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Mark Rylance. Photo by Rebecca Reid

What’s On In London Theatre 10-16 July

Our guide to the top theatre, dance, and opera shows opening this week.

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities 2012, taken as part of the London 2012 Festival commissions.

Full London 2012 Festival Programme Announced

12,000 events featuring stars from Albarn to Wei Wei. It’s going to be quite a summer.

Group of Elizabethan and Jacobean gold coins, © The Trustees of the British Museum

Exhibition Preview: Shakespeare’s Money & Medals @ British Museum

“Put money in thy purse” – here’s a free exhibition about money and Shakespeare.

Woman with sticks, by Ron Mueck. 2008 Mixed media

Arts Ahead: What’s On In London 17 – 23 April

This week’s hottest theatre, dance, opera, world music, jazz and art events

Shakespeare's Globe by tezzer57

Preview: Sonnet Sunday @ Shakespeare’s Globe

See all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets performed in more than 25 languages

Lucian Freud, 'Reflection' (Self-portrait), 1985. Private Collection, Ireland © Lucian Freud/Courtesy Lucian Freud Archive

Arts Ahead: What’s On in London in 2012

Diaries at the ready: here’s what you should be getting excited about in 2012, if you’re not into the Olympics

Bob and Roberta Smith - Untitled, Screenprint, 2011. © Bob and Roberta Smith/Royal College of Art

Preview: Royal College of Art Exhibition “Folio” Shows Visual Responses to Shakespeare

A new, free exhibition by the Printmakers at the RCA