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THE ABSENCE OF WOMEN - Tricycle Theatre. Memories and regrets of a pair of Irishmen. Autumn 2011
ABSOLUTELY (PERHAPS) - Wyndhams Theatre. Franco Zeffirelli directed Joan Plowright in Pirandello. Spring-Summer 2003
ACCOLADE - Finborough Theatre. Emlyn Williams drama: successful writer faces scandal. February 2011
THE ACCUSED - Haymarket Theatre. Jeffrey Archer starred in his own courtroom play, while awaiting a real life trial. Winter 2000-2001
adrenalin . . . heart - Bush Theatre. Georgia Fitch's boy-meets-girl drama.March 2004
AFTERLIFE - Lyttelton Theatre. Michael Frayn play about Max Reinhardt. Spring-Summer 2008
AFTERMATH - Old Vic Tunnels. Testimony of Iraqis displaced by war. Summer 2010
AFTERPLAY - Gielgud Theatre. John Hurt and Penelope Wilton in new Brian Friel sequel to Chekhov. Autumn 2002
AFTER MRS ROCHESTER - Duke of York's Theatre. Play about Jean Rhys and her sequel to Wuthering Heights. Summer-autumn 2003
AFTER THE DANCE - Lyttelton Theatre. Terrance Rattigan looks at the 1920s generation in the 1930s. Spring-Summer 2010
ALBERT SPEER - Royal National Theatre. Alex Jennings in David Edgar's new play about Hitler's Number Two. Spring 2000
THE ALIENS - Bush Theatre. Guys spend a summer just hanging out. Autumn 2010
ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER - Old Vic Theatre. Stage version of Pedro Almodovar film. Autumn 2007
ALL MY SONS - Lyttelton Theatre. Return of NT's Arthur Miller revival.Summer-Autumn 2001
ALL MY SONS - Apollo Theatre. Early Arthur Miller play about war profiteer. Summer 2010
AMAJUBA - Criterion Theatre. South African hit about growing up under apartheid. Spring 2005
AMERICAN TRADE - Hampstead Theatre. RSC in play about American hustler in London. .June 2011
AMY'S VIEW - Garrick Theatre. Peter Hall directs Felicity Kendall in David Hare's play about an actress's family. Winter 2006-2007
ANDERSEN'S ENGLISH - Hampstead Theatre. Hans Christian Andersen visits Charles Dickens. Spring 2010
AND I AND SILENCE - Finborough Theatre. Drama of ex-prisoners trying to make it. Spring 2011
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE - Gielgud Theatre Agatha Christie classic whodunit. Winter 2005-2006.
ANGELS IN AMERICA - Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. Tony Kushner's 2-part dissection of America in the 1980s. Summer 2007
ANNA CHRISTIE - Donmar Theatre. Ruth Wilson and Jude Law in Eugene O'Neill. Summer-Autumn 2011
ANOTHER COUNTRY - Arts Theatre. Revival of Julian Mitchell's 1981 play about schoolboys on their way to becoming traitors. January 2001.
ANTARCTICA - Savoy Theatre. Explorers trying to keep a stiff upper lip in the icy wastes of the South Pole. Autumn 2001
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA - Barbican Theatre. Alan Bates and Frances de la Tour star in this Royal Shakespeare Company production.Winter 1999-2000
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA - Haymarket Theatre. RSC transfer from Stratford. September 2002.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA - Novello Theatre. RSC from Stratford, with Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter. January-February 2007
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA - Roundhouse. Part of RSC repertory season. Winter 2010-2011
APOLOGIA - Bush Theatre. A 60s activist must defend her life choices to her grown sons. Summer 2009
ARISTOCRATS - Lyttelton Theatre. Brian Friel revival. Summer-autumn 2005
THE ARSONISTS - Royal Court Theatre. Max Frisch parable of good's impotence in the face of evil. Autumn 2007
ARTEFACTS - Bush Theatre. English girl meets her Iraqi father and stepfamily. Spring 2008
AS YOU DESIRE ME - Playhouse Theatre. Kristin Scott Thomas in Pirandello. Autumn 2005-Januaey 2006
ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE - Lyttelton Theatre. Martin Crimp prose poem. Spring 2007.
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY - Lyttelton Theatre. Multi-Tony-winning comedy-drama of family reunion. Winter 2008-2009
AUTUMN & WINTER - Orange Tree Theatre. Swedish play about unhappy family. Spring 2011
AWAKE AND SING - Almeida Theatre. Clifford Odets Depression-era drama. Autumn 2007
BANG BANG BANG - Royal Court Theatre. War crime investigators in Africa. Autumn 2011
BATTLE ROYAL - Lyttelton Theatre. Nick Stafford's play about the unhappy marriage of George IV.Winter 1999-2000
BABY DOLL - Albery Theatre. Birmingham Rep's stage version of the Tennessee Williams filmscript transfers after season at the National. Winter 1999-2000
BACCHAI - Olivier Theatre. Peter Hall directs Euripides, using masks and classical styles. Summer 2002.
BACK TO METHUSELAH - The Pit. Royal Shakespeare Company does Shaw's rarely-produced marathon look at all of human history and future.Winter 2000-2001
THE BEARD - Old Red Lion Theatre. Michael McClure's fantasia on sex, power and American icons. Summer 2006
BEASTS AND BEAUTIES - Hampstead Theatre. Fairy tales retold. December 2010
THE BEAU - Haymarket Theatre. Peter Bowles as Beau Brummel .Spring 2001
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - Italy's Teatro Kismet performs the family classic in English. Spring 2002, then tour.
THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE - Young Vic Theatre. Irish spinster and her mother. Summer 2010; Summer 2011
BECKET - Haymarket Theatre. Anouilh on the saint-to-be. Autumn 2004
BECKY SHAW - Almeida Theatre. Needy friend's effect on a family. January-March 2011
BEHUD - Soho Theatre. Playwright's view of how her previous play offended a community. Spring 2010
BELIEVE WHAT YOU WILL - Trafalgar Studios. RSC in play by Philip Massinger. January 2006
BELONGINGS - Trafalgar Studio 2. Female soldier's experience in war and at home. Summer 2011
BE NEAR ME - Donmar Warehouse. Stage adaptation of novel about a priest in Scotland. February-March 2009
BENEFACTORS - Albery Theatre. Revival of Michael Frayn's 1984 play about the chipping away of an architect's liberal ideals. Summer 2002.
BENT - Trafalgar Studios. Martin Sherman's drama of gay men in Nazi Germany. Autumn 2006
BERLIN HANOVER EXPRESS - Hampstead Theatre. Irish diplomats in Nazi Germany. Spring 2009
THE BEST OF FRIENDS - Hampstead Theatre. The correspondence of Shaw, a museum curator and a nun .Spring 2006
BETRAYAL
- Duchess Theatre. Peter
Hall's new production of Pinter's adultery play. Winter 2003-2004
BETRAYAL - Donmar Theatre. Pinter's reverse-order account of infidelity. Summer 2007
BETRAYAL - Comedy Theatre. Pinter's romantic triangle story told backwards. Summer2011
BEYOND THE HORIZON - Cottesloe Theatre. Early Eugene O'Neill drama about doomed brothers. Spring-Summer 2010
BIG WHITE FOG - Almeida Theatre. Drama of black family in 1920s Chicago. Spring 2007
BIRDSONG - Comedy Theatre. Staging of WW1 novel. Winter 2010-2011
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY - Duchess Theatre. Revival of early Harold Pinter play Spring 2005.
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY - Lyric Hammersmith. 50th anniversary production of Pinter's first London play. Spring 2008
THE BLACK ALBUM - Cottesloe Theatre. Asian student in London in 1989. Summer-Autumn 2009
BLACKBIRD - Albery Theatre. Man accosted by woman he seduced as a teenager Winter-Spring 2006.
BLASTED - Lyric Hammersmith. Sarah Kane play connects casual violence and wartime atrocities. Autumn 2010
BLIND DATE and 27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON - Riverside Studios. Short plays by Horton Foote and Tennessee Williams. Autumn 2011
BLUE/ORANGE - Cottesloe Theatre. Joe Penhall play: mental patient and the doctors who fight over him. Spring 2000 at NT; Duchess Theatre until December 2001
THE BLUE ROOM - Haymarket Theatre. From Chichester, David Hare's version of Schnitzler's La Ronde. Autumn 2000
BLOOD - Royal Court Theatre. Drama of Oedipal confusion in the wake of Chilean politics. Autumn 2003.
BLOOD AND GIFTS - Lyttelton Theatre. Drama of US involvement in Russia-Afghanistan war. Autumn 2010
BLOOD WEDDING - Almeida Theatre. Garcia Lorca drama. Spring 2005
BONES - Bush Theatre. Drama of the ongoing tragic legacy of apartheid. Autumn 2006
BRAND - Haymarket Theatre. Ralph Fiennes stars in the epic early Ibsen for the RSC. Spring-summer 2003
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S - Haymarket Theatre. Stage version of Capote book. Winter 2009-2010
THE BREATH OF LIFE - Haymarket Theatre. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith in David Hare play. Winter 2002-2003.
BREATHING IRREGULAR - Gate Theatre. Dance-drama built on 999 calls. January-February 2010
BRIDGES AND HARMONIES - Bridewell Theatre. New play by Oren Lavie looks at two love affairs. Autumn 2000.
BRIEF ENCOUNTER - Lyric Theatre. Noel Coward's classic weepy, with Jenny Seagrove & Christopher Cazenove..Autumn 2000.
BRIEF ENCOUNTER - Haymarket Cinema. Kneehigh Theatre reinvent Noel Coward's classic weepy.2008
BROKEN GLASS - Tricycle and VaudevilleTheatres. Arthur Miller drama of Jews in 1930s New York. Tricycle Autumn 2010; Vaudeville Autumn-Winter 2011
BROKEN VOICES - Tristan Bates Theatre. Eight short plays from around the world on the theme of democracy. Spring 2005
BRONTE - Tricycle Theatre. Shared Experience stages the lives of the novelist sisters. Spring 2011
THE BROTHERS SIZE - Young Vic Theatre. Drama of two brothers in small-town Louisiana. Autumn 2007
BURIED CHILD - Lyttelton Theatre. Sam Shepard's metaphor for the American tragedy. Autumn 2004.
BURN/CHATROOM/CITIZENSHIP - Cottesloe Theatre. Three plays about teenagers, performed in rotating pairs. Spring 2006
BURNING ISSUES - Hampstead. What does publisher do when prize author turns out to be a racist? Spring 2000
BURNT BY THE SUN - Lyttelton Theatre. Drama set in the USSR of Stalin's purges. Winter-Spring 2009
BUTLEY - Duchess Theatre. Simon Gray play of failed academic Summer 2011
BY THE BOG OF CATS - Wyndham's Theatre. Holly Hunter in Irish version of Medea. Winter 2004-2005
CALICO - Duke of York's Theatre. Michael Hastings play set in the home of James Joyce. Winter-Spring 2004
CAMILLE - Lyric Hammersmith. Neil Bartlett's adaptation of Dumas. Spring 2003
CANARY - Hampstead Theatre. Gay life in Britain since the 1950s. Spring 2010
THE CANTERBURY TALES - Gielgud Theatre. RSC staging of Chaucer comes from Stratford in two evenings. Autumn 2006
THE CARETAKER - Comedy Theatre. Michael Gambon stars in 40th anniversary revival of Harold Pinter's classic. Winter 2000-2001.
THE CARETAKER - Tricycle Theatre. From Sheffield, a revival of Pinter's brothers and a tramp. Spring 2007
THE CARETAKER - Trafalgar Studios. Jonathan Pryce in Pinter. Winter-Spring 2010
CARRIE'S WAR - Apollo Theatre. Evacuated children in World War II. Summer 2009
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF - Lyric Theatre. Brendan Fraser, Frances O'Connor led all-star cast in Tennessee Williams. Winter 2001-2002.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF - Novello Theatre. James Earl Jones led an all-black American cast. 2009-2010
CAUSE CÉLÈBRE - Old Vic Theatre. Terrence Rattigan on a crime of passion. Spring 2011
A CAVALIER FOR MILADY - Cock Tavern Theatre. Premiere of late Tennessee Williams play. April 2011
CHAINS - Orange Tree Theatre. 1909 play about the temptation to quit your job and run away. Autumn 2007
THE CHALK GARDEN - Donmar Theatre. Edith Bagnold drama about the value and limits of love. Summer 2008
THE CHANGELING - Barbican Theatre. Cheek by Jowl begin their residency at the Barbican with this Jacobean drama Summer 2006
THE CHERRY ORCHARD - English Touring Theatre in Chekhov, featuring Prunella Scales and Frank Middlemass. Toured Spring 2000.
THE CHERRY ORCHARD - OlivierTheatre. Corin and Vanessa Redgrave, directed by Trevor Nunn at the NT. Winter 2000-2001
THE CHERRY ORCHARD - Old Vic Theatre. Chekhov, in rep with Shakespeare's Winter's Tale. Spring-Summer 2009
THE CHERRY ORCHARD - Olivier Theatre. Chekhov classic. Summer 2011
CHICKEN SOUP WITH BARLEY - Tricycle Theatre. Arnold Wesker's look at London Jewish family. Autumn 2005
CHICKEN SOUP WITH BARLEY - Royal Court Theatre. Arnold Wesker saga of London socialist family. 2011
CHILD OF THE FOREST - Finborough. Anthony Melnikoff's drama: Polish woman finds a Jewish baby abandoned during World War II. March 2000
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR - Comedy Theatre. Lillian Hellman play about the fallout from a child's lie. Spring 2011
THE CHRIST OF COLDHARBOUR LANE - Soho Theatre. Misadventures of a street preacher. June 2007
A CHRISTMAS CAROL - Arts Theatre. Simon Callow tells the Dickens tale. Winter 2011-2012
CHRISTMAS IS MILES AWAY - Bush Theatre. Teenage buddies grow up and grow apart. Spring 2006
THE CITY - Royal Court Theatre. Martin Crimp play about couple whose world is not very solid. Spring 2008
CLOACA - Old Vic Theatre. Dutch play about old friends reunited. Autumn 2004
CLOUDSTREET - Olivier Theatre. Australian epic (5 hours, with dinner break) about two families in limited run at the National. Autumn 2001
THE COAST OF UTOPIA - Olivier Theatre. Trilogy of new plays by Tom Stoppard about 19th century Russia at the NT 2002
COCK - Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. Gay guy meets the girl of his dreams. Autumn 2009
COLLABORATION - Duchess Theatre. Ronald Harwood WW2 drama, in rep with his Taking Sides. Summer 2009
COLLECTED STORIES - Haymarket. Helen Mirren in Howard Margulies play about a writer coping with her young protegee's success. Autumn 1999.
COMEDIANS - Lyric Hammersmith . Trevor Griffiths' 1975 play about aspiring comics. Autumn 2009
THE COMPANY MAN - Orange Tree Theatre. Torben Betts play of unhappy family. Autumn 2010
COMPLICIT - Old Vic Theatre. Richard Dreyfuss as American reporter refusing to name sources January-February 2009
THE CONSPIRATORS - Orange Tree Theatre. Vaclav Havel political satire. Autumn 2011
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE: MOTHERS AGAINST and DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION - Barbican Theatre.Two David Edgar plays about American politics. March 2004.
THE CONTINGENCY PLAN - Bush Theatre. Two plays on Climate Change and politics. Spring 2009
COOL HAND LUKE - Aldwych Theatre. Rebellious chain gang prisoner becomes mythic hero to the others. Autumn 2011
COPENHAGEN - Duchess Theatre. Michael Frayn asks why the Nazis didn't get the atomic bomb first. Closed Spring 2001
CORAM BOY - Olivier Theatre. Staging of award-winning kids' book. Winter 2005-2006; Winter 2006-2007
THE CORDELIA DREAM - Wilton's Music Hall. New play by Marina Carr about estranged father and daughter. December 2008
CORIOLANUS - Old Vic Theatre. Royal Shakespeare Company transfer from Stratford. Spring-summer 2003
THE COSMONAUT'S LAST MESSAGE... - Donmar Theatre. Connectedness and miscommunication on earth and above, Spring 2005.
LE COSTUME - Young Vic Peter Brook's French company return with a South African tale. Autumn 2003.
THE COUNTRY - Royal Court. Martin Crimp play about a marriage with unspoken strains stars Juliet Stevenson and Owen Teale. Spring 2000.
THE COUNTRY GIRL - Apollo Theatre. Clifford Odets backstage drama. Winter 2010-2011
COYOTE ON A FENCE - Duchess Theatre. Death-row drama. Spring 2004.
CREDITORS - Donmar Warehouse. Strindberg drama of sexual revenge. Autumn 2008
THE CREEPER - Playhouse Theatre. Ian Richardson in psychological thriller. Winter 2006
CRESSIDA - Albery Theatre. Michael Gambon stars in new play by Nicholas Wright about Elizabethan boy actresses. Spring 2000
CROOKED - Bush Theatre. Teenage girl's pain and confusion at upheaval in her life. Spring 2006
CRUEL AND TENDER - Young Vic Theatre. Adaptation of Sophocles, in which a woman awaits the return of her soldier husband. Spring 2004
CRUISING - Bush Theatre. Love and lust among the seventy-somethings. June 2006
THE CRYPTOGRAM - Donmar Warehouse. David Mamet's look at a troubled family. Autumn 2006
THE CUT - Donmar Theatre. Ian McKellen in Mark Ravenhill play about tortured torturer. February-March 2006
CYMBELINE - Open Air Theatre. Late Shakespeare in Regents Park Summer 2005
CYMBELINE - Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. Kneehigh Theatre deconstruct Shakespeare. 2007
CYMBELINE - Barbican Theatre. Cheek by Jowl Company's staging of Shakespeare. Spring 2007
CYRANO DE BERGERAC - Olivier Theatre. Stephen Rea puts on the funny nose for the National Theatre. Spring 2004
DANCE OF DEATH - Lyric Theatre. Ian McKellen and Francis de la Tour in Strindberg. Spring 2003
DANCING AT LUGHNASA - Old Vic Theatre. Brian Friel's Irish family drama. Spring 2009
DANGER: MEMORY! - Jermyn Street Theatre. Arthur Miller double bill. Summer 2011
DANGEROUS CORNER - Garrick Theatre. J. B. Priestley classic updated in transfer from West Yorkshire Playhouse Winter 2001-2002.
DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD - UCL Bloomsbury Theatre. Roald Dahl tale. Winter 2007-2008
DANTON'S DEATH - Olivier Theatre. Buchner on the French Revolution. 2010
THE DARK - Donmar Warehouse Charlotte Jones' look at three families when the lights go out. Spring 2004.
DARKER SHORES - Hampstead Theatre. Christmas ghost story. Winter 2009-2010
A DAY AT THE RACISTS - Finborough Theatre. How an ordinary guy is lured into the BNP. Spring 2010
A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG - Comedy Theatre. Revival of Peter Nichols' play about coping with disabled child. Winter 2001-2002
THE DEAD SCHOOL - Tricycle Theatre. Pat McCabe story of two schoolteachers. February-March 2010
DEALER'S CHOICE - Trafalgar Studios Patrick Marber's poker play transfers from the fringe.2007-2008
DEATH AND THE KING'S HORSEMAN - Olivier Theatre. Wole Soyinka play set in 1943 Nigeria. Spring 2009
DEATH AND THE MAIDEN - Comedy Theatre. Political prisoner's revenge. Autumn-Winter 2011
DEATH OF A SALESMAN - Lyric Theatre- Brian Denehy in Arthur Miller classic. 2005.
DEATHTRAP - Noel Coward Theatre. Ira Levin who's-doing-what-to-whom mystery. Winter 2010-2011
A DELICATE BALANCE - Almeida Theatre. Edward Albee's family on the edge. Spring 2011
DE MONFORT - Orange Tree Theatre. 1798 drama of obsessive hatred. Spring 2008
DEMOCRACY - Wyndham's Theatre. Michael Frayn play about Willy Brandt transferred from the National to the West End 2003-2004
THE DEEP BLUE SEA - Vaudeville Theatre. Greta Scacchi in Terrence Rattigan drama of obsessive love. Spring-Summer 2008
DESIGNS FOR LIVING - Drill Hall- Claire Dowie's bemused view of gender identity and confusion.Spring 2001
DETAINING JUSTICE - Tricycle Theatre. The plight of illegal immigrants. Autumn 2009
DIANA OF DOBSON'S - Orange Tree Theatre. 1908 play - poor girl briefly enters rich society. Spring 2007
DIDO QUEEN OF CARTHAGE - Cottesloe Theatre. Christopher Marlowe's first play. Spring 2009
DIMETOS - Donmar Warehouse. Athol Fugard play about tormented engineer. Spring 2009
DISCONNECT - Royal Court Theatre. Life in an India call centre. Spring 2010
DOCTOR FAUSTUS - Young Vic Theatre. Jude Law starred in Marlowe. Spring 2002.
A DOLL'S HOUSE - Donmar Warehouse. Gillian Anderson in new adaptation of Ibsen. Spring-Summer 2009
DON CARLOS - The Pit. The RSC in Schiller's 19th Century drama of love, honour and politics in the Renaissance Spanish court. Autumn 1999.
DON CARLOS- Gielgud Theatre. Richard Coyle and Derek Jacobi starred in historic drama. Winter-Spring 2005.
DON JOHN - Battersea Arts Centre. Kneehigh Theatre updates the Don Giovanni story. Spring 2009
DOUBT - Tricycle Theatre. John Philip Shanley drama in which nun suspects priest of abuse.Winter 2007-2008
A DREAM PLAY - Cottesloe Theatre. New version of Strindberg by Caryl Churchill and the company Winter-Spring 2005
DREAM STORY - Gate Theatre. Schnitzler story of an erotic nightmare. Summer 2011
DREAMS OF VIOLENCE - Soho Theatre. Woman cracking under the strains of work and family. Summer 2009.
THE DRESSER - Duke of York's Theatre. Julian Glover and Nicholas Lyndhurst in Ronald Harwood backstage play. 2004-2005
DREYFUS - Tricycle. A new translation by Jack Rosenthal of Jean-Claude Grumberg's play about Jewish actors in 1930s Poland. June 2000.
DRIVING MISS DAISY - Wyndham's Theatre. Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones as widow and driver. Autumn 2011
DRUNK ENOUGH TO SAY I LOVE YOU? - Royal Court Theatre. New play by Caryl Churchill about the evils of America. Winter 2006
DUBLIN CAROL - Royal Court Theatre Conor McPherson drama of a Dubliner's Christmas Eve. .Spring 2000
DUBLIN CAROL - Trafalgar Studios. Conor McPherson drama of a Dubliner's Christmas Eve. Winter 2011-2012
THE DUCHESS OF MALFI -Barbican Theatre Royal Shakespeare Company does John Webster. 2000
THE DUCHESS OF MALFI -Lyttelton Theatre. Janet McTeer in Webster's tragedy. Winter-Spring 2003
DUET FOR ONE - Almeida, then Vaudeville Theatre. Tom Kempinski's drama of musician facing the end of her career. 2009
THE DUMB WAITER - Trafalgar Studios. Early Pinter about confused gangsters Spring 2007.
DUNSINANE - Hampstead Theatre. David Greig sequel to Macbeth for the RSC. February 2010
THE DWARFS - Tricycle Theatre. Kerry Lee Crabbe dramatises Harold Pinter's novel of East End London in the 1950s. Spring 2003
THE DWARFS & THE LOCAL STIGMATIC - Lyric Theatre Studio. Double bill of plays first seen in 1966. Spring 2000.
THE EARLY BIRD - Finborough Theatre. Effects of a child's disappearance. February 2010
EARTHQUAKES IN LONDON - Cottesloe Theatre. New Mike Bartlett play. Summer-Autumn 2010
EASTER - Riverside Studios. Oxford Stage Company in uncharacteristically optimistic Strindberg play. Spring 2005
ECSTASY - Hampstead, then Duchess Theatre. Mike Leigh's look at working class Londoners trying to have fun in 1979
ecstacy+GRACE - Finborough Theatre. Theatre 28 tackles the horrors of gay paedophilia.Spring 2001
EDEN'S EMPIRE - Finborough Theatre. Play set in the Suez Crisis. September 2006
EDMOND - Olivier Theatre. Kenneth Branagh is David Mamet's self-destructive hero. Summer-Autumn 2003.
EDUCATING RITA - Menier Chocolate Factory, the Trafalgar Studios. Willy Russell on a woman's dream of changing her life. Menier Spring 2010; Trafalgar Summer-Autumn
EDWARD III - Gielgud Theatre. The RSC does a history play published anonymously, now thought to be by Shakespeare. Winter 2002-2003
EH JOE - Duke of York's Theatre. Michael Gambon in Beckett's short play, done twice nightly. Summer 2006
EIGENGRAU - Bush Theatre. Tangled love lives of four Londoners. Spring 2010
EIGHT - Trafalgar Studios. Eight short monologues by Ella Hickson, a different four chosen each night. July 2009
ELECTRA - Gate Theatre. Sophocles tragedy of unrelenting hatred. Spring 2011
ELMINA'S KITCHEN - Cottesloe Theatre 2003; Garrick 2005. New play by Kwame Kwei-Armah about harsh truths in the Afro-Caribbean community..
EMBERS - Duke of York's Theatre. Jeremy Irons as man meeting old friend-foe after 50 years. 2006
EMPEROR AND GALILEAN - Olivier Theatre. Ibsen on a 4th-century attempt to defeat Christianity. Summer 2011
THE EMPEROR JONES - Olivier Theatre. Eugene O'Neill classic. Summer-autumn 2007
THE EMPIRE - Royal Court Theatre. Battlefield drama set in Afghanistan. Spring 2010
THE ENCHANTMENT - Cottesloe Theatre. 19th-Century Swedish play about obsessive love. Summer-autumn 2007
END OF THE RAINBOW - Trafalgar Studios. Judy Garland near the end of her career. Spring 2011
ENDGAME - Albery Theatre. Michael Gambon and Lee Evans in Beckett. Spring 2004.
ENDGAME - Duchess Theatre. Mark Rylance in Beckett. Autumn 2009
ENEMIES - Almeida Theatre. Gorky on the seeds of the Revolution, by way of David Hare. 2006.
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE - Arcola Theatre. Rebecca Lenkiewicz adapts Ibsen; Greg Hicks stars. Spring 2008
ENIGMATIC VARIATIONS - Savoy Theatre. Donald Sutherland and John Rubinstein in new play about famous writer and interviewer. Spring-Summer 2000
ENLIGHTENMENT - Hampstead Theatre. Grieving parents and someone with news of their son. Autumn 2010
ENRON - Royal Court Theatre. New play by Lucy Prebble about the 1990s Wall Street bubble. Royal Court Autumn 2009; Noel Coward Theatre 2010
THE ENTERTAINER - Old Vic Theatre. Robert Lindsay in John Osborne classic. Spring 2007.
EPITAPH FOR GEORGE DILLON - Comedy Theatre. Joseph Fiennes in John Osborne's first play. Winter 2005-2006
EQUUS - Gielgud Theatre Peter Shaffer on a boy and his horse. Spring 2007
EURYDICE - Young Vic Theatre. Modern retelling of the myth. Spring 2010
AN EVENING WITH CHARLES DICKENS - Dickens House. Geoffrey Harris plays Dickens reading from the novels. Summer 2002.
EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED - Hampstead Theatre. American journeys to the Ukraine to find his family history. Autumn 2006
EXILES - Cottesloe Theatre. James Joyce's one play, about an unconventional romantic triangle.Autumn 2006
THE FAITH MACHINE - Royal Court Theatre. Various sorts of moral commitment compared. Autumn 2011
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER - Graeae Theatre Company in Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale as interpreted by Steven Berkoff. Autumn 2000
THE FAMILY REUNION - The Pit. RSC in T. S. Eliot's drama of sin and redemption. Winter 1999-2000
THE FAMILY REUNION - Donmar Warehouse. T.S. Eliot drama of sin and redemption Winter 2008-2009
THE FAMILY PLAYS - Royal Court Upstairs. Double bill of Swedish and Ukrainian one-act plays. Winter 2007
FANNY AND FAGGOT - Finborough Theatre. Psychological study of child killers. February 2007
FANTA ORANGE - Finborough Theatre. Love triangle and other complications in Kenya. Autumn 2011
FAST LABOUR - Hampstead Theatre. Drama about illegal immigrant workers. Spring 2008
FATHERLAND - Gate Theatre. Father and daughter in an awkward encounter. Spring 2011
FAUSTUS - Hampstead Theatre. New play equates the soul-seller with modern artists. Autumn 2006
THE FEAST OF SNAILS - Lyric Theatre. David Warner in Olaf Olafsson play about complacent businessman's comeuppance. March 2002.
FEN - Finborough Theatre. Caryl Churchill drama of poor farmworkers. Spring 2011
THE FEVER - Royal Court Theatre. Wallace Shawn monologue of a woman discovering there's injustice in the world. Spring 2009
A FEW GOOD MEN - Haymarket Theatre. Courtroom drama. Autumn 2005
FINDING THE SUN and MARRIAGE PLAY - Cottesloe Theatre. Two rarely-done Edward Albee one-acts at the NT. Spring-Summer 2001
A FINE BALANCE - Hampstead Theatre. Staging of Rohinton Mistry's novel of India in the 1970s. Spring 2007
FIVE 0'CLOCK ANGEL - Nichola McAuliffe in picture of Tennessee Williams's long friendship with Maria St. Just. Touring Autumn-winter 1999.
THE FIVE WIVES OF MAURICE PINDAR - Cottesloe Theatre. Unusual London family and what happens to it. Summer-Autumn 2007
FIX UP - Cottesloe Theatre. New play about Black life in London by Kwame Kwei-Armah. Winter-Spring 2005
FLARE PATH - Haymarket Theatre. Terrence Rattigan wartime drama. Spring 2011
FLIGHT PATH - Bush Theatre. Year in the life of a teenager. Autumn 2007
FOOL FOR LOVE - Apollo Theatre. Sam Shepard's look at obsessive lovers. Summer 2006
THE FOUR SEASONS - Arcola Theatre. Arnold Wesker follows love through the year. Spring 2007
FRAGMENTS- Young Vic Theatre. Peter Brook directs short Beckett pieces. Autumn 2007
FRAM - Olivier Theatre. New play by Tony Harrison about Norwegian explorer and humanitarian Nansen. Spring 2008
FRANKENSTEIN - Olivier Theatre. Two actors alternated as doctor and monster. Spring 2011
THE FREE STATE - Janet Suzman wrote and starred in a South African version of The Cherry Orchard. Toured Spring 2000.
THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY - Finborough Theatre. Brian Friel's look at Northern Ireland. December 2005
FROST/NIXON - Donmar, then Gielgud Theatre. How David Frost got Richard Nixon to confess, sort of. 2006-2007
FROZEN - Cottesloe Theatre. Bryony Lavery's play about grief won awards in Birmingham in 1998. National Theatre Summer 2002.
FRUIT SALAD - Greenwich Theatre. Llewella Gideon's play looks at gender roles and conflicts among Afro-Caribbean thirty-somethings Spring 2003
GAGARIN WAY - Cottesloe Theatre. Edinburgh Festival hit played two runs at the National Winter 2001-2002, then the Arts Theatre Spring 2002
GASLIGHT - Old Vic Theatre. Classic is-she-going-mad melodrama. Summer 2007
GEM OF THE OCEAN - Tricycle Theatre. August Wilson's view of African-American life in 1904. January 2006
GERTRUDE'S SECRET - New End Theatre. Collection of short monologues by different characters. Winter 2007
GETHSEMANE - Cottesloe Theatre. David Hare play on politics and money.2008-2009
GHOST STORIES - Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, then Duke of York's. Trio of spooky tales. Lyric Spring 2010; Duke's 2010-2011
GHOSTS - Comedy Theatre. Francesca Annis and Anthony Andrews in Ibsen's tale of lies and guilt Spring-Summer 2001
GHOSTS - Duchess Theatre. Frank McGuinness adaptation of Ibsen. Winter-Spring 2010
THE GIANT - Hampstead Theatre. Drama by Antony Sher about Michelangelo's creation of the David. Autumn 2007
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING - Haymarket Theatre. Drama of Vermeer and his muse. Autumn 2008
THE GIRL WITH RED HAIR - Hampstead Theatre. Drama of loss and recovery by Sharman Macdonald. Spring 2005
GLASS EELS - Hampstead Theatre. Drama of family unable to move forward. Summer 2007
THE GLASS MENAGERIE - Apollo Theatre. Jessica Lange in Tennessee Williams. Spring 2007
THE GLASS MENAGERIE - Young Vic Theatre. Tennessee Williams classic. Winter 2010-2011
THE GLASS ROOM - Hampstead Theatre. New play about Holocaust-denying historian and her Jewish lawyer. Winter 2006
THE GLEE CLUB - Duchess Theatre. Transfer from the fringe of play about a miner's singing group. Spring 2002.
GLENGARY GLEN ROSS - Apollo Theatre. David Mamet's salesmen; Jonathan Pryce starred. Autumn-Winter 2007
THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA? - ApolloTheatre. Edward Albee's drama of a world turned upside down. 2003-2004
GOD IN RUINS - Soho Theatre. Anthony Neilson play about a Lonely Guy on Christmas Eve. Winter 2007-2008
GOD ONLY KNOWS - Vaudeville Theatre. Derek Jacobi stars in new Hugh Whitemore play questioning man's need for religion. Spring 2001
THE GODS WEEP - Hampstead Theatre. RSC in new play evoking King Lear. Spring 2010
GOLDA'S BALCONY - Shaw Theatre. Tovah Feldshuh as Golda Meir. Summer 2008
THE GOOD HOPE - Cottesloe Theatre. Dutch classic transformed to British setting by Lee Hall. Winter 2001-2002, then tour.
THE GOOD SOUL OF SZECHUAN - Young Vic Theatre. Brecht's parable of the innocent in a cruel world. Spring-Summer 2008
GRASSES OF A THOUSAND COLOURS - Royal Court Theatre. New play by Wallace Shawn on sex, death and cats May-June 2009
THE GREAT GAME: AFGHANISTAN - Tricycle Theatre. Three evenings of short plays about Afghan history. Spring 2009, Summer 2010
GREENLAND - Lyttelton Theatre. Group-created documentary on the state of the planet. Spring 2011
GRETA GARBO CAME TO DONEGAL - Tricycle Theatre. Frank McGuinness play about star's effect on Irish family. January-February 2010
GRIEF - Cottesloe Theatre. Mike Leigh play about the pre-war generation facing the 1950s. 2011-2012
GUANTANAMO - Ambassadors Theatre. Political piece based on real life cases. Summer 2004
THE HABIT OF ART - Lyttelton Theatre. Alan Bennett on Benjamin Britten and W H Auden. 2010
HAMLET - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Mark Rylance was the first to play the Prince in the replica of its original theatre. Summer 2000
HAMLET - Olivier Theatre. Simon Russell Beale for the National. Summer 2000, then international tour, then Summer 2001
HAMLET - Barbican Theatre. Royal Shakespeare Company, Steven Pimlott directing Samuel West. Winter 2001-2002
HAMLET - Old Vic Theatre. Trevor Nunn directed a young cast, Ben Whishaw as the Prince. Summer 2004
HAMLET - Albery Theatre. RSC from Stratford, with Toby Stephens. Winter 2004
HAMLET - New Ambassadors Theatre. English Touring Compnay, with Ed Stoppard. Spring 2006
HAMLET - Novello Theatre. Understudy Edward Bennett filled in for ailing David Tennant through most of the RSC's London run. Winter 2008-2009.
HAMLET - Wyndham's Theatre. Jude Law was the prince. Spring-Summer 2009
HAMLET - Olivier Theatre. Nicholas Hytner directed Rory Kinnear. 2010-2011
HAMLET - Young Vic Theatre. Michael Sheen starred. 2011-2012
HAPPY DAYS - Arts Theatre. Felicity Kendal buried up to her neck in Beckett, Winter 2003-2004.
HAPPY DAYS -Lyttelton Theatre. Fiona Shaw up to her neck in Beckett. February 2007
HAPPY NOW? - Cottesloe Theatre. New play by Lucinda Coxon about harried working mother. 2008
HARPER REGAN - Cottesloe Theatre. New play by Simon Stephens about harried working mother. Spring-Summer 2008
HAUNTED CHILD - Royal Court Theatre. Family torn apart by father's disappearance and reappearance. Winter 2011-2012
HARVEST - Royal Court Theatre. Drama of 90 years in a rural village. Autumn 2005.
VACLAV HAVEL SEASON - Orange Tree Theatre. Several of the Czech playwright's works in rep. Autumn 2008
HECUBA - Albery Theatre. RSC transfer from Stratford of Euripides classic. Spring 2005.
HEDDA - Gate Theatre. Ibsen's Hedda Gabler set in 21st century London. Autumn 2008
HEDDA GABLER - Duke of York's Theatre. Richard Eyre directs Eve Best in Ibsen transfer from Almeida. Spring-summer 2005
THE HEIRESS - Lyttelton Theatre Classy forties adaptation of Henry James's novel about an unsuitable match, starring Alan Howard. 2000
HENRY IV, PARTS 1 & 2 - Barbican Theatre. RSC transfers the whole history cycle from Stratford. Desmond Barritt is Falstaff.Spring 2001
HENRY IV, PART 1 - Open Air Theatre. Christopher Benjamin was Falstaff in the Park. Summer 2004
HENRY IV, PARTS 1 & 2 - Olivier Theatre. Michael Gambon as Falstaff for the National Theatre. Summer 2005.
HENRY IV, PARTS 1 & 2 - Roundhouse. RSC did all eight Shakespearean history plays. David Warner was Falstaff. Spring 2008
HENRY V - Barbican Theatre. RSC transfers the whole history cycle from Stratford. William Houston is Hal. Spring 2001
HENRY V and ROMEO AND JULIET - British Touring Shakspeare alternates the two.Shaw Theatre Spring 2002, then tour
HENRY V - Olivier Theatre. Adrian Lester was Shakespeare's soldier-king. Spring-summer 2003
HENRY V - Roundhouse. RSC did all eight Shakespearean history plays. Spring 2008
HENRY VI, PARTS 1, 2 & 3 - Young Vic. RSC gives rare chance to see all three (they're usually condensed).Spring 2001
HENRY VI, PARTS 1, 2 & 3 - Roundhouse. RSC did all eight Shakespearean history plays. Spring 2008
HER NAKED SKIN - Olivier Theatre. Rebecca Lenkiewicz on the Suffragettes. Summer 2008
THE HERETIC - Royal Court Theatre. Politics and science clash over climate change. Spring 2011
HILDA - Hampstead Theatre. Drama of rich woman's obsession with her housekeeper. Spring 2006
HINTERLAND - Cottesloe Theatre. Irish politics and personalities - Patrick Malahide in NT coproduction with Abbey and Out of Joint. Spring 2002.
HIS DARK MATERIALS - Olivier Theatre. Two-part dramatisation of Philip Pullman novels. Winter-spring 2003-2004, then winter-spring 2005-2005
.HIS TEETH - Only Connect Theatre. Illegal immigrant's story performed by ex-prisoners. Autumn 2011
THE HISTORY BOYS - Lyttelton Theatre. Alan Bennett drama of pupils and teachers in boys' school. Winter 2004 - summer 2005; winter 2005-2006; spring 2007
HITCHCOCK BLONDE - Lyric Theatre. Terry Johnson's look at the Hitchcock myth. Spring-summer 2003
THE HOBBIT - Queen's Theatre. Holiday season of stage version of Tolkien. Winter 2001-2002.
HOLDING THE MAN - Trafalgar Studios. Story of Australian gay romance Spring 2010
THE HOLY ROSENBERGS - Cottesloe Theatre. Jewish family in London affected by events in Israel. Spring 2011
THE HOLY TERROR - Duke of York's Theatre. Simon Callow in Simon Grey's rewrite of play seen in 1987 as Melon. Three week run in Spring 2004
HOMEBODY/KABUL - Young Vic. Tony Kushner's Off-Broadway hit looked at East looking at West. May-June 2002
THE HOMECOMING - Comedy Theatre. Ian Holm, who was in the original 36 years ago, stars in new production of Pinter classic.Autumn 2001
THE HOMECOMING - Almeida Theatre. Pinter's troubled family. Spring 2008
THE HOME PLACE - Comedy Theatre. Tom Courtenay in Brian Friel drama. Summer 2005
HONOUR - Cottesloe Theatre. Eileen Atkins and Corin Redgrave in dissection of failed marriage. Spring 2003.
HONOUR - Wyndham's Theatre. Diana Rigg in marriage-dissection play done at the National 2003. Spring 2006
THE HOSTAGE - Southwark Theatre. Brendan Behan comedy-drama. February 2010
THE HOTHOUSE - Lyttelton Theatre. Harold Pinter's madhouse play.2007
THE HOTEL IN AMSTERDAM - Donmar Warehouse. Late John Osborne drama Autumn 2003
THE HOUR WE KNEW NOTHING OF EACH OTHER - Lyttelton Theatre. Peter Handke play without words.Spring 2008
THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA - Lyttelton Theatre. Penelope Wilton in Garcia Lorca drama. Spring-summer 2005
THE HOUSE OF BILQUIS BIBI - Hampstead Theatre. Garcia Lorca's Bernarda Alba set in Pakistan. Summer 2010
HOUSE OF GAMES - Almeida Theatre. Adaptation of David Mamet con-men film. Autumn 2010
HOW TO BE AN OTHER WOMAN - Gate Theatre Guide to illicit affairs. Autumn 2010
HOW TO CURSE - Bush Theatre. Drama of troubled youth's obsession with Shakespeare. Autumn 2007
HOWARD KATZ - Cottesloe Theatre. Ron Cook in Patrick Marber's play about a theatrical agent's mid-life crisis. Summer-autumn 2001
HUMBLE BOY - Gielgud Theatre. New play about mother, son and bumblebees. NT winter 2001-2002, West End to July 2002
HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS - Soho Theatre. Story of dark love. Summer2011
HUNGRY GHOSTS - Orange Tree Theatre. Westerner encounters political repression in China. Winter 2010
I AM MY OWN WIFE - Duke of York's Theatre. Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner about transvestite Nazi survivor lasted only a month in 2005.
I CAUGHT CRABS IN WALBERSWICK - Bush Theatre. Coming-of-age comedy-drama. November 2008
I NEVER GET DRESSED TIL AFTER DARK ON SUNDAYS - Cock Tavern. Hitherto unproduced Tennessee Williams play. Spring 2011
IF THERE IS I HAVEN'T FOUND IT YET - Bush Theatre. Troubled teen and useless adults. Autumn 2009
I'LL BE THE DEVIL - Tricycle Theatre. Royal Shakespeare Company in new play by Leo Butler about the English occupation of Ireland..Spring 2008
IN A FOREST DARK AND DEEP - Vaudeville Theatre. Neil LaBute play about uncovered secrets. Spring 2011
IN A DARK DARK HOUSE - Almeida Theatre. Play by Neil LaBute about estranged brothers. Winter 2008-2009
IN FLAME - New Ambassadors Theatre. Charlotte Jones' view of two groups of women separated by a century.Autumn 2000.
IN CELEBRATION - Duke of York's Theatre. A family reunion ends in tears in David Storey's 1969 drama. Summer 2007
IN CELEBRATION OF HAROLD PINTER - Gate Theatre. Two one-acts: A Kind of Alaska and A Slight Ache. Spring 2006
INGREDIENT X - Royal Court Theatre. Black comedy of addiction. Spring 2010
INADMISSABLE EVIDENCE - Donmar Theatre. Douglas Hodge as John Osborne's guilt-ridden lawyer. Autumn 2011
INHERIT THE WIND - Old Vic Theatre. Kevin Spacey in American courtroom drama. Autumn-Winter 2009
IN YOUR HANDS - New End Theatre. Play set in the 2002 Moscow theatre hostage crisis.Autumn 2006
AN INSPECTOR CALLS - Playhouse Theatre. Priestley given startling new resonances in Stephen Daldry's award-winning production. Closed May 2002; revived 2009-2010.
THE INVISIBLE MAN - Menier Chocolate Factory. Ken Hill's spoof version of the Wells tale. Winter 2010-2011
IPHIGENIA AT AULIS - Lyttelton Theatre. Katie Mitchell directs Euripides in 20th century dress. Summer 2004.
IRISH BLOOD, ENGLISH HEART - Trafalgar Studios. Estranged brothers meet over father's legacy. Spring 2011
THE ISLAND - Old Vic Theatre. John Kani & Winston Ntshona in their classic collaboration with Athol Fugard. January-April 2002.
THE ISLAND OF SLAVES - Lyric Hammersmith. Neil Bartlett's adaptation of Marivaux's fable of class reversals. Spring 2002.
THE ISLAND PRINCESS - Gielgud Theatre Arabian Nights-style play by John Fletcher, part of RSC season of Shakespeare's contemporaries. Winter 2002-2003.
IVANOV - Cottesloe Theatre. Katie Mitchell directs the early Chekhov.2002
IVANOV
- Wyndham's Theatre. Kenneth
Branagh in Tom Stoppard version of Chekhov. Autumn 2008
IWITNESS - Finborough Theatre. Drama by Joshua Sobel about anti-Nazi hero. January 2007
JANE EYRE - Trafalgar Studios. Touring company Shared Experience does Bronte. Summer 2006
JAPES - Haymarket Theatre. Simon Gray looks at two brothers and the woman they both love Spring 2001
JERUSALEM - Royal Court, then Apollo Theatre. Portrait of village ne'er-do-well as metaphor for vanishing England. 2009-2010; return 2011-2012
JITNEY - Lyttelton Theatre. August Wilson explores the lives of African-American cab drivers in the 1970s. Autumn 2001
JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE - Young Vic Theatre. Black American life in 1911. Summer 2010
JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN - Donmar Warehouse. Ibsen by way of David Eldridge.Spring 2007
JOURNEY'S END - Duke of York's Theatre. Revival of the World War One drama 2003-2006; 2011
JUDGEMENT DAY - Almeida Theatre. Von Horvath drama of guilt and punishment. Autumn 2009
JULIUS CAESAR - Barbican Theatre. Greg Hicks, Tim Pigott-Smith and Tom Mannion in togas for the RSC. Winter 2001-2002.
JULIUS CAESAR - Roundhouse. Part of Royal Shakespeare Company season. Winter 2010-2011
THE KAOS RENAISSANCE - Touring company's romp through the times of the Borgias and Leonardo. Winter 2000-2001.
THE KAOS TITUS ANDRONICUS - Touring company with signature physical style tackles Shakespeare's bloodbath. 2001.
KAROO MOOSE - Tricycle Theatre. African fable of revenge and liberation. Summer 2009
KEAN - Apollo Theatre. Antony Sher as the colourful 19th century actor. Summer 2007
KIN - Royal Court Theatre. Play set in girls' school. Winter 2010
KINDERTRANSPORT - Hampstead Theatre. Experience and later life of a German Jewish child in England. Spring 2007
KING HEDLEY II - Tricycle Theatre. August Wilson's look at African-American life in the 1980s. Winter 2002-2003
KING JOHN - The Pit. RSC does what may be Shakespeare's least-performed play. Guy Henry stars. Stratford summer 2001; London winter 2001-2002
KING LEAR - Old Vic Theatre. Timothy West starred in touring production. London Spring 2003.
KING LEAR - Albery Theatre. RSC transfer from Stratford. Corin Redgrave starred. Stratford 2004; London 2005.
KING LEAR - New London Theatre. RSC from Stratford, with Ian McKellen. Winter 2007-2008
KING LEAR - Young Vic Theatre. Veteran character actor Pete Postlethwaite was the king. Winter-Spring 2009
KING LEAR - Donmar Warehouse. Derek Jacobi starred. Winter 2010-2011
KING LEAR - Roundhouse. RSC production with Greg Hicks. January-February 2011
KINGDOM OF EARTH - The Print Room. Tennessee Williams drama of feuding brothers. Spring 2011
THE KITCHEN - Olivier Theatre. Arnold Wesker day-at-work play. Autumn 2011
THE KNOT OF THE HEART - Almeida Theatre. Fall and rise of a middle-class heroin addict. Spring 2011
THE KNOWLEDGE - Bush Theatre. Teaching in a no-hope school. January-February 2011
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE - Ambassadors Theatre. John Hurt in Beckett's one-hour study in old age and memory. Jan-Mar 2000.
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE - Royal Court Theatre. Two Nobel laureates in one - Harold Pinter acts in Beckett. Autumn 2006
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE - Duchess Theatre. Michael Gambon in Beckett. Autumn 2010
THE KREUTZER SONATA - Gate Theatre. Staging of Tolstoy novella about jealous husband. Autumn 2009
KURT AND SID - Trafalgar Studios. Imagined meeting of Cobain and Vicious. Autumn 2009
THE LADY FROM DUBUQUE - Haymarket Theatre. Maggie Smith as Edward Albee's angel of death. Spring 2007
LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN - Haymarket Theatre. Peter Hall directs Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson in Oscar Wilde. Spring 2002.
THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING - Finborough Theatre. Fringe production of Christopher Fry's verse romance.Spring 2007
LAND OF THE DEAD / HELTER SKELTER - Bush Theatre. Two plays by Neil LaBute. January-February 2008
LANDSCAPE WITH WEAPON - Cottesloe Theatre. Joe Penhall play about the morality of arms development Spring 2007
THE LARAMIE PROJECT - Cochrane Theatre. Group-created work based on shocking American murder case. Spring 2003
LARKIN WITH WOMEN - Orange Tree Theatre. Poet Philip Larkin and his three mistresses. Spring 2006
THE LAST CIGARETTE - Trafalgar Studios. Staging of Simon Gray's memoirs.Spring 2009
THE LAST CONFESSION - Haymarket Theatre. Politics and possible murder in the Vatican. Summer 2007
THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT - Almeida Theatre. Otherworldly court considers his appeal against damnation. Spring 2008
THE LAST OF THE DUCHESS - Hampstead Theatre. The circle around the Duchess of Windsor in her last years. Autumn 2011
THE LATE HENRY MOSS - Almeida Theatre. Sam Shepard, two brothers, the American West Winter 2005-2006
THE LATE MIDDLE CLASSES - Donmar Warehouse. Simon Gray family drama. Summer 2010
LATIN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL - St. Andrew Church. Three contemporary plays in repertory.Autumn 2007
LAY ME DOWN SOFTLY - Tricycle Theatre. Billy Roche play set in a travelling carnival. Summer 2011
LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES- Playhouse Theatre Revival of Christopher Hampton's version of the French tale of seductions. December 2003
LET THERE BE LOVE - Tricycle Theatre. Comedy-drama by Kwame Kwei-Armah, about an old man and his young nurse. January-February 2008
THE LETTER - Wyndham's Theatre. Somerset Maugham drama of British abroad. Autumn 2007
A LIE OF THE MIND - Donmar Warehouse. Sam Shepard takes yet another look at a severely disfunctional family. Summer 2001
LIFE AFTER GEORGE - Duchess Theatre. Hannie Rayson play about a dead man and his three ex-wives. March 2002.
LIFE AFTER SCANDAL - Hampstead Theatre. Interviews with real-life figures who survived public exposure. Autumn 2007
A LIFE IN THE THEATRE - Apollo Theatre. Patrick Stewart in David Mamet's peek backstage. Winter-Spring 2005.
LIFE IS A DREAM - Donmar Warehouse. Calderon drama of imprisoned man's reaction to freedom. Autumn 2009.
THE LIFE OF GALILEO - Olivier Theatre. Simon Russell Beale in Brecht. Summer-Autumn 2006
LIFEGAME - Lyric Hammersmith. Improvisations based on audience members' lives. Summer 2010
THE LIGHTNING PLAY - Almeida Theatre. Charlotte Jones play about doomed evening of truth-telling Winter 2006-2007
LIKE A FISHBONE - Bush Theatre. Conflict over memorial to a tragedy. Summer 2010
THE LINDEN TREE - Orange Tree Theatre. J. B. Priestley play of family debate. Spring 2006
THE LINE - Arcola Theatre. Timberlake Wertenbaker play about Degas. Winter 2009
LINGUA FRANCA - Finborough Theatre. New Peter Nichols play set in 1955. Summer 2010
THE LION IN WINTER - Haymarket Theatre. Family squabbles among the royals, in this case Henry I, his queen and sons. 2011-2012
LIPS - New End Theatre. One-man show about ventriloquist and his satanic dummy. Spring 2000.
THE LISBON TRAVIATA - King's Head. Terence McNally's seriocomic look at opera buffs. December 2003
LITTLE EAGLES - Hampstead Theatre. Royal Shakespeare Company in play about the Soviet space programme. Spring 2011
LITTLE EYOLF - Jermyn Street Theatre. Ibsen portrait of grieving parents. Spring 2011
THE LITTLE FOXES - Donmar Theatre. Lillian Hellman's drama of a cut-throat Southern family. Autumn 2001
LITTLE PLATOONS - Bush Theatre. Parents try to start their own school. January-February 2011
LITTLE WOMEN - Duchess Theatre. Holiday staging of Louisa May Alcott's classic. Winter 2004-2005
LIVE FROM GOLGOTHA - Drill Hall. Gore Vidal's satiric look at early Christianity and modern media. Autumn 2002
LOBBY HERO - New Ambassadors Theatre. Transfer of Kenneth Lonergan's comedy set in Manhattan apartment building. Summer 2002.
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT - Lyric Theatre. Eugene O'Neill's tragic masterpiece, with Jessica Lange and Charles Dance. Winter 2000-2001
LOVE CHILD - Finborough Theatre. Woman meets daughter she gave up for adoption years ago. Spring 2007
LOVE HORSE - White Bear Theatre. Debt collecting, gene splicing and romance. Winter 2009
LOVEPLAY - The Pit. Royal Shakespeare Company in Moira Buffoni's look at love through the ages Spring 2001
LOVE THE SINNER - Cottesloe Theatre. Drama of man's spiritual and sexual crisis. Spring-Summer 2010
THE LOWER DEPTHS - Finborough Theatre. New version of Gorky's play of down-and-outs. Spring 2007
LOWER NINTH - Trafalgar Studios. Drama set in post-hurricane New Orleans Autumn 2010
LOYALTY - Hampstead Theatre. Behind the scenes at Number Ten in the Blair years. Summer 2011
LUCKY SEVEN - Hampstead Theatre. New play about a Seven-Up style TV series. November 2008
LUISE MILLER - Donmar Warehouse. Schiller drama of love and honour. Summer 2011
LULU - Gate Theatre. New version of Wedekind's drama of the irresistable woman. Summer 2010
LUMINOSITY - The Pit. RSC in Nick Stafford's new play about secrets of a South African family.Spring 2001
LA LUPA - The Pit. RSC transfers Giovanni Verga drama of mother & daughter in romantic triangle. Winter 2000-2001
LUTHER - Olivier Theatre. Rufus Sewell takes the title role in this revival of John Osborne's bio-play at the National. Autumn 2001.
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