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Official opening 'press' night.
(Most shows will have previews before official opening!!)
| 15 May 08 |
PYGMALION
Old Vic Theatre
by Bernard Shaw |
| 20 May 08 |
MARGUERITE
Haymarket, Theatre Royal
Music by Michel Legrand, book by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Sch”nberg and Jonathan Kent, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer from the original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and orchestrations and arrangements by Michel Legrand and Seann Alderking. |
| 21 May 08 |
PITMEN PAINTERS, THE
Cottesloe, National Theatre
by Lee Hall, inspired by a book by William Feaver |
| 22 May 08 |
ROSMERSHOLM
Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
by Henrik Ibsen, in a new version by Mike Poulton |
| 22 May 08 |
LIFECOACH
Trafalgar Studios 2 Theatre(formerly Whitehall Theatre)
by Nick Reed |
| 23 May 08 |
HAUNTED
Arts Theatre
by Jon Claydon & Tim Lawler |
| 27 May 08 |
FAT PIG
Trafalgar Studios 1 Theatre (formerly Whitehall Theatre)
by Neil LaBute |
| 4 Jun 08 |
CONTRACTIONS
Royal Court Theatre Backstage
By Mike Bartlett |
| 10 Jun 08 |
AFTERLIFE
Lyttelton, National Theatre
by Michael Frayn |
| 12 Jun 08 |
UGLY ONE, THE
Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
by Marius von Mayenburg, translated by Maja Zade |
| 13 Jun 08 |
TWELFTH NIGHT
Open Air, Regent's Park
by William Shakespeare |
| 13 Jun 08 |
RELOCATED
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs
by Anthony Neilson |
| 15 Jun 08 |
SAIL AWAY
Lilian Baylis Theatre at Sadler's Wells
Music, Lyrics and Book by Noel Coward |
| 18 Jun 08 |
QUIZ, THE
Trafalgar Studios 2 Theatre(formerly Whitehall Theatre)
by Richard Crane |
| 24 Jun 08 |
ALL BOB'S WOMEN
Arts Theatre
by Romy Padovano, in a new adaptation by Michael W Kelly |
| 25 Jun 08 |
DIVAS
Apollo Theatre
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| 1 Jul 08 |
DISNEY'S HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL
Hammersmith Apollo
Book by David Simpatico (adapted from the original movie script by Peter Barsocchini), and a score including all songs from the original movie soundtrack. |
| 3 Jul 08 |
IN MY NAME
Trafalgar Studios 2 Theatre(formerly Whitehall Theatre)
by Steven Hevey |
| 7 Jul 08 |
FREE OUTGOING
Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
by Anupama Chandrasekhar |
| 10 Jul 08 |
AN OCEAN OF RAIN
Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
Yannis Kyriakides (music) and Daniel Danis (text), Translation is by Linda Gaboriau |
| 15 Jul 08 |
ZORRO THE MUSICAL
Garrick Theatre
Book & lyrics by Stephen Clark, music by The Gipsy Kings, Music co-composed and adapted by John Cameron, Original Story Stephen Clark & Helen Edmundson |
| 16 Jul 08 |
NOCTURNE
Almeida Theatre (Off West End)
by Adam Rapp |
| 24 Jul 08 |
WEST SIDE STORY
Sadler's Wells Theatre
Book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet |
| 24 Jul 08 |
I, LEAR
Trafalgar Studios 2 Theatre(formerly Whitehall Theatre)
by Andrew Jones and Ciaran Murtagh |
| 28 Jul 08 |
GONE TOO FAR!
Royal Court Theatre Downstairs
by Bola Agbaje |
| 29 Jul 08 |
WIZARD OF OZ, THE
Royal Festival Hall
By L Frank Baum , Adapted by John Kane for The RSC. Music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y Harburg Background music by Herbert Stothart. Based upon the Motion Picture |
| 30 July 08 |
.SOME TRACE OF HER
Cottesloe, National Theatre
inspired by The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky and adapted by Katie Mitchell and the company |
| 31 Jul 08 |
HER NAKED SKIN
Olivier, National Theatre
by Rebecca Lenkiewicz |
| 13 Aug 08 |
PIAF
Donmar Warehouse
By Pam Gems |
| 14 Aug 08 |
GIGI
Open Air, Regent's Park
Books & Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner Music by Frederick Loewe, Based on a novel by Colett. |
| Sep 08? |
WAVES
Cottesloe, National Theatre
Suggested by Virginia Woolf's novel, The Waves, devised by Katie Mitchell and the Company |
| 2 Sep 08 |
DORIAN GRAY
Sadler's Wells Theatre
Freely adapted from Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, devised by Matthew Bourne, Music composed by Terry Davies |
| 3 Sep 08 |
LIBERTY
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
by Glyn Maxwell, an adaptation of Anatole France's 1912 novel Les Dieux ont Soif. |
| 17 Sep 08 |
IVANOV
Wyndham's Theatre
by Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Tom Stoppard |
| 30 Sep 08 |
CREDITORS
Donmar Warehouse
by Strindberg, in a new version by David Greig |
| Oct 08 |
OEDIPUS
Olivier, National Theatre
by Sophocles, in a new version by Frank McGuinness |
| Nov 08 |
MRS AFFLECK
Cottesloe, National Theatre
by Samuel Adamson, from Ibsen's Little Eyolf |
| Nov 08 |
WAR HORSE
Olivier, National Theatre
based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford |
| 3 Dec 08 |
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
Sadler's Wells Theatre
Devised by Matthew Bourne , new music and arrangements by Terry Davies, based on themes from the original film score composed by Danny Elfman. Original story and co-adaptation by Caroline Thompson |
| 14 Jan 09 |
OLIVER!
Drury Lane, Theatre Royal Theatre
by Lionel Bart |
| 26 Jan 09 |
BE NEAR ME
Donmar Warehouse
By Andrew O'Hagan, adapted for the stage by Ian McDiarmid |
| 18 Mar 09 |
MADAME DE SADE
Wyndham's Theatre
By Yukio Mishima, translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene |
| 3 Jun 09 |
HAMLET
Wyndham's Theatre
By William Shakespeare |
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