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November 2009
December 2009
January 2010
February 2010
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| November 2009
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November 17 - The Habit of Art
NT Lyttelton, South Bank, SE1
020 7452 3000
Alan Bennett's latest new play for the National is directed by Nicholas Hytner and features a fictional meeting between W H Auden and Benjamin Britten, the first in 25 years and just after Britten has premiered Death in Venice. Michael Gambon, Alex Jennings and Frances de la Tour star. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
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November 24 - Nation
NT Olivier, South Bank, SE1
020 7452 3000
The National's new Christmas holiday production for 2009/10 is this stage version of Tony Pratchett's novel , an adventure story for the over-tens adapted by Mark Ravenhill. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
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| December 2009
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December 16 - The Cat in the Hat
NT Cottesloe, South Bank, SE1
020 7452 3000
Katie Mitchell adapts and directs Dr Seuss's well-known book to be given 10.30am and 1.30pm performances suitable for three to six-year-olds lasting 45 minutes esch. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
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December 19 - Twelfth Night
Duke of Yorks, St Martin's Lane, WC2
0844 871 7623
Gregory Doran's new RSC production (which first opens in October at the Courtyard in Stratford-on-Avon) transfers to London's West End for a straight run till February 27. Nancy Carroll is Olivia, Richard McCabe Belch and Richard Wilson makes his RSC debut as Malvolio. www.rsc.org.uk
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December 22 - Christmas Cracker
Shakespeare's Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT
020 7401 9919
The famous Cornish-based Footsbarn Company's Christmas Cracker provides Shakespeare's Globe with its first-ever Christmas offering running for 18 performances only till January 3. www.shakespeare-globe.org.uk
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| January 2010
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January 12 - Legally Blonde the Musical
Savoy, Strand, WC2R OET
0870 164 8787
Sheridan Smith, Duncan James and Alex Gaumond star in this award-winning Broadway musical about college sweethearts based on Amanda Brown's novel and the MGM film. www.legallyblondethemusical.co.uk
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| February 2010
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February 10 - Dunsinane
Hampstead Theatre, Swiss Cottage, NW3
020 7722 9301
David Grieg's new play for the RSC opens the company's London new-play season in Swiss Cottage directed by Roxana Silbert where it runs till March 6. It will be followed by the premiere of Dennis Kelly's new play, The Gods Weep, about corporate greed and the collapse of a global financial empire directed. It is directed by Maria Aberg and plays March 11 - April 7.
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