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‘Rent’ review: Gaten Matarazzo stars in the classic musical
The Stranger Things star feels out of place in an overly stylised take on the classic musical
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? review: Gillian Anderson stars in the classic play
Anderson and co-star Billy Crudup are sensational in Edward Albee’s queasy classic
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Rent review: Gaten Matarazzo stars in the classic musical
The ‘Stranger Things’ star is miscast in this sexy but shallow take on Jonathan Larson’s masterpiece at the Tom Stoppard Theatre
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Rowan Atkinson will bring Mr Bean, Blackadder and more to the West End in new show ‘Rowan Live’
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Hay Fever review: Richard E Grant stars in the classic Noël Coward comedy
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Old Vic
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...