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Londonmaxxing: How to go large in the greatest city on Earth

Reckon you’ve exhausted the inexhaustible pleasures of the capital? Don’t be silly — from hot new theatre and music (for free!) to drinking the city dry until dawn, let The Standard team guide you to making the most of London

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The Virgins theatre review: 'Exquisitely excruciating portrait of teenage girls'

4/5 Miriam Battye’s darkly funny comedy at Soho Theatre is about a group of girls getting ready for a night out and wondering what faces them

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Lauren Lyle on her new West End sex comedy: 'I enjoy shocking people'

Lauren Lyle has been killing it on screen in Karen Pirie and Toxic Town this year, and his now hitting the stage for another jaw-dropping role

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Private View at Soho Theatre: 'Like Tom Stoppard doing a dark, queer love play'

3/5 This debut play by Jess Edwards is a brainy rush of ideas

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Adam Kay live: 'His kidney stone story has the men wincing in unison'

4/5 Adam Kay’s show at Soho Theatre is full of painfully funny stories about pain delivered with his customary ‘deadpan bedpan humor’

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Bog Witch at Soho Theatre Walthamstow review: an uneven odyssey into the bucolic

3/5 Bryony Kimmings’ new show mines the interface where standup, theatrical life-writing and performance art meet

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Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg and Caliban’s take on The Tempest: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2025

Andrea Riseborough and Sarandon deliver a decade-hopping drama, superstar standups hit the road and Shobana Jeyasingh rewrites Shakespeare

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Steve Buscemi as the letter Q? Tilda Swinton as toilet bowl water? Julio Torres pulls off the impossible in Hollywood

INTERVIEW: The leftfield comedian and actor is behind some of the best ‘Saturday Night Live’ skits in recent memory. Off the back of his surreal and spectacular HBO series, he speaks with Annabel Nugent about why he has zero interest in going mainstream, his latest colour-focused show – and why Ellen…

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps to Chief of War: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Pedro Pascal leads a sprightly reboot of the Marvel action franchise, and Jason Momoa returns to his birthplace for a spectacular historical epic

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'I feel like my identity has been hijacked' – The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs is getting our house in order

Playwright Iman Qureshi and director Hannah Hauer-King on re-staging their ‘lesbian opus’ during a time of intra-community strife

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Kieran Hodgson has four Edinburgh Comedy Award nominations — could it be fifth time lucky?

4/5 The Yorkshire comedian sold out Soho Theatre with his latest show Voice of America. Next stop, Edinburgh Fringe

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This Bitter Earth at Soho Theatre review: Billy Porter makes an assured UK directing debut

4/5 This tale of an interracial couple in America is a fresh and illuminating take on recent social and political history that’s already being rewritten elsewhere

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Kaya Scodelario says Skins cast were paid 'bare mimimum' due to being unknown actors

The actress, who starred as Effy in hit British teen drama Skins, has spoken about the cost of being an ‘unknown’ name in the Skins cast

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Dara Ó Briain's Re: Creation at Soho Theatre Walthamstow: a supercharged storytelling masterclass

4/5 The comedian delivers an emotionally charged and gripping tale of tracking down his birth father

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Pear could see these 6ft 7in twins reaching new comedic heights at the Edinburgh Fringe

4/5 Props fly through the air in Patrick and Hugo McPherson’s chaotic new sketch show

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Meow Meow review – kamikaze cabaret combines clownish comedy and crooning

Whether singing or crawling cleavage-first over the shoulders of her crowd, the eccentric diva asks what an artist should do in such ominous times

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Weer by Natalie Palamides at Soho Theatre Walthamstow review: spectacular show to open a spectacular location

5/5 A silly, seductive, slapstick joy is the perfect show to open London’s newest theatrical venue

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What's on at Walthamstow's new Soho Theatre?

The theatre officially opens its doors on Friday May 2

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Soho Theatre Walthamstow opens: 'You will be taken aback by the aesthetic gorgeousness!'

It’s been a long journey, but Soho Theatre Walthamstow has finally unveiled its restoration and opens this week as both spectacular cultural venue and local regeneration gem

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'I'll always sing a political song while doing the splits': Meow Meow returns to London with cabaret catharsis

Prepare for audience interaction and lashings of sequins as the diva plans her grand return to Soho Theatre

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Alice Snedden at Soho Theatre review: a wonderfully witty turn from the versatile Kiwi comic

4/5 This is Snedden’s first show in five years - not that you’d know it

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Comedian Paul Currie brings High Court libel claim against Soho Theatre after blazing antisemitism row

Comic was at the centre of a storm after reportedly getting into an altercation with an audience member

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Fleabag, Baby Reindeer and now Weather Girl: meet the producer genius behind them all

After Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, now theatre super-producer Francesca Moody has TV execs in a tizzy again with the new hit show Weather Girl

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Pierre Novellie at Soho Theatre review: brimming over with laugh-out-loud lines

4/5 The comic deftly blends punchlines with more thought-provoking material on autism and euthanasia

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Weather Girl at Soho Theatre review: the hot mess solo show feels hot again

4/5 Julia McDermott’s skillful one-hander is a worthy descendent of Fleabag with urgent themes

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