Opening: Robert Lepage's Playing Cards, musicals Glasgow Girls & Dear World

Glasgow Girls
13 February 2013
(Previews from 8 February)

Glasgow Girls is a new musical about a group of seven young women in a high school in Glasgow fighting for the life of their friend and for the rights of children of asylum-seekers in Scotland. Runs at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East until 2 March.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
13 February 2013
(Previews from 12 February)

Franzis Gruber, a lowly bureaucrat, lives a neat and ordered life in a sleepy, provincial German town. When a travelling fair arrives, full of clowns, freaks, magicians and sleepwalkers, it drags Franzis into a series of nightmarish murders – spinning dreams into reality, the imagined into truth and order into chaos. Runs at the Arcola Theatre until 16 March.

Dear World
13 February 2013
(Previews from 4 February)

Starring Betty Buckley and Paul Nicholas, Jerry Herman’s musical receives its British premiere. Set in post-war Paris in 1945, this musical fable of Good versus Evil runs at the Charing Cross Theatre until 30 March.

The Vortex
13 February 2013
(Previews from 7 February)

Kerry Fox, James Dreyfus and David Dawson star in this revival of the Noel Coward play, which portrays 1920s cocktail society and centres on the tempestuous relationship between glamorous socialite Florence Lancaster and her hedonistic musician son Nicky. Runs at the Rose Theatre until 2 March.