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The Cherry Orchard review – Kristin Scott Thomas makes a modern matriarch in trad, earthy Chekhov
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonThis Ranevskaya feels of our time but Conor McPherson’s plain-speaking adaptation, co-starring Stephen Mangan, doesn’t always hit you emotionallyThere have been several starry Madame Ranevskayas in recent times. The prodigal Russian landowner, returning to her belove...
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‘I knew I was being followed’: Keira Knightley on her hacking nightmare – and new Stasi spy play The Lives of Others
As the Oscar-winning Stasi surveillance film hits the stage, Knightley and co-star Luke Thompson talk about the paranoia at its heart, the cost of theatre tickets nowadays – and their fury at ringtones in the stallsUnpacking assorted tubs of carrot sticks and salad, Keira Knightley winces apologet...
HMV to close Oxford Street store three years after reopening historic site
The group said landlords have proposed doubling the rent on the site at 363 Oxford Street and is also facing a bill for renovation works.
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HMV to close flagship Oxford Street store blaming soaring rent demand
HMV makes closure announcement three years after reopening historic London site
Sacha Baron Cohen to star in Quentin Tarantino’s West End play The Popinjay Cavalier
The production marks the Hollywood director’s first play written for the stage, which he will also directSacha Baron Cohen will headline Quentin Tarantino’s play The Popinjay Cavalier when it premieres on the West End in London in March 2027.The production marks the Hollywood director’s first...
OPINION - Culinary wasteland? Hardly — the 1990s started a revolution
Soho House founder Nick Jones on the legendary chefs who transformed the scene
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Tory-led Westminster accused of 'dithering' as major West End pedestrianisation plan pushed back
Proposed changes would make the south side of Piccadilly Circus, Regent Street St James’s and Waterloo Place vehicle-free
Rent review – Jonathan Larson’s New York bohos move into the West End and unpack their passions
Tom Stoppard theatre, LondonStranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo leads the grief-stricken 90s musical about friends living under the threat of AidsIs Rent one of the musical greats? It’s a forever fan favourite – this new production extended its run even before the official opening – and its ori...
Franz & Marie review – Woyzeck folk musical finds heart amid the horror
Charing Cross theatre, LondonBüchner’s jagged masterpiece about a soldier’s descent is told with enchanting and stirring songs that occasionally defuse its stark terrorWhen Georg Büchner died aged 23 in 1837, he left behind Woyzeck as a bundle of papers that would be ordered and reordered for ...
Joe Lycett and Olivia Cooke announced as latest White Rabbit Red Rabbit stars
Their performances are scheduled for November 2 and 23.
Met Police make over 700 arrests in 'biggest-ever crackdown' on London phone thieves
Officers made 711 arrests during operations in September targeting phone snatching, robbery and the handling of stolen goods
Phantom Of The Opera to be filmed live for 40th anniversary of West End musical
The recording will take place during a performance at His Majesty’s Theatre in London on October 9.
‘Like swapping a Bentley for a Ferrari’: can the Harry Potter stage show survive being chopped in half?
After a phenomenal decade-long run, the Cursed Child two-parter is being pruned. Will it still work? Our writer swishes her cloak, levitates her luggage – and hops aboard the streamlined Hogwarts Express‘Silencio!” Two dozen tank-topped and T-shirted figures fall quiet, and look expectantly at...
Glenn Close to appear as King Herod in West End’s Jesus Christ Superstar
The musical follows the events of the last days of Jesus Christ.
Rowan Atkinson to star in first West End comedy sketch show in 40 years
The award-winning actor, 71, will take the stage at Gillian Lynne Theatre in London next year.
Gillian Anderson speaks out after exchange with ‘distracting’ theatre fans
The X Files star, 58, was seen telling fans outside the Soho Place Theatre not to sit in the front row.
Rowan Atkinson to bring Mr Bean, Blackadder and more to West End in new show
The actor will perform famous TV sketches – as well as new material created with Richard Curtis, Ben Elton and Howard Goodall – in Rowan Live, which opens in FebruaryRowan Atkinson will return to the stage next year to play Blackadder, Mr Bean and other comic characters from across his career in...
Gillian Anderson confronts ‘distracting’ front-row superfans – video
In a video uploaded to TikTok, Gillian Anderson tells a group of longtime fans they were 'distracting' her by repeatedly sitting in the front row during her West End run. The Sex Education and X-Files actor, who is starring in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the @sohoplace theatre in London, te...
Gillian Anderson responds to backlash after telling ‘distracting’ fans to stop sitting in front row
The actor, who is performing on the West End, was filmed telling theatre fans ‘you can’t come 20 times and sit in the front row, it’ll drive me mad’Gillian Anderson has come under fire after the actor was filmed telling a group of fans that they were “distracting” her by repeatedly sitti...
A new season of love: hit musical Rent returns to the West End with Gaten Matarazzo – in pictures
Jonathan Larson’s much-loved show about New York artists has been revived for its 30th anniversary with a cast including the Stranger Things star Continue reading......