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Actress Tamzin Outhwaite joins Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special line-up
The East Enders actress will compete against five other celebrities with festive-themed routines to impress the judges and studio audience.
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Police officers deny sexually assaulting woman at London's Hippodrome
PCs Jerome Beasley and Luke Robinson deny sexual assaults
Heaven nightclub ‘highest crime generator’ in West End before alleged rape, hearing told
Staff are said to have ignored the teenage victim’s efforts to report the sex attack, Metropolitan Police officers said
Two Met Police officers charged with West End sexual assault
PCs Jerome Beasley and Luke Robinson due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday
Bohemian Rhapsody star Lucy Boynton switches on Bond Street Christmas lights
The festive lights, a tradition for over 60 years, have been illuminated with a Chanel No. 5 installation.
Cynthia Erivo says feeling the ‘odd one out’ drew her to Elphaba role in Wicked
Wicked will be released in the UK on November 22
Timothy West obituary
Popular actor known for his many varied roles and appearing with his wife, Prunella Scales, in C4’s Great Canal Journeys Although Timothy West, who has died aged 90, never played the greatest stage roles at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, he took on many of them – Falstaf...
West End wars: Who will win the new battle for the soul of Soho?
Soho business leader John James calls out what he describes as Westminster’s “obvious bias” against operators
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'F*** off!': BBC presenter Nicky Campbell targeted by phone thief on Oxford Street
One Hackney resident has even had their phone snatched and then thrown back since it was the wrong brand
Angus Steakhouse boss plans to target under-30s with new look for the pilloried brand
Comments follow ironic Internet campaign bombarding Angus Steakhouse with five star reviews
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button review – warm and winsome musical tugs at the heartstrings
Ambassadors theatre, LondonRelocating the F Scott Fitzgerald story to a Cornish fishing village, this is a vivacious yet touching showF Scott Fitzgerald’s tale of a man who ages in reverse suggests that time is what you make of it. And the five years it has taken Jethro Compton and Darren Clark’...
‘Every minute at Vogue felt like an emergency’: Devil Wears Prada author Lauren Weisberger on igniting a scandal
Her novel about being Anna Wintour’s assistant caused such a storm, she wished she’d never written it. As the story becomes a musical with songs by Elton John, the author reveals why the imperious editor hasn’t spoken to her sinceWhen Lauren Weisberger was 22 years old, she got the job that sh...
Deck the stalls! 20 of the UK’s best festive theatre shows
Theatre’s boom season offers puppy puppetry, hungry houseplants and fresh spins on Dickens, Dumas and DisneyRoyal and Derngate theatre, Northampton, 7-31 December Continue reading......
Barcelona review – Lily Collins and Álvaro Morte share a night of tapas, torment and toe-sucking
Duke of York’s theatre, LondonThe stars of Emily in Paris and Money Heist team up for a curiously flat drama mixing suspense, comedy and politicsEmily in Paris star Lily Collins makes her stage debut by stepping into not a French garret – or even a Roman apartment – but a flat in the Catalonia...
Dr Strangelove review – Steve Coogan scores a quadruple cold war coup
Noël Coward theatre, London Adding a fourth role to Peter Sellers’ three turns in the classic film, the comic excels in a fun yet unadventurous adaptationStanley Kubrick’s 1964 satire, about cold war brinkmanship tipping into nuclear conflict, seemed to be a vehicle for Peter Sellers to showboa...
‘The worse the world gets, the better for this play’: Armando Iannucci on staging Dr Strangelove with Steve Coogan
Stanley Kubrick’s pitch-black comedy about nuclear armageddon was once called ‘sick’. Iannucci explains why – in the age of Trump, Putin and Musk – this madcap story is as relevant as ever‘Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the War Room!” In fact, it is a rehearsal studio o...
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West End on course for its strongest Christmas since before the pandemic
Domestic spending is forecast to be 7% up on last year as cost of living fears ease
Behind the scenes with The Lion King in London at 25 – in pictures
Our photographer is given backstage access at The Lion King in the lead up to the 25th anniversary of the London production at the Lyceum Theatre. Since 19 October 1999 the musical has been seen by more than 19 million theatregoers Continue reading......
The Duchess [of Malfi] review – Jodie Whittaker trapped in Tarantinoesque revenge tragedy
Trafalgar theatre, London Zinnie Harris’s version of the Jacobean play makes potent points about power but is hamstrung by an overbearing productionJohn Webster’s revenge tragedy contains a terrible timelessness. To modernise this story of a woman who refuses to be submissive and is killed by he...