Shakespeare in London

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Theatregoers flock from far and wide to experience the classic works of William Shakespeare across London. Whether it’s an authentic production of Hamlet at the open-air Shakespeare’s Globe, or a new production of King Lear in the West End, there is always plenty to choose from.

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& Juliet

Shaftesbury Theatre

Thursday Matinee

Saturday, 2 November, 2019 To Saturday, 28 March, 2020

& Juliet is the irreverent and fun-loving new West End musical that asks: what if Juliet’s famous ending was really just her beginning? What if she decided to choose her own fate? This is Juliet’s story now. So don’t tell her how it ends...

Soaring with pop anthems including ...Baby One More Time, Everybody (Backstreet's Back), Love Me Like You Do and Can’t Feel My Face, & Juliet is a riotous blast of fun and glorious music that proves when it comes to love, there’s always life after Romeo...
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RSC: Measure for Measure

Barbican

Thursday Matinee

Tuesday, 12 November, 2019 To Thursday, 16 January, 2020

When a novice nun is compromised by a corrupt official who offers to save her brother from execution in return for sex, she has no idea where to turn for help.
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RSC: As You Like It

Barbican

Thursday Matinee

To Saturday, 18 January, 2020

Rosalind is banished, and with her best friend Celia by her side, she journeys into exile. But not before catching the eye of love-struck Orlando, who is also forced from The Court into the dappled Forest of Arden.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bridge Theatre

The Bridge Theatre

Thursday Matinee

To Saturday, 31 August, 2019

Shakespeare’s great comedy plunges its audience into the heart of an enchanted forest, a place of change and infinite possibility. In the Bridge’s immersive production, you sit close up to the action, or follow it on foot into a dream world of feuding fairies and uncontrollable desire.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

No Matinee

To Sunday, 13 October, 2019

Four brawling lovers, caught in a dispute of increasingly magical proportions; a crew of keen mechanicals, determined to give it their all; and one roguish sprite, hell-bent on causing as much havoc as possible… What could possibly go wrong?
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RSC: The Taming of the Shrew

Barbican

Thursday Matinee

To Saturday, 18 January, 2020

The ultimate battle of the sexes is turned on its head in Justin Audibert’s The Taming of the Shrew as the 1590s are reimagined – with women in charge.