Beginners, please: shows opening this week in recent decades

Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room, part of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s mixed bill Polarity and Proximity, which opened at Sadler’s Wells on June 15, 2018.

Robert Boulter, Ruth Gemmell and Scarlett Brookes in Revolt, She Said. Revolt Again, which opened at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, on June 21, 2014.

Laura Michelle Kelly in The Lord of the Rings, which opened at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on June 19, 2007.

Ashley McGuire and Andy Williams in Hir, which opened at the Bush Theatre on June 20, 2017.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Hang, which opened at the Royal Court on June 16, 2015.

Richard Alston Dance Company’s Gypsy Mixture, which opened at Sadler’s Wells on June 16, 2017.

Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan in Skylight, which opened at Wyndham’s Theatre on June 18, 2014.

Louisa Connolly-Burnham and Robert Rees in Beirut, which opened at the Park Theatre on June 18, 2018.

Alexander Luttley in These Trees Are Made of Blood, which opened at the Arcola Theatre on June 16, 2017.

Denise Gough in Adler and Gibb, which opened at the Royal Court on June 19, 2014.

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan’s Cursive: A Trilogy, which opened at Sadler’s Wells on June 19, 2007.

Pavel Haradnitski and Nastassia Shcherbakm in Belarus Free Theatre’s Red Forest, which opened at the Young Vic on June 20, 2014.

Guillermo Merlo and Cecilia Saia in Forever Tango, which opened at the Strand Theatre (now the Novello) on June 20, 1995.