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    • The Book of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre

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      Musical

      From 26 February 2013 to 21 September 2013

      Prince of Wales Theatre W1D 6AS [map]

      This comedy musical follows the plight of a pair of teenage Mormon missionaries sent to convert a village in a dangerous part of Uganda.

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    • Akram Khan Company: DESH at Sadler's Wells

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      Contemporary Dance

      From 11 June 2013 to 15 June 2013

      Sadler's Wells EC1R 4TN [map]

      Akram Khan's full-length contemporary solo DESH made its world premiere in 2011 to unanimous critical praise and has since enjoyed two triumphant runs at Sadler's Wells.

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    • A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Noel Coward Theatre

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      From 7 September 2013 to 16 November 2013

      Noel Coward Theatre WC2N 4AU [map]

      Sheridan Smith plays Titania and David Walliams plays Bottom in this new production of one of Shakespeare's greatest comedies.

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    • The Audience at the Gielgud Theatre

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      From 15 February 2013 to 15 June 2013

      Gielgud Theatre W1D 6AR [map]

      Stephen Daldry directs Helen Mirren in the world premiere of Peter Morgan's The Audience.

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    • Barking In Essex at Wyndham's Theatre

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      From 6 September 2013 to 4 January 2014

      Wyndham's Theatre WC2H 0DA [map]

      Freedom finally beckons for Algie Packer, Essex's most notorious gangster. He's done seven years inside and now he's coming home to collect his booty. But there's something Algie's family have forgotten to mention.

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    • Buckingham Palace Summer Opening

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      From 27 July 2013 to 29 September 2013

      Buckingham Palace SW1A 1AA [map]

      Visit Buckingham Palace, one of the world's few remaining working royal palaces, in London this summer. To celebrate The Queen's Diamond Jubilee, there's a special exhibition of royal diamonds.

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    • Children of the Sun at the National Theatre

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      From 9 April 2013 to 19 May 2013

      National Theatre SE1 9PX [map]

      Maxim Gorky's darkly comic play Children of the Sun is set in Russia as the country rolls towards revolution.

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    • Coronation Festival at Buckingham Palace

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      From 11 July 2013 to 14 July 2013

      Buckingham Palace SW1A 1AA [map]

      The gardens of Buckingham Palace will be opened to the public this summer for a unique festival.

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    • The Cripple of Inishmaan at the Noel Coward Theatre

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      From 8 June 2013 to 31 August 2013

      Noel Coward Theatre WC2N 4AU [map]

      Set on the remote island of Inishmaan off the west coast of Ireland, word arrives that a Hollywood film is being made on the neighboring island of Inishmore. The one person who wants to be in the film more than anybody is young Cripple Billy, if only to break away from the bitter tedium of his daily life.

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    • The Full Monty at the Noel Coward Theatre

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      From 20 February 2014 to 14 June 2014

      Noel Coward Theatre WC2N 4AU [map]

      In 1997, a British film about six out-of-work Sheffield steelworkers with nothing to lose took the world by storm. And now they're back, live on stage.

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    • Gloriana at the Royal Opera House

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      From 20 June 2013 to 6 July 2013

      Royal Opera House WC2E 9DD [map]

      This important new staging of Gloriana marks three major anniversaries: 60 years since the Queen's Coronation, 60 years since the opera's premiere at the Royal Opera House, and the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth.

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    • Henry V at the Noel Coward Theatre

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      From 23 November 2013 to 15 February 2014

      Noel Coward Theatre WC2N 4AU [map]

      See Jude Law star as the eponymous hero in Shakespeare's classic historic tale of nationhood.

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    • Jersey Boys at the Prince Edward Theatre

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      From 23 March 2009 to 20 October 2013

      Prince Edward Theatre W1D 4HS [map]

      The unmissable, award-winning story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons comes to London's West End. The award-winning musical tells the story of how four boys became one of the biggest selling pop bands of the 1960s.

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    • La Bayadere at the Royal Opera House

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      From 5 April 2013 to 22 May 2013

      Royal Opera House WC2E 9DD [map]

      Marius Petipa's exotic La Bayadère was given its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in St Petersburg in 1877. Natalia Makarova saw the ballet as a child in Leningrad and created this version for American Ballet Theatre in 1980.

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    • Les Misérables at the Queen's Theatre

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      Musical

      From 1 January 2012 to 26 October 2013

      Queens Theatre W1D 6BA [map]

      Cameron Mackintosh's legendary production of Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables is a global stage sensation. Seen by more than 60 million people in 42 countries and in 21 languages around the globe, it is still breaking box-office records everywhere in its 28th year.

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    • Mamma Mia! at the Novello Theatre

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      From 6 September 2012 to 5 April 2014

      Novello Theatre WC2B 4LD [map]

      Mamma Mia! A mother. A daughter. Three possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you'll never forget!

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    • Othello at the National Theatre

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      From 16 April 2013 to 18 August 2013

      National Theatre SE1 9PX [map]

      See Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy at the National Theatre this spring.

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    • Peter And Alice at the Noel Coward Theatre

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      From 9 March 2013 to 1 June 2013

      Noel Coward Theatre WC2N 4AU [map]

      When Alice Liddell Hargreaves met Peter Llewelyn Davies at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition in 1932, the original Alice in Wonderland came face to face with the original Peter Pan.

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    • Private Lives at the Gielgud Theatre

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      From 22 June 2013 to 21 September 2013

      Gielgud Theatre W1D 6AR [map]

      See Private Lives starring Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor at the Gielgud Theatre this summer.

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    • Relatively Speaking at Wyndham's Theatre

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      From 14 May 2013 to 31 August 2013

      Wyndham's Theatre WC2H 0DA [map]

      Greg only met Ginny a month ago but has already made up his mind that she's the girl for him. When she tells him that she's going to visit her parents, he decides this is the moment to ask her father for his daughter's hand.

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