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Award winning, speechless comedy at the Duchess Theatre (sponsored post).

A well-acted and interesting period glimpse into squaddie life at the height of IRA atrocities.

Here are a few highlights from London’s theatrical calendar for the next seven days.

The top theatre, dance, and cabaret shows opening this week

The National Theatre hit finds a West End home.

Love Story is a classy chamber musical, full of gorgeous melodies, featuring a sassy young lead, and a heart-breaking conclusion. But we understand that for some, sentimental musicals about love and death will leave you and your bargepole equally unmoved. That’s OK – you can stop reading now.

Would you pay £40 for a 50-minute one-man play? And a Samuel Beckett play at that, where traditionally nothing happens slowly? The one man, admittedly, is Michael Gambon, one of the greatest living stage actors, our favourite Dumbledore and the Singing Detective of yore. In …

Bob Golding plays Morecambe at the Duchess Theatre this Christmas We’ve put together a quick quiz to determine whether you’re the sort of person who’ll like Morecambe at the Duchess Theatre. 1. Do you think Jimmy Carr’s comic technique of quick one-liners is a) new, …

Havana Rakatan is at the Peacock Theatre from 5 to 23 May. Photo by Sven Creutzman London’s cultural scene travels all over the globe this week, and even takes some steps into other worlds… Take your pick from the following, and enjoy your long weekend: …

With Christmas creeping up on us, London’s arts and theatre scene begins to slide into festive mayhem. Don’t worry; your Londonist Fairy Godmother enters in a cloud of glitter stage right, to sort the handsome princes from the ugly sisters. If you can’t stand panto, …