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Continue reading →: Hot or Not: West End Black Friday DealsBlack Friday is here, bringing with it deals on slow cookers, TVs, and yes, even theatre tickets. Resellers including TodayTix, LondonTheatreDirect, and LoveTheatre are advertising savings of up to 40, 60, even 70% off! Sounds like a great deal, right? Well it can be – but were not here to…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘A Christmas Carol(ish)’ is Barely Dickens, but Plenty FunnyIt’s Christmastime again, which means an absolute avalanche of limited-run shows have set up shop in the West End in a bid to capitalise on seasonal enthusiasm. This being London, plenty of them have a Dickens connection: you can have A Christmas Carol (The Old Vic), A Sherlock Carol (Marylebone…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Oedipus’ is a Perfect TragedyIt’s tricky to adapt a famous work like Oedipus Rex. How closely do you hew to the established contours of the story? How much do you excise and revise? And how much do you add that’s totally new material? In Oedipus, Robert Icke makes a series of strong choices to…
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Continue reading →: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Has £10 Front-Row Rush Tickets – But Only Through SeptemberHere’s a limited-time rush opportunity for you – the hilarious physical farce The Play That Goes Wrong has £10 front-row tickets on offer throughout the rest of September. Approaching its 10th anniversary in the West End, The Play That Goes Wrong is London’s longest running comedy, and this special promotion…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Next to Normal’ Takes an Earnest, Empathetic Look at Family TraumaIs there something about Wyndham’s Theatre that attracts complicated family dramas? Last season it was Long Day’s Journey Into Night, this winter it’s Oedipus, and right now it’s the premiere West End production of Next To Normal, an arresting musical about a family living with bipolar disorder. Technically only one…
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Continue reading →: London Theatre Week Brings Discounted Tickets to Dozens of Shows
Like clockwork, London Theatre Week is back! This week-and-a-half sale offers discounts to shows across the West End – not quite at the dirt-cheap prices of lottery or rush tickets, but still solid savings of 20-30% off the face value on average. A number of ticket resellers are taking part…
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Continue reading →: Under-30s Tickets are On Sale Now for Lesley Manville and Mark Strong in ‘Oedipus’Another season, another re-imagining of a classic play by Robert Icke. This summer, it was the highly enjoyable Player Kings – this winter, it’s a new take on Sophocles’ Oedipus starring acting veterans Lesley Manville (The Crown, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris) and Mark Strong (Zero Dark Thirty, Shazam!). A…
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Continue reading →: In ‘Hello, Dolly!’, Imelda Staunton Shows Why She’s the Queen of the West EndThere are plenty of fine performers in Hello, Dolly! – a boyishly bold Harry Hepple as Cornelius Hackel, a marvelously mousey Emily Lane as Minnie Fay – but they pale in comparison to West End royalty Imelda Staunton, who seizes the iconic role of Dolly Levi and gives a glorious,…
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Continue reading →: ‘Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)’ is Sweet but Slightly UnderbakedDoes Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) want to be a “hit musical rom-com,” as it says on the marquee, or does it want to be a family drama? In the “rom-com” court, tried-and-true plot points are there. There’s a meet-cute at NYC’s JFK airport, with jaded Brooklynite…
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Continue reading →: ‘Operation Mincemeat’ Turns a Long-shot Mission Into a Sure HitIt’s 1943. Fascists have taken over mainland Europe. Allied forces are looking to establish a foothold on the island of Sicily. But how to get those pesky Nazis out of the way? Surely the boys at MI5 have an idea… So begins Operation Mincemeat, a surprisingly compelling musical comedy based…
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