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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 6 - The Untold Story

‘I’ve stumbled deep into alien territory’: our sportswriters and arts critics swap jobs

What would happen if our arts critics and sports writers swapped roles for a day? How does the English National Opera compare to the Premier League … or the NFL to a West End musical? Our experts found out last week

The Guardian - UK

Dr Strangelove: London theatre audiences warned that nuclear satire play features 'cigarette smoking'

Critics mock warning of smoking on stage in West End adaptation of Dr Strangelove featuring Steve Coogan

Evening Standard

From Mick Jagger to Crossroads: the pioneering career of Cleo Sylvestre

The black British performer started out recording with the Rolling Stones, was on the West End stage by 19 and made breakthroughs in TV and theatre

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Top-price West End theatre tickets rise by 9% in a year and reach £300

The Stage’s annual survey found that, for the first time, three plays in London – including Romeo and Juliet with Tom Holland – are charging more than £200 for their most expensive seat

The Guardian - UK

Zendaya, Tom Hiddleston, Maya Jama and Stormzy lead the stars at Tom Holland's Romeo And Juliet press night

The stars came out in force to support the Spiderman star in his West End return

Evening Standard

Coronation Street favourite to make EXPLOSIVE return after YEAR away

A West End icon's return sparks a fresh feud for two Coronation Street residents.

WhatToWatch

OPINION - Tom Holland's silence over the racist abuse of his co-star Francesca Amewudah-Rivers is a very bad look

Rarely is there a silver lining when it comes to racism. This is true in the case of the despicable barrage of abuse against actress Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, cast as Juliet alongside Tom Holland’s Romeo in an upcoming West End production of Shakespeare’s most famous play. But if there is one…

Evening Standard

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Ian McKellen’s Player Kings to tour England

The play, adapted by Robert Icke from both parts of Henry IV, stars McKellen as John Falstaff for the first time in his career and will take in Bristol, Birmingham and Newcastle after its West End run

The Guardian - UK

‘Black men are conditioned not to articulate our emotions’: Ryan Calais Cameron on his hit play bringing new audiences to the West End

As the writer and actor’s smash play For Black Boys... starts a fourth run, he discusses money, creativity and being the world’s worst electrician

The Guardian - UK

Cara Delevingne says her 'heart is broken' after $7million LA home catches fire

The star is currently residing in the UK while she makes her West End debut in Cabaret

Evening Standard

Fake noses, lucky tokens and a bed of nails – Sarah Jessica Parker, Joseph Fiennes and other stars reveal their secret dressing room routines

Whoever wins next month’s Olivier awards, global stars will continue to flock to the West End of London to give the stage their all. We take a peek behind the curtain …

The Guardian - UK

Eleanor Fazan obituary

Theatre director who took Beyond the Fringe to the West End and worked on hit productions throughout the 1960s and 70s

The Guardian - UK

Tom Holland's West End return causes hysteria online as 50,000 fans scramble to get pre-sale tickets

The Hollywood star will play Romeo in Jamie Lloyd’s production of Romeo & Juliet at the Duke Of York Theatre this summer

Evening Standard

Tom Holland is latest superstar name in bumper year for London theatre

West End even more packed than usual with big-name talent, but insiders say star casting is not only route to successful productions

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Cara Delevingne to star as Sally Bowles in hit West End show Cabaret

The model and actor will make her stage debut alongside Luke Treadaway who takes over the role of the Emcee

The Guardian - UK

John Cleese brings Fawlty Towers stage show to the West End

Theatrical adaptation of the sitcom, opening at the Apollo theatre in May, will combine three episodes including The Germans

The Guardian - UK

Billy Crudup to make West End theatre debut as a conman in Harry Clarke

The star of The Morning Show will bring David Cale’s award-winning one-man play to London in March

Evening Standard

Strictly’s Layton Williams hits out at ‘keyboard warriors’ ahead of final: ‘It has been hard’

The West End star said he underestimated how much ‘noise’ his performance history would make

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Dear England review - the West End reimagining of Gareth Southgate’s England tenure is ‘So good! So good! So good!’

FourFourTwo visited the Prince Edward Theatre to watch the National Theatre’s dramatisation of Gareth Southgate and the modern day England team

Evening Standard

OPINION - Why Sadiq Khan rejected a Las Vegas-Style sphere for London

London is not Las Vegas. More searing insights from West End Final when we have it. But in all seriousness, it's difficult to think of two cities less alike.

Evening Standard

Self Esteem: 'Men are terrified of me'

As she makes her West End debut in Cabaret, pop icon Rebecca Lucy Taylor talks patriarchy, fascism and theatre with Alexandra Jones

The Independent UK

Photographer reveals theory behind infamous Enfield haunting ‘floating child’ picture

New adaptations of the infamous London ghost story are due to come to the West End and Apple TV+

The Guardian - UK

Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream review – no reality show has ever featured this much screaming

Fourteen overexcited hopefuls head to Greece to compete for West End roles in the Abba musical. It’s a wildly rushed, tension-free series that is never less than shrill

Evening Standard

OPINION - Dylan Jones: Oxford Street must change or die, because right now it’s dying

Oxford Street was built for lunchtime. At least it was for me. When I worked in the West End, if I wasn’t having a fancy lunch, at one o’clock I’d nip out from my office and spend the best part of an hour wandering up and down it, dipping into…

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Nicole Scherzinger: ‘One of my favourite British things is the roasts. Last Sunday I had two’

The Honolulu-born singer on playing Norma Desmond in the West End, the heartbreak of the Hawaiian wildfires, and the roots of her work ethic

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