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Winnie the Pooh the Musical
31 Aug
New Shows
London Box Office

Winnie The Pooh The Musical - In the West End for Spring 2023

Winnie the Pooh the Musical Disney's Winnie the Pooh is on the way to the West End, and London is thrilled. This is such a gorgeous story, a delight for people of all ages. It’s here in the UK for the first time in spring 2023, an exciting UK premiere from Rockefeller Productions in partnership with ROYO Entertainment, in association with Disney Theatrical Productions. Great credentials.

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Attenborough and his Animals
31 Aug
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: ATTENBOROUGH AND HIS ANIMALS at Wilton’s Music Hall

Attenborough and his Animals Following previous successful runs at the Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Clownfish Theatre bring to life their absurdist take on David Attenborough and some of his more dazzlingly memorable encounters with the animal kingdom, for 8 performances at Wilton’s Music Hall in East London.

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London Theatre Week
22 Aug
Discounts and Offers
London Box Office

LONDON THEATRE WEEK returns bigger than ever this August with almost 60 shows

London Theatre Week London Theatre Week is back and bigger than ever before with almost 60 spectacular shows taking part. The annual campaign kicks off with a two-week offering of many of the best and biggest West End shows with prices as low as £15. Launching today until September 4th, this year’s London Theatre Week includes such high-calibre performances such as Disney’s Frozen, The Lion King, Pretty Woman, and The Book of Mormon.

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Jack Holden in Cruise
17 Aug
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: CRUISE at Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue

CRUISE is based on Jack Holden’s personal experiences volunteering in his youth at the London Gay Switchboard Helpline during the 1980s — and he deploys a particularly effective device to segue the audience into that hedonistic lost realm. One clumsily-handled call catapults us to Soho during its heyday and a time in which the AIDS crisis has only just begun to creep into the wider consciousness.

Jack Holden in CruiseJack Holden in Cruise at the Apollo Theatre. Photo Pamela Raith.

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Tom, Dick & Harry
08 Aug
Reviews
Miriam Gibson

Review: Tom, Dick & Harry at the Alexandra Palace

Tom, Dick & Harry “Gentlemen, if we pull this off it will be the greatest escape mankind has ever made”. Low stakes, then, in this enjoyable play depicting of the escape from Stalag Luft III Prisoner of War camp.

Tom, Dick & Harry begins in 1943, with a motley crew of captured airmen imprisoned in Stalag Luft camp in Nazi Germany. British pilots Ballard and Wings are the stereotypical posh-boy pilots seen in many stories about the RAF. But Tom, Dick & Harry also shines a light on airmen from across Europe, as well as Australia and the Caribbean. The band of heroes is winning, if broadly-drawn.

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