DRAMAS THAT HAVE ENDED THEIR RUNS
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ABSOLUTELY (PERHAPS) - Wyndhams Theatre. Franco Zeffirelli directed Joan Plowright in Pirandello. Spring-summer 2003

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

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

ALBERT SPEER - Royal National Theatre. Alex Jennings in David Edgar's new play about Hitler's Number Two. Spring 2000

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

AMAJUBA - Criterion Theatre. South African hit about growing up under apartheid. Spring 2005

AMY'S VIEW - Garrick Theatre. Peter Hall directs Felicity Kendall in David Hare's play about an actress's family. Winter 2006-2007

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

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

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.

AWAKE AND SING - Almeida Theatre. Clifford Odets Depression-era drama. Autumn 2007

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

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..

BECKET - Haymarket Theatre. Anouilh on the saint-to-be. Autumn 2004

BELIEVE WHAT YOU WILL - Trafalgar Studios. RSC in play by Philip Massinger. January 2006.

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

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

BIG WHITE FOG - Almeida Theatre. Drama of black family in 1920s Chicago. Spring 2007

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

BLACKBIRD - Albery Theatre. Man accosted by woman he seduced as a teenager Winter-Spring 2006.

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 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

THE BREATH OF LIFE - Haymarket Theatre. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith in new David Hare play. Winter 2002-2003.

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 weepie, with Jenny Seagrove & Christopher Cazenove..Autumn 2000.

BROKEN VOICES - Tristan Bates Theatre. Eight short plays from around the world on the theme of democracy. Spring 2005

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

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

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.

CHAINS - Orange Tree Theatre. 1909 play about the temptation to quit your job and run away. Autumn 2007

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

CHICKEN SOUP WITH BARLEY - Tricycle Theatre. Arnold Wesker's look at London Jewish family. Autumn 2005

CHILD OF THE FOREST - Finborough. Anthony Melnikoff's drama: Polish woman finds a Jewish baby abandoned during World War II. March 2000

THE CHRIST OF COLDHARBOUR LANE - Soho Theatre. Misadventures of a street preacher. June 2007

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

CONTINENTAL DIVIDE - MOTHERS AGAINST and DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION - Barbican Theatre. Two plays by David Edgar about American politics. March 2004.

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

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.

COYOTE ON A FENCE - Duchess Theatre. Death-row drama. Spring 2004.

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

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

THE DARK - Donmar Warehouse Charlotte Jones' look at three families when the lights go out. Spring 2004.

A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG - Comedy Theatre. Revival of Peter Nichols' play about coping with disabled child. Winter 2001-2002

DEALER'S CHOICE - Trafalgar Studios Patrick Marber's poker play transfers from the fringe.2007-2008

DEATH OF A SALESMAN - Lyric Theatre- Brian Denehy in Arthur Miller classic. 2005.

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

DIANA OF DOBSON'S - Orange Tree Theatre. 1908 play - poor girl briefly enters rich society. Spring 2007

DOCTOR FAUSTUS - Young Vic Theatre. Jude Law starred in Marlowe. Spring 2002.

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.

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

THE DRESSER - Duke of York's Theatre. Julian Glover and Nicholas Lyndhurst in Ronald Harwood backstage play. 2004-2005

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 Royal Court production of new play by Conor McPherson, author of The Weir.Spring 2000

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

THE DUMB WAITER - Trafalgar Studios. Early Pinter about confused gangsters Spring 2007.

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.

EASTER - Riverside Studios. Oxford Stage Company in uncharacteristically optimistic Strindberg play. Spring 2005

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.

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

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

THE EMPEROR JONES - Olivier Theatre. Eugene O'Neill classic. Summer-autumn 2007

THE ENCHANTMENT - Cottesloe Theatre. 19th-Century Swedish play about obsessive love. Summer-autumn 2007

ENDGAME - Albery Theatre. Michael Gambon and Lee Evans in Beckett. Spring 2004.

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

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

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 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 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

FAST LABOUR - Hampstead Theatre. Drama about illegal immigrant workers. Spring 2008

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.

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

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

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

GHOSTS - Comedy Theatre. Francesca Annis and Anthony Andrews in Ibsen's tale of lies and guilt Spring-Summer 2001

THE GIANT - Hampstead Theatre. Drama by Antony Sher about Michelangelo's creation of the David. Autumn 2007

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 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

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

GUANTANAMO - Ambassadors Theatre. Political piece based on real life cases. Summer 2004

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 directs Samuel West. Winter 2001-2002

HAMLET - Old Vic Theatre. Trevor Nunn directs 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

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

HARVEST - Royal Court Theatre. Drama of 90 years in a rural village. Autumn 2005.

HECUBA - Albery Theatre. RSC transfer from Stratford of Euripides classic. Spring 2005.

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

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.

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.

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 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

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

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'LL BE THE DEVIL - Tricycle Theatre. Royal Shakespeare Company in new play by Leo Butler about the English occupation of Ireland..Spring 2008

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

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.

IPHIGENIA AT AULIS - Lyttelton Theatre. Katie Mitchell directs Euripides in 20th dcentury dress. Summer 2004.

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

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

JITNEY - Lyttelton Theatre. August Wilson explores the lives of African-American cab drivers in the 1970s. Autumn 2001

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

JULIUS CAESAR - Barbican Theatre. Greg Hicks, Tim Pigott-Smith and Tom Mannion in togas for the RSC. Winter 2001-2002.

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.

KEAN - Apollo Theatre. Antony Sher as the colourful 19th century actor. Summer 2007

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 - 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

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

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 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 LATE HENRY MOSS - Almeida Theatre. Sam Shepard, two brothers, the American West Winter 2005-2006

LATIN AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL - St. Andrew Church. Three contemporary plays in repertory.Autumn 2007

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.

THE LIFE OF GALILEO - Olivier Theatre. Simon Russell Beale in Brecht. Summer-Autumn 2006

THE LIGHTNING PLAY - Almeida Theatre. Charlotte Jones play about doomed evening of truth-telling Winter 2006-2007

THE LINDEN TREE - Orange Tree Theatre. J. B. Priestley play of family debate. Spring 2006

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

THE LITTLE FOXES - Donmar Theatre. Lillian Hellman's drama of a cut-throat Southern family. Autumn 2001

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

LOVEPLAY - The Pit. Royal Shakespeare Company in Moira Buffoni's look at love through the ages Spring 2001

THE LOWER DEPTHS - Finborough Theatre. New version of Gorky's play of down-and-outs. Spring 2007

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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