London's Theatreland is on course for its biggest year since records began. New figures reveal that West End box offices are booming thanks to record numbers of visitors in the first quarter of this year. Audiences have been boosted by six per cent to more than 3.2million. .. read
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Comedy Review: What jokes would Bill Hicks be telling if he were alive today and can the Texan's dry demotic be revived by an impersonator and still deliver the gut laughs he saw as sacred? Well, the good news is that Chas Early gives this rollicking reincarnation integrity and wit... read
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Theatre Review: In a rural village in a country with overtones of Afghanistan, an American pilot has crashed his plane. No one is sure how to deal with the unexpected guest until a local warlord leading a group of rebels against the American-backed government gets involved. .. read
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Theatre Review: Given the national election campaign we've just endured, a play about immigration is obviously pertinent. Whether Belgian playwright Stanislas Cotton's National Alien Office has anything worthwhile to say, however, is debatable, says Siobhan Murphy... read
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Theatre Review: Humour and cynicism are the secret weapons of the captivating Sixties musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which launches a Chichester season thematically devoted to tricksters, deceivers and fakes... read
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Interview: In the past, Rachael Stirling admits, she was "not terribly gracious" when the subject of her mother, Dame Diana Rigg, came up. But now the 27-year-old actress is taking on the role that her mother, Diana Rigg, first played on screen... read
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Theatre Review: There is not more than an occasional flash of hope and glory in Nicholas Hytner's fascinating anti-heroic take upon Shakespeare's Henry IV. The two parts offers an enticingly mingled yarn of Realpolitik and Falstaffian comedy, says Nicholas de Jongh... read
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