Theatre Drama

17 February 2010 to 20 February 2010

The Epsom Playhouse KT18 5AL[map]

2 December 2009 to 3 December 2009

Purcell Room SE1 8XX[map]

A rare performance of Japanese noh theatre in London. Dating back seven centuries, noh is a classical Japanese form combining elements of dance, drama, poetry and music. Featuring elaborate costumes and masks, it is a highly aesthetic stage art.

3 December 2009 to 12 December 2009

Rose Theatre Exhibition  SE1 9AR[map]

A contemporary revival of Shakespeare's timeless and tragic tale of innocence, love, duplicity and vengeance. Set in the turbulent social and economic world that came to define the yuppie dream of Margaret Thatcher's Britain.

24 November 2009 to 11 December 2009

Bridewell Theatre EC4Y 8EQ[map]

C Company give a performance that includes everything you would expect from an office Christmas. Simon Warne's new comedy includes tinsel, mince pies and a paid bar.

5 November 2009 to 21 January 2010

National Theatre SE1 9PX[map]

Promiscuous, pitiless and bored, six sexually entangled medical students restlessly wander in and out of a boarding house, cramming, drinking, taunting, spying.

25 November 2009 to 5 December 2009

Bridewell Theatre EC4Y 8EQ[map]

With book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, Parade is set in 1913, and is based on the true story of Leo Frank, a Jew living in Georgia who was tried for the murder of a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience and his wife, who finds the strength to become his greatest champion. Parade won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score in 2000.

7 December 2009 to 3 January 2010

Barbican Theatre  EC2Y 8BQ[map]

A bold street-dance interpretation of Robert Browning's poem 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'. The innovative and thrilling fusion of dance and narrative takes an edgy look at morality in an urban world.

1 April 2010 to 22 May 2010

Donmar Warehouse WC2H 9LX[map]

Donmar Warehouse presents a theatre Polar Bears by Mark Haddon.

27 November 2009 to 28 November 2009

Rich Mix E1 6LA[map]

A comedy about a 2,000 mile adventure from the UK to Poland. It follows the journey thousands of Polish people have made over the last 70 years. The story of two nations who have fought together, worked together and now live together.

10 November 2009 to 5 December 2009

Trafalgar Studios SW1A 2DY[map]

Nigel Harman stars alongside Robert Daws and Steven Webb in Public Property, the darkly comic tale of a newsreader engaged in a fierce powerplay with his publicist as the paparazzi bay at the door.

10 December 2009 to 12 December 2009

Rich Mix E1 6LA[map]

An exciting new production, combining Wushu, Tamil poetry and 50 Cent to find out what is Pyaar Hai. With an original hippity-hop score and script from ex-Eastenders writer Jez Simons, the show is a bittersweet comedy for anybody still searching for an answer to the eternal question: what is love?

21 January 2010 to 23 January 2010

Institute of Contemporary Arts SW1Y 5AH[map]

The story of our evolution analysed with one fascinating body and its unconscious memory, set to a soundscape of computer-manipulated sounds from the natural world. Kitt Johnson moves like a magical creature from a bygone age. Reptilian, insect-like, animalistic, human - her body changes before our eyes.

1 December 2009

Rich Mix E1 6LA[map]

Dhiya's life revolves around his best friend Zaara, a controlling theatre director, and he is burdened by the guilt his Muslim family place upon him because of his sexuality. This is all about to change when Kieran, an abstract artist enters his life and opens the door to a new future. But is Dhiya ready for it?

24 November 2009 to 27 November 2009

Artsdepot  N12 0GA[map]

Separated by their fathers' bitter rivalry, Juliet and Romeo experience a first love that is truly forbidden. In the long hot summer they pray for the private night to be alone, away from the blistering passions of masculine honour and the viscous cycle of violence brought on by their families' ongoing feud. In this cruel adult world of pride, envy and greed, youth and innocence have no place, and Romeo and Juliet must go to desperate measures to be together.

21 March 2010 to 27 March 2010

Incognito Theatre N11 3HB[map]

A thriller by Patrick Hamilton.

6 September 2009 to 20 December 2009

Etcetera Theatre NW1 7BU[map]

Scenes from Communal Living is a hilarious journey through the weird and wonderful world of share households. Every night your suggestions will help create the strangest characters to ever argue over a phone bill or tape a note to the fridge. Has the new guy paid his share of the rent? And what's that smell coming from under his door.

17 November 2009 to 5 December 2009

The Cock Tavern NW6 6JH[map]

Secrets builds on a long-standing interest on the part of the director, Danielle Coleman, in using actors real-life experiences as a basis for creating theatre. Having explored this idea in a full-length one-man show based on the actor's own life, entitled Out of The Box, Danielle was struck by the way in which the personal is also universal and an individual story can strike chords with the audience's own experiences.