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Webb, Thorpe and Ryan Join Jeeves and Wooster Tour

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Shakespeare In Love - Flash Sale

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Cast Announced For The Grand Tour

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REVIEW: Accolade, St James Theatre ✭✭✭✭

McIntyre directs with careful, thorough assuredness, avoiding the easy trap of treating the material like the melodrama it could so easily become, preferring…

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels UK Tour

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REVIEW: Behind The Beautiful Forevers, Olivier Theatre ✭✭✭✭

What Hare has created here is a marvel: a tale of hope, horror and truth on an enormous scale, but rooted firmly in the characters and personalities of a par…

Evening Standard Awards: Thoughts on the Shortlist

REVIEW: Cans, Theatre 503 ✭✭✭

In five snapshots, we see Jen, as masterfully portrayed by Jennifer Clement, slowly come of age through this discovery and Uncle Len, perfectly embodied by G…

REVIEW: The Witch Of Edmonton, Swan Theatre ✭✭✭✭

A beautiful, sometimes shocking, sometimes haunting, production of an intricate and detailed dissection of human frailty and weakness. Doran lavishes great c…

REVIEW: Love's Labour Lost, Royal Shakespeare Company ✭✭✭✭

The production is blessed with good acting, impeccable timing and a sense of style, mischief and swagger which accentuates its high points. Pretty much every…

14 Nov - Critics Choice - Top 10 West End Musicals

14 Nov - Critics Choice: Top 10 West End Plays

REVIEW: The Rivals, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Constant eruptions of anger, sexual frustration, discrimination of town against country and English against Irish, and hostilities of son against father, ser…

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Louie Spence Joins The Producers Tour

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West End Transfer For Young Vic's View From The Bridge

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Netflix To Adapt The Audience Into TV Series

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Godspell In Concert To Tour In 2015

REVIEW: White Christmas, Dominion Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This is a true song and dance show. It's raison d'être is to afford an opportunity for spectacular routines and fabulous singing. Here that task is given a r…

First Look At Ronan Keating In Once

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REVIEW: Girlfriends, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This is the strongest of the three Goodall offerings the Union has produced this year. Tapner's musical direction, an excellent cast led by Catherine Mort, a…

REVIEW: 2071, Jerwood Theatre Downstairs ✭

Billed and promoted as "a play exploring the future of life on earth and climate change", 2071 may be many things, but a play it is not. Nothing theatrical h…

REVIEW: Wildefire, Hampstead Theatre ✭✭

Director Maria Aberg certainly confronts the challenges Wildefire offers head on. There is some starkly realistic violence - the murder of Spence and it's af…

REVIEW: Made In Dagenham, Adelphi Theatre ✭✭✭✭

When Made In Dagenham is focussed on the fairy tale, it is completely engaging, very funny, heart-warming and genuinely affecting. And intrinsically British.…

REVIEW: Side Show, St James Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

On any rational view of it, this is not a revival but a complete re-imagining of the original work. It is not an attempt to recapture the magic of a first ru…

Philip Quast Joins Sweeney Todd Cast

The Railway Children Trailer Released

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REVIEW: 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, Sam Wannamaker Theatre ✭✭✭✭

If incest between siblings remains one of the great taboos (and the success of Games of Thrones may suggest otherwise) then, in this production, Longhurst ru…

REVIEW: The Last Ship, Neil Simon Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

If you are the kind of theatre-goer who believes that the musical theatre is capable of anything in the right hands; if you like difficult themes and complex…

Made In Dagenham New Trailer Released

REVIEW: John, Lyttleton Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

It's confronting from start to finish; challenging and disturbing in many ways. But, ultimately, as we hear John settle into a calm, perhaps contented sleep,…

New Into The Woods Trailer Released

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REVIEW: Hedwig And The Angry Inch (Michael C Hall), Belasco Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

It's a much more masculine turn than Harris gave; yet, simultaneously, it is a performance charged with grim sexual power, with alarming, overbearing feminin…

James Dreyfus To Star In New Production Of Harvey

Rehearsal Photos: Irving Berlin's White Christmas

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Jason Donovan To Star In King's Speech 2015 Tour

Pippin To Close On Broadway

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REVIEW: It's Only A Play, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre ✭✭✭

The night belongs to Nathan Lane who is hilariously vicious as James Wicker, an actor who turned down the lead role in the play written by his best friend be…

Kristen Scott Thomas Plays Queen In Audience Revival

Bat Boy The Musical Revived At Southwark Playhouse

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Lenny Henry Joins Company For The Listening Space

REVIEW: Grand Guignol, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭

There may be plenty of blood, guts and severed body parts but there is little reason to faint as audience members regularly did at the original Grand-Guignol…

Mark Ludmon

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Cast Announced For The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe at Rose Theatre

Paines Plough's Every Brilliant Thing Transfers To New York

Bend It Like Beckham The Musical Announced

Ian McDiarmid To Play Shylock At Almeida

REVIEW: On The Town, Lyric Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

The dancing has a style, a language of its own and, certainly as choreographed by Bergasse, is more articulate than pages of dialogue. The steps are tricky, …

Side Show Revival Starts Broadway Previews

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REVIEW: You Can't Take It With You, Longacre Theatre ✭✭✭✭

There are forced laughs, natural laughs, gentle laughs, belly laughs and many, many smiles over the course of the production. By the final Act, however, you …