London Theatre News and Reviews

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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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 make sense of life’s burning [...]

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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 Old Vic will star Lisa [...]

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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 wife of his host. The [...]

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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 land in County Durham as [...]

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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 a fabulous disco score this acclaimed [...]

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A murder mystery so wickedly good, it’s to die for!

Ingeniously clever and hilariously twisted, Deathtrap is the most celebrated thriller by Ira Levin, author of The Stepford Wives, Rosemary’s Baby, The Boys from Brazil and A Kiss Before Dying.

Matthew Warchus directs a unique cast which includes Simon Russell Beale (lead in the sell-out National Theatre production of London Assurance) [...]

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Peter Egan and Robert Daws will star as Holmes and Watson in “THE SECRET OF SHERLOCK HOLMES” by Jeremy Paul, which will open in London a the Duchess Theatre for a limited eight-week season on Tuesday 20 July, following previews from 15 July.

“THE SECRET OF SHERLOCK HOLMES” takes us on a thrilling journey into the mind of the greatest [...]

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Aristotle Onassis was a millionaire at 25 and became one of the world’s richest men, but it was the glamour of the women in his life which brought him real fame, causing him to pursue personal vendettas and amassing empires on an international scale.

This is the true story of the relationships between Onassis, his lover Maria Callas, his wife [...]

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The original writers of the BBC series, Antony Jay & Jonathan Lynn, have reunited for this 30th anniversary production starring Henry Goodman as Sir Humphrey Appleby and David Haig as Jim Hacker.

Following a sell-out season at Chichester Festival Theatre, this critically-acclaimed production opens this September for a strictly limited season at London’s Gielgud Theatre.

Heading the coalition government, the PM [...]

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