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production photo by Simon Annand

Theatre Review: South Pacific @ New Wimbledon Theatre

Lincoln Center production, Barbican cast, Wimbledon pricing: three good reasons to see South Pacific in SW19.

Sweeney Todd at the Adelphi Theatre. Photo by Geraint Lewis

Arts Ahead: What’s On In London 20-26 March

Tasty-sounding art, theatre, dance, classical and jazz events taking place this week

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Review: Seven Day Drunk @ Soho Theatre

The star of the alcohol experiment-turned stage show Seven Day Drunk gives us pointers on where to get merry.

Martina Laird is yard battleaxe with a heart of gold, Sophia Adams - Photographer Jonathan Keenan

Theatre Review: Moon On A Rainbow Shawl @ National Theatre

Six lives’ tragedies, hopes and dreams all played under the watchful guise of the fateful moon.

Going Dark at the Young Vic

Theatre Review: Sound&Fury’s Going Dark @ Young Vic

A brilliantly executed and disarming theatrical tale

Brilliantly awful. Jill Halfpenny and Joe Absolom star in Abigail's Party at the Menier Chocolate Factory

Theatre Review: Abigail’s Party @ Menier Chocolate Factory

Jill Halfpenny and Natalie Casey shine with awful brilliance

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Review: Birmingham Royal Ballet @ London Coliseum

A mixture of the magnificent and the mediocre.

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775˗1851). Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Night, 1835 Oil on canvas Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Widener Collection 1942.9.86

Arts Ahead: What’s On In London 13–19 March

Our pick of the exciting art, theatre, jazz, dance, and folk events opening this week

Farewell to the theatre at Hampstead

Review: Farewell To The Theatre @ Hampstead Theatre

Part psychological drama, English comedy, tragedy and theatre biopic

Double act: Jeffery Kissoon and Patrick Robinson star in Waiting for Godot

Theatre Review: Waiting For Godot @ The Albany

Britain’s first all black cast take on Beckett in all his bonkers-ness.

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Theatre Review: Snookered @ Bush Theatre

Cabbie-cum-playwright Ishy Din’s debut tells a tale of guilt, obligation, frustrated dreams and coconuts.