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The Instatiable, Inflatable Candylion | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | The Fitzrovia Radio Hour’s Christmas Special & Around The World In 80 Days | The Witches | The Snow Queen | Show BoatIf you’re...
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The Sound Of Music | Peter Pan Goes Wrong | Ben Hur | Nutshell Nutcracker | A Christmas Carol | FlownChristmas is the one time of the year when many families splash out and go to see a big show, and...
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Jane Wenham: The Witch Of Walkern | Can’t Buy Me Love | Grey Gardens | Justin & The Argonauts | Hard Working Families | The 39 StepsThere are echoes of one of the finest plays in the English...
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The Rolling Stone | Partus | Holy Mackerel! | The Girls | London International Mime Festival | Rehearsal For MurderIn this context, Rolling Stone has nothing to do with the ageing rock group or the...
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The Mother | The Solid Life Of Sugar Water | The Train | Escaped Alone | Jane Eyre | Push 2016Florian Zeller’s The Father was, for many, the West End play of last year, a heart-rending portrayal of the...
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A Girls Is A Half Formed Thing | Wit | Jeepers Creepers | Rabbit Hole | The Master Builder | A Raisin In The SunFirst seen in Dublin and then in Edinburgh last summer, Annie Ryan’s stage version of...
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Nell Gwynn | Endgame | Manipulate Festival | Cat On A Hot Tin Roof | Queer Contact Festival | The End Of LongingQuantum Of Solace and St Trinian’s star Gemma Arterton returns to the West End after her...
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Mrs Henderson Presents | Doctor Faustus | The Broke ‘N’ Beat Collective | The Herbal Bed | Motown The Musical | Any Means NecessaryWithout the movies as source material, it seemed the musical might die...
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Husbands & Sons | The War Of The Worlds | Hand To God | Betrayal | Chwalfa | HamletDH Lawrence’s early plays A Collier’s Friday Night, The Widowing Of Mrs Holroyd and The Daughter-In-Law offer a...
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The Maids | A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play For The Nation | The Destroyed Room | Beyond The Fence | Chip Shop Chips | Right NowThree women who have made a big impact on TV line up for the latest of...
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1972: The Future Of Sex | The Nap | The Painkiller | Cosy | Miss Atomic Bomb | JinnyThe Bristol-based Wardrobe Ensemble pinpoints 1972 as a pivotal moment for sex: the pill had brought freedom and Aids...
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People, Places & Things | Somewhere In England | Jackie The Musical | Hamlet | The Truth | JumpyDenise Gough’s performance in People, Places & Things at the National Theatre was cited by many...
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Bug | The Shepherd’s Life | Reasons To Be Happy | Long Day’s Journey Into Night | International Waters | Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring.You must have had your head in a bucket of quick-drying cement if...
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The Caretaker | Forever Yours, Marie-Lou | Smoke And Mirrors | Sunset Boulevard | King Lear | InvincibleAfter Jamie Lloyd’s tinkering with The Homecoming last year, one wonders whether Old Vic artistic...
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Buzzcut | Clybourne Park | Boy | Goosebumps Alive | Men & Girls Dance | Laila: The MusicalThis experimental performance festival boasts an unrivalled programme of radical work hailing from both...
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Don Quijote | Show Boat | With A Little Bit Of Luck | Folk | Constellation Street | Another World: Losing Our Children To Islamic StatePart of HOME’s ongoing Spanish and Latin American festival – which...
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Les Blancs | Hamlet | The James Plays | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Funny GirlLorraine Hansberry is best known for her play A Raisin In The Sun and for inspiring Nina Simone’s To Be Young, Gifted And...
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Strictly Ballroom | Bollywood Jack | Sweet Charity | Peter Pan | Cinderella | Annie Get Your Gun | Saint Joan | Simon Callow | The Siege Of Christmas | Black Beauty | The Nutcracker | The Wolf And...
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Trouble In Mind | Beasty Baby | Shakespeare Trilogy | School Of Rock | The Tempest | Romeo And Juliet | The Nutcracker | Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes1 Trouble In MindTanya Moodie turns in another...
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This week there’s an electro take on Boys of Summer, glacial synths, and some big Paula Radcliffe energyScratch beneath the titanium coating and Metronomy’s Joe Mount is fast becoming the ice-tronic...
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