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sh!t faced shakespeare hamlet
28 Apr
New Shows
Emmie Newitt

Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® to present HAMLET in London

The company, which is known for drunkenly stomping all over the Bard's work, will celebrate their 15th anniversary with a production of one of the most popular tragedies this Autumn.

sh!t faced shakespeare hamletSh!t-faced Shakespeare Hamlet. Photo provided by production.

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new cast for the play that goes wrong west end cast
28 Apr
Casts
Emmie Newitt

New West End revealed for THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at the Duchess Theatre

The Olivier and Tony Award-winning smash hit by Mischief Theatre is now in its 11th year at the Duchess Theatre.

new cast for the play that goes wrong west end castIzzy Edmunds, Jonty Peach and Tom Wainwright. Headshots provided by production.

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John Lithgow in rehearsals for GIANT at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Photo by Johan Perrson.
25 Apr
News
Shehrazade Zafar-Arif

Rehearsal images released for GIANT at the Harold Pinter Theatre

Rehearsal images have been released for GIANT, which opens at the Harold Pinter Theatre on 26th April.

John Lithgow in rehearsals for GIANT at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Photo by Johan Perrson.
John Lithgow in rehearsals for GIANT at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Photo by Johan Perrson.

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Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty (Brendan), Seán McGinley (Pierre), Derbhle Crotty (Elizabeth), Hannah Morrish (Lydia) and Chris O'Dowd (Dermot) in The Brightening Air at The Old Vic (2025). Photo by Manuel Harlan
25 Apr
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: THE BRIGHTENING AIR at The Old Vic

In the programme notes for THE BRIGHTENING AIR, playwright director Conor McPherson compares theatre to a pagan church. “…like a religious service, theatre is a distillation of the baffling privilege of being alive.”

Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty (Brendan), Seán McGinley (Pierre), Derbhle Crotty (Elizabeth), Hannah Morrish (Lydia) and Chris O'Dowd (Dermot) in The Brightening Air at The Old Vic (2025). Photo by Manuel HarlanEimhin Fitzgerald Doherty (Brendan), Seán McGinley (Pierre), Derbhle Crotty (Elizabeth), Hannah Morrish (Lydia) and Chris O'Dowd (Dermot) in The Brightening Air at The Old Vic (2025). Photo by Manuel Harlan

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Frances Mayli McCann & Amber Davies in The Great Gatsby at the London Coliseum. (c) Johan Persson
25 Apr
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: THE GREAT GATSBY at London Coliseum

When F Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel THE GREAT GATSBY was published in 1925, it was generally considered to be a weaker effort than his earlier works This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned. It wasn’t until distribution among American GIs during WWII that the novel gained widespread popularity and began to garner the reputation it holds to this day as a classic of American literature.

Frances Mayli McCann & Amber Davies in The Great Gatsby at the London Coliseum. (c) Johan PerssonFrances Mayli McCann & Amber Davies in The Great Gatsby at the London Coliseum. (c) Johan Persson.

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