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A previous LCO performance in the Old Vic Tunnels. Image credit Atherton-Chiellino.

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.

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Opera In A Tunnel Shaft: Pop-Up Don Pasquale

See a Donizetti farce — in the ventilation shaft to Brunel’s Thames Tunnel.

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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 28 April-4 May

Omid Djalili, Tim Key, Susan Calman and more.

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Harrowing And Blackly Comic: Glory Dazed @ Soho Theatre

A well observed tale of the impact of war on an ex-soldier.

And the once-great general ends up eavesdropping from inside a toilet cubicle

Othello At The National: A Modern-Day Masterpiece

Nicholas Hytner’s latest hit brings Shakespeare’s bombastic tragedy bang up to date

Othello opens at the National Theatre tonight

What’s On In London Theatre 23 – 29 April

London’s best theatre, dance, opera, comedy and kids theatre opening this week

Giselle. Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev. Photo (c) The Mikhailovsky Theatre (2)

Top 11 Theatre Annoyances

Phones ringing and screaming children are the obvious ones, but what else makes us mad in the theatre?

Riccardo Buscarini, choreographer of 'Athletes', The Place Prize for Dance.  Photo by Benedict Johnson.

Help Award £25k To The Winner Of The Place Prize For Dance

Vote for your favourite of four finalists.

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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.

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Pug On Stage: An Operatic Take On Mansfield Park

Ten performers sing their way through the dramas of Jane Austen’s timeless novel.

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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 21-27 April

Lucy Porter, Andy Zaltzman and a free comedy festival making you laugh this week.