WHAT'S HOT IN LONDON

Sir Ian McKellen and Roger Rees star in Waiting For Godot as it returns to the Theatre Royal Haymarket for a second time after last year's sell out run.

Hot from Broadway comes a new comedy, The Little Dog Laughed at the Garrick Theatre starring Tamsin Greig and Rupert Friend. Gossip and entanglements snare a rising Hollywood star and his agent in this satiric look at celebrity.

Sheridan Smith and Duncan James are painting London pink in the new musical Legally Blonde at the Savoy Theatre. Based on the hugely successful movie this is the latest transfer from Broadway and is getting great audience reviews.

The RSC production of Twelfth Night starring Richard Wilson of One Foot in The Grave fame arrives at the Duke of York's Theatre.

Griff Rhys Jones joins Jodie Prenger and the rest of the cast of Oliver! in the role of Fagin at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

Damian Lewis leads an outstanding ensemble with Tara Fitzgerald, Keira Knightley and Dominic Rowan in Martin Crimp's blistering version of Moliere's greatest comedy, The Misanthrope at the Comedy Theatre.

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David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker star in All My Sons, the first great success of Arthur Miller's supremely influential career, a compelling story of love, guilt and the corrupting power of greed. Opens at the Apollo Theatre 19th May 2010

Noel Coward's dazzling comic masterpiece Private Lives provides a riotous show down between two of the screens most magnetic stars, Kim Cattrall and Matthew Macfadyen, opening at the Vaudeville Theatre in February.

Love Never Dies, the long awaited sequel to The Phantom of the Opera opens in March 2010 at the Adelphi Theatre starring Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess. Graced with stunning designs, passionate lyrics and a magnificent score, this brand-new musical is a rollercoaster ride of obsession and intrigue...in which music and memory can play cruel tricks...and The Phantom sets out to prove that, indeed, Love Never Dies.

Lucy Prebble's new play, Enron, arrives at the Noel Coward Theatre in January after its hugely successful run at the Royal Court Theattre and the Chichester Festival. If you want to know where all the money went this savage comedy, directed by Ruper Goold, is for you.

Jez Butterworth's smash hit new play Jerusalem arrives in at the West End's Apollo Theatre, straight from its sellout run at the Royal Court Theatre. A comic, contemporary vision of life in our green and pleasant land, starring Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook opens January.

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