Now this would have livened up your high school English lessons...
Just hear that ring-ting-ting-a-ling as the cash registers rack up advance bookings.
Live jazz, veggie nosh + cocktails.
Hackney Empire is selling off costumes.
How the theatrical tradition conquered Christmas.
Book fast for this fundraiser.
The Pink Singers set to electrify the Empire.
Stars of radio show come to Hackney.
Lord Sugar thanked for his help in this protracted case
This week's theatrical openings and reminders about those shows that are leaving London in the next seven days.
The Tallest Man On Earth's Hackney Empire show left us wanting more.
A statistical chain reaction of Londoners (sponsored post).
Saturday night. Mare Street. Bus engine drum rolls and taxi cab brass.
Fun-sounding theatre, opera, jazz, world music and art exhibitions opening this week
Ian Dury and the Blockheads musical returns to London (sponsored post)
Three great artists, but they're not playing together unfortunately.
Tickets onsale at 9am
Pop-up restaurants for Canary Wharf and much more stuff from the Olympic host boroughs
The best in home-grown circus, burlesque and cabaret performance.
Celebs in theatreland; Royals at the Hayward Gallery; and the Trocks come to Wimbledon. Here are our picks for what's on in London this week.
The closest we have to a British Leslie Nielsen, David Cann is probably most famous as the surreal GP in Blue Jam. We talked to him about fringe theatre, the internet and his favourite London spots.
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