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Gluck’s most admired opera reaches English National Opera for the first time, with Christine Rice as Iphigénie and Lyndsey Turner directing, for four performances only.
Four actors, one candlelit room and Shakespeare’s most political tragedy: Julius Caesar opens the Globe’s winter season with Kate Duchêne in the title role. Here is everything you need to know before you book.
The writers of Spring Awakening turn to Rome's most notorious emperor, with Andrew Barth Feldman in the title role, in a world premiere at Southwark Playhouse Elephant from 2 November.
Dominic Cooke directs Caryl Churchill's 1979 comedy of empire, gender and desire at the National Theatre's Lyttelton from 2 November, with a company of seven playing across sex and across a century.
Shakespeare's tragedy meets Radiohead's 2003 album, reworked by Thom Yorke and played live, as the sold-out Manchester and Stratford production reaches the Barbican on 31 October.
Annilese Miskimmon moves Puccini's thriller into a concert hall in a country at war, with Axelle Fanyo making her English National Opera debut in the title role from 30 October.
Sir Trevor Nunn directs Janie Dee as the reporter who would not accept the official story of three famous American deaths, in Torben Betts's new thriller at the Marylebone Theatre from 30 October.
Daisy Hall's second play, a darkly comic story set aboard an icebound whaling ship, receives its world premiere at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs on 30 October. Here is everything you need to know before you book.
Damiano Michieletto's staging of Carmen returns to the Royal Opera House on 29 October, with two casts sharing the principal roles across a four-week run. Here is everything you need to know before you book.
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