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Theatre Review: Dorothy In Oz @ Waterloo East Theatre

A trip down the yellow brick road memory lane with adult twists on the original.

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Preview: The London Horror Festival

Creepy stagecraft in Camden and Wilton’s Music Hall.

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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: Insti2ute @ Pleasance Theatre

Scared of the dark? If you’re not, you may well be if you go to the Pleasance Theatre’s Insti2ute. At most other theatrical horror shows around London like Ghost Stories and Terror 2010, the shocks come at arms length while you recline in a comfy …

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Theatre Review: Terror 2010 @ Southwark Playhouse

Southwark Playhouse’s Terror 2010: Death and Resurrection (to give it its full name), is back again. Thankfully free of vampires and werewolves, the show is made up of four short plays, three of which have been created especially for Terror 2010 by acclaimed writers. The …

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Preview: The Insti2ute @ Pleasance Islington

If you saw last year’s show The Institute then we offer our congratulations. Firstly for getting tickets to the sell-out run, and secondly for surviving. We hear it was murder in there. Now, the government has bailed out the Islington lab’s owners and the Minister …

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Review: Uncanny Valley @ Hen and Chickens Theatre

  If you’re looking to see something decidedly different over the Bank Holiday Weekend, Uncanny Valley at the Hen and Chickens Theatre is definitely worth a look-in. This show, a hit on the Brighton Fringe, is a collaboration between storytelling musicians Spacedog and Victorian wordsmith …

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Theatre Review: Ghost Stories @ Duke Of York Theatre

(c) Helen Maybanks London is not short of ghosts. It is home to a world-famous poltergeist, haunted tube stations and countless apparitions from the Roman age onwards. It makes sense then that, following its debut in Liverpool, Ghost Stories has transferred to London and the …

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Preview: London Australian Film Festival @ Barbican

Image from the film The Balibo Conspiracy, courtesy of LAFF Mention ‘Australian Film’ and a few stereotypes might spring to mind: Paul Hogan; quirky comedies; horror and gloom; or for those still living in the 19th century, bloodthirsty convicts. This year marks the 16th London …

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Preview: The Institute @ Pleasance

Asphodelâ„¢ – extending the life of you and your family. Side effects may include nausea, lower back pain, death, lust for human flesh, mild headaches… Not satisfied with other things on offer this Halloween? Looking for something a little dark, a little immersive, a little …