Hofesh Shechter Company At Sadler’s Wells: Visceral, Raw And Animalistic
An incredible movement style, but low lighting and excessive volume make it hard to appreciate.
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See A Site-Specific Performance In The Abandoned Aldwych Tube Station
Explore your own urban existence and inevitable demise in this season of carefully composed concerts.
Opera In A Tunnel Shaft: Pop-Up Don Pasquale
See a Donizetti farce — in the ventilation shaft to Brunel’s Thames Tunnel.
London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 28 April-4 May
Omid Djalili, Tim Key, Susan Calman and more.
Harrowing And Blackly Comic: Glory Dazed @ Soho Theatre
A well observed tale of the impact of war on an ex-soldier.
Othello At The National: A Modern-Day Masterpiece
Nicholas Hytner’s latest hit brings Shakespeare’s bombastic tragedy bang up to date
What’s On In London Theatre 23 – 29 April
London’s best theatre, dance, opera, comedy and kids theatre opening this week
Top 11 Theatre Annoyances
Phones ringing and screaming children are the obvious ones, but what else makes us mad in the theatre?
Help Award £25k To The Winner Of The Place Prize For Dance
Vote for your favourite of four finalists.
Sex And Death In Austro-Hungary: A Ballet For Grown-Ups
Mayerling is a darkly erotic ballet with an undertow of death and decline, superbly performed by the Royal Ballet.
Pug On Stage: An Operatic Take On Mansfield Park
Ten performers sing their way through the dramas of Jane Austen’s timeless novel.
