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Fake Labubu dolls seized amid warnings they could pose fatal hazard to children
The fake ‘Lafufu’ dolls have feet that easily detach and eyes that pop out, posing a choking hazard, Westminster City Council said.
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Industry's Marisa Abela marries West End actor Jamie Bogyo in 'heartfelt' wedding at Sussex manor house
The Back To Black star, 28, and her actor partner, 31, got engaged last summer and had a legal ceremony at Islington Town Hall last week
Dozens of dangerous fake Labubus seized in London raids
The counterfeit dolls were found to be death traps for toddlers – with eyes that pop out and feet that fall off, posing a serious choking hazard
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High Noon heads for the West End as Billy Crudup takes on Gary Cooper role
The Tony award-winning actor will play the marshal in a London stage adaptation of the 1952 western that won Cooper an OscarBilly Crudup is to take on the role that won Gary Cooper an Oscar in a new stage adaptation of the 1952 western High Noon. Based on Carl Foreman’s screenplay, the production ...
Self Esteem to star as raging rock star in revival of David Hare’s Teeth ’n’ Smiles
Rebecca Lucy Taylor will play Maggie, a role originated by Helen Mirren, in a ‘landmark’ 50th anniversary production in London in MarchFifty years after Helen Mirren originated the role, Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem is to play a raging rock star in a West End revival of Teeth ’n’ Smil...
Girls Aloud’s Nicola Roberts: ‘Lady Gaga told me she wanted to be the moon for a day. I’m like: where do I go next?’
Ahead of her debut in London’s West End with the musical Hadestown, Roberts answers your questions on navigating overnight fame as a teenager and why she would drop everything to work with Kate BushHow does it feel to finally be making your West End debut in Hadestown, after City of Angels was can...
The best theatre to stream this month: Basil’s back as Fawlty Towers reopens for business
John Cleese’s stage version of his beloved sitcom, a cast recording of Cornish musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Robert Wilson’s production of Handel’s Messiah are among September’s highlightsFifty years ago this month, Torquay’s most famous rat trap opened for business on th...
The Guardian view on Christopher Marlowe: it’s time to read him and honour him | Editorial
England’s second most famous playwright is the star of a new play. But his own works should be staged more, and he should be commemorated betterFor a limited season this autumn, Christopher Marlowe will become a star of the London stage again. Enjoy it while you can, for Marlowe has become an ep...
Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg and Caliban’s take on The Tempest: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2025
Andrea Riseborough and Sarandon deliver a decade-hopping drama, superstar standups hit the road and Shobana Jeyasingh rewrites Shakespeare• See the rest of our unmissable autumn arts preview picks here Continue reading......
Please take your seats, the carnage is about to begin: what will Quentin Tarantino’s West End debut look like?
The director has announced he’s turning to theatre, and mounting a play in London soon. The matinee coach parties may need to brace themselvesIf the last few days have taught us anything at all, then it is this: if you want Quentin Tarantino to open up about anything, invite him on to a podcast ca...
Every Brilliant Thing review – Lenny Henry gets audience on board for list of life’s joys
@sohoplace theatre, LondonHenry is the first of a group of star performers taking Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe’s hit show about depression into the West EndSince its premiere in 2013, Duncan Macmillan’s one-person play about depression has gradually become a cult hit. It’s been performed...
Moment prolific thieves are caught as Met Police vow West End crime crackdown
Extra 80 officers join team focusing on hotspots around Oxford Circus and Regent Street
Cameron Mackintosh in tribute to ‘wry, generous and utterly original’ Tom Lehrer
The West End impresario said US song satirist Lehrer, who has died aged 97, ‘was a very special kind of genius’.
Richard Greenberg obituary
Playwright once dubbed ‘the American Noël Coward’, who skilfully poked beneath the surface of his middle-class characters’ livesThe American playwright Richard Greenberg, who has died aged 67 of cancer, was an accomplished and prolific chronicler of the lives of young, upwardly mobile profess...
Burlesque: The Musical review – Christina Aguilera movie gets a gloriously ‘dirrty’ makeover
Savoy theatre, LondonThis adrenalised adaptation of the 2010 film is stuffed with superb voices and sensational movesWhat a tremendous breath of fresh air. Amid the indefatigable rise of movies cynically re-spun for the stage, this musical adaptation of the 2010 film featuring Cher and Christina Agu...
In Pictures: Hellraiser Ozzy Osbourne toned down his act to reach wider audience
Guided by wife and manager Sharon, the Black Sabbath frontman cleaned up his act to become a reality TV stalwart.
Samantha Womack felt ’emotional’ reading Dear England script ahead of tour
The former EastEnders star will be taking on the role of team psychologist Pippa Grange in the tour of James Graham’s award-winning play.
Frank Barrie obituary
Witty and elegant actor whose roles ranged from Shakespeare to Dot Cotton’s gentleman friend in EastEndersThere is a dying breed of classically trained, romantic, heroic actors who should not be consigned to oblivion in theatrical memory, and Frank Barrie, who has died aged 88, is a notable exampl...
The Guide #200: Get Out, Breaking Bad and the pop culture that defined the 21st century so far
In this week’s newsletter: To celebrate our 200th edition, we look back at the films, shows, albums and more that mattered most over the last 25 yearsThe Guide is 200 issues old today – maybe not the biggest milestone, but one worth marking. So this week we’re doing just that, ending our recen...
Minnie Driver signs up for lead role as Every Brilliant Thing comes to West End
The actor will follow stars including Lenny Henry and Sue Perkins, leading the hit show in which a performer enlists the audience’s help to tell ‘funny, sad and unique’ storyMinnie Driver has joined the list of stars performing Every Brilliant Thing – a play told by one actor with the help o...