The Mikado is The tiny Union's fourth musical - and second all-male production of Gilbert and Sullivan - in a year and it keeps getting better.... more
League of Gentleman's Reece Shearsmith and former Eastenders actor Nigel Harman to appear in a new production of Simon Gray's The Common Pursuit.... more
Mel Smith said he wanted to abandon 'repetitive performance'. So why is the millionaire comedian and director becoming a West End hoofer in Hairspray? Nick Curtis finds out.... more
Riding high in her career, celebrated theatre director Thea Sharrock tells Siobhan Murphy why she is restaging an uncompromising play on one of London's biggest stages.... more
The revelation of the Festival Hall's Carmen Jones has been that the two singers playing Carmen's love rivals Joe and Husky are, in fact, Jamaican brothers from New Cross.... more
The Menier Chocolate Factory has supplied the West End with some quality musicals, but the latest offering, Take Flight, remains resolutely earthbound.... more
SE1 Laughter Week kicks off with a free charity comedy night and features seven days of stand-up courses, charity events and funny film shorts.... more
Rather than the romantic spot Toby Young imagined, The Real Greek is little more than an up-market fast-food restaurant with sloppy service and some very unappealing toilets.... more
The Young Vic re-opens its doors tonight following a £12.5 million redevelopment. Jude Law's favourite artistic haunt in the capital, has been closed for two years. ... more
The cast for Andrew Lloyd Webber's £3 million revival of The Sound Of Music has been unveiled with 20 children lining up alongside the show's stars Connie Fisher and Simon Shepherd.... more
Arbutus in Soho has been named as London's best new restaurant. The Frith Street establishment has been awarded the accolade in the new Time Out Eating and Drinking Guide.... more
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