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OPINION - Inflation sees sharp fall to 3.9% – but don't expect an interest rate cut just yet

If you worried it was getting awfully close to Christmas and there might not be time for another West End Final about inflation, I have good news.

Evening Standard

Tiger Tiger fined £120,000 for serving caustic soda with tequila shots

Barman at West End nightspot Tiger Tiger accidentally served caustic soda with tequila after mistaking it for salt in an unlit storage area

Evening Standard

Stranger Things The First Shadow star had never set foot in a West End theatre before taking on lead role

The play takes the hit show back to its beginnings in 1950s Cold War America

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Why Stranger Things And Netflix Need To Take A Page Out Of Taylor Swift's Playbook

As Stranger Things' first stage production debuts at London's West End, we have ideas for its future, and Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is involved.

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'It’s a tonic': Luke Evans discusses returning to the West End stage after 15 years in Backstairs Billy

EXCLUSIVE The Welsh star also shares his excitement about getting involved with this year's Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day campaign

Evening Standard

Score! Red Pitch, the Bush Theatre's smash hit show, is coming to the West End

It joins Dear England, about Gareth Southgate's national team, as the latest football-related show to hit theatreland

Evening Standard

Strictly’s Layton Williams ‘hard launches’ boyfriend with birthday Instagram post

The West End performer’s social media post comes after he survived the dance-off with dance partner Nikita Kuzmin

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OPINION - Nowhere is better than London for Christmas, not even New York

I’m not sure there’s a better place to be at Christmas than London. When I was young, festive West End shopping trips were the things you looked forward to all year, whether it was seeing the Oxford Street lights (in the years before they started to be sponsored by the…

Evening Standard

Dominic West, don’t be snooty about hit West End shows, they keep serious theatre alive

In dismissing such plays as the preserve of inattentive tourists, he ignores the fragile ecology of the industry

The Guardian - 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

West End is 'full', says London property giant Land Securities

Occupancy are rates above 99% as the return to work gathers pace

Evening Standard

Sheridan Smith to appear in new West End production of Opening Night at London's Gielgud Theatre

Rufus Wainwright to provide songs for musical adaption of John Cassavetes film

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Let's raise a glass to Bill Kenwright, one of theatre's great risk-takers

The sad news of the impresario's passing reminds us of the importance of taking a creative gamble

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Bill Kenwright death: Everton chairman and West End producer dies aged 78

Kenwright was a giant of West End theatre production as well as a hugely influential figure at Everton football club over the past three decades

The Independent UK

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London workspaces: Landsec's Marcus Geddes on Lucent, demand and if five-day office week will return

Sat behind the capital's most famous advertising board, Marcus Geddes sounds confident that property giant Landsec will have no trouble lining up a tenant for the last remaining floor of office space at Lucent, a large West End island site that has undergone a major redevelopment and is home to…

Evening Standard

Z Hotels to open new central London site as West End accommodation pipeline swells

The hotel company has lined up a £23 million co-loan from OakNorth Bank and property lender ASK Partners

The Independent UK

The Hunger Games stage adaptation coming to the West End

Script is being written by Olivier-winning playwright Conor McPherson

The Guardian - UK

Keith Baxter obituary

Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on Broadway

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Evening Standard

Clint Dyer on the NT at 60 and Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard - The Standard Theatre Podcast

Plus we talk to Charlie Brooks about her 'emotional' West End debut

Evening Standard

West End's Frozen actress Samantha Barks welcomes a son - and reveals the newborn's name

The theatre star announced she was expecting her first child in August

The Independent UK

Layton Williams responds to Strictly viewers complaining about his dance experience

‘Strictly’ viewers have suggested that Williams has an unfair advantage due to his professional performance experience in West End productions

The Independent UK

Sam Mendes to direct new Jez Butterworth play in London’s West End

The show, opening next January, will be one of the most anticipated productions of 2024

The Independent UK

Pet Shop Boys accuse Drake of singing West End Girls on his new album without their permission

Drake’s song ‘All the Parties’ includes the lyrics: ‘East End boys and West End girls’

Evening Standard

My London: Adam Kay

Doctor turned author and comedian Adam Kay sips cocktails at Soho Hotel, can’t resist a West End show and swans around town by royal horse and carriage (apparently)

The Independent UK

West End theatre issues statement after Just Stop Oil storm Les Miserables

Five people were arrested after protestors invaded the stage at the Sondheim Theatre

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