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London Wonderground
There is something deeply soothing about the London Wonderground festival...
West Brompton
Anna X
New York is famously a city in which anybody can reinvent themselves. And perhaps nobody pursued reinvention with such vigour as Anna Delvey, the working-class...
Leicester Square
Romeo & Juliet (Globe)
If I were a few years older and a few shades pinker I suppose I might feel obliged to stutteringly decry Ola Ince’s production of ‘Romeo &...
South Bank
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Read the latest theatre news
It’s really happening: sign up for the pre-sale for Mark Rylance in ‘Jerusalem’
One last chance to see the greatest stage performance of our lifetimes
The Northern Lights will be recreated over Greenwich this summer
You can book your tickets to ‘Borealis’ now
£5 standing tickets are back at The Globe!
Groundlings have returned
Tickets are now on sale to see Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley in ‘Cabaret’
See the classic musical at new immersive venue, The Kit Kat Club
The best London theatres
National Theatre
National Theatre
The concrete-clad, 1960s modernist grandmother of them all: no theatrical tour of London is complete without a visit to the National, whose three auditoriums –...
Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court Theatre
A hard-hitting theatre in well-heeled Sloane Square, the Royal Court has always placed emphasis on new British talent – from John Osborne’s...
Shakespeare's Globe
Shakespeare's Globe
The original Globe Theatre, where many of William Shakespeare's plays were first staged and which he co-owned, burned to the ground in 1613 during a...
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...