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London theatre’s big Black Friday sale is back for 2025
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London theatre’s big Black Friday sale is back for 2025

Theatreland loves a sale – and here’s the big Black Friday edition
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The Playboy of the Western World
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The Playboy of the Western World

Unless you’re fluent in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Hiberno-English, John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World requires...
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
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Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

4 out of 5 stars
Flex time: 14 years ago I caught Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo on Broadway. It was good, although I was definitely distracted by both my jet lag and the fact...
Museum of Austerity
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Museum of Austerity

3 out of 5 stars
A major London trend this year has been the glut of tech-enhanced immersive exhibitions, that have typically taken some great historical disaster – the...

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Wicked

Wicked

Bag tickets for just £27 and see a musical that's won more than 100 awards around the world.

Hamilton

Hamilton

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The Lion King

The Lion King

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Fawlty Towers The Play

Fawlty Towers The Play

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Les Miserables

Les Miserables

Save 26% on tickets to the rousing tear-jerker par excellence.

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The best London theatres

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Old Vic

One of London's most storied theatres, the Old Vic – which opened its doors in 1818 – was the first home of the National Theatre, under the...
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Young Vic

The Young Vic more than lives up to its name, with its slick modern exterior, buzzing bar, and a forward-looking line-up that makes it feel metaphorically as...
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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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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...
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