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Stranger Things: The First Shadow review – Netflix explodes into the West End with thrills galore

Humungous projections, a big musical score, an onslaught of foam, dry ice and flares: this big-budget stage play from the ‘Stranger Things’ universe spares no bombastic effect to bring new audiences flocking to the West End

The Independent UK

Hotel Amano: stay in the heart of the action with this bougie new pad in London’s Covent Garden

Pre-theatre sophistication with an encore of late-night decadence awaits around the corner from the West End, finds Roisin O’Connor

The Independent UK

OPINION - Joseph Fiennes on West End transfer: “It’s my World Cup Final”: The Evening Standard Theatre Podcast

This week we headed to Wembley to catch up with Joseph Fiennes as he prepares to play England football manager Gareth Southgate in the West End.

Evening Standard

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Leonard Tucker obituary

Pioneering lighting designer with Laurence Olivier and Peter Hall at the National Theatre, and later in the West End

The Guardian - UK

Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans to star in Queen Mother comedy in the West End

Michael Grandage will direct Wilton as the Queen Mother, with Evans playing her most loyal servant, in new play Backstairs Billy this autumn

The Guardian - UK

‘I want it to feel quite feral’: Rebecca Frecknall on staging Romeo and Juliet

From Cabaret to Streetcar, the West End’s hottest director Rebecca Frecknall has a reputation for finding leads who put bums on seats. ‘I just go on my gut,’ she says

The Guardian - UK

Multi-award-winning musical Come From Away stops in Cardiff on UK tour

The smash hit show's new tour comes following over 1000 performances on the West End

Wales Online

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Tina Turner’s final message to London fans weeks before her passing aged 83

Exclusive: Just last month, she celebrated the fifth anniversary of her stage show in the West End

Evening Standard

Row about musicals dominating West End ‘fuelled by snobbery’, says Berlusconi director

A row about the dominance of musicals over plays in the West End is fuelled by snobbery, according to the director of a new hit show.

Evening Standard

Enter stage right: the new wave of musicals taking on the West End adaptations

With everything from Bake Off to Pretty Woman putting bums on seats in Theatreland, launching an original homegrown production is harder than ever. But might salvation be at hand in the unlikely shape of Silvio Berlusconi?

The Guardian - UK

Cheryl fans left gutted by announcement as singer replaced in West End show

Fans were left devastated on Sunday, as Cheryl was mysteriously absent from her scheduled performance in 2:22 A Ghost Story on the West End after taking over the role from Laura Whitmore earlier this year

Daily Mirror

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