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Continue reading →: News: 2024 BBC Proms tickets go on sale this Friday – here’s how to snag tickets
OK, it’s not theatre, but it is the Proms – one of the world’s most celebrated classical music festivals, headquartered at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall. The 2024 programme will include performances of legendary works such as Beethoven’s Ninth, Holst’s The Planets, and Handel’s Messiah, as well as performances by…
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Continue reading →: Review: London Tide
Standing outside the National Theatre on a warm spring evening, the Thames is inviting and refreshing, a mirror for sunlight and conduit for cool breeze in equal measure. Inside? Not so much, as the Lyttelton Theatre hosts a story that begins and ends with dead bodies floating in the river.…
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Continue reading →: Deal: £25 tickets for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ go on sale starting this Wednesday
Romeo and Juliet, starring Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, opens next week, and in preparation the ‘sold-out’ play is preparing to release a “small number” of £25 tickets. These will be standing tickets, all the way at the back, but the alternative at this point is picking from one of…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray
No curtain cloaks the stage as you arrive at The Picture of Dorian Gray, and as you settle into your seats you’ll quickly notice that the stage is absolutely littered with gaffer tape. Above that fluorescent constellation, from waist height all the way to the top of the proscenium arch,…
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Continue reading →: Review: Mind Mangler
If you’ve seen their Play That Goes Wrong, now London’s longest running comedy, you probably get Mischief Theatre’s shtick – invent a banal show in some genre, give it a cast of overconfident players, then have everything farcically fall apart. It’s clearly a crowd-pleasing formula, and Mind Mangler is no…
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Continue reading →: Deal: Under-30s tickets are on sale now for Ian McKellen’s ‘Player Kings’
Perhaps you thought you missed out on the chance to see an A-list Hollywood actor take on Shakespeare this spring…well, think again! Just one block up the road (literally) from where Tom Holland is playing a sold-out Romeo and Juliet, acting titan Sir Ian McKellen is starring in Player Kings,…
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Continue reading →: Review: Guys and Dolls
More so than any other show in the West End, your experience at Guys and Dolls will depend on your ticket – and in a twist, the best “seat” in the house is to go without one. If you’re unable or unwilling to stand for three hours, this show will…
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Continue reading →: ‘Taskmaster’ Series 18 Taping Tickets are Available Now
Okay, this isn’t strictly a theatre event, but Taskmaster is one of Britain’s best comedy shows, and its set is done up to look like an old-timey theatre. If you want to see Greg Davies and Alex Horne provide punditry while a cast of comedians take on oddball tasks, now’s…
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Continue reading →: How I Find Cheap Theater Tickets
I need to expand this heavily, but the TL;DR is:
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Continue reading →: Deal: Under-30s Tickets for Tom Holland’s “Romeo and Juliet” Go On Sale This Wednesday
Update 11 Apr: As expected, tickets from this batch sold out almost immediately. However, if you’ve got an itch to see an A-list actor take on Shakespeare this spring, how about checking out Ian McKellen’s ‘Player Kings’, which also has under-30s tickets available? Romeo and Juliet might be London’s hottest…