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Theatre Review: Steptoe and Son @ Lyric Hammersmith

50 years on, the scripts for Steptoe and Son hold up as a tragicomic tale of a father and son who cannot live with or without each other.

Victoria Moseley & Rebecca Scroggs in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Photo by Keith Pattison

Theatre Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream @ The Lyric

A fun and refreshing take on Shaksespeare’s comedy classic

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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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Theatre Review: Lifegame @ Lyric Theatre

Personal theatre has come to London this summer in a big way. You can have a One-on-One experience at the BAC, ride the Bum Bum Train in Bethnal Green or come to the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith where, every night, Improbable Theatre’s production of Lifegame …

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Arts Ahead 26 Nov-3 Dec

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, …