BEETLEJUICE: The Musical<\/a> (Previews start May 20): Prince Edward Theatre \u2013 the cult Tim Burton film gets the musical treatment.<\/p>\n\ud83e\ude96 Mother Courage and Her Children (May 21 \u2013 June 27): Shakespeare\u2019s Globe Theatre \u2013 Brecht gets his first performance at the Globe with this anti-war play.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udc83 High Society (May 27 \u2013 July 11): Barbican Centre \u2013 a new production of Cole Porter\u2019s High Society with a full orchestra.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcf9 Are You Watching? (May 29 \u2013 July 4): Royal Court \u2013 blurring the lines \u201cbetween entertainment and abuse, technology and sex, violence and voyeurism\u201d, \u2018Are You Watching?\u2019 asks who is complicit in a new world of \u2018entertainment\u2019.<\/p>\n
ENDING SOON<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udc68\u200d\u2695\ufe0f\u00a0LIFELINE (Ends May 2):\u00a0Southwark Playhouse Elephant \u2013\u00a0The London premiere of the new musical, which features West-End and Broadway actors as well as a chorus of real-life \u2018singing\u2019 healthcare workers<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfa8\u00a0A Mirrored Monet (Ends May 9):\u00a0Charing Cross Theatre \u2013\u00a0Painter Claude Monet gets the musical treatment as he \u201cstruggles to complete the commission that will define his legacy: The Water Lilies\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u270d\ufe0f Shadowlands (Ends May 9): Aldwych Theatre \u2013 a meeting between C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Davidman develops into something more.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\ude21 One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest (Ends May 23): Old Vic Theatre \u2013 Ken Kesey\u2019s novel takes to the stage.<\/p>\n
\ud83e\udddb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f Dracula (Ends May 30): Noel Coward Theatre \u2013 Cynthia Erivo plays all 23 roles in a one-person reimagining of the gothic horror.<\/p>\n
\ud83e\uddfa Into the Woods (Ends May 30): Bridge Theatre \u2013 the Olivier Award-winning<\/a> production ends its run at the Bridge Theatre before transferring to the No\u00ebl Coward Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The West End is the epicentre of theatre around the globe (sorry, Broadway). So, this May, why not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[5655,4875,1242,27,7549,1730,4594],"class_list":{"0":"post-15982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-art-gallery-museum","9":"tag-big-concert","10":"tag-exhibition","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-may","13":"tag-social-drinking","14":"tag-spring"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116419791814550355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}