Theatre

Arguably the best theatre in the world can be found in Britain, whether it's lavish musical productions, serious plays starring seriously famous movie stars or tiny productions staged above a pub. It's not that we're drama queens or anything, it's just that we love a bit of a show.

We Will Rock You, Manchester

Manchester (www.visitmanchester.com/Parts3.aspx?PartId=422&ExperienceId=4) 
We Will Rock You (www.visitmanchester.com/WhatsOnDetail.aspx?ProductId=MAN-121321&PageSize=10&fromDate=1/6/2009&ToDate=31/8/2009&)
Live at the Palace Theatre 21st March - 9th May 2009. Get ready for this 'rock theatrical' that has gone on to wow audiences around the world. This hilarious futurist comedy centered around more than 24 of Queen’s biggest hit songs, boasts the scale and spectacle that marked Queen’s live performances.

Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London

London (www.visitlondon.com/people/gay/)
Waiting for Godot from 30th April
Theatre Royal Haymarket (www.trh.co.uk)
The world's most famous out gay actor (and activist!) Sir Ian McKellen stars in a production of Beckett's play directed by his former lover Sean Matthias opposite fellow gay actor Simon Callow and Star Trek's Patrick Stewart at the world famous Haymarket, the theatre every Hollywood movie star dreams of one day playing.

Scotland (www.cometoscotland.com/)
West Side Story 5th- 16th May
Festival Theatre (www.eft.co.uk)
Described as the greatest musical of all time – and with lyrics by Sondheim and score by Bernstein, who's going to argue with that? – this 50th anniversary production of the show that contains the gay anthem "There's a Place for Us" hits the beautiful modern Edinburgh Festival Theatre for a short run in May.

Wales Millennium Centre

Wales (www.travelwales.org)
Mary Poppins 11th March – 18th April
The Wales Millennium Centre (www.wmc.org.uk)
An amazing opportunity to see this critically acclaimed West End smash-hit musical based on the Disney movie in Cardiff's beautiful Wales Millennium Centre. Co-directed by the amazing Matthew Bourne (of all-male Swan Lake fame) and produced by Cameron Mackintosh, this musical treat will be nothing short of supercalifradulisticexpialidocious.

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The Wales Millennium Centre
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