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Gawain and the Green Knight at Park Theatre

From director Kelly Ann Stewart, Park Theatre’s Gawain and the...

Maggie O'Shea 16th December 2025
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Christmas Carol Goes Wrong at Apollo Theatre

Mischief Theatre and their Cornley Drama Society alter-egos are...

Jim Compton-Hall 14th December 2025
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The Playboy of the Western World at the National Theatre

We open with a series of silhouetted figures drifting...

Chloe Vilarrubi 12th December 2025
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Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at the Young Vic

Rajiv Joseph’s 2009 play, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,...

Jim Compton-Hall 10th December 2025
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The Great Christmas Feast at The Lost Estate

The Great Christmas Feast returns to The Lost Estate this festive...

Sophie Humphrey 3rd December 2025
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Lovers Actually at the Other Palace

If there’s anything one can say for Richard Curtis’s unkillable 2003...

Thomas Messner 28th November 2025
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold at Soho Place

John le Carré’s genre-defining Cold War espionage novel, The...

Jim Compton-Hall 27th November 2025
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A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic

Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has been adapted innumerable times, with...

Selina Begum 26th November 2025
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Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre

Until Kendall Feaver got her presumably ink-smeared playwright’s hands...

Will Snell 26th November 2025
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Petty Men at Arcola Theatre

Shakespeare goes meta in Arcola Theatre’s Petty Men, an inventive adaptation that...

Maggie O'Shea 25th November 2025