London Theatre News and Reviews

There are plots and schemes below stairs, above stairs and behind closed doors! The wit and intrigue of Donizetti’s domestic comedy Don Pasquale gains added piquancy in the doll’s house set of Jonathan Miller’s acutely observed production.

The quintessentially Italian Donizetti became a major figure in French opera repertory in his day, and Don Pasquale is one of his last [...]

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The new Royal Opera Season begins with a great audience favourite -Cosi Fan Tutte.

This great comedy with an edge brings a classic score by Mozart to a witty story of deception and trust tested to its limit. Can two apparently faithful couples have their affections altered by some apparently harmless deception?

Jonathan Miller’s ever-popular production updates the 18th-century to today [...]

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An Evening of Christmas Celebrations, Light Displays, Special Effects and Indoor Fireworks.

Following a sensational show in 2009, Raymond Gubbay, the classical spectacular impresario, will return to The O2 this December with a second Christmas Spectacular. Presented in association with Daily Mail, the event on Thursday 23 December at 7.30pm will be a rousing night of carols, traditional tunes and [...]

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When We Are Married at Garrick Theatre from Tuesday, 19 October 2010 until Saturday, 26 February 2011.

In the heart of Northern England, three respectable couples, married on the same day, at the same church, and by the same vicar, join to celebrate 25 years of blissful matrimony.

Or so they think…

The happy celebrations are brought to a sudden halt by [...]

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Critically-acclaimed director Rufus Norris leads two of the nation’s best-loved and most respected actors in Clifford Odets’ glamorous masterpiece THE COUNTRY GIRL, an insight into the turbulent lives of a married couple whose relationship is tested to the limit when a shot at stardom exposes their deep-rooted flaws.

Martin Shaw and Jenny Seagrove are reunited in the roles played by [...]

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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 they sat on their broomstick and flew [...]

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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 ideological purity as the [...]

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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 himself.

Commissioned by the RSC, [...]

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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 a seance.

They have assumed the [...]

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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 as an individual, duo, group [...]

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