It’s June! It’s an evenly-numbered year! That means the LIFT festival is back, plus two colossal musicals (‘Mean Girls’ and the...
Musicals and theatre in London
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Viola’s Room
Punchdrunk are back! A phrase that feels less momentous this time than last time as it’s barely been six months since the immersive theatre leading...
Woolwich
London’s West End is having a massive spring theatre ticket sale – here are the best deals
It’s theatre sale time again! The Spring Theatre Sale from TodayTix s a decent midsize sale that takes in a cluster of large West End names
London’s spectacular free outdoor GDIF festival has announced its 2024 line-up
An eight hour aerial perfomance on a melting block of ice forms the centrepiece of the 2024 festiuval
Denise Gough on Andor, The Witcher and returning to her greatest stage role
The Irish actress explains why in an ideal world she’d never have stopped performing in ‘People, Places and Things’
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Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder!
This wildly fun show ingeniously yokes the breathlessness of the true crime podcast genre to the big emotions of a musical…
Seven Dials
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As an aspirant bilingual person myself I loved Iranian-American playwright Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning play about a quartet of Iranian students...
Kilburn
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Love is set up to fail in Alice Childress’s 1962 classic play ‘Wedding Band’…
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A View from the Bridge
Ivo van Hove’s landmark 2014 Young Vic production of Arthur Miller’s ‘A View from the Bridge’ quite probably stands as the greatest...
Leicester Square
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A circus spectacular based on ‘The Greatest Showman’ is coming to London later this year
‘Come Alive!’ will feature all of the songs from the film, plus presumably some acrobats
A new open air amphitheatre has opened in central London
Named ‘Assembly’, it’s been billed as the City’s first new amphitheatre to be built in 2,000 years
An immersive ‘Friends’ experience is coming to London this summer
Step into the iconic sitcom’s sets, recreate favourite scenes, plus more besides
The RSC returns to the Barbican this autumn with ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’
The two acclaimed shows are the company’s first transfers to its old London home for years
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National Theatre
National Theatre
Arguably the greatest theatre in the world, the Royal National Theatre is also one of London's most recognisable landmarks and perhaps this country's foremost...
Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court Theatre
London's premiere new writing theatre, the Royal Court made its name in the 1950s when it was synonymous with kitchen sink dramas and the Angry Young Men, and...
Shakespeare's Globe
Shakespeare's Globe
Built in 1599 and destroyed by fire in 1613, the original Globe Theatre was at the heart of London’s seedy South London entertainment district in William...
Lyric Hammersmith
Lyric Hammersmith
A beacon of culture in Hammersmith, the Lyric's distinctive look is largely down to a fusion of the building's 1970s structure, the theatre's Victorian...