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Philip's Top 5
Every week London editor Philip Fisher selects the top five plays in London.
- Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre)
- Once (Phoenix Theatre, London)
- 3 Winters (Lyttelton Theatre (National))
- Golem (Young Vic Theatre)
- King Charles III (Wyndham’s Theatre)
The Alternative Top 5
- The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre, London)
- The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre)
- Made in Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre)
- Liberian Girl (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs)
- The Changeling (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe)
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Rejoice in the Lamb / Burning / Nomadic / Madcap
Richard Alston Dance Company at Sadler's Wells
Oktobre
Purcell Room at Southbank Centre as part of London International Mime Festival
Roundelay
Stephen Joseph Theatre Company, Scarborough, in association with Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre at Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford
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Taken at Midnight
Chichester Festival Theatre at Theatre Royal Haymarket
East is East
Jamie Lloyd Productions at Opera House, Manchester
An Evening of Filth and Despair
Re:Play Festival, HOME Manchester at Number One, First Street, Manchester
Two Spirits
Re:Play Festival, HOME Manchester at Number One, First Street, Manchester
The Sisters / The Battling Ettricks
Cloud 9 at Low Lights Tavern, North Shields / Surf Cafe, Tynemouth / Comrades Club, Whitley Bay
My Night with Reg
Donmar Warehouse at Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
The Diary of a Nobody
Rough Haired Pointer at King's Head Theatre
We Don't Live Here Anymore
South Street Arts Centre
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Out of the Cage
Fine Line Productions at Park Theatre (90)
Plexus
Compagnie 111 / Aurélien Bory / Kaori Ito at LIMF 2015 at Sadler's Wells
Into the Woods
Roundabout Theatre Company in association with The McCarter Theatre Center presents the Fiasco Theater production at Laura Pels Theatre, New York
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Unicorn Theatre
Bad Jews
Theatre Royal Bath Productions at St James Theatre
Kaspar
Benedict Sandiford and Cassie Friend at South Street Arts Centre
Pig Girl
Finborough Theatre
One Man, Two Guvnors
National Theatre at Sunderland Empire
King Lear
Guildford Shakespeare Company at Holy Trinity Church, Guildford
While You Wait
BTG has partnered with Fuel Theatre on a series of podcasts called While You Wait.
- Waiting... Now by Paul Clark in collaboration with Bill Brewer
- Waiting... to be born by Lewis Gibson in collaboration with Debra Bick and Sarah Beake
- Waiting... in a hairdressers by Malika Booker in collaboration with Emily Butterworth
- Waiting... to come home by Caroline Horton in collaboration with Jennifer Wild
- Waiting... for a Cancer Diagnosis by Brian Lobel, in collaboration with Iain Perdue
- Waiting... are we? By The Company in collaboration with Jonathan Reades and Raphael Woolf
- Waiting... for a loved one to die by Rachel Mars in collaboration with Fliss Murtagh
- Waiting... for the inevitable by Toby Jones in collaboration with Peter Giese
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Full cast for Merseyside play
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Hicks goes home to Leicester for honorary degree
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New home at the Alex for Birmingham Stage Company
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REP Foundry scheme for West Midlands talent opens
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New Exec Director at Northern Stage
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