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Paul Hilton on playing Scrooge at the Old Vic: 'I feel genuine euphoria, it's real'

Paul Hilton is currently ripping it up in A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic with a Scrooge that comes from the heart

Evening Standard

A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic 2025: The ultimate ghostly tale to warm even the coldest cockles

4/5 Paul Hilton is a spritely Scrooge in this annual tradition that never fails to make you cry, laugh, and get pelted with parachuting sprouts

Evening Standard

The most astonishing theatre performance of the year? Jack Holden on his true crime sensation Kenrex

Jack Holden caused a stir earlier this year with his one-man true crime drama Kenrex - as it returns in December at a bigger venue he tells us about the story behind a remarkable piece of theatre

Evening Standard

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Backstage chat: Andy Nyman on The Producers musical – 'Mel Brooks' kindness makes it okay'

Andy Nyman is currently having a blast as Max Bialystock in The Producers musical at the Garrick but admits, ‘We have to lock away the swastika flags at night’

Evening Standard

Dead Man Walking at London Coliseum: 'worth the 25-year wait to see this opera finally staged in London'

4/5 English National Opera gives popular show based on Death Row memoir its first full staging in London

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Mary Page Marlowe at the Old Vic: 'Susan Sarandon makes impactful London stage debut'

4/5 This story about a woman seen at different stages of her life features a strong cast led by the Thelma and Louise star

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Sing Street at the Lyric Hammersmith: 'the level of musicianship is incredible'

4/5 This adaptation of the film set in Dublin in the 80s is an exuberant coming-of-age musical with a talented young ensemble

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Till the Stars Come Down at the Haymarket: uproariously fun and profoundly moving

4/5 Bijan Sheibani’s production of Beth Steel’s play has lost none of its power as it returns to the West End

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Noughts & Crosses at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: depressingly relevant

3/5 This adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s novel feels timely and necessary, although the tone can be patronising

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First look images: Radiohead's Thom Yorke transforms Hamlet into electrifying rock theatre

Rehearsal photos reveal cast performing radical 'Hail to the Thief' choreography for Shakespeare reimagining

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Olivier Awards: Adrien Brody, Ben Whishaw, Mark Strong and Imelda Staunton among nominees

Annual British theatre awards will take place in April

The Independent UK

Oedipus at the Old Vic review: Bewildering chaos with Rami Malek strangely mannered

3/5 Rami Malek seems like he’s on a different planet is this bewildering but oddly compelling production

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Dr Strangelove; Barcelona; Quiet Songs – review

In a week of underused talent, Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley merely recreate Kubrick’s satire; Lily Collins totters through a bland night in Spain; and Ruth Negga graces a trance-like hour

The Guardian - UK

A Tupperware of Ashes review: Muddled Alzheimer’s play is well-acted, but a tough slog

Tanika Gupta’s play follows a mother whose mind is disintegrating as her children rally around

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Fangirls review: A joyful celebration of the euphoria and misery of being a teenage girl

Combining the acid wit of ‘Six’, the rebel streak of ‘Matilda‘ and the gooey heart of ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’, Yve Blake’s new musical will inspire outsized feelings and ardent devotion

The Independent UK

Hello, Dolly! review: Good old-fashioned razzmatazz gleams brighter than ever

Imelda Staunton brings heart and substance to this lavish feast, as Dominic Cooke’s revival of the 1964 show lights up the London Palladium

The Independent UK

The Constituent review: James Corden proves himself as a truly great actor in flawed political play

‘Motherland’ star Anna Maxwell Martin and James Corden have to battle with starchy direction and a clunky script in Joe Penhall’s new play about the threats facing MPs

Evening Standard

Tina Turner one year on from her death: 'She made her fans feel seen, sung to and talked to by someone real'

On the first anniversary of Tina Turner’s death, we talk to two people who knew the icon from working with her on Tina: the Tina Turner Musical

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The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: An Enemy of the People; King Lear; Double Feature – review

Matt Smith heads a rousing adaptation of Ibsen for a bruised world; Danny Sapani and co lean into the storm in Yaël Farber’s liberating Lear. Plus, Hollywood power play the hard way

The Guardian - UK

An Enemy of the People review – Matt Smith’s groovy firebrand swings from rebel to conspiracist

Rock’n’roll reimagining of Ibsen’s timeless corruption drama brings the audience into direct Question Time-style dialogue with Smith’s idealist revolutionary

The Guardian - UK

Double Feature review – Hitchcock and Hedren meet the Witchfinder General

John Logan’s play combines the stories behind two films made in the 1960s but each needs more space to truly hit home

Evening Standard

London Theatre Week: our pick of the best West End shows to book from £15

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The Guardian - UK

Just For One Day review – Live Aid musical has soaring voices and pancake-flat characters

Jukebox show celebrating sweary Bob Geldof’s 1985 mega-fundraiser piles homily on cliche in a production in thrall to white saviour stereotypes

The Guardian - UK

The Boy at the Back of the Class review – a refugee’s lessons in humanity

Onjali Raùf’s morality tale for children, adapted by Nick Ahad, fluidly harnesses schoolkid energy, though important details are often reported rather than enacted

The Guardian - UK

Till the Stars Come Down review – your invitation to the wedding of the year

Beth Steel’s new drama is dazzlingly performed and full of pain, joy and laughter in a deft production by Bijan Sheibani

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