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What’s On In London Theatre: 8-14 January

The best comedy, drama, and dance opening in London this week.

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London’s Top 10 Fringe Theatres

Theatre beneath train platforms, above pubs and in an old church house.

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London Horror Festival Review: Revenge Of The Grand Guignol

Coming soon HP Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror, Camden’s Most Horrid plus zombie science, gothic rock, comedy improv and film screenings

The London Horror Festival features The Revenge of the Grand Guignol

Preview: The London Horror Festival @ The Courtyard Theatre

A new, very dark theatre festival creeps into Shoreditch

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Theatre Review: Tower Hamlet @ The Courtyard

If you found the all star Christmas BBC Hamlet a bit, well, yawn then there’s a production you should check out in Old Street. You might think you know Hamlet, indeed, it’s probably best you have a working knowledge of the story but this show, …

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Review: Love And Understanding @ The Courtyard Theatre

Rachel (Natalie Lessing) and Neal (Joseph Wilkins) look on as Richie (Dan Coffey) powders his nose Neal and Rachel, Joe Penhall’s twenty something, stressed, cohabiting doctors fit the classic mould of a modern medical drama – working all hours, communicating via post it notes and, …

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Review: Chav Scum Kills God

It’s a gripping title, innit? Writer and director Drew Davies has got a bold and gutsy play in Chav Scum Kills God that is all mouth and in your face. Rather like the main character, Chaverston Robert Scumthorpe Jr, who wakes up in the afterlife, …

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Review: One Minute By Simon Stephens

Shining Man stages revivals of lesser known modern classics and with ecent successes Harper Regan and On The Shore of the Wide World at no less than the National Theatre mean Simon Stephens is modern classic material. One Minute from 2003 is brought back with …

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Review: The Death Of Margaret Thatcher @ The Courtyard Theatre

A couple of years ago Chris Roberts – who will be leading our 4th Londonist Walk on Friday evening – (and who is no relation to the Grantham Roberts clan) co-wrote True Blue: A musical about Margaret Thatcher in a bid to come to terms …