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Theatre Review: Great Expectations @ Vaudeville Theatre

Dickens’s famous tale comes to the West End.

Rupert Everett  and Freddie Fox in The Judas Kiss. Photo by Manuel Harlan

What’s On In London Theatre 22-28 January

Our pick of London’s best theatre and opera on offer this week.

Anna Friel stars in Uncle Vanya at the Vaudeville Theatre

Theatre Review: Uncle Vanya @ The Vaudeville Theatre

Perfect for the 50-79-year-old audience.

A Chorus of Disapproval

What’s On In London Theatre 25 Sept – 1 Oct

Here are a few highlights from London’s theatrical calendar for the next seven days

Tim McInnerny and Samantha Bond in WHAT THE BUTLER SAW. Image credit. Simon Annand (1)

Theatre Review: What The Butler Saw @ Vaudeville Theatre

Freud meets ‘Carry On’ in Joe Orton’s classic farce.

production photo by Johan Persson

Theatre Review: Master Class @ Vaudeville Theatre

In an exceptional performance, Tyne Daly illustrates the passion and the pathos of uber-diva Maria Callas.

Swallows and Amazons. Original Bristol Old Vic production. Amy Booth-Steel (Peggy Blackett) and Celia Adams (Nancy Blackett) in Swallows and Amazons. Photo Simon Annand

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

We bring you the week’s cultural highlights, for the last time this year…

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Juggler Review: The Flying Karamazov Brothers

They don’t fly, they’re not Russian and they’re not brothers…

An Ideal Husband plays at the Vaudeville Theatre until 19 February

Theatre Review: An Ideal Husband @ the Vaudeville Theatre

An Ideal Husband plays at the Vaudeville Theatre until 19 February Oscar Wilde’s political play, An Ideal Husband, is a tricky mixture of drawing-room comedy and serious drama. On the one hand, you have typical Wildean epigrams on the difficulty of being brilliant at breakfast; …

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Theatre Review: The Prisoner of Second Avenue @ Vaudeville Theatre

Jeff Goldblum is back on the London stage. For theatregoers who love to see celebs performing live in the West End, The Prisoner of Second Avenue certainly looks like one of theatre’s hot tickets for summer 2010. And with its themes of recession, unemployment and …

Production photo by Nobby Clark

Theatre Review: Private Lives @ Vaudeville Theatre

Production photo by Nobby Clark Can she or can’t she? Most of the first-night audience were secretly betting Kim Cattrall wouldn’t be able to shake off the shadow of ‘Samantha Jones’ from ‘Sex and the City’ and turn herself into Noel Coward’s wittiest and most …