Oct 08)

TO BE STRAIGHT WITH YOU

Lyttelton, National Theatre

by DV8

(from Oct 08 to )

Title to be confirmed!

Lyttelton, National Theatre

by Akram Khan and Juliette Binoche

(from Sep 08 to )

UGLY ONE, THE

Royal Court Theatre Downstairs

by Marius von Mayenburg, translated by Maja Zade

Lette thought he was normal. When the extent of his ugliness is revealed he turns to a plastic surgeon for help. But after the bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful.

(from 10 Jun 08 to 28 Jun 08)

VORTEX, THE

Apollo Theatre

by Noel Coward

Centres on the tempestuous relationship of Florence and her hedonistic son Nicky.

(from 20 Feb 08 to 7 Jun 08)

WAR HORSE

Olivier, National Theatre

based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford

At the outbreak of World War One, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home.

(from Nov 08 to )

WAVES

Cottesloe, National Theatre

Suggested by Virginia Woolf's novel, The Waves, devised by Katie Mitchell and the Company

A multi-media production. A fragmented and dreamlike tale of friendship, loss, identity and love

(from Sep 08? to )

WOMAN IN BLACK, THE

Fortune Theatre

by Stephen Mallatratt from the novel by Susan Hill

Arthur Kipps , a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the house's sole inhabitant, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows.

(from 7 Jun 89 to 20 Dec 08)

YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, THE

Lyttelton, National Theatre

by Joan Didion based on her memoir

Adapted for the stage by Joan Didion from her best-selling memoir of the same name, chronicles the aftermath of her husband's sudden death.

(from 25 Apr 08 to 15 Jul 08)

ZAMEEN

Arts Theatre

by Kali Theatre

Shows the devastating effect of globalization on a Punjabi farmer, his land and family.

(from 7 May 08 to 17 May 08)