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Room On The Broom by Julia Donaldson at Garrick Theatre!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

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Room On The Broom which is Adapted from the best-selling book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler will run at Garrick Theatre from Wednesday, 28 July 2010 to Sunday, 29 August 2010. A spellbinding new adventure from the creators of The Gruffalo! How the cat purred and how the witch grinned As [...]

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Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner in a new version by Howard Brenton

Saturday, July 17, 2010

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1794: the French Revolution reaches its climax. After a series of bloody purges the life-loving, volatile Danton is tormented by his part in the killing. His political rival, the driven, ascetic Robespierre, decides Danton’s fate. A titanic struggle begins. Once friends who wanted to change the world, now one stands for compromise the other for [...]

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Educating Rita at Trafalgar Studios

Saturday, July 17, 2010

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Much to the dismay of her husband Denny, Rita, a young, brash hairdresser, has recently discovered a passion for English literature and enrols with the Open University. Her fresh, unschooled reaction to the classics challenges the attitudes of the University and her lecturer Frank who begins to question his own understanding of his work and [...]

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Alison Steadman as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit at Apollo Theatre

Saturday, July 17, 2010

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Blithe Spirit opened in 1941 when it played for over 2,000 performances. It has been one of the world’s favourite comedies ever since. Novelist Charles Condomine and his second wife Ruth are literally haunted by a past relationship when an eccentric medium manages to conjure up the ghost of Charles’s neurotic first wife, Elvira, at [...]

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Barclays Live on the search for London’s hottest dance acts!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

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Barclays is celebrating the investment across its Branch Network by hosting a popular new competition designed to find the country’s hottest dance acts, and it’s coming to Leicester Square, London on Saturday 31 July.   The competition is open to anyone who thinks they’ve got what it takes to become Britain’s next dancing superstar, be it [...]

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Avenue Q is closing at the Wyndham’s Theatre on 30 Oct 2010

Saturday, July 17, 2010

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Avenue Q Posts West End Closing Notices for 30 Oct 2010, after a 4 and half years run in the London West End. Avenue Q is still London’s funniest show by far, AVENUE Q is is the mischievous, badly behaved but irresistibly charming musical about the lovably hopeless characters on a downtown New York street trying to [...]

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Design for Living by Noel Coward at The Old Vic Theatre!

Friday, July 16, 2010

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In September, Anthony Page will direct Noel Coward’s provocative and unconventional romantic comedy, Design For Living, for the first time on the London stage in over 15 years. Coward focuses on three egotistical, beguiling and self-absorbed characters – Gilda, Otto, and Leo – who challenge the moral boundaries of relationships. Anthony Page’s production for The [...]

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Birdsong by Trevor Nunn at Comedy Theatre from 18 September 2010

Monday, July 12, 2010

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Based on Sebastian Faulks’s international best-selling novel, the play tells the story of one man’s journey through an all consuming love affair and into the horror of the First World War. While staying as the guest of a factory owner in pre-First World War France, Stephen Wraysford embarks on a passionate affair with Isabelle, the [...]

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Street theatre spectacular to land in Chester-le-Street

Thursday, July 8, 2010

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On Tuesday 13 July, one of Europe’s top street theatre companies Theater Titanick will be adding Chester-le-Street to an impressive list of world-wide locations to have staged their Firebirds open-air spectacular. Over the past nine-years Firebirds has left audiences in awe from Edinburgh to Santiago in Chile. The dazzling aviation inspired show is preparing to [...]

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Whoopi Goldberg Joins Cast of Sister Act the Musical for 3 Weeks!

Thursday, July 8, 2010

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Whoopi Goldberg will join the cast of the hit musical comedy SISTER ACT this summer to play the role of Mother Superior in an exclusive 23 show season from 10 – 31 August. No stranger to stages around the world, this will be Whoopi’s West End debut. With singing and dancing nuns, sinister gangsters and [...]

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