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John Simm stars in Harold Pinter's Play The Hothouse

At the Trafalgar Studios opening Tuesday 9th May until Wednesday 3rd August,

The Hothouse, Harold Pinter’s macabre tragicomedy returns to London’s West End.

It’s Christmas Day in a nameless state-run mental institution where the inmates are subjected to a tirade of mindless cruelty. A maniacal and self-obsessed leader breeds...

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Lucy Robinson stars in Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams

Opening 1st June - 31st August

Olivier Award winner Marianne Elliott directs Kim Cattrall as a fading Hollywood legend in Tennessee Williams’ powerful and poetic, Sweet Bird of Youth.

Fading Hollywood legend Alexandra Del Lago  flees the disastrous premiere of her comeback film. Travelling incognito, she seeks refuge in drink an...

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Joseph Wilkins stars in Othello at The National Theatre

From 16th April- 6th July

Othello, newly married to Desdemona who is half his age, is appointed leader of a military operation to defend Cyprus from the Turks. Iago, his ensign, passed over for promotion in favour of young Cassio, persuades Othello that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair.

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Robert Daws stars in the Wright Way new Ben Elton Comedy

Keep your eyes peeled for Robert Daws who is to star in The Wright Way a new comedy written by Ben Elton on Tuesday 10:35pm BBC1

The Wright Way follows Council Officer Gerald B Meakin, a man dedicated to the minimization of risk, even where no actual risk exists. If only Gerald were able to control his own life with the same benevolen...

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Phil Daniels stars in This House at The National Theatre

Opening Feb 23rd- May 15th

It's 1974. The UK faces economic crisis and a hung parliament. In a culture hostile to cooperation, it’s a period when votes are won or lost by one, when there are fist fights in the bars and when sick MPs are carried through the lobby to register their vote.

Let those on the continent cooperate an...

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Reginald D Hunter - In the Midst of Crackers

On tour from May 2013 

Following two previous sell-out tours of the UK and the release of his debut stand up DVD, Reginald D Hunter Live, Reginald – who is a popular guest on many of the UK’s best-loved TV shows including Live At The Apollo and Have I Got News For You - will be setting out to tour the country again in 2013 with his own...

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Susan Cookson stars in Losing the Plot tour

On February 1st Jack Munroe walked out on his job, his wife and his teenage children. Beside his bed was a copy of Hot Sex Tips and Which Caravan magazine. After travelling Europe for three months to write his much-promised novel and live the life of an artist, he returns with no novel, no money and no idea why he left. In a world which is ju...

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Michael Jibson stars in Les Misérables

In Cinemas nationwide from Friday 11th January

In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole, agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's daughter, Cosette. The fateful decision changes their lives forever.

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Mark Benton plays Edna Turnblad in Hairspray The Tour

It's 1962, the '50s are out and change is in the air. Baltimore's Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion - to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance programme, 'The Corny Collins Show' and, overnight, is transformed from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. But can a trendsett...

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Bill Ward stars in Viva Forever at the Picadilly Theatre

From the award-winning writer and comedienne Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous, French & Saunders), and Judy Craymer, producer of the worldwide smash-hit musical MAMMA MIA!, comes VIVA FOREVER!, a wonderfully joyous contemporary musical about the value of friendship in the face of fame and fortune!

As one girl f...

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Jack Ellis is on tour in Great Expectations

As the culmination of the bicentenary of Charles Dickens, a new stage adaptation of one of his best loved novels begins its west end run at the Vaudville Theatre London , Opening 1st February - 1st June.

This lavish, spectacular and unashamedly theatrical stage production brings to life some of literature's most memora...

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Jack Davenport to star in second series of Smash

Smash centres on a complex and all-consuming process behind the production of an original Broadway musical.  Successful songwriting duo and old friends Tom (Borle) and Julia (Messing) reunite to realise their dream of adapting the life story of screen icon Marilyn Monroe into a hit musical; recruiting tenacious producer Eileen (Hu...

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