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Musicals and theatre in London
Theatre reviews, tickets and offers – it’s your one-stop guide to plays and musicals in the West End and the best shows in London.
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Latest theatre reviews
Harry Clarke
‘Harry Clarke’ is quite possibly the blandest name for a play in written history, and Billy Crudup is one of those well-liked supporting actors who...
Guys and Dolls
It’s been a year since Nicholas Hytner’s impossibly rousing production of ‘Guys and Dolls’ opened at the Bridge Theatre and made...
Uncle Vanya
Trevor Nunn directed his first play the year The Beatles released their first single, and if you’re expecting the 84-year-old former NT and RSC boss to...
Nye
It’s understandable that playwright Tim Price and director Rufus Norris are wary of dewy-eyed hagiography when approaching ‘Nye’, a new...
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Read the latest theatre news
The National Theatre is giving NHS workers 1,400 tickets to see Michael Sheen in ‘Nye’
That’s 1,000 cinema viewers and 400 to see a special St George’s Day performance at the NT
‘The most distilled, pure version of a Punchdrunk show’ – the immersive legends return with ‘Viola’s Room’
The follow-up to ‘The Burnt City’ is a reworking of an early Punchdrunk show that only four people saw
London’s biggest theatre festival has announced it’s closing for good
The Vault Festival had hoped to move to a new venue, but funding fell through
The nominations for London’s biggest theatre awards show are out
‘Sunset Boulevard’, ‘Guys & Dolls’ and ‘Dear England’ will duke it out at the 2024 Olivier Awards
The best London theatres
National Theatre
National Theatre
Arguably the greatest theatre in the world, the Royal National Theatre is also one of London's most recognisable landmarks and perhaps this country's foremost...
Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court Theatre
London's premiere new writing theatre, the Royal Court made its name in the 1950s when it was synonymous with kitchen sink dramas and the Angry Young Men, and...
Shakespeare's Globe
Shakespeare's Globe
Built in 1599 and destroyed by fire in 1613, the original Globe Theatre was at the heart of London’s seedy South London entertainment district in William...
Lyric Hammersmith
Lyric Hammersmith
A beacon of culture in Hammersmith, the Lyric's distinctive look is largely down to a fusion of the building's 1970s structure, the theatre's Victorian...