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David Tennant and Cush Jumbo open Shakespeare’s Macbeth in the West End

Famous faces attending the opening night included Tennant’s Good Omens co-star Michael Sheen.

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Juno and the Paycock review – Mark Rylance delights as a drunken fantasist Dubliner

Gielgud theatre, LondonRylance is entertainingly Chaplinesque as a dissolute husband in Seán O’Casey’s 1924 tragicomedy, but Succession’s J Smith-Cameron is its heart and soul as the long-suffering wifeA volley of gunshots at the start signifies the violent backdrop to Seán O’Casey’s 192...

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White Rabbit Red Rabbit review – a game Michael Sheen hops to it

@sohoplace, LondonNassim Soleimanpour’s experiment in live theatre has a different performer discover the script for the first time each night – but Sheen is especially well suited to its mix of bunny-themed whimsy and rousing exhortationNassim Soleimanpour’s 2010 play has been performed in mo...

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Boy whose Mousetrap show at school led to legal threat joins West End cast

Alasdair Buchan, who directed his version aged 11 in 1997, will play mysterious stranger in long-running whodunnit As the curtain falls on every performance of The Mousetrap, the world’s longest-running play, applauding audience members are famously urged not to go on to reveal the secret solution...

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Barbara Leigh-Hunt obituary

Highly expressive actor of impeccable technique that could encompass high comedy and full-blown tragedy There is a huge raft of exceptional British stage actors who merit commemoration even though they never hit the “big time” in a film franchise or a television soap. Barbara Leigh-Hunt, who has...

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First look at Vinnie Jones as crime boss in Only Fools And Horses The Musical

The former footballer turned actor will play one half of the notorious Driscoll brothers, Danny Driscoll, in the production.

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Investment bank Evercore to move out of Mayfair to new green building in Victoria

Finance firm signs with BGO for 135,000 sq ft of new space over five floors in huge pre-let deal

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From Mick Jagger to Crossroads: the pioneering career of Cleo Sylvestre

The black British performer started out recording with the Rolling Stones, was on the West End stage by 19 and made breakthroughs in TV and theatre‘Trailblazing’ TV, film and stage actor Cleo Sylvestre dies aged 79Although named after a Shakespeare heroine, Cleopatra Sylvestre – more often kno...

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The Truth About Harry Beck review – the tortuous journey behind the tube map

London Transport MuseumThis fond bio-drama charts a draughtsman’s labour of love to create a comprehensible London Underground diagramHe may not be a household name but, 50 years after his death, Harry Beck still helps millions of people find their way home – and all around London, too. The tort...

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Netflix star Reece Richards 'pepper sprayed and wrongfully arrested' by Met Police as he returns from West End

Sex Education stars claims he was victim of ‘racial profiling’ as he returned home from performance in Hairspray the Musical

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Brie Larson to make her West End debut in revenge tragedy Elektra

Oscar-winning actor will perform the lead role in Anne Carson’s adaptation of Sophocles’ play in London and Brighton next yearOscar winner Brie Larson is to appear on stage in Brighton and London, making her West End debut, in Elektra.Larson will play the anguished lead character in the revenge ...

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Alan Cumming looks forward to ‘homecoming’ with key role at Perthshire theatre

He will become the artistic director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre in January.

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Diana Vickers 'sniffs a vagina candle' to channel 'icon' Gwyneth Paltrow in ski trial musical I Wish You Well

EXCLUSIVE The former X Factor finalist-turned-theatre star won rave reviews at Edinburgh Fringe Festival playing the actress

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Why Am I So Single? review – dating debacles from the duo behind Six

Garrick theatre, LondonToby Marlow and Lucy Moss have created powerhouse tunes about friendship, family and heartache but this story’s romantic woes are often routineTwo writers of musical theatre are trying to pen a new show in this musical. To add to the meta mind scramble, they seem to be loose...

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James Earl Jones obituary

American actor hailed for his many classical roles whose voice became known to millions as that of Darth Vader in Star Wars During the run of the 2011 revival of Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy in London, with Vanessa Redgrave, the actor James Earl Jones, who has died aged 93, was presented with ...

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‘Like a gig with your favourite 90s artists’: KT Tunstall composes Clueless musical

Adaptation of Amy Heckerling’s classic 1995 comedy will open in London in February with a new score by the Scottish musician inspired by its soundtrackMean Girls has become a West End hit, Heathers is on tour and now Clueless is becoming a high-school musical, too. The 1995 film has been adapted f...

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Letting it go: Frozen fans bid farewell to West End musical

As the Disney blockbuster ends its three-year run at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, actor Samantha Barks pays tribute to its devoted audienceSometimes it has been a flurry and at others a blizzard. For three years theatregoers dressed in shades of Elsa blue have descended on Covent Garden for D...

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Sir Ian McKellen says late Queen was ‘quite rude’ to him

Queen Elizabeth II personally appointed the actor Companion of Honour (CH) for his services to drama and to equality.

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Graham Lyons obituary

My uncle Graham Lyons, who has died aged 87, was a jazz and classical musician, composer and arranger.In 1967 he released a self-penned single, Jazz Bassoon, on Decibel Records, on which he played bassoon, clarinet, saxophone and piano. Later he was a member of various musical outfits, including the...

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A Six follow-up, an LA clown … and War Horse rides again: theatre, comedy and dance autumn preview

Why Am I So Single sets dating angst to music; more Hollywood stars hit the West End; and a Brummie dance trilogy reaches its finale Continue reading......